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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24. 1923
“MAKING " A MOVIE STAR. of extrems envy by tales of her
Criticism of "Stunt " Methods.
BUSINESS, DISGRACEFUL
THE ROPE TRICK.
Story of 20 "Mesmerised" Men.
performer.
Mr. J. Swain, ex-R.Q.M.S., 11 years in Indis, writes from Dorset Regiment, who served for South Walks-road, Dorchester, an account of his experience.
wardrobe and her salary and the thrilling career opening before her. Mayors and Lord Mayors Costly publicly receive her. luncheon and dinner parties are organised in ber honour, On
That there are people who have avery possible occasion she is seen, or are convinced they have MISLEADING MISS LEARY.Surrounded by a mob of cheering seen, the famons Indian "rope Last week there was an account idiots, and then, after a period of trick" is shown by letters frora in the newspapers of the reception intensive advertising in England. Daily Chronicle readers. given to Miss Margaret Leaby on she is shipped off to America, In his book on Indian Con- har arrival in New York, writes where the same process of putting juring Major L. H. Branson, of Mr. St. John Ervine in the berrer and advertising and hysterical the Indian Army, says för 23 of December 10th. Lights were excitement is repeated. And, so years he has offered a reward of flashed from eighty thousand far, Miss Leahy has done nothing year's pay to any Indian soldier windows, and the words, Amer. but exhibit the good looks with who has agen the trick, or can ics Welcomes You" were sig. which she was born and win algive the name and address of the nalled to her by means of the beauty competition. Morse code as the Aquitania sailed up Now York Har
I am used to being called bour to her berth. The police had to restrain the crowd which P and a gloomy person and a gathered at the docks to see her highbrow, and so I feel no dism as descend from the great ship at the thought that I shall be so.
NATIVE CONJURER'S TRICK. do not know whether Congress described again if I say that the immediately adjourred in order 10lə of this business is disgrace-
"I saw the farasua ropa trick that the members of it might fal to those who organised it. If performed by a native conjurar,
ake part in Miss Leaby's receppur Mayors and Lord Mayors he says, "on the road between tion, but I understand Mayor have nothing better to do than to the Maidan and Baird Barracks, Hylan was only prevented from as themselves be used by enter- Bangalore, in 1997, when the 1st. meeting ber in the Narrows by Prising financiers for their per- Dorset Regt. was stationed in the fact that a heavy sex was sogal advertisement and pros, those barracks." running when the ship arrived, the sooner our Mayors and Lord He says, also, that he saw the Even & Mayor is liable to the payors are abolished the battersaishing boy trick, in which a discomposure suffered on rough hope and trust that Miss Leaby boy is put into a basket, the latter will prosper in the arduous pro- covered with a cloth, and a sword to feesion to which she has been so passed through it by the conjurer. Before Miss Leahy went America, she made a tour of the lightly admitted, but I could wish Finally, he draws the sword provinces of England. In Man she had entered is in a more from the tasket, which appears chester, so I have read. a dense proper fastion and without land- to be dripping with bloot. Your a campaign of attention is immediately drawn mob surrounded the railway 10 herself to station at which she arrived, and publicity which can tave to a tree some few yards awa was controlled with great difficul- other effect than to fill thousands when you see the sache boy com- ty by a number of mounted police. of girls with discontent and make ing towards 702. An embittered journalist, com.them try to enter AD already metting on the reception, added overcrowded basiness with re- that Earl Haig, arriving at the sults probably, if not certainly, "Of course, there is only, one
disastrous to themselves.
water.
"ALL MESMERISED."
No conclusion to be drawn, acd that:
same station about the same date, was received by one Press photo one who is acquainted with the is we were all mesmerised, but to grapher. Some dozens received state of the theatrical profession the beat of my recollection there Miss Leahy. Prior to berto-day, whether it be that of the were about 20 soldiers of whom triumphal procession through regular theatre or that of the I was one, who witnessed the
moving pissure. can feel a trick."
England, announcements
were
made in the newspapers that she other ematon thanne of pro- Mr. Swain describes other would not begin it until she had found contempt for the people illusions performed by the con- acquired a large stock of expen! who organised this scheme. jurer, and adde: Major sive clothes from a fashionable In every part of England. Branson's reward can never be and very costly dressmaker, and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, girls claimed, because no one can say minute details of her clothes were base been excited by the thought that he did actually see the trick. published for the delight of women of making large sums of money "But we wore influenced in readers. Miss Leshy's views on in easy and seraational circum-some way erother, so that we have a variety of subjects were reveal-stances. Does anyone believe always believed we saw it. When ed to an astounded "world. So that these girls, now that the ex- these tricks are done practically citement of the competition is at your feet you not feel orer, will settle down to the inclined to disbelieve your own ordinary processes of existence. eyesight." Bod forget that they ever eater- tained dreams of getting £100 per week and unending supplies of
were her mother's.
