With only five hours' notice, K. T. Stevens substituted for Margaret Sullavan in Voice of the Turtle. Before the curtain went up, producer Alfred de Liagre announced the substitution, with the usual money back if you want it offer...Small groups in the theater immediately began to confer: "It's almost 9 o'clock...what other show can we see now?...etc." In a seat up front sat Stacy Harris, Miss Stevens' boy friend, who recently was decorated by De Gaulle. He heard theater seats snapping up, and the shuffling of people's feet. "I don't care how many walk out," he vowed grimly, "I'm staying." He sat tensely until someone tapped him: "Better stand up, too mister. That's The Star-Spangled Banner they're playing."
-Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 11, 1944
The daughter of director Sam Wood, K. T. Stevens enjoyed a long and successful career in acting. She died in 1994.
Leonard Lyons was a Pulitzer-nominated columnist based in New York. He died in 1976.
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