MOVIE NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 76, 29 August 1938, Page 4

MOVIE NEWS

GAIL PATRICK'S FUTURE If by some quirk of fate, she should suddenly be shorn of her youth, beauty and prominence in the motion picture world, Gail Patrick would have no cause to worry. She would shrug her beautiful shoulders, bone up to her Jaw books and hang up a shingle that would indicate that a. new “counstdlor-at-law‘ ‘ was ready to begin operations. Furthermore, the law would not he her sole standby, for there are thousands of women in Alabama who are anxiously awaiting the year 1942. when she will descend upon her native state and campaign for the governorship. She is only awaiting the day when she will he old enough to meet the legal requirements of her state, before .she throws her hat into the political ring. Meantime, Miss Patrick gees from one leading role to another in Hollywood. Her latest effort along this line is in Universal’s powerful romantic drama “Wives Under Suspicion”. screening in New Zealand shortly. In her. present film she comes her closest to. a lawyer role on the screen. She plays a lawyer’s wife, opposite

Warren William-, and struggles in vain to force her husband, a district attorney, played by William, to separate his home life from his career. Horn in Birmingham, Alabama, of a socially prominent family, Miss Patrick was graduated from Howard College with a, Bachelor of Arts degree, and then went to the University of Alabama to study law. After her graduation, she entered, purely as a lark, the nation wide motion picture contest for a “Panther Woman”. She went to Hollywood, where her first screen test proved that she had too much beauty and ability to be “typed”. She made her screen debut in “If I Had A Million”. Since then she has played leads in scores of pictures, including, recently, “Stage Door”, “Artists and Models” and “Mad About Music”. Miss Patrick -is five feet seven inches tall, has dark hair, black eyes, and an exquisitely modulated speaking voice. She rides, swims, plays a good game of tennis and likes to attend court- trials. -