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Hrdlička 'turtle dove', used as a nickname denoting someone with a mild, peaceable or affectionate temperament, or as a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves.alongside this apple-pie Americana runs the other vein in Hrdlicka’s history: a story like a European art film, complicated and tragic. Hrdlicka’s father, Richard, was born in Prague, now the capital of the Czech Republic. A talented only child, despite the horrors of German occupation during World War II, and Russian control afterwards, he learnt fluent English, and in 1947 he travelled to France for the World Scout Jamboree. The following year, in Paris again as part of a national ice hockey team, he defected. He was 16.
Telling this story, Hrdlicka’s eyes fill with tears. “As a mother, thinking of my 16-year-old,” she says, “I’m sure he thinks he’d be totally fine alone in Europe! But to lose your only child? That’s just a diabolical thing. And as a kid, knowing you may never see your parents again? [Indeed, Richard Hrdlicka’s father died before he was able to return to Prague.] Both sides are impossible.”
But as well as European tragedy, this is also a story of pure Hollywood triumph. Alone in France, the teenager wrote to other teenagers: the American scouts he’d met the previous year. These boys received his letters, raised money, and brought him to the US – all the way along the yellow brick road to Kansas. There, says his daughter, he raised her and her younger brother David to believe that “if you work hard enough, there are no rules. Absolutely anything is possible. He embraced everything with open arms and a lot of joy.”
Hrdlicka’s positivity and relish for work seem to come directly from her father – the penniless immigrant who finished his career as general counsel of Fiat for North America. “I always knew Jayne could do anything,” he says, now aged 88, from his home in New Mexico. “She was very good at school; she worked hard but it came easy. But I remember one time, she had this beautiful ski jacket we’d given her – wonderful colours, just gorgeous. She was so proud of it. And she wore it to her part-time job at Dillons grocery store, and it got stolen.
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