FILM STAR-S PARTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18913, 11 November 1929, Page 12

FILM STAR-S PARTY.

Miss Gloria Swanson, the filid star, who had tea recently with some 400 “nippy” waitresses at the Lyons Corner Coventry Street, bad to be “spirited” away at the end (states a London exchange). More than 1000 people, many of them hopeful girls with autograph bocks, were crowding round the doors outside. They held up the traffic as they awaited her departure, so Miss Swanson was taken by lift to • the basement of the building and along underground passages to another restaurant, where she was able to enter her car unnoticed. The object of Miss Swanson’s visit, which .was at her own request, was to give her an opportunity of getting into touch , with girls whom she might not otherwise ''meet. They were drawn from restaurants all over London—and at the,end .she expressed the opinion, privately, that she had never seen so many pretty girls in one assembly. She was inVited to sing, aod complied with composed by Mr Edmund Goulding, the London producer of the talking film *n which she i«s now appearing. Lave sung for the films and have fcfrdAdcast, but this is my first public appearance/* said Miss Swanson, nervously.