NOTED OPERA SINGER WILL MAKE A TALKIE FOR £l,000 A MINUTE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 27

NOTED OPERA SINGER WILL MAKE A TALKIE FOR £l,ooo A MINUTE

Af ISS MARY LEWIS, the opera * star, who appeared in London in 19:24, has signed a contract at Hollywood for a talking picture which will yield her approximately £I,OOO for every minute she actually works before the camera for Pathe. Miss Lewis was born at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1900. She ran away from home at the age of 20 to join a vaudeville company. After appearing in the Christie Comedies »n Hollywood, she went to New York, appearing in the Greenwich Village Follies and the Ziegfeld Follies. She made her first appearance in opera in Vienna in “Faust.”

Roses.” Of the last “Variety” wrote: “England lias gone and done something.” But these talkies have not scored the all-round hit made .by “Blackmail” and “Atlantic,” both of which have done exceptionally well. “Blackmail” won most of its foreign laurels in the United States, but “Atlantic,” thanks to its German dialogue version, has proved a big success in Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Scandinavia.