MISS GAY SEABROOK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 21

MISS GAY SEABROOK

STAGE AND FILM ACTRESS En route to Australia, where she will play the leading feminine role in the J. C. Williamson stage production "Three Men on a Horse," Miss Gay Seabrook, Hollywood screen and stage actress, arrived" in Auckland 3 r esterday by the Mariposa. Miss Seabrook, who is young and slight, with golden h&ir and brown eyes, said yesterday she was still trying to decide whether she preferred being blonde to being brunette. She has had considerable experience in both stage and screen work, as well as two and a-half years with the National Broadcasting Company in New York. Interested from her school days in the stage, she made her first appearance on the New York stage when she was 16 years old, playing the part of the crippled girl in "The Fool." Renouncing tragedy for comedy, she played her first screon part in "Corsair," with Chester Morris, later taking the leading feminine role in "Charlie Chase" comedies. Other pictures in which Miss Seabrook has played include "The County Chairman," with the late Will Rogers, "Embarrassing Moments," "Half a Sinner," "365 Nights in Hollywood" and the "Our Gang" series of comedies. At the end of last year Miss Seabrook appeared as second lady to Mary Pickford's lead in "Coquette" on the New York stage. In Miss Seabrook's opinion Mary Pickford was still the most popular woman in Hollywood. It was not until she left the United States that she realised what a wide reputation for exaggerated living was attributed to Hollywood, Miss Seabrook said. The film city was actually divided into three -quite separate groups, one comprising the people who loved display, one the younger actors and actresses, and one the ordinary, everyday home-loving American people. The last group, she oonsidered, was definitely the largest and the most important. Much of the trouble in Hollywood homes and with Hollywood life was caused by the largo number of "gossip" magazines and newspapers which lived upon the people. Actually a wise family could be very quiet, very happy and very contented in the heart of Hollywood without any difficulty. When her year's contract with J. C Williamson, Limited, in Australia is concluded Miss Seabrook intends returning to Hollywood. She said she was eager to begin work on "Three Men on a Horse," a play which was at present running in its second year in .New York. A company was also being formed to produce the play in London.