A POPULAR ACTRESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 38 (Supplement)

A POPULAR ACTRESS

MISS COLBERT PRAISED "Claudetto Colbert is enchanting. Every time I see her on the screen I marvel again at her charm, her versatility, her technical equipment," says a writer in the London Daily Telegraph. "Where else will you find an actress who is so variously blessed? She has enough sex appeal to bo a siren if she did not also happen to have humour; she is lovely enough to play great romantic roles; so unaffected that she can make a typist running to catch a 'bus as convincing as any actress on the screen.

v "When some stars play an ordinary, honest-to-goorlness young woman of 1936 they never succeed in suggesting anything but a movie queen condescending to a nice little game of dressing up. A change from one Paris frock to another Paris frock, with a cuto little white apron superimposed, and there we have the famous star cooking her husband's dinner, just as if she were mortal, in her latest sensational, gigantic, colossal success, 'The Madonna from Moosejaw.' So amusing. "Miss Colbert, thank heaven, is free from all this nonsense. The keen intelligence that makes her acting a joy to watch also preserves her from attacks of folie de grandeur. Off the screen, as well as on, she is ono of the world's best-liked stars." '