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CONSTANCE CUM- MINGS
FAIR-FREE AND 22.
Of all the stars who have flashed with meteoric brilliance and speed into Hollywood's firmament, none has succeeded in more startling fashion than Constance Cummings This striking artiste is now mak ing her British film debut at Els tree in the B.I.P. film "Heads We Go"! and has declared herself "fair, free and 29"
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ALISON SKIPWORTH MARY PICKFORD AND RONALD COLMAN IN A FREE TRIP
CYNARA **
Alison Skipworth is a veteran of more than one hundred stage playa and films
FRENCH FAVOUR REFUSED YOUNG ACTRESS A FIND”
Her thirty-three years of acting
Miss Mary Pickford, according have bean among the most colour. ful in theatrical history. One of to the Italian Press, has refused her claims to fame is that she holds free passage to New York on the the stage record of appearing in French super liner Ile de France twenty consecutive Broadway fai on the ground that she cannot see lures.. Another is that on Christ her way to accept any favour from mas Day, thirty-two years ago, she country which has failed to pay arrived in New York at room, went its war debt to the United States, straight to the theatre where she
“Wo cannot accept anything was to act at two o'clock and has from the French,'
sha is quoted na saying, "and we are travelling never been idle since.
by an Italian line."
Since the coming of talking pie-
She was born in Seattle, Wash-
She consequently embarked on ington, and thus just escaped be- ing (for the border is within atures, Mias Skipworth has had the Rex at Genos, and Douglas river, Fairbanks, who is prolonging his few miles) Canadian. From her numerous leading screen earliest years she had stage ambi- both in Hollywood and New York. stay in Italy, will follow later,
ons of the first stage also on board an Italian liner.
tions. Her mother, the possess:r
of a remarkable singing voice, had had the anime ambitions as a girl, but was denied the career she craved by R stern father. She therefore determined, despite all family opposition, to encourage young
After her father died, Miss Stage-Struck Cununings set out for New York, and there, with her
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Alas! for the young hopsfut she became a chorus girl and her danc- ing was done in the back row. It is interesting to note that Ger- trude Lawrence was the star of this musical comedy and was one of the first to welcome her on her arrival in London. The author of the show was Fred Thompson, who is also responsible for the story and dialogue of "Heads We Go!"
So began at 19 the career Constance. Ambition soon raised her from the chorus to the under- study of a leading role in a new. play "June. Moon." She played the part but once and was seen by a dramatic critic who wrote a
ра- report of her in his per. Immediats result-the offer of a test by Sam Goldwyn for a leading part opposite Ronald Col- man. More to please her agent than to seek film fame, she made the test in New York and four days later, was summoned to Hot lywood by Goldwyn.
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Her career here received a blow that might have deprived the screen forever of her presence. Constance determinedly refused to be the pale antemic blonde acoord- ing to the pattern demanded in the Studio and after a week's work in "Devil to Pay" was deprived of her part. Bonald', Colman, how- ever, sympathised with the almost heart-broken girl and introduced her to an agent. This brought her an important part with Walter Huston in "Criminal Code," and the reply to her success was a con- tract with Columbia Films. Since then "The Last Parade," "Travel- ling. Husband" "Movie Crazy," "American Madness," "Attorney for the Delence" (these last thres she played in simultaneously), and "Night after Night" have establi shed her as the most brilliant of to-day's young stars.
The famous law case with Colum- bis concerning a breach of contra then ensued and Constance, having gained the decision, sailed for Europe-fair, free and 22 to join B.I.P. wha had host no time in securing her services.
HEADS WE GO!
FASHION'S FORECAST IN
NEW FILM
She was
come
Joan Bennati,
to the silent, ENGLISH PICTURES
ENGLAND OUGHT
artistes to screen in an original stage role, having appeared in "30 East" in both mediums.
She is English, of course. In fact she has often been called "The English Marie Dressler.” She made her first American stage; ap: pearance as the prima donna in
The Artist's Model, having been brought from England for the part by Charles Frohman.
