Unhappy Star

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 25

Unhappy Star

mary nolan tries hard TO DEFEAT DETRACTORS AND FORGET THE PAST j INCIDENT IN HOSPITAL Mary Nolan, known throughout the I United States as “the girl who lived ! ciowll her past,” hopes that the latest j chapter of her misfortunes has been j closed by «the recent decision of the Government agents to drop the charge against her of being a drug addict. In the hospital where she is being treated for excessive sunburn, the film actress told the narcotics inspector that she was the victim of a plot to blackmail her under a threat to destroy her reputation, says the “Daily Mail.” Two former nurses swore affidavits that for two weeks past Mary Nolau had been indulging in an orgy of drug taking, but the inspector, after examining her. wrote across the search N warrants, “She is not a drug addict.” jSSSUksm Bad luck has fiSU*' dogged her since la the start of her xNffily career. At the \ . age of lfi she won meteoric success in c / the Ziegfeld Follies under the name of Mary Nclan L-iogene Wilson. This triumph was ruined !)}• her association with Frank Tinney, the comedian. The professional future of Tinney and herself appeared to have been blasted, but, under her own name of Mary Robertson, she sought work in Europe. Her gifts made her a star in German films, and an American producer recommended her for an engagement in Hollywood. Changing her name again to Mary Nolan, it was not until she was acclaimed a star at Hollywood that she was recognised as the former Imogene Wilson.