Lilia Skala

[David Shipman on Lilia Skala]: Lilia Skala was a remarkable woman, best known in Britain for a handful of movie appearances. Acting was not her original career, because her parents did not consider it respectable: she chose architecture, and as there were no facilities then fo r a woman to study the subject in her native Vienna, Lilia von Skalla (as she was born) trained at the University of Dresden - she subsequently became the first woman member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects.