Pre-Film Experience

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 13

Pre-Film Experience

IJOLAfES Herbert's motion picture career was preceded by several years of stage work, in which lie played important, roles with such famous actors as Billie Burke, Blanche Bates, Grace George, William Faversham, and .Airs. Patrick Campbell. His stage career began at the age of eight years at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, and later lie was with the John Sanger circus, Roby’s Minstrels, and tlui F. R. Benson company in the English provinces, and then on such Loudon stages as Drury .Lane, Adclphi, Lyceum, Aldwych, Kingsway, His Majesty's, Jlaymarkfit, and the Royal Con rt.

Edward Nugent's pre-motion picture experience included singing in the Metropolitan 'Opera, Boys’ Chorus in New York, and dancing in the chorus at Grauman’s Million Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles. Nugent, now 32 ytavs old, concentrates on his hobby of collecting antiques.

of night-blooming jasmine and dew on new-mown grass, and sleeps nil day when it is raining, unless the studio calls her. She drives her own ear around corners—on two wheels, dotes on peppery Mexican dishes and Italian pastes with generous sauces.

That is Myrna Loy, yet you would not be able to guess it from such a role as the one site plays in “Petticoat Fever.” In this film she falls in love with Robert Montgomery in an Arctic, shack, and the fun grows as her fiance, Reginald Owen, becomes angrier.