DUSTY ANDERSON'S QUICK RISE

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1946, Page 6

DUSTY ANDERSON'S QUICK RISE

Winning first award in bank night' at a ■ neighbourhood theatre paid-ofT far beyond the gramd prize of 400 dollars for Dusty Anderson. It launched her on the road to film fame. In New York, Dusty 's attractions caught the eye of Harry Canover, head of the model agency, and- he quickly pressed her into service as a cover girl. That colourful career eventually led her to Hollywood ' and a film debut in Columbia's technicolour musical "Cover Girl." A noteworthy performance in that photoplay won her a role in the studio 's technicolour produc.tion "To-night and Every Night," . starring Rita Hayworth. Now, in her best assignment to date, the Toledo girl, who pinches herself every' now and then, just to make sure she isn't dreaming, has been cast in Columbia's technicolour extravaganza of old Baghdad, "A Thousand and One Nights." Five feet, seven inches tall, Dusty has blue ey.es, deep brown hair and weighs an extremely shapely 118 pounds. She- attended De Villus High School, the University of Toledo and ^Toledo Museum of Art School. Her artistic leanings were apparent early in her life, when she decided she would act, paint or become an interior decorator. She has been on the covers gf at least a dozen magazinas of wide circulation, includmg her Farm journal sponsor, which ordinarily runs to more bucolic subjects. She has had almost a corner on summer bathing suit posing, .as much . for her willingness as for her beauty of face and figure. In Hollywood, Dusty is domiciled with her sister cover girls at an incredible palace of a place — the only place the studio could find to rent for them, what with the demands for defence housing. In Manhattan, Dusty occupies a tiny apartment in the oldest studio building in New York, with an original gas lamp and a pot-bellied stove.