NASJA THE NAVAJO

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

NASJA THE NAVAJO

ONLY RIVAL TO SHIRLEY TEMPLE. WOULD NOT LEAVE RESERVATION. There has been only one child-actor to rival Shirley Temple, maintains Miss Lois Wilson, a Hollywood player. “I have seen only one youngster with such talent,” she said. “He wr Nasja, an eight-year-ol untamed young Navajo. We Lund him on the Nav.ajo reservation in north-eastern Arizona when we went there many years ago to make ‘The Vanishing . lerican.’ ■ “What the future might have held for Nasja no one will know. He would not leave the reservation. He had a supreme contempt for white people and except for the scenes in which he. appeared at the express order of his mother, he would have no contact with any of us. Richard Dix did everything possible to win the little Indian’s friendship, and bought him knives, toys, a pony, without response or interest on Nasja’s part.” Yehudi Menuhin for New Zealand. - It was a gala night at Sydney recently when Yehudi Menuhin, the 17-year-old violinist, commenced his Australian tour under the direction of Messrs. J. and N. Tait. Yehudi is a genius whose personal popularity is almost as great as his artistic perfection. Happy, companionable and full of the joy of living, fair and blue-eyed, he typifies normal boyhood, unconscious of the Vast resources of his gift and the already wonderful achievements of his talent. Yehudi will be coming to New Zealand after his Australian tour. * '# * * Mary Pickford has written a novel, “Demi-Widow.” It may appear on the screen as a talkie.