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ST.LOUIS STAR-TIMES FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1937. SIXTEEN" 5T.L0UIS STAR-TIMES in iii ill i IB Movie Series by Brundidge Jimmie Fidler's Picture Gossip 7m id A Si i lM'iUftMtMn I nriininni ri HOLLYWOOD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS SHE'S ANITA LOUISE GROOMED BY MOTHER FOR STAGE AS BABY Studios Try to Break Up Noxious Type of Fan Club ANITA BY mum TO.LEB. KOIXYWOOU. j. Icitimatf lan clubs are boc" -t iht' into prominent an illegitimate ofprin that rici rrjru.

Vli'h blow to all clubs. Studio are now r-aVinc a ccncenea cmf to do away the noxious tyjv fan orcanizatlon. Falling inai. threaten demand that all ar ceae to co-operate ih all clubs. A fan club, in case you do not know, is an organired group oi people united to boost a favored ftar The Jean Harlow Club, for examp.e has branches all ever the country, and hundreds cf member support Miss Harlow every conceivable way.

They receive lor their nhotosraphs cf Jean and pcr- hap, occasional letters. The olf-cers 3f the club devote nayle. hours to rrint.r.2 a club periodical hich is to members. The c1b happens to be hones! but there ere dozens cf racketeering guilds. These members, charging iron 50 cents to $2 annually to belong and ptring onlv a fete cheap circulars and perhaps a snail in return.

Organizers of these racket-clubs also attempt to riilk the stars by asking money for typeirriters. mimeograph machines, photographs, and paper. Some hare ei cn requested money for personal gifts supposedly in payment for their time and efforts. It is this latter type of that studios uish to stamp out. because their dishonesty makes it difficult sor upright organiza tions to exist.

Police in various cities hare already been asked to investigate at the souree of scv- cral suspected guilds. If the po- Sees eer the subject of her father, but, ifitures at the age of 5. In New York Henry Wilcoxon as Shakespeare Himself TgfVSK it nice :tt.e ar.ecd"te. late corr.ir.c to ht. may ofiset or.ie oi u-e of her r'-zy1-1 K.S!-.' i in or.e a in T'U.

SU.I -1 as Dirertor Oeorce quick turn, she lost tocvs craU-xd for the r.ia--ct fupro: Her hand clutched sn c-rectors coat jxvkct which prorr.ptlv ripjed lsr. Within t- hour, the colony's rr.ost excl.iM. a jailor irrived on the set lo mciisuic for a new t-uit. i a imsOnt rr i teld en Merle OSrron. Sryrr that was apprrhed b-r a eh rornpanv whWh desirrd her opinion cf i-s fTixiacU In return ffr fww-MMe indorsement, the manufaflcrer ef-ferrd a watrh.

The Mar rr yn trd the offer, a'thouth -he had Ion: worn and liked a similar ath. 1 rrk later, a representative Olrron sludio railed the aencr to Mf Merle had ren.idereL he bad found a frirnd needed ath. and thi looked like a food to protide. Which reminds of another rn'i tory. Glenda Fairell was to pose for pictures to be used in hoe arlw :t.s n.ent.

She oMic and s-oon rccened a letter from manufacturer who n.rcested Ihst she would call the firms Hx'-wood branch, she would Think mc it lo be tri lal. Mtss rarrell ts-l the JtUT to her lr.w.d wnh you may have this." Next nnrai' fl to Olenda's complete chagrin, maid showed up with a of filun collar Jiocs in all I latest modes. fchy of being weri-rrttomed. "Mr most rrnt nry the atrrace woman end about 1 a ear f-r roMwiMv he "I brliee the minimum fitobsair is lhi allow for two hoe of fare powder at $lah; three jai of rold trura at two hoie dry rmijr at rrnt; ps(i at fl; tljrre boxr rtela-h makap at $1. and fliH f.r rye-shadow and other trtrkwn l.S JOVI.s ard IrcT.e Jirrvrr will sa: for Tahiti in "Alrcne- tin on a bf-ate-i iwjejrr.oon six meks but brir.g tery practical atxut thing.

