£200,000 IN A YEAR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VII (Supplement)

£200,000 IN A YEAR

Grade Fields For Hollywood

JJEMARKING, “Ay, lad, I think I’m going to America for a while,” Gracie Fields told the London “People” that she would earn .£200,000 in Hollywood. Gracie Fields has accepted a contract, to make four pictures in Hollywood, aud will probably begin work there in July. She is now finishing a film, “The Show Goes On.” at Ealing. Gracie propped her feet up on a dressing-room table, let out a shrill top note, and said: “Ay, ’sped I’ll be over there for a year or so. An I'll be takin’ a few of the family with me. I don’t mind where I work, so long as 1 give satisfaction. I hope that. I shall do comedy. People should be made to laugh; there’s enough sadness in the world as it is. “But as for that rumour about me packing oop and retirin’, there’s nothing in it. So long as I can make a few people laff,. I’m not going to give up I like making films, even though it doesn't give you much time to yourself. And it means getting up at 7 every morning and gettin’ to bed at 10.” Suddenly serious, the actress remarked: “Do you know, I don’t know what Ido want out of life. I’ve made a bit of dough, and I’m not grumbling, but . . ■ sometimes I do so want to be alone.” <