GOING HOME TO FATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

GOING HOME TO FATHER.

Declaring that "five years was quite long enough without sight of father and the country to which she once belonged." Dorothy Mackaill, Yorkshire-born star of Hollywood and Broadway, arrived in London on a high-speed visit, and said that she hoped to do more film work. "I came over on a sudden impulse, Dorothy Mackail! said. "A friend was making a fortnight's 'round trip' and, though 1 urn getting ready to rehearse a new Broadway phiy, I suddenly said to myself. 'It's high time you paid your respe'ets to England and father, my girl.'" At the age of 10 Miss Milckaill ran away from England and "gate-crashed" the Ziegfeld "Follies' , in Xew York. She took out naturalisation papers to avoid being brought home by her parents, and later" rose to prominence in Hollywood silent films. She made a number of talkies, but recently has been jn the ata"e in the United' States. "It docs one good to work before real audiences for a change." Miss Mackaill said. "SUM, 1 have not given up the films for good—at least 1 hope not."