Faithful Frost Fans Are Alice’s Pride

<Demure, lady like and looking far aloof from crime, Alice Frost plays Pam North in the NBC mystery series, “Mr.and Mrs. North”>

Faithful Frost Fans Are Alice’s Pride

THE Alice Frost Fan club will be five years old in June. In that time Alice, reversing the recipe for a well behaved child, has been heard but not seen in a variety of roles ranging from saint to sinner to siren. Currently she is whimsical Pam North of NBC’s “Mr.and Mrs. North,” (WTMJ, Wednesdays, 7p. m.). Thorough it all the 150 in the limited membership of her fan club have remained unwaveringly loyal.

Listeners have a way of associating actresses with the parts they play, but the Frost fans can take changes in their stride. The women who visualized Alice herself as the very personification of the sweet, high minded girl she played so long in “Big Sister,” now accept her with equal enthusiasm as that gay amateur sleuth, Pam North. And when she’s heard, as she often is, as the endangered heroine or even the murderee on a mystery program, they like that, too.

Frost fans like the personal touch. Not only do they keep track of the actress’ career, but they keep her posted on their own lives. With snapshots and frequent letters, some of them unfold stories as dramatic as any in which Alice has been heard on the air. They seek her advice and she worries over the influence she seems to wield in lives of many persons she never has met.

One invalid has built her entire shut-in life around Alice and her radio roles. Her doctor has written Alice that this consuming interest actually has improved the girl’s very frail health. She sends Alice many gifts, took pains to find out her measurements and knit her a sweater which fitted perfectly. She sends flowers each year on the anniversary of the first time she heard Alice broadcast.

In a roundabout way Alice has unknowingly brought about radical changes in many lives. Innumerable fans start correspondence with one another, eventually meet and become friends. One girl even became engaged to the brother of a fellow fan with whom she became friends after a lengthy correspondence. Sometimes fans come to New York and when they do Alice always makes time to meet them.

Frost fans have become so loyal, not only to Alice, but to one another, that they go out of their way to do favors. One, for instance, heard of the difficulty another was having in getting butter, before rationing went into effect, and mailed five pounds of fresh, sweet butter in a refrigerated container several hundred miles.

Each new member of the club receives an autographed photograph of Alice and copies of Fanfare, the club publication which is filled with news of Alice’s activities. She herself writes an article for each issue. At Christmas and on her birthday she receives a club gift.

She receives many other presents all through the year ranging from flowers and candy to antimacassars and hooked rugs. One Texas couple annually send a big bag of cotton packed pecans.

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