1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Uh. Today 4 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: we have a little bit of a ghost thing, but 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: that's very late in the thing, uh, in the story. 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: The person that we were talking about today has a 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: life story that is often told in what really comes 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: down to sort of a sloppy shorthand it goes like 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: this in the way you will often hear it. She 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: went to Los Angeles to become an actress. She failed 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: and then became very desperate. That is not a really 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: accurate picture of Pagan Whistle or her life at all. Um. 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: But her name is sort of like a touchstone name 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: that people will use, and people kind of know what 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: happened and how her life ended, but they really get 16 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: that version of her story, and it's not accurate at all. 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: So today we're going to talk about her life and 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: her career, and this will serve as a little bit 19 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: of an on ramp into our spooky Halloween topics because 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: there is a tiny bit of paranormal stuff at the 21 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: very very end. Uh. One note that I wanted to 22 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: include just in case we have any Peg aficionados among 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 1: our listeners. She went by Babs with her family, although 24 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: it is unclear how she got that nickname. Her name 25 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: was in no way Barbara, which is normally the person 26 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: that would get the nickname Babs, but we are not 27 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: using that nickname in this episode just to keep things 28 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: from getting confusing. So just in case there are any 29 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: Peg fans out there who are wondering why we are 30 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: not calling her that, particularly during her childhood, before she 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: started going by Peg after seeing a production of the 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: stage play Peg on My Heart as a preteen. That 33 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: is why we're just doing it for a little bit 34 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: of clarity and to keep things smoother, especially because there 35 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: are a lot of names that come up in this 36 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: If we can pare those down and keep it simpler, 37 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: so much the better. Also, just a heads up that 38 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: this episode includes a person taking their own life. Also 39 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: some discussion of domestic violence. If those are sensitive topics 40 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: for you, this one might be one that you skip, 41 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: which is just fine. But other than that, we were 42 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: going to get right into Peg Entwistle Peg was born 43 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: Milicent Lillian Entwistle on February nineteen o eight in Port Talbot, Whales. 44 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: Her parents weren't Welsh but English. Robert and Emily Entwhistle 45 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: had gone to Wales for their child's birth so that 46 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: Emily's mother, Caroline could be their midwife. After Emily and 47 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: the baby were well enough to travel again, the Whistles 48 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: made their way back home to West Kensington. In London, 49 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: the end Whistles ran a public house that served food 50 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: in alcohol, but the family also had roots in the theater. 51 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: Robert and his brother Charles were both actors. Robert also 52 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: designed sets, and PEG's uncle Charles, who went by Anti 53 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: as a nickname, was the more successful of the two 54 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: in this regard, both as an actor and as a manager, 55 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: working on behalf of actors and theater owners in their 56 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: business dealings, and in nineteen o six Charles Entwhistle made 57 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: his way to the US to work for producer Charles Frohman, 58 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: and from that point on he really had a pretty 59 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: steady stream of business and some anchor in New York. 60 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: Two years the Peg was born, Robert and Emily abruptly divorced, 61 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: and we really don't know why Robert got sole custody 62 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: of Peg, though although both sides of the family remained 63 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: very involved in her upbringing. Yeah, Emily's involvement in her 64 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: life was minimized as much as possible, but both Emily's 65 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: relatives and Robert's were involved in Pig's childhood and in 66 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: nineteen eleven, PEG's uncle, Charles, met an actress named Jane 67 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: Ross during a production of a play called Hobson's Choice, 68 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: and the two were married the following year and made 69 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: Jane's Santa Monica House their home together initially. When Charles 70 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: brought his new wife to London in nineteen to meet 71 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: his family, he also brought an offer to PEG's father, Robert. 72 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: Broadway producer Charles Frohman, who Charles and Wistle had been 73 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: working with at various points at that point, was willing 74 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: to hire Robert as a stage manager so that he 75 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: and his daughter could move to New York. There is 76 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: some confusion in the historical record about exactly when Peg 77 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: arrived in New York as a girl. It had long 78 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: been reported that she made her way across the Atlantic 79 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixteen, and her name is on a passenger 80 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: manifest for the s S Philadelphia for nineteen sixteen, but 81 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: she was definitely already in New York as early as 82 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen, based on entries in Jane Ross's diary. On 83 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: July nineteen fourteen, Robert married Jane Ross's sister, Loretta. Charles 84 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: Entwhistle and Jane Ross meanwhile had moved to California to 85 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: see what the motion picture industry had to offer, and 86 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: Charles worked in a variety of jobs in California, both 87 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: in front of and behind the camera. I think his 88 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: total career he made something like fifty movies at various points. 89 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: But Robert was still working both off and on stage 90 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: in New York. He was acting in steady but minor roles. 