HER PARENTS HELPED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 147, 6 June 1936, Page 14

HER PARENTS HELPED

Sylvia Sidney’s Career The first battle Sylvia Sidney fought and won was at the age of 12, when she persuaded her parents to permit her to follow an acting career. To-day, at the age of 24, after five years in Holly wood, Miss Sidney is starred in the title role, her twentieth film production of Paramount’s romance-drama, “Mary Burns, Fugitive.” Miss Sidney’s parents not only ga -e their consent to her embarking on the theatrical profession, but they offered aid. The actress received private dramatic instruction until she was 15. She made recitations at a Littie Theatre. Then she entered the Theatre Guild school making her first hit on the legitimate stage with her role in “Bad Girl,” which won her an opportunity to make good on the screen. In “Mary Burns, Fugitive,” Miss Sidney is revealed as a girl caught in the web of the law through an innocent friendship with a man she did not know was a public enemy. Convicted on cir cumstantial evidence, she is sentenced to gaol but later escapes to fall in love with a wealthy, brilliant, but temporarily blind scientist. Her former gangster sweetheart is determined not to lose her, however, and follows her relentlessly. A series of tense, dramatic episodes follow the girl until a gripping, thrilling climax brings the picture to an end.

In addition to Miss Sidney, the cast of “Mary Burns, Fugitive,” includes Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Peri Kelton, Wallace Ford and Brian Dunlevy.