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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

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ACTRESS IN AMERICA SPECIAL COTTAGE ERECTED , People often wonder why European film actors go to Hollywood. One reason, apart from higher salaries, is the extraordinary consideration shown by some of the leading American companies. How far they will go sometimes to make an. imported player feel at home is amusingly shown by a description that Lilian Harvey has sent her mother of a small house which the Fox Company have had erected in the studio grounds for her use during the time she is working. The walls of the sitting room are

covered with paper specially printed with pictures from “ Congress Dances. ” White velour carpets are everywhere, and the lampshades arc fringed with ermine tails. There is a delightful kitchen, which was stocked with every necessary, such as soap and groceries, and she has a luxurious bathroom complete with costly soaps and bath salts. She is renting a villa in Beverley Woods, where her French maid is putting everything in order. She took with her a magnificent new white Mer-cedes-Benz sports car, plus chauffeur (supplied by the works), and Joe Strassner, the costume designer from whom she bought all her clothes in Berlin, has gone to Hollywood, too.

She has had to place all her jewels and a 25-carat' diamond ring in the bank, as apparantly they were sure to be stolen otherwise.