91 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: He was still doing things like stage managing and handling tickets. 92 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,799 Speaker 1: So he Laretta and Peg remained on the East Coast 93 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: as a sort of a side For just some historical context. 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: In nineteen fifteen, when the Lusitania was torpedoed by a 95 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: German U boat, one of the casualties was Charles Frohman, 96 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: who still employed both of the Entwhistle brothers. His company 97 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: continued after his death, and both Robert and Charles continued 98 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: their relationships with the company. And it's probably not surprising 99 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: that a child that was raised around so many theater 100 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: folks found herself drawn to the stage, and that was 101 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: exactly what happened with Peg. In nineteen seventeen, when Peg 102 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: was nine, the family had moved from home in the 103 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: Bronx to one on West eighty A Street, and the 104 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: closer proximity to Broadway gave her ample opportunities to visit 105 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: her father's work and watch shows as often as she 106 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: could convince some adult in the family to take her, 107 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: and she would memorize her father's old scripts from previous productions, 108 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: and then she would mount her own stagings of those 109 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: shows in the family home. PEG's brother, Milton, was born 110 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: on September nineteen seventeen, and Loretta was pregnant again a 111 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: year later. This expanding family caused Robert to rethink his 112 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: life in the theater. He had never been particularly passionate 113 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: about it. He had just sort of all and into it, 114 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: and it was becoming less and less stable as a business. 115 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: So after finishing up a brief rount of a play 116 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: called Humpty Dumpty in En, Robert left the theater. He 117 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: opened a stationary shop at the corner of East fifty 118 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: four and Madison Avenue that was just called Box smart. 119 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: That sounds kind of generic, but Robert had learned how 120 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: to make exquisite custom gift boxes years earlier, and that 121 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: coupled with a very high end offering of stationary made 122 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: the shop really popular. And he had a very wealthy clients. 123 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: Hell yeah, his box, his custom boxes. You had to 124 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: have an appointment to meet with him to get one made. 125 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: And I read a description of some of them, and 126 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: it sounds like they were almost like an event to 127 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: open up in and of themselves, like they would sometimes 128 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: open up in layers and have sort of little tableau 129 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: that would be related to what the gift was inside. 130 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: And they sounded incredibly intricate and beautiful, uh, and like 131 00:06:54,920 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: something anybody would be delighted to open. Eig joined the 132 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: American Junior Red Cross and she assisted primarily with the 133 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: Friendship Boxes project, which assembled kits of blankets, medicine, food, 134 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: and other basics for war refugees, and she also fundraised 135 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: for the organization. She was at this time also attending 136 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: parochial school at St. Agnes Academy, and with the Armistice 137 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: of November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, PEG's Junior Red Cross duties 138 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: pretty much ended just a few months later, on March 139 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: eighteenth of nineteen nineteen, Peg got a new baby, brother, Bobby, 140 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: when he was born. Although Robert Entwhistle had left the theater, 141 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: the stage really still captivated Peg. She starred in her 142 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: first school play as Peter Pan when she was twelve. 143 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: She also enjoyed a high degree of access to the 144 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: world of theater thanks to frequent visits from her aunt 145 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: Jane and uncle Charles. Charles continued to manage actors in 146 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: New York while also pursuing a career in California, so 147 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: Peg got to meet a lot of broadways most popular 148 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: performers and asked them about their work. For a teenager 149 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: interested in theater, this was like an Insiders acting school. Yeah, 150 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: it would be like if you just could like go 151 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: wander onto movie sets as a kid and like talk 152 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: to all of the leads and be like, oh, really, 153 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: what do you what do you do when you have 154 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: to do a scene like this? And then oh, sorry, 155 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over to this other a lot where 156 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: my uncle also is managing somebody very famous and talk 157 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: to them about their process. I can't imagine how incredibly 158 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: cool that must have been. Yeah, as a as a 159 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: theater team Yeah Heaven but Justice. Peg was becoming really 160 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: focused on what she was starting to see as her 161 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: career destiny. The family experienced a sudden loss when Loretta Entwhistle, 162 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: peg stepmother died of bacterial meningitis in April, and she 163 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: was only thirty five when she died. Peg traveled with 164 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: her father and brothers to Cincinnati, Ohio, to bury Loretta 165 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: near her family, and they stayed there in Ohio for 166 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: several weeks. And while Peg was very very close to Loretta, 167 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: she in fact would refer to her as her mother 168 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: and kind of left Emily out of the sure uh. 169 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: And while this loss was completely devastating, it also changed 170 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: PEG's home life in a way that really impacted her 171 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: dream of acting, because she was, as a teenage daughter 172 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: at that time, expected to take on the care of 173 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: her younger brothers. Another huge emotional blow followed a year 174 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: later when PEG's father was badly injured in a hit 175 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: and run accident while walking home from his shop that 176 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: happened in November. After a long hospital stay during which 177 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: he seemed to be improving, he died suddenly of a 178 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: brain hemorrhage on December nineteenth. So though his death was 179 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 1: somewhat unexpected because he had been recovering. The accident had 180 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: prompted Robert to dictate his will while he was in 181 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: the hospital, and he had stated in it that Charles 182 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: and Jane were to take care of the children in 183 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: the event that anything happened to him, with very specific 184 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: language that even though PEG's biological mother was still alive, 185 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: that he did not want her to have custody of 186 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: Peg Box Marked. His successful store was bequeathed in two parts. 