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Picture Show Annual 89 A LUCKY FRIDAY THE 13th KAY FRANCIS was born on Friday, January 13th, in the thirteenth month of her mother s marriage, but no one could call her unlucky—a girl gifted with beautiful brown eyes, sleek black head, a wide red mouth, the most engaging upward tilt of her nose and chin, the straightest, most fashionable figure a dressmaker ever fitted with a straight and fashionable gown, and one of the most attractive voices and laughs ever recorded by a grateful microphone. She took to Hollywood three trunkfuls and eleven suitcases of New York clothes, to live up to her reputation as New York's best-dressed woman; but found that at first all she had lime to do was work and sleep. She was appalled by the way Holly- wood went to parties dressed :n whatever they seemed to favour—riding clothes, evening clothes, even bathing suits all mixed haphazardly and quite happily to- gether, and by the fact that the sole apparent aim of everyone's existence there is films. Yet she liked the work and the studio people from the beginning, and the studio liked her for her lack of side. So she decided that California s charms out- weighed its peculiarities and stayed to make many talkies, including " Dangerous Curves, ' Illusion," The Marriage Playground,"' and " Behind the Makeup." Although Kay Francis mother, Katherine Clinton, was a well- known actress, she did not want her daughter to be one, too : but Kay, instead of getting a job after a course at a secretarial college, de- cided to go on the stage. She found little difficulty in getting parts, one of her first being that of the queen in the little playlet in " Hamlet," when the modern clothes version was acted in New York. When Paramount were making their first talkie, " Gentlemen of the Press," Kay Francis was told to take a test for the leading role. A blonde was really wanted, but after her tests were seen, the director forgot the blondes and Kay got the job. She has not been back to the stage since. HIS FIRST FILM— A "TALKIE" Banking was the career mapped out for Fredric March, but acting was the one he wanted. He had scored a hit in amateur theatricals during his brilliant college career, and the same year that he first began in a New York bank, he left it to join a New York stock company. He made an im- mediate hit, and his work won him a place with the New York Theatre Guild, where he left behind a brilliant record. Although he had many film offers while he was on the stage, it was not until 1928 that he accepted. He was playing in Los Angeles in " The Royal Family, when the opportunity to act a leading role in " The Dummy ' brought him to the talking screen. Had pictures still been silent, Fredric March would still have been on the stage. Following " The Dummy " he played in " The Wild Party," " Paris Bound," " The Marriage Play- ground,' etc. Fredric March was born in Wisconsin, has brown hair and eyes, and is 5 feet 1 I inches tall. His favourite recreations are riding, tennis, and swimming. H