From Hollywood. —A character actor is one who gives the best “yeahs” of his life to the pictures. From the middle of November to the end of January all would be dark at Tromov, a city 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, were it not I for the fact that the city is lit by electricity. This is the long winter night ! of the north. A story is told of an English tourist who entered a restaurant in Paris, and by means of a few scraps of French was able to order dinner. Presently he thought he would like some mushrooms and not knowing the name he asked for a piece of paper and sketched one. The waiter pondered for a moment, disappeared and returned a few minutes later with a handsome umbrella.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 6
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