"It's a oiie-erul'je boBt fvplah.ed Jones. -We rr-alie nu to keep a yacht thit so -i we return well trade it h. payn ei.t on a Buddy Ebescn. mop-hcirei comedian, tinged a revolt againtl evening boosts he ham't uom tujrdt on a private in eighteen months, and a supporter in Clark Gch'r. vhn, he ioys, hasn't urn syp oi 1 4) fish privately for month.

In the chrcver tin definition cf hat he rrr-c as a privet'' orcniirm. enn't be c.V.oucd too mveh credit. ti 1 v. muu ii RTUNMF.M "iJH)V im; Mf.n acclaim tt Star Will Marry if She Meets Man With George Brent's Looks, Bing Crosby's Voice, Cagney's Sweetness, Powell's Suavity and Gary Cooper's Rugged-ness. BY HARRY T.

BRUNDIDGE IKJI.LVUUUi), o. RAMBLING about and investigating what is said to bo Hollywood and the I studios. I recently came across a bit of blond fluff, with eyes as blue as the Pacific under a reddened sky, and a figure that should cause the Venus de to jump down from her pedestal and scurry in her seanties to the nearest Swedish masseuse. This bit of fluff will be 21 years old the ninth of next January and although her beauty is celestial and despite the "fact she is an who really can play a jrolden harp (and does) she has the vitality of a race horse. She is Anita Louise, a "War ner Brothers star, and the most beautiful piri in all Hollywood She is a story-book star if ever there was one, for her mother set out, when Anita was 2 years old, to direct her daughter's toward Hollywood.

The child narrowly escaped a terrible fate on a visit to Vienna with her mother. She was kidnaped but rescued from her captors who had stolen, several children of her all blonds and whisked them over the Italian border where they dropped out of sight. WE SAT in the living room of her spacious, old colonial home on Lanewood avenue in Hollywood, a home done in white and soft pastel shades. A fire crackled in the fireplace and rain nun, heavy on the green palm fronds outside the windows. With her slim legs doubled under her on the divan she sat clad in a yellow sweater, brown sports skirt, angora socks and sport shoes.

She looked liked the last twenty Miss Americas all rolled into one. Anita is an old-fashioned girl but a sophisticated one. and she has a MM An come-on-and-what-do-you-care look in her blue eyes. George Brent looked into those eyes when he and she were playing in "The Go-Getter" and almost lost Greta Garbo! ANITA LOUISE was bom In New York January 9, 1917. and although she was reared in a theatrical atmosphere, was 10 years old before she learned the truth about Santa Claus.

Having learned it. she cried for a week, but knowing she was going to be a great actress one day. did her crying before mirrors and watched her facial expressions. She refused, point blank, to tell me about her father, asserting she never had told anyone his name. She admitted there was a divorce, and that her mother married a second time and is now.

and has been, for a long time. Mrs. Ann Beresford. although Mr. Beresford seems to have dropped out of the picture along the road to Hollywood.

Anita says she Is very touchy on it is of any interest to you folks in St. Louis. I learned that his name is Louis Fremault. an interior decorator, and the subject of this article was christened Anita Louise Fremault. Her mother, born in Alsace-Lorraine, was a musician.

Mrs. Beresford's parents still reside in Alsace-Lorraine and at this writing, despite Anita's musical accomplishments on the harp and the piano, are opposed to their granddaughter's chosen career. Anita doesn't remember any details, but she knows from family conversation that she started posinc for commercial arttsts at the age of 2'i years, and grew up with a professional background. Her mother was unable to fill all the request? of artists that the child pose for them. For a time Anita was famous as the "Post Toastie'' child and later was widely advertised as the child used for the "Poem of Peace" dedicated to the late President Warren Harding.

She began work in pic- ii I -1 LOUISE. and had a role with Neil Hamilton Charlotte Walker and William Fa-versham in "The Sixth Commandment." Some time later she worked with Doris Kenyon in the picture, "Lend Me Your Husband." "There was other work In pictures, which I have forgotten, and a lot of posing for artists, but my recollections really begin with a trip I made to Europe with my mother to visit her parents in Alsace," she related. 'Mother seriously considered remaining with me in her homeland, but in the end we returned to New York. After our return I appeared in more pictures, notably "Untamed Lady' with Gloria Swanson and 'The Music I posed for James Montgomery modeled clothes and posed for commercial photographers. I took advantace of every opportunity offered to a child model.

