Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-11-24

Helen of Troy
golden apple. The girl that is one
mans dish is pain in the neck
to the fellow in the next orchestra
seat: so the impresario has to think
fast to pick 'em to suit every taste
and yet get group that blends to-
gether. Most notable successes in
this line have been Charles Coch-
rane of London, and the late Zieg-
field of Broadway. You can't omit
Earl CAROLS garden, or George
Whites girls, Billy Roses six foot
ers, known as the Big Bruisers, or
Sam Goldwyn's girls.
Sure Fire
Musicals make an ideal setting
for beauty, as every producer
knows. And as Producer Bill Perl
berg intends to make a goodly list
of technicolor super-dupers during
the coming two years, he sent out
scouts to fine-comb the United States
of America for the most dazzling
girls to be had. The IA Diamond
Horseshoe Girls came from New
York City, Syracuse, and Port JEFF
ferson; from Springfield, Mass,
and Minneapolis, Mimi; from Port
land, Ore; Tulsa, Okla; Beverly
Hills, and Manhattan Beach.
When Per,te-g began adding up
the personality list of his IA, he got
some surprises. He found he had a
millionairess on his hands; a fourth
generation movie family provided
another; two had been welders in
war plants; one had been a sales
woman for Standard Oil, taking the
job to release man to the army.
Greatest shock of all was when his
assistants told him he had looked
over the entire group from "Cover
Grip and selected but one-blonde
Carol Andrews.
lives at Town House while work
ing-takes her millions as she does
her glass of orange juice. Has what
Noel Coward calls "the perfect
hggah!" She's been given the typi-
cal Junior leaguer's European edu-
cation. Her father is a toothpaste
king, and her mother was on Broad
way as June Keith.
There's Beauty and Beauty
When you talk to Perlberg about
beauty, he tells you it must have
impact" Pretty girls are a
lime dozen, Hedda," he says,
especially in Hollywood. But very
few have impact-it's a combina-
lion of beauty, personality and that
intangible something we call mag
aetism for lack of a better word"
Ellen Hall is delicate brunette.
| remember her mother, Ella Hall,
If old silent films, and Arthur john
son, her father. Some call him the
Gary Cooper of his day.
Another girl was a mail clerk on
| Twentieth Century's lot. Bill looked
Up one morning and there stood a
| goddess with a batch of mail in
Ter hand. Bill hustled her over to
The test stage. When the rushes we're
run, he had another Diamond Horse
shoe Girl - Mary Jane Shores,
daughter of Writer Lynn Shores.
Green-eyed Cathy Downs father
S blueprint and pattern maker at
Port Jefferson, L. l. She's east
coast in manners, sings, dances and
vent in for a classical education.
Quite a few of the girls had a
oout at modelling: Alice Eyland,
Carol Andrews, Mary Meade and
Betty Jane Graham.
Still They Come
Jan Bryant was an usher at Grau-
mann's Chinese, then completed
aine months of breaking work
as a welder Ruth Lewis boasts she
Fan take $50 words a minute
Yvonne Vautrot is tiny, dark and
intriguing. Was saleswoman for
Standard Oil. Eve Miller, who re-
minds you of Barbara La Mari,
also did bit of welding.
In movies it takes less to become
star than it ever did on Broad
way. Don't take my word for it
just look around you next time you
see a picture and judge for your
self!