187 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: Half of it went to his brother, Charles, and half 188 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: of it went to a woman named Marian Gressing, who 189 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: had been Robert's assistant in the business pretty much from 190 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: the time he started it, and Charles sold his interest 191 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: in the store to Marian immediately and she just took 192 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: it over. After Robert's death, Jane quit her acting career 193 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: to be a full time mother to Peg, Milton, and Bobby. 194 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: They all moved to Ohio to be closer to Jane 195 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,359 Speaker 1: and Lauretta's family, but after Bobby got a bad bacterial 196 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: ear infection, doctor suggested that he might do better in 197 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: a warm climate. While Charles had more or less left 198 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: California and gone back to managing Broadway actors Los Angeles 199 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: beckoned to the End Whistles. Charles preferred the theater to film, 200 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: but theater jobs in l A were sparse, so once 201 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: again he tried to make a go of it in 202 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: the movie business. And we're going to talk about the 203 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: family's relocation to the West Coast in just a moment, 204 00:10:53,080 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: but first we're gonna pause and have a little sponsor break. 205 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: So when the End Whistles got to Los Angeles and 206 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: settled in, Bobby was still too sick to go to school, 207 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: and Milton went to public school. But Peg was really 208 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: uncomfortable with the idea of public school. She was still 209 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: grieving from the loss of both of her parents, and 210 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: she feared that she would be seen as an outsider 211 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: and that she would have difficulty connecting to other girls 212 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: her age. But a more appealing option presented itself, and 213 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: that was the Bishops School, which was a private girls 214 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: boarding academy in La Joya, which initially was a really 215 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: good fit for Peg. She spent the summer after her 216 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 1: first year of school in Los Angeles with Jane and Charles. 217 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: Charles bought a fixer upper and started renovating it, and 218 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: it turned out that he was still working in New 219 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: York a good deal. There were opportunities there that were 220 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: a lot more plentiful than they were in Los Angeles, 221 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: so he traveled a lot back and forth. Yeah, I 222 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: feel like this whole family really lives a bicoastal life 223 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: throughout their their years. Peg returned to the Bishop School 224 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: for the school year, but her enthusiasm that she had 225 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: initially had for this boarding school really waned. She had 226 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: grown tired of its strict schedule, and she was once 227 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: again thinking about how she really wanted a life in 228 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,719 Speaker 1: the theater, and she just knew she did not want 229 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: to go back to the girls academy. So she was 230 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: still firmly against public school. So her uncle, instead of 231 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 1: making her go either to the private school or to 232 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: public school, hired her a private tutor. When she was sixteen, 233 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: Peg enrolled at the Hollywood Theater Community School to take 234 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: acting lessons. Because of her childhood spent attending all these 235 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: Broadway productions and soaking up the atmosphere and culture backstage, 236 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: she was way ahead of her fellow students. Her teacher 237 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: suggested to Jane Ross that Peg get an agent and 238 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: go ahead and get into the film business, but Peg 239 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: really only wanted to do theater. In PEG's uncle, Charles, 240 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: used his connections to give Peg basically everything she ever 241 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: could have dreamed. The New York Theater Guild was opening 242 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: a school called the Theater Guild School of Acting, and 243 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: it offered a program that was into did to weed 244 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: out the best of the many hopefuls that were arriving 245 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: in New York hoping to make a career on the stage, 246 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: and then formed that small group that made it through 247 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: the whole program into a theater company, and Peg, because 248 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: Charles had done a little work behind the scenes, was 249 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: invited to attend. So she finished her courses at the 250 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: Hollywood Theater Community School, and then in June, she and 251 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: Charles headed east together. But shortly after arriving in New York, 252 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: Peg met Henry Jewett at a party full of her 253 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: theater her uncle's theater friends. The Henry Jewett Players was 254 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: already a well established acting troupe in Boston, and Jewett 255 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: was so impressed with Peg that he asked her to join. 256 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: She would be acting professionally and she would start earning 257 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: money immediately, rather than waiting for the theater guilt program 258 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: to play out. And see if she was in the 259 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: top tier