GINGER ROGERS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 21

GINGER ROGERS.

t> the \fan mail received at the RKOitaaio studio is any criterion, certain letter-writing movie fans are avid! in their curiosity about' 'the private life of their favourite cinema stars. - Particulany is this true.in ■connection-with Ginger, Rogers, who ['receives a mere 10,000 messages per. month. , Her real name is Virginia Rogers. Her greatgrandfather, Ebenezer Ball, invented the Ball-Mason jar for preserves. She is partial to subdued greens, blues, and browns for lounging pyjamas and negligees. She always reads in bed before going to sleep. She doesn't like shower baths. Uses a tub, and likesto soak and sing and wiggle her toes in the water. She likes to cook. ; She smokes, is unlucky at cards, arid abhors bridge.'She,plays ping-pong .ekpertly. Her pet peeves 'are 'people who read over her: shoulder, coffee-that isn't hot, and people who do not like spinach. In her current RKO-Radio vehicle, "Stage Door," Gfinger .and Katharine Hepburn portray two stage-struck "friendly-enemies" who tackle Broadway shoulder to shoulder.