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Show -- 1 it :. "Blue Bonnet" youngsters get lj ALIiTHE fe ttiilllUiOOQ Offl ll ...... jy peer HLollywood Oppenheimer- - will do it every time! Petite Taina Elg of Helsinki, Finland, was discovered in London by producer Edwin Knopf and signed by as the year's most exciting dancing discovery. Rushed to Hollywood for the second female lead in "The Prodigal," Taina (pronounced ") found the part called for all her talents except the one for which she was chosen dancing! But Taina doesn't mind. "I want to become a good dramatic actress," she says in perfect English. And once she makes up her mind, nothing can stop her. Metrp-Goldwyn-Ma- ' -- MINERALS VITAMINS FOOD ENERGY -- yer "HIGH-PRIC- "ty-nah- Sleanor Parker "Your name may never be up in lights . . . but you can have a movie star complexion" Loan Eleanor Parker especially likes care because it softens as it cleanses. Eleanor, like 9 out of 10 Hollywood stars, uses Lux every day. How about you? Lux ELEANOR PARKER co-starr- J In Cinemascope and Color r le restoreth soul... your ' A" UWohip together thle week r "ifW iWf On her sixth birthday, when her parents took her to the ballet, Taina decided to become a ballet dancer. Her mother and father considered this a childish whim, but Taina's persistence convinced them she was serious. In 1940, during the Russo-FinniWar, the Reds confiscated the Elg estate and the family moved to Helsinki. A week later, Taina tried on her first ballet shoes. Her progress was so rapid that before long she went on tour, and in 1947 won a scholarship to study with the Sadler's Wells ballet in London. But on graduation Taina was refused a permit to dance professionally in England, so she decided to audition the top Marquis de Cueva Ballet in Monte Carlo. She didn't have the money to get ticket there, so she borrowed just enough for a one-wand a three-da- y stay. When she got to Monte Carlo she had no trouble arranging for an audition, but her appointment was set for a week later. While waiting she ate one meal a day and promised the "pension" prorent when she got the job. prietor that she'd pay-heIt never occurred to her that she might not qualify. On the eighth day, Taina passed the audition, signed a contract, and received an advance large enough to enable her to pay her debts. ' She traveled with the troupe for four years until she tore a ligament in her foot, temporarily forcing her to give up her career in favor of modeling jobs. That was when she met Edwin Knopf. Her trip to the U. S. was not her first three years ago she performed in New York with the ballet. Today she frankly admits that she prefers New York to Southern California, because "it is more cosmopolitan, and it offers four seasons a year instead of just one." About two years ago, Taina was married to importer Carl Gustav Bjorkenheim, whom she had known as a child but had not seen as an adult until a week before she accepted his proposal In marriage, as in her career, she knew exactly what she wanted! ay in MGM's ed "INTERRUPTED MELODY" . 'i t$ TV' "I sh OOP G E" Just look at her career .so far: says s OF THE SPREAD I 7F, HIS "fcCVOi HIGHNESS" LOSES HIS TEMPER ! if v. a m t i mr it:. YES, YOU .GIVE YOUR CHIL- DREN all the nourishment of the "high-pricpound of spread in every e" sunny-swee- I "t'AI smooth-spreadin- g Blue Bonnet Mar garine. All the Milk Minerals All "-- 7L the valuable Food Energy! Aild BLUE BONNET is a more unijorm source of Vitamins than the "high-pricspread. It contains four times more Vitamin D; is more dependable the year round for Vitamin A; and contains Vitamin E. Get Blue Bonnet e" Margarine forall 3: Flavor! Nutrition! Economy! THE IF, t, ACvDE Stable as the alphabet! Go out today and buy any product of any good manuf actu rer's brand . . . ask for the same thing tomorrow, or weeks from now . . . match 'em up, and they're uniformly good, or better. nOYAl PUDDING Supplies Food Energy i -- ft HELPS KIDS GROW HUSKIER 02 For scrumptious desserts every time O.SCOW FAMILY C18S9 King rraturr WEEKLY frmtleato. Inc. MAGAZINE MARCH Taina Elg, Finland's gift to Hollywood. , 2 7, 1 95 S y This uniformity is no accident. Every manufacturer works hard at it because he knows that only unfailing goodness will keep youv buying his product. So he's mighty sure never to let quality slip. If he change's" his product at all, you can bet it's a change for the better. For news of the goods thatare always good, read the ads in this magazine. On AND NAM CO FOUNDATION . |