of talent that would be offered contracts at 260 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: the end of the program. So she took that offer, 261 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: abruptly changing course from New York to Boston for the 262 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: debut season of the Boston Repertory Theater. When Jewitt handed 263 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: her a list of the twenty two plays he was 264 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: considering for the season for her to memorize, she already 265 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: knew twenty one of them by heart. Yeah. Allegedly, the 266 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: story goes that he handed her this list, she said, Oh, 267 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: I already know all but one of these, and he 268 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: kind of looked two people that knew her, like as 269 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: she just show voting, and they were like, oh, no, 270 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: she knows him. Um. She stayed in New York with 271 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: her uncle Charles until August, and then she went back 272 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: home to Hollywood briefly for a visit, and then back 273 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: to New York, where she awaited Juet's call that her 274 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: Boston job was to begin. And in the meantime, her 275 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: uncle's friend, Walter Hampton, who was a successful actor and 276 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: theater manager, arranged for Peg to have a walk on 277 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: role in a Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ethel Barrymore 278 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: and Peg could not be credited or paid for this 279 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: because of her contract with Hewittt, but it was a 280 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: really exciting and fun opportunity, so she jumped at the chance. 281 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: Just two weeks later, she was settling into her new 282 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: life in Boston and rehearsing for her first credit did 283 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: minor role on the professional stage. That was as a 284 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: maid in the comedy of manners, The Rivals. While the 285 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: schedule of working at a repertory theater was grueling, rehearsing 286 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: some shows during the day and performing and others at night, 287 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: giving twelve shows a week every week for eight months, 288 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: Peg loved it, and critics and audiences loved her. PEG's 289 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: performance is Head, Big and Einrich Ibsen's The Wild Duck 290 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: that season was often referenced by Betty Davis as the 291 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: thing that inspired her to become an actress. Yeah, Betty 292 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: Davis had apparently seen her in this repertory and was 293 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: blown away and was like, I want to do what 294 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: she does, which is a pretty cool uh. Feather in 295 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: her camp in the Animals of History. And when that 296 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: season was over, Peg, who at that point had kind 297 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: of become the darling of the Boston theater scene, once 298 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: again turned her eyes to her first love, which was Broadway, 299 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: and her opportunity came rather suddenly in an unexpected way, 300 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: very much like her contract with Jewett had. So she 301 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: ended up as a last minute replacement for a minor 302 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: role in The Man from Toronto when she ran into 303 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: one of its actors randomly and he mentioned that they 304 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: had an open slot that one of their actresses hadn't 305 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: worked out, and they needed a pretty blonde with an 306 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: English accent, which basically was Peg. She thought he might 307 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: just be hitting on her, but it did turn out 308 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: to be a legit offer. The just off Broadway play 309 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: was not especially well received. Peg got one nice mention, 310 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: but she really wasn't even noted in most of the reviews. 311 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: She was cast next in The Hometowners, which ran for 312 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: seventies shows a block off Broadway and paid well. She 313 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: was written up in The New York Times and critics 314 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: praised her work in it. But she got her big 315 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: Broadway break in a play called Tommy, which was produced 316 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: by George C. Tyler. It rehearsed briefly before test stagings 317 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: in Atlantic City in Boston, and then it opened at 318 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: the Gayety Theater on Broadway on January tenth. The reviews 319 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: initially were just okay, not great. It was kind of like, 320 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 1: this is a fine show. But the play became a 321 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: huge success, do in part to the fact that it 322 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: was wholesome at a time when some shows were being 323 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: shut down due to inappropriate content. Peg was making five 324 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a week plus a cut of the box office. 325 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: When the Gayety Theater suddenly switched over to become a 326 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: movie house, the production of Tommy moved four blocks to 327 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 1: the Elting Theater, which had more seats, which always sold, 328 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: and larger dressing rooms. By the time Tommy closed at 329 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: the end of July, it had become one of the 330 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: most successful shows of the year. That is also a 331 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 1: nice accidental crossover to our episode on Julian Elting. It 332 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: all connects, um And while Tommy had been making it 333 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: successful run, Peg had met the handsome and charming actor 334 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 1: Robert Lee Keith. He was ten years older than she was, 335 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: and Pagan Robert married on April eighteenth, after what the 336 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: press reported as a four day courtship, although in a 337 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: letter to her family, Peg indicated that she had met 338 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: him a year before their wedding. They did not actually 339 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: see each other in the time between then and the Thursday, 340 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: where she met him a second time, just days before 341 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: saying I do, in a very brief courthouse wedding in 342 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: port Chester, New York. So really their courtship was only 343 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: four days long, but she maybe had met him a 344 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: year prior briefly. But then they had to hustle back 345 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: to Broadway because peg show was running and Robert had 346 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: just opened a new play that he had written. We 347 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: will talk about some of the realities of this marriage, 348 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: and just a moment after we hear from one of 349 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: the sponsors that keeps the show going. So when we 350 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: left off, we mentioned Peg and Robert Keith's sudden whirlwind 351 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: romance and marriage, and it sounds really romantic and exciting. 