COMING TO NEW ZEALAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 219, 5 December 1927, Page 16

COMING TO NEW ZEALAND

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND MARY PICKFORD AMONG STARS AT HOLLYWOOD Both Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are keenly interested in New Zealand and Australia. It is their intention to come here —that is, when plans already arranged, are fulfilled. Q.OODIE REEVE, daughter of Ada Reeve, of pantomime and musical comedy fame, who is a through passenger by the Aorangi to Sydney after a holiday visit to Hollywood, brought, an authoritative message from the great stars of the movie firmament. Both were exceedingly annoyed with a representative in Australia who some time ago announced that they were about to leave for the Antipodes. The information was not correct though both Mary and Doug, have had Hew Zealand and Australia in their mind's eye for some time past. Now, there is a prospect of a visit. The stars assured Miss Reeve that they would come, but they did not want New Zealanders and Australians to think that they had broken faith with them. MESSAGE FROM CHARLIE Miss Reeve also carries a personal message from Charlie Chaplin to admirers in this part of the world. Cecil B. de Mille, one of the most difficult men to approach in all moviedom gave her another and placed the facilities of his studies at her disposal. Artists particularly interested in this part of the world included Esther Ralston, with whom Miss Reeve was photographed; Rod la Rocque, Irene Rich, Richard Dix, Don Alvarado, Norma Shearer, Norma Talmadge, Dolores del Rio and Dolores Costello. It is certain that a number of stars will visit New Zealand and Australia for the purpose of personal appearances, but Miss Reeve is not 3 r et at liberty to state who they are. “All this talk about wild life in Hollywood seems very absurd. I found that one could walk about the streets at any hour at night and one was never molested. Very different to Sydney, or for that matter, Vancouver. I found many of the stars sincerely attached to their homes.” ESTHER RALSTON'S HOME

The Australian visitor was particularly interested in Esther Ralston’s new home, which has even given Hollywood something to think of. There are bedrooms in almost very conceivable style—French, Italian, Spanish and English. The house is furnished on a scale almost unparallelled.

Norma Talmadge, who is described as “full of fun and bubbling over with good spirits,” with much pride showed Goodie Reeve her golden dressing table with its golden toilet ornaments. “It was a perfectly wonderful holiday,” says Miss Reeve, who is going back to her Press work in Sydney fit and well. When she passed through Auckland a few mon |;s ago she was not in good health.