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Above, you see Margo as herself. Below, you see her with Warner Baxter in M-G-M's powerful picture, Robin Hood of El Dorado. Their love is as unforgetable as it is tragic. Margo, in reality a highborn Mexican, plays a peon girl in early California who loves and weds a poor farmer (Baxter). When coldblooded invaders kill her, Baxter turns bandit, seeking revenge — becoming, to other peons, Robin Hood of El Dorado.
It's Time You Knew
MARGO!
This sensational young Mexican dancer is becoming one of the screen's most promising dramatic actresses!
By GRANT JACKSON
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HO is this vivid, vivacious young dancer — this young and gifted dramatic actress — who is known only by the name of Margo? It's time you knew!
Her full name is Margarite Bolado. As she pronounces it with a Spanish accent the name is charming. But she changed it to Margo because so many Americans found the pronunciation difficult. Margo, she felt, was a name that could not be mispronounced.
She was born in Mexico City, of pure Spanish ancestry. Her father, who was a famous surgeon, died before her first birthday. He left her mother very well-to-do.
By the time that Margo was five years old, she liked nothing so much as dancing. She told her mother and her uncle. Xavier Cugat (who leads an orchestra in Xew York's Waldorf-Astoria today) that she was going to be a dancer when she grew up. As the years passed, she did not relinquish the idea, though her mother frowned upon it. She wanted her daughter to become a surgeon — as a son might have.
But the sight of blood sickens Margo. It was the sight of blood that made her a vegetarian, almost two years ago. She tells the story : "I had ordered a steak in my favorite restaurant, asking the waiter to hurry my order. He hurried, all right ! When I cut into the steak, it was raw. Looking at it. there on the plate, took away my appetite completely. Ugh ! I've never been able to touch meat since. Yet I know I should bave meat. Every dancer should."
For years, even after it became evident that Margo would never be able to study surgery, her mother still was unwilling to sanction a dancing career for her. Especially, a professional career. Even the steps that the child performed to ever} bit of music she heard, from hand organ to grand piano, elicited parental disapproval.
But in her grandmother, Margo discovered a kindred spirit — one who encouraged the little girl and is still her greatest source of inspiration.
Because of ill health, Margo's grandmother was forced to leave Mexico. She went to New York City where, in a few months, Margo joined her. Meanwhile, the family had suffered reverses and, as Margo says, "were impossibly poor." Yet her grandmother would allow nothing to interfere with the child's dancing. Thus [Continued on page 82]
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