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You7 11 see Tala co-starring with Luis Trenker in "The Doomed Battalion." She is a blue-eyed blonde, rather tall and stately. She speaks Polish, German, Roumanian, and now English.
That Lovely Lady /^Vienna
Presenting Tala Birell, the latest little import — and she's not in the least like Garbo !
By
Alma Whitaker
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HE astrologists will tell you that those born under the sign of Virgo — that is. between August 22nd and September 21st, are coolheaded, practical., methodical, critical, industrious and intelligent. They waste no time in dreaming. They know on which side their bread is buttered.
Xow Tala Birell, who will be introduced to the Englishspeaking public as a co-star with Luis Trenker in "The Doomed Battalion/' by the Universal studio, was born on Sept. 10, 1908. One's first impression is all Virgo.
let there is nothing about being a good actor for this sign. \ irgo people are recommended for commercial and mercantile pursuits. So some other sign or star must have intruded when Tala was born, in Bucharest. Roumania. For a great many people including Max Reinhardt of Berlin and Carl Laemmle, Jr., of Hollywood, have the highest opinion of her dramatic ability.
Like Garbo, she is rather tall. Her hair is a soft blonde and her eyes, though large, a rather cold blue. Or perhaps she was tired when I talked with her. right
after twenty successive rehearsals of a scene with a baby. The baby was required to laugh but preferred to cry, especially when Tala was speaking her lines. It didn't want to wave to a fictitious daddy off in the Tyrolean Alps. But either way. Tala explained concisely that she did not wish the baby to steal the scene. Babies so often do steal any scenes they are in.
Presently we repaired to Tala's dressing room. Here she was all poiseful decorum. One was conscious of remembering that her mother was a Viennese baroness and her uncle. Baron Bogdanski of Poland. Tala and I both avoided mentioning these aristocratic connections — but the studio has no such delicacy, so that I was well informed.
They rather like titles in Hollvwood. you know. I mean keeping them a secret just isn't done, especially when they are as authentic as Tala's.
Her father is interested in oil. His name is Carol Bierl — Tala's real name being Xatalie Bierl — but the Birell was considered easier for {Continued on page 92)