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Hollywood and England are trading talent! Here's the first exclusive story of the great new movie gold rush which is luring so many of our best actors to London
The lovely Helen Vinson, one of the first Hollywood luminaries to leave for London, discusses her reasons for accepting British film offers in this authentic story.
STRANGE goings-on in Hollywood these days, mates ! The eyes of American movie stars are turned East, not West, for the first time. Beverly Hillbillies are buying new luggage, tuning up their broadA's, getting used to toasted scones, and practising that crook of the little finger which denotes real class over the tea-pot.
For a great mass movement of native movie actors on London is under way. The tide flows back again. Where once we used to receive a daily shipload of monocled mummers from Blighty, now we are transporting a huge herd of our best and fairest film folk to perfidious Albion, F.O.B. the Brown Derby.
This terrific trek, this horrendous hegira can be laid at the door of one Mr. Michael Balcon, Mickey to his pals and a walking ticket-office to our film actors. Mr. Balcon, an English film spy in the pay of GaumontBritish Pictures, has been thrusting through Hollywood like a naked sword, cutting off stars right and left.
The boy from Britain is a fast talker, and his foun
By Leonard Hall
Michael Balcon, of GaumontBritish, who journeyed to Hollywood to sign up some of our stars for films to be made in England. Left, Mr. Balcon with Mrs. Balcon.
Richard Dix, left, and Boris Karloff, two fine actors who are Britain-bound.