BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

Chronicle (Levin), 14 December 1946, Page 7

BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

THE UNDEllSTUDY WIIO MADE GOOD Tliere is no doubt you know thc stage, book and movie plot in which thc star oi" the musical show takes lll, and the under-study who has Jonged for the chance suddcnly gcts :,o lake her place. Wcll, to every■arre's lasting- surprise, it actually nappencd, in reai life. Hollywood ,vas so astouncledi to see its perennial musical ftlih' plot come to life j ,hal it automatically acted out the : rest of the story, with the result] that Adelc Jergens is now under ; contract to Columbia. She will j soon be seen in "Down to Earth/' j Her screen debut was in "Tonight 1 •.ind Every Night," and this was ; followed by "Together Again," | "1001 Nights," and "She Wouldn't j Say Yes." In New York show business, Adele was relatively an unknown quantily. She rose only as high as becoming Gypsy Rose Lee's under - study in "Star and Garter." All she had to do was stand around backstage just in ca.se Gypsy should become ill or be prevented by some other circumstance from doing her job. Adele was not entirely obscure before that. She was rated as one of New York's top models and No. 1 show girl. Her show business started when she won a dancing scholarship, and later her dancing teacher dubbed her "the girl with the mil- j lion dollar legs." She really wanted | to become a very good actress, but | modelling, dancing and show work, kept her busy. She has now made the grade from an unstudy to a promising film actress. Her ambition at school was to become a newspaper reporter, but she said, "The funny part about it is that my parents were against it because they wanted me to become a dancer and actress, which is con- 1 trary to the usual story I've heard.. It didn't take me long to find out! that my parents were right. Danc- | ing and acting are the things I care for more than anything else now." Adele was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 26, being the youngest of four children. When J5, Adele worked for a musical show in Brooklyn. As soon as she was out of high school, she to.ok every sort of job she culd get — even modelihg in the daytime when she was in a show at night. If it wasn't theatres, it was nightclubs, and shc , took jobs abroad for the sake oi getting a chance to travel. Adele has played at the Grosvenor House and Savoy Hotel in London, Les Ambassadeurs and Le TouquetCasino in France, the Casino at Biarritz, and the Copacablanca in Rio. In spite of, or because of, all this activity and travel, Adele's idea of ideal entcrtainment is to spend a quiet evening at home. Occasionally she likes to break this routine by going to a movie — she likes mysteries. She still gives vent to her former athletic urge, now modified mainly to liorseback riding and golf. She likes walking, with her dog, Ziggy, and docs a lot of readihg, everything frr«m the classics to comic strips. She is no diminutive blonde. She stands a statuesque five feet six and a-half inches, weighs 128 pounds and has brown eyes.