Radio: Sympathetic Susie

"I've been in show business for 20 years," says breezy Ann (Maisie) Sothern, hard-working star of her own CBS-TV show, Private Secretary, "and this is the toughest thing I've ever done." After Actress Sothern had made seven Maisie movies and broadcast 78 Maisie radio programs, she was so tired of the dumb-blonde character that "the very name made me frantic." .Several months ago someone handed her a TV script for Private Secretary, and Ann decided it was just right.

As Susie McNamara every Sunday night (7:30 p.m., E.S.T.), Ann is the "private right arm"...

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