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Excerpt from Radio Tv Mirror, Vol. 48: July-December 1957 Come the hobbledehoy, early teen-age period and most juvenile actors find them selves at liberty. But not young Master Van Patten, who was sixteen when he got the biggest part he'd ever had - or thought to have - that of Michael, son of the fabu lous Lunts, in O Mistress Mine, which he played on Broadway for three seasons, then on tour with the road company. Dick's modesty, the complete lack of anything actor-ish in his manner or speech or behavior, in the way he dresses or in the way he lives, is probably due to the fact that - although he was a child actor - his home-life was always that of any normal-average American youngster. We lived in a big old house in Richmond Hill, Dick says. My father, for whom I was named (dad is holland-dutch, and I resemble him) - is an interior decorator. My mother, who is now a theatrical agent, was a Physical Ed. Instructor at the Rich mond Hill High School. My sister, Joyce - who is five years younger than I - made her stage debut when she was seven, in 'love's Old Sweet Song, ' which starred Jessie Royce Landis and the late Walter Huston. At 'home we never did any play acting, either of us - probably, Dick laughs, because we worked at it! Besides, there were too many other things to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.