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DIRECTOR PLAYS IN OWN PRODUCTIONS
The right hand of Director Wil-
Wellman
has been cast
liam for an important role in sup- port of Clara Bow in "Ladies of the Mob," the Paramount star's latest production, arearding to an announcement from the studio in Hollywood recently.
Director Wellman, who is mak ing his first picture with the flam- ing-haired flapper of the screen since the aviation epic "Wings," has a hobby of playing in his own productions just for luck. In "Wings" he was a soldier and in "The Legion of the Condemned" he played the bit of a spy.
He found no opportunity, how- ever, to cast himself in "Ladies of the Mob until it was found that an insert showing a flash- light being shot out of a police- man's hand was essential.
"That's my role," said Wellman. and he went through with it. Now studio' paymasters are trying to figure out whether the hand rates an extra cheque.
Members of the cast used in support of Miss Bow in "Ladies of the Mob" are Richard Arlen, leading man; Mary Alden, Helen Lynch. Bodil Rosing. Crorge Irving, Lorraine Rivero James Pierce.
and
BEST DANCERS
FOLK "STEPS" FOR POISE
A MENTAL TONIC
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Mr. Douglas Kennedy, director of the English Folk Dancing Society, thinks women adapted for. dancing than He holds that grace of movement comes mors naturally to women. Mr. Kennedy was "apeaking at a Soroptimist Club luncheon at the
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Sir Gerald du Maurier, the ac- tor-manager, declared that he wanted to return to "the good old days which are no more."
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was speaking at a City Livery Club luncheon at the Car- Throgmorton-
penter's Hall, avenue, E.C., and cheers greeted his remarks that he would "like once more to see the unshingled." He added:
I would like to go back to the time when your daughter does not beat you eight up and seven at golf and give you thirty love and a severe beating at tennis.
I would Eke to go back to the time when suddenly there was silence in the room-and no ele phone. I would like to go back! to the time when you did not hear "bang, bang," "hoot, hoot," but the Clip-clap 01 hanseme-cab horses in the streets.
I would like to go back to a Bond-street down which you were not allowed to walk without a top hat and frock coat, and to the time when you sat at home to dinner with the family round the fire instead of going out to a rea- taurant and dancing with a man -girl-boy-well, you never know what they are these days, do you? I should like to return to the
days when you did not always have to dance to time played on coal scuttles and tongs. I should like to see lovely waltzes and the poika danced again, but not all this jazz.
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Lois Moran, whese heart is set on an operatie career when she finishes with the cinema.
Washington Hotel, London. To women who were seeking poise- mental physical, and emotional he recommended folk dancing as one of the surest ways of obtain- ing it.
"When I was in America last summer," he said, "I found that American women were all seeking poise. They told me you could do anything with poise, but that it had to be mental, physical, and emotional. They are quite insati- able in their search for ways of acquiring poise in America;" and many of the women have turned to dancing.
"It is my experience that the forms of dance which give poise are folk dances. The form of folk dance which is most suitable for women is the country dance,
Monte Blue, whose wife has given and for this you need not be slim birth to a future cinema setor.
MISS ALMA RUBENS
FORMER FILM STAR AND DRUG ALLEGATION
ar have shapely ankles. The phy- sical effect of country dancing is like the result of intensive walk- ing over hilly country. It gives a springy step and a clear cye. and the head is carried high while the shoulders swing free."
Country dancing. Mr. Kennedy maintained, had a wonderful Mias Alma Rubens, until recent-
mental tonic effect and the moral ly a prominent film actress, was
effect of it was to make people recently admitted to a Hollywood become nicer." To understand hospital in a serious condition. the mental tonic effect, one need- The Federal authorities are inves-ed to compare the faces of those tigating allegations that she is drug addict.
It is stated that the Board of Medical Examiners in Los Angeles holds 31 prescriptions for narco- tics issued to her between Septem- ber 21 and October 17 last year, and information is being sought from eight doctors who are alleg ed to have supplied her with the prescriptions. The authoritica as-
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dancing modern ballroom dances and those who danced country dances.
sert that Miss Rubens paid £250
for druga In five weeks.
Miss Rubens is married to the film actor Mr. Ricardo Cortez, who refuses to discuss the case..
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The Welsh opera "Blodwen" was to be produced in English at the New Scala Theatre. Charlotte street, W., in aid of the Welsh Miners' Relief Fund.
On April 2 an air service was inaugurated between Prague and
Priscilla Dean is to appear shortly Rotterdam to connect with the
a fiying film
Rotterdam-London service.
Anita Stewart, famous movie actress, and George Peabody Converse, whom she will marry in June. Mr. Converse, scion of a prominent Boston family, is at present managing a country wide stage tour of the former cinema star.
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