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My Sister Eileen

Academy Award Theater · May 18, 1946 · 29 min · 4,114 words

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The House of Squib, manufacturing chemists to the medical profession since 1858, brings you Academy Award. The pictures, the players, the techniques and skills which have one or been nominated for. The coveted awards granted each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to each in his field for outstanding achievement.

The House of Squib, makers of the great family of Squib medicinal products, brings you the The Columbia picture, my sister Eileen, starring Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair, who will play the same roles they created for the screen, and in which Miss Russell was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award.

So it was the two babes from the woods, walked hand in hand into Greenwich Village in search of fame, fortune, and a room.

We had come to New York from Columbus, Ohio. We met my typewriter, my ambition to become an author. $400 and her ambition to become the Sarah Bernhardt of Broadway. She, here and after, known as her, the Blonde bombshell and other terms of wolf-call endearment, was my beautiful sister, Eileen.

Whenever I think of those days in Greenwich Village, I hear loud noises like this. What was that? What was what? That noise, Mr. Apopolis. The whole room shook. That shows you how you will get used to it. I didn't even notice it.

Get used to it. You mean it happens all the time? You won't even be conscious of it. A little blasting. The new subway they're digging below. You mean they're blasting right underneath us? What are you worrying about? Those engineers know how much dynamite to you.

Does it go on all the time? No, they knock off at midnight and they don't start again until six in the morning. Stitch in the morning! Oh, we can't stay here, Roo! Listen! In New York, you either live A, over a subway, or B, where they're building a subway, or you don't live in New York.

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