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By MICHELE MAY
Kappahunnurk News SlnfT W riter
“I had this positively hideous aversion to what we called blondine hair in those days,” remembers Ed Pawley. In fact, he says he was allergic to peroxide. The rough hair of bleached leading ladies made his face break-out in a rash.
Yet it was years before he learned that the golden. tressed lady he had married | was really a brunette. Helen’s mother had bleached i her daughter’s hair for a role i in the 1930 production of “Life is Like That.” Edward was cast opposite the beautiful (then blonde) star and was totally enchanted.
They were married in a quiet ceremony in California on January 23, 1937. Still she kept several secrets. “For years I thought she was a blonde,” Ed says, “But she is just as desirable as a brunette.
Helen says the truth came out when her sister cut off all her hair one day andleft only dark roots curling all over her head.
The truth about her age came out only when it came time to collect social security. The question of age is a confusing and inconsequential matter to Helen Pawley. A child actress, she had to be older on stage to circum
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