The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-29
Sixth CHILD MOVIE STARS ARE GROWING UP) Judy Garland Diets to Keep That Childish Figure
One More Year Of 'Kid' Parts
BY PAUL HARRISON rEA Service Staff Correspondent

Hollywood, April 29-Judy Gar land is IA and definitely precocious, But good fun.
 Her wisecracking is garnished with modesty, and her trim little figure is obscured by unflattering. Juvenile frocks. Judy is trying her very best to remain child until Metro GoldWyn-M Mayer decides that she can be an ingenue. That will be in a little more than a year; her sixteenth birthday will be June 10, 1889.
 No Can Eat
 The studio decided she didn't look childish enough for her role in "Everybody Sing" so she put on a routine of diet, exercise and mas sage which reduced her hips three inches. She's still on diet. I had lunch with her and her mother the other day and she was grumbling about it.
 "Everybody in the restaurant iS watching to see that I don't snitch an extra dessert or something" she said. "At least I feel that every body's watching. Maybe it's my conscience"
 She recently was announced for the role of Dorothy in Metros yer sion of "Thc Wizard of Oz.' The selection drew a good deal of ad- verse comment, and as much from Judy Garland fans as from anyone else. She herself seems little un- easy about it.
 The Dorothy of L. Frank Baum's stories was a much younger, sim pier girl. The assumption is that Judy will introduce swing music into the Emerald City, and will teach the Scarecrow and Tin Wood man how to do the Big Apple. May be they'll change the title to "The Wizard of Jazz"
 It's a Great Life
 Miss Garland has a great deal Of vitality, love of excitement, and a chonic detestation of routine events. In rapid, sarcastic sing song she recited her Hollywood working schedule and it was easy to guess that she doesn't like it uACCils dtJHlB, JltlNoCo, luncheon, acting, recording, more classes, lying on roof in the sun ("Thats rip-roaring experience, I can tell you'J radio rehearSals, ra- do broadcasts, study, reading, bed- time-all these are mapped out pretty rigidly.
 Those are some of the reasons why she likes personal appearance tours such as she recently made to eight cities. Another reason is that Judy is a veteran of eight years of vaudeville. Her parents were pro- fessionaLs and her father, Frank A. Gumm, now is a Los Angeles the ater owner. She and two elder sis ters toured as singing trio until Suzanne married and broke up the act. Judy then walked into the Me- tro casting office, hot-cha'd cou- pie of numbers, and got job. AS simple as that.
 Anyway, she still likes the road, "You know" she said, "the most fun is to finish the last show and get a bunch of actors together and go out and get big steaks somewhere and sit around and talk. They won't let me do that here."
 Tours, Benefits
 She worked hard on her tour After doing five shows and dozens of interviews day in New York, Judy and Mrs. Gumm went to Pro- vidence hoping to get little rest before she played Pittsburgh
 Instead" said Miss Garland, i've were met at 7:30 in the morning by 93-piece band, the governor. the mayor and 1000 people. I played eight shows day there besides benefits for the firemen and plumb CTS and grass widows and who-all It wasn't dull, anyway"
 Speaking of benefits, Victor Or satti, Miss Garland's agent. came to her table and told her she was to go to New York soon to appear at some extra special benefit there Clear to New York for one ben- efit?" Judy gasped. Why, that's as silly as playing split week in Switzerland!"
 Mrs. Gumm joined my hee-haWs at that one. Shes amused by her daughter, and should be. She re- called, Judy was funny on the stage in Minneapolis. At the end of her act she had to say '.. and hope you all see my latest picture "So-and-So," which will open at this theater Monday
 "Judy hates anything like that, so she said it in monotone and then ended, apologetically '... if you don't mind the commercial. Every body howled, The management was awfully mad"
 Miss Garland's next picture prob- ably will be Listen Darling" Katharine Brush story which she has not yet read.
 Judy i sa junior in high school likes languages, dreads mathemat- ics. T just want to know enough