BINNIE BARNES, DIPLOMAT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 29 May 1937, Page 3

BINNIE BARNES, DIPLOMAT

Binnie Barnes, who portrays an international beauty in Universal’s “Three Smart Girls,” now at the Plaza kheaitre, takes an international viewpoint. of world affairs which should rate her among the modern diplomats. “Motion pictures,” declare- ;s Binnie, “are doing a great deal to cement the friendship between, the United States and other English speaking countries’ I do not mean,” says Miss Barnes, “that there is any conscious attempt at propaganda. “There is a rather large colony of British actors in Hollywood, scores of them who are becoming more Americanised each day they remain on this side of the Atlantic. American actors who go to London to play in British films are, conversely, absorbing the English viewpoint. “Gradually the British in Hollywood and the Americans in London studios will take over more and more of the speech, mannerisms and ideas of the country in which they are sojourning. I know that, personally, the more I become acquainted with American customs, ’the more I like them. That goes for the American people, too. „ “Now, a few hundredi people, b£ themselves>, may not be a tremendous factor in bringing better understanding between the two nations. But the actors, working in studios in both countries, interpret their ' new viewpoint in films that reach countless millions in America and all the British processions. These films have the effect of passing on the mannerisms, speech and ideas of the players. The continued interchange of

thoughts and customs will weld the English speaking people of the earth closer together.”