Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1930 — Page 5

MAY 9, 1930

BABY ROSE CRAVES FAME

Child Radio Star Likes the Spotlight

Thi* in the *emnd of a **rie* of torif* n Rahr Rnv Marie, child relebritv of the radio, who ha* been heard bv million* of fan*. A third will appear in Satnrdav'* Time*, giving a tlimpse of Cab? Rn*e Marie in her home. BY PAUL HARRISON NtA Service Writer She's only 5 years old, Is Baby Rose Marie, darling of hundreds of thousands of radio fans, but you can't fluster trr a bit. Stage presence? Say! “Why, when she was a little bitty tike, she'd strut around a stage like she owned it,'' declares Frank Curley. hQr father. “Why. I never acquired half as much stage presence in all my experience." “She knows about eighty songs, verses, choruses and all sorts of incidental patter. The only time she ever forgot a line was at the radio show at St. Louis last March. “The big auditorium was jammed, but she wasn't; scared. She missed a line in anew song, but what did she do? She snaps her fingers and boop-a-doops right through to where she could pick up the words Bgain. Nobody noticed it at all. Wants to Meet A1 Smith “Rose Marie just dotes on celebrities. She has sung with Rudy Vallee and a lot of big bands, and gone on with Graham McNamee. She meets governors and mayors and—” “But daddy”—the interruption

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came from her--“I never met AI Smith and Jimmy Walker. And I just must meet Al Smith and Jimmy Walker because —” ‘—and she always wants to go to shows where the big stars are playing Then she goes home ana—” “Daddy, let me tell about Sophie Tucker ... I was singing at the Beaux Arts club one night and I looked over and there at a front table sits—who do you think?’’ Talks to Sophie Tucker “Yes, it was Sophie Tucker and she was sitting at a front table with Bernie Cummins and I went over and I said. Miss Tucker, you know I can sing your numbers,’ and she said ‘Yes, and you're doing them awfully well, too. Rose Marie’ . . . and I think she's grand! I want to be a star like Sophie Tucker.” Rose Marie sighed ecstatically and subsided in the big chair where she had been drawing pictures and demonstrating other aptitudes by writing four-letter words and adding sir-.is like 11 and 17. She learned her alphabet from electric signs, and practices mental arithmetic by matching pennies with imprudent victims. “Os course,” continued her father, “she didn’t do many paid engagements, what with the law and all, before she came to the National Broadcasting Company. “But there were always plenty of charity things that were fun for

her. and good publicity, too. She's made quite a lot for hospitals and homes, and sometimes .she goes around to children's wards, and orphanages, to sing for them. She’d go all the time if she had her way. We gotta be careful not to let her overdo.” “I like ’em,” she confirmed. “I got my best doll at a charity. It was up in Connecticut, and I went up with Graham McNamee, and they gave her to me. Her name is Madelon and she’s got the prettiest ” “But now that she's sot into radio,” continued Papa Curley, “you ought to see the fan mail. Sometimes 5,000 letters a week, and yqu know she’s only been with NBC about three months. Gets Heaps of Mail “Yes, most are from kids, I guess, who say they can’t go to sleep without hearing her. And a lot are from mothers who say they have little girls just like she must be. “And some are from mothers who say they used to have little girls that would have been like her if. . . “Yeh, it’s real pathetic. We send pictures to some; you just couldn't afford to send them all a photo. But Rose Marie makes us read her all the letters. “We’re going to Hollywood late m June. They've signed a contract with RKO for Rose Marie to sing in anew picture that’s to be called

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‘Babes in Toyland.’ She'll like that. She has made one short picture already. •“Rose Marie isn't of school age yet, but next fall we'll put her in a professional school, or else get her a tutor. We’re not worrying about her musical education yet. Most of it was borh in her .anyway. “You ought to hear her change keys with a piano player. She'll follow him right on up, but when the pitch gets too high, she’ll talk the stuff. Never strains her voice.” Rose Marie tiptoed in from an outer office, where she had been autographing pictures for a crowd of frankly worshipful NBC employes. “Are you going to learn to dance, too, Rose Marie?” “I should say not! Did you ever see Sophie Tucker dance? Or Phil Baker, or Helen Kane? Well, you won’t see me, either. I'm just going to sing,, and sing, and sing.” Next: Baby Rose Marie at Home.

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