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A new-and-different way to get to know those new-and-different Hollywood headliners
THE GIRL BEHIND THE VOICE:
She could dance but she couldn't sing. In the chorus of the Cotton Club she danced so well orchestra leader Noble Sissle signed her to dance with his orchestra and sing a few ditties not too well. Then Lena Home, tall, slender Negro, got married, moved to Pittsburgh, had a baby girl and three years later, single again, was back in New York needing a job. Singing with Charlie Barnet's band was her chance. That was the discovery of those rich contraltoblue tones that sent her zooming to New York's famous Cafe Society Club, the Blackbirds Review of 1941, the Savoy-Plaza and movies, where she toured from "Panama Hattie," "Cabin In The Sky," "Right About Face," "Private Miss Jones" on to "Stormy Weather."
Lena doesn't know how she came by her newly found voice. She knows only that it won her one of the Newspaper Guild's awards for the year's best achievement in music circles (among others), got her a contract at M-G-M studios, sent her up to San Francisco to christen the George Washington Carver ship, has given her a hilltop cottage where she lives with little Gail, now five.
Reads? She reads everything, makes phonograph albums, gathers with her musical friends, has a squarish face, slightly pug nose that's cute and a dozen or so freckles scattered here and yon. She spent most of her little-girl days in Brooklyn, though a separation in the family sent her for a while to live with an uncle, dean of a school in Georgia. For all of Brooklyn, she never says "soitoinly" or "dem bums."
BY HU HAMILTON
PIXIE:
When Ginger Rogers married Nazi Walter Slezak in "Once Upon A Honeymoon," a new type came to the screen. Walter has a cherub's face, an easy manner. His Viennese accent is slight, but his waistline isn't. He's smooth and twinkly and the best farmer in Bucks County, Pa. He'll have none of that phony artiste farming colony. Walter, when not in pictures, is up at six, plows, rakes, feeds hogs, milks cows and rides his tractor, bouncing like a bowl of jello, all over Pennsylvania. His farm pays. It had gosh-darn better!
Walter grew up in a theatrical atmosphere in Vienna, where he was born May 3, 1902. His father, a wellknown tenor, was a popular figure at the Metropolitan. Walter worked at banking in Vienna until Mike Curtiz, then a director at U. F. A., talked him into acting. After three years of silent films in Austria, he came to the New York stage. Director Leo McCarey kept talking to Walter about our movies and finally when "Once Upon A Honeymoon" came along Walter accepted the role.
He gave Charles Laughton a run for his money as another Nazi in "This Land Is Mine" and went on to play an old "rephellion" in "The Fallen Sparrow." In 1935 he became an American citizen. He's a bachelor, stands six feet two, loves food, has a constant good humor and wishes he didn't have to play Nazis. Oh yes, he names his farm animals after Hollywood stars. You'd die if you knew the name of his biggest cow.