Casper Daily Tribune

One of the most picturesque figures in the American theater, the "Shimmy Dancer," Gilda Gray, is now a Paramount star. An original story by Robert E. Sherwood and Bertram Block, as yet untitled, introduces her to the films. Paul Bern is the director.

"In Gilda we feel we have signed one of the greatest box office attractions the theater has developed in recent years," Jesse L. Lasky declares, through his faithful press agent "Her popularity is phenomenal, and the reason for it is her amazing personality. None of this will be lost on the screen. We have tested her thoroughly and the same magnetism which has attracted thousands of people all over the country will be manifest in her pictures."

Well, Gilda certainly ought to be a motion picture star.

Gilda was born in Poland and came to this country, as a refugee in the steerage at the age of seven.

She started her career as a cabaret dancer in Milwaukee, going to New York by way of Chicago. She nearly starved however, until Sophie Tucker, the dancer, noticed her and got her an engagement. Then the Shuberts engaged her for the "Gaieties of 1919." Then came Follies engagements, fame and fortune. Gil Boag, her present husband is a millionaire restaurant owner. Her first husband was a barkeeper in Milwaukee. She recently gained possession of her son after a long court fight.