Show WHO as NEWS Z THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW JEW YORK in view of miss alice marbles recent arrival here after successful exploits at wimbledon Wimble don and elsewhere it would kept tennis see that the reported asso champ from a of john baseball baseda 11 career mccormack the eminent iris irish tenor with the fair wimble don and united states national titleholder holder in in london as a singing teacher was so flight of fancy miss marble as may be recalled made her debut as a night club soloist last winter and after the current tennis season Is over she will go to hollywood to make a motion picture provided the entrepreneur with whom she has signed is able to place her to advantage the first woman to hold three wimbledon Wimble don and three american titles at one and the same tim time designer of sports clothes singer sin 9 potential actress miss marbles versatility is not confined to these things she could it if she had not to her expressed regret got beyond such things play softball sott ball baseball with facility equal to that of most men also proficient in basketball as a member of the polytechnic high san francisco team she was likewise a track athlete of no small ability and before that sandlot football with her brothers and other boys claimed her enthusiasm As a six year old she started playing hard ball baseball with a younger brother harry tim marble who later joined the pacific coast lealue league missions team as shortstop it is said that marble pere a farmer in plumas county calif at one time doubted whether he ever could wean the girl from a baseball bat which she swung on clubs otherwise composed of male players but the gift of a tennis racquet at the age of 13 and subtle encouragements turned her thoughts to tennis this happened app ened when in lieu of a career as a ball player she had become the official mascot of the san francisco seals of the pacific coast league blonde statuesque with gray eyes gracious in manner as she is in appearance lovely miss marble won muc much ii favor wherever er she went abroad A A laurence Oli viers ti role in support of katharine cornell in a current broadway hit francis lederer the engaging y g czech warrior at 12 actor whose lederer now a american fame peace advocate h a s b been e e n gained in in motion pictures finds his facility for mastering native pronunciations serving him well in this connection be it recalled that when he made his first stage appearance in in london four years ago he was unable to speak a word of english nonetheless by aping the diction of the coach later ater resorting to the dictionary to learn the meaning of that which he had said he succeeded admirably in rendering his role he is passionately devoted to the cause of world pe peace ace through the world peace federation era tion which he himself organized it now has branches throughout the civilized world his advocacy of peaceful adjustment of international issues resulted from experience in the world war in which he served as a lad of 12 1 9 winning two medals for gallantry entering the war to avenge the d eath death in action of a beloved older brother e r lie he found his bis age no bar to service he asserts i indeed that at the time of his bis enlistment the czechs czecho had boys who were but eight years old under tinder arms his biography opens at prague where at 18 13 he was playing parts at the Deutch es landes theater a soldier in lohengrin a servant in social comedy anything everything of extremely subordinate character gaining a rather important speaking part through ability displayed in reading the lines of an indisposed actor he subsequently received a scholarship in the academy of dramatic art in prague he then went to breslau where kaethe dorsch the german actress dincov discovered ered him and introduced him to the berlin theater where he became overnight the adored of feminine berlin he married ada an opera singer in prague in 1928 from whom subsequently he was divorced 1 two years ago he married margo margarita balando stage and screen dancer he is tall and slight his features extremely delicate eyes soulful in his reading he is addicted to the german philosophers and the french classics consolidated feat ures serviced service |