Her acting for the sergen soon brought her a Paramount con- tract, and since she has appeared, in hosts of films, including "Night "Binners in the Sun," Angel," "Night After Night," and "If I Had A Million."
TO MAKE
HOMESICKNESS
Ronald Colman makes a few
films these days, and they are gen- erally so good, that a now one is something of an event,
"Cynara," the new Samuel Gold wyn, is no exception. The role of. the young barrister who drifts. during his wife's absence, into an affaire that culminates in the sur cide of the shopgirl mistress, could hardly be played better. Mr. Col- man brings to it the romantic good looks that make the girl's sudden fascination credible, together with. the intelligence and poise of a suc cessful basciator
No one on the screen is more adapt at the Du Maurier trick of suggesting emotion with the mini-- mum movement, and it was fitting 'that he should be cast for the role. Sir Gerald played in the West-end stage production.
Kay Francis does very well in- deed as the wife, and the shopgirl is beautifully played by a comer to the screen, Phyllis Bar-
zy.
new-
Miss Barry is the daughter of an English wardrobe mistress, be- gan as a Tiller girl, gained her stage experience in Australia, and caught Mr. Goldwyn's eye in an amateur revue in California, atter she had tried for two years to "Crash" into filma. She
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genuine discovery, sensitive, viva- vious and charming.
King Vidor has directed "Cyaa- ra" faultlessly-unless you would describe as a fault a palm tree or · two which
& (unless fleeting glimpse deceived me) lent the su barban bathing pool a sub-tropical air all the more charming for be- ing unexpected.
FILM STAR'S 'SECRET
RONALD COLMAN LEAVES. HOLLYWOOD FOR 'BRITAIN
Mr. Ronald. Colman, the British Alm star, secretly left Hollywood for Britain last month.
Mr. Colman's contract with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation does not permit him to work for any other company, but he may, if he wishes, remain idle.
He has expressed a wish to visit the British countryside and to play on the stage.
for our producers. We ought to be able to show, the British people sil over the world pictures that will inake them homesick. We want to make them hungry for the woods. and winds and cloudy mornings of England; for the sounds of a summer night in an English gar- den for the early daylight clatter of carthorses on the cobbled streets of a North-Country "town. There is a whole lifetime of scenes, and sounds that carry the intimate im- pression of home to the English- man, and they have never really been brought to the screen.
A Fortnight in September. No one has ever made a film of the yearly suburban exodus to the set, as Sherriff described it in "A Fortnight in September." No one. (By C. A. Lejeune)
has made a film of the peculiar The other day I found an Ame national brotherhood of the Eng- rican friend of mine all worked lishman and his dog. No one has up over a steamroller that he had made a film of the English Gatur- soon chugging down a village day afternoon, of the women with street. "Boy, what a kick I got shopping baskets and the lada with out of that engine!" he said. football, the yelling sports grounds "You English don't know the half and the empty London squares. of the grand things you've got in No one has ever put spring, the this country. Why don't you real English spring, on an Eng- show them to us in your pictures1 lish screen. Yet what in the world The folks back home don't want is more powerful to bring home- to see your society dramas, but sickness in few swift, easy they'd be tickled to death to se strokes. It isn't the conventional real English movies, with your spray of fruit-blossim that is want lovely English lanes and villages, ed, or the nesting robin-symbols and your English gardens, and the that came out of a card-index, and marvellous types and faces you might belong to any spring-but the sounds and sights that have meet in a London street."
