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Anna May Wong had to go abroad and make good before she was acclaimed by Hollywood
Europe dubbed Anna May Wong as exquisite, and we raise their bid. Miss Wong is making "The Daughter of the Dragon" with Sessue Hayakawa.
ANNA MAY WONG, surely the most talented and / % lovely daughter a Chinese laundryman ever pro/ duced, returned to Hollywood to do "The Daughter of the Dragon," with Sessue Hayakawa, at Paramount. This, of course, after Europe had dubbed her exquisite, starred her on both stage and screen in Chinese, Malay, Eurasian and other characters, and generally placed its superior o.k. upon her.
After her starring vehicle, "The Circle in Chalk," in London, a famous English producer wanted to star Anna in Shakespearean roles, beginning with Ophelia in "Hamlet." They predicted she would be the sensation of the screen in this guise. But the Paramount people were negotiating at the same time, so Shakespeare heroines must be postponed until next year.
Paul Tanqu<ray
Anna has returned with a mastery of foreign languages, very Oxford English, German, French, and some Spanish, in addition to American and Chinese ! Anna also made a great hit in a Viennese operetta in Austria, besides starring in several silent pictures in Germany. But she does wish they wouldn't always want her to be a villainess !
In the meantime, Anna is buying a house, where her mother, four brothers and two sisters will live with her. Dad is proud of her, but declines to live on her, thank you. One little sister is very pretty and has already played some small bits in films. Another sister is proving a first class secretary. The boys have a big room at the top of the house for their very own. Dad raised them all with a laundry in Los Angeles.
Viennese, vivacious and bristling with charm — that's Nora Gregor. Her hair is golden brown, and she knows how to wear clothes.
VIENNESE, vivacious, and bristling with charm and piquancy, is Nora Gregor, who burst upon Los Angeles as an intriguing stage actress with young Mr. Fairbanks in "The Man in Possession." It was a fascinating debut. You see, Nora has already proved a joyous success in German versions of "The Trial of Mary Dugan" and "Olympic" last year, when she was brought out from Vienna, after her huge triumphs with Max Reinhardt in both Berlin and Vienna on the stage, and also in films.
"But I did not know English then, only a few little words, so it seemed my ambition to play in American pictures could not be realized. But when they sent for me again this year, I determined to learn English, and hid away in Michigan for six weeks. When I arrived here, it was all so exciting. Mr. Fairbanks wanted me for the play."
We may add that Nora's English is completely charming. She comes of an aristocratic Austrian family, whose estates were confiscated by the Italians after the war. For a while Nora's stage talents filled the family larder. Like Dietrich, she is married.
Nora is not really beautiful, but she is so sparkling, so very charming, that she seems entirely beautiful. Like Garbo and Dietrich, too, she is slightly above the regulation height for petite Hollywood charmers. Her hair is a light golden brown and she knows how to wear clothes. So, after this stage success, you will now see a new beauty in American film plays. They are hunting stories for her now.