The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-17
STAGE and SCREEN

going to be an unknown who got
the role.
Hollywood is full OF contests
whose sponsors plan to cast un-
knowns in nice parts and then dis
cover that the only girl for the
chore was really under contract al
the studio all the time and gee
whiZ isn't It a coincidence.
Not this one, said Ross. II he
hired "A professional actress we
were never to mention his name
again, he said while his press agent
grew pale.
Some OF the ladies In the heap
look like the portrait, are tall.
dark, willowy, and mysterious.
Some OF them aren't so mysterious
One young lady from Jacksonville,
Fla, sat herself down on a stump,
hauled her skirt way up TO here.
took deep breath and smiled. As
an afterthought she took out her
pen and BACKED up the eyes of the
photograph a little. They're dark,
all right
Miss Inga Nordschild OF Chicago,
who fears neither camera nor
pneumonia. is around the top of Our
personal list of nominations. If
Salome doesn't look like that, it's
Salome's loss.
Evelyn June Giles OF Cleveland,
O.. interested a fellow who was
looking over our shoulder. She
is dark and little more mysterious
than Miss Nordschild. on the back
Of her picture It says: 10. dancer"
"Oh, boy" said the man over
our shoulder. Over our left Shout
der that Is. There was another
man over our right shoulder. This
is a very serious search, and even
the office boy volunteered to help.
a young lady from Detroit we
passed over quickly. She looked
mad as anything. Besides there
seemed to be more OF her than
there was OF Salome.
Salome should have been
blonde. We decided after look at
Wanda HilIiard OF RID No. 2.
Cranbury, y. j. Miss Hilliard is
wearing one of those ScheheraZade
outfits with spangles here and there
and one OF those "Algiers" faces of
Hedy Lamarr's. As a matter of
fact, Salome probably wasn't that
pretty
Sheilah Huffman Of Lowell,
Mass, climbed a tree. There she
was in a two-piece bathing suit be-
ing nonchalant among the sumacs
1--WE think) and not bothering with
the kitchen curtains at all She
sent along another one without
the tree. Even without It she was
pretty.
A lady We figure Is on the ms de
track by heredity is Ethel Johnson
of Chicago. She didn't let II go
with that expressive one piece
lastex bathing suit. On the back
she wrote a little biography. A full
/ blooded Indian she IS, and It's
darned shame there aren't more OF
them. While we were reading that
side. the office boy was whistling
at the other side. She's a Chief
Joseph's granddaughter. Young In.
dian maidens didn't look like that
in grandfathers day.
Beatrice Kemke OF Milwaukee
was awfully pretty. All she sent
| along was her face. This, we gath
cred from Ross. was mistake. He
had more than the face in mind
when he decided to look around, as
who doesn't?
The girl Salome," he said, was
very young and combined exotic
sophistication with the naiyete and
curves Of youth"
Ensign Jay Robinson Of New
York. who won $500 for painting his
/ conception Of Salome in the first
/ place, made It tougher.
Her figure he said. was ap-
/ par emily slight; her face was oval.
rejecting a compassionate and al
| most naive nature, and at the same
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