Stupidity Not Modesty.
beaten against our consciousness every year since we were young- The trouble is that the British. sters, when the evenings begin to 08. A race, are too diffident; we lengthen, and the crushed currant Binnis Barnes, who plays the don't advance our goods, like the bude smell like the fruit in July. part of the confidential friend and Americans, and the Germans, and Spring is a grand picture scena- In this picture Constance Cum fellow mannequin of the heroine, the Russians, for the rest of the rio, with its suddenly busy high- mings, makes her British film de modelled a smart gown in black world to enjoy and admire. It ways-the lordly steam-rollers but în tâs role of mannequin. A taffeta with a boat-shaped neck isn't that we have, as my American crushing newly surfaced roads, the fashion-saloon there is the setting embroidered with a wide band of friend went on to suggest, an in- lorries laden with gravel, with for the opening scenes of the story floral design in turquoiss and feriority complex we know well sand, with market produce, with long enough the value of everything we sapling trees, the shure horses plod- and Money Banks, the director of coral Puff sleeves and & this film,boured professional sash of powder blue velvet com- have got, but we take it for grant ding from farm to farm, the dogs mannequins to appear in the crea pleted this model charmingly called, we keep quiet about it, we suddenly quivering to new scents
wait for other people to discover with the city flower stalls banked tions and model them in the aped "Happy Day."
it for themselves if they can. That, high at the street corners, the proval manner
in picture-making, is a prime mis-school-children lashing tops, take. For better or worse, the mo ploughing through muddy lanes for tion picture has become the great catkins, the girls and lads restless trade exhibition of the world in the shortening evenings, a thou- Every country displays its goods and little gardens. Itirred with on the screen, and it isn't modes sweat and love to new, life. ty, but stupidity, that keeps our exhibits off it.
Model gowns valued at over one thousand pounds which anticipate the forthcoming Fashions have been designed exclusively for scones in the new, B.IP. lm "Heads We Go!" now being produced at Ele
tree. Do
glowed deep red at the hem and faded to Besh colour at the low neck line. With this was worn a duted evening coat of red and silver brocade with a halter collar of fox.
A King in Boring." Lovely Gowns,
The dresmaker's piece de re- Before admiring clientele thesistance was undoubtedly "A Kiss parade was commenced by the in- in Spring." This was a beautiful troduction of a striking almond bridal gown modelled by Constan green gown named Creme de Mence Cummings. The arum lily pro
These are the pictures that will the. Its distinctive features were vided the inspiration for this crea
make an Englishman homesick, a deep, band in a silver bead design tion, From a form fitting bodice I remember once meeting a man, and because they make him home- round the hips and a glittering fell a voluminous skirt and train, not ordinarily interested in motion sick, he will see them again and silver shoulder cape. Next follow the material used being a heavy pictures, who had been seven times again. They will have à meaning ed a sleek gown of yellow velvet moire silk in ivory. Tight-fitting to see Reno. Clair's "Sous Les for anyone who has ever known swathed to the figure and implying sleeves end in finger length cuffs in Toits de Paris." When I asked England, and the value of some
the shape of the lily and a wreath him why, he answered, "Well, it's thing real and racial for people that summplicity of line is to per- of lilies in organdio edge the shoul a great picture. It makes me who have never smelt the wind en sist. This was quaintly named dor to shoulder neck line above a homesick. You see, I was born in a Sussex down in March or flicked “Canaries ⠀⠀ Sometimes. Singly itched and reminiscent France, and sent to cohool there, alleys along the gutter in a Lanca- nent ensemble of navy crepe trim of the lily d deeply veined leaves; and I know every smell and sound shire street. They Kre an expres. med in panele with a floral cape This stitching also edges the skirt of those little streets. That piosion of England in a medium that artist bow had "Fancy you fancy to a depth of eight inches. A de ture stands for a dozen years of has so far only described cosmo- Bing me for its title but "Danger poke over the brow like a nun's Fictures to Make You Homieslok,
licate veil which is stiffened to, my life.”
Med polis, and just because they are so
Ahead
Cada pily.po-called gown coil completed the gown which was
of white and blue finished with an
of the
led chition-thiat
fradiant" with:
the youthful innocence
characteristic, they should be ap- essentially national, so intensely
I'm sure there's a lesson; there | preciated and understood wherever
(O întinued on next columns, films are shown,