CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 5

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

SIDELIGHT IN CAREER. In reviewing the past ten years of her life, Claudette Colbert declares thqt if she were to stop work row, she would have her beautiful

Beverly Hills home and an income of £25 per week, The retrospect took her back to the day of a Manhatten midsummer ten years ago when Mme. Jeanne Chauchoin was walking idly down Broadway. Hearing voices raised in the unmistakable clash of battle, Mme. Chauchoin looked up at the open windows of an office above a theatre near 42nd Street. Fearing foi’ the life ot Producer Al Woods, who had signed he daughter Claudette to a contract a short time before, Mme. Chauchoin bolted into the theatre and up the stairs. She found Mi' Woods alive, but not well. He was sitting in his chair exhausted from an argument with his newest star, Claudette Colbert, who had been Lily Chauchoin. She would not play in “Crime,” but she would play in “The Barker.” Claudette won that argument (“Crime” made another star —Sylvia Sidney) and it did something to her. She has been fighting her personal battles ever since—and winning most of them.