Mother saw to that. During this period I studied French and German. LITTLE girl roles in the movies that were made in New York attracted some tention and I was selected by Walter Hampden to appear with him on the New York stage in "Peter I was 8 years old. When I was 9. mother took me to JTurope apain for a visit with my grandparents, and to play a child role in "The Life of Franz a picture made in Vienna.

"Mother and I walked out of the Bristol Hotel in Vienna and I was lifted off my feet by a man. who ran a few steps with me and threw me. bodily. Into a waiting automobile. I screamed.

Mother screamed. The doorman yelled and two hotel attaches came to the rescue. As they ran up shouting and exci'ed. I was pushed out of the car. which sprd away.

The hotel reanacr warned mother that thirty children had been seized and hurried across the Italian frontier where they were sold to be used w-orking at domestic tasks in white slave establishments, later to become white slaves when old enough." On returning to the United States Anita's mother decided now was a good time to take her small daughter to Hollywood. Thev arrived in 1928. when Janet Gaynor and Barry Norton were being starred in a picture railed "The Four DeuLs" I was out here at that time and vi- ltf a tox estern Avenue sv.icn one afternoon with M.ss Gaynor to ce some scenes taken in The Four I Devils" production. In that picture Miss Gaynor was a trape7e star in the circus and the picture opened with the "Four Devils" doir.g their stuff as little kids. Or.e of these kids as Anita Louise! Ar.cther was Ar.n Shirley: At the are of 13.

Ar.l'.a wa starred wrh David Newell in the "Just Like Heaven'' today is working as an extra. ONE de mother tl-a' Director Brown looking for a girl to play a sreuenre oi Greta Garbo pic tun Affairs' ar.d -tyk rr. at MGM st A Woman Mis'. Lo.i.-e vi' w. Can you ccr.t a No.

but I cas I But the I r.eed xill hae tc co to wcrk ir. he explained. Ill learn In ss than two days I asserted, and I did. ar.d I ret the role." Anita went on frcrr. child part to play lead, she did "Square Shoul- ct.

The cr.i.crT. a r.a: a ir.e Alarm." and a lot of ether movies, and a few" stare plays, ar.d i then other movies. Sr.tludir.; 1 "Madame Di Barry." 'T Give My Love." -Judz? Priest." "The Fire- bird'' ar.d "Eachelcr cf Arts. xt came a contract with Warner Brcth- i ers and the role of TV.ar.:a In "A Midsummer Xizht Dream." Ar.d that "The Story cf Louis Pa'-' teur." "Ar.thor.y Adverse" ar.d "The Greea Lisht." Two New Bands Coming to Clubs Many new personalities are scheduled for the floor shows at the hotel in St. Louis starting tonight and within the next rew days.

Glenn Young's orchestra at the Park Plaza's Crystal Terrace Room is replaced by an entirely different of musicians starting tonight. They will be under the leadership of Eddie Dunstedter. who has been featured for the thirteen weeks as organist in the Plaza's Merry-Go-Round. Next Tuesday there will be another new band in town Earney Rapp and his "New Englanders," who ccme to the Chase Club to replace the late Irving Rome's band. Stu Johnson, who has been leading Rose's band for the past few weeks, will remain as master of ceremonies and singer.

Plans for both the Chase's and Plaza's outgoing bands are indefinite at this time. The Jefferson brings in a new show starting tonight, with a pair of ballroom dancers and a trio oi tight rope walkers heaCing the bill. The Coronado keeps the same entertainers as in the past few weeks. Other than the new band at the Plaza, the show there will be the same as last week. Bert Granolf holds on as singing master of ceremonies, along with Euno Cooper, ballroom entertainer, and the Poll-Mar Girls, a group of St.

