LIFE EXCITING
Although Florence Roberts, the cinema grandmother of the popular "Jones Finnl}-' series, plays a quiet little homebody in Universal s ''lhe Storm" she has had as many reallire adventures as any member of the cast which includes Charles Biekford, Barton Preston Foster, Tom Brown and Nan Grey. A VLtLMT.n oi' more than 50 year.; in the theatre. the actress has travelled with touring theatrical companies through more than 27 countries. -She has made seven theatrical tours around the world. Adventure, she says, is responsible for ''keeping me young. " During the tremendous action of ''The Storm," in which great steel freighters crash into icebergs, ami hern;.-, wireless operators light to I * jsave their trait in violent typhoon l ;, Miss Jlolkm-Ls ironically sits at home 'by her ratio, listening.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 54, 25 August 1939, Page 3
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129LIFE EXCITING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 54, 25 August 1939, Page 3
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