The New York Times called "Tales from the Vienna Woods" "a tasty mélange of comedy and music", and mentioned "the little Dutch actress". There weren't many Dutch film stars - the only other one was Lien Deyers, born in Amsterdam, three months younger than Truus. She'd been working steadily since 1927, when an act of supreme cheek had endeared her to Fritz Lang himself. Living in Vienna with her actress mother, she'd attended a teaparty, knowing that the director of "Die Nibelungen" and "Dr. Mabuse" would be there. Spotting the Great Man and picking a moment when the crowds around him thinned, she approached him and asked (in not-very-good German), "Herr Lang - wouldn't you like to discover me?". Lang screwed in his monocle and surveyed this blonde, self-assured girl. By coincidence his upcoming film, "Spione" ("Spies") had a part for a girl like her. Movies were silent, so her voice was unimportant... The film did good business, the public liked her, and she was soon in great demand, even coping well with the arrival of sound. She married producer Alfred Zeisler (who'd overseen production on Truus' film "Sajenko the Soviet") and obviously had a great future ahead of her.