A NEW VIENNESE ACTRESS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 10

A NEW VIENNESE ACTRESS

"The Great Barrier," the GaumontBritish film of the building of the ^'anadian Pacific railway, now showing in London and hailed as the best British picture to date of the open air, orings to notice a new star, Lilli Palmer, • born twenty-one years ago in Vienna, who is to play c-pposite Tullio Carminati in a new Herbert Wilcox film, "Vienna Sunset," and who seems destined to go far. Lilli made her first appearance on the stage upside down. A famous Berlin producer wanted an actress who cotild stand on her head. Lilli, fresh from school, got the , job, and caught h'er first glimpse of a theatre audience the wrong way up. She was born on ' the Berlin-Vienna express, first came to England when she was fourteen, has played in repertory companies, sung in

the night eiubs of Montmartre ann learned acting at the, same school as Bergner. Although so far Lilli has only played sraall parts on the films, and those nearly always of "bad" girls, she already has a fan mail of fifty'letters a week. In "Vienna Sunset" she will be good to begin with bnt turns out had later. She plays a Viennese girl who is separated from her Italian officer sweetheart at the outbrealc of the war. Lilli lias no desire to go to Hollywood. ,, "I think it is good policy to avoid Hollywood," she said, "and I knotv that it would ouly be a headache for me anywav, but maybe IT1 go there some day just for a visit and to see how the Americans do things. I haye been in pietures so short a time and my suceess is such a surprise to me that' I hare no desire to leave Englantl at present.". V .