Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 26

I that sho was at once given the role cl Rose, Judy (Garland's sister in "Mrt't Mo in St. Louis." i It was during a rehearsal one day that, quite by accident, Fied Astaire strolled onto the set just at the moment Lucille Bremer was doing a dance. knew at once that he had found the perfect dance-partner for Follies." Overnight, she was lifted to stardom. now, starring again with Astaire in "Yolando and the Thief." little Lucille Bremer herself is wondering how it all came about. Lucille Bremer's mother, who has1 "never even I wen to a dance!" lives in Hollywood with her daughter now; flut-teringly anxious as to the outcome of Lucille's newest starring role, in "Red Shoes Run Faster;" in which Lucille says.

"I play a naughty girl!" The frail barge of dreams is a leaky boat but it sometimes does reach shore. Hollywood, which regards its failures coldly, lightens iAJcilles landscape with its sunniest smiles. And back in New friends, the Radio City 1 1 who one voted her "the girl most likely to succeed," are wondering who'll be next. LUCILLE BREMER. ft ii ILLUSTRATION FY CHARLES J3RYSON "U1K very small girl in the I belted white dress passed belted white dress passed unnoticed through the I 1 Si MARY 4 lobby of Hollywood's Beveily-Wilshire Hotel.

A stout lady in a leopard-tkin capo elbowed her rudely out of the way. "I'm sorry, but I've just got to get autographs of some of these celebrities; that's what I came here for!" the stout lady said. The small girl smiled quietly, tucking herself unobtrusively into the corner of a divan. She was Lucille Bremer, former dancing Rockette from New York's Radio City's famed dancing line, (had the stout lady but known the newest star to rocket overnight to stellar rank on the Hollywood scene. her first appearance on Hie screen.

Now, as Fred Astaire's new dancing partner, in MetroColdwyn -Mayer's Technicolor musical "Ziegfeld Follies," she is indeed among the stars. It all began long ago, when twelve-year-old Lucille, living in her native Philadelphia, joined the Philadelphia Opera Ballet. "My mother wanted me to be a kindergarten teacher when I grew up," she says. "Dancing was something that wasn't mentioned unless you wanted your name taken out of the big parlor Bible with the gold clasps. But I was allowed to join the ballet.

it was part of the Opera, I guess. By the time my family got around to objecting, it was too late. 1 was a dancer." Three years later, auditioned in New York's Music Hall, Lucille joined the famous Roekettes- just in time to sail with the company to Paris, to dance at the Fair. For two weeks the Roekettes rehearsed daily. And that's all they did during the 14 days they were in Paris.

They rehearsed-danced their one night at the Paris Fair and returned to America, having seen Paris from a hotel window. Armed with letters of introduction from friends, Lucille next went to Hollywood and visited a set at Warner Brothers Studio, in the role of sjwclator. Here one of the directors, noticing the spirituelle delicacy of her beauty, invited her to remain for a test. A week went by. "Nothing happened," she says.

"Just nothing at all. Kaeh day, on arising, I'd dust off the telephone, hoping it would ring- hut it never did. Finally I could stand it no longer. I pot on a bus and wont out to Warner Li others and asked to we my test. It was so bad I realized why nothing had happened." The test was a dull thing, stupid and uninspired.

"That is why," Lucille said with a tightened note in her voice, "whenever I hear now about some girl with no friends taking; test, my heait aches for her. It's mostly a matter of lighting, of angles, and if one has no friends. After that day, without a backward look, Lucille Bremer went home to Philadelphia. T'ouragc soon returned and she went back to Vew York, and to dancing hi the Copacabana and the Club Versailles Restaurant. I was in the latter place that Arthur Fn-ed -producer for Metro t.oldwj discovered her fill over again one night, and persuaded her to try another test.

This time Ihe test a scene from thr play "Dark Victory" had tuch mulu.