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BILLIE DOVE ASPIRES.
Hollywood: How a high school girl danced her way into Douglas Fairbanks' new production, "The Gaucho," is the story that belonga
to Carlotta Monti.
hours in
Only a few weeks ago, Miss Monti was employed after school medical clinic. One night she attended a dance at the Jonathan Club in Hollywood. The next day she was called and asked to consider an engagement in the pictures,
Carlotta know that this was no time to hesitate, for she was re- ceiving an offer from a casting director for Douglas Fairbanks. And as a result, Carlotta appeare as the dancing girl in this newest Fairbanks offering.
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"All censors are curious birds, but the motion picture censor is the choicest of them all. This bird can neither sing nor lay egg and probably never mates, but it cackles continuously.. It lives ex- clusively on publicity and its habitat is in the densest jungles of Imbecility."
Such is James Quirk's descrip- tion of movie purifiers and re- formers as given in a current niagazine.
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The Vilma Banky-Rod LaRocque wedding was one of those quiet affairs such as P. T. Barnum might have "staged, with Sam Goldwyn acting in the role of Barnum.
To make sure that the wedding was given aufficient prominence in the newspapers, Goldwyn had a press sheet sent to hundreds of papers." This sheet, Issued a week before the wedding, centained stories for use the day following the ceremony. Among other things was a list of the notables who attended including, Jack Dempsey John McCormick and Marie Prevost, all of whom were in New York at the time.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
AT DAY AT A STAG HUNT.
REPLIES TO CRUELTY CHARGES.
SHEER DELIGHT, ' Winsford, Exmoor: If the meet of the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds here is any criterion, then public opinion is all in favour of the hunt in connection with the campaign which is being waged against stag-hunting as a cruel
blood sport" which brohibited on the ground of its in- humanity, says a Home, corres- pondent.
should be
When the Master, Col. W. W. Wiggin, arrived with the hounds there were well over 1,000 people present. It was anticipated that those, who have been protesting against the sport might seize the opportunity of making a protest, but, on the contrary, the Master and the hunt officials were very cordially welcomed, particularly by local farmers, who turned up. in large numbers to see the meet.
Seme took the opportunity of acquainting the secretary with the extent of the damage they have suffered through the depredations of the stags.
£1,700 Compensation. "The hunt," Capt. E. C. Lloyd, the secretary, told me, "is paying: something like £1,700 a year in compensation to farmers for the damage done to their crops and hedges and fences by stags. If Hunting ceased that compensation: would cease, and then there would be real reason to talk about cruelty to stags, for naturally, the farmers would have to protest themselves. The only way they could do.that would be by shoot- inx the animals, and everyone knows what that means-scores could be only wounded and would endure much suffering before they died."
It has been commonly reported that when the stag is brought to in and bay the huntsman steps callously draws his knife across the animals' throat,. allowing it to dio in agony, That Is not so.
King Edward.
What does happen is that, the There's nothing unusual about huntsman kills the stag scientifi movic actors getting fan letters cally and instantly by stabbing method intro- with their pictures on the envit to the heart, a lopes instead of names, but theduced into this part of the coun- VII when other day Milton Sills received try by King Edward a letter risking that the procedure Prince of Wales on an occasion be reversed. "I'm just as big a when he hanted with the Devon pebble in my town as you are in and Somerset prick. Hollywood," read the letter. "Just paste the enclosed picture on an envelope addressed to me at the postoffice and see if : docan't get to me all right."
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There was certainly no sém-" blance of cruelty in to-day's hunt. The stag was roused in a wood on Winsford Hill, near the famous Devil's Punch Bowl, the pictures- Phyllis Haver Scores.
que preliminaries and the in- Once, a vamp, always a vamp; difference of the magnificent beast once innocent, always innocent-to the Hounds which beset him at least that's the movie motto being a matter of sheer delight to used by directors and producers, the many hundreds of onlookers.. Phylia Haver has kicked over The stag led the hunt over many the "dope bucket" as far as such miles of moorland and through rules are concerned. No director woode and plantations before can say to her, "No, Miss Haver, he was finally overcome.
While no one
was present in you can't play this role because it
is entirely foreign to your charac-person to raise an protest to the terization in your last film," And hurt, Colonel Wiggin told me that the reason is that pretty blond he had received many "abusive Phyllis already has proved her versatility.
letters, for the most part anony- mous, and including suggestions that he himself would one day bei
the hunted and killed as
gtags on Exmoor are.
For some reason or other Miss Haver didn't get along very fast at first. Perhaps it was be- Col. Wiggin said: "The finan- cause Mack Sennett had her tied cial side of stag-hunting is of up as a bathing beauty too long. very great moment to West Somer- But despite the fact that she had aet.. Every hotel in the big cen- little chance to "sten out," Phyllis tres and scores of little Inns in acquired a world of good training the villages, to say nothing of in those bathing girl comedies. farm-houses, are full of sporting Her first definite step toward men and women who have come stardom in "What Price Glory."to Exmoor for the hunting, and Her role of an American vampire of the field the majority are visi- in the Philippines was small but tors. In addition most of the vital and she won the unanimous riders are on hired hunters, the praise of critics with her daily charge for which is three atag-hunting portrayal. Her next part was a guineas. Thus light comedy role in "The Re- brings many thousands of pounds. juvenation of Aunt Mary."
into the district." Then came the greatest role of
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her career. Phyllis was cast as | Dillie's new production is title:1 the soulless woman in Emil Jan. "The American Beauty." The nings' "Way of All Flesh," Just title was selected to fit the star, as an example of her acting, while and the story was written to fit. I was looking at the picture the the star and the title. It looks other night a woman behind me like a good combination and it turned to her companion and should make
good picture. whispered, "Isn't she terrible-I would like to wring her neck." It is interesting to compare Billie Dove with Lillian Russell, Miss Haver is now in the who was acclaimed "the original midst of her first starring pro-American beauty" some twenty duction, "The Wise Wife. In it years ago. Lillian Russell held she plays the part of an old that title for many years, but]. fashioned wife who, when she dis- since her halcyon days, styles of covers that she is losing her hus- beauty have changed. band; bobs her hair and adopts In the days when Lillian Rus- other flapper styles to win him sell was queen, small waists, back again. More versatility. large busts and great masses of The secret of Phyllis' success, ishair were the vogue. The not a method that can be recom- atraight lines of to-day's styles, mended to the average potential and the simple bobbed hair, offer After completing her Mack as sharp a contrast 28 can be Sennett contract the blond ac-found.
star.
tress tock to the free lance field,
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turning down all contracts. In Bille Dove has run the same this way, although she did not gauntlet of hard luck that so work steadily at first, she was able many other really good stars have to choose her own parts to a cer- been forced to traverse during the tain extent. And she did not year. She has been given tex- allow herself to become branded rible stories, and though her as any particular type.
efforts to make the terrible stories into good pictures have been noble, the task in hopeless or the next thing to it.
It was a big gamble as anyone In collutoidid will testify, but she took it, and won.
The Most Beautiful?
Bille has been told often Billie Dove is to succeed Lillian enough that she is beautiful, but: Russell as the American beauty?the tolling hasn't spoiled her. When it comes to striking beauty, Modestly, she declares that "The there are few in this movie colony American Beauty" is a good story, to complete, with Billie Dove, and so if the picture isn't any good that may be one reason why it will be our fault" &
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