European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Old Hollywood incarnated by Iris Krasnow United press International Ginger Rogers. At 74. Still whirls around tha dance  them she loves it " Rogers say with a husky laugh. With no prodding she inches up her dress with a White gloved hand to show Oil a Call taut with muscle. That s not All that smacks of old Hollywood. The Beauty Mark on the Chin is pencilled Black the lips Are poppy red. She wears a Marble sized Diamond on her ring linger and Emerald on her Pinky. Her Mae West blonde hair does a 40s swoop at the forehead. Catlike strokes of liner curl from her Blue Green eyes. A Cloud of Lavendar laced scent made especially for  surrounds her. I make my eyebrows with Pencil because i be lost my eyebrows somehow i be plucked them so much that the ends of them Don t grow  she gives a sheepish smile. Frankly i Don t really give the thought of age any of my time. I be had such a full full experience says Rogers who has weathered 73 films and five divorces. I Don t read about the things a lot of people do. I would t give you a Nickel for All the articles that have to do with aging. Instead i m living my  there s been one Concession to the clock she used to play six sets of Tennis without stopping but now i Haven t got the stamina. I play two sets or  in 1957, she teamed with then Davis cup Captain Frank Shields Brooke s Grandfather in the . Nationals mixed doubles tournament. He was a tall handsome Beautiful Man. We got whipped because he really did t Trust me on the court Rogers recalls. I be always been attracted to Tennis players not As boyfriends necessarily but As  she also was an Ace skeet shooter Fishe woman. Horseback rider and golfer who frequently paired with Rita Hayworth at the Bel air country club. I Don t have Lime for All that  says Rogers now premiering As a director in the first revival of Rodgers and Hart s babes in arms in 48 years. Ii plays the Tarrytown n.y., music Hall through july. Oil the Road she stays in shape by swimming and taking Long walks at her 600-acre Callie ranch on the rogue River in Eagle Point. Oregon. Her second residence is a Small House in Rancho Mirage Calif. During interview in Washington where she stopped in Honor of the Mary Pickford foundation and in her suite at Manhattan s Lowell hotel the sex Glamor Kitten stresses that Hollywood never distorted her sense of self. I was always this Ginger Rogers and i put on the clothes that were that Ginger Rogers. It was a Job like anything else. I was never up in Cloud of Pink up Here somewhere in the  she pokes the air with a hot Pink Fingernail. I always had my two feet on the ground so to  born Virginia Katherine Mcmath in Independence Missouri july 16. 1911, Rogers broke into show business at age 14 by winning a Charleston contest in fort Worth Texas. Instead of High school she hit the vaudeville circuit guided by her Mother and business manager Lela Emogene. One of the first women in the . Marine corps and a newspaper reporter. Lela was adept at Manu Evering in a Man s world. By Christmas 1929, Rogers was on Broadway in top Page 14 the stars and stripes Speed. Ginger was coined Early on by a baby Cousin who could t pronounce Virginia. It was absolutely an Accident. I Call it a blessed  says Rogers of being discovered. At the to lotto i was thinking Only about being a teacher. I was in love with my English teacher. I thought she was the greatest thing since 7-up or  her first movie appearance came in Young Man of Manhattan in 1931 with the legendary one liner cigarette me. Big  the walk on part turned her Inlo a smoker. I was never going to smoke but my director made me Lor the movie says Rogers who has since quit. I said but i Don t know How to smoke a cigarette a said. Go and learn i turned Green. It s a Good thing the \ Liim was t in technicolor."3 two years later she landed in the arms that put her Over the top Fred Astaire s in flying Down to Rio. So even holds the rare distinction of acting in a film with Ronald Reagan. Released in 1950. Storm warning features Rogers playing an innocent bystander and Reagan a District attorney. I was buddies with his sex wife. Jano Wyman but i never buddies with  says Rogers who supported him for president and has attended two White House state dinners at his invitation. Rogers refuses to criticize her Mother for pushing too hard too fast. My Mother was not Gypsy " snaps Rogers. Of writer wrote she was a tyrant. My Mother was no tyrant she never whipped me. Maybe slapped me a couple of times because i was naughty but what Mother does it ? i did t mind. But she was not on the set everyday knitting and watching me. No Way. No  saturday