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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 446, 31 May 1937, Page 8

Merle Oberon In “Beloved Enemy” To-day she is one of filmdom’s first stars. The demand for her services is so- great that she must reconcile herself to spending half her time in Hollywood, where she is under contract to Samuel Goldwyn, and the other half of London working for Alexander Korda. But glamorous Merle Oberon, who sailed for England the moment she finished "Beloved Enemy,” her latest Goldwyn production which stars her with Brian Aherne and screens at the Plaza on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, still remembers the days when doors did not fly open at her knock and "getting started” seems an unnecessarily difficult process. Before her seventeenth birthday dawned, fate offered her an opportunity to accompany an army officer uncle on a trip to England. When it was time for him to return, however, she insisted upon remaining in London io carve out a stage career. But jobs in the theatre were not to be had. Her money went quickly. Soon her small capital was gone. London was a cold discouraging jplace. For want of something better she took a