Hi, this is Lucy, and my guest is Shirley Booth, lovable star of Hazel and one of the finest

actresses in our profession. You know, not everyone realizes that Miss Booth has been awarded

every important honor the entertainment forums have to cover, including an Academy Award for her

role in Comeback Little Sheba, the Cannes Film Festival Award, naming her the world's best actress, three Tony Awards and two Emmys.

And in addition to all this, one of the loveliest people in the world.

Shirley, I'm just delighted to have you here today.

Well, thank you. I'm very glad to be here with you, Lucy. And speaking of the

Emmys, I remember one of the choicest memories I had that when I received my Emmy, and you were in

competition, and when I received it, I looked over all these people, and there you were,

beaming at me with a most wonderful smile.

Well, thank you, Don.

And it was, I treasure it almost as much as I do the Emmy.

Well, to lose to someone like you is a great honor.

That's a great competition.

I like being in competition like that.

First of all, let's talk just for a moment about Hazel, because I know that that is of

great interest around the country, whether or not you're going to go on with Hazel this season.

Yes, we are going on for a time. It looked as if it was touch and go. We suspended operations

right after Christmas, first of the year, and we didn't know whether we were going on again.

And after all, I had thought four years was pretty good,

because there's nothing compared to I love Lucy. That just goes on and on and on and never,

people never tire of it. But I just felt that maybe this was all it could stand. It was the

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