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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.
| LITERARY - DISCOVERY ROUND THE CINEMAS IMMENSE FORTUNE
OF THE CENTURY.
“Treasure Trove" in a
Manor House.
PAGEANT ON PAPER.
LEW AYRES NEW SCREEN "FIND."
FOR MRS. GUEST.
£55,000,000 Left by Her Father in America.
OTHER HEIRS.
GRETA GARBO FILM.
For the first time in her career, Greta Garbo has an unknown play- er featured in her supporting cast] A Devonshire manor house on In "The Kiss," a synchronised The Hon. Mrs. F. E. Guest, wife the fringe of Dartmoor will shert sound film, now being shown at the of Captain the Hon. F. E. Guest- ly give to the world a treasure Queen's Theatre.
former Air Minister, a brother of trove that will ablve a legion of Léw. Ayres, still" in his 'teens, Lord Wimborne, and cousin of Mi hitherto clouded historical pro- was strumming a banjo and war Churchill-will, it is expected, in- blems; that will throw stil! fyrther bling obligatos in the Montmarte herit an immense fortune under the light on the lives of almost every Cafe orchestra when several film will of her father, Mr. Hency great figure from the sixteenth to directors noticed him and suggested Phipps, the American multi-mil- the early nineteenth centuries, and he try moving pictures,
lionaire, whose death has just been
that, in itself, has been classed as After making, the rounds', of announced. the most momentous. Ilterary and studios between afternoon and din- More millions will be distributed historical discovery of the century.ner band engagements, the young than any Individual, estate has It is a veritable pageant on paper. musician finally landed a small role ever yielded before.. A pre- -The treasure itself lies in thirty-in "Jos College," He was about to liminary estimate puts the value nine embossed volumes containing go back, to jazz banda-when M-G-M of the Phipps estate at £65,000,000. 5,000 hitherto unpublished auto-sent for him and put him in the Another heiress under the graph letters, representative of al- Garbo picture cast as the lover. will will be Mrs. Guest's most every celebrity living, dot
Conrad Nagel has the leading sister, Helen,
who married only in Great Britain, but on the role opposite the Swedish star and Mr. J. Bradley Martin, the Continent of Europe and in the the supporting cast includes Holmes New York broker. Mr. Bradley United States, during four Herbert and Andars Randolf.
Martin is a frequent visitor to centuries.
The story is an original one by Great Britain, and brother of the Jacques Feyder who directed the Countess Craven. The Bradley picture as his first American film Martin-Phipps wedding, at Deau- venture.
fort Castle, Beauly, Inverness, was a famous social event of 1903.
Two sons of Mr. Henry Phipps are as well known in London.social life as in New York.
the world at large.
"THE FLORODORA GIRL”
Davics is starred.
Securely Guarded. They were originally the pro perty of a Mr. John Wild, of Clapham Lodge, Surrey, noted autograph collector who died in 1866. Until last year, when they became the property of his great
How many songs of 1900 vintage grandson, Mr. R. N. Carew-Hunt, do you remember? You will have
Mr. John Phipps, the eldest they had reposed locked and an opportunity to test your memory son, married Miss Margarita securely guarded in an Immense along this line when you witness Grace, whose father, Mr. Michael' mahogany bureau in this Dartmoor the merry picnic sequence in "The Grace was born in Ireland, won a house, untouched and unknown by Florodora Girl" in which Marion fortune In Peru, and for many years lived at Battle Abbey, Sus- Their value has already been
In this scene in the Metro-sex, Mr. John S. Phipps was mar- assessed as running into "hun-Goldwyn-Mayer feature, which will ried at Battle Abbey. dreds of thousands of pounds"— open to-morrow at the Queen's Mrs. John S. Phipps is a sister of and the full collection has got as Theatre, a medley of old favourite the Countess Donoughmore, whose yet been wholly classified.
songs is rendered by a cycling husband, Earl Donoughmore, is Lady Hamilton's last letter to chorus, even "Sweet Adeline" and deputy-chairman of the House of Nelson, an impassioned outburst"In the Good Old Summertime" Lords and chairman of its com- written on the great admiral's de being included.
