The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, June 4.-Who
4 4 are the talkies' six most
beautiful women?
Ever since the motion picture
industry began, the battle over
beauty has ragged merrily in Holly
wood, where the most beautiful
women in the world are as
sembled. Numerous girls have
been presented for beauty honors,
but seldom has it been possible
to get even any two experts" to
agree on a certain one.
But at last six brave men have
been found, men high in the
movie world, with courage enough
to attempt the task for NEA
Service and The Indianapolis
Times.
The famous directors on the
NEA Service-Times board are:
Mack Sennett, Josef Won Stern
berg, George Fitzmaurice, Mervyn
LIE Roy. Edward Sutherland and
Allan DWan. Each submitted
his choice Of the six outstand-
ing beauties, then the six girls
receiving the highest number OF
votes were declared elected"
NHARLENE DIETRICH!
I'VE This blond German actress
is the first beauty that we shall
discuss, not because the judges
decreed her "the most beautiful
of the six" (they certainly weren't
rash enough to attempt any such
distinctions as between the SKID
but merely because the story OF
somebody has to be told first.
Another Garbo" was the word
passed around when Miss Dietrich
arrived in Hollywood from Ger
many. Every one Immediately
started comparing her with this
mysterious and aloof Greta.
In the opinion of this writer
such a comparison was entirely
unwarranted. While each is a
great actress, they are entirely
different both from a standpoint
of appearance and personality.
They are no more to be COM
pared than are Charlie Chaplin
and Harold Lloyd, both comedians,
but how totally different.
n It Il
NEARLENE is discovery of
IVA Josef von Sternberg's-at
least insofar as America is con-
cerned. She played opposite Emil
Jannings in THE Blue Angel"
which he went to Germany to
direct.
In her he saw great and beau
tiful dramatic actress who could
inject note Of humor at just the
proper moment.
With a f1ve-year contract she
came to this country to reap fame
and riches such as she never had
known in Germany.
There is only one way in which
the Misses Dietrich and Carlo
can be likened-both shun pub
licity. But they have different
reasons for doing so.
To Carlo it is purely business.
Largely because it is impossible
for a newspaper or magazine
writer to see her she has remained
good copy" all these years.
FLOR a short time after Marlene
Il arrived here she faced inter
viewers almost every day. And
her conversation with them CEN
tered chiefly around the young
daughter whom she left in Ger
many with her husband.
please don't talk so much about
your daughter-it is bad publ
city," admonished studio repre-
sentatives.
"All right, if I can't talk about
my baby I won't talk at ALL" re-
Piled the actress. And she has
stuck to that.
I doubt if any actress ever at
tanned stardom as quickly as
Marlene Dietrich. One picture
was all she needed.
Immediately after her arrival
she was cast in Morocco" CO.
featured with Gary Cooper and
Adolph Menjou.
Unknown and unseen by the
American public prior to that pic
ture, she became an instant box
Office hit and was starred in her
second nroduction "Dishonored -