FAMOUS CHILDREN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 304, 8 December 1936, Page 8

FAMOUS CHILDREN

FILM TRIPLETS GROW UP. I ONCE HOLLYWOOD SENSATION. The Mawby triplets, once the sensation of Hollywood, are now grown up. They are to be seen at London any morning leaving their home in Golders ! Green on their way to school—three I 13-year-old girls dressed in “gym” slips and long black stockings. Looking at these sombrely dressed, laughing.scholars, | you would not believe that they were once well known all over the world. Eight years ago, when they were five, they appeared in film after film. They were feted in New York and Hollywood and their parents sometimes had to ask for police protection to keep the crowds back. In those days they were chubby, wide-eyed, flaxen-haired babies. They were the first children to gam prominence in films. At the height of their fame as the Mawby Film Triplets they were earning £2O a day in pictures. And yet these three girls, who bear such a remarkable resemblance to each other, are not really triplets. Angela is eleven months older than the twins. Claudette and Claudine, called after their father, Captain Claud Mawby. Acting in a film with John Barrymore at the age of seven, Angela earned a regular £4O a week. But those days I are over, and now Captain and Mrs I Mawby are faced with the problem of what to do with three pretty girls who are rapidly growing up. Three shy girls solved the problem j when interviewed recently by the Sun day Graphic. “1 want to be an actress.’ said Angela. “So do I.” said Claudette >or perhaps it was Claudine). “And so do I.” said Claudine <or Claudette). The famous triplets are now little different from any ordinary English , schoolgirls—although a good deal prettiei ' than the average. Their hair is still golden and their eyes wide.