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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 129, 25 February 1938, Page 16

The Charles Brabins recently arrived in London; and so long is the memory of film fans that their flat in Herford Street, Mayfair; was daily besieged by admirers of her work in the early days of motion pictures. When I talked to her, in her flowerfilled . sitting-room, wrote an interviewer, she wore a long, exotic, trailing hostess gown of vivid green velvet, its sheen showing up against the raven blackness of her hair. A spray of orchids at her shoulder, and diamond bracelets half-way up one arm, enhanced the luxury atmosphere. Theda has more 'curves than when she used to be so vampish in her young days—she wears her hair softly waved off her forehead, dressed in sophisticated modern manner, as against the heavy, barbaric style she affected as the siren of the screen.

As is alway? the case when visiting Hollywood celebrities are in London, Mayfair hostesses were eager to entertain her. She had parties given in'her honour; was feted at the Ritz and the Berkeley and Claridge’s—“all of them merely glamorous names to me until I came here and realised the wonder of London.