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actress and did very well indeed, and was also a lady and an educated person, said, “Oh, well, you could be a character actress. They'll take a character actress because that's always hard to get. These pretty flossy girls who look so pretty that they're hired by the dozen can't do character acting.” I wasn't the flossy, chorus girl type. That's the type they hired in quantity for ingenues. I wasn't bad looking, but I was no beauty. I wasn't the lovely ingenue or that sort of thing.

I harbored that idea for a little while. It would have been a great pleasure. But I soon dropped it because I got a principle. It was like a vocation. I had to do something about unnecessary poverty, unnecessary hazards to life, safety and so on. It was sort of up to me.

I do realize that one ought to say in the interests of reality and thought that I was considerably religious minded. I was born into the Anglican Church. It was not so much my bringing up, but that I'd developed a personal religious outlook on life. And this business of feeling that I had to look out for the poor sprang out of a period of great philosophical confusion, which overtakes all young people. One thing seemed perfectly clear. Our Lord had directed all those who thought they were following in His