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Paul Henreid of "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager" fame is well on his way to becoming an American— a famous one! He loves the American way of life.
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PAUL HENREID TELLS ELIZABETH WILSON
TEN years ago Paul Henreid made his first moving picture in Vienna. It wasn't a very important picture. And it wasn't nearly so good as those American pictures Paul saw at every opportunity he had. In his first picture he had tried to do a combination Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper, and it hadn't quite come off. But just the same he was thrilled about it. And when he was informed at the studio that a girl from one of the leading Viennese magazines wanted to interview him he felt that he had arrived.
When the girl had finished the interview, she said, "I would like to read your palm, Mr. Henreid, do you mind?" Paul was pleased. "See if you can find a brilliant
career for me," he said impetuously. "I want a career so bad I can taste it."
The girl studied his palm for some time, and then said very seriously, "You will have to go very far to make your career, Mr. Henreid. And you will have to go very far to find your happiness. I see water, much water, an ocean. You'll make your career in a far-away foreign country. And you'll not make it4intil you are thirty-five."
"Thirty-five !" exclaimed Paul miserably. "You mean I've got to wait ten long years?" And then his spirits quickly rose. "An ocean? A foreign country? America," he whispered. "It is America, isn't it? Please say it's America. All my life I've wanted to go to America. Live there. Work there. And be an American."
Today, ten years later, Paul Henreid is well on his way to becoming an American, and a famous one at that. It will be several years before he re (Please turn to page 89 )