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in Open Letter to
ETTY and CAROLE
Congratulations to you two smart girls!
I wish all Hollywood actresses were as intelligent, as lirect and as honest as Grable and Landis in handling heir careers. You may look like dizzy blondes, but here are good sets of working brains hidden under 'our wacky hairdos, and a lot of strength in your seemngly delicate torsos. Must be, to have taken it on the hin as you, Betty, have done ever since you danced n movie choruses; as you, Carole, have taken it since rou were an extra girl. You have come a long, long way —now you're both stars, you might be excused if you lisplayed a little temperament on the side. But no. ^hen silly publicity branded you "feuding" from jealousy, because you're both ambitious blondes working on the same movie lot, and lately in the same picture, fou, Betty, maintained a dignified silence; you, Carole, olazed into righteous indignation and wrote the letter at right. I've great respect for you both, as working girls who have fought every inch of the way and deserve every scrap of success you have. Only — I'd hate to be in that press agent's shoes!
IN ANSWER to THIS LETTER from LANDIS
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Dear Miss Evans:
In the past few months there have been repeated references to a so-called feud between Betty Grable and myself.
Actually there is no feud between Miss Grable and me and there never has been. While I naturally wouldn't care to put anyone in the middle, I suspect that an over-zealous studio publicity man gave birth to the "feud" with the idea of grabbing off a little more space (God bless the press agents nine times out of ten — but not this one!)
Seriously, the rumors are proving not only embarrassing but harmful. They have upset me no end, and I'm sure they have upset Betty. Why not give us both a break?
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