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Busby Berkeley, who is directing all the dancing for "42nd Street," the big, inside drama of show life, has taken a cue from the football coaches. He has put his girl athletes on a training table! Here they are — wistfully waiting for their lamb chops and prunes, not to mention their vitamins and calories
WAS Fredric March's face red when he found out that a "national hook-up" had been tuned in on his acceptance speech at the Motion Picture Academy Award Dinner? Freddy, as you should know by now, won "best acting performance" honors, though Wallace Beery nearly tied him, and naturally he made a little speech when presented with the trophy his characterization in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" had earned him. And what a speech! Perhaps the wittiest and most subtle remarks ever made by any speechmaker must be checked off to Freddy. But he thought he was merely addressing his co-workers and pals gathered in the large banquet hall! Had he known the world was tuned in, he says, he would have been a little less subtle — and daring. Said the dignified Mr. March, in part:
"Very amusing, these Academy awards, when you really stop to think about them. Alfred Lunt (one of the three contenders for first place) is childless. In the past year Wally Beery and I have adopted little girls. And yet we find ourselves honored for the best 'performances' of the year!"
Freddy's "daughter," by the way, is named Penelope.
Gossip From The West Coast
TOHNNY WEISSMULLER'S attentions J to various lady friends have begun to make Hollywood yawn, just a little bit. The old town seldom gets very sentimental over a divorce, but Bobbe Arnst rated plenty of it in this particular separation. Since the legal rift Johnny seems to have a new "girl" every month.
TEAN HARLOW has attended but one J social affair since the death of her husband, Paul Bern, and that was a very quiet little dinner party at the apartment of old friends. Though many of her friends and well wishers urge that Jean "get out a little," at least to theatres and dinner parties, the screen's newest sensation is spending most of her time alone. The death of her producer-husband has
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Now that you have a real good look at Ruby Keeler, who is Mrs. Al Jolson in private life, you'll wonder why the movies didn't capture her before — considering, too, that she danced in the Follies. For a little girl, she makes a big debut in "42nd Street"
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