Louis dancing beauties, who start their second week at the Crystal Terrace and are scheduled to remain indefinitely. Dunstedter, besides taking over his new duties as band leader, will remain at the Merry-Go-Round organ, with his string quartet staying also. Second Time for Rapp at Chase. Tuesday's change at the Chase finds Barney Rapp returning to friends of long standing. It was he and his band who opened the Chase Club several seasons ago.

Since then they have spent many months in cities all over the country, particularly In the east, hence the name, "New Englanders." Rapp and the boys also have made a series of movie short subjects for Warner Brothers in Hollywood and more recently were heard nightly over Cincinnati's radio station WLW while they were playing an engagement at the Gibson Hotel of that city. With Rapp Is a charming vocalist, Ruby Wright, popularly known as the "Sweetheart of the Air." He also has a threesome of men singers he calls the "New Enelander Trio." To fill out the entertainment pro-pram, there will be a pair of sophisticated dancers, Halliday and Clark, billed as "Dancers Decidedly Different." They specialize in the waltz, tango and soft shoe, and will present their own conception of the English coronation in a dance skit. In the meantime, the entertain-era from last week hold over at the Chase. They include the Titan Trio, acrobatic balancers, and Clark and Celeste, adagio ballroom specialists. Marian Presnell, songbird; George Erdmann and his quartet, and Glenn Harmann.

organist-pianist, all remain indefinitely at the Chase's Steeplechase Room. Of particular interest is the Impending return of Virginia Ascher from the west coast. She has been in Hollywood during the past two weeks picking up new dance routines and Is expected back in time to drill her line of girls at the Chase in brand-new ensembles for the incoming show next Tuesday. Ballroom Fair at Jefferson. The two new acts at the Jefferson's Club Continental are Pasquale and LaDorr, and the Flying Cev-enes.

The former team presents a wide selection of ballroom routines, while the latter is a tight rope act that promises plenty of thrills for Jefferson patrons. The Cevenes, two men and a girl, also offer a comedy horse act, with the two men inside the costume representing a horse, and the girl giving directions, some of which are carried out. This team is here for a return engagement, having played at the Jefferson four weeks about a year ago. Leonard (Tone Poet) Keller and his band inaugurate their third week tonight. Their personality singers, the Lorrane Sisters, stay too.

One of their number. Lita. wiii give a special imitation of a muted cornet. The Rendezvous Cocktail Lounge still features Geraldine Bot-kin as a singer and Louise Zimmerman as pianist. There will be no change at the Coronado's popular Jug.

Al Hahn and his "Swingcopaters:" Olin Glo-son. featured pianist: Harm's "Hot Timers." between-the-dance entertainers, and Wally Johl. singer, all remain from previous weeks. Buck Jones Star of Child ren's Show Thrills and smashing adventure are combined in the special Saturday morning children's show at the Missouri Theater tomorrow. Five hours of screen entertainment is the procram.

with excitement for old as well as your.g. A program of selected subjects makes up the rarlv portion of the procram. which includes the Grace-Moore-Cary Grant musical. "When ou ro in Low." and Frrol Flnn and Anita in "Green Light." vcnue. "Saiicflcw." heads the till.

The title derives name from the Sandflow regicr the Rio Grande. cf The first installment of the r.ew action-packed serial. -'Dick Tracv." is also on the M'viri Adapted from the famous adventure Swip appears daily in the Star-Times, the hero comes to the screen the person cf huskv Ralph Eyrd. The serial "Dick Tracy" will also be shown cn the three rem a mine programs at the Missouri Theater on Saturday. This policy has been scheduled so as to satisfy the rcqiiest-s received by the manaxte-ment from adults who are unable to attend the early performances.

This one subject is the only portion of the early show that will remain throughout the day. Also on the early show will be a new cartoon Popee. the ioaoie comic -strip character. in organ Grinder Swing, several novelty featurettes. and Early Easter Shopper BY HENKY SUTHERLAND.

HOLLYWOOD. March 5 U. Believe It or not. gangling Henry Wilcoxon is informed he has bf-en adopted by none other than William Shakesjjeare. prominent Bard of Avon.

Currently in Egypt. Wilcoxon relays a letter from an EnieUsh medium, one Mrs. Renie Majid cf Bos-combe. Hants, reporting Shakespeare was impressed with WiJroxn woik in "Crusades." Cecil B. gaudy pseudo-histotical epic, and had decided to take charge cf his dramatic fortunes.

