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Show Pl WHO'S NEWS K . Ji THIS I V' WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK. In view of Miss 1 Alice Marble's recent arrival here after successful exploits at Wimbledon and elsewhere, it would . seem that the C if t Kept Tennis reported asso-Champ asso-Champ From a ciation of John McCormack, Baseball Career the eminent Irish tenor, with the fair Wimbledon Wimble-don and United States national title-holder title-holder in London as a singing teacher teach-er was someone's flight of fancy. Miss Marble, as may be recalled, made her debut as a night club soloist solo-ist last winter, and, after the current cur-rent tennis season is over, she will go 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, singer, sing-er, potential actress, Miss Marble's Mar-ble's versatility is not confined to these things. She could, if she had not to her expressed regret got beyond such things, play Softball baseball with facility facil-ity equal to that of most men. Also proficient in basketball as a member of the Polytechnic high, San Francisco, team, she was likewise a 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. It is said that Marble Pere, a farmer in Plumas county, Calif., at one time doubted whether he ever could wean the girl from a baseboll bat which she swung on clubs otherwise other-wise composed of male players. But j the gift of a tennis racquet at the age of 13 and subtle encouragements turned her thoughts to tennis. This happened when, in lieu of a career as a ball player, she had become the official mascot of the San Francisco Fran-cisco Seals of the Pacific Cnast League. Blonde, statuesque, with gray eyes, gracious in manner as she is in appearance lovely, Miss Marble won much favor wherever she went abroad. A SSUMING Laurence Olivier's role in support of Katharine Cornell in a current Broadway hit, Francis Lederer, the engaging . . T young Czech Warrior at 12, actor whose Lederer Now a American fame Peace Advocate h a s b e e n gained in motion mo-tion pictures, finds his facility for mastering native pronunciations serving him well. In this connection connec-tion be it recalled that, when he made his first stage appearance in London four years ago, he was unable un-able to speak a word of English. Nonetheless, by aping the diction of the coach, later resorting to the dictionary to learn the meaning of that which he had said, he succeeded suc-ceeded admirably in rendering his role. He is passionately devoted to the cause of world peace through the World Peace federation, fed-eration, which he himself organized or-ganized it now has branches throughout the civilized world. His advocacy of peaceful adjustment adjust-ment of international issues, resulted re-sulted from experience in the World war, in which he served as a lad of 12, winning two medals for gallantry. Entering the war to avenge the death in action of a beloved older brother, broth-er, he found his age no bar to service. He asserts, indeed, that, at the time of his enlistment, enlist-ment, the Czechs had boys who were but eight years old under arms. His biography opens at Prague,, where, at 18, he was playing walk-on walk-on parts at the Deutches Landes theater a soldier in "Lohengrin," a servant in social comedy, anything, everything, of extremely subordinate subordi-nate character. Gaining a rather important speaking part through ability displayed in reading the lines of an indisposed actor, he subsequently subse-quently received a scholarship in the Academy of Dramatic Art in Prague. He then went to Breslau, where Kaethe Dorsch, the German actress, discovered him and introduced intro-duced him to the Berlin theater, where he became overnight the adored of feminine Berlin. He married Ada Nejedly, ,an opera singer in Prague in 1928, from whom subsequently he was divorced. di-vorced. Two years ago, he married mar-ried "Margo," Margarita Balando, stage and screen dancer. He is tall and slight, his features extremely extreme-ly delicate, eyes soulful. In his reading, he is addicted to the German Ger-man philosophers and the French classics. (Consolidated Features VVNU Service.) |