Show JEANETTE MAC MACDONALD DONALD KAY FR COMPLETE I TALKIES' TALKIES BEAUTY LIST 1 B By DA DAN THOMAS NEA Sen Service Ice ice Writer HOLLYWOOD July 4 Charming 4 brunet Kay Francis who came out here from the Broadway stage about a year and a half hair a ago ao o to find rival Hollywood talkie producers for her services services- Beautiful Jeanette MacDonald with hair hah like golden sunshine and eyes of or starry blue who Is acclaimed as the best feminine singer In motion motion motion mo mo- mo- mo tion pictures These two selections complete The Six Most Beautiful Women of the TaU Talkies es chosen for NEA ServIce Ice and The Telegram by a special board of beauty judges composed of six sL of Hollywoods Hollywood's most famous directors They join Marlene Dietrich Frances Dec Dee Dolores Del Rio and Gloria Swanson previously announced Kay Francis born bom In Oklahoma City made good In a Do big way ever since she was lured from the legitimate legitimate legitimate mate stage by tho the huge salary checks film rum producers often toss about so o carelessly The reason There Is only one Kay Francis When a role suits her nobody else can really play It right Consequently she is In considerable considerable con con- demand The demand for her is so great that she was one of the players over whom a war almost broke out among producers Kay was one of the three players Warner Brothers signed while they still were under contract to Paramount In direct violation to the called so-called gentleman's agreement among studio heads Miss Francis has scored cored another achievement but achievement but through no effort of her own She Is the only girl sirl in Hollywood whose name ever has been linked with Ronald Colmans Colman's Ronnie Ronnie Ronnie Ron Ron- nie has had a lot of leading women But even Vilma Banky Banh who with formed what was considered the screens screen's greatest lovo love team never neer was linked with him away from the studio It was different when Kay went over to play opposite him in Raf e S 5 5 s' s V 5 S Kay Francis smart chic bubbling hub bub I bling with sex wavy avy black bUb 1 hair boyish bob flashing eyes I I v. v e j lID I 5 f- f IIa I l t I Lf Jeanette MacDonald hair hairlike like golden sunshine eyes of starry blue Hollywoods Hollywood's best singer ties fles All Hollywood was soon predicting pre pre- dieting that the elusive Colman al always a- a ways popular but never serious with women had fallen The two still are great friends but talk of a genuine gen gen- romance has died cUed out Kay Is distinctive The directors who chose her as one of the six greatest great great- est beauties declared her to be smart chic and bubbling with sex Her black wavy hair hah brushed back over her ears cars carsIn earsIn In a boyish bob adds to her as as do her flashing eyes and her calm and unconcerned manner manner- sIns Isms For Jeanette MacDonald beauty voice and ability combined to win fame Prior to the time she made her screen debut in The Tile Love Parade with Maurice Chevalier people had seldom connected fine voices with beauty but they soon found Jeanette had both Jeanettes Jeanette's early career was spent on OIl the legitimate stage after alter attendIng attending attend attend- ing big a fashionable school for girls near Philadelphia At the outset she dreamed of entering grand opera opera Never once did cUd a film Um career en enter r her mind But now thoughts of grand opera have been forgotten Its too much work Jeanette told me one day when we were discussing grand opera That kind of singing requires years of oC intensive study ancIs and anc andIs andis Is a continual grind I 1 prefer motion pictures and the home life they per per- r- r mit mU Home life Ufe Is very important to Jeanette right now She is about to marry Robert Ritchie her business busine manager Jeanettes Jeanette's ambition is to make a picture in which she doesn't sing a note I 1 am afraid the public is beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to think the only way I 1 can get by in pictures is on the strength of ot my voice olce she declares I 1 want to prove that I also can act just act just as well wel as s I 1 can sing Im I'm convinced of It myself but I still have to prove it t to others |