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CHARLESTON CHAMPION | A LTHOUGH she had never had a dancing fl lesson. Ginger Rogers started out as a Charleston contest w inn er when she was only g fourteen jrears old. She entered every contest in her home town, and then went on to become champion Charleston dancer. This in turn led to her stage career and later to the screen. She became famous when she was chosen as Fred Astaire's dancing partner, and these two gave ns such delightful films as The Gay Divorce. Top Hat, Roberta, and Follow the Fleet. It was Kitty Foyle that proved that Ginger was an actress as well as a dancer, and made her decide to devote herself to dramatic acting. Week-End at the Waldorf. Heartbeat, Magnificent Doll, and It Had to Be You are her more recent films. Ginger is married to Jack Briggs, and they like to spend their free time on their ranch in Oregon, where they raise Guernsey cattle, pigp, chickens and other livestock and poultry. Ginger swims and plays tennis. She is a great mimic, and quite unintentionally she often adopts the accent of anyone to whom she is tallang. SAILOR and ACTOR D EFORE settling down to an acting career Van Heflin was a wanderer by preference and instinct. Schooldays over, he followed the sea to many ports, and it was his shipmates who dubbed him " Van." His full name is Emmet Evan Heflin. After his first few voyages he spent two years at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma, and then the sea called again. Eventually he turned to acting, and after a season with a stock company he became an understudy in a Broadway show " Sailor Beware." The title must have been prophetic, for he never returned to the sea. Possessed. Green Dolphin Street, PoUy Fulton and Tap Roots are some of his latest films. Married to Frances Neal, he likes , spending evenings in his own home.