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FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE:
When Ray McDonald began tapping his way to fame in M-G-M's pictures, he kept assuring people he had a sister Grace. Who cared? Apparently no one but Universal Studios, who signed Ray's delectable little sis to a contract and discovered they had not only a dancing honey on their hands but a genuine little actress who climbed up through such pictures as "What's Cookin'?," "Strictly In The Groove" and "It Ain't Hay" to a second lead in episode two of Charles Boyer's picture "For All We Know." Now it seems people all over the country care about Gracie and especially the thousands of soldier boys whom she visits in various camps during every spare minute away from her work. A medal to match her very blue eyes should be given to Gracie for her endless efforts to entertain our uniformed lads.
Born in Boston, Gracie decided, when just eight years old, to be a somebody and began crowding in so many ballet, voice and drama lessons her family felt like a continual vaudeville audience. Then tragedy struck. At eleven Gracie was stricken with rheumatic fever and lay abed a year. Her heartbreaking attempts to take up her dancing sent her back to bed for still another year. Brother Ray guided her slowly back to health with gradual exercises and at fourteen the pair were the sensation of New York night clubs and vaudeville shows. A good part in the musical "One For The Money" brought on her Hollywood contract.
Grade's an old-fashioned girl. Her father, William McDonnell (her real name), is a government movie censor and mother is a real homemaker. Gracie helps with the dishes, fixes up the house, makes a garden, listens to Dad's criticism of her work. Her voice is low and soft and her nose points due north — so cute she is, so little, so — well, that's why she's a Who's News-er.
SIX FOOT TWO, EYES OF BROWN:
When the picture "The Moon Is Down" was previewed in Holly-I wood, the town knew a star was rising. He was German Peter Vanl Eyck (pronounced Ike), playing the role of the confused Nazi whoj sought love and found death with Dorris Bowdon.
Born in Berlin, he saw, as a lad, the insidious rising of the Nazi] cobra, and fled. For five years he lived between Paris and London] writing his songs and stage-managing plays. In 1935 he visitec New York, met lovely Ruth Ford, the actress, and returned in years to marry her. He wrote songs and plugged them for several New York music publishers. He took a job at "Newsweek," triec summer stock with his wife and then came to Los Angeles to takel the only job he could find — driving a furniture truck. He climbed! down off that truck to take his "Moon Is Down" role, go on tci Paramount's "Five Graves To Cairo" as another Nazi and then sigri a Twentieth Century-Fox contract.
He's mad for Shelly, his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, ha«| his American citizenship papers, is natural, has a funny haircut, ■ restless in body and mind, likes to keep moving, has brown eyes, ci mere suggestion of a dimple, stands way up about six foot two< shops for furniture at Sears Roebuck for the Hollywood cottage ir which he, Ruth and baby live. You'd like him.