| Show Little kittle Egypt Dancing Star Gives Sage Advice In Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood If you want to win a career wood Just lust enter a beauty contest and dont don't walk away with place first honors That's the opinion of glamorous Rhonda Fleming now now starring with Mark M rk StevenS StevenS' In Technicolor Tee h n I co lor Little Egypt showing tonight and Friday at the Egyptian Theatre Rhonda's claim to fame was an also- also ran In n the publicized highly Gateway to Hollywood contest conducted by Jesse Lasky A girl girt named Dorothy Howe topped me In the contest Rhonda recalls I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder what ever happened to help her hg According to some of the curved best-curved examples ever used to rove a Do point Int up runners have Invariably been more successful In cornering the golden throne of stardom In Hollywood And the gals who took the contest honors they sought ate are now hard at a work as secretaries or school manns nursing a batch of kids or reading about the t the con e. e con con- contestants they defeated every time they thumb through a movie magazine When David O O. began his nationwide contest to find Scarlett OHara O'Hara for Gone With the Wind a alot alot alot lot of girls were Jested sted and hid their tears when Vivien Leigh was an- an announced announced announced as IS the winner Some of them however wiped away their tears and kept trying Susan Hayward and Arleen Whelan were two of the losers Ellen Drew lost a beauty contest In Inthe Inthe inthe the East and drove to Hollywood In a flivver and was grabbed for tor stardom while working as a soda fountain clerk Myrna Loy lost three straight talent contests and broke into movies by going to work as a film mm in 11 a major studio Other Hollywood leading ladles who came out second best In talent searches include Barbara Bates Adele Jergens Barbara Lawrence Marjorie Weaver and Shelley Winters I Rhonda Fleming plays the role of a a. seductive Egyptian dancer Little Egypt who Invaded the Chicago Columbian Ex Ex- Exposition Exposition Ex- Ex Exposition position In 1893 and created a national sensation with her dance ONE SONG MAKES POTENTIAL STAR OF KAY BROWN BROWNI I I If Mickey Rooneys Rooney's reputation for being good luck to newcomers means anything anything and and his record Is unequalled In Hollywood year seventeen old year Kay Brown is on the threshold of stardom Her eminent predecessors Include Lana Turner Judy Garland Esther Williams Kathryn Grayson and Elizabeth Taylor all allot of whom gained first recognition In Rooney pictures the first three stars In the memorable Andy Hardy series and Miss Taylor In National Velvet Now this vivacious eyed brown brown eyed singer follows In n their footsteps with an Im im- Important important im- im important role In Ms M-G-M's The Strip starring Rooney and Sally Forrest at atthe atthe the Egyptian Theatre Saturday only Uly Six months ago Little Miss Brown wended her way Into motion pictures with a a. song Harry Geller musical director director director tor of Mercury Records had spotted I her on the Talent Hi Battles television television sion slon show in Hollywood When the tune Razz Ma Tazz Tam was placed on Gellers Geller's desk he im Im- immediately Immediately Im- Im Immediately mediately thought of Kay Brown as the only person he knew who could Inter Inter- Interpret Interpret Interpret pret the song as he wanted It recorded Twenty four hours later she was In the Studio I e NOTED BROADWAY DANCING TEAM TEAl IN I SHOW snow BOAT T CAST Marge and Gower GO Champion one of I Broadways Broadway's outstanding dance teams make their first screen appearance to together to- to taI together gether In Ms M-G-M's new star all Technicolor Technicolor Technicolor color production of Show Boat which I comes to the Egyptian Theatre Sunday and Monday Gower Champion made his first ap ap- ap appearance appearance at M-G-M M as Cyd Charisse's C dancing partner in Till the Clouds Roll By Following this he was er for the stage musical Lend An Ear Ear His most recent work was a 1 I for tor the new Broadway musical Make A I Wish Now signed to a term long-term M-G- M M contract the Champions will next appear as dancing stars In In the t e forth- forth I coming Technicolor musical Lovely To Look At In Show Boat they have two spec specialty I alty dances done to the Jerome Kern- Kern Oscar Hammerstein Hamm erste in n It n. n songs I 1 Might Fall Pall Back On You and Life Lite Upon the Wicked Stage I The new musical stars Kathryn Gray- Gray Grayson t I son Ava Gardner and Howard Keel with Joe E E. Brown Robert Sterling and Agnes I Moorehead leading the supporting cast I It was directed by George Sidney and was produced by y Arthur Freed too MODERN DAY STARS DROP DROP CURTAIN ON TABLED FABLED F. LED ERA I The Gilded Glided Age of the time old old time movie queen Is gone goneA I A couple of decades ago a top ranking I feminine star was usually pampered and thoroughly spoiled Today with hardly an exception she's working hard-working and I democratic and absorbs the adoration of struck movie fans tans without letting It go goto goto goto to her head I Claudette Colbert starring in sal Internationals new suspense film Thunder on the Hill HUI coming at the Egyptian Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday could be set up as a good example of the modern day movie star Miss Colbert starts her day by driving driving- to the studio in her own car Twenty years ago a Do movie queen would have no nomore nomore nomore more driven her own car than she would have ha been seen on Hollywood Boulevard without a a. mink coat I IThe I The cars of the cinema sirens In those days were plush plated gold affairs I I complete with in built bars and chaut- chaut chauffeurs i feura feurs dressed In comic opera outfits 1 Claudette's car Is a 1947 model of a aI I I popular priced make Very few stars have personal maids I I on the th sets these days In yesteryears i ia a movie queen Without a maid to dress I I and undress her In the privacy of or her dressing room was considered gauche to the extreme I Claudette dresses herself and sits around the set between scenes In a iL t comfortable pair of slacks This in con con- contrast treat to the pampered belles of the i iwho who lived secluded lives In their plush i dressing rooms rarely emerging onto the I set to make small talk with the hired hands ands I i |
