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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL
1-Sail
4-Texture of threasia
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S-Band of singers
11-Elbow
12-Race-horse
fraudulently
cntered
14-A cereal grass
16-Mammal with short
stout timbe' and flexible proboscis
17-Man's name (abbr) 18-To concoct -
20-Riotous assembly
21-Retained
22-Fail in drops 94-Pronoun
25-Famous French
scientist
26-Thin, watery part
of milk 28-Decaye
31-Filament
HORIZONTAL (Cont)
32-Nominal value
34 Fruit
35-Request
37-Cured meat
29-Tumor
40-Takes feloniously 42-Planted, as flowern | 44–Black fungua
45-6harp weapon 46-Drunkard 47-Boil
VERTICAL 1-Court marrymaker 2-Suffix. One who B-Qirála 4-Whizzing noise B-Eternity 6-01 greater alzo 7-Thin slab of wood 8-A st of playara
Steal (slang) |10-Staggers
VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-Piece of work 18-Scepter
16-City to Michigan 19-One who cleanses
by rubbing 21-Biblical king 23-Compermate 24-Biblical name
meaning free, noble 26-Refuge 27-Cross-country walkers 29-Showy but not
elegant 86-Spirited horie |$1–PeascasCE 32-Qone by 38-Plunders
8)-Finish 37-Ink spot, 38-Recent tidings
41-In the past 48-Speck
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow'a issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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$5,000 FOR FILM
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S
PRIZE
Canberra, June 13. The Federal Government are offering a prize of £5,000 for the best film produced in Australia be tween January, 1929, and March 1930.
Millions of feet of films, includ ing some of the latest "talkies," were destroyed by a disastrous fire which broke out at Sydney recent ly. The damage is estimated at $100,000
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TEST CASE
THEATRE MANAGERS THREAT
TO L.C.C.
COURT ACTION POSSIBLE
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Behind the Scenes Hollywood
Mrs. Wallace Reid has begun work directing another picture. A girl she has known for months to be "down on her luck" came to her for work. Mrs. Reid made room for her by giving her a bit. The girl worked several days. She was asked to work at night for a few hours. She did. But when she came to collect her salary she raised merry hades when extra time money was not in her envelope for
а dress she claimed was spoiled by the rain in the night shots; She received what she de- manded, all right, even though in- vestigation put a different light on her story, but she's all "washed up" in so far as that particular studio is concerned. In some Holly- wood circles, the slogan is: "do me a good turn when I need it most and I'll make you regret it all your life."
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Ben Lyon is the "flyin' fool" of the film colony. Scarcely a day goes by that Ben doesn't take the air for half an hour or an hour. He took Matty Kemp and Sally Eilers up recently and they vow they'll give him a recommendation as a pilot. Perhaps next spring Ben will blow himself to his own "ship." He says he can get a "lulu for about $4,500. Only the upkeep is expensive. An airplane owner must have a mechanic to nurse the engine. Said mechanic receives $50 weekly. Garage rental and costs of new parts are also steep. As it is now, Ben can borrow a ship for $7.50 a half hour, or $15 for an hour. For the time being he's plenty satisfied.
trailed into the Mont- Lila Lee martre one day and buried her- self, in a mass of papers that look- ed fearfully important. An in- quisitive cross-examination reveal- ed she had hied herself to one who bailed himself as Omar the Great and for fifty cents had purchased a mimeographed astrological read- ing. Omar, who, Lila explains, is not a new cigarette but a breathing mortal, goes in for star reading by the wholesale, his premise evident ly being: "For fifty cents, what can you lose?"
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CLIVE BROOK HOME
HIS BUSY TIMES AT
- HOLLYWOOD
FOUR YEARS AWAY
Iris Barry writes in the London "Daily Mail":
An Englishman who left this country for the United States five years ago, to earn world-fame and fortune, was the celebrity of cele- brities among many distinguished people landing at Southampton from the "Majestic."
Gameramen and Pressmen, and friends who had motored down from Loudon, crowded across the gang-plank to greet Mr. Clive Brook, the film star, who, with his wife, two enchanting little children in warm, white coats and caps, and a Swiss governess, has come over for an eagerly awaited holiday.
"He hasn't changed a bit," we said to each other, as we watchod him, distinguished and tall in his blue lounge suit, surrounded by an eager crowd.
In the excitement created by Mr. Clive. Brook's landing, Mrs. Elinor Glyn, in an elegant grey toque and long squirrel cape almost brushing the ground; Miss Dorothy Ward. Mr. Shaun Glenville, Mr. Lauril- lard, and others passed almost un-. perceived.
Thrilled to be Home
Once in the boat-train on the way to London Mr. and Mrs. Brook, whom we cross-questioned about the talking film situation in Holly- wood, were plainly torn in two directions.
While Mr. Brook is an enthusias- Į tic upholder of talking pictures it was obvious that both he and his pretty wife really wanted to look jout of the windows, as their chil- keep up with these movie people with dren were doing, and grasp and en- Carmel Myers get-joy the last that they were at last ting tied with Ralph Blum, an attorney, in England again.
