A DAY WITH SHIRLEY TEMPLE

Southland Times, Issue 23646, 22 October 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)

A DAY WITH SHIRLEY TEMPLE

Come and spend a day with Shirley. She’ll tell you just -what she does, and how she spends her time. Younger members wiU enjoy Shirley’s day:

“First of all,” said Shirley, “I wake up at 7 o’clock every morning, and I play a game with my mother. The game hasn’t any name, but it goes like this: I open my eyes, look at the clock, see that it is time to get up. Then I bounce out of bed and close the window. Then I turn on the heater and scoot back to bed, climb in and lie there with my eyes closed as if I hadn’t ever waked up.

“Just then mother comes into the room. Mummy goes over to close the window and turn on the heater. She finds them all closed and turned! She begins to look very suspicious. She comes over to my bed and says, ‘My! I have such a nice little girl. If she were awake I’d give her a kiss.’ ThaVs the signal for me to laugh and sit up and shout, “I’m amake, mummy!” “Then, after our game Ss over, I rush out of bed and run 'to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Then there are all the dolls to be waked up. I wake them the way mummy

pretends to wake me. Then I hurry into my clothes and downstairs for breakfast. I eat a very big break-fast-orange juice, cereal, toast and egg, and a big double decker, glass of milk. Then I have to say goodmorning to my pets—to ChingChing, my Peke, and to Corky my Scotty, and go down to the stables to see my three ponies, Spunky, Little Carnation, and Roanie. At the Studio

“When I work at the studio I have to be there by 9 o’clock. When I am not making a picture, I am upstairs in my little studyroom doing my school lessons at 9 o’clock. When I am at th.e studio I study between my scenes in my little blue-and-white dressing room. Between pictures my teacher, whose name is Miss Frances Klant, comes to my house. “When I work at the studio there is more movie-making after lunch. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, mummy and I leave for home. When I am not working at all, I romp with my dogs, for a while after lunch, and then I study my French or my dancing. In the late afternoons I go out in the yard and play with some of my friends who live near my house. “We have fun at dinner ,at my house. I have dinner with mummy and daddy and my brother, Sonny. My other brother, Jack, is at Stanford University, but when he is at home, it’s even more fun. We talk all the time and laugh in between times.

• “After dinner I play with daddy or my brothers. Just before bedtime, my daddy' reads to me. He takes me on his lap and reads a: story to me out of some excitingbook, like the books by Mr Kipling or Mr Stevenson, or a book like ‘Heidi.’ ‘Heidi’ is going to be my next picture, too. I like that because I. like the story. “Then, when I get into bed,, mummy comes in and teaches me my lines for the next day’s work at tiie studio. Sometimes at 20 minutes after eight, but never later than half-past eight, I snuggle down and go right to sleep—bingbang, like that!”