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who has filmed several of the Astaire pictures. "He has a face that means something," Abel remarked, almost reverently. "You can photograph him any way you like, and he still is Fred. You don't have to worry about angles and right and wrong lighting and such things. Say, it's a pleasure to photograph a man like that.' He has personality!" 'And a pleasure to know him, too?" I suggested. "It certainly is, and I guess I should have talked about that first, except that we cameramen are pretty well inclined to talk shop on all occasions. Anyway, if you ask me what kind of chap Fred Astaire is, I should say this : He has more talent and less temperament than almost any actor I have ever known!" "Fred Astaire? Well—" Hermes Pan, handsome young dance director who has worked with Fred in all of the latter's pictures, paused. Then — "If you want me to talk about the man, I can say he is swell," he declared. "And if you want me to talk about the dancer, I can say that not only is he a great dancer, but the hardest taskmaster I've ever known — yet only toward himself, never toward anyone else. He works until you'd think he would wear himself out and then, if the particular steps he has in mind don't shape up right, he'll get madder than hops at himself. He always keeps at what he wants until it is right, however — although I've never seem him wholly satisfied." Pan, like Sandrich, is also well aware of the Astaire humor and how it is likely to crop out at various and sundry unexpected intervals. "POR INSTANCE." he said. "Fred ■*■ and Ginger will have been rehearsing until you'd think them ready to drop in their tracks and then, suddenly, with the music still going and maybe the sequence almost ready to shoot, Fred will burlesque the thing, changing like lightning from the sublime to the ridiculous, as it were. "And, mind you, Fred does this without warning. The clown in him will apparently allow itself to be submerged in hard and serious work just so long and no longer. I actually think," he added, "that this sort of performance is the safety valve that keeps him normal in the face of the relentless manner in which he drives himself to work, work and more work." It was time for Pan to get back on the set, now, and he rose with an apology. "I'm afraid I have talked too much about Fred," he said. "He doesn't like to have me, or anyone, do it. You see, he really can't understand why anyone should be interested in him except as a dancer or an actor." The dance director smiled, then. "I guess I haven't answered your first question specifically, have I ? You asked me: 'What is Fred really like?' Well, I've only one answer to that . . . Fred Astaire is like himself ..." D © you know anybody who deserves MUM M1 to bother with her. "A careless, untidy person who is unpleasant to be with" — that's the way they think of the girl who carries the ugly odor of underarm perspiration on her person and clothing. Too bad. For she misses so many good times. Her real friends would like to tell her what the trouble is, but after all, they feel, the girl of today should be alert to the danger of underarm odor in herself. She should know that the underarms need special daily care. Soap and water alone are not enough. And the modern girl knows the quick, easy way to give this care. Mum! Half a minute, when you're dressing, is all you need to use Mum. Or use it after dressing, any time. For Mum is harmless to clothing. It's soothing to the skin, too. You can use it right after shaving the underarms. And you should know this — that Mum prevents every trace of perspiration odor without affecting perspiration itself. Don't label yourself as "the girl who needs Mum." Use it regularly every day and you'll be safe! BristolMyers,Inc.,630 Fifth Ave., NewYork. USE MUM ON SANITARY NAPKINS, TOO and you'll never have a moment's worry about this source of unpleasantness. takes the odor out of perspiration Movie Classic for March, 1936 65