OFF TO AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 73, 28 March 1938, Page 8

OFF TO AMERICA.

HOLLYWOOD-BOUND.

GRACIE'S "MUM AND DAD." VISITING DAUGHTER BETTY. LONDON. When the Berengaria sailed for America, there were 110 two more excited passengers 011 board than Mr. and Mrs. F. Stanfield, the parents of Miss (Jraeie Fields, (iracie was there to see "mum and dad - ' off.

| Jt is dad's first trip out West for 42 years- theji lie travelled stoeragip. This time he is travelling "well off.'' That was (lie way (Jracie put it. They are hound for Hollywood to spend a holiday with Betty, Grade's younger lister, who is married to a scenic artist. "Dad knows all about America." said fJracie. "You bet lie does. He's only been once. He went to Massacliooehits as a mechanic*. But he had a very loving mother. He loved her a lot. too, so when she said, 'Come home,' he came. "It was just after that he met mum —in a Rochdale dance hall, I think. He was a terrible swank—long, pointed shoo*, all American, and a darn great trilby hat. Still 11111111 fell for him, and now she's going hack with liim—but not to Massaehoo-chits. "They are taking some bits and pieces from us for Betty. She's been in Hollywood two years and i.s a real HollvWoodite.

"Betty is sending her 15-year-old son to Oxford —the University. I mean. \\ t . iv <joing f () ]iavp somebody educated in our family after all."