Describing Shakespeare as a short, fat man with red whiskers and frray eyes. Mrs. Maud quoted the bard: "There is one man of our blood who j-hall carry me to perfection. Will has taken a fancy to that man. I will work with him.

He must be infused with the spirit of Shakespeare. He must be Shakespeare This man shall put me back where I wih to be. In merrie Encland. -Who Is this man? Henry Wilcoxon." From now on. presumablr.

Wilcoxon is entitled to billing like this: "iknrv Th Crusades' William Shakespeare upi." In rae anybody rare. Mn Factor, prim, elderly dean of Hollywood makeup men. gives off the dictum that the "aterage Amr- i Iran woman" i jost $2 -SO a rear roMiNf; L.MI of PU I ECAUSE Anita Louise Is the Holly- most beautiful girl in wood. St. Louis women may be interested in her beauty secrets.

1 asked about them. "Stretching is most Important." she said. "I stand ect. with hands clasped over my head, and push up toward the roof, with all my strength. Then I sway from side to side.

I relax, take a deep breath, and do the same thing. I do it oer and over. It's an exercise for wartime and hips." She measures 23 inches around the waistline. "I play games in the open air. any games, because freh air is esser.tiaL I sleep all I tan.

is the mrt important secret beauty. Ten hours a ri.iy is not too much. On'-e a week I go to bed at 8 p. m. nJ sl ep around the clork.

with the windows of the bedroom wide open I do not diet. I'm labeled, or libeled. In Hollywood, as an old -fashioned girl, because I don't drink or smoke ana because I can rmbraider and play the harp. I wash my face with and water. Once a week I steam my face ith hot cloths.

Th.s proc- ess of steaming adds curls to mv hair which I bruh everv nifht with a piece of silk tied tightly arouno the hair brush. That's the trick of all Japanese women. Be sure that the bristles of the bruMi Mirk through the silk. When you brush, the silk will clean the hair. That should be a good tip for my friends in smoky St, Louis." I ASKED the fair lady Bbout her plans for the future.

Does she ror.template matrimony? "You bet I do." she ar.s-trrd. -When? "When I meet rr.r dream mar. "And how would you describe this dream man?" "He hai the charm rA good looks of George Brrr.t; the sensitive quality of Leslie Howard: the sweetness of Cazney; the human of Pat OBrien; he suavity cf William Pmrll. the keen sence of humor of VrtMiit March; the rucged 'ush' of Gary' Copper, and the voice cf Bmg Crosby "What a man." I yrlled. Quite a man." said Ani'a.

"and If you find him. brinz him over to mv house and if hell have me well take the first plane to Yuma, Arizona "Buddy" Ebsen, foraerly of Belleville, 111., asd now one of the star dancers of the movies, will be the subject of tomorrow's sketch by Brundidge. "Hoire town boy makes cood" might almost be the title of this stcrv. Symcr.cr.y Sir.cer v'a -1 Bill i 11 a ri' MIGHTY HFTRO OF MOIiLRN MIM( AND HIS NEW ENCLAMlKRS FEATURED AT THE CI.ISE CLI II Arr.erKa Ka thriKH Earr.ev Rtpr. '--time, sHins-time on Vift f.Veor-j i -U'arner Brether Movie A vr'3! A I .1...

1 v.ai.v; iiciiij iiiji na i) I ft rrr. Trrrrt I I. A M. country er.f riainn.ent II Artiste A Show in Thtmirhts Featuring RUBY WRIGHT of the Air' THE NEW ENGLANDERS I oral Ilarmnny Jria PI.TS A Complete Floor "how and the haw Hallet A'th-jr Fear. Eejliih ha-to-e.

wo was so st th t-e Sy c'oy Orchestra a-d Cnors at a co-ce-t at t-e Aud t1- 7f-c cc-cert be repeated 3-- Terry Ray, Paramount actress, with a pair cf long-eared bur-nles. Is all set to ceVbrate a joyous Easter. She will be featured ocn in "Murder Goes to Collese." I.

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