WHEN ONE VISITS LONDON

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 236, 6 May 1933, Page 8

WHEN ONE VISITS LONDON

I °—; , One Has Nothing to iiay One does not get .much change when one questions Mr. Joseph von Sternberg, does one One is liable to find, for the first time in one's experience, a film director .who does not. like talking about himself. If one asks him, as I did hist night (writes a Daily Herald representative) why he is in London, one gets the reply: "When one comes to Loudon does one need to explain one's reasons for being in London?" "If one is the film director, who put Ma.rle.ne: Dietrich on the .screen and Hollywood in a stew, and if one's plans for one's- film future are as mysterious... as yourSj,;ono is liable to be "plr!/>d why.. "One does not need n^@MSci&|*W "sor.»;;dsß<ji (Jne//iioa9d to be^Hffilumg ja fiinf.'becaus^on©'' decjjd/JS fo sp'errcT part .of; one's holiday iii' Biigdad.'' "One might go'tiiere "to- collect at- j mosphere, might one riot?'' I suggested. J That spoilt the sequence. ... j "I wouldn't do anything so silly,", snapped Mr. Von Sternberg. j "But you are going to Bagdad?" \ "I was going tomorrow, but I may have' to' put it Off. P have nuljph to do." "Seeing one's' friends?" "Tchah." "Wlrat.about? a film of. AH '-Bftba and the Forty Thieves. . . ." There was a noise like the Shanghai Express passing, through a very deep gorge. It was one expressing one's annoyance. ... . j