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SHE DIDN'T LIKE HOLLYWOOD
A SCREEN ASPIRANT'S
ADVENTURES
"PICTURE EXECUTIVES WERE DOPES”
Our vote for the all-time classic newspaper interview with a disillusioned screen aspirant goes to Joseph Mitchell's account for the Scripps-Howard papers of the brilliant remarks of Barbara Blair, noted by Mr. Mitchell on Miss.Blair's return to New York from Hollywood. Evidently Miss Blair went back to Broadway un- like any of her predecessory-she was sadder, but no wiser. Report- ed Mr. Mitchell:
"Barbara Blair was not polite top! Hollywood. She thought the ma- jority of picture executives were She in- dopes, and told them so.
sulted producers, and they kept!
her on the pay-roll, paying her
FRENCH DEMOCRACY ON TEST
$1.500 a week. She was in Holly(Continued from Page 61 wood for more than a year, and
didn't make a single picture, be- Third Republic has been largely cause they wanted her to be a sec-living on the momentum acquired! s second Joan between 1832 and 170. If this is ond Mae West, Blondeli, a recond Glenda Farrell only partly true, it is small won- and she told them she did not plan der that the whole machine is now to be a second anything.
slowing down.
"Crazy" Test
T
Many critics of the regime and "The first thing I thought was and the political crisis with which crazy in Hollywood was the test France is faced is essentially they gave me, the screen test, she crisis of the regime itself-realise! recent said. They gave me this script toithat the canker of corruption and
an insult to my venality has spread in read, and it was intelligence. I told them even for a years, and they attribute this to test this stuff was lousy. I said, some innate vice in the regime it course, true that "Who wrote this? Do you people self. It is, of
pay people to write this stuff "Sofsuch criticisms have become more they told me to write my own, and vocal as the difficult economic con- ditions have given more cause for I wrote something.
*** said how silly it was, all you anxiety. people standing around and watch-
It cannot be too often stressed
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936
A recent picture of Herr Adolf Hitler, "strung wan" of Germany.
ing me take a test as if the whole that Frenchmen of the most one from the next elections, but it TURKEY AND THE world depended on it, and nobody posed political faiths are agreed probably destined to play an im- gives a damn anyway.
UD.
The "Build-ap"
about more things than they dif- portant role in the political life
of fer about. Frenchmen all of the country for some time to classes have much the same ideals. come.
Women's Suffrage
DRUG TRAFFIC
Then they began to build at the same catchwords thrill them The build-up they gave me and the same things shock and you would've thought people all revolt them. They will always The Senate-largely composed over the United States were wait-unite against the foreign enemy. ing to tear down the marquees to
see me.
"I was under
them and asked
contract with
Religious Factor
Country Once More In Limelight
TRAFFICKERS UNMASKED
(By RONALD WOOLFREY) Turkey, a few years ago, was a
tain that those amounts actually
country B, the League makes cer-
figure among the imports of the
latter country. ↑
Prompt Action Taken Reduced to its simplest terms. there you have what has happen- ed in the case of Turkey. Once the discrepancy had been pointed out by the League. the Turkish Government took prompt action. The merchants responsible for the!
of Socialist-Radicals, as we have said has always blocked women's suffrage, not only because marc There is, of course, a religious women are supposed to be under Warner Brothers, and I went to factor in the background of the clerical influence than men, but
also because the sacred Code black sheep among nations in re-smuggling have been brought to
Once book, and they gave it to me. Then I The Government of the Republic Napoleon definitely relegates waspect of the drug
а dependent position more the limelight has been turn- story all over again. So I quit fessional and, if militant anti-economically and politically. The ed upon her, but we may hope only can be understood when it is re- Fox. Then Paramount wanted me clericalism hes gove out of question of women's suffrage will temporarily.
went to
Fox. It was the same
for my release, French political scene.
is more or less actively non-con-imen
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seem
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initiated by the League of Nations
recrudescence will prevent a the evil
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PAVEMENT CAVES IN
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A subsidence in the pavement ling intention of control.
The magistrate, Mr. Harold Mc outside Beckenham Town Hall was Kenna, disagreed. He fine the mo-discovered recently by a policeman, into the cavity. torist, Leslie Callender Wyse, a who nearly fell
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The importance of this incident
alised that, at one time, Turkish Some Constantinople merchants drugs were smuggled to all parts of the world, including British be-be a burning one at the forthcom
were recently engaged in the ex-
territories. Freach
Action to sign a seven-year contract, but fashion, the dividing line I told them I didn't want to get tween
who sit to the ing elections.
port of dangerous drugs Now and married: I wanted to act. I told "Right" and those who sit to Owing to the numerous parties because a man trades in narcotics/such as that which has just been i them the fact was I didn't want the "Left" is still between people and factions in the French Cham-it does not follow that he is neces-
is criminal. There saril to go in pictures unless I could cowho say, "Let us support organis-ber, practically every French Gov- it my way. So I didn't do any-led religion as one of the most im-vernment is a coalition, the com- legitimate business in substances portant guarantees of the social posing of which is preceded by like morphine, heroin and cocaine, thing for Paramount."
during due to the requirements of hos negotiations, maintain elaborate And Another Thing
order" and those who "Miss Blair said another thing that organised religion is incam-which the various parties bargain pitals, doctors and scientists. Ap she didn't like about Hollywood patible with the principles of the land haggle for the different posts.parently the Turkish authorities
As there has been no redistaiou-had
no reason to assume that was that the executives thought revolution. All this may
were
carrying Magistrate Decides young actresses should treat them very out of date to us, but it iation of seats in recent times in these merchants
a jout the Chamber is not
illicit transactions. nevertheless a reality of French France.
