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Josef von Sternberg, off-quoted Svengali of Marlene.. Dietrich, arrived in the Colony yesterday morning on board the “Chichibu Maru," from Shanghai and will spend four days in Hong Kong before leaving by the "Chenonceaux" for Siam.
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No one was aware that he was not have seen' you. in the Colony, not even the local even telephoned me to see if I M.O.M. office!
would like an interview. Most cer- tainly if your had, I would have said No!"
I found Von Sternberg in his room at the Hong Kong Hotel. He was seated at a table, busily en- gaged in conversation in a foreign tongue with a friend.
WORKS ALONE Extraordinary man, this Von Sternbers. Handsome, moustached I stated may business.
and bearded, hair greying, he is a in ten minutes sculptor and "Come back
artist as well as exactly ten minutes," stated the director. He only makes one pic- emminent director.
ture a year or possiby one in two years.
When I returned-exactly ten minute later to a split second- I was courteously requested to be seated. Mr. Von Sternberg's maje companion left the room. I was alone with a man who knew the minds of 20,000,000 people (to use his own words). "The purpose of❘ the trip was to "inhale not exhale," I was told., Possibly contrary to my expectations of a Hollywood man, he had not even a picture to give me for publication.
NEVER SEE THE PRESS In America, according to Mr. Von Sternberg, he never met any representatives of the press. "Had you not walked in with such a hopeless look on your face, I would
Most of his pictures he admitted, were world beaters. Before pro- duction, actually commenced, he worked day and night for six months. He edited it, checked up the dialogue, took various plctures from different angles, besides planning - they scenery. And he worked alone.
KEEN COMPETITION A pressman whom. Von Stern- berg met at a reception in Shang- bal, inadvertently told the latter that "you directors get away with
lot." Von Sternberg told me that he could not accept this attitude.
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Josef von Sternberg, the famous Hollywood motion picture director, who arrived in Hong Kong yesterday, is here seen in a recent photograph with Marlene Dietrich, the well-known
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