Latest Film Bride-You just can't
their marriages.
is the latest of the Hollywood crop. "Look, Mummie, at the Maybe it's a good idea Carmel having moutons" little Faith cried, wrig
gling round in her seat to see the lawyer in the family.
lambs playing in the green meadows. Neither of the children has a trace of American accent, any more than their father, but they have picked up some French words from the governess.
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The efficient politeness of the attendant who brought tea led Mr. Leading British actors and Brook to confess that at first, on
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authors, board ship, they fancied that the theatre managers and producers, stewards were putting on Cockney are showing increasing evidence of accents especially for their benefit. their desire to take part in the "It is so long." the actor said, his entertainment revolution brought usually rather austere face beam- And then there's Chet Withey, about by the advent of the talking ing with the joy he is far too Eng erstwhile director who has not film.
lish to expresas openly, "aince any wielded a megaphone for years.
Recently several of them were one said Righto? to me like that.
31 Pletures in 4 Years Chet lives alone in a little. Holly-present at a luncheon at the Savoy
"Three times," he continued, "we wood hotel. He has become a Hotel, London, in connection with numerology expert and may go in
Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd. have had all arrangements, made for this as a livelihood..
Sir Gerald du Maurier, the actor-to come home for a few weeks, and have had to cancel it all at the last minute. I have acted in thirty-one different pictures in four years, Autographed 10s. Notes and right up to the minute I left Railway porters asked him to put Hollywood now I was playing in a his autograph on ten-shilling notes, talking dlm from 7 at night till 8 which were probably part of their in the morning and sleeping in the Friday night's pay. day."
Many of the old time directors find themselves in the slow' years of life pretty much up against it. Youngsters have crowded them out. There's Dell Henderson, formerly a Mack Sennett director. Mr. Hen- derson is playing a newspaper re- porter in a Columbia picture for twenty-five dollars a week.
J. P. MacGown, director of the once popular Helen Holmes two- reelera and also of the Eddie Polo serials, is ekeing out a livelihood via the acting end.
Oscar Apfel, I am told, broke Jesse Lasky Into the Intricacies of the movies years ago. To-day, Apfel is playing character parts and bits.
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former Theatre Guild director who tried his hand at megaphoning. He is now emoting before the camera in small parts.
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Dolores Del Rio
Wallie Beery summed it up in no mild terma: "Who in so-and-so- do you think you are, dictating what Listen, I can tell 'em where to get you should and shouldn't do.
off because I got money and they know it. You can't. They know manager, presided, and the princi- you're broke. Now eat a slice of pal speaker was Mr. Babil Dean, the
West End theatre managers are humble pie and watch your step" considering promoting a test case
in the High Courts which may affect the whole question of the Sunday opening of cinemas throughout the country.NAL A
This action is likely unless the London County Council gives an early decision on the proposal to open London theatres on Sunday.
It would be taken by the Society of West End Theatre Managers and the Entertainments Protection As: sociation. These bodies forwarded a letter to the LC.C. asking for a definite date when a decision would be reached t
~ It is understood that the party against whom the theatre managers would proceed would he one of the large cinemas in the West End:
To get a Ruling
The ground of the action is that, under the Sunday Observance Act of 1781, which governs the opening of theatres on Sundays, the cinemas also have no right to be open.
Under this Act the "eeper of any place of amusement to which people-pay for admittance is liable to forfeit 200 for each Sunday the place is open. The manager – i5- Hable to a penalty of 1100, and each
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Sir Gerald du Maurier said that he had joined, the board directors to try to do his best to help the members of his profes sion to combat this tidal wave, the squawkie."
"Whether it is an art or not, one does not know, and whether one likes it or not, one does not know." Theatre Will Never Die
The theatre, Mr. Basil Dean said, would never die. They knew that drama was eternal, but they had now come to recognise that in the larger theatres the talking picture had got to play a part
Continuing, Mr. Dean said:
It has been found that the British voice is the best before the micro- phone, and we have also found inquiry that the carefully modulated dialogue of British authore and dramatists is the dialogue that it is most desired to r reproduce for the talking picture do fă
All that we desire to
to give sense of direction in the present turmoll, and to indicate to our pro- fession that there is no need for panic, but that there is at the same time a need to hold fast to the prin ciples under which we grew np. ~
want British plays of British: subjects written by Brit
be played by Brillbi torn and resses under British direction, British plays suitable for trans- lation into talking pictures will he put on in a London
then produced as
with the same cast,
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children were swallowed-up as soon as the train arrived in London by a new and larger crowd of friends, of representatives relations, Famous Players Laskyt the firm to whom he is under contract--and members of the general public, who gathered as if by magic.
At the barrier, another crowd of The film star and his wife and people who had heard it whispered,
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"Clive Brook is here," waited ex- pectant and streamed after him as friends cleared a passage.. "That's him-isn't he wonderful?" A wo- man's voice said, "That must be Evelyn Brent with him," as Mrs. Brook passed...
The star and his wife and the. excited babies got into a waiting car. "It's so good to be back home," said Mrs. Brook. As they drove off her husband smiled at her a smile which spoke more feelingly than anything he could have said.
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