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Show Ginger Leads Merry Dance On RKO Set By SHXILAH GRAHAM Copyright. 1937. for The Telegram HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 23 Everyone Every-one ia having a wonderful time on R. K. O -Radio's "Having Wonderful Wonder-ful Time" set. Author Arthur Ko-ber Ko-ber is embracing Ginger Rogers (In slacks. Just like real life) which Is not In his script. Three talented boys who started life in San Francisco as fish psd-idier. psd-idier. ice men and newsboy, raspec- muaic on the stsge of Kamp Kara Free's dance halL Phyllis Fraser, Ginger's cousin, is "big apple-ing" in one corner. In the other. Margery Mar-gery Keeler. (Ruby's lg-year-old baby elater) does a hot number for jthe benefit of yet another Keeler 'sister. Even your correspondent ! catches the dancing fever and indulges in-dulges in a mild truck. In fact, there is only one person per-son present who is not having a rood time "Shimmy" BJskln, esse of the two members of the stage east included In the film version. He wants a line for his ballroom dance with Miss Rogers, "Gimme a line, please, gimme a line," he bras Mr. Kobrr. "What, en my own timet'1 aaya Kobe, atill em-Jiracins-Mlse ""g "Yes. I liks H good in Hollywood." says "Shimmy" in answer to your correspondent. "But everything's so new to me, it's almost interestingonly interest-ingonly it's, so boring." Nothing but hard work is going on in Twentieth Century-Fox's permanent per-manent Ice skating rink. Sonja Henie, wearing an abbreviated blue dancing dress, practices with her chorus of SO for the skating sequences se-quences in "Happy Ending." Sonne's Son-ne's blond locks are hidden behind a hair net but she still manages to look pretty cute. The chorus boys and girls have been learning their ice numbers for the laat three months while the star waa in Norway. They receive $36 a week but ret more when the picture la ahootinK. Thirty of them picked skaters-will skaters-will Join Sonja en her coaat-to-roast exhibition tour following the film. I am surprised to discover that the champion skater does not invent in-vent her own numbers for ths screen. Harry Losee. a funny-looking figure In a long overcoat, hat. muffler and anow boots, wsves and weaves beside Miss Henie, showing her how to- dancs on skstes. Mr. Losse has never ice skated in his life. He looks up suddenly, catches the grin on your correspondent's face and Instructs Jackia Fields, former lightweight champion and now his assistant film dancs director, di-rector, to tell me ths set is closed. I go quietly. A spot of torture is in progress on the "Thsnk You. Mr. Moto" set. Norman Foster kills two flies and Sydney Blackmer strikes Pauline Frederick full in the fsce. "Imagine "Imag-ine having to punch Psuline." says Mr. (Theodore Roosevelt impersonator) imper-sonator) Blackmer, disgustedly, after af-ter the first take. "Don't worry. It's all in the game." Miss Frederick reassures him. The ; old-time star is unrecognizable in her Chinese-mother makeup. Her eyes are taped bark and hurt her until she learned the trick . of stretching the skin around the eyes under her wig. The third ef the "Mr. Moto" aeries ae-ries takes place In China, although al-though the gentleman In question (Peter Lorre 1 is supposed to be b Japanese. For current political reaaona, Mr. Moto befrienda a harassed Chinese family. "Film work Is like a prolonged rehearsal," says Miss Frederick. "I prefer ths stags it has mora tradition tra-dition and dignity. Picture-making gels to be less and less work all the time. In the old days, you did everything for yourself put on your own clothes and makeup. Now they won't let you do a thing it was sll I could do to persuade them to let me fix my own fingernails." And Miss Frederick proudly dis-1 plays nins long points. One nail has capsized under the lengthy strain. "She broke it hailing a buf," says Mr. Blackmer. |