mitters. parture for Trafalgar, and hither
Lawrence Gray, plays opposita to unknown, is but one of thou Miss Davies in the picturisation of Another son, Mr. H. Carnegie sands of almost priceless docu-the original Gene Markey story Phipps, married Miss Gladys Mills, directed by Harry Beaumont. In who has marriage. relationships: Every one of them was chosen, the supporting cast ara Walter with the Cavendish-Bentincks, the not as being merely a specimen of Catlett, Louis John Bartels, Nance Duke of Portland's family. Xome noted figure's correspon; O'Neil, Jed Prouty, Claude Allister, has spent much of his life in Scot- dence, but as one of the most
Sam Hardy, Iika Chase, and Vivian land, where he rented the sporting vitally important letters the in Oakland.
estates of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
ments.
dividual aver wrote.
Novelist's Last Letter.
The last letter Sir Walter Scott
Hon..
"POINTED HEELS”
· Carnegie Millions.
He
Mr. Henry Phipps was the part- ner of the late Andrew Carnegie.
wrote before he left England on The patrons at the Central Mr. Carnegie devoted £70,000,000 to the visit to Rome which hastened Theatre seemed much pleased with public purposes during his life and his death is included in the collec the current offering, "Pointed left £7,000,000, at his death. Mr, Heela" there yesterday. And well Phipps made lavish gifts during Another is from Sir Christopher they might, for this production has his life, but died with the bulk Wren, complaining bitterly of all the required ingredients of first of his fortune intact. building worries at Hampton class entertainment. There aro.
Court Palace..
These two giants of the American Gay-the founder of Guy's Hos-much first-rate comedy in it.
clever acting, Interesting plot, and steel industry lived parallel lives. Carnegie was a poor Scots boy, and pital-writes of his dealings in
William Powell runs off with the Phipps was the poor son of a South Sea Bubble shares; Gains borough voices his remorse for an acting honours in the production. British shoemaker who settled in He is the suave man-about-town and Philadelphia, Carnegie became an action which he Imagines has affronted Bartolozzi, the great.en who forms the third side to the boy
producer of artistic stage revues errand boy and Phipps an office Both turned their thoughts Danton and Robespiere are but romance triangle of which Fey to develop the steel industry, and two of the famous figures of the Wray and Phillips Holmes are the both turned steel into gold. Lavish Hospitality. French Revolution whose intimate other components. Miss Wray is
While Carnegie in later life dis- writings are rediscovered for his-the show girl who marries Holmes,
the youthful song-composer. Their pensed lavish hospitality at Skido tory's benefit.
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A feature in the collection is a married happiness is almost curdlea Castle, Phipps lived like a prince in series of vitally important letters by the machinations of the urbaze the heighbouring. Beaufort Castle, written by all the earlier Presl Powell, but at the finish the lyric which he rented from Lord Lovat. dents of the United States.
admixture is cleared by a surprise He frequently stayed in London and Undreamed-of letters of British twist in character on the part of at Knebworth, which he rented kings and queens lie cheek by jowl Powell who turns out to be not a from Lord Lytton..
The nearest appreach to as estate: in these green embossed volumes. villain, but just a demi-villain after
of £35,000,000 is the £38,000,000 There are six, at least, tragically all. eloquent epistles of Queen Caro In brief it is as simple as all that estate of. H. R. Whitney, who filed line-George IV.'s long-suffering-but in the audible celluloid un- two years ago. Other enormous wife dealing with the intrigue winding of it "Pointed Heels" is in- fortunes make a poor show in cam-
tensely gripping at all times, even parison, for example:- surrounding her divorce.
Kane and "Skeeta" Mr. Thomas F. Ryan Insights into the diplomatic re- when Helen
· £20,000,000 lations between Spain and France, Gallagher, a new movie song and Sir David Yule Holland and Britain that existed dance team, are putting over their Mr. John Wanamaker £15,000,000
One never Lord Iveagh-
£11,000,000. in Queen Elizabeth's days are now amusing mummery.
