Gilda Gray Wants to Play Football for Harvard Against Yale--Artist Never Regrets Lack of College Training

"Frankly, I hate golf," declared Gilda Gray, well-known movie star and shimmy artist, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "I get plenty of exercise doing my little act on the stage."

"I think college boys on the whole are just great," continued Miss Gray, "and as for Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers!

"The thing I like most about college boys and girls is their pep, which seems perfectly endless. The older generation,--mind you, I'm not including myself,--ought to feel sorry for all that they're losing.

"Still, I never went to college myself, and I don't regret it. I never went beyond the fourth grade, and they had to burn the school down to get me out then!

"I'm having a wonderful time doing just what I am; in fact, I always have a good time wherever I go or whatever I'm doing. People are so nice everywhere, yes, even in Boston, and I haven't found them a bit high-hat either.

"Just now, I'm trying vaudeville for the first time in my life, and I certainly was nervous when I first stepped on the stage. Why, I was trembling so much, I'm afraid they must have thought I was trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff.

"You know I never bother to memorize the words to my songs very carefully, and even if I did, I wouldn't remember them. I just put in 'Get hot!' or 'Come on, brother, smoulder!', wherever I forget the words, and it goes over just as well.

"I'd love to come to Cambridge sometime and dance for the Harvard boys. They'd like it, don't you think?"