The British Abroad

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 5 (Supplement)

The British Abroad

MICKEY ROONEY

A fervent wish comes from Britain that some of the refugees would appear less prominently in the Hollywood limelight that seems to he so infinitely preferable to the stabbing flame of the searchlight. Madeleine Carroll's pilgrimage through "war-torn Europe" in search of her fiance, a gentleman named Lieutenant Richard de la Hoziere, who capitulated with other members of the French forces and was in Tunisia when last heard of, is still can-dug a llutter among the sob sisters ol the film colony magazines. To one ol them the "heroine ol this epic romantic pilgrimage" confided that "I sat in on the writing of history. It was a challenge to have gone. It was a triumph to have been able to he in France- at the last, sad ending of the country I loved." A triumph, it will he asked, for whom y The star to whom we opened our hearts when it was reporfed thai she was returning to England to make films also records the patriotic sentiment that at the fall of franco she was advised to return to England by a boat leaving Bordeaux, hut declined as "I knew that there would be little chance of being able to rH urn to America." Then the re is Maureen () Sullivan. Mi>s O'Sullivan is Irish and ean perhaps say that she owes no loyalty fo England. Mecont.lv she modestly denied any claims to heroism in allowing her husband. Lieutenant John Farrow, to brave the perils of the deep in the British Navv —to Ihe extent of three pages iu a Hollywood magazine, Mr. Farrow, it now transpires, is doing propaganda work for the Canadian sea forces —in Ottawa.