The Key West citizen., 1940-11-25
BY ADELAIDE KERR


tennis queen, lives several lives
in one.
The blonde Californian, who
balances four national tennis
championship crowns on her SUM-
tanned brown, expects to handle
as many different jobs this win
ter.
Twice week during the
football season she broadcasts
2ver New York station
CWNEW) a pert report of the ma
tons gridiron events. Friday eve
nings she forecasts scores of As
big college games for the coming
weekend. Saturdays she COM
pares her predictions with the
final scores and describes the
games.
The studio says that, so far,
she has been right eighty per-
cent of the time She IS al ease
in front of the microphone too
zips along in a breezy style.
Scoring football games comes
natural to Alice. She played
football with her brothers and
learned its fine points from them
before she ever touched a tennis
. racquet. The young Marbles used
to score football games together
by the hour. Now Alice devoteS
part of her talks to explaining
the games intricacieS so women
can understand.
Between broadcasts the girl
: who now holds more tennis hon
Ors than any other woman, will
lecture in towns in New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
England on THE viii to Win .
t The talk is aimed at American
youth and is based on Alice
Marbles creed: You can do any
, thing you want to. provided you
. have the will to win and will sac
) rifice for it.
Come Christmas. Miss Mar
, bic will begin a third job. She
, will appear as a singer for a
, weeks engagement at LOew's
State theater on Broadway. This
, will not be her singing debut
t she has appeared previously in
New York night clubS-but it's
! her first Broadway appearance
and it gives her a thrill She
| will do five shows day. singing
tennis-theme songs written es-
pecially for her.
Besides this. she designs ten
mis- clothes for New York and
Baltimore sports clothes manu-
facturerS. She really designs too
takes one of the firms design
ers with her to tennis games and
works out intricate cuts.
Her latest trick is q long
I sleeved tennis shirt. inspired
by a sunburn whose lobster
effect embarrassed her last
summer when she wanted 10
sing in evening clothes She
5 says the long sleeves don't re-
: strict her famous smashing
. serve.
Between times the hard-hitting
queen of the courts finds time
for tennis practice. But she re-
Gently denied reports that she
r would add to her activities by
turning professional
. There's a big difference be
tween the teen-age tomboy who
used to romp around football and
I baseball fields. and Alice Marble
} at 27. The champion loves pref
ty clothes of the semi-sports class,
: and wears them with dash
QUEEN ELIZABETH included
= bomb splinter that struck
Buckingham Palace with the gold
' cigaret case she sent TO be used
. as a prize at the New York Bun
dies for Britain Ball MRS.
WENDELL WILLKIE still wears
a jeweled elephant pinned on her
: dark frock over her heart. MRS
HARRISON WILLIAMS. famous
New York hostess and best
dressed woman. always serves
tea with figs CLAIRE BOOTH
beautiful blonde playwright and
author. does all her work with
4 pen and ink, because her hard
: to read writing keeps her from
: wasting time by reading over
what she has written. -SU-
ZANNE SILVERCRUYS, Bel
!. agian sculptresss and SIGRID
UNDSETs Norwegian writer. both
{ win lecture in New York this
winter. SONIA HENIE wears :
: sparkling diamond cross on her
! Fs1n-tanned throat New York
2 debs are taking time out from this
: seasons gilded parties TO study