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IN AN ORIENTAL SETTING.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, OCTOBER 12th, 1929,
LAURA LA PLANTE.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
WITH CORNWALL'S FISHERMEN.
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WANTS TO MAKE TOUR OF THE WORLD.
When she winds up her film career Laura La Plante wants to make an extended trip around the world.
"And then before I get too old I am going to start talsing A family," declares the charming "blonde star, "When I leave this world I want to leave something behind me and I can't think of any- thing more worth while than one or two children. They would be more a part of me than anything else."
However, don't get the idea that Miss LaPlante, or, Mrs."William Selter as she is known in private life, has any immediate plans for her proposed tour. She still has. three years to go on her present
Derothy' Mackaill, a First National cinema star, is here seen in an effective Oriential setting."
contract at Universal and after thut she should be good for at least another five years, providing she wants to stay in the game that long.
Laura's career has been an ex- tremely steady one-the kind that lasts a long time. She has never made a picture which could be termed sensational. Neither has she ever made a film which was a
The final design for the League of Nations buildings to be erected in the Pare Arians, on the Jura side of the Lau; sanne road, overlooking the Lake and facing Mont Blanc. The original site was abandoned as there was not. room for the Library (see the right), since presented by Mr. John. D. Rockefeller, jun. The foundation stone will be laid during the 10th. Assembly of the League, September 7 being the date provisionally arranged. It will be four or five years before,
„the new building will be ready for occupation. (Times copyright.)"
Cornish fisherman are seen landing pilchards on the harbour shore at Newlyn after transferring
them from the trawlers into small boats. (Times copyright.)
op." She always brings moneyART TREASURE FINDS
Into the box office. After all, that| is what the producers want; a stari who consistently makes some money instand of one who occa- sionally makes a clean-up. Those sensationa! "hits" aren't always so good for the stars. Their fans are forever expecting them to repeat and that is difficult to do. Con sequently they die early, as far as the movies are concerned.
"I have many things which
want to do when
IN CORNISH HOME.
ROOM FULL OF RARE
WORKS.
of about her own age is of the type of Rembrandt and Is signed. Rembrandt also.
The crowning piece, however, is a fine portrait of Mr. Brinsley Sheridan. It is certainly portrait of the same woman whose miniature was stolen from M
B
A short holiday spent in the Sabin's Gallery, Duke-street, St. heart of Cornwall not only gives James's, a few years ago. One a rest from noise and rush to one cannot be absolutely sure who the compelled to spend the bulk of his artist was, but it would pass for a life in London but opportunities Gainsborough, and the connols I am through to find many curious and remark-seurs who have seen it pronounce with pictures," Laura told an unble things,
It such.. terviewer. "Of course, I have ne
old! Here in the home of an
If that is not sufficient for one iden when I will be finished. The
add beauty to public will have a lot to do with couple I have discovered (writes room, then, to that. My one hope is that before Chronicle) some rare works of art and exquisite miniatures. Perfect correspondent of the Daily beauty, there are a few priceless I quit I will have a chance to do that would delight a collector or specimens such as could hardly be something really big, something for which the fans will remember could imagine oneself in the Won or the Victoria and Albert
a dealer. In one room alone one expected outside a Wallace Collec
me for a long time.
A
Wallace Gallery. Besides several Museum.
"One thing I want to do is to small but beautiful pictures there! What a zest to one's short learn a foreign language. Iare some which an amateur would Christmas vacation to discover always have wanted to know some immediately recognise as being such priceless gems Two old other language than our own, for the work of a master hand. " people enjoying the company of no reason at all except that I
One of Samuel Pepys is cer
these wonderful paintings and think it would be nice to know. Itainly of the type of Kneller. An alone knowing the pleasure of life also want to resume my study of other, a country scene, in perfect with them! music. I started out originally tal condition, is probably a Chrome sell for a large sum has little The fact that these objects might be a musician. Then I came into A fine small picture of an elderly effect in them. They had "a little pictures and dropped it all. And, woman handing a card to a man thing," so the old man told me, "In of course, there are the children.
I must have one or two of them." other established stars, she has Not having room for it with the the other room, by Sir Peter Lely," The actress is now making her proven that the microphone holds others it had to be put elsewhere." first all-talking film, "One Rainy no terrors for her. She has made
It is said that there are few. Night." And even though a four films containing peaking great discoveries in the art world double was used for her in the sequences and her voice has re-left: yet if one looks with sympathy singing sequences of "Show Boat,"gistered satisfactorily in all of and understanding they can still Laura can talk. Like many of our them.
be found, and often near to hand.
Mountain Frontier of France and Italy-An unusual panoramic view of the Italian side of Mont Blanc which was taken from the Tour Bonde, on the Franco-Italian ridge, which is seen stretching to the right in the ford- ground. Up this side of Mont Blanc lies some of the longest and most difficult climbs in the Alps, including the Brenya route. On the left in the background is seen the Pateret ridge, with the peaks of the Aiguille Noire de Peterat and the Aiguille Blanche de Pateret, On the right is Mont Maudit and Mont Blanc do Tacul The Bronva glacier shown on the left was the scene of a great avalanche some years ago, and it is now seriously:
menacing the village of Entreves, which lies in the valley below. (Times copyright.)
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