352 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: Perhaps I always want to root for those crazy kids 353 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: that do crazy things like that. But this was a 354 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: really terrible mistake on PEG's part. For one, Robert had 355 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: never disclosed to her that he had actually been married 356 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: before and that he had a child from that marriage. 357 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: His mother and best friend, who had also signed the 358 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: marriage certificate, had also kept that information from Peg. And 359 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: by the way, Robert's son was actor Brian Keith, who 360 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: went on just to hearn a variety of roles in 361 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: film and television, including the parent Trap and the series 362 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: Family Affair, which I desperately loved as a kid. It's 363 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: like four days is an incredibly short courtship, but that's 364 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: an important piece of information to just not give up 365 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: in that four days. Well, and it sounds like because 366 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: Peg was pretty open in the press and just socially 367 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,959 Speaker 1: that she did not want kids, She did not enjoy kids. 368 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: She did not want a family because she thought it 369 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: would detract from her career, which was the only thing 370 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: she cared about. So there is uh sort of a 371 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: general suspicion that he willfully kept it from her, knowing 372 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: she would never have married him. Yeah. Then she commented 373 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 1: on a photo of a young boy and her new 374 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: husband's apartment, and his mother said it was Robert's child. 375 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: Peg naturally was shocked and humiliated because, as Holly just said, 376 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: she did not like children. For another thing, it was 377 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: instantly clear that her new spouse was comfortable keeping really 378 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: important things from her. The entire foundation of this marriage 379 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: was basically faulty. She kept her cool about it, though, 380 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: and it was partly because she knew if she made 381 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: a big fuss over the situation. It would create bad 382 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: pr for her. She didn't want to taint her career 383 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: because she was becoming a real success on the Broadway stage. Yeah, 384 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: she wanted no scandals, um, but things were unfortunately even 385 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: more complicated than she knew even after the reveal of 386 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: this child. Robert was actually wanted by the police for 387 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: failing to make his alimony payments, and he also had 388 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: a drinking problem, and he asked Peg for money repeatedly, 389 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: which she would give him, but he would always squander 390 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 1: it rather than paying his debts and making those alimony 391 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 1: payments that he had been missing. Peg also got pregnant 392 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: during the early days of their marriage, but she opted 393 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: to determinate the pregnancy, and she and Robert, despite being 394 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: two of the most popular actors in the New York theater, 395 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: seemed to constantly have financial problems at Tommy Closed, and 396 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: as her personal life was really unraveling, Peg starred in 397 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: the play The Uninvited Guest, which was panned by critics, 398 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: even though she was written up as better than the 399 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: material she was working with. The play had a really 400 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: short run and afterward Peg did not work for months 401 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: for Marksber to April, she had no gigs, and after 402 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: many auditions, Peg lost a juicy role that she desperately 403 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: wanted in the stage adaptation of Serena Blandish. Ruth Gordon 404 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: was the person who was cast in that role. Then 405 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: the Theater Guild, which Peg had always wanted to be 406 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,199 Speaker 1: part of despite leaving their training program for Boston, signed 407 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: both Peg and Robert to their touring company, and that 408 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: was on the anniversary of their one year wedding anniversary. Yeah, 409 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: they had actually made the deal several days before, and 410 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: Peg guess if they could wait until the day of 411 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: their anniversary so it would just feel like a very 412 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: special day. And so Pagan Robert seemed, despite the messy 413 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: and deceitful started their marriage and their financial difficulties, to 414 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: actually get along for a while. Peg was determined to 415 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: make their marriage work and they really did like each other, 416 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: and once they were signed with the Guild, she seemed 417 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: to feel as though she had truly arrived and that 418 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: things were turning around. The money wasn't going to start 419 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: rolling in until the fall when they actually started the 420 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: job that they had been contracted for, but better times 421 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: were clearly on the horizon. But then in August, Peg 422 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: and Robert were eating together in a restaurant when a 423 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: detective came up to the table and told Robert he 424 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: had to pay a thousand dollars in back alimony or 425 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 1: he would be taken into custody. Neither he nor Peg 426 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: had the money, and Peg was horrified that Robert hadn't 427 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: been using the money she had been giving him for 428 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: his alimony. She was embarrassed to be put in this 429 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: position in public, and they had to ask their new 430 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: bosses at the guild for a loan