| Winchell Smith, Metro dramatist, was born in Hartford, Conn. His first job
was that of assistant property man at the age of eighteen. Not long after
he became stage director but there was no soothing the fever to become an
actor and three years later Mr. Smith played his first small part in "The
Prodigal Daughter." Twelve years later he discovered that he was gifted
with the ability to write an easy flow of dialogue and promptly began his
career as a dramatist. He dramatized "Brewster's Millions." Then
he wrote "The Fortune Hunter," "The Boomerang," "Turn
to the Right," and "Lightnin'," sensational Broadway successes.
Mr. Smith's home is in Farmington, Conn., in the same hilly country where
he spent his boyhood days. |