If a handicap has you down

Title: If a handicap has you down
Creator: Williams, Whitney
Language: English
Year: 1939
Subject: People with disabilities.
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Fulltext: FREDRIC MARCH, during his youth, stuttered so frightfully that his family believed he would go through life with that affliction. He cured himself by reading lengthy passages aloud,. very often shouting them, in the pri;vacy of the family attic. JEAN ARTHUR had herself to lick, before she could swing the world by the tail. Hers was the worst inferiority complex in Hollywood. After getting nowhere on the screen, Jean deserted Hollywood for Broadway, determined to go on the stage and conquer her fears. She clicked in her first stage engagement, and returned to Hollywood the most self-possessed young woman in the colony. DURING her grammar school days, Rosina Lawrence was crippled as a result of being tripp€d during a game of . tag. Her vertebrae was dislocated and she could not use her legs for more than a year. She persuaded her mother that ballet dancing would be a good method of strengthening her limbs, and within four years had progressed to the point that she entered the studios as a a dancer.-Whitney Williams. PANORAMA