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STEEPED IN SHAKESPEAREAN TRADITION T here is probably no British actor who is so thoroughly of the stage, and of the Shakespearean tradition in particular, as Godfrey Tearle. His parents, Osmond Tearle and Marianne Conway, were famous Shakespearean players, and Godfrey was born while they were having a season in New York, where the Brooklyn Theatre was then owned by his grand- father. Over a hundred years ago his great-grand- father played Hamlet ” at Covent Garden, and his father toured the world for thirty years with his Shakespearean company. Godfrey himself made his debut at the age of eight as the Duke of York in Richard III,” and, naturally enough, elected the stage as a career, joining his father’s company, and playing Brutus in “ Julius Caesar ” when he was only seventeen. On his father’s death, Godfrey Tearle formed his own touring company, and after playing with Sir Herbert Tree and Sir George Alexander, became a suc- cessful actor-manager, scoring his greatest hits in ” Othello,” “ The Fake,” ” The Garden of Allah,” when the audience stood on their seats to applaud, and ” Hamlet, ” when he took Henry Ainley’s place at a day’s notice. He was not at all keen on films in their silent days, but now that he can use his voice, which is unusually beautiful, his wide circle of admirers can look forward to seeing him on the screen much more frequently. A HALF-PINT HEROINE D orothy Lee concentrates an incredible amount of vitality and physical energy in her tiny self. Although she is so small—less than five feet tall and less than seven stone in weight, with tiny hands, feet, nose, and bones—a mere ” half-pint ” size, there is the strength of tempered steel in her, and a stout heart. She is a great lacrosse and tennis player, and she swims, jumps, runs, and rides with the best. Dorothy was born in Los Angeles, and ever since she was four until her marriage, lived there with her mother in the same house, which must constitute something of a record in the restless film colony. After a short, highly successful stage career she broke into the talkies by singing ” Do, Do Something ” in ” Syncopation,’ and her pert provocative ways brought her a Radio contract. Then followed her successes with Wheeler and Woolsey, making a trio of their famous team ; and finally she became a star herself. Her name, by the way, is neither Dorothy nor Lee. She was christened Marjorie Millsap, and took her grandmother’s surname when she began to act.