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Ginger Answers
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of each, who were present, to stand up and then demanded their pledges to buy. When she called Missouri, my mother stood up and of course I did also. Jane Cowl asked me to come up on the stage, and during the remainder of her speech, I stood there with her arm around me — and I have never before or since been more thrilled.
Q. Is there any special step that is the basis of all tap dancing'? If so, what is it?
A. No. Not to my knowledge.
Q. Did yon as a child ever appear in any screen plays and if so, what zoere they?
A. My only appearance on the screen as a child was once in Kansas City when I appeared in an advertising short for an optical shop.
Q. Did yon attend college? If so, zvhat one? If not, would yon like to attend now, and for what reason?
A. I would love to attend college for I feel that by not doing so, I have missed a great deal. If I could go to college now, I would study literature and languages. While I can gain some of the knowledge that I missed through lack of higher schooling, by reading books, I know that my reading can never take the place of organized study.
0. Do you consider acting hard work or fun? Do yon intend to visit the Texas Centennial? If so — when?
A. Acting itself is fun, but the long hours put in on the production on a picture, and the nervous strain and responsibility, combine to make it also work. My present plans include a visit to the Texas Centennial during the month of August.
Q. What type of make-up do you use off the screen? Hozu do you put it on? Do you, use soap or do you use cream? Do you use a powder base? Do you think it is good taste to use eye-make-up in the daytime or just at night?
A. I use lip rouge, eye-brow pencil, mascara, and occasionally, face rouge. I use both soap and cream in cleansing my face. I so seldom use any powder that I really don't require a powder base. I do not object to the use of very light make-up in the daytime, or at night, but I do think a heavy eye makeup with eye shadow and a great deal of mascara is in poor taste at any time.
Q. After you had won the Charleston Contest in Ft. Worth, Texas, did you believe that your chance had come at last?
A. No. I didn't know what it was all about. At that time I Jiad no goal, and winning that Charleston contest was exciting simply because it was an excuse to get out of school.
Q. What is the one thing which contributed most to your spectacular success?
A. Genuine love of my work. Enthusiasm and the desire to succeed if founded on love of one's work, .usually is the most important asset anyone can have in achieving success, I think. I know that is true in acting or dancing or anything else pertaining to the theatre or the screen.
Q. Do you consider marriage incompatible with a career?
A. No I don't.
Q. Hoiv zvould you recommend training for a career as a dancer and dramatic actress in the movies?
A. I think the best training that anyone can have for any type of screen work is to be found on the stage and it is far [Continued on page 70]
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