HOW FILM STARS START

Shannon News, 11 April 1928, Page 3

HOW FILM STARS START

"I have just been talking to ' young man who became a film a eloi in the strangest manner in the world' : . says a writer in the London “Sunday ¥ Chronicle.”

He is Charles Dormer who, amon; other claims to the attention of th

public, is one of the Tising youm actors of British films, a cousin of th i present Baron Dormer and direct de

scendant of the first Baron Dormci who flourished some time about thi year, 1615. He is also an aristocratic

looking yopng man with a democratic

ally charming manner. * This is how he became a film actoi after he had been bored in the office! of a stock broker. He went with a friend to pay a visi

to St. Margaret's about two yeim when Graham Cutts was making "''The Sea Urchin 7 ' there % Dormer -.me his friend went for fun. Fate, as h happened, went there, too. ■ While Dormer was mixing ffecly f with a crowd of supers and looking idly,around, Graham Cutts arrived. He was looking for someone for a “dude’ part. He saw Dormer. ' Y “That ’9 the man I'want,’’ he said ~Everybody looked at Dormer, whi blushed becomingly, began t 0 explain stopped—and became a film actor. He has been in “Dark Horses’’ with 1 - Steve Donoghue, and now is busy with * 1 Virginia 'j Husband ’ * and “ Wait and See.” They say Ke 'knows how to act the goat in a morit gentlemanly fashion. On 'the screen, I mean. ■ f There is a whole chapter of romance to be written about the way film stars have started on the road to fame. - % %