to get Robert 431 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: released from custody. They got past this incident, although Peg 432 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: was the one who paid back the loan from her pay, 433 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: not Robert, and then they went on touring starting in 434 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: the fall, and once they were on their road, the 435 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: couple's relationship really rapidly declined. Robert's drinking got far worse, 436 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: and one night he assaulted Peg in their hotel room. 437 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,479 Speaker 1: She had been in bed, and he grabbed her by 438 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: the hair and pulled her out of bed and then 439 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: threw her on the ground, and then he picked her 440 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: up again by her hair, and this sort of continued 441 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: in this cycle. The hotel detective responded to her screams, 442 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,479 Speaker 1: and she packed all of her things and moved to 443 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: another room. She was pretty much done at that point. 444 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: Robert sobered up and begged her to take him back 445 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: and forgive him, and she did, but the behavior continued. 446 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: But when the Guild's management found out about all of this, 447 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: Robert was fired and he was blacklisted on Broadway. Peg, however, 448 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: continued with the company for the rest of the tour. 449 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: Robert moved out to California to find work, and when 450 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: the Guild's tour got to Los Angeles, he showed up 451 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: at the theater after a matinee performance. He was drunk 452 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: and he was barred from entering, but this also trapped 453 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: all of the actors inside while he ranted outside. Peg 454 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: spoke to Robert at the door, promised to meet him 455 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: the following day on the condition that he'd be sober, 456 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 1: and then called an attorney to begin a legal separation. 457 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: The following day, she met him as promised and told 458 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: him that their marriage was over. Peg was quickly granted 459 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: the divorce that she saw it and she felt that 460 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: she was free afterward. Yeah, she basically testified and said, 461 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: like he lied to me from day one. He abused me. 462 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: This is not a real marriage, and they were like, yes, 463 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: we all agree. Uh. The tour continued and even flourished 464 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: after all of this madness, but as it wound down, 465 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: Peg kind of found herself the victim of Robert's bad behavior. 466 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: In another way, her contract with the guild was not renewed, 467 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,959 Speaker 1: even though she had done a phenomenal job, because of 468 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: fears that Robert might once again show up and make 469 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: a scene, and those divorce proceedings had been covered in 470 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: the papers, and the theater Guild just did not want 471 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: any more bad press like that. So Peg decided that 472 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: she would head to Hollywood and spend some time with 473 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: her family. The By the end of the summer of 474 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty nine, she was really struggling. She was twenty one. 475 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: She had had success and then had this big mess 476 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: erupt and she was depressed and she was unsure of 477 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: her future. Walter Hampton offered her array of light when 478 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: he asked her to join his tour of Sherlock Holmes 479 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: was going to be actor William Gillette's last tour. He 480 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: was coming out of retirement to do it, and it 481 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: opened on November fifteenth, nineteen twenty nine in Springfield, Massachusetts. 482 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: The tour lasted for seven months and it was a 483 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: massive success. It wrapped up in New Jersey on May twelfth, 484 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty. Peg was then invited to join the Lakewood 485 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: Players in residence at the Colony Resort that summer. She 486 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: spent the fall visiting her family in California, and returned 487 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: to New York at the beginning of nineteen thirty one. 488 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: She immediately started the play She Means Business, which only 489 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: ran for eight shows, but the Theater Guild hired her 490 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: next for a production of Getting Married, which opened in March, 491 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: and it went fairly well, but this was her last 492 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: show with the Guild as the scandal of Robert's abuse 493 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: still lingered within the company. But perlier contract rules, Peg 494 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: had to be cast in one of their New York 495 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: shows after fulfilling her touring dates, so it wasn't like 496 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: they really wanted her, but they legally had to hire 497 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: her for something. She spent the summer of nineteen thirty 498 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: one back with the Lakewood Players and had a season 499 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: of well regarded performances at the resort. Among them had 500 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: been a production of a play called Just to Remind You, 501 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: which was then staged for Broadway. Peg was asked to 502 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: be in the Broadway show, so she cut her summer 503 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: season with Lakewood Shorts to take the job. But New 504 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: York audiences didn't love the show the way the resort 505 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: crowd had, and it lasted for just a dozen performances 506 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: before being pulled. After a few months with no work, 507 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: Peg played Amy in a revival of Little Women, but 508 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: then she moved on to a show that was called 509 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: Son of Satan, which was actually canceled in January ninety 510 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: two before it even opened. It just was plagued by problem. 511 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: Peg was then cast in Alice Sit By the Fire, 512 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: which was written by Peter Pan author J. M. Berry, 513 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: and it started stage legend Laurette Taylor, who was lauded 514 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: by critics, but she had a drinking problem which led 515 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: to canceled shows and ultimately the cancelation of the entire run, 516 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: which had no shortage of paying customers, but they just 517 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: couldn't keep it going with any sort of consistency, and 518 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: that was the last Broadway play of Peg and Whistle's career. 