GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK
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GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK - BroadLit
True Love
April 2014
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Give Your Heart a Break – 1948
GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK – 1948
Originally published in the February 1948 issue of True Romance Magazine, the most popular women’s magazine of its day and the precursor to today’s People Magazine, Give Your Heart a Break is a story that focuses on the struggles so many men and women faced as they tried to go back to work now that World War II has ended. Even though war had raged during most of the beginning of this decade, people still craved entertainment, whether it was watching Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain,
hitting the dance floor themselves, or going to clubs to see their favorite comic acts. Comedians and singers, such as Jack Benny and Frank Sinatra, were incredibly popular, as described in more detail on www.trulovestories.com.
I was ashamed. It was terrible to feel, watching Hal. He wasn’t even aware that they weren’t laughing with him, but at him. He went right on, as though he were the top comedian on Broadway and they the most delighted of audiences.
Mechanically, my fingers struck the chords on the midget piano. I was grateful then for the smoke and dim lights that wrapped me in half shadow. I was glad that soon this place with its long bar, its tall booths, the sawdust on the floor, the vulgar murals on the walls, the smoke, the constant murmur