SEVEN STEPS TO STARDOM

March 11, 1939

To Lucille Ball it’s not superstition. Seven is her lucky number just as it’s the fortunate digit that crap-shooters pray for. 

Try not to be too technical and you’ll soon see that Lucille (count the letters) reached stardom in “A" pictures in seven steps. (Meanwhile the portrait above proves that the RKO actress is exactly seven times as pretty in natural color as she is in black-and-white.) Lucille points out, for instance, that she attended John Murray Anderson’s dramatic school in New York City for 49 (7×7) weeks. 

Twenty-eight weeks (4 x 7) with a touring stock company followed. 

Destiny seems to have been throwing 7s for Lucille throughout her career. 

Just Coincidence 

But she regards it as coincidence and reminds superstitious Hollywood that after all SHE did all the work while Dame Fortune was fooling around in a dice game. 

Mother DIDN’T know best for Mother planned a musical career for Lucille and even enrolled her at the Chautauqua Music Institute at Jamestown, N.Y. 

Seven Steps 

Then one fine evening Lucille hopped a rattler and entered the Anderson dramatic school. 

One, two, three, four, five, six — SEVEN steps (follow them in the picture series beginning below) found her straightening her own dressing room on the RKO lot. 

Gosh!