BINNIE BARNES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 14

BINNIE BARNES

Binnie Barnes, known to her fnenos as the girl without any side, has had a spectacular career. Her father was a policeman, and Binnie helped to keep the home fires burning when she should have been at school by delivering milk in a north London suburb. She became a nurse and didn’t like it. Then she learned to spin a rope and became partner to Tex McLeod, with whom shn toured London doing a cabaret turn. She sang the famous Blues in the stage version of “Cavalcade.” Binnie married Sam Josephs, to whom she is still married. She went to New York en route to Hollywood, but got homesick and returned to London She played Katharine Howard in “Henry VIII.” and then departed once more for Hollywood. She has just been given a new contract with Universal.