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SHIRLEY'S
HEALTH
COMES FIRST !
What radio means to Shirley Temple— and why she
RADIO, take a bow !
For I learned something the other day which I never knew before — that yon, Radio, were the beginning, were initially responsible for the beginning of the pictnre-book progress of that small, enchanting pilgrim, Shirley Temple !
Yes, if it had not been for yon, Radio, Shirley's mother and dad might not have realized quite so soon how deliciously their baby Shirley could dance, how much delight it gave her to dance. For, her mother told me, when Shirley was very, very young she used to clap her hands with joy when her mother dialed a dance orchestra for her. And she would take little steps and then more steps, timing herself to the faultless timing of the best dance music on the air. Radio was Shirley's first dancing teacher. Radio really sent small Shirley to dancing school, where she was discovered by a picture scout — and that was the l)eginning of this incredible Once Upon A Time!
( )h, it all would have happened anyway, of course. A bit later, perhaps. It never would have been possible to keep the true and shining light which is
Shirley's under any barrel or poke bonnet. But it was Shirley's dancing to radio music which fust made her mother aware that here was a little girl who was not destined only for the making of mud pies. Her mother felt then as she often feels now when she watches Shirley acting on the sets.
"I can't believe, when I watch her sometimes," Mrs. Temple told me, "that she really belongs to me. . . ."
I talked with Shirley and her mother the other day on the studio lot. Shirley and Hill Robinson were rehearsing in the Rehearsal Hall. Hill was teaching Shirley some new steps for her new picture, Dimples. And it was joyously obvious that the master of tap and the most famous child in the world were friends and playmates.
Hill Robinson said to me later: "They brought me out here to dance with Shirley and to teach her dance steps. Maybe I shouldn't say this, but that child taught me a few things about dancing. . . . She surely is the sweetest little peach-blow lady in the whole world I"
Shirley had finished her dance steps and had run
By Gladys Hall