Show Astaire Rival Very Changed H HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Charles L Charles Y Charles Collins the le screens screen's newest and closest rival to o Fred Astaire is no longer the Charlie harlie Collins Broadway knew Hollywood has given him color in two wo ways It put him In a color mucal musical musical mu- mu cal Dancing Pirate and it transformed the pale night owl awl of Broadway and supper club shows into nto a eyed bright-eyed youth who gets up p at a a. a m m. puts in an hour of I golf olf before work and putters in a garden when he isn't working I The late nights used to get me in New York he says Its because I II never ever quite outgrew my native Okla I Okla- Okla homa loma I really was brought up on a a. a farm arm Here I can go to bed with the le chickens its it's swell Dorothy Darathy Plans House Dorothy goes for it too too All sh she's s doing now is drawing plans for houses houses' They're all aU over per the place except on the wall vail Her father father- fred Stone you know know know-is is going to build mild quite a place and the plot is isnow isnow isow now ow to let us us' have a little section ot of f it IL Dorothy and I have it all figured out ut where were we're going to put a big truck ruck garden and nd where were we're going to o put a house and all that Collins is lean and tall taU and a decided hit in his first screen role Mrs Collins Dorothy Darothy Stone recently recently re- re finished a picture and spends her er spare time on new numbers when she Isn't doing house plans She he and Charlie used to dance to together together to- to gether and each is still the others other's favorite dancing partner They ac- ac want to be t gether together in a dancIng dancing ing ng picture which sets them apart from rom most acting married couples New Hollywood Disease In pictures Collins found himself developIng a n new malady He calls calla it t foot consciousness One of the last scenes required a alot alot lot ot of spins he ho explained and the big jig lights were shooting right at my feet I didn't know how to steer I I. became embarrassed foot embarrassed foot con- con and cious and time and again I spun right out of at camera range There were verc retakes retakes' until I figured they would throw me out of at the picture What th they y did ins instead ead was vas to give jive him a new contract to lo to keep him lim here dancing and going bed bee with the chickens |