I Was Always Daydreaming About Singing In

This Nation Loves Singing And Loves Acting.

During The Presidential Primaries Of 1940, I Received A Request From The Democratic National Committee To Sing God Bless America Before The Speeches.

Every Small Town Has Its Dramatic Group, Its Barber-shop Quartet, Every Home Has Music In One Form Or Another.

I Vowed That Whenever My Family Needed Me, I Would Give Up Everything To Go To Them, No Matter What. The Show Must Go On Was Meaningless To Me.

I Could See Myself In A White Nurse's Uniform, Working Unnoticed For Many Years And At Last Dying, Unknown, Unmarried And Unsung.