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Picture SKow Annual WALTER BYRON'S BAD LUCK ONE of the most disappointing things that can happen to a screen actor is to be engaged for a film that takes months to make. It means that perhaps for over a year not one film has been seen in which he appears. This has been Walter Byron's lot in America. After doing a good piece of work opposite Vilma Banky in " The Awakening," the picture for which in 1928 he was taken from the British screen, he was chosen to be Gloria Swanson's leading man in " Queen Kelly." The unfortunate fate of this picture kept him off the screen for a long while, often with no work for days on end, during the first feverish and difficult months of talking pictures. When he was released from his contract, he found no difficulty in getting work, for he had had stage experience, and possesses an excellent baritone voice, and_he played one of the leading roles in " The Sacred Flame " Swanson decided on her brave effort to remake " Queen Kelly as a talkie, and once more Walter Byron was selected as her leading man. Following this came yet another change of programme, and Gloria made " What a Widow." Walter Byron arrived in Holly- wood without any of the usual trumpets, and his first few months there were not too easy. He knew no t>ne. People did not go out or their way to be helpful, and Walter Byron is not the sort to blow his own trumpet. He will have earned success over there when he gets it. A BA. STAR ALTHOUGH Madeleine Carroll took her B.A. in languages at Birmingham University, she had no intention of doing anything else but stage work. Ever since she had been quite tiny she had set her heart on acting. Upon her graduation she took up teaching in a small school in Hove, but it was merely to earn enough money to take her lo London and keep her while she was looking for work, and three months later she was on the way to achieve her ambition. For some time she toured the provinces, then she attracted the attention of Seymour Hicks, and was given a part in one of his productions. A film contract followed, and after her debut in the leading feminine role of " The Guns of Loos," played in a few other silent British pictures and one French one. Then, with the talkies, Madeleine Carroll found herself in even greater demand, since she has a charming speaking voice and her stage experience is a distinct asset. After playing in " The American Prisoner," she was chosen for a leading part in " Atlantic." During this time she combined her screen work with the stage, and appeared as Pauline in " The Constant Nymph," in " Mr. Pickwick," and " Beau Geste," playing in the last two simultaneously—in the first act of " Beau Geste " and the second and third of " Mr. Pickwick," which was running at a theatre just opposite. Then came " French Leave," " The Roof," and " En- chantment."