SPORT IN PICTURES
ATTRACTIVE OFFERS TEMPTING THE CELEBRITIES Sporting celebrities invariably drift into the movies these days. The financial returns always prove too attractive even for the most diffident. Gertrude Ederle, the American girl
who swam the English Channel, is to have a role in pictures. After months of negotiation she has signed a contract with Paramount to appear in Bebe Daniels’s next production, “Swim, Girl, Swim,” a story of college life. The Paramount Company also is negotiating with George Young, the Canadian youth, who swam the Catalina Channel, with a view of drafting him into the picture. Young underwent screen tests at the Paramount studios immediately after his swimming feat. Neither he nor the studio officials thought much of the results. They took him on to a set, told him that next door a patient was in a dentist’s office having a tooth pulled and that his turn was next.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 23
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151SPORT IN PICTURES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 23
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