POVERTY TO RICHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 15

POVERTY TO RICHES

RONALD COLMAN’S EXPERIENCE Ronald Colman has told the story of k‘s arrival in New York: I bought a second-class passage to -\merica. I arrived in New York with dollars, two letters of introduction ""three clean collars. All the picture udios were closed, as the result of a bud slump in business. Someone told me it was cheaper to live in Brooklyn than in New York, so I went over there and located a cheap rooming house. When I had spent my last dime for coffee and had gone hungry for two days. I got a part in a Shu- - bert show, which nsisted of my stepping out and ■waking two lines. The show hopped , er tWo weeks. But 1 got two weeks j y at 75 dollars a week. Then I wept own again to my very last quarter, a dime, and finally to a nickel V? l £ h 1 used for car-fare to New t - urk > where I succeeded in obtaining We in “East is West.” He now receives a salary of £I,OOO a work or no work, for the next . " His first all-talking picasv "bulldog Drummond,” is described ent J er Y nearly perfect audible screen ln _ rtainment, and is at present sweepAmerica. IjpHjcbard Barthelmess. who will be as as seen for the first VitanK ‘ Weary River,” First National's fin ~p hone production, has been given *ivei? USUaI role to play. He has been till an exc cptionally dramatic story t u * a real, living breathing characVj*u l ° p,a y. and situations brimming t Un i*i extr aordin a ry histrionic opporof _ ues * “Weary River” is the sfory DrjJ: n ‘ a * who was framed, sent to hirw disillusioned, inspired finding 5w r f - in song and music, and winj forl uno and love via the