HONOURS FOR ACTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 14

HONOURS FOR ACTING

(MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY TWO OUTSTANDING PLAYERS (Beceived March 11, 5.5 p.m.) HOLLYWOOD, March 10 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the premier acting honours of 1937 to Luise Rainer for her performance in "The Good Earth" and to Spencer Tracy for his acting in "Captains Courageous." . .. r ' r :;» Achieving fame on the Austrian stage,before she was 20, Luise Rainer, who was born in Vienna in 1912, was Eecured for the .screen when she was 6een by, an official of .the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer film company while 'staking part in, a Yiennese production; She was already a good linguist and soon learned English, her slight accent proving an attraotion in her pictures, the first of which. ..was "Escape,'' the American ve|«xoa o^^e > brUliant Yienhad A lon# itruggle for success &nd after becoming* film actor he appeared in many, minor parts without winning recognition. He Was born in 1900 in Milwaukee and began- his acting career with a stock company. He entered the. American Academy of Dramatic Art and a year later again appeared on. the stage. Eventually he reached Broadway and was later given a film contract. His first important piotures were "San Francisco", and "Fury."