Bradley Page #16

As a seventeen-year-old in 1919, Bradley Page showed youthful courage spending a few years learning stagecraft in the tough world of vaudeville. He worked in radio and stage, including Broadway, before arriving in Hollywood in 1931, where he played mostly small roles like "Nick Quinn" in Columbia's "Attorney for the Defense" with Edmund Lowe. Bradley looked to the future in July of '33, writing Ralph Morgan: "When Equity was organized, the talking picture was only dreamed of - so we could not be blamed for not looking ahead to its potentialities and doing something about it; which resulted in that organization's failure in California some years ago and our work of organizing the Actors Guild at the present time. Radio and its ally - television - are an actuality however, now...[and] we should not overlook the possibility of radio and television absorbing the picture industry a few years from now, as the talking picture did the legitimate theatre... circumstances, and perhaps good fortune, have placed us in a spot where we can benefit by mistakes made by other organizations and I beg of you all to consider - and remember that things happen awfully fast these days."