MOST POPULAR ACTOR

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 9

MOST POPULAR ACTOR

HOLLYWOOD SIDELIGHTS

"Contrary to tho general opinion, fully one-third of the actors and actresses in the cinema'world of Hollywood are English or of English" descent, and if a vote were taken as to tho most finished actor \ on the. American screen to-day the verdict would undoubtedly be for George Arliss," said a personality of Hollywood, Dr. A. L. £ewis, who •arrived at Auckland on tho Mariposa yesterday. Dr. Lewis is the'proprietor of a chain of commercial schools and president of the Hollywood City Club. Dr. Lewis said 2000 pupils a year attend his schools, and quite a number have graduated to world fame in the. films. Anitfng those who took courses at Hollywood were Janet Gaynor, Lita Grey (Charlie Chaplin's former wife), and Jobyna Ralston", who for four years was Harold Lloyd's leading lady. t Dr. Lewis *poke of the great gatherings in the Hollywood Bowl, an amphi. theatre, controlled by tho municipalsv which is capable of accommodating enormous crowds. He said there were often attendances of 30,000 to listen to orchestral performances and concerts in the summer.- Tho. most impressive assembly was that which attended the master services, which took place at sunrise. As many as 50,000 people had been present, and they arrived in the small hours of the morning to secure favoured positions.