Show Mf E— NlfMr T yif y H 'ity-y'iil : THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Tuesday December 1 17- - 1952 THE REAL TEST 1 Astaire are bucking a tough old movie jinx For some unexplained reason movie fans don’t buy husbands making love to their own wives There have been exceptions of course but the movie history of husband and wife teams usu-- puts its champions to a real test Marge and Gower Champion rated the most exciting dance team to hit the screen since Ginger Rogers and Fred STARTS 1 53 SOUTH MAIN ST V Todor II PHONE 3-74- 44 rx ' ally haa been one of dismal boxofflce M G S had little choice except to star the Champlona after the two acta of grand larceny scene 'stealing they committed in “Show Boat” and “Lovely to Look At" The young' dancers are out now In “Everything I Have ls Yours" their first starring picture It’s a little too early to count the house but MGM boa Dor Schary already has tipped his hand He called them back from vacation to make another one called “Give a Girl a Break ” Mere Than' Meets Eye Schary Apparently Is betting the Champions are something more than just another dance team What the Champions have above and beyond the dance team la called different things by different people Some say it's freshness others eall it gentility The women Invariably say the Champions are cute In order to give my version of their appeal I’ll break a g rule: Never comment on how happily married Out Hollywood couples are here lt’a poss(jle for the happiest of couples to break up and remarry overnight But I think the Champions' success stems from the fact that they aft ao much In love little on the that it shows v screen Gower believes their success Is due to their spprotch of techdancing as fitory-tellin- g nique not as an art or talent to be watched in awe Champions Have Class All champions have clast Maybe that’ the word Both are local products Marge was born: In Los Angeles Gower elms here from Geneva 111 when he was two Marge Is the daughter of Ernest Belcher Los Angeles ballet master The two first met in one of those coincidences that Only press agents can imagine Gower a a child enrolled In the Belcher Dane-J lug School across ran each other-noThey and then through the yearbut their dancing careers wero pretty much separate until they married in 1947 Marge had danced for the Los Angeles Civic Opera In such standbys u “Blossom Time" and “The Student a Prince" She was Walt living model for “Snow White" Later she went to Broadway for “Dark of ths Moon” and “Beggars Holiday" Gower and Jeanne Meanwhile Gower won a local dancing contest and joined with the girl winner to form the team Gower and Jeanne They played clubl and Broadway musicals until World War II when Gpwer joined the Coast Guard and Jeanne got married and retired 'jtsMm v IMS r 1091 CaiVfc e” ' HI6HULN0 TTi Douglas is going to Parts for a part in “Girls of the Yla Flamlnla" Wr PHONR 68 I6t Echoed Their Challenge w y f 'j i - -- V Ths last flaming days of the great Cree Uprising when the fate of a Marge and Gower Champion aenMtlonal new dance team star in “Everything I Have Is Yours" coming attraction at Rialto Theater After the war Gower came He and Marge back here started dancing and dating A year after their 1947 marriage Gower was the choreographer for the hit musical “Lend An Ear" Next came a night club touf that brought thorn to the Mocambo here and a screen test ' might do a single during her layoff” What do they do with their par time? 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