Gold Diggers of 1937 (Warner Bros.) (1936)

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“GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937" PUBLUATY *« * * * *€ ‘They're ‘Gold Digger’ Grads These 12 girls who have worked in three ‘‘Gold Diggers’’ shows produced by Warner Bros., have banded themselves into an alumnae association. Front row, left to right: Members of the 1933 extravaganza, Mildred Dixon, Dorothy O’Connell, Bee Stephens, Gloria Fayth. Class of 1935 edition, second row, left to right: Lorraine Grey, Helen Seaman, Eleanor Bayley and Lois Lindsay. In the current ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1937’’ which opens at the .........cccccc TRCQU.C. ON Soci » are (back row, left to right) Beth Renner, Ruth Eddings, Loretta Andrews and Jean Gale. Mat No. 217—20c Girls Of *“‘Gold Diggers’’ Brainy As Collegiennes Learned Professor Tests Chorines And Finds Them Just As Smart As Co-eds To succeed, the modern ‘‘gold digger’’ needs to be beautiful, but she cannot be dumb. The intangible things which Dance Director Busby Berkeley calls personality, and which the college professor catalogues as brains, turn out to be almost one and the same thing. It’s all been settled scientifically. Professor Neil Warren of the department of psychology of the department of psychology of the University of Southern California has satisfied himself and the rest of the educational world that intelligence does hide behind a pretty face and that brains may ride above a perfect figure. Fifty-four of Director Berkeley’s hand-picked chorus girls appearing in the ensembles of the First National picture, “Gold Diggers of 1937,” which comes to the PR eee: Theatre on .3....006...-5 submitted to the same “Otis Test to Determine Mental Ability” that Prof. Warren gives to the co-eds.of his university. They came away with flying honors and left Prof. Warren beaming with admiration and sur.., prise. When the educator had corrected the papers, figured his quotients and drawn his “graphs,” he announced that the Warner Bros. beauties had an average intelligence quotient of 105. lowest grade, he stated, was not below the mark commonly found in colleges. “The general curve found in all “This is a surprisingly high grade,” he said, “when it is considered that the average is higher than that of some colleges. The chorines average an exceptionally high. normal intelligence, almost reaching the superior group.” Prof. Warren found that almost a third of the showgirls exceeded the average of college co-eds throughout the country. Even the Page Thirty-two “Gold Diggers Of 1937” Homegrown Girls Are Majority In “Gold Diggers” That California takes care of its own is evidenced by the fact that there are more California girls in the average dancing chorus in musical pictures than there are representatives from any other single state. Check-up on the girls working in dance numbers in the First National musical picture ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1937,’’ which comes to GHOS. ern ee Theatre on ........ Se reece , proved that out of the 200 dancers used in production numbers, 83 were from various California cities. The next ranking stat» was Texas with a total of 18 representatives. Curiously enough, most of the California girls are natives of Los Angeles or Hollywood. Of the Texas girls in the group, no two of them come from the same city. Every corner of the state is represented. Missouri is the third ranking state with a total of nine representatives. Nebraska is next in line with a total of five girls represented. Illinois, too, boasts five. Four of them are from Chicago. Thirty-seven of the forty-eight states are represented. Three of the girls are natives of foreign countries — France, England and Czechoslovakia. ‘*Gold Diggers of 1937’’ is the fourth of the famous and delightful ‘‘Gold Diggers’’ series turned out by the Warner Bros. studios. It is the funniest and most elaborately mounted and cast of all of them. It stars Dick Powell and Joan Blondell. tests of this nature,’ Professor Warren points out, (and it is to be understood he is referring to the curves on his graphs and not to those on the girls), “agrees in every respect with the curves found in tests conducted for students at the University of Southern California and other colleges. “T found a small percentage of both brillance and dullness, with nine per cent of the girls testing ‘very bright,’ twenty-two per cent of them falling into the ‘bright’ group, and fifty-eight per cent averaging a high normal intelligence.” Sensational dance ensembles, created and directed by Busby Berkeley in which more than 200 of Hollywood’s most beautiful girls appear, are feature numbers in ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1937’’ the fifth and best of the series, which opens Gt the %.......cc...0i-.005 Theatre on ....... Mat No. 301—30c On Parade She Had What It Takes Being a Busby Berkeley girl in ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1937’’ which comes 00 the a5. ce AHCOUG= ON cps sees , 8 not easy. Every one of the 200 girls seen in the ensembles was personally selected by Berke ley and had to conform to specific requirements. Above is shown how the noted dance director made his selections. Berkeley is seated. Eddie Larkin his assistant, is jotting down measurements, and Mary Cassidy passes the test as Melba Marshall waits her turn. Mat No. 215—20¢ Film’s Best Dance Girls Now Taller And Heavier Statistics On “Gold Diggers’? Measurements Show Changes Since 1933 The 19387 Hollywood Gold Digger, working in the chorus of that perennial First National screen musical, is three pounds heavier, on the average, than was her 1933 sister. The new crop, now known as the ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1937,’’ and currently on display at the ........0..000000.... Theatre, is slimmer legged and plumper of body than were the chorus maidens of four years ago. This in spite of the fact that the dance director of the production, Busby Berkeley, has no hard and fast rules limiting weight, height, or age among the girls he selects for parts in this famous chorus. “Women are gradually redistributing their weight,” explains Lewis Hippe, physical director of the studio where these girls worked. “Curves are more generous and bodies are firmer, due to the steady elimination of those who were inclined to be either too fat or too lean.” The chorus girls most in demand in the film capital, Hippe indicates, are those whose body curves are round and smooth and neither bulbous nor bumpy. “The perfect feminine figure, as exemplified by the ‘Gold Diggers’,” he says, “#s streamlined.” “The principal secret of such beauty,” he adds, “is good health, plenty of exercise and lack of worry.” The average weight of the chorus girls used in the past few months in Warner pictures, has been 114 pounds. Three years ago it was 111. “But the distribution of that weight,” Hippe points out, “is now so much improved that the girls actually appear to be more trim and graceful. “Gold Diggers of 1937” is the fourth of the famous and delightful “Gold Diggers” series turned eut by the Warner Bros. studios.