FOUND REAL FAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

FOUND REAL FAME.

LILIAN HARVEY IN EUROPE HOLLYWOOD FAILURES FORGOTTEN. Lilian Harvey, slender blonde AngloGerman dancer, has paid a brief visit to London before returning to Budapest to make two important films. Since she deserted Hollywood, where she was indifferently cast, the tiny star has won exceptional fame in France, Germany and other countries. She 1 gards !icr Finnish film, "Black Roses," as the best she has made, and it ran all through 1930 as one of the most popular and artistic films seen in Germany, Sweden, Finland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Her visit to London was made to finalise arrangements for the English premiere of the film, which has a elever story of Finland's struggle to independence from Russia, additional to its romantic theme. From London, Lilian flew to Budapest to start work on her next film, "Fanny Esler," which is the story of the once world famous Viennese dancer. Lilian Harvey owns a big estate in Hungary, including a complete village ana a sheep and horse farm. She is regarded by the peasants on her lands as a real fairy princess, and drives through their villages on missions of charity in a stately victoria, drawn by four pure-bred white horses. In intervals between her stage and screen appearances the little dancer is attending a university to study farming and stock breeding. David O. Selznick has signed Raymond Massey, the famous British stage and ecreen star, to play the arch-con-spirator, Black Michael, in "The Prisoner of Zenda." Massey was due in Hollywood in March. He is beet known in America for his role in the H. G. Wells picture, "Things To Come," "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and as Philip of Spain in "Fire Over England."