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dancin'!
We all dropped around just to watch those sensational Champions rehearse — and before we knew it we were making like gazelles, ourselves.
THE FINE ART OF DANCING WITH A DUMMY
' lady dummy helps Richard Haydn display Haydn, with his dummy in the palm of his hand, is a s ballroom skill. Mono Freeman tries it, too. study in grace. Mona finds the maneuvering harder.
Mona ends up by sitting the whole thing out. Richard, still going strong, is disdainful.
■ As we were scurrying about the Paramount lot gathering news items, we heard a sound of musical festivity coming from a dance-rehearsal hall. We went right over and looked in.
There in the center of the barn-like room lined with long mirrors and exercise bars, were Marge and Gower Champion, dancing spectacularly to the accompaniment of pianist Dick Pribor. The Champions, Mr. ■ and Mrs. in private life, have recently become the newest dance-team sensation in night-club circles. And following their smash opening at the Mocambo, they had every studio in town pressing fountain pens on them. They signed with Paramount, and had just checked into the lot to start prepping for their appearance with Bing Crosby in Mr. Music.
Now they were being observed with awe by a small but select audience consisting of Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe, Don and Marion DeFore, Rhonda Fleming and Nancy Olson. All had been lured by the chance to watch this million-dollar entertainment for free.
Naturally, we joined them. Then, every spectator seemed seized with the same idea simultaneously. The Champions were making it seem so simple to swoop and dart with incredible grace about the polished floor that eveiyone else decided to get in the act. . {Continued on next page)
Bob Hope dreams while the young lady . . . (Turn page.)
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