Ten members of the Coats family bared to view with the signatures knows just what turn the fortunes
of all will take at each moment of left in all £26,000,000, and one of their protagonista.
the play and that is the proof of estate In the Wille family approach- Samuel Pepys.
ed £10,000,000:" Samuel Pepys writes; so with an good entertainment.
Helen Kane, be it known, is 'the Hinterval of a century does David
Garrick, and so in turn does every little girl with the roly-poly eyes Agure of international, importanca and "boop-bdopa-doop" voice whose who lived in the four centuries.
£25,000,000
work on the radio and phonograph lightful story of a girl who dreams The collection is, I believe, not brought her fame almost overnight. of a great Broadway success. There paly unparalleled but of such im She is every bit as much a thorough is romance, too, in this picture, of portance that words are inade actress as she has been a thorough a pattern seldom seen on the screen. **WISDEN”. BATS, BALLS,
quate to describe it said an in-success as an "invisible" person- The novelty of its treatment makes ari unusually effective STUMPS, LEG GUARDS, ETC.timate friend of Mr. Carew-Hunt ality. She sings two great songe possible
dramatic situation rarely seen in si to a Daily Express representative, in this production. Inspection Cordially -Invited.
44One of Its most singular There are some deftly worked out picture of this type.
the stage Mias Eaton sings a charming charms is that every letter it con-baller ensembles in tains is intact, unmutilated, and is sequences which are worth going a number "There Must Be Somebody set up in ite particular volume, ac- long way to see. They were staged Waiting For Me," the song hit of companied by rare prints or by Albertina Rasch and they are a the show. Helen Morgan, the star of the original "Show Boat" and. etchings of the writer concerned. delight to the eye!
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The greatest musicians, poets,
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soldiers, diplomata, authors, law. "GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN lady in Broadway's most popular GIRE."
musical success, "Sweet Adeline," yers, doctors, or politicians of
sings a new song appropriately their day find space in it, and almost all the letters record not For the second time in her life, titled "What Wouldn't I Do For. trivial episodes, but the crucial Mary Eaton has been "glorified." That Man?" Eddie Cantor is fea- events of the world at that For this famous musical comedy tured in a hilarious comedy skit and moment"
DIED FROM SUN BLISTERS.
Strange Fate Of One Year Old Girl
star, originally discovered by Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Florenz Ziegfeld and subsequently Yankees play their radiohit, starred by him in the well-rement-Vagabond Lover." Othora in the bered Broadway success, "Kid cast who contribute good perform- Boots," plays the leading feminine ances are Dan Healy, a prominent role in Paramount's all-talking, Broadway comedian, Olive Shea, a singing and dancing musical picture, beautiful newcomer to the screen, "Glorifying the American Girl". and Edward Crandall, a rerralt San blisters which turned septle And it goes without saying that from the legitimate stage of caused the death of a girl, aged Mary Eaton as the "gloriaed" girl "Glorifying the American Girl," twelve months, one of forty chil is a delight to behold and a joy to which features several scenes of a dren in the Wild Oak Nursing listen to. And, of course, there Ziegfeld first night photographed in Home, Taunton seems little reason why the natural colours, will be presented at
It was stated at the inquest that shouldn't be. As the saying goes the Central Theatre on Thursday. “ the babies perambulators were "Once a glorified girl always a Millard Webb directed this picture from an original story by JP frequently moved to shield them glorified girl.
from the sun. The child was Personally supervised by Florent McEvoy, the author of "Show Girl." weakly from birth. Ziegfeld himself, "Glorifying the Walter Donaldson, the famous coin- The Jury, returning a verdict in American Girl' emerges as past en poser of musical comedy numbers, rust, accord
idal tertainment in which glittering, wrote the picture's gmurle, with matrun | tuneful: musical, Segate Keduancés kaditorial numbers by Irving Berlin
are effectively blended with a de- and Dave Stamper.
te the