Show Babe Babe- Kane Ke Ka e Didn't Click in Silent Films But Made Grade in T Talk alki By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer OlT Cal Cal- l HOLLYWOOD actress actress act act- another stage stase has discovered red ress tess who ho is due dua for a successful journey along alons the film fUm highway Babe Kane Kanc who She is year old has been appearing in vau vaudeville legitimate stage tage for the and on the past eleven years Babe is one of the most Interesting Interesting inter inter- fo esting estin girls yet recruited for the If one ono stops to study her closely it U is not that she does usual standard standard standard stand stand- not measure up to the ard of movie beauty But she possesses possesses possesses pos pos- something far m more re important spelled with a tant personality tant-personality personality capital P And sh she knows knoS ho how hw W to tomake tomake make her hel personality register to tp th the e ebest best advantage Its It's Its too bad bad that Babe didn't click with the tho movies movies- six or ot eight months ago when every studio was frantically trying to td grind out pic pie pictures tures lures depicting an an ultramodern jazz age ase She would have been Jeen a sensation sensa sena- tion in them i COULDN'T SEE HER However film producers couldn't see see her at all Following a i. i long run in the stage play Good N News ws in which she copped mo most t of the honors honors honors hon hon- ors Babe was vas given screen tests at two of the large studios Talking Talking- films hadn't yet tightened their grip on Hollywood then and in the silent tests the girl just didn't didn't- reg re- reg- reg ister I 1 think it wis was my thy own fault that I failed to make the he grade last year right lifter after our after our show closed here her she hc remarks When I took my my screen tests I W was c continually lly conscious con con conscious of or the fact that I 1 was in front i Of of a movie cam camera camra ra and lad had ad to act I was scared to to death and arid couldn't do a thing I t tried mr my best to toe e be natural but failed terribly Then the Ides came in Ia with a bang hang Dialog Dialog- songs music and dancing were ere Injected ted in nearly all pictures Paramount wanted a girl Sill to do a hot song song and dance number in Burle Burlesque que Babe got the job and sh she clicked just as as she did on the sta stage stae e. e Being on a theatre stage surrounded by chorus girls she Fhe the and forgot cameras microphones and went 1 in 1 dances as her natural self j jALL ALL SHE NEEDED j That one small but In Jm dancing role ole was all aU the viv vi young actress needed It It ber that the thc cameras in their proof coops arent aren't So to all Consequently s she e f is no now for more and bigger roles robes i I dont don't know what to do declares I r have an offe offer back to New York on the sta sit yet X t would like hike e to stay out oui I ha have va tried everything fro fron ping coins to pulling pOlling straws straws' out what to do and they alli allt fl to stay here I would much stay i if J I thought I could be successful in pictures and 1 just about decided to try a a. while anyway J JI 4 I r 1 would like to play light c roles because I think I anvil aint hem them BUt I am willing to tr thing Before r I joined the the News' News company I didn't t tl could be f funny at all aU and w wa set against even evet trying it ft i T rector forced me to try and I 11 I 1 that I not only could do it bu buit It ft That convinced me know n JW much about my own and nd that I should try an 4 once 1 Picking screen winners is a aa as asa asa a job as picking race horse hone just the same Im I'm placing m mon my on Babe to come through She ably never wilt will be be bea a star leading la ladys lady's s 's position isn't one I 1 |