Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-11-14 | Page 8 | It's Ginger (Kid) Rogers Fighting 10 Rounds

Its It's Ginger Kid Rogers Fighting 10 1 Rounds 0 By JOHN JOliN TODD HOL HOLLYWOOD INS That INS That explosive movie director who likes to see girls show their prize-fighting prize technique Mister Mister Mister Mis Mis- ter William Wellman has just finished staging a brawl between Ginger Rogers last motion picture academy award winner and Helene Fortescue Reynolds the society girl turned actress They socked each other through through scenes for four days with Matchmaker Matchmaker Matchmaker Match Match- maker Wellman shouting for harder hard hard- er punches and more hair pulling Clip her on the jaw he shouted shout shout- ed at Ging Ginger r Yank her hair Helene he yelled at Miss Reyn Reyn- olds Pulls Gingers Ginger's Hair Out Miss Reynolds gave Gingers Ginger's hair a pull and some of it came out She was horrified terrific said Wellman Do it again Miss Reynolds however was gentler g-entler the next time much to Wellman's disgust Gingers the best fighter Ive I've ever had said Wellman who has been directing pictures for 20 years The movie fans never have seen anything that matches this They'll be shocked out of their seats to see what weve we've done to Ginger They Nurse Bruises Miss Rogers and Miss Reynolds left at th the finish nursing nursing- bruises from head to foot They had clawed bit scratched swung haymakers haymakers haymakers hay hay- makers wrestled on the floor and otherwise acted like two wildcats Wellman gave them a diploma which said they now were members members members mem mem- bers of Wellman's Terror on Women Women Women Wo Wo- men club Other members in include in- in clude Carole Lombard Janet Gaynor Gaynor Gaynor Gay- Gay nor Mae Clarke Barbara Stan Stan- wyck Loretta Young and Ann Harding We need more of these scenes today said Wellman The fans want to see actresses with some life to them Women cant can't sit and flicker their eyelashes any more and moon around on the screen for feet of nothing March larch Pla nays s 's Rough In A Star Is Born Wellman insisted that Fredric March slap Janet Gaynor and in Nothing Sacred March kicked Carole Lombard Joan Blondell and Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara fought like wildcats wildcats wildcats wild wild- cats in another of Wellman's films Were Just getting started In Roxie Hart he said Im going to have Ginger Rogers scrap with Lynne Overman Hes He's a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man and shell she'll try to get getaway getaway getaway away from him while hes he's asking her questions Hell He'll grab her shell she'll slap him and man will we have a fight Wellman the movies movies' chief prize prizefight prizefight prizefight fight promoter again was walking on the clouds