THINKING BACKWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 11

THINKING BACKWARD

MAY BEATTY WRITING MEMOIRS BOUND FOR HOLLYWOOD May Beatty is living her life all over again. “I’m dazed with thinking backward,” she said this morning on the Aorangi. “At present I'm back to about seven years old.” Miss Beatty, the New Zealand-born actress whose name has blazed in electric lights in London and New York, is writing a book of memoirs. That is why she has been growing up again. Her memoirs should be interesting. Born in Christchurch, she went on the stage as a girl and later played all the leads with the Pollards. Then came engagements in Australia, London and New York. Miss Beatty has been associated with many famous stage people during her career, and the stories she has to tell in her book are numberless. It is hoped that the memoirs will be published shortly. “Now I’m off to Hollywood and the talkies,” she said this morning with that enthusiasm which has always been characteristic of May Beatty. If letters of introduction count for anything, her success there is assured. “Sir Joseph Ward, Sir Benjamin Fuller, Mr. E. J. Tait and lots of others have all given me letters of introduction to help me storm the talking films,” she said. Miss admitted that the talkies have affected the legitimate stage in Australia, but she thinks that before long the whole business will find its own level. Hinemoa, Miss Beatty’s little daughter, is also bound for Hollywood, and hopes to do some film work there. She appeared with her mother in “Hit the Deck,” the last production in which Miss Beatty appeared in New Zealand. Mabel Gibson, who toured New Zealand -with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, is also on the Aorangi on a holiday trip to Honolulu and America.