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THE WORLD'S NIMBLEST FEET ARE IN HOLLYWOOD. — CIues to this leg parade, if one is needed in these days when film stars rate higher in popularity) than kings and heroes, are as follow:—(a) Sonja Henie—her life is worth 1,000,000 dollars to the insurance companies, but her legs are worth just three limes that! (b) Fred Astaire, greatest dancer of them all. (c) Eleanore Whitney, (d) Eleanor I owell. (e)Ann Miller, ex-model for silk stockings and a Hollywood 1937 discovery, (f) Ginger Rogers, famous partner to Astaire in half a dozen successes (g) Negro Bill Robinson, seen in three Shirley Temple productions. He uses only the one pair of shoes, bought thirty years ago and resoled with finest hickory t over a dozen times.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

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THE WORLD'S NIMBLEST FEET ARE IN HOLLYWOOD.—CIues to this leg parade, if one is needed in these days when film stars rate higher in popularity) than kings and heroes, are as follow:—(a) Sonja Henie—her life is worth 1,000,000 dollars to the insurance companies, but her legs are worth just three limes that! (b) Fred Astaire, greatest dancer of them all. (c) Eleanore Whitney, (d) Eleanor I owell. (e)Ann Miller, ex-model for silk stockings and a Hollywood 1937 discovery, (f) Ginger Rogers, famous partner to Astaire in half a dozen successes (g) Negro Bill Robinson, seen in three Shirley Temple productions. He uses only the one pair of shoes, bought thirty years ago and resoled with finest hickory t over a dozen times. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S NIMBLEST FEET ARE IN HOLLYWOOD.—CIues to this leg parade, if one is needed in these days when film stars rate higher in popularity) than kings and heroes, are as follow:—(a) Sonja Henie—her life is worth 1,000,000 dollars to the insurance companies, but her legs are worth just three limes that! (b) Fred Astaire, greatest dancer of them all. (c) Eleanore Whitney, (d) Eleanor I owell. (e)Ann Miller, ex-model for silk stockings and a Hollywood 1937 discovery, (f) Ginger Rogers, famous partner to Astaire in half a dozen successes (g) Negro Bill Robinson, seen in three Shirley Temple productions. He uses only the one pair of shoes, bought thirty years ago and resoled with finest hickory t over a dozen times. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

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