caa
WITHIN FOUR YARDS," Mr. C. W. Grific, of Cromwell-
At this point the reader inquires, Who is Miss Leaby? Is she the Empress of the World? Has she discovered a method of abolishing war? Has she restored the rates of exchange to a normal cond costly clothes made by fashionable road, Holloway, late of D. tion? Has she invented a solu- dressmakers? Does anyone be Battery, R.H.A. writes that he tion to the question of Repara-lieve that what their averwrought was one of about 30 men who at tions and Allied Debts? Has she finds are filled with accounts of a small village ontside Manmad, found a means of curing cancer how Miss Leshy went in triumpbin 1902,
the rope trick or consumption or a method of through the provinces of England "I am sorry to say that I preventing unemployment? Can and was cheered by crowds in don't know the Indian's name," she make Lenin see reason? Can Manchester so great that mount be adds,
or that year's pay she understand the Theory of ed policemen bad to bold them would be mine." Relativity? Does she know how back, while Lord Haig went by to govern Ireland?
unrecognised and aaacclaimed does anyone believe that these young girls will go on with their work in content and happiness?
WILL THEY BE CONTENT? Does anyone believe that when
Mr. Griffia thus describes the trick: We stood about four yards from the native. A coil of rope was shown to us, and he then threw it into the air. A boy who was standing beside him went up the rope and disap-i peared.
REALLY GOOD SPECTACLES
If
WON A COMPETITION. Miss Margaret Leahy is a good looking girl who won a competi- tion organised by an English newspaper in conjunction with aj 5rm of moving-picture merchants they read of Miss Leaby's "How i was done I cannot for the purpose of finding a film triumph in America, of the eighty tell, but I saw it with my own actress of Briash birth who could thousand blinking windows in eyes." be trained to a degree of skill New York, of the mobs assembled which would enable her to com. at the docks, of the Mayor pete with film actresses of other frustrated from receiving her as birth. That is a legitimate thing if she were Joan of Arc only by: to do, and we may all con- the boisterous ocean. of the zratulate Miss. Leahy on the searchlights Jeeking out the fortune which enabled her to Aquitania, of the signal, "Americs such a comfort to tired or secure the prize. But we are en-Welcomes You-does anyone cannot be over-estimated.
strained eyes that their value titled at the same time to demand believe that the thousands of
your eyes need glasses, they that commercial gentlemez, Joung girls who were her dis-should have the best you can get. legitimately engaged in commer-appointed rivals for all this glory That means (1) careful and expert cial enterprises, shall not de-and sensation will continue to examination; (2) precision in the. moralise the youth of this or any type or teach or cook or count
to making: (3) adjustment other country in order that they figures in leders or sell ribbons nicets: (4) the best of materiale. ma, make profit for themselves. in shops with any kind of peace All the above, the Hongkong For let us put away at once the or pleasure?
Optical Co., successors to Clark bypocritical nonsense that this, The theatrical profession in all & Co., manufacturing and refrach. competition was organised for any its branches is seriously over-ing opticians, the most competent philanthropic or patriotic purpose. crowded. Actors and actresses optical establishment in South It was organised solely and ex- of proved ability bave difficulty China, located in 53, Queen's clusively for the purpose of en-in securing employment, and that Road Central, offer you. Teating abling speculators in moving pic. difficulty is increased by the the sight and Srting glasses is tures to make large sums of money influx into their profession of their exclusive business. and to popularise two ladies, the inexperienced and vanity-swollen MissesTalmadge, who are already people determined to act, even if
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| well-known film actresses. And in they have to pay for the privilege
order to secure this commercial of doing so. The manager of a crowds, but long, boring days in purpose. thousands of girls in repertory theatre told me recently which she will have to sit about England and elsewhere have had that he receives many letters from for hours and hours waiting for their minds inflamed by over-women, particularly achool ber turn to do some trifling piece drawn pictures of the life of teachers, who are vaguely discon of business in a performance of sensation and luxury enjoyed by tented with the job they are now which she knows nothing except ladies who act for the roovies. doing, and are anxious to go on the tiny bit she has to do.
One young girl, with absolutely the stage. It is these people who she will do it over and over again no experience whatever, is chosen are inflamed by "beauty" com until the producer and the photo- out of a multitude of competitors, petitions and schemes to
And she Gud grapher are content. equally inexperienced, and told film-actresses who know nothing will keep on doing that sort of that she is to receive a salary of of the business.
thing over and over again during|
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And
| £100 per week while she is being Miss Leaby will soon discover all the long, boring days that are trained to do a job which probabthat the profeesion she has now before her. And if she is not ly is not worth 30s. a week. Her entered is not nearly so exciting specially gifted for her job, she portrait is published in a variety as the picture-papers. declared it will soon find that her £100 per of newspapers. The cost and to be. There will not be any week and her pretty and costly number of the extravagant triumphal processione in Lcs clothes come less and less fre dresses she is to wear, at Augeles, with bowing Mayors and quently.
of the movie- blicking windows and cheering | manufacturers is announced fre- [quently and prominently. She is conducted through a number of large cities where she is exhibited to thousands of people, all of whom, especially the younger ones, are excited to a cenditiou
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