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ANNA MAY WONG ALTHOUGH America has taken many of our stars, and made stars of many of our small part players, it was England who made Anna May Wong a star. Eight years ago Anna May Wong was still helping in her father's laundry, although she had already begun to work as a film extra. SKe had played many parts in American pictures before she won general notice as the Slave Girl in " The Thief of Bagdad," but the big things her excellent portrayals deserved never came to her, even when she was absolutely made for a part such as that of Nang Ping, the tragic heroine of " Mr. Wu," which Renee Adoree took in the version starring Lon Chaney, while Anna May Wong was relegated to the very secondary role of Nang Ping's cousin. In 1928, she decided to try her fortune in England, and her first picture was " Piccadilly." As Shosho, the kitchen maid who became a dancer, she ran away with the him, although she was not the star, and England gave her the reward that America had withheld —stardom. Her second British picture was her first talkie—" The Flame of Love," in which her performance was outstanding. She starred in both the German and English versions of this film, and appeared at the first nights in both Berlin and London. Anna May Wong's off-screen personality is even more vivid than her shadow self, and the beauty of her colouring is lost in black and white photography—her deep ivory skin, scarlet lips, small gleam- ing white teeth, and sleekly shining black satin hair. She is even more slender off the screen than on, yet there is no hint of angularity in her slimness. She has a charm- ing voice, and the American accent which she possessed when she first arrived over here has become just a pleasant intonation.