FILM STARS, TOO?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 18

FILM STARS, TOO?

THE BARTHOLOMEW SISTERS.

FATHER IS CONFIDENT. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, Octobcr 21. Unaware that they may «oon be on their way to Hollywood and, possibly, a film career, two girl boarders are studying in the Convent of the Holy Name at Tooting. The "Daily Mail" Los Angeles correspondent recently flashed this message acroas the Atlantic: — "Mr. Cecil Bartholomew, lather of the boy star Freddie, announced in Hollywood tVday that he intends to bring the boy's two sisters, Eileen, aged 17, and Hilda, aged 15, .to the film city to try to start tbein on film career*." Mr. Bartholomew, the message added, declared that his daughters "are better looking than Freddie, and they are also talented. They have done well in amateur theatricals, and I am confident they are destined for brilliant film careers." The Mother Superior of the Tooting Convent sakh "The girls hear nothing of ; Hollywood within these walls." | The message from Hollywood stated; that Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew intend i to live permanently there, but that Freddie, who had appeared at the studios in his fircit long trousers, "would rather I not meet them." J