The popular French star, Danielle Darrieux, follows her countrywoman, Simone Simon, to the Californian coast, and a third of France's favourites, the lovely Annabella, goes out shortly to Twentieth Century, who, I hear, have gone to the expense of borrowing William Powell to star in her first film there.
Then there is Lull Deste, the attractive young Viennese baroness who used to live in London in a flat inhabited largely (in my memory) by enormous dogs. Miss Deste was Edward G. Robinson's leading lady in his British picture "Thunder in the City" Now she is at Columbia.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who gave the screen its greatest feminine find in recent years—Luise Rainer, from Vienna—have another little group of Continental names ready to launch. This studio has a great reputation of star-making, with Garbo as their enduring monument to the flair of Louis B. Mayer, so it is likely that one of these names will become well known before long—Miliza Korjus, Rose Stradner, Della Lind.
Miliza is a slim, blonde singer, who, is claimed, has reached the highest soprano note on record. She made her first impression in Hollywood through gramophone records. When t was discovered that the owner of ihe voice could be listened to with open eyes they lid her in the frst boat.
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