Absurd Contretemps
WHENEVER Jane Baxter. England’s newest film star, feels that she is beginning to take herself too seriously she looks back to one of her stage appearances. "I was playing a very serious part in which I was absorbed, and I could feel that my audience was absorbed, too.” she said. “But at an intense
moment, when 1 got up from a tabie on which I had been sitting and began to walk about a tittler started in the audience and soon gentle laughter came from all parts of the auditorium. Another actress kept whispering to me out, of the side of her mouth, but I could not catch what she said. Eventually she managed to point to the back of me, and I looked round and saw a paper d’oyley had stuck to my frock and was blowing up and down like a tail when I walked. I don’t know how I got through that performance, I look back on it with horror even now. And the worst thing is that I don’t suppose my friends will ever forget it either.”
CAMUEL Goldwyn has assigned David Niven to “The Real Glory," with Gary Cooper; Walter Brennan has been added to the cast of “The Restless Age,” witli Jascha Heifetz.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 15
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