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TEMPERAMENT.
FAIRY TALE THAT FINDS READY EARS.
[By Dave Keene.)
Is she temperamental? It is one of the questions visitors to Hollywood ask most frequently of their authoritative friends who, There is a lot of jabber from by reason of residence in the city time to time about "The public are supposed to know everything makes the stars," but recent events that goes on behind the studio walls. makes one wonder if it is not elever exploitation that does it, writes Rosalind Shaffer.
Reflection on the case of Marlene Dietrich: one picture made her grent.
It was the same thing with Greta Garbo. Somebody had faith that these girls were great bets, and the advertising boom was on. They went over big at once. Of course, if they had had nothing to offer they could not have succeeded, but, there are a lot with just as much who do not get the exploitation.
Studios seem to believe that ex- ploitation can perform this miracle at regular intervals. At the R. K. O. lot they are signing up a lot of your folks. One of these, Ruth Weston, is a New York girl, her father part owner of a New York'
Her only background newspaper.
is a dramatic school in New York and a Paris dramatic school, with parts in amateur night theatricals at the Comedic Francaise.
They have faith in her at R-K-0, and believe she will make great starring material shartly. She was originally signed for French ver- sions of R-K-0 pictures, but has been assigned the role of the comedienne in "Madame Julie."
Path of Fame. Car! Laemmle, jun., believes that unknowna cak be successfully ex- plaited to fame. After his success with Lew Ayres and Russell Glca- son and the other boys in "All Quict," he has had ble faith con- firmed. They have all gone over well. He has now signed another unknown, Walter George, 4 LOB Angeles hoy entirely new to pic tures. He will shortly be assigned an important role, solely on the strength of his screen tests.
The craze for new and untried talent la on. It is also a craze for players who cannot demand big
salaries because of inexperience. They can be tied to five-year con- tracts with small salaries, and if they succeed the profits are big. If they fail, the studia can let them go after the first six months option
is up.
Espionage For Women. Several months age it was re- ported simultaneously through the
Don'ts for Motorists
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DON'T FORGET YOUR
CAPSTAN
A LOWER TONE PREFERRED.
Cinema Stars Framing Their Voices.
The
deeper tones. An exception among the silent film players was · Noah Beary. The taikles revealed his deep baritone, a voice pitched ano noto lower than that of Challapin.
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DEATH SENTENCES IN RUSSIA.
A Woman And Five Men Condemned.
Riga, April 21. One woman and five men were sentenced to death by the Soviet court at Yefremov at the conclu- alon of a spectacular five daya' 1
Now a Contralto. Dolores Costello returns to the screen with an emphasis on con- tralto qualities rather than soprano. Greta Garbo, whose voice naturally is low, is seeking to re-trial. move a trade of huskiness. Mary Astor yielded to escape from the sentimentally sweet roles given her in the silonts. The talkies, re- vealing a rather husky voice, made the change possible.
Film players have their ups and downa. First it was face lifting.
"My teacher made me work to Now it is valce lowering.
throat" lower voice in the talkies, directors relax the muscles of my
natural and said Estelle Taylor, "to let the say, is the moro pleasing. Thin sopranos are being voice come out as if it belonged to transformed into contraltas, and mo." fulsettos, where possible, into basgos.
John Gilbert, a leading star of
the silent films, lost favour in his
People like to believe that all diplomats have the grand manner; that newspapermen know the "real Inside" of every story; that restaur- ant hash is not. all it should be and tint their favourites of the stage high, said the studio analysis. By and screen are capable, in times of study and hard work he has de- stress and strain. of perfectly a-veloped a resonant baritone which tounding tantrums,
first talkies. His voice was too
aoon will be heard in a new pic-
MRS. BEERY.
Thirteen men and three women
were charged with counter-revolu- tionary, activities in attempting to Influence peasants against enter-
pg collective farms.
In addition to those sentenced to death, ono woman and four men were sentenced to ten years forced labour and the remainder to periods of from three to five years,
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
REJC AL
Mother of Two Film Actors Dies.
Hollywood, April 9. "I'll never forget the shock of Mrs. Margaret Beory, mother of on the film actors, Wallace and Noah hearing myself the first time the screen," Charles Farrell said Beery, died here to-day of pneu
"I had a hard timo į monia. She was 74 years old. She recently. changing the pitch. I try, to keep died as Wallace reached St. Louis it low now all the time," Charles while racing in his own aeroplane "Buddy" Rogers is studying the from Indianapolis to Hollywood.
The matter of temperament ture. what an indefinite, elastic word that is!) is one of the public's pet illusions towards its theatre. I've seen Clara Bow in tears, to be sure, but she cried because she was tired and had just cut her finger on a piece of jugged glass, which delay ed things. I've heard William Powell, in an exasperated moment; deliver himself of a well chosen word or two. But it was because the film broke in a camera during a big scene.
I used to work for a city editor who possessed far more "tempera. ment" than I've ever seen exhibited in Hollywood. He used to throw things when he got mad, and it took very little to set him off.
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But as long as there is a Holly- wood the fairy tale of temperament Beef Sirloin ... will find ready ears, along with the stories of starving extras, and little girls who come out from Grundy Centre and become big stars quicker I like to believe those than that. things myself.
offices of Paramount Publix and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that Mar- lene Dietrich and Greta Garbo were both going to play the role of Mata Hari, the dancer who was shot as a spy by the French. This evidently resulted in
discussions
between the two companies, with the result that Miss Dietrich went to wark on an espionage story laid
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