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as a menace. Of course she was fco, James Cagney and Olivia de Havil-' vie of numbers in 'My Gal Sal." The Judsons, when Rita 13 working on a picture, don't go out except on Saturdays, maybe, when they appear at Ciro's. Rita loves to dance for pleasure, and her husband, she says, is a wonderful dancer. Hasn't Much Taste For Housekeeping. While she's working, she gets up early and goes to bed early, because she likes at least nine hours sleep.

She likes to play tennis and she gets through a fair amount of reading, considering how busy she usually is. In the last month she ha3 read "Berlin Diary," "The Keys of the Kingdom," "Out of the Night" and "Darkness at Noon." 51 PI 71 A PI 7i to they never should have been married. She got a divorce in December, 1929, and went back into "Whoopee." Eddie left New York for the West Coast a year or so later and there entered the oil business. Hazel married a toothpaste mogul, who died and left her all his money. Then she married Harry Richman the chanteur.

They were divorced recently and spend an occasional festive evening together, even now. Eddie and Rita, night-clubbing at Ben Marden's Riveria last week, met Harry, who is performing. Hazel was not present, being on the West Coast right now. NOW, at the time of her marriage it was by no means sure that Rita would ever amount to a hill of beans as a film actress, although she was trying hard. She seemed to be stymied.

Lots of girls marrying a comfortable fellow like Jud-son might have given up, and their husbands might have been glad to see them retire to private life. Rita wasn't through, however, and Judson, confident she had something, was deeply interested in seeing her succeed. Not long after the marriage, while still shuttling around among the independents, she got a call from the casting bureau at Columbia pictures, to fill a part in a short that was to be shown to a film salesmen's convention. She was a Spanish dancer in the short and had to speak with a heavy accent. The short was so successful that fry- 4 only a menace a nice sort of way in "Strawberry Blonde," turning fairly fatal but still pleasant in "Blood and Sand." In the Astaire picture she is just a plain citizen.

It puts no visible strain on either her acting or her dancing. THERE had been considerable talk here and there (maybe you just didn't hear it) about who could possibly be as good as Ginger Rogers as Astaire's dancing partner. Ginger last appeared with him in "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" in 1939. In the interim he has had as partners Eleanor Powell, in "Broadway Melody of 1910," and Paulette Goddard in "Second Chorus." When he made a two-picture deal with Columbia, tbnt firm apparently vever gave a sicont thought to the choice of a partner. They had Rita lying around, some-body remembered she teas a d'incer and without further palaver sA got the job.

It was felt that the girl wh replaced Ginger would be steppin-; into a complicated pair of shoes. When she was asked her views 011 this, Rita paused for a moment. It would have to be answered carefully. Then she said, in her extremely pleasing and low voice: "I just didn't think about it at all. Oh, I thought of it at first, but then I put it out of my mini so it wouldn't inhibit me." As for working with Astoire.

who is voted as a perfectionist in his profession, Rita found thjt hard, not from the point of temperamental difficulty, but becas9 of the sheer labor involved. They put in eight hours a day for fiv weeks on the routines and at that they share only three dance numbers in the picture. But hard work has never frightened this young woman. She seems to be able to relax at will. Her husband helps her, too.

"Sometimes," she said, "you aia bound to be a little edgy after a hard day's work. Edward seems to understand. In fact, he's tha most understanding man imaginable. "Look at this trip to New York. We haven't been still a minute, but he's been very patient.

He event enjoys being on the jump continually this way. Sometimes it get me down just a little, but I can always pull up by saying to myself 'Look, Hayworth, a couple of years ago nobody gave a damn about you. It's pretty nice to have people interested in you, land. It seems La Sheridan was on a sit-down strike and Warners had hurriedly borrowed Rita for her role. Rita didn't believe it until the picture actually was under way.

But there it was. Since then she has done pretty well. There was "Affectionately Yours," which wasn't so hot, but right after that came "Blood and Sand" with Tyrone Power, in which she was again a Spanish girl and the menace, but which gave her a tremendous boost. Sometime within the last two years, Columbia, which may own her poor old body, but doesn't own her soul, decided that she was to be made into a girl with tremendous s-x attraction, and many grand were set aside for the purpose. Actually, it shouldn't have been an expensive process, because Columbia had only to put her in a place where men could get a look at her.

She would do the rest without even twitching. Having congratulated themselves on discovering something that was there all the time, the masterminds at Columbia then brightened her future still more. She is slated to start Nov. 15 in "Tales of Manhattan," a 20th Century-Fox affair which will be told in episodes, each by different writers and casts. She will appear with Charles Boyer and Thomas Mitchell in the first episode of the film, written by Ben Hecht.

