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MARY AND
DOUG
TO MAKE BIG PICTURE TOGETHER.
For the first time in 16 years Mary Pickford is to play the role of a leading Indy. And the heroi of the picture will be none other than her husband, Douglas Falk- bunks.
For the past several years there have been repeated rumours and an equal uniber of denials that "Mary aid Day would make a pic-
Lurc
together. At Inst the rumours have won. They will start work en Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," with Doug playing "Petruchio” and Mary portraying "Katherine."
In a sense this film will take Mary back to her old Biograph days, as it Was there that she used to play femininé lands öp posite male stars. Since that time he always has been the star of every picture" in which she ap pearet.
Wants Ilim to be Bass, "1-am going to be Douglas" leading lady in this picture be- cause I think the man should het at the head of things," Miss Pick- ford says. "Ever since we have been with United Artists we have separate com each maintained
panies for our production activi- ties. But for this picture. I am going to work for Donglas' com- pany.
to make a
"We have wanted picture together for a long time) but were never able to get a story That suited as. Bouglas' swash- buckling character and, my symn - - thetic character wouldn't go very well together so we had to wait until we could get a story that would fit us both. In making the picture we are going to stick | sery closely fo Shakespeare's original store and keep the entire Glin. in a fight comcilý vain."
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 10th,
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
pletures with some of the big has any particular type of story
to have
POEM WRITTEN AT SEANCE
THORNY PROBLEM FOR A GERMAN COUNT.
A Berlin court has a thorny pro- blam to solve. It is called upon to determine the ownership of a poem purporting to have been written by the post Uhland-who died In 1862 at a spiritualistic seance.
The scance was held at the re- sidence of the poet R: Meyer, and the spirit of Uhland is supposed to have placed the poem in the hands of the medium.
According to the sworn
tot testimony of those present what happened faulleged to have been as follows:The medium, who was in a state of trance, reported that the poet Ludwig Uhland was present, and was prepared to make “a manifestation, en
The spirit refused paper and pencil, produced a sheet of paper, took a pencil out of the closed bag of the medium and proceeded to write. The medium rose and moved about the room without-going in "the direction of the writing case. After a few seconds it was slated that Uhland was handing over the manuscript.
Expert Opinion,
The lights were turned up, and
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Myrna Loy one of Warner Bros. most charming stars,
it. was found that the sheet was of WILSON THE “FUTILE." Japan, nor the reason for which
thick, mouldy paper, and contained in Uhland's characteristic writing
a hitherto unknown poém entitled "The Return, and it was signed "L. Uhland, 1920." The man- useript was examined by experts and pronounced genuine. It was another piece of Uhland's hand. writing to the chairvoyant Johannsen.
A VIVID BOOK'ON THE
PEACE.
mobilised their
the countries troops for battle.
Round and about him hovers constantly the figure of Colonel House, from Texas, “who seldom grasped or appreciated, what was
An amazingly futile President said to him on political topics, Wilson- schoolboy idealist in Bever recognized the core of n the hands of trained diplomats a subject, never detected contradic blunduring, incompetent Colonel tions."
X-RAYS REVEÄL MASTERPIECE.
PICTURE HIDDEN BY PAINT: REVELATION,
A portrait by Holbein, partly buried beneath a Inter re-painting, Johannsen declared that the two
has just been discovered by means picees of writing emanated from
For a brief moment the Proof X-ray photography. EVÄST the same person, but that one had Rouse his guide and assistant; a been written much later than the bewilderingly kaleidoscopic Lloyd nident triumphs. He enforces theThe portrait is that of an an a vindictive and Convenant of the League of Na-cestor of the present owner, who olifer under unusual circum- George, and
Clemenceau, tions on the assembled. delegates resides in London, it is described stances. Aaked as to the origin of vengeful, Georges
the of twenty-seven nations and in the family recorde as by the paper, the clairvoyant describ-President of France, were
ed the house where thland died, main characters in the internetruggle among the Allies begins ever, have disputed the attribution
in internal leaves for home before the real Holbein. Modern experts how
hitherto, because the clothes worn November 11, 1918, and closed
France's Security: had actually been torn.
by the sitter are Elizabethan, and, "The Thining of the Shrew" will | days," declared "America's swept-in mind.
"Right, now my biggest worry
Clemenceau is determined -on therefore, must have been painted The participants in the mani-with the signing of the Treaty of "be filmed in eufour aid will be heart." "I would like to work
security, a security to be enforced after Holbein's death.lat an all-talking production, mark with Emil Jannings; John Gilbert is that jurt when we are about
X-ray photography has now, re- secreey, but one of them, a writer This, at any rate is the inter- for all time by the shadow of a the talkie feil. There will be no be a great, relief not to have to will decide lie wants in go tamed Georg, has broken the in-pretation given to what was, per- mighty French Army looming vealed an underpainting showing Ing the second attempt of both in and two or three others. It would ready to start our picture Douglas festation had been pledged to Versailles on June 28, 1919. doubt about its audible success carry mast of a film's burden on Europe and drags me over there junction, declaring that he stood inps, the most fateful year in the above a vanquished German clothes and cap; in fashions of
with him. He always wants to go next to the medium, and that the
also equally twenty-five or thirty years earlier, fram Mary's angle, Her.voice was my own shoulders."
poem was placed in his hands. history of this civilisation by Karl nation. He is
Friedrich Nowak, in "Versailles" emphatic that Germany shall pay This underpainting, which can be „proven good in "Coquette." With Contrary to the belief that sonte place, but I guess he is no
to the uttermost farthing,
uncovered by a skilful restorer, is believed to be the Holbein picture. Thug it's a different story. His when Doug and Mary made a pie different than other men in that ile now claims its return.
