THE FILM STARS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE FILM STARS

AS SEEN BY A NURSE “ THE MOST GENUINE PEOPLE ” What are film stars like In private life? Here’s the answer from a woman who knows them as they really are. Miss Barbara Docker has been a nurse in Hollywood for 14 years. She' knows Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Charles Chaplin, Kay Francis, Shirley Temple,. Bill Robinson, John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, and her “ They are Iho most genuine pe'ople one could possibly meet. Those 1 have nursed have been excellent, patients and had in hospital no silly whims or Joan Crawford’s Generosity These are Miss Docker’s opinions of some of Hollywood's stars: Joan Crawford: A charming and natural girl. In the' hospital where I work she maintains, at a cost of £4OO a year, a room for “ extras ” who cannot afford good treatment. Shirley Temple: When I was nursing Bill Robinson, who taught her to dance, Shirley brought him (lowers everv dav. but she refused to speak. I 'learned she had been told that when in hospital' one must not speak, and she was faithfully obeying her instructions. Marilyn Miller, who died last, year, was a line type of woman and one of I lie host dancers in Hollywood at the time.