Three New Faces for Universal Pictures (1935) 🇺🇸

Universal has just placed a number of young ambitious and promising actresses and actors under contract and will give them opportunities and important roles as fast as they show their aptitude.

Among the new players signed are Shaindel Kalish, whose picture is just above. Miss Kalish is twenty, weighs less than a hundred pounds, has dark hair and dark brown eyes, and made a sensational success in the Chicago production of Maedchen in Uniform which was her debut while attending the Goodman Theatre School of Drama in Chicago. She was born in Chicago and is a recognized drawing power on the N. B. C. network.

Another newcomer is Diana Gibson, a Chicago girl who came to Los Angeles as a prize winner in a Balaban & Katz beauty contest. She has just been given her first role.

Another pictured on this page is Priscilla Lawson, an Indianapolis girl, who made a success in New York as a model. Her face was brought to Universal attention in a Universal Newsreel.

Today starts a new chapter in the life of Diana Gibson, whose French-lrish parentage has already showered her with such names as Malloy, Agapette, and LaBie. Universal thought that Diana Gibson was a little more screenable than any of these. It was on a vacation trip, the result of a beauty contest, that Diana Gibson came to Los Angeles three months ago.

Carl Laemmle, Jr. saw her dancing in a night club. A test followed and Diana turned in her return ticket. Today she is one of the leads in “Dangerous Waters,” in support of Jack Holt, which went into production today under the direction of Lambert Hillyer.

Though she is delighted, Diana Gibson isn't much surprised at all this. It seems that Carl Laemmle himself once ordered a screen test of this twenty-year-old girl when she was only thirteen. She was big for her age at that time, and a friend of her family sent a photograph to Carl Laemmle as a response to his Saturday Evening Post appeal for new faces.

Beautiful Shaindel Kalish, Chicago stage star.

Priscilla Lawson, discovered by the Universal Newsreel while posing for fashions, had a part as one of the Milgrim fashion mannequins in the fashion parade of “Sweet Surrender.” They give her a close-up, too.

Diana Gibson, who was born Rosemary LaBie in Chicago, has just been given her first role in “Dangerous Waters,” in support of Jack Holt and under the direction of Lambert Hillyer.

Collection: Universal Weekly, November 1935