The Film's the Thing.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 4

The Film's the Thing.

“ The brightest star on Rroadwaj is an unknown until he or she has done a picture.” So says Fay Balnter. Broadway Urmln ary. who makes her screen debut as Katharine Hepburn's sister In RKO Radio's ” Quality Street.” “Picture playt rs l ive a world audience, while flic stage player Is known only to a sniaTl percentage of I theatre-goers In the larger cities,** j said Miss Rainier. ” The Broadway ‘first-nighter* may be familiar with !he players of the New York theatre, hnt to the population of DO per cent of the country, the latter are unknown. Katharine Gornell could walk the street of Oshkosh without, recognition but Ginger Rogers would bo I mobbed before She had gone a block, j “ Thi- condition did not exist In | ,hf * '*•'>> "hen players toured the i country in their successful stare plays. Rut since the road shows w«’nt into eclipse a player has to go into pictures to he 1 discovered by the world outside of New York.”