PICTURE STARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 15

PICTURE STARS

BETTY BRONSON The youthful Betty Bronson, chosen to play the title role of “Peter Pan,” won the honour in competition with 100 aspirants, in-

I eluding some of the most famous players on stage and screen. Blueeyed Betty was I born in Trenton. New Jersey, and at the age of three her parents left that State for California. Until she was eight Betty lived in Los Angeles and Pasadena. She attended St. Mary’s Academy in + ocra of oIP-ht hpr

Los Angeles. At the age of eight her parents carried the future “Peter Pan” away to New York She attended public and private schools in New York and New Jersey. At the age of 14 she left St. Vincent’s Academy in Newark, where she studied music and French. Soon after she was ten, however, she began thinking of the stage and the screen. When she was 14 she studied Russian ballet under Fokine in New York with the idea that a knowledge of dancing might give her an opportunity in motion pictures. Her first job was at the Paramount Long Island studio, where she got a small bit in * Anna Ascends,” with Alice Brady. When fame found for her the title of Herbert Brennon’s production of Peter Pan” for Paramount she was living with her mother in Hollywood Since her introduction in “Peter Pan.’ Miss Bronson has been put under a longterm contract with Paramount. Her most recent successes are “Are Parents People?”, “Not So Long Ago, e Golden Princess,” “A Kiss For Cinderella.” “The Cat’s Pyjamas, Everybody’s Acting,” and “Paradise For TA Miss Bronson’s favourite sport is swimming. Her favourite form serious exercise is dancing, and wnen she reads, it is usually a book of plays. Miss Bronson is slightly built, weighs 100 pounds, and has blue eyesana brown hair. She is five feet in height.