NEW SCREEN LOVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

NEW SCREEN LOVER.

Every once in a while someone comes along and, as if by magic, upsets all the traditions about how tough it is to crash Hollywood. Howard Wilson (21), tall, rugged, handsome, athletic "he'man" type of human, is the latest example. He wandered into the outer casting office and stood in front of the little window. An executive who happened to be standing inside took one look at him and asked him to come in and make a test. The test was made for a role in "Fog Bound," which will star Robert Armstrong. The film was rushed through, while Howard waited. A few minutes later he was signed on a term ticket to appear in pictures, the first role to be in "Fog Bound." The entire incident was over within two hours. Wilson has never been in the "talkies." His only, experience is a little stag© work. He came unheralded, unknown, unsung — and Hollywood opened xip its arms and said, "Sonny Bov!"