HATES WAR ROLES.
* Valeric Hpbson, lovely British star, threatens to go on strike because directors, so she, claims, consistently cast her for roles in which femininity has to be subservient to mental poise, and this mode of, expression, Valeric' contends, does not enhance her appeal to fUmgoers who are likely to regard her as a "cold:as-steel" woman. Therefore, she is longing to. prove her versatility in a part that calls for a display of naturalness. All this comes about because Irving Asher, foremost British director for Columbia Pictures' English studios, cast Miss Hobspn as a hardboiled , newspaper woman in the triumphant espionage comedy, "Clouds Over Europe,", and also put her in the same studio's thrilling "U-Boat 29." In the latter production Miss Hobson has to; be the antithesis of- normal English girlhood,' in the- role of a calculating ever-on-guard woman spy who plays the "grim game of plot and counterplot with a brilliant and ruthless German U-boat commander.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 20
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