THE URGE TO WORK.
Janet Johnson is a talented young Australian actress who, before leaving for England to try her luck, had toured New Zealand with a Williamson company. She reached the Home country" four years ago and within a month had a role in the Cecily Courtneidge film, "Everybody Dance." Miss Johnson has proved herself a versatile actress^ both on stage and screen and her future is full of promise. In Diana Morgan's play, "A House in the Square," Miss Johnson is the daughter of a former suffragette and inherits her maternal spirit of rebellion by "thinking" pacifism as a modern counterpart. In this play Miss Lilian Braithwaite had an Edwardian role—Of the grandmother—a beautifully drawn characterisation. Miss Johnson's romantic vis-a-vis in the play, which was produced at St. Martin's, London, was Derek Farr, a young soldier. After waiting for a part in Hollywood, after having a five-year contract given her, Miss Johnson refused to stay on in the film colony taking money for a part that never materialised, and returned to England—to success.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 18
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