ALICE FAYE: FROM BRONX TO HOLLYWOOD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 10

ALICE FAYE: FROM BRONX TO HOLLYWOOD

Singing and daneing is as mucn a part of the routine of Alice Faye'e life as eating and sleeping. The attractive blonde, young aetress appearing with Walton Winchel and Ben Bernie in "Wake Up and Live," the 20th Cen-tury-Fox hit, has sung and danced 'with marked suceess ever since she was able to walk and talk. In her native New York City, Alice was considered a seasoned trouper before she was seven years old and was always in demand as an entertainer at affairs put on by every society, club, school and picnic jn the Rronx, where she attcndcd public school. After her schouling was ovcr^ Alice imnicdiately slartcd out on her professional career, touring Eastern theatres with the Chester Hale stage units. fclho returned from this experience to work in floor shows at various New York cafes. The big chance that every aetress seeks came when she secured a part in George White's "Scandals" on Broadway, in which Rudy Valiee was starred. It was this connection which ultimately led to her screen career. Brought out to Hollywood by Fox to do a single song-and-danee number in George White's sereen version of the "Scandals" Alice got her big scteeu opportunity when the leading lady dropped out of the picture. In the ernergency Alice took her place. As an old trouper almost from birth, Alice had leafhed to think fast and' act fast in emcrgencies, and the excellent mamier in Avhicli she met this opportunity induced the studio to sign her to the long-term contract under wliich she now works. Alace's blondness and beauty are deceiving to most people who do not- see in her the driving xorce and energy which have carried h£r over many hurdles. She is an expert at tennis, bowling ,and badminton; ■ once Tield for five years:. the. amateur . ice-skat.ing championship in New York, and can ride and swim with the best of them. j