£40,000 FOR "ROMANCE" FILM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 19 July 1920, Page 5

£40,000 FOR "ROMANCE" FILM

LONDON, May 3. Miss Doris Keane, the actress, returned to England on Saturday after cix months' absence in the United States, where she went to take part in a film reproduction of "Romance." Her fee is said to nave "broken the record, amounting, it is believed, to about £#0,000 at the present Tate of exchange, plus a share of tihe profits. It was the first time she had played before thie camera. '"The technique is entirely different," she said. ''Everything is so magnified on the screen that it is more imperative than ever for an actress to 'live' her part. She must be the character she plays, Must feel tnafc she is the living bemg, and not just the representative. But the Duse and the Henry Irving, of the films have yet to be found."