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By Elizabeth Wilson
unfortunately, personality so often rates higher than ability) to understand. Jeanette's voice lessons are as important to her today as they were ten years ago — and after all you can't sing in five different languages as she does on her concert tours without a deal of study. Why shouldn't she take her singing seriously? It is serious. Because she doesn't drink or smoke or hang out in night clubs some of her fellow stars would have you believe that Jeanette is on the dull side. But I must say that Jeanette with a glass of milk in her hand is far more witty than most of the Glamour Girls I have known who have downed their third martini.
Yes, some day I expect to go into all this and lambast the daylights out of the MacDonald belittlers. But right now I want to tell about Jeanette's tour. It's about seven-thirty in the morning, wouldn't you know, and the train is pulling into Dallas, and your favorite prima donna, who is supposed to live in a glamourous world all her own, far removed from us common herd, has gone disgustingly human on us and is kicking the seat in her compartment because she can't get her new luggage out from under it. Jeanette has a temper, she'd have to have with that red hair, and kicking is her best outlet.
Her most famous "kick" happened on the set several years ago when Van Dyke was directing her in "Rose Marie." Three times Jeanette did a scene and each time she felt she did it badly. At the end of the fourth "take" she decided that she was even worse than before (she's her own severest critic) so she hauled off and kicked a studio chair completely across the stage. The company gasped with shocked surprise, she had seemed such a sweet girl, and Van Dyke hastily called lunch. An hour later when Jeanette returned to the set she found that Van Dyke had had every chair on the stage nailed to the floor. Jeanette was convulsed with laughter. Kicking to Jeanette is what a good strong swear word is to most of us, and it never hurts anybody or anything, except the toe of her very pretty [Continued on page 60]
Above: Jeanette on the stage of the Fair Park Auditorium in Dallas where she sang to well over 4,000 people. Belo-w: Gene did not make the tour with Jeanette, but lead the welcoming committee on her return. Gossip doesn't worry her, but it does annoy her.