MANY TITLED PERSONAGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 5

MANY TITLED PERSONAGES

NOW WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD. In Hollywood these days, the movie sets are swarming with as many titled personages as you can find at any Royal levee outside the Court of St. James. On the Paramount lot, for in? stance, there are no less than five members of the Old World nobility be? fore the cameras at the same moment. Seated with Madeleine Carroll and Fred Mac Murray at a table on the “Cafe Society” set is the Baroness Heidy von Maasburg, daughter of a distinguished Austrian nobleman and cousin of the Archduke Otto, claimant to the banished throne of Austria, Serving the baroness is Walter Theilet now an American citizen. Before his emigration to the United States, this man who portrays an humble waiter was, himself, a notable figure in the night life of Berlin and other European capitals. Then he' was Count Walter Erich Theile of Germany. Playing a minor role in “Hotel Imperial,” in which Isa Miranda makes her American debut, is the heir to the throne of the Austrian principality of Bukovina and to a 100,000-acre estate in Egypt. He is Count Arthur Walter Cermitz, son of Baron Johann Vences-? las, former Ambassador of the Haps-? burgs to Russia and erstwhile minister of foreign affairs of the empire of Austria-Hungary. In a big part in Claudette Colbert’s new picture, “Midnight,” is the Count Stefenelli von Prenterhof and Hohenmaur. He, too, is one of the Haps-? burgs.

The most important role held by any of the title quintet, appropriately enough, is being played in the new “Bulldog Drummond” pictures by the man who holds the highest rank. In the list of characters on the screen, his name appears as Michael Brooks, byt off screen he is the-Earl of Warwick, one of England’s premier peers,