Movie Classic (Sep 1935-Feb 1936)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Ginger Rogers — Past, Present and Future [Continued from page 39] YOU'LL be delighted with this new kind of mirror that you can get absolutelyfree with a purchase of Yeast Foam Tablets. It's tilted at an angle so that you get a perfect close-up of your face without having to hunch way over your dressing table. Set it anywhere and have both hands free to put on cream or make-up comfortably. Women say it's one of the grandest beauty helps they've ever seen. Send the coupon, with an empty Yeast Foam Tablet carton, for your mirror now before the supply is exhausted. This offer is made to induce you to try Yeast Foam Tablets, the modern yeast that gives greater health benefits because it's dry. Scientists have recently discovered that dry yeast, as a source of vitamin B, is approximately twice as valuable as fresh, moist yeast! In carefully controlled tests, subjects fed dry yeast gained almost twice as fast as those given the moist, fresh type. Get quicker relief from indigestion, constipation and related skin troubles with Yeast Foam Tablets. You'll really enjoy their appetizing nut-like taste. And they'll never cause gas or discomfort because they are pasteurized. At all druggists. NORTHWESTERN YEAST~CO 1750 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, III. I enclose empty Yeast Foam Tablet carton. Please send me the handy new tilted make-up mirr0r FG9-3S Name Address. City -State. and to Lew, who had been bombarding her with wires and telephone calls. Together, they went to Ginger's mother, Lew said, "Ginger and I want to be married. But we don't want a typical movie wedding. We want just a quiet, simple church ceremony, with our closest friends there." And that was how they were married. They had planned a sea honeymoon, but picture demands on both of them prevented their taking one. Except for a short boat cruise a few months ago, they haven't yet had a honeymoon. But they still are planning one. "We want to honeymoon in Europe," Ginger told me, "and we expect to be gone three months. Lew has been over, but I never have. Now, nothing is going to stop us." By the time you read this, they will have gone on their long-awaited trip. Press photographers have resented the fact that Ginger and Lew have permitted no photographs of the interior of their home. Ginger explains : "It's a house we rented furnished. I didn't select or buy a single stick of the furniture in it. I don't want us to be photographed with furniture not our own. When we build, which will be soon, we'll furnish the new home ourselves and then the doors will be wide open to the press boys. It will really be our home." DERHAPS the greatest thrill for Ginger in her new stardom is that it justifies the faith her mother has shown in her, all through the years. Mrs. Lela Rogers is a very clever woman, well known as a writer and producer of Little Theatre plays. In the early days of the movies, she wrote scripts for and helped to direct child stars of that day. She had a way with children — with beginners in every form. And when she had a child of her own, she knew how to develop whatever talents the child showed. Ginger's talent seemed to be dancing. Her mother encouraged it. But she had seen too many onetalent successes quickly become onetalent failures to be content that Ginger should become just a dancer. She saw, with the practiced eye of a talent judge, that Ginger had personality. In a hundred little ways, she set out to make the expression of that personality the most natural thing in the world. When the youngster showed signs of self-consciousness, she taught her all the beauty aids that she, herself, knew (and Mrs. Rogers is a lovely woman) ; she gave her beauty-building exercises that were disguised as games; she watched the child's diet carefully and gave her the benefit of regular hours of sleep. Beauty was the result. She encouraged healthy romping and athletic activities of all kinds ; she encouraged reading, to give her a love for drama; she interested her in acting as home, little playlets that she had written. So that when Ginger entered that Charleston contest in Dallas, she already had "stage presence." She was ready to go on from there. She was offered an engagement with a vaudeville act in which all that she had to do was the Charleston. She clicked. Then, fired with ambition, she decided to branch out — to appear in a song-and-dance routine by herself. The act opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in a theatre that was halfempty, with the small audience too sleepy or blase to applaud. Her mother, in the back of the theatre watching the act, heard the house manager say that Ginger was "terrible" and that he was going backstage, tell her so, and wire for a substitute. "Mother and I had no money to get back home," reminisces Ginger. "We had spent every cent getting my costumes ready and traveling to Memphis. But Mother always was resourceful and she proved it this time in a big way. She fairly flew backstage and grabbed me. Then she hustled me out of the stage door and onto the first trolley that came along. "You see, if the manager did not succeed in notifying me that I was through before I did my second show, he had to pay me my week's salary if he closed me out. So Mother kept me out until just time for me to go on for my second show and then rushed me through the stage door and down to the first entrance. Of course, she had not told me anything except that she wanted me to relax after my first performance. "As luck would have it, the house had filled up with young people from the high schools and college, and my act was a riot. They called me back again and again. By getting me a second chance, Mother had saved the day. It is possible that if I had been closed out that day, I might never have gone on with my stage career." RINGER would have you think that ^-* luck explains her ever winning recognition. That's like Ginger. But you know differently — about the explanations. There are some other things that you may not know about her. She would like to play the role of Queen Elizabeth (who also was redheaded), but admits herself still too young. Her real name is Virginia. She likes greens, browns, and blues best. Her favorite authors are Dumas, Maug\_Continued on page 71] 66 Movie Classic for September, 1935