TALK ACROSS ATLANTIC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12

TALK ACROSS ATLANTIC

ACTORS AND FILM STARS PINNER PLEASANTRIES LONDON. Auk. 24 A remarkable feat in transatlantic telephony 'took place to-night, well-known British artists spending half an hour in exchanging greetings with Hollywood stars, whoso voices were amplified. At//a dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in London, Mr. Hubert Marsh announced an agreement commencing in 1933, under which the films of the United Artists* Corporation of America and the British md Dominion Corporation will be jointly distributed throughout the world. Tho diners then heard Joseph Schenck, president of the United Artists' Corporation, sneaking from Washington, express approval 1 of the agreement, after which ~ tha line was switched on to the Fairbanks' Hollywood bungalow, from which Douglas and his wife, Mary Pickford, Ronald Colman, Eddie Cantor and A 1 Jolson exclianged greetings with Tom Walls, Jack Buchanan and others, who were dining in London, the audience clearly hearing all that passed.