Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-08-11
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-In view of Miss
l y Alice Marbles recent arrival
here after successful exploits at
Wimbledon and elsewhere, it would
Gift Kept Tennis S Seenrte sha' as sne
Champ From, a citation of John
Baseball Career t MeI : !, m ! OK x ;
Irish tenor, with the fair Wimble-
don and United States national title
holder in London as a singing teach
er was someone's flight of fancy.
Miss Marble, as may be recalled,
made her debut as night club SOLO
list last winter, and, after the cur
rent tennis season is over, she will
60 to Hollywood to make a motion
picture-provided the entrepreneur
with whom she has signed is able
to place her to advantage.
The first woman to hold three
Wimbledon and three American
titles at one and the same time,
designer of sports clothes, sing
er, potential actress, Miss Mar
ble's versatility is not confined
to these things. She could, il
she had MOTTO her expressed
regret-g0t beyond such things,
play s0ftball baseball with facil-
ity equal to that of most men.
Also proficient in basketball as
member Of the Polytechnic
high, San Francisco, team, she
was likewise track athlete Of
no small ability. And, before
that, sandlot football with her
brothers and other boys claimed
her enthusiasm. As a six-year-
old she started playing hard
ball baseball with. a younger
brother, Harry Tim Marble,
who later Joined the Pacific
Coast League Missions team as
shortstop.
1t is said that Marble Pere, a
farmer. in Plumas county, Calf,
at one time doubted whether he ever
could wean the girl from q baseball
bat which she swung on clubs other
wise composed of male players. But
the gift of tennis racquet at the
age of 10 and subtle encouragements
turned her thoughts to tennis.
Blonde, statuesque, with gray
eyes, gracious in manner as she is
in appearance lovely. Miss Marble
won much favor abroad. l.,
A SSUMING Laurence Olivier's
1 \ role in support of Katharine
Cornell in a current Broadway hit,
Francis Lederer, the engaging
Warrior at IL, sotnr 49,
Lederer NoU a American fame
Peore Adroco-e h S b e n
gained in mo-
ton pictures, finds his facility for
mastering native recommendations
serving him well. In this connec-
ton be it recalled that, when he
made his first stage appearance in
London four years ago, he was un-
able to speak word of English.
Nonetheless, by aping the diction
of the coach, later resorting to the
dictionary to learn what he had
said, he succeeded admirably in
rendering his role.
He is passionately devoted to
the cause of world peace
through the World Peace fed
Grafton, which he himself or
ganized-it now has branches
throughout the civilized world.
His advocacy of peaceful adjust
ment Of International issues re-
suited from experience in the
World war, in which he served
as a lad Of IL, winning two
medals for gallantry. Entering
the war to avenge the death in
action Of beloved older broth
er, he found his age no bar to
service. He asserts, indeed,
that, at the time Of his enlist
ment, the Czechs had eight-year.
old boys under arms.
His biography opens at Prague,
where, at 10, he was playing walk
on parts at the Deutches Landes
theater-a soldier in "Lohengrin," a
servant in social comedy, anything,
everything, of extremely subordi-
nate character. Gaining a rather
important speaking part through
ability displayed in reading the lines
of an indisposed actor, he subse-
quently received scholarship in
the Academy of Dramatic Art in
Prague. He then went to Breslau.
where Kaethe Dorsch, the German
actress, discovered him and intro
duced him to the Berlin theater.
He married Ada Nejedly, an opera
singer in Prague in 1923, from
whom subsequently he was d.
vorced. Two years ago. he mar
ried ''Margo." Margarita Balando.
stage and screen dancer.
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