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Dorothy Devore was born in a small town in Texas. Her real name is Ann Inez Williams, and altho Ann Inez is still in her 'teens, she has been a choir singer, a cabaret dancer, a vaudeville artiste and is now a star for Christie Comedies
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SOME 'teen years a^'o she was horn .\nn Inez Williams, in a small town in Texas, L'. S. .\. Today she is Dorothy Devore. star in Christie Comedies and leading lady for Charles Ray in "Forty-five Minutes l-"roni Rroadway."
It all happ<-ne<l very much in apjiroved story-hook fashion. When .'Xnn Inez Williams was eleven years c.ld. her mother, seeking renewed health, brought her to California. , , .
.•\nn Inez at that time had four brothers and an elder sister, l hey were all married; had families of their ow.n, and so mother Williams felt free to devote her time wholly to .Vnn Inez and her health. She brought all the family furniture, took a comfortable house in Los .Xngeles and sent Ann Inez to private school. .Ml scciiud going smoothly— that is, on the surface.
But .Ann Inez wasn't the placid little soul her mother thought (I could have told her that, the moment I saw those big brown eyes with mischief hidden deep, deep within them. ) .Xnn, who was called Dot at school because she was .so very tiny, \va> possessed of a tremendous voice, and it used to amuse all her friends to hear that huge voice issuing from the slender throat of the very littlest one of them. .■\nd so Ann, who was very ambitious, caught the career fever and .sang in the church choir where her voice, she says, "Just boomed out."
This led to an ofTer for her to sing in private bom s of society people for the entertainment nf blase guests. .Ann Inez knew that her mother would never consent to this, so she used to run away from school everv afternoon when her services
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