With Rita for male biological stimulation, Boyer dragging in the females and Mitchell 5j tf ii; taking care of the character de partment, the combination is formidable. After that will come "My Gal again for Fox, and the title role in the Columbia film version of the Broadway success, "My Sister Eileen," the fattest part for Rita to date. She is still a little dazed about it, and walking carefully. In New York she has been operating on an engagement schedule that would have worn down many a more substantial-looking young woman. But even then, she seems to be enjoying it, toting to all her dates an autograph book for which she cadges the signatures of notables she meets.

CHE has been a painstaking worker. On all her layoffs, she improved her idle time with study of dramatics, being by no means convinced she is a finished actress. "I think I had one advantage," she said, "and that was the experience I had with my father and all the work in the and even lower class pictures I worked in. "Not many girls get as early a start as I did and I'm still pretty young, so I can hope for improvement. I have always gone to the best teachers and worked like a dog on technique, studying, watching others, learning my own mistakes.

Right vow I'm studying voice, because I'll have to sing a The Matrimonial Judsons Prirately, Rita Hayworth is Mrs. Edward Judson. Her husband keep strictly in the background as far as her career is concerned, but posed with her on their current New York visit. Before The Can sine child started her dancing lesson early A under the tutelage of her father. Later, when she got into the movies, she was a dark Spanish type playing parts in thrillers and Westerns.

After When Margarita a i changed name to Rita Hay-worth and hair-do from Spanish to American her career took turn for better. She wasn't too worried. Her husband was willing and eager to support her, and made no reference to the fact that she was lolling around the house all day while he slaved in a hot office, working his fingers to the bone. When she had just about resigned herself to domesticity, Rita got a call from' George Cukor, one of the better directors, asking whether she would like to take a test for a part as Katharine Hepburn's in "Holiday." The young wife and part-time actress was practically overcome. It was her first chance to emote under orders from one of the top-flight men of the films.

Cukor worked over her in the tests for three weeks, during which Rita was in a continual state of thrill. She didn't get the part, after all, but Cukor promised to keep her in mind. He was as good as his word, and called her in for a minor role in "Susan and God," starring Joan Crawford. After that her prospects improved. She played a lead in "The Lady in Question," then was in Ben Hecht's "Angel3 Over Broadway," which was not a box-office success but did carry a lot of prestige.

CHE was on vacation, in the role of Mrs. Judson, when she got a phone call at Tucson, that she was to have Ann Sheridan's part in "Strawberry Blonde," with and has kept up on her newspapers and magazines as well. She doesn't do much sewing and hasn't much taste for housekeeping. The Judsons twice have lived in houses, but the problems of maintaining an independent home, together with the II oil wood servant problem, for two people who go out to work every day, were too much. They live in an apartment now.

Rita only now is beginning to save her money. Up until the last year she hadn't made a great deal, and most of that was put right back in the firm in the form of various lessons and in her wardrobe, which is a prestige item, because Rita has a reputation as owe of the best-dressed girls in Hollywood. She brought a lot of clothes her to New York and she i3 taking more back with her. At this interview, which caught her between a luncheon with Mayor-LaGuardia and a date at the cocktail hour (Rita doesn't drink), she was wearing a black silk-and-wool-mixture suit of wide diagonal self-stripes, the coat rather long and nipped in at the waist. The uneven hemline skirt had an annoying (to her) slit in front and with it she wore black silk stockings and open-toed suede shoes.

(How's that, Rita?) Her more or Ies3 honey-colored hair was done pompadour with a Nile green calot (and if you don't know what a calot is, you won't find out here) that required a lot of courage. The green brought out the hazel in her very nice eyes. There is nothing particularly Spanish-looking about Rita at the moment. In fact, she looks about as typically American as possible and would be an ornament to any ethnical group. You don't like to think of Rita I when it was finished, the company said it was too bad she didn't speak English, otherwise they would have been glad to sign her To this the astounded Rita replied, in accents supplied by P.

S. 9 in Jackson Heights, and by Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, that she really didn't speak very good Spanish. (She is taking lessons now, as a matter of fact, to brush up on the smattering she got from her father.) She Discovered What Was Wrong With Career. This incident was food for thought. Rita, who seems to be a careful thinker, decided what was wrong with her film career.

She had been type-cast as a Spanish dancer. So she lightened her dark hair and changed her hair-do. By this simple process she became an American girl and reached one of the turning points in her career. At the same time, with a pang, she changed Cansino to Hayworth, despite the lamentations of her father, who, thought Cansino good enough for anybody. She was spotted in "Onlv Angels Have Wings" and for the first time emerged as an entity.

She didn't even have to dance in that picture and began to feel that she might be able to edge into dramatics. She struck the doldrums, however, and for eight or ten months didn't have a part, although she was still under contract..