Movie Classic (Sep 1936-Feb 1937)

^ Ginger Answers [Continued from page 16] hurry for I feel that my work on the screen is giving me back-ground and the ability to understand all sorts of people. Q. If you ever fail in movies, what business or occupation would you turn to? A. I have already spoken of my wish to write. I also have an idea that I could be a designer of women's clothes. Q. Did you and Harriet Hilliard become good friends during the filming of Follow The Fleet? A. Yes. We became very good friends. Q. Do you enjoy being' a guest star on the radio broadcasts? Would you like to do more radio work? Do you have a favorite program? A. I enjoy radio work immensely and I have made definite arrangements to appear on several radio broadcasts this fall for Lux and for Louella Parsons. My favorite program is Jack Benny's. Q. Do you intend to write more songs? What is your favorite song? A. Yes, I do. I love to write songs — particularly silly songs. My favorite song is, "Who" from Sunny. It's old but I never tire of it. Q. What picture have you enjoyed making the most? A. In Person. Simply because every circumstance connected with this production was congenial. We had a cast of comics, and I love banter. 0. What is the largest number of retakes you have ever had to do on a single scene? A. We take some dancing scenes as many as twenty-eight and thirty times before they are pronounced perfect. Q. If you should fall in love with some man other than an actor, would you be willing to give up your work should he ivant you to? A. No, I wouldn't! I think any man who would make such a demand would be very selfish in his love. I would consider him more in love with his own egotism than with me, for after all, my work is part of me. 0. Have you any plans at present of appearing in a musical in Nezv York? A. No, I haven't. 0. Please tell me zvhat special care you give your feet after rehearsing for hours? A. I bathe them, first in hot and then cold, water and then — don't laugh — I rest with my feet higher than my head in order to allow the blood to recede from them. 0. Are all of your pictures chosen for you or do you have a choice as to those you would like to appear in? A. They have all been chosen for me with the exception of In Person. Q. Why do you desire to play dramatic roles when you have made such a hit in musicals? A. People misunderstand the meaning of the word, dramatic. I simply want parts which demand characterization. Q. What is the most thrilling experience in your life? When and hozv did it occur? A. One of the greatest thrills of my life occurred when I first stood on the stage of a theatre. It was in 1917 during one of the Liberty Loan drives. With my mother, I had gone to see Jane Cowl in a play. Between acts she came out on the stage and urged the audience to buy liberty bonds. Naming the states of the Union one by one she asked the residents [Continued on page 69] IT'S the new way to beauty, welcomed by stars of the stage and screen, approved by beauties and men who know beauty . . . choose your makeup by your personality color, the color that never changes, the color of your eyes. Wear Marvelous Dresden type face powder, rouge, lipstick, eye shadow or mascara if your eyes are blue; Patrician type if your eyes are gray; Parisian type if they're brown ; Continental type if they're hazel. Discover how much younger, lovelier, more attractive you can be when all your makeup is scientifically color-harmonized. A million women have already discovered this remarkable new makeup. Nine out of ten say they like it a lot better. Your own drug or department store has full size packages of Marvelous Face Powder, Rouge, Lipstick, Eye Shadow or Mascara for only 55^ each (Canada 65^) . Be lovelier . . . wear this new Marvelous Makeup . . . and you'll join the ranks of the popular girls . . . the girls men like to look at ! COPYR. 1936, RICHARD HUDNUT ItlflRVCLOUS mmteup RECHftRD HUDnUT nou<;< • uPsricK • fYt :;hhdouj mfisciifu /V*^ each ■ Movie Classic for October, 1936 63