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STARS ENTERTAIN STAR . Robert McKee and Whitney Coot,
of the current Harvard Dramatic Club production, Sarah Simple,
take a few tips from Marso, leading lady of Rumba
f MILLER PHOTO
VERNON WIL-
SHERE, Philadelphia
Athletics pitcher,
will return to In
diana University
(Bloomington) next
fall to enter his sen
ior year. He s a
Theta Chi.
Iii i<)20, Frederick McIntyre HiiTjcl, a slim,
hut very "higmanimthccampus" Alpha
Pelt came out on the steps of his fraternity
house, where the Alpha Delta Phis still dwell
at the University of Wisconsin, to pose for the
yearbook- N» w he is Fredric March whose
face has been flashed on motion picture screens
throughout the world.
rRIDDY BICKEL came to the Badger campus
in 1916 from Rac me, an earnest, serious
youth who wanted to train himself to be an
orator and a credit to his father s bank back
home hie won the freshman declamation prize,
then Alpha Delta Phi, taming his cowlick, told
him to be happy go lucky and try acting This,
with his face and orator s voice, he found no
hard |ob, he was soon the best of the thespians
in the Edwin Booth Dramatic club
Chuck Carpenter, football captain and Alpha
Delt, could play the piano Freddy teamed with
Chuck in campus vaudeville in an act called
Two Gloom Fielders They bottled gloom for
three years, even though Freddy sang Dardenella
Straight and has never been asked to sing on the
screen since he became Fredric March
C ARPI NffR was football captain, so Freddy
became manager of the varsity and went
on trips free He earned them by amusing the
boys at the piano in hotel lobbies on the eves of
big games
Aided by Gamma Phi Beta sorority, where
Bickel got his Prom dates, he was elected presi
dent of the senior class in 1920 It is said he
kissed 35 votes at the sorority house after his
victory, whereupon his opponent told The Dail •
Fredric March wim the Motion Picture
Academy Award in 1932 for his versatile
"Dr. Jel(yll and Mr. Hyde." Last year, in a
newspaper poll, Japanese maidens chose him
their favorite American actor. His next role
is that of Jean Valjean in Twentieth Century's
film version of Hugo's classic "Les Miserables,"
a book 100 thick f°r Freddy to read in college.
Cardinal that he (the opponent) was glad he
could roll hrs own cigarettes.
Though he was no Phi Bete, the school of
commerce gave Freddy a scholarship to study
finance at the National City Bank in New York
There was a change in bank management, and an
actor at heart was lost to banking Fancying the
city, he got Howard Chandler Christy to paint
his profile for collar ads. Then he took his
mother s maiden name, March, and pestered his
way into a small part in a Broadway show
N Los Angeles Marchs Barrymore in The
Royal f amily won him a Paramount contract.
His first picture was The Dummy, starring Ruth
Chatterton. On his climb upward he played
twice opposite Clara Bow, once as a college
professor, once as a tough sailor. His prof was
the first genuine professor on the screen, and his
sailor was tough Divorced from his first wife,
he is married to Florence Eldridge, actress, who
has a part in Les Miserables.
He wrote his Madison schoolmates last Home
coming that he was Sony he couldn t get to town
A very annoying studio production schedule
kept him in Hollywood making screen love to
Anna Stenl
Very, veiy annoying indeedl
I'll’ YOt IR CAMIVS produce .1 p«rr.»nn.«lrty who n now prominent m |I«' radio. motion picture, sUkc, art. business,
or political world’ It you want to cee that personality the suhiect of a 'Sp.tighter'' thumbnail sketch, write The
Spotlighter. (olleuute I Vest. I‘ O Box 471. Madison. Wi« One dollar will he |<aid lor each acceptable picture sulv
mittrtl, in .nUlitton t«* **n»* ilnlhr t«v uvcpuNe 4iitk*nfK inrulntr* ihnut tho Mnvtl of fnd.iv
Union College
(Schenectady, N Y )
where he taught for
20 years.
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