“THE HAPPY CLAUSE"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

“THE HAPPY CLAUSE"

CONTRACTS IN HOLLYWOOD. Miss Edna Best, the English actress and film star, who amazed the United States by running away from Hollywood to see her husband, arrived in England recently. “All that the newspapers published was perfectly true,” she said, in an interview. “I was absolutely fed up. The Hollywood people did everything they could to try and make me happy, bu it was no good. There is an unwritten clause in flln: engagements which is known as ‘the happy clause.’ That means that if an actor or actress is unhappy the Hollywood people will do all they possibly can to make them happy, and even allow' them to do as I did, although it has never been done before. ‘I actually left before wo started shooting my film, because I know that once it was started I would not dare to leave. AU the way back in the train to New York, where my husband was waiting for me, 1 locked myself into my compartment, and pulled the blinds down, because. I wa afraid at every station I would be arrested.”

Miss Best returned to England to make a talking film with her husband, M. Herbert Marshall, of A. A. Milne’s ‘ ‘Michael and Mary,” in which they appeared together on the stage.

Helen Johnson did her first work before the camera in an amateur film made for a magazine contest. (Dan Totheroh, noted novelist and playwright-, has beer signed by Paramount to prepare the adaptation for “Rose of the Rancho” from the David-Belasco-Richard Walton Tully stage hit. Totheroh is the author of ‘‘Wild Orchard,” “David Hotfoot” and “Men Call Me Fool.” Dolores del Rio and Richard Arlen will head the cast of the picture, which will be filmed in technicolour.