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Show Says Will Rogers 0- BEVERLEY HILLS Well all I know is just what I eat at the banquets ban-quets (and half the time I dont even 1,-nnw what that great appreciation ana knowledge of really classical music, that she has always been a great personal Iriend of all the noted musical people during dur-ing her long career? Although she never went to school in her life, not even a day, she is one of the best informed, finest and brightest conversationalists con-versationalists you ever talked too. Her immediate friends compose every prominerit man of politics, letters, or finance, that we have in our country. She is a darling of New York Society, yet the greatest oghter for the chorus girl our profession ever boasted of. Did you know that 21 is). As I was telling tell-ing you a week or two ago, I been gnawing my way through quite a few public pub-lic gatherings, one of the most satisfying and one of much cause for satisfaction satis-faction was one given to Marie she weighs 210 pounds, and that 190 pounds of it is heart? Did you know that records of the work done by people during the war, that she holds the feminine record? She enlisted for the duration of the war and has never been mustered out yet. She has become the biggest box office attraction on the screen, and has made the world realize that there is charac- - Dressier a wee or so ago. It was given by her studio, the Metre Goldwyn Mayer, and it was just about the flashiest and highest class thing you ever saw. They do do things right over there. They feed an awful tot of people over there at one or another kind of public function, but this one to Marie was not one of the awful kinds they feed. It was a mighty pearl stud affair. Well I had to drag out the old blue serge, and double breasted that has fooled many a one, if you dont watch it too close, into thinking niaby its about a quarter breed tuxedo. Course the soft shirt and collar looks kinaer negligee, but the black bow tie, and the old blue serge looking black by lamplight, why it looks within the requirements of "Dress Formal". It was on one of their great big stages and it was all decorated for the occasion. The bunting and the flags covered up the scars of some . . i.nf r had made ter in a face. Iu addition to beauty. She has been a great incentive in-centive to, us other hard looking look-ing old battle-axes battle-axes (I know Marie will for-give for-give me for that). Ah, I could go on by the hour and tell you what she has done. But it was a great treat to all of us to be invited there. I made a ter-t.,-Mv stnnid sneech for which 1 cant think of any alabi, but the rest of them dident. Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Louis B. Mayer. Polly Moran and the grand old May Robeson, Robe-son, and many others. Then along came Marie, and she made the best one of all. There is nothing the woman cant do. I am already working work-ing on my speech for her 90th birthday. birth-day. I believe I can think of a good one by that time. 1933 McS 'aught Syndicate, Inc. pretty baa pictuies - --there --there away back in 1919, 20 and 21 You see I used to mess em up theie in the silent days for Sam Goldwyn. But never mind me, its Marie that we all want to hear about. Now you folks all know what you think of her. Bhe is your ideal actress, be it male or female. Well what you audience think of her iiust a preliminary to what we folks that are in the bus! S withn-r think of her And I then especially those of us who knew her from the stage. Thats where ad th come from, thats where she got all thta ability. Do you know that there Is no person in the entire moving picture business th,t has served the and long apprenticeship of her Pf that Marie Dressier has? There |