Was "In Charge" with great respect.
DOG RACE POLL faithful mirror of the political dealings seemed open and above) "They wanted actresses to say, politics.
of complexion of the country. For in-board.
Mitcham Borough Council has "OH, you wonderful Mr. So and By organised religion,"
Mathematical Test
Mr. John Maude, defendingTMa the Catholic Church is stance, the south-west is the re- So." and I don't go in for that course,
But, since these merchants were motorist at Marylebone Police found asleep in his car at Suther-decided to take a ballot of the rezi- Certain political offices!gion where clerical influence is stuff she said. Once I went into meant.
slightest. It was in reality drug traffickers, a sim-court last month, argued that aland-avenue, W. In 1928 he was dents an executive's office, and he sat at never fall to an openly practising perhaps the
Restora-ple mathematical test proved their person asleep in a car was not in fined £25 on a charge similar to greyhound racing should ICatholic. The rule does not hold Bonapartist under the
within the meaning the presert" one. his desk, surveying me. So said. "What's the matter with good for Jews or Protestants. This tion, Republican under the Second undoing. Exports from any coun-charge of it
imports you; are you a cripple? Why don't does not, of course, mean that a Empire, and Socialist under the try must correspond to you stand up when a lady walk politician of Catholic origin is ob-Third Republic. It is also that elsewhere. If they do not, there into the room?" I thought he'd nged to become a freemason or alpart of France where the popula-must obviously have been a leak- break
a blood vessel. Well, he freethinker, but it does mean that tion has most decreased in recent age somewhere. And the quanti- stood up.
but he would've been he must not be known to have times. There are to-day only half ties of drugs which have not reach- better off if he had kept his seat. what are call "clerical" leanings. the number of inhabitants of the led their supposed destination can Dordogne department that there only have passed into the illicit He wasn't a damned bit bigger
Social Advantage when he stood up!"
The fact that a man is of were in Napoleon IIL's time, but trafic.
the department' returns the same "So," concluded
Mr. Mitchell, Catholic origin gives him a de- "Miss Blair stayed in Hollywood finite social advantage in France, number of deputies.
Elected By Peasants
a year and one-half without mak-land one of the Socialist leaders in
New York."
CUT OFF
Fire In Municipal
Works
current.
The problem, of course, is to keep a check upon the figures. Before the League of Nations
firms
that
to
ing a picture. Now she is back in the Chamber, of Jewish origin, be- Thus, while France is no longer tackled the drug problem, the task *** agricultural would have been well-nigh Impos- came a convert some years ago. Predominantly
whether drugs The whole matter is, therefore country it is still returning Parlia-sible. It was then nobody's busi- rather complicated. The civilisa-ments which are largely composed (ress to find out tion of France has taken on an in-of deputies elected by peasants. which were supposed to be going. ELECTRIC SUPPLY delibly Catholic character, and Now, peasants are people who are to this country or the other ac-1
revolutionaries for tually arrived there.
To-day the League regularly re- the bulk of the people, even the sometimes most free-thinking, never really other people, but who are always
ceives details of all imports and for themselves. regard the Jew or the Protestant Conservatives
country A informs Geneva as quite the same as themselves. They can, therefore, generally be exports of dangerous drugs if
The Socialist-Radical party, relied on to vote for the not very
been despatched by its A fire at Taunton Corporation which is still the deciding factor extremist Republican candidates certain quantities of drugs have electricity works last month de-in French politics. is strongly What is worrying the party man prived the town and district of freemasonic, anti-clerical and anti-agers is that the dissatisfaction in the political. background of but the efforts of the feminist, and the party gives the and unrest among the rural popu-France: the discontent of the pea- staff restored the supply quickly. colour to the whole Senate, which lation and the growth of a Peasants, the exasperation of the may upset calculs-middle-classes, the increasingly set becoming has in France far more power sants' Party A generating
extremist opinions of the work- ignited, the staff and helpers, by than our Upper House,
The French. Revolution
was mer, the effectiveness of the old means of extinguishers, suppress-] Whatever posts in the Cabinet ed the outbreak in a quarter of anlgo to the representatives of other what we should to-day call a bour-party machinery, the bad economic hour. Others brought a second parties, great efforts are always geois revolution. It made the situation, the increasing budge
theory-master tary difficulties. generating - set into use within made to have a Socialist Radical "little man"--in
The elections will show whether at the Ministry of the Interior, for of France, and lip service to the
hat seven minutes,
the Minister has not only large idea that the "little man" must be recent events abroad have No one was injured.
secret funds at his disposal, but defended against the "big man" is any effect in changing the politi he controls the Frefects, who are done by all parties. But the cal tide, which seems still to be counted on to keep the depart-little man" of the French Revolu-setting towards the Left
see that they tion is a bourgeois-he has some- France, from of old the country ments "loyal" and vote the right way at elections,thing to lose and does not mean of political experiment, is also the The bridge carrying the L N. and he has at his command. the to lose it. The trouble is to-day country of sudden surprises, and E. R.
High-road Wood armed forces of the gendarmerie that an increasingly large num those who imagine that her pre-
ber of people have increasingly sent very real difficulties Green, is to be. lengthened, and and the mobile guards.
The influence of the Socialist-less to lose.
* Some Elements
“BOTTLENECK” TO GO
over
the roadway beneath, now a "bot" tleneck," widened, at a cost
14,700.
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tions.
of Radical party is perhaps waning,
mean
that she will not pull her weight internationally are probably des
and it may well emerge battered Here are some of the elements tized to be rudely disillusioned
of a car. Wyse was disqualised from driving for two years.
It was stated that Wyse was
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