Four years ago a fourteen-year-old girl with a future came out of Independence, Missouri, to win a Charleston contest in Dallas, Texas—with a prize of four weeks in vaudeville. The next three years passed in an increasing whirl which finally landed Ginger Rogers, appropriately, in a musical comedy called Top Speed, then playing in New York. Enmeshed, inevitably, by the silver screen, she also appeared at about this time as the very young menace in Young Man of Manhattan, and has since played in Queen High and The Sap from Syracuse. Her next picture will be a film version of Manhattan Mary, with Ed Wynn. Miss Rogers who, since her debut, has been much in demand among the knowing producers of revues and talking pictures, has announced with an extraordinary display of vitality that she will combine her stage and screen careers, and will be seen, next season, in the leading feminine rôle opposite Bert Lahr in his new musical comedy, Girl Crazy