Double Reincarnation For Blonde Gertrude Michael

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 22, 27 January 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Double Reincarnation For Blonde Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael, lovely blonde Southern film star, underwent a double reincarnation when she acted her title role in the Paramount picture ‘-‘The Return of Sophie Long," coming shortly to the Regent. The first was in her 1 e-appearance as “Sophie Lang,'' Lady Raffles of her first starring picture more than two years ago, “The Notorious Sophie Lang.” The second was more personal; she became again, for the first time, the same Gertrude Michael that she was when she arrived in Hollywood. She. explains:

“When I first came to Hollywood from Broadway my hair was its natural shade, dark gold; i parted it in the middle and my eyebrows were definitely arched.

“The studio, however, immediately began to make me over. My hair was lightened ‘for photographic purposes'; it was cut in a long bob with curled ends and parted on the side. The arch of my eyebrows was made more level. The shading I had used on the stage was entirely changed. I retained that make-up for three years. Then came ‘The Return of Sophie Lang.' Paramount decided to give me a new makeup. They brought my hair back to its natural shade, parted it in the middle, waved it aw r ay from the part, arched my elebrows, and changed the shading of my face back to the way 1 used to shade it on the stage. Thus they completely restored my original appearancel"