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...first partner (in pre-Hollywood days) was his sister, pert, chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...
...Army Camp, and secondly by a script which doesn't give them enough chance to go through their dance routines, these two still manage to put on an amazing exhibition whenever they get a chance. When it comes to acting, Miss Hayworth is probably a little less boisterous than Ginger was in her heyday, but in a more serious way she is just as effective. Astaire, as usual, is superb in his dancing scenes, which more than make up for his short-comings as an actor and a singer...
After one of the biggest build-ups in recent Hollywood history, Rita Hayworth makes her costarring debut in R. K. O.'s "You'll Never Get Rich," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum. She is called upon to fill the shoes--or rather, dancing slippers--of Ginger Rogers, and to twirl the light fantastic with filmdom's ablest dancer, Fred Astaire. It's to her credit that she does a snappy job, although she is continually outshone in their dancing scenes by her flashier partner. This is a fate which was shared by La Rogers as well...
...Cambridge and tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea of getting drunk...
...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...