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...always had the self-confidence necessary to bluff her way through tough situations. At a county fair horse show, her horse went over the first jump and Ros went over the horse's head. She landed, luckily, on her feet, and turned the crowd's gasp into applause by doffing her hat and bowing as though she had intended to somersault from her mount...
...Ros got going in the direction of Manhattan. She left Marymount after her sophomore year and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, explaining glibly to her puzzled mother that the voice training would help her to become a teacher. Graduating in the spring of 1929, Rosalind was impressive enough in the school's production of The Last of Mrs Cheyney to interest a badly coordinated pair of producers from a summer theater at Saranac Lake. One partner hoped to get her for $40 a week, but Ros talked the other partner into an offer...
...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
...Ros was co-starring with Bert Lytell in The Second Man when she was spotted by a scout for Universal Pictures. He dangled a Hollywood offer before her, but Ros sat down to read all the fine print and suggested a few hardheaded revisions. They finally settled on giving her an expenses-paid trip to the West Coast and a flat fee of $100 for each screen test...
What's Wrong? No one at Universal's Hollywood studios seemed to know quite what to do with Ros. She got plenty of screen tests, but in most of them sat with her back to the camera feeding lines to a succession of potential Universal leading men. She shared an apartment with Charlotte Winters (now married to Actor Barton MacLane), and chummed with Nedda Harrigan (now married to Producer-Director Joshua Logan). She also had time to investigate a phenomenon that had been puzzling her for some time: why, she wanted to know, did men swarm around girls...