Lady Tallis’s Tour

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 16

Lady Tallis’s Tour

Adventurous Trip HOLLYWOOD ACTIVITIES Misfortune was hard on the tracks of Lady Tallis and Miss Tallis, of Melbourne, now homeward bound on the Aorangi, during their long trip through Canada, the United States and Mexico. The night they left Toronto there was a £75,000 robbery at the station, three days after they quitted Kansas City a great storm broke and 45 people were killed, and a week after their departure from Mexico three men were murdered on the train they had been on. Although the visit was curtailed through a slight illness of Miss Tallis, both ladies are highly appreciative of their good luck. They have been in America in the best time, the spring, and they had had a round of gaiety and sight-seeing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and Winnipeg. One of their outstanding impressions is Banff, with its beautiful Lake Louise, which freezes over in the winter and becomes the home of the ice-skaters. STARS AND FILMS Some time was spent in Hollywood, to which the visitors were no strangers. They went through many studios and met Lila Lee, Clara Bow, Ruth Taylor, the star of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and many other famous players. At Del Monte they saw Corinne Griffiths making her new picture, “The Divine Lady,” based on the novel of the life of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Corinne is Lady Hamilton, and Billie Dove is Nelson’s wife. “It is pitiful to see most beautiful girls from ali over the world who have flocked to Hollywood to become picture players, and have to take menial tasks,” said Miss Tallis. “As waitresses in the eating-houses and as cigarette girls one sees the prettiest girls who look as though they could step into fame at once, and yet they cannot get contracts.” In New York the best musical shows they saw were “Show Boat,” “Good News,” “The Desert Song,” “The Three Musketeers” and th© “Blackbirds,” the negro revue stars headed by Bill Robertson. Lady Tallis, who is the wife of Sir George Tallis, of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., is just a little tired of travelling, and she will be very glad to get home again.