Show Pro Athletes Usually Finish Second in Hollywood Race Sheilah Discovers After Census of II Champs Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD Dec Sonja 10 Henle has been In pictures two years The first year she sho was rated sixth in the list of 01 the ten office box-office drawing stars Her second year finds her two steps higher and ahead of such girls as Carole Carole Carole Car Car- ole Lombard Myrna Lay Loy Jeanetto Jeanette MacDonald Claudette Colbert et alThis al This is the first time on record that thata a person who achieved fame tame in a sphere also made good Inthe Inthe in inthe the movies Many have tried but few remained standing after the count of ot one picture The latest outsider to attempt the film wisp will is flier Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las Corrigan The way one-way humorist of the air registered very strongly in his newsreel appearances And his tests and early work at Radio were so good that the studio will call on Mr Corrigan for another another another an an- other two pictures But we must wait walt until the release of The Flying Plying Irishman before belore allowing that Doug has a a. title to film fame Cited Swimmer Johnny has I suppose achieved some sort of success In the m vies In the seven years of J movie career he has made three Tarzan films and is in process of ot making another But I would hardly call can this a dazzling achievement Particularly Particularly Particularly Par Par- as all the speech he ho has been allowed is the famous Tarzan yell yen And his acting has merely consisted consisted con eon of looking gorgeous and being being beIng be be- be- be ing athletic Swimmer Eleanor Holm had yet yeta a shorter and less successful screen career The gal photographs well and of ot course swims well wen but these did not compensate for her complete com corn pleto ignorance of the art of emot emot- I emot-I ing Appearing with Eleanor in Tar zan's Revenge was Olympic decathlon lon Ion champ Glenn Morris Morris but but it will willbe willbe willbe be kinder to draw a veil over Glenns Glenn's attempted histrionics Shields Got Bits Handsome Frank Shields was Under under under un un- der contract to Sam Goldwyn for two years during which period he went to dramatic school played bit roles roIe in Come Como and Get It Dead End Hoosier Schoolmaster and performed the publicity stunt of kissing Andrea Leeds times under under under un un- un- un der water Personally I liked Frank Frankas as an actor and think that if Jt he had been given a proper chance he ho might have made good in Holly Holly- wood But Sam Goldwyn and the theother theother theother other movie moguls thought otherwise other other- wise Fred Perry and Kay Stammers English tennis champs have taken numerous screen tests which tests which is la as close as they got to a screen career Boxer Maxie Maxle Baer started his movie emoting in grand style with Myrna Loy Lay as his leading lady InThe in inThe inThe The Prizefighter and the Lady but ut whether it was because Maxies Maxie's career died or because he was not so hot as an actor actor Maxie Maxle the screen actor is no more except sometimes as s a a. sparring partner for fora a handsome movie star Another boxing Maxie Maxie- Maxie-Maxie Maxie Maxle Maxie is is one of 01 the few lew ath ath- letes who Is is doing all right In the movies Mr dumb facial expressions allied to hl his hIs' bulky body and cauliflower ears get good laughs from moviegoers wIth moviegoers with the result that Maxie is under term long-term contract to Warner Brothers who pay him a week which as Maxie himself says Int so dumb is it Hank Luisetti the basketball star received a 8 lot of publicity when he appeared in Paramount's Campus Confessions It Is said that this stu- stu 0 0 4 i i r t 1 u. 5 v 4 4 0 r. r fJ I V. i 4 I e eZ r Z r W I 7 r vv p I V Y I PF 1 r w Mii Ih M 7 Wi r rh jl h if m 1 r 1 11 1 ii r i z rZ r Z ff M Mu u z 1 t Johnny Film success is hardly dazzling as all fhe the speech has been allowed is the famous Tarzan yell dio wanted Hank for another picture picture pic plc- ture but the boy said no He preferred preferred preferred pre pre- pre pre- the security of his position as a gasoline station attendant Musicians and orchestra leaders who have stormed at the studio gates include Rudy Vallee Fred Waring Jascha Heifetz Leopold and Mr Vallee probably could make as many pictures as he wants to to- to if he will retain the role of band leader But latest reports are that Rudy wants to throw away his baton and be an actor But he must prove he ho can act before those hardhearted producers cast him as a Thespian When Heifetz agreed to appear in Goldwyn's The Restless Age it was condition on that only his fiddle was starred Now I understand he will appear in sequences And we will have a chance to see see if his acting measures up to his fiddling |