“Grade School Girl in Spokane Now Star for Big Film Concern” (Spokane Chronicle, February 5, 1926)

Former Doll Himelsbach Is Adrienne Dore of Beauty Contest Fame.

The popular influx of of shorn locks into the photoplay colonies of southern California has to date left untouched the “40 curls” of Adrienne Dore, who recently signed a five-year contract with Universal, after being named “Miss Los Angeles” and taking second honors in the Atlantic City beauty pageant for the representative “Miss America”.

Miss Dore is known to her many Spokane friends as Doll Himelsbach*, she having come to the city as a little girl from Spirit Lake before attending the Hawthorne school. Upon entering the moving picture field three years ago as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, she adopted the name of Adrienne Dore, which she has used in feature roles of comedy and dramatic releases.

Upon leaving the city, the petite miss was featured in dance revues in the larger Coast cities. In California she engaged in vaudeville dancing novelties, which attracted the attention of picture producers. She studied dancing exclusively with Professor F.W. Bouley of the Bouley College of Dancing and was presented here in both amateur and professional engagements.

Miss Dore’s first role under the Universal banner will be in Herbert Blache’s production, “The Mystery Club”, from Arthur Roche’s “Crimes of the Armchair Club”.

*Correct spelling Himmelsbach.