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to be completely under his control well we know virginia stayed with her mother and kept on performing and dancing in her own inimitable fashion wheeler and woolsey the vaudevillian and broadway comedy team came to fort worth with five other acts bert wheeler and bob woolsey made movies in the 1930s mark sandrich directed hips hips hooray and cockeyed cavaliers which wheeler and woolsey starred before mark sandrich was promoted to ginger and fred musicals bill the manager at the majestic theatre called lela and asked if virginia could fill in with some songs and dances as one of the acts could not appear that afternoon lela said that virginia did not have an act when she felt her daughter pulling on her sleeve saying she did have an act lela consented and virginia went on to perform her act the card hanging from the proscenium arch read ginger rogers special added attraction virginia wanted the sign to say virginia instead of using her nickname because it appeared to be more dignified but the manager said ginger fit her personality better and so virginia rogers became ginger rogers to her friends and in the theatre world ginger played the whole week even after the players regained their health and were able to perform their act within six months henry santrey and ann seymour came to fort worth with their band to conduct a charleston contest bob o donnelle the manager of the majestic circuit thought of ginger and called lela lela was adamant ginger was not to compete it was not part of her plans for ginger after college if she wanted to try the theatre that will be okay bob then asked if ginger could at least dance for mr santrey lela agreed to this ginger went down to the theatre and danced for mr santrey mr santrey liked what he saw bob bill and henry ganged up on lela telling her how much talent ginger had and should enter the contest lela was afraid that if ginger danced and won her plans would not see the light of day not to be deterred ginger practiced endlessly seeing her daughter s deep desire to compete she gave in and bought material and made a dress for ginger to compete in it was a white dress with a small pattern on it there is a picture of ginger in a dress in life magazine issued march 2 1942 that she wore while performing on the vaudeville circuit i do not know if it is this famous first dress but it was probably very much like the one she wore it still fit her after practicing like no other virginia wins the contest when she is fourteen at a fort worth theater she goes on and wins the state championship in dallas texas held in the ballroom at the baker hotel she imprints the charleston with her own interpretation of the popular dance and wows the judges after winning the state competition she headed for vaudeville with two other kids who were in the contest and comes up with an act called ginger rogers and her redheads before going out on her own ginger rogers becomes the cute redheaded girl from texas while perusing some old 1940s magazines i found a letter to the editor from a woman whose path had crossed ginger s two days after the charleston competition in fort worth it gives you an insight into ginger s tender heart and compassion for strays and the less fortunate while keeping her command of justice while effectively administering it with dignity many years ago in a drugstore in ft worth texas a young girl walked in and i instantly recognized her as the girl who had just won a charleston contest at the local theater she was carrying a tiny dirty kitten meowing at the top of its voice she asked for a saucer of milk and as the boy behind the counter handed her it to her he said that ll cost you 5c she produced the nickel took the saucer of milk and then the boy said nastily and feed em outside when she came back to return the saucer after the kitten had been fed she handed the saucer to the boy but it dropped to the floor and crashed to smithereens that ll cost you 5c she said smilingly that was ginger rogers comeback to a snippy soda jerker gladys tatum of san francisco ginger always had a high moral sense as to what was right and what was wrong ginger was there with a helping hand to anyone who was willing to take it she took people at face value and you proved yourself worthy of her friendship or you did not she did not have much use for the phony side of hollywood or its inhabitants ginger continues her pursuit for a theatrical career and continues on the road as a solo act with lela as her manager after the two redheads leave their act for a short time ginger found herself performing with paul ash in chicago at the oriental theatre then off on the road again while she was performing in indianapolis in 1928 paul ash asked ginger to come to new york city and perform with him and his orchestra at the paramount theatre in new york city lela felt her daughter was ready for the big time and gave her approval after her three week engagement was over she was back on the road it was while ginger was back in dallas she runs across an old beau of her aunt jean who had lived with the rogers in texas ginger had a major adolescent crush on the handsome edward jackson culpepper when they met again on the circuit they began to spend time together and ginger s infatuation with jack hit her like a ton of bricks they shared the theatre and a common background besides ginger was in love with the idea of love and romance who does not love the notion of the knight in shiny armor and happily ever after they married when ginger was seventeen on march 29 1929 but the marriage did not last long and they separated after ten months ginger s spirit did not allow for being a hausfrau standing in the wings watching the man she loves she had too much energy and motion going on inside her she just simply loved performing and giving joy to the people who came to see her perform after ginger separates from jack culpepper she discovers lela has divorced her beloved daddy john lela never says why they divorced and ginger never asked her what happened even though john rogers marries again he follows his stepdaughter s career with pride john rogers had always introduced ginger as his daughter to others they shared a great love for each other as father and daughter upon returning home to her mother ginger decides to continue with her career lela and ginger started hitting the road again i found a statement by grant menzies on the internet july 6 1999 about ginger and jack s relationship he says just the other day i was talking to my grandmother about jack culpepper and ginger rogers grandma remembers jack coming to see amaryntha jane kelley nee culpepper at her daughter s place outside gainesville on several occasions grandma s sister vera kincaid once by chance was seated beside ginger rogers on a plane and the subject of relatives came up ginger remembered jack perfectly whatever difficulties had led to their divorce she spoke well of him to aunt vera i find this characteristic one of ginger s strong points she does not derive satisfaction in cutting another person to shreds in order to justify the difficulties or failures in her life chapter 4 shorts broadway and the movies when ginger found herself in the new york area she filmed a few short three and two reel films a day of a man of affairs november 6 1929 a night in a dormitory january 5 1930 campus sweethearts march 9 1930 and office blues november 1930 i have only seen a night in a dormitory