GIRL OF MANY PARTS.
Margaretta Scott,' brunette English screen and stage star, has played in everything from Shakespeare to musical comedy and farce. At the age of 14 she played a page in a "Romeo and Juliet" presentation and was with the Hull Repertory company in its production of "Lilies of the Field." She took Miss Fay Compton's role of Ophelia in a season of "Hamlet," and later figured in a series of Shakespearean plays. One of her favourite stage roles was Lady Jasper in Emlyn Williams's "A Murder Has Been Arranged," and it is fitting that the clever young Welsh actor-playwright should be playing her lover in -the film, "Girl in the. News." Miss Scott is considered one of Britain's most promising screen stars. In the same picture is another favourite of the West End stage, Betty Jardine, who plays a cockney maid. She had a prominent role in the stage production of Emlyn Williams's play, "The Corn is Green," with Dame Sybil Thorndike and Mr. Williams himself playing the leading roles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 18
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