ANNETTE KELLERMAN

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 40, 10 November 1921, Page 9

ANNETTE KELLERMAN

ACTRESS AND SWIMMER IN WELLINGTON.

Miss Annette Kellerman, the worldrenowned swimmer, was in Wellington yesterday. At present she is under engagement to Mr. Harry Musgrove (tho successor to Mr. Hi gh D. Mclntosh), nnd is at the head of a vaudeville company with her crystal tank act and the Annette Kellerman ballet. Miss Kellerman, who rested at the Empire Hotel, is an Australian, having won her first natatorial laurels in Sydney. Indeed, she was the first great lady swimmer that Australia produced, and one of the first to became internationally famous. Miss Kellerman has been an all-round swimmeir, but specialised in distance swimming. She still swims—but not for cups or blue ribbons —''in a big glass bowl just the same as the goldfish/’ Her tank of specially-made Belgian glass holds 3000 gallons of water, heated to 74 degrees Fahr., and through its walls every action is clearly discernible from all parts of the theatre. Miss Kellerman has had considerable experience as a star in pictures. Many will remember her in “Neptune's Daughter" and "A Daughter of the Gods," in which she showed herself a capable actress as well as a graceful swimmer. "Picture acting is most interesting, and positively bewildering in its scale," said Miss Kellerman yesterday. “When a management is out to make a great feature picture no expense is spared to attain an ideal. They know what they want, and they go far it. They employ thousands of people, build cities, burn them down, transport whole companies from one country to another, and so on. -'Miss Kellerman has not been in New Zealand before.