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FILM STARS
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Nova Pilbeam Gets A "Grown-Up" Salary
London, April 15,
Two young English film players are in luck's way. They are re- celving the reward of good work in the same film.
Nova Plibeam has had her old contract torn up, and replaced by an extended one, engaging. her for five years at more than double her previous salary. ̧*
Desmond Tester has been given a long-term contract. Miss Pilbeam is the
star of a
forthcoming film, "Tudor Rose," which deals with the story "of Lady Jane Grey. Mr. Tester is the young Edward the Sixth in the same dim.
"We are very pleased with the work of these two young artists in this film," said Mr. Michael Balcon, the Gaumont-British chief of pro- duction.
HER "PETER PAN"
"Miss Pilbeam was under con- tract to us for a further period. but, on this strength of her success in this aim, and as Peter Pan' on the stage last Christmas, we have cancelled that contract, and given her e salary as large as that of a grown-up star.“
Miss Pilbeam, who is 16, starred in her first am, "Little Friend,” Fand has appeared in "The Man
Who Knew Too Much
The men have been picked from 9:15 pm-News and Eamomic Re- the best squads in the battery, and Desmond Tester, aged 15, is the
view in German on DJA, DJE, will be in charge of a gun orderly. boy actor who has already attract DIN, DJB. R
They will be on duty in getting the ed praise for his work in West End 9.30pm Introducing Experts: gun out of the gun park, where plays and as Midshipman Dosaltt Eduard Erdmann plays Plano it is housed overnight, and bring in the talkie Midshipman Eary," Compositions by Bchubert,
He
made this while playing in "Touch Wood" on the stage.
6.35 p.m.-English Informational 10 pln New and Economic Ring it up on to the parade, where it his first film.
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7 bi-La Yebana presents "The 10.30 pm--We Announce the New Spice of Rhythm and Melody." Month, P. 7.30 pm-Philco-Frigidaire Pre-1E15pm-Songs of the Hebrides.
sentation featuring "Tarzan of the Apes
7.48pm-Redio Crusaders, com
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Katherine Vob! D
1190 pin Don Juan". A fym- Conducted by the Composer.
phonic Poem by Richard 12 Straust
(Cerman, English).
Since making ""Tudor Rose" he has played the part of Asticot in aurice Chevallers talkie of the Beloved Vagaband
It is probable that he will next have an important part in Alfred Hitchcock's new Alm B from Conrad's “The Sec
in which sylvia Bidney in toʻstar.
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