Filmindia (1941)

Yilmindia' Is Different' Says Rose From Private Secretary To Film Star Rose Beats The Governor Of C. P. By Hyacinth. The film language is one of superlatives, where stupendous, colossal and divine are the commonest of words. Nevertheless I cannot use any of these exaggerated expressions to describe Rose. She is not smoulderingly exotic or utterly sugary sweet. She is just plain nice, and when I say it I mean it as a compliment. She is the sort of girl who would be equally at home in a college classroom as in a film studio. She does not carry her film poses into her private life. She proved this by not keeping me waiting for our interview as most celebrities would. Rose is very 'chic'. When I saw her she had just returned from Juhu and was dressed in green slacks. She looked very young and fresh and has a lovely creamy skin which she never powders. She uses only lipstick and with her vermillion lips and glossy black hair she looks slightly Spanish. She says that she usually avoids interviews with magazines because they usually ask her such ridiculously silly questions, "filmind'a" she says "is different. It is a magazine which is not afraid to be frank and She was given sort every of toy. conceivable which states its views in an intelligent way." Now we'll stop our gentle trumpet blowing and I'll tell you about Rose's early life. MARRIED AND DIVORCED Rose is a Jewess. She is an only child and was born in Calcutta. As an only child she was spoilt. She was given every conceivable sort of toy by her doting parents. She was a clever child and passed her Senior Cambridge exam, at fifteen. Her father Mr. Musleah was private secretary to the Consul at Costa Rica, Sir B. B. Bannerjee who was the son-in-law of the Maharaja Jatindra Mohan Tagore. Rose when she left school wanted to become a doctor but she was not a very strong child and her wealthy parents persuaded her to give up the idea. Anyway, she eventually became a private secretary like her father and as if this wasn't enough she also taught ballroom dancing af'-er work. Then Rose got married at the early age of sixteen, and became Mrs. Ezra, but she is just plain Miss. Musleah now because in her religion a woman takes back her maiden name after divorce. SHE JOINS THE STAGE Rose enjoyed the placid life of a married woman and had two children but she was still hardly more than a girl and eager for excitement. So when some of her friends suggested that she try acting because she was attractive and had a natural flair for acting, she was only too pleased to try. So Rose joined the stage and became a very unimportant actress but she worked hard and worked her way up. On the stage she gleaned a great deal of experience under Agha Hasher, the famous poet and writer. Miss tiuse whose new piciuie "Kasauti" is now running at the Pathe. In these days the language difficulty was a great problem for Rose. All her life she had spoken English and in school she had been taught only English and French, so she had to learn a completely new language and learn it pretty well. Rose says "It doesn't matter so very much when a film actress has a poor command of the language because she can't see nor hear the audience reaction, but a stage actress is often booed and hissed at if her grammar is faulty." Anyway when Rose felt that her stage work had given her acting the necessary polish, she went to the late J. F. Madan with a letter of introduction from the owner of Tollywood Studios, and she starred in "Pati Bhakti" and other films for him. Then the wander lust possessed her and she came to Bombay in 1935 where she joined Imperial's first and signed a two-year contract with them. Now Rose is free-lancing and likes it better this way because she can make a film just when the spirit moves her and she has a variety of players with whom to act. Rose's career has not been an easy one. She did not become a star over-night. She worked her way up the hard way, 53