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one of the finest young actors I have ever worked with. He possesses a true actor's heart and an actor's mind." No pretty boy, John overpowers his audience with honesty of his characterizations. Sneak preview audiences got mass writer's cramp scribbling their praises of him on preview cards. The studio promptly lifted his name three inches on their contract list, and he is now Number 9 (alphabetically speaking) on their star roster. Here they are. Four guys who were unknown yesterday, achieved stardom today, and will be famous tomorrow. Like Alice's plunge down the rabbit hole? Not a bit of it! They're headed high, wide and handsome— and today there is no ceiling on success! Lina, the Stars Are Brighter Now Continued from page 30 stool and we started away. I glanced back at my friend from Sioux City. He was staring at me with a kind of hurt expression on his honest pan, and I felt suddenly guilty. I suppose I should have introduced him to Lina. If he just hadn't kept capitalizing that word. At the table I stared at Lina until her brown eyes dropped and she began playing with her fork. She said with an excited little laugh, "This is my first interview." Well, what can you do with a girl like that? In a town where movie stars are so aware of writers that they start going into the old routine before you get your napkin tucked under your chin, this wa3 startling— and refreshing. "All right," I said, "let's begin. You " "I was born " "Yes, I know," I said hastily, "but what are you shooting at? What's ahead of you?" Just then the waitress came up with a pad and pencil. "Could I have your autograph?" she asked. Lina took the pencil and wrote her name with a flourish. "Your first autograph, too?" I asked. "No, not quite. Once when T came out from a preview of 'Bathing Beauty' " "Oh, I remember," I said. "You were very good in that. Didn't you play a guitar with Horace Heidt and Xavier Cugat?" "Yes," she said very seriously. Then she went into a eulogy of Mr. Cugat and his wonderful orchestra while I kept tryng to get the interview back under control. Suddenly Lina looked up and smiled. It was the guy from Sioux City. He was grinning apologetically and he held out a note book and a fountain pen. "Could I— would you—?" he mumbled. "I'd love to," Lina said. When he had gone Lina kept staring after him. "I think he's nice," she said. "He's in the 'Profession' now but he used to sell wallpaper." "Maybe that's what makes him so nice. I think he has a kind face." "Do you trust everyone who comes along just because he seems to have a kind face?" JFor greater warmth, -wear PeJees with your stocking! ! Here* J snug, safe comfort, for PeJees s-t-r-e-t-c-li to fit like your stocking foot without irritating elastic or seams . . . protect your feet against dampness and chills. Atakes stockings wear longer, too! Imitations won t give you patented PeJees features, insist on the genuine! 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