The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer1947

Susan:
Did you have many ordeals before you became a success?

Richard Nugent:
No, I...

Susan:
You can talk to me. I want you to think of me, not as a newspaper woman, but as a friend.

Richard Nugent:
Well, in that case, I'll tell you. I did suffer. When I was 10, my mother and father had a double suicide pact, they made it. I was sent to an orphanage. Some days they didn't beat me. Then one night I escaped, I ran away to New York. I used to steal.

Susan:
What did you steal?

Richard Nugent:
Beg your pardon?

Susan:
What did you steal?

Richard Nugent:
Crusts of bread... and things. One time I stole a valise. There were paints and paintbrushes inside. So I began to paint. Then they got me. I was sent to a reform school, but I escaped again.

Susan:
Go on.

Richard Nugent:
Back to new York. A weathly society lady saw my work, fell in love with me and sent me to art school. The rest is history.

Susan:
How wonderful. How terribly wonderful.