LORETTA YOUNG

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

LORETTA YOUNG

UNLIKE POPULAR STAR TYPE. UNDER STRICT SURVEILLANCE.

The usual fan conception of the life of a movie star does not hold water when applied to Loretta Young. She has no routine of servants at her bidding, and she has no chauffeur to drive her block-long car. She lives very quietly with her mother and three sisters and she drives her own car —a very modest looking coupe. She attends premieres every now and then, particularly when they are of her own pictures. But most of her moviegoing is done in just the same way as most girls in modest walks of life—she takes her mother and sisters quite often to see the not too recent pictures at the neighbourhood theatre. She does not dine on caviare or other imported delicacies, but favours hot dogs with plenty of mustard. What is more, she doesn’t haw lots of money to squander even though she makes more than a fair salary. Her money is invested by her mother, and Loretta gets a spending allowance every week.

Bcrgner to Ply Barrie. Elizabeth Bergner is now finishing “Escape Me Never” on the New York stage, and her producer, C. B. Cochran intends to take her back to London to work on a new Barrie play, the title being a secret. Before he left for Arrferica to supervise Miss Bergner’s appearances C. B. Cochran said:—

“Bergner herself is extremely well now. , What made her ill before was chiefly nervous strain —the strain of learning a film-part in a new language, and a long stage-part in a new language, both together and almost on top of one another. She had done that before the London opening of ‘Escape Me Never!’ She is looking forward to the holiday on the boat to give her a good rest to begin with. One of my endeavours at New York will be to prevent the newspapers from announcing her as ‘the greatest actress in the world’ before the play opens. This was carefully avoided at London a year ago.” # # # # Paul Stein is directing Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks jnr. in “La Boheme.” # # # * June Knight is reported to have left I her husband after only 12 days of mar- | riage. '