ENGLAND RE-VISITED.

Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3087, 10 December 1929, Page 3

ENGLAND RE-VISITED.

RONALD COLMAN ENTHUSIASTICALLY WELCOMED.

Six years ago Ronald Colman, star of “The Rescue.’ and “Bulldog Drummond,” for United Artists, left England with a few pounds, and a notion that things couldn’t be worse than they were in England and he’d better try his luck somewhere else. This summer he returned to England for his first vacation since he first entered American pictures, well-to-do, so famous that his fame became a nuisance; it was like the old fairy stories of the beggar who returned a prince. He had the comforting knowledge in the back of his head that Samuel Goldwyn had just presented him with the last distinction of the film world —individual stardom —and told him to take the vacation he had earned. He expected a quiet time with his family. He found himself in the midst of a welter of hero-worshipping crowds which finally made him flee back to America two weeks before he had planned. When he got off the train in London, he found a crowd of two thousand girls crowding about him to see their hero in the flesh. When he went along the street, people halted him by main force to secure his autograph. When he went to a little country inn in Devonshire for some peace, he found himself pursued by his pictures in the illustrated papers, so that business at the inn tripled in the week he stayed there. England was up in arms to welcome its famous son by force if necessary; so that, as soon as he had seen his family, the famous son went away to save his vanity. . “ I stayed until people became too kind—and then I had to go,” was Colman’s laconic way of expressing his troubles.