“Adrienne Dore Leans To Stage and Screen Equally” (Portland Evening Express, March 14, 1932)
Once Miss Los Angeles In Beauty Contest, She Loves Dancing And Sports, Ravel’s Bolero, Good Books And Animals
Adrienne Dore is her real name and she was born in Fort Sherman, Idaho, on a certain May 22nd. Her paternal grandfather fought in the Civil War, which makes her–so she says–an English-American. She was educated at the Forrest Ridge Convent, Seattle, where she showed no interest in sports, but some in dramatics.
Her earliest childhood ambition was matrimony and eventually maternity. Then she decided she would like to become a dancer. The latter ambition was realized at the age of three when she was selected for a child role in a musical show. She danced and has been dancing to no end ever since. At the same time she had a leaning towards the movies.
Her stock rose around 1930. She entered the annual Atlantic City Beauty Contest as Miss Los Angeles and found herself suddenly glorified. From then on she divided her time between pictures and the stage. Her “big opportunity” came only recently when she played a bit at the Warner Studio in Under Eighteen with Warren William and Marian Marsh.
The “bit role” stood out and she was given a contract and really important parts in pictures. Her favorite role to date is the newspaper sob sister in The Famous Ferguson Case. She does not prefer the screen to the stage, but likes both equally. If she gives up dramatics she thinks she would like to design clothes, or do something worthwhile with her music. Her favorites of the screen are Marlene Dietrich and George Arliss. Of the stage she prefers Jane Cowl and the Four Marx Brothers.
She is a lover of music. Is especially interested in it because all of her family are musicians. She would rather go to a symphonic concert than any other form of entertainment. Her favorite composers are the moderns, Ravel and Lee Sims. She likes Ravel’s Bolero.
If she couldn’t live in America she would prefer Budapest or Vienna because of “lots of music, lovely country, grand people,” as she puts it. But she would prefer to buy her clothes in Hollywood. Because the shopkeepers know just what she wants.
To keep fit she recommends plenty of sleep and dancing lessons. She takes dancing lessons twice a week. Three hours for each lesson. She favors no special diet–except her mother’s cooking.
Her favorite dish is Eggplant Dore. Try it. First: One large eggplant sliced; three large tomatoes, grated cheese, salt and pepper to taste. Alternate eggplant slices with tomatoes and cheese, top with bacon slices and bake.
Her beauty secrets are simple. She recommends soap, water, and plenty of sleep. That’s all.
Miss Dore is fond of swimming, horse-back riding and tennis. She likes to roller skate. Often brings her skates to the studio and covers the long distances between the stages between them. She likes to watch football and polo.
She hasn’t very many pet aversions, but hates ticking clocks, trickling water faucets, slamming doors, and pictures hung crooked on the wall. She has no pet economy and yet she is far from extravagant.
Her hobbies are music, dancing, antique furniture, auctions and animals. Her pets are a Persian kitten and two snapping turtles. She likes good books and her authors are George Bernard Shaw and Warwick Deeping.
She is interested in politics–mostly foreign politics. She is interested in Russia’s ruling plan, the Fascists, and Mussolini.
Miss Dore is five feet four inches tall, weighs 112 pounds, has green eyes and blonde hair. She is under contract to Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., and her recent pictures include: Under Eighteen, Alias the Doctor, Union Depot, Old Man Minick, The Famous Ferguson Case.
Her latest is The Rich Are Always With Us, the first Ruth Chatterton starring picture to be made at the First National studios.