519 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: She once again crossed the country to Hollywood to appear 520 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: in an l A production of The Mad hopes. In 521 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: May of nineteen thirty two, I was alongside Billy Burke, 522 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: who people mostly know as Glinda the good Witch, and 523 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: Humphrey Bogart. The theater at the Los Angeles premiere overflowed 524 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: with viewers forced to stand. On opening night, it had 525 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: sixteen hundred seats, but there were two thousand people in 526 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: the audience. All three of the stars got great reviews 527 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: and a Broadway run of the show was planned, but 528 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: then it had a problem when Billy Burke was cast 529 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: in a film in Lost Angels and had to pull 530 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: out of the stage play. Peg was soon offered a 531 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: role in a film as well, called Thirteen Women at 532 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: RKO Pictures, and she had thought originally that she was 533 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: going to be in the same picture as Billy Burke, 534 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: which was a Bill of divorcement, but the role that 535 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: she was up for ended up being given to Catherine 536 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: Hempburn and so PEG's one picture contract, which actually made 537 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: her one of the Radio Pictures starlets, was used instead 538 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: to cast her for the Thirteen Women, and the film 539 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: features a woman plotting to murder twelve of her former 540 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: schoolmates using supernatural powers. This movie was a mess because 541 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: it ended up being heavily edited and twelve minutes of 542 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: peg screen time were cut, and that left her in 543 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: it for only four minutes and change. Her character's storyline 544 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: had involved a lesbian relationship and it was all removed 545 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: from the final film. Thirteen Women was made before the 546 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: four Hayes Code that dictated the bounds of morality that 547 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: can be portrayed in film, but it still fell victims 548 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: some mounting tensions between studio os and the Studio Relations 549 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: Committee about propriety. In the end, there were only eight 550 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: women in the film, although it kept the original title 551 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,479 Speaker 1: of thirteen Women. Shortly after that, on September fourteenth, Peg 552 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: and two other actresses, Phillis Fraser and Harriet Hagman, were 553 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: dropped from the RKO starletts. On September sixto, Peg told 554 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: her aunt and uncle that she was going out to 555 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: buy a book at the drug store and then to 556 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: meet up with some friends, and she did not come 557 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: home that night, but her family wasn't worried. She had 558 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: stayed over at friends houses before when they had all 559 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: been out late. She was just meeting up with girlfriends 560 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: and hanging out. But she also didn't come home the 561 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: next day either, and Jane Ross started calling her friends 562 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: to find out that none of them had seen her. 563 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: On Sunday, September eight, a woman phoned the Los Angeles 564 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: Police Department and said that she had been hiking near 565 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: the Hollywood Lands sign when she saw a woman's jacket 566 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: and not far away there was a purse with what 567 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: appeared to be a suicide note. She also thought she 568 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: could see a body down below the sign on the mountain. 569 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: The woman told the officer on the call that she 570 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: did not want any publicity and that she had wrapped 571 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: up the items and placed them outside the Hollywood Police station. 572 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: The collar hung up before giving a name. The Hollywood 573 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: Precinct was called, and the bundle mentioned by the anonymous 574 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: collar was found outside. The Hollywood Land sign on Mount 575 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: Lee in the Santa Monica Mountains was erected in Peg 576 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: was actually fifteen then, and she and her brothers had 577 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: watched its massive letters get hauled up their street on 578 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: the way to be installed, and the sign was intended 579 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: initially as a way to advertise a real estate development 580 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Hills. The letters, each thirty ft wide 581 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: and forty three ft tall, were lighted by four thousand 582 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: bulbs and they were intended to stay in place for 583 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: a year and a half because that was how long 584 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: the developers expected it to take to sell all of 585 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: the available lots, and then they just planned to take 586 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: down the sign. The police investigated. They recovered the body 587 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: of the young woman and determined she had climbed a 588 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: ladder was behind the h of the sign, and then 589 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: jumped from the top of the letter. She wasn't identified 590 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: by the police, though her suicide note and a brief 591 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: description were published in the paper with the hopes that 592 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: they would figure out her identity based on that. When 593 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: Jane Ross read the description and the information about the note, 594 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: which was signed Pe, she knew that it was Peg. 595 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: Charles made the formal identification, and almost immediately headlines and 596 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: articles started to rewrite Peg as this wanna be film 597 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: star who had failed, ignoring completely that she had been 598 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: a successful stage actress. And additionally, rumors circulated that in 599 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: a fit of desperation, she had posed for nude photos 600 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: shortly before her death and then regretted it, possibly leading 601 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 1: to her state of mind. But while she did have 602 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: a series of professional photos taken shortly before her death, 603 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: there's no evidence that any of them were at all racy. 604 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: A semi nude photo of a model who was not 605 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: Peg Entwhistle was incorrectly labeled as her in a book 606 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: of Out Hollywood, and that has led to ongoing muddling 607 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: of this particular matter. PEG's funeral was held on September twenty. 