REMARKABLE SCREEN CAREER OF MAY ROBSON

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 23, 19 September 1931, Page 7

REMARKABLE SCREEN CAREER OF MAY ROBSON

189 ROLES HEROINE "MOTHER'S MILLIONS' When May Robson, heroine of "Mother's Millions," wa3 a^ked.how many roles she had played she, began to count. She reacbed 189, ,and she stopped, saying: "I can't be.bothered going any furtherV Her personality is an amazing one. and she has the kind of wit that keepr. an audience laughing almost constantly. ' j This woman who is the daughter of a naval offieer, Captain Henrjy Robson, has had an extraordinary career. At an early age her parents decided that she should study art, 'so she received tuition' in Brussels, Paris and London, her family having removed from Melbourne, her birth place, when she was very young. May, however, tired of the art course, so ran away from school to marry Dr. A. H. Brown, with whom she went to America. Lef t a widow after very short married life, Miss Robson found that she had pnly the art training on which to depend. She became a designer at Tiffany's, enjoying the work, but not being very well paid. Bedlam of Tongues For i!|ome time her friends had been entertained by Miss Robson's capacity for mimicry, and urged her to share her humorous creations with the outside world. One day she saw an advertisement from a theatrical agency, requiring someone to play a part in a voyage to Switzerland." She applied, and found the office a bedlam of tongues, the manager speaking only French, and the appliiimiiimiitimiiimmimiii iiiiiiiiiliilllllllllliuiill uiiimililllllllil

cants various languages. May Robson acted as interpreter, and received the part, which, alas her inexperience lost her at the first rehearsal. She went on with her new profession however, and presently Charles Frohman, who saw her in a small role, gave her a contract. Their association lasted for twenty years. Fire ax\d Fun This artist composed of fire and fun also appeared with Cecil de Mille, but, possessed of a speaking. voice of rare beauty, silent picture made no appeal to her, so she waited for the talkie screen to enable her to show the world what an Australian-born actress can do in the matter of a character role. "Mother's Millions" deals almost entirely with youth and deals with problems that are almost duplicates of those being encountered to-day.