FAMOUS ACTRESS GOES TO AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 23

FAMOUS ACTRESS GOES TO AMERICA

UNHERALDED ARRIVAL ROLE FOR CAMILLA HORN Camilla Horn came all alone and unheralded to New York recently, a United Artists contract bringing her from the German picture studios.

Camilla is the blonde girl who played Marguerite in Emil Jannings’s “Faust.** A representative of the

film company who had never seen a picture of Miss Horn was sent to meet the Columbus. He questioned numerous blondes, important - looking ladies who stepped down the gangplank. None was

<’ami la Horn. One

splendid, tall blonde, clad in sables, was followed by a maid carrying a dog. j “Are you Miss Camilla Horn?” •‘No.” ; The emissary went to the other side i of the pier and found a wide-eyed girl ' in a tweed coat standing alone under ' the large letter “H.” | “Ah, yes.” she was Camilla Horn. “Gauz aJlein.” she added. | No maid, no dog. no attendant j cavaliers. | Practical, she had her keys ready for the customs man and seemed eager to help him at inspection. She was anxious to see New York—it seemed strange to be alone—she didn’t like being alone —why had she come—she was glad to be here —would they like her in Hollywood? Did she go there by boat? Was it true that flowers grew in the middle of the street in Calfornia? And. ah. New York was so big. maybe it would fall on her! She was in New York only two days, and all she bought was a toy woolly that looked like the white West Highland terrier that she had to leave behind in Germany. The day after she arrived in Hollywood Camilla Horn was chosen by John Barrymore as leading woman in “Tempest.” his Russian picture.