Show Dorothy Janis Now Hollywoods Hollywood's Smallest and andy Leading Lady R a a a a. a 4 ti's P i ir r hi 7 r Dorothy Janis suddenly chosen Ramon Navarros Navarro's leading lady She's Only Only Five Feet Tall Talland Talland I and Weighs but 94 Pounds P By DAN THOMAS HOLLYWOOD I I you rou vere re a ayoung oung young girl who vho had been bech iT in pictures picures pic- pic tures t ures res only a few and were suddenly picked for fOl Ramon Novarro's No- No arro's arros leading leadin- lad lady in a picture which cal called cald d fo fo- foa a location trip to Honolulu and Tahiti wouldn't you ou consider yourself lucky I I That is what happened to little I Dorothy Janis Jams who is perhaps the I smallest leading lady in fl being less than five feet tall taU and weighing only 04 4 pounds Whether an anyone one else would or 01 not Dorothy certainly considers herself luck lucky I talked t to her the day lay before her departure for Hawaii Hawaii Ha Ha- wall and she was walking as lS if it in a dream Try as she would she couldn't get down to earth Dorothy has been beep cast in ill the role of a native girl gil in a South sea picture picture pic picture pic- pic ture as yet ret untitled which Novarro is making The director is W. W SVan S SVan Van Dyke who directed White Shadows of the South Seas me of the most b beautiful films of the j year ear The year old a actress tress should ld ho hr very good in hi hc native role being of Cherokee In InT i descent A littie little little lit lit- tle tie makeup added to her olive coma com lexion flexion black hair hall and dark dalk brown browneyes browneyes browneyes' browneyes eyes eyes eyes' should make her her- resemble a atrue atrue atrue true S South uth seas seas- maiden In fact lie he seems destined to pl pi y native girl roles this being her third in inthe he the only three three- films she has mil made e. e GETS GOOD START Dorothy br l br-l ke br-ke e Into pictures as an in Indi Indian Indian- l' l girl In Kit Carson l Her work was so good sat at Gold letro Mayer wyn-Mayer signed her t to a long lang term erm contract and immediately cast castler her ler opposite Tim McCoy in Humming Humming Hum ming Wires Vires Then came the Novarro Novarro No- No varro varra assignment Miss 1 Janis h has s another reason for being thankful being thankful for fot her lier new role that will keep her hel- extremely busy busy busy-a a reason unknown to all ll but her closest closest closest clos clos- est friends About a month before he tho picture w was was s to start her father died at his home home in F Fort rt Worth Tex Dorothy v no now has something to o keep her mind off her grief thoroughly reequipped and can now I h handle the largest largest companies companies on an the ther r road ad Mr Arliss brings a company of fifty people with which to present present present pre- pre sent Ames' Ames production n |