and office blues a night in a dormitory shows a release date on the film of 1929 but its release date to the public seems to be in early 1930 ginger has top billing after the title thelma white ruth hamilton morgan morly and eddie elkins and his orchestra follow ginger s name a night in a dormitory concerns a girl returning to a girl s dormitory and regaling in her adventures at the melody club there are several skits mixed in with the story line it is straight from vaudeville to the screen you become more aware of what it was like to go to the theatre and watch the young performers trying their best to impress you thelma white sings give it everything now and then taps with her backup dance girls the dance was reminiscent of joan crawford or ruby keeler a very heavy footed type of tap eddie elkins turns towards the audience and announces now i want to introduce our little star miss ginger rogers ginger bounces onto the stage with a little skip step and sings why can t you love that way in a little girl high pitched voice that she perfected while touring ginger will use her tremendous ability to mimic and change her voice all through her career ginger acts very coy and she is getting her feet wet in the film world at the tender age of eighteen ginger comes back in a cute soldier suit and sings i love a man in a uniform she seems more at ease than in her first number and you see a twinkle of the ginger that will come alive on the screen in later years while ginger was performing at the paramount theatre with paul ash in new york bert kalmar and harry ruby were in the audience they had just written the music and lyrics for a new play entitled top speed they saw in ginger the perfect person to play babs green the second female lead therefore she gave up vaudeville for the bright lights of broadway she introduced the song hot and bothered to the public on december 25 1929 ginger met a boy in the chorus who she became fast friends with and would be a very important person in her movie career in a few years his name was hermes pan ginger finished her run in top speed on march 22 1930 one evening walter wanger and adolph zukor the head of paramount were in the audience of top speed they were impressed by the young actress and offered ginger a screen test off ginger went to astoria studios in queens she has the part of puff randolph a flamboyant young flapper out for fun ginger found her days acting before the cameras and her evenings acting on stage to the audiences delight she also finds time to hit the nightspots ah youth young man of manhattan april 19 1930 new york city new york puff randolph is a redheaded society flapper and ginger makes an impression in her first movie she utters the immortal words cigarette me big boy to norman foster who is married to claudette colbert in the movie and at the time of the filming ginger s part was small but essential to the plot she plays the gilded child of the late twenties she sings i got it but it don t do me no good in the little girl high pitched voice of the day with a hint of helen kane aka betty boop good n plenty is a lively tune where you can hear and see the enthusiasm of the ginger i recognize start to emerge ginger is still trying to find her niche and style ginger will be paired with norman foster in two more films but not until ginger makes the move to hollywood queen high august 23 1930 ginger is refreshing and real but a little awkward in places as acting on film is different from the stage she sings brother just laugh it off as she pecks the tune on the piano in the opening scene while she sings it seems to me with stanley smith ginger begins to sharpen her ability to continue to act while listening to her ardent admirer woo her in song charles ruggles and stanley smith are partners of a women s garter business they are always at odds with one another and decided to dissolve the partnership their lawyer instead proposes that they play a single poker hand and the loser becomes the winner s personal manservant for a year ginger does an adequate job as frank morgan s niece polly who goes to work for him as his stenographer stanley smith is charles ruggles nephew dick and works in the office with the girls who model the garters polly and dick become the romantic interest ginger again sings brother just laugh it off and dances mainly in the background of other dancers while she leads the musicians with a baton frank morgan and charles ruggles also sing a few bars there is a brief unaccredited tap routine on a table by eleanor powell ginger sings well but the focus is on frank morgan and charles ruggles later on in ginger s career she comments on her portrayal of polly to an interviewer she said that if she ever caught herself high hatting anyone she would just pull out queen high and watch it ginger thought her performance was horrible i thought it was a young and youthful performance her acting was a bit awkward and stilted in some places the sap from syracuse july 26 1930 littleton looney jack oakie is a crane operator who has come into some money by way of an inheritance and decides to travel to europe via ship ellen saunders ginger is an heiress on a cruise to europe with the purpose of saving her mines in macedonia littleton is mistaken for a prominent mining engineer vanderhoff traveling under an assumed name and vouched for by senator powell to ellen who is in need of an engineer of course her advisors are trying to get ellen to sign over her mines to them littleton pursues ellen and she beseeches littleton for his help in getting her mines in macedonia operational before the ninety day deadline as their shipboard romance progresses they serenade each other with how i wish i could sing a love song once in macedonia littleton confesses that he is not vanderhoff and ellen feels defeated and gives in and promises to sign the papers turning over her mines to her nefarious advisers littleton who has dug many a canal comes up with a solution to ellen s engineering problem before she signs her mines away by damning the low riverbed and drying it up you have a slate bottom on which the machinery for her mines can now be transported and are able to reach their destination within the ninety day deadline senator powell who is actually the famous engineer vanderhoff has gone along with the deception and in the end is impressed with littleton s insight he offers him a job ellen and littleton are together as the movie ends ginger is appealing and endearing as she continues to improve her acting presents on the screen variety july 30 1930 reviews the film ginger rogers is here in a new field for her playing a straight heroine and bringing to the part all the vital energy she has successfully applied in singing and dancing roles she does extremely well in this strictly dramatic role thanks to an effervescent style that is entirely captivating follow the leader december 13 1930 i could hardly watch this movie it just is not my kind of comedy it is full of gags and skits in parts you are watching vaudeville acts intermixed in a movie which makes little sense and wears on that one raw nerve the only redeeming aspects of the movie are to watch ginger and ethel merman crickets ed wynn finds himself the leader of a gang who is hired to kidnap helen king ethel merman so her understudy mary brennan ginger can go on in her place and become the star of the show stanley smith finds himself as ginger s love interest as jimmie moore mary goes on in hele...