JOY WILL FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

JOY WILL FIGHT.

FUTURE IN HOLLYWOOD. ANXIOUS STUDIOS REFUSED. POSSIBILITY OF DIVOKCK. Her nerves affected l>v the long-drawn-out ordeal of the legal battle with her husband, George Brent, who lived with her for 10 days before separating and bringing an annulment suit against her, the Australian film star Jocelyn or .Toy Howarth, whom Hollywood has dubbed Constance Worth, has not appeared in public since winning the Court action and is avoiding contact with those who know her.

She has declined to discuss with M.G.M. an offer of a part in "Navy Blue and Gold," but does not intend to abandon her film career. She has signed a four months' contract with an agent and has been informed that several studios are interested in her future. "I hope to live down the publicity and get a place with a major studio," she said, "but it has all been against my chances of a really successful Hollywood career." Columbia Studios are inquiring about her for a new picture which will take at least a year to make. "I am waiting to see if there will be an appeal against the judge's denial of an annulment order before making a permanent decision about the future.' she said when seen by an interviewer in the Montecito apartments, where she has been staying with her mother and sister since the case with Brent opened.

If there is no appeal, it is likely that she will seek a divorce from Brent. "I don't want money from him," she said. "He offered me 20,000 dollars not to contest the case, but I was determined to fight for my good name." She is so nervous of publicity that she wears dark glasses when she joes out, but she intends to go to the mountains for a fortnight's holiday and feels confident that she will then he ible apain to face the world.

"I feel that Hollywood owes me something and I am determined to stay here and pet it." she said. "Though I long to be home ajrain, I intend to remain here and win." WANTS HER LIBERTY. "I want my liberty," complained Marlene Dietrich recently. "I want to be able to choose my own scenarios, no matter what companies hold the rights." she said. Tlie star will make her last film for Paramount. "French Without Tears." from the London stage success, in October.

"What about forming your own company?" she was asked. "That may come true. Tin thinking about it." the star replied. "I shall not make a film again in Knjrland for the present. I am goinji to have a holiday in Switzerland and France. T don't want to hear any more about work until it is time to go back to Hollywood."