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They Thought She Was
But it turned out she was Binnie Barnes, the newest English screen sensation !
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As they say in Hollywood, Binnie Barnes "has something." There are more beautiful girls, but she has brains and personality plus. Remember her in The Private Life of Henry VIII as Katheryn Howard? Now she's making There's Always Tomorrow for Universal
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by J. EUGENE CHRISMAN
nd They Thought I was Dillinger's moll!" Binnie Barnes, the English girl Universal has imported for an important role in There's Always Tomorrow, smiled at me across the luncheon table.
"Of course I had read of American gangsters, but imagine the thrill of being stopped by the police, within a few minutes after I got off the boat and suspected of being Dillinger's girl friend, just because I had red hair! Me for America!"
Listening to her low, pleasant, cultivated voice, I wondered how anyone, except a; policeman, could mistake her for a gangster's moll, for Binnie Barnes is one of the most accomplished and talented of Hollywood's importations, every inch a lady but not conscious of it. She had been in Hollywood less than three weeks and she was already more American than British.
• Binnie's professional career began on the night she appeared on the stage of a London music hall. It was try-out night, when the amateur talent was given the opportunity to show its wares, success or failure depending upon the applause of the cat-calls of the rough-and-tumble cockney audience.
"I thought my outfit was simply the last word that night," she laughs at the recollection, "but looking back, it must have been awful. I wore a wide picture hat, a long flowing dress trimmed with a profusion of feathers and a pair of run down high heeled shoes."
With all the assurance of a veteran, she advanced to the center of the stage and lifted her voice in song.
"I'm looking at the world through rosecolored glasses."
"Well blarst hit lyde, we're not," roared a
cockney voice from the gallery, "tyke her off!"
But Binnie sang serenely on and followed her
song with a dance.
"As I danced," she relates, "my dress began
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