Jean Muir, who left Hollywood saddened but with her faith in herself unquenched, is intriguing the town by her London appearance, being but another who has found it advantageous to travel better than 3,000 miles to be "discovered." She is appearing in J. B. Priestley's "Peo-[be at Sea" in the leading role of a psychological treatise on a group marooned on a derelict liner. Her work has so impressed London that the talent scouts of two studios cabled to America urging that she be signed immediately as the find of the year, the report of one representative indicating that he believed he was directing Hollywood's attention to a girl unknown to the town.
Miss Muir fought one of the industry more courageous battles. While she admitted mistakes, many of her assignments should have been filled by unknown stock girls. She bore up under a series of "B" films and worse and strove to lift them above their class, an attitude not common among player:
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