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TOWN WEEKLY MAGAZINE SECTION 11 \STAR GAZING\ tcith I/Rfe MEG AH AN t ARE BETTER dancen than women, aa far aa Eleanor ipowell Is concerned. \I hope my MX will not find jtoo much fault with my'State- ment,\ explains Miss Powell, \but I honestly believe that men are better dancers than women. \In the first place, almost all dance directors are men, which is not unusual consider- ing that, although cooking ts considered a woman's field, the beat chefs are men. \Secondly there are twice aa many male dancers on the ' stage and screen aa women. We have Fred Astaire. Buddy Eb- sen, Ray Bolger, Bill Robinson, George Murphy and others.\ She adds that there are few female hoofers of importance, excepting Ginger Rogers, Elea- nore Whitney, and (we add) Mlas Powell. Another point she brings out —that men far outnumber Women in the musical world; which probably makes them inherently more rhythm-con- acious. OVER ON THE campus of the University of Southern Cali- fornia a couple of years ago, they laughed and laughed when blond Mabel Todd informed them she was going to be an actress and crash the movies. The people In her home town, Cilendale. laughed loud and long too. Mabel went to Chicago and Rot laughed at there, too. But this time she got paiil for it, for she dirked on the stage aa a comedienne ami helped pep up the nation's few remaining vaudeville programs with her singing and dancing. A short time ago a film troupe went on location in Olendule, just a few blocks from her former home, to film scenes for the college \Over the Goat\ in which Mabel has a featured part. Some of the former neighbors gathered around, recognised the blonde gal who used to live down the street, and rushed to congratulate her. \We always knew' you'd land In the movies,\ they assured her. Mabel could nave told them that not only ia it one of the top rolea in the picture but that she had already had another prominent screen spot in \Var- sity Show,\ and she is assigned to a featured part in the forth- coming extravaganza. \Holly- wood Hotel,\ In which Dick Powell, Frances Langford and Benny Goodman's band will figure prominently. Mabel says that she didn't really try hard to break into pictures when she was in Cali- fornia. She was convinced that the best way to break in was to head straight for the East— to Chicago or New York -and to work toward Hollywood from there. Her idea has paid divi- dends, it seems, for she now seems destined to go places 'in filmdom. RUMOR HATH It that Come- dian Ben Blue is being groomed for dramatic stardom . . . Con- stance Bennett gets a nice in- come from renting out her town car to studios for film work. The car is a Rolls Royce with a special body and she gets aa much as J250 a day for its use, It being used last in \Thin Ice.\ . . . The Smithsonian In- stitute has accepted Richard Dix's autograph book which contains signatures of impor- tant people of stage, screen and radio . . . Jane Wyman has purchased an old model air- plane which she is going to con- vert into—a tea room! HOLLYWOOD'S LITTLE CORPORAL Charles Buytrlkis Sapolrnn tries to rouse one of /us- soldiers from certain ilmlh hi/ ftcezmt) on the re- treat from Moscow \n this scene front \ dmt/ufsl.\ (Hetow) (Ireta (larbo, whu plm/s Countess Mm i« Wulrxka, amt hir son, plutffil by tfcotty lieckrlt, bui farewdl to Xti/wlton before he troves for exile at -Si Helena. BOYER QUIT HOLLYWOOD 3 TIMES, RETURNS FOR GREATEST ROLE CHARLE8 BOYER. French actor, is the real-life ectype of the legendary Dick Whltting- ton, 'Thrice Lord Mayor of London.\ Three times iJoyer left Holly- wood \forever \ But today he appears in one of the most im- portant role* in screen history, as Napoleon, with Greta (Jar- bo, In \Conquest \ One of the most famous stage actors in Fiance he first came to Hollywood to act in French versions of such pic- tures as \The Hig House ' \The Trial of M.iry IMig.in\ and others. \But making of French pic- tures in Hollywood dliin'l last,\ he remarks. \.So I went buck.\ He was lured to Hollywood the npxt time by his friend Maurice Chevalier, when the latter came to America for •The Merry Widow.\ \I played several parts, but wasni satisfied with them,' he says. \So again I went back.\ He scored in France in \Lillom\ and \La Hataille. ' and Hollywood again beckoned. He returned. Again, he despaired of success. Then came \Pri- vate Worlds\ and \Shanghai and at last Hollywood began to take notice of the handsome Frenchman. Metro - Goldwyn • Mayer was looking for a Napoleon. Boyer was brought to the studio, tested with the new make-up which literally transforms his face into that of the Little Cor- poral. He was signed for the role. Boyer's amazing make-up for the picture was taken from Napoleon's death mask. Many actual historic char- acters were reproduced in th« picture, directed by Clarence Brown, and covering the peri- od from >Tapoleon's visit lo Poland in 1808 to his exile to Bt Helena. Boyer's father WHS a r«*Hpect- ed business man In the town of Kigeac, France, us his father and his father's father lm<l been before him. \My destiny was uritton for me before I was horn. The only Bon and the last maiciin the line, 1 v. as to cany <>n with the family's traditional tr.irle after the pitx.sing of my father. Had they known at my hirth that 11 Boyer was to folUjvV tlio frivolous culling of the staR* 1 , they would have felt disgraced.\ CONSTIMTMN RELIEVED DIGESTION r&JS.'sfi.rjas: wmmm \ ROLLS DEVELOPED Two Bfiutlftit Double-Wriiiht profu- sion a 1 EnlHntrnnMits, f Nevr-r Pad* Prints. 25r Ontwrj Phot* Berrict, Lacrosse. Wilt