The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-25
By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood, Feb. 25.-There's a talent famine on the stages and in the movie studios of Vienna. Oh, maybe they've got few promising little ingenues, and some aging ana buxom leading ladies. But they can't have many stars. These are all in Hollywood.
 Movie producers themselves are unable to tell you why they have so ruthelessly raided the show shops of little Austria's capital. Some of them pay tribute to that city's fine dramatic traditions and facilities for training which may result in the development of a larger number of players.
 Some say that Viennese ac- tresses just naturally seem to be endowed with glamor and emo tional fire-the "umph" that at tracts mobs-at theater box offices.
 The most prominent Viennese actresses now in Hollywood are Rose Stradner, Luise Rainer, Tillie Losch, Della Lind, Luh Deste and Hedy Keisler (the strap-teaser of Ecstasy" who's now known as Hedy LaMarr). They're All Gone Now
 Rose Stradner, who is the most thoughtful and articulate of recent foreign importations, gives no par ticular credit to her home town for it's contributions to the movies.
 She doesn't believe her country women are remarkably beautiful, either. or that she herself is an outstanding beauty. CThere could be a lot of argument about the later(
 American girls seem to be all born beautiful" she said. "1 stand and look amazed at the lovely girls here, in the small parts and among the extras.
 But no, they are not all good actresses. I think that Americans are handicapped by happiness. They have everything; they are light t-hearted. Of course know Americans have troubles, but they are individual troubles. In Europe an actress all her life has seen mass unhappiness, great pov- erty and suffering, and fear.
 "No wonder we have ca pacity for emotional expression! Everybody has. That also is why European players have a tendency to over-act. An American will say of a trouble, "Oh, take it easy. What of it?" But a European will be fighting against it. It is nat ural for us to scream and shout because we have become emotion ally over-developed. Americans call us temperamental."
 A Top Star in Europe
 Miss Stradner made her movie debut in the feminine lead of 'The Last Gangster." The role had enough drama to attract wide crit ical approval, and the studio has more important parts in mind for her. She has two advantages over all the other recent glamor impor- tations-a distinguished background in the theater, and a better con- mand of English.
 AS a girl, being educated in a convent in Vienna, she was as- signed an English roommate. Miss Stradner learned to speak the language rather fiuently before she could read even the simplest words in it. Later she kept in practice by seeing American movies
 Acting always was her ambi-
 tiOn. At 19, instead of begin ming at the bottom, she went di- rectIy to Max Reinhardt, asked for an addition, and got con- tract Within five years she be- came one of the top stars of the European stage.
 Luise Rainer and Miss Stradner were contemporaries in Vienna, and for years worked in the same company, dividing most of the in- genue roles. Miss Rainer came to America and Miss Stradner re- mained to star with the Josefstadt theater.
 There she appeared in more than 50 dramas - Shakespeare, Ihsen, Moliere and moderns - Dreiser, O'Neill and such. Her favorite was "Fraulein Else" and that gloomy Schnitzler story is a fair sample of the actress dra- matic taste.
 Her highest hope for her Holly wood career is that she may do "Fraulein Else" for the screen. They Promise Anything
 All this is not to imply that Miss Stradner is by any means
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