Herr Meyer, in whose residence (Gollancz, 159. net).
The author is German, his out- Lloyd George has no wish to be of the family records,
N speaking prologue in "The fronture together that film would speel. All men seem Mask" was anything, but a sue mark their last appearance on the wanderlust strains in them. Per the seance took place, also claims cess. However, it is understood, dilver sheet, neither has any ideally, I prefer to spend more the manuscript, and the court has look and sympathies are essentially brutal to a beaten foe. His one The explanation of the over- time at home. When I get, on a now to decide to whom it right-German, and the German angle of idea is to fulfil England's pledged painting is simple. The sitter, view is applied to the historie word to other nations and bring when he was painted by Holbein, that the United Artists' technicians of retiring.
dirty train or start to get seasick fully belongs. have now learned how to record
a ship. I think how nice it
events throughout; yet the book the British Army home. He is was a young man recently back in his voice and recent tests have
would be to be right here at
may live when nearly all the other shown in an eminently reasonable England from the Field of the proven it to be very goul,
war, books are forgotten, for the light, bound unfortunately by his Cloth of Gold. He became a author has summed up the weak- epoken pledge to arraign the sheriff in later life, and Queen nesses of the Treaty (including Kaiser and turn out the German's Bizabeth honoured him by visiting his house. sa wAA the League of Nations ideal) with pockets," :
He was so pleased with his new It is significant, however, that dignities that he decided to have the German author's treatment of his sheriff's robes painted over the the British Premier is more kindly clothes in Holbein's picture, and, than that applied to any other as Holbein was dead, he employed allied delegate at Versailles. He another artist to do the work,
The task of removing this over- Wilson comes to Europe to im. laughs at him as when he says: uainting is one of extreme de- pose the same terms on victors "Lloyd George, the well-groomed
skill of modern scientific restora- and vanquished. alike. All the little man with the flowing white cacy, but it is not beyond the commitments, secret treaties, and mane... obviously rather spoilt tion. arrangements of the Allies made as regards the external comforts Holbein painted five members of during the tense four years are of life, and decidedly attached to the sitter's family, and this ignored by him. He neither knows them for instance, his afternoon portrait has been handed down as nor wants to know what England tea," yet he credits him, and the an heirloom for nearly four has promised France, Italy, or British nation' generally, with the hundred years. If the Holbein desire to reach. a businesslike underpainting is uncovered suc- peace settlement. "His most cessfully the portrait, as are characteristic note was human corded pedigree picture, might be sympathy."
worth from £50,000 to £100,000,-
THE HAPPY MEDIUM.
"I have never been so interested on is pictures as I am at the pre- sent time." Mary remarked. "I home." This step taken by Fairbanke uni positively, through with child and Miss Pickford is very apt to roles unless I should niake a film! bring about somewhat of a revoluin which ¦ start as a child and, tion, in the aim inilustry. If two grow up, But I never will go out of the biggest and highest salaried of my way to look for such stars in the business can com-story, And as for retiring from bine in a pdelure ant make it the screen-well, that is the
·ftunelal saeeESS, other studios farthest thing from my mind right are quite likely to follow suit and now. team their stars for stung produc-. tions,This has not been done
occupied-far from it; but if only they had managed things better, they would have had periods of rest and refreshment which would have given them time to feel and to consider, and also made their netive lives much more powerful. are sharpness of outline, and Ey Dr. Albert Peel. Robertson Nicoll puts the truth of the foundations of the next great The art of living is the art of the matter in two complementary war laid in the ending of the last dividing life between the spheres selences: "Most of us come late conflict are stripped bare. of thought and action. The world in life to the discovery that we is full of people like Henry James's can do much more than we are niillionaire, who said, "I have doing. The busiest man ought heretoforu because executive. Neither Douglas or I know never had time to feel things. I to be able to spend part of the day have had to make myself felt," to alone, frequently without doing could not see the, senan of paying what we will do after finishing people who have never hd, and | anything." thedaries of two stars when one The Taming of the Shrew. I am never made, time to "stand still Most of us, tinkers and tallors,
sufficient to Was
draw quite sure I will make a modern and consider the wondrous works bookmen and business men, could Jame
cruwils to the box office.
picture of a more or less serious of God." It is not that all their do more if we contrived to be quiet
have been fruitfully more and think more. I would love to make a few imture but I don't think Douglas hours
Future Plans Uncertain.",
Treaties Ignored,
The Hay Harvest in Hampshire. Haymaking
gan early
many parts of the Old Country, and fine wea
a scene at loheldever, where haymaking was in full swing under an almost cloudless aun
GLIMPSES
OF NATIVE LIFE.
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