608 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: Her body was cremated and her ashes were interned back 609 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: in Ohio in January of nineteen thirty three, and since 610 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: her death, Peg has taken on another role, at least 611 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: in the public consciousness, that of a ghost who haunts 612 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: the Hollywood Sign in the eighties. Six years since PEG's death, 613 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: numerous reports of an apparition in nineteen thirties apparel have 614 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: been made, generally all centered around the Hollywood Sign or 615 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: the surrounding Hollywood Hills. Some people allegedly also smell Guardinia's, 616 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,239 Speaker 1: which was the scent of PEG's favorite perfume. The h 617 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Sign fell in ninety nine, fueling speculation 618 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: that it was the work of Peg spirit. But really though, 619 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: that sign, as you recall, wasn't meant to last even 620 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: two years, let alone the twenty five that it had 621 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: up to that point, and after the letter fell, the 622 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: Department of Parks and Recreation turned responsibility for the sign 623 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: over to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The h was repaired, 624 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: the land was removed to make the landmark represent the 625 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: city rather than the residential development that had instigated its installation. 626 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: Uh And since then, in the seventies, the entire sign 627 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: was replaced. And of course there's ongoing debate about PEG's death, 628 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: whether it was really a suicide, and who this mystery 629 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: woman was who called the police. To some degree, at 630 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: least in the minds of some people, it remains a 631 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: history mystery. Yeah, the Corners finding didn't indicate that there 632 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 1: had been foul play or that something else had gone on. 633 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: She had shattered her pelvis when she fell, and those 634 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: are the injuries that ultimately killed her. Um. So yeah, 635 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: people love to speculate, which I get, but there's really 636 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: not much evidence for that. Uh In non spooky appearances. 637 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: Peg story and its tragic end has shown up in 638 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: all kinds of media as a sort of shorthand reference 639 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: to the cruelty of Hollywood and its ability to destroy 640 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: the lives of hopeful performers. But that doesn't really tell 641 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: her whole story. She had a lot of other things 642 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: going on. One of the things that sometimes gets brought 643 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: up as uh, something that may have led her to 644 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: feel quite despondent is that her husband Robert, after they 645 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: had divorced, got married again very quickly, but that marriage 646 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: was very successful and he actually kind of put his 647 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: life together and was selling plays, and that she had 648 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: learned that he was getting kind of successful and that 649 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: maybe had impacted her. There are also some discussions of 650 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: of the fact that her moving around so much had 651 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: led some of her friends to be in a sticky 652 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 1: position in terms of like she had rented rooms with 653 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 1: them or apartments with them, and then she had to 654 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: leave and they were left kind of holding the bag, 655 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: and she felt very guilty about it. Like there there 656 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 1: are a lot of things that go into a person's 657 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 1: mental makeup that are not always as simple as she 658 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: tried something and it didn't work and then everything fell apart. 659 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: Even though she was still very young when she died, 660 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: she had already had a very lengthy and complex life 661 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: and career. So I wanted to give her a little 662 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: more attention rather than just being like a two line 663 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: story about a failed starlett which isn't really accurate at all. 664 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm doing a very quick since this episode is a 665 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: little longer, a very quick postcard round up. The first 666 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,320 Speaker 1: is from our listener Jessica, who sent us a beautiful 667 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: postcard from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which continues to 668 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: be a popular topic for the show and sometimes comes 669 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,799 Speaker 1: up on our Unearthed episodes. Uh. It's a really cool 670 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: postcard because it is a blueprint diagram of the museum, 671 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: which I love blueprints, so I love it. Thank you Jessica. Uh. 672 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: The other is from our listener. I believe it is Adrian. 673 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: This is one of those ones that has fallen victim 674 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: to being in the mail program, and it looks like 675 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 1: possibly got rained on, but it is. It is one 676 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: where she mentions that because of our Iceland episode that 677 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: Tracy did on correct me on my pronunciation. Is it him? 678 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: I think it's more like Ham. Yeah. She ended up 679 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: booking a ferry to the island even though she had 680 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,320 Speaker 1: not ever planned to go over there while she was traveling, 681 00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: and she ended up loving it and thought it was amazing, 682 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: So thank you to Tracy. She sent us a lovely 683 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: postcard of what appears to be a puffin with a 684 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,760 Speaker 1: bunch of fish in its mouth and it is super cute, 685 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 1: So thank you to both those listeners. 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