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she entered the revue. They do say that Ziegfeld has scouts in every kindergarten in the land looking for show girls to sign up. And she will tell you that of course her mother always accompanied her to and from the theater and that, although there might have been goings on among the other girls, such as are described in the Sunday papers — she never saw anvthing like that. The girls with whom she associated were iust too sweet and refined.
But there is no denying that a Follies reputation is a great asset to any girl who is trying to get along. So it is no wonder that girls sometimes make claim to one when the facts do not support them. Hollywood swarms with girls who claim to have been in the Follies. Out of a list of about thirty I found six or seven who seemed to be authentic.
Girls who have, as Billie Dove phrases it, "used the Follies as a spring-board to launch them into pictures."
Fannie Brice, a headliner among Follies entertainers, who has been adding to the gaiety of nations in that revue for eighteen years or so, has just finished "My Man," a Vitaphone special for Warners. No fragile, hot-house-orchid girl is Fannie. But a queen of burlesque, one of the funniest women on the stage.
And do vou know what Fannie says? You'll never guess, my dears, so I'll have to tell you. She says that jazz is what is the matter with this country and this generation. She does! Fannie — one of the jazziest of them all.
"Jazz is so sexy," says Fannie. " It is nothing but sex and our young people dance to it and listen to it and live with it — no wonder this is a sex-mad age."
Fannie knows what has caused a lot of things. For instance, "The people in the
^^^^ theater are different now from the people I knew and loved when
^jV^^ I was just beginning," she says. "Kids in the Follies are hard,
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^r^^^^ intrigue. There is no spontaneity.
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iConhnued on pane 72) Josephine Dunn, Fannie Brice,
Lina Basquette and Billie Dove;
and then, upward, Jane Winton
and Peggy Watts
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