Introducing JOAN ALEXANDER
Equal to any role -versatile is the word for Joan
JOAN ALEXANDER, lovely, brown-haired with deep, brown eyes,
is all things to plays. She’s the versatile actress who plays Lynn Alexander,
the proprietor of a music school in Lewiston on the Lone Journey, and has
portrayed Lois Lane, the girl friend of Superman, for years.
To meet her, Joan is poised, alert, interested in the world
and what goes on in it.
That she has this cosmopolitan air is not surprising. In her
young life she has been to a lot of far flung places in the world. When Joan
was eight years old, her father, who owned a linen factory in Madeira, took her
on her first trip to Europe.
By the time Joan was through with a part of her schooling,
she had made up her mind to become an actress. She studied with the fabulous
European actor, director and coach, Benno Schneider. And, as part of her
training, she toured the leading cities of Europe, North Africa and Latin
America.
In 1938, Joan was in Vienna when Hitler’s troops marched
into that city. That was when she decided to return to America. She had already
had a good view of Yugoslavia, England, France and, as she puts it, “I even got
to Casablanca before President Roosevelt and Humphrey Bogart put it on the map.”
It wasn’t long before she began to get some attention—and what’s
better—jobs here at home. She played in several stock companies and appeared on
Broadway in “Jeremiah” for the Theater Guild and on “Merrily We Roll Along” and
“Mr. Hamlet.”
She spent a brief time in Hollywood, and then returned to
New York and began her radio career. Since then, she’s been busy all the time,
working on shows like Right to Happiness, Bright Horizon.
Besides being an accomplished actress and an accomplished
citizen, Joan is an expert horsewoman. Her other favorite sports are tennis and
swimming. Of course, she’s had to forego all of these diversions for awhile,
because by the time this appears in print she will have become a mother. She was
married around the time we met her and she keeps her private and her
professional life strictly separate.
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