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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, "APRIL 5th, 1930.
SUZANNE IN NEW ROLE.
Now Designer of Sports Clothes.
Having created many feminine sports' fashions, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, the greatest woman tennis į player of her time, now has turn- ed her talents to designing clothes. She has been appointed chief of the sports department of a Paris dressmaking house.
Suzanno is all business. Once; the most photographed woman in the world, she now looks upon 3 newspaper photographer as though | he were a near-sighted lineman of a tennis court. When interviewed about her new work she showed no interest in the marriage of Helen Wills, and even less in her report- ed engagement to Baldwin M. Baldwin, millionaire Californian. who has been in France for several months and often is seen with her.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
A REAL FOUR-OF-A-KIND.
Here are movieland's brightest stars, as judged by the box office receipts. No. 1 is Clara Bow, the dynamic little red-head, who leads them all. No. 2 is Colleen Moore, winner of send place, and No. 4 is Nancy Carroll, next in line. No. 3 is Hunt Gibson, who has re- placed Tom Mix as a cowboy favourite, and No. 5 1- Lon Chaney, who ranks as the most popular
male star.
Despite the hosts of stage actors place among the actors now in Tom Mix as king of fire wowboys. ! and actresses who have invaded Hollywood.
their box offic
Clara a Consistent Star.
alfraction of
This is due largely to the fact that Tom has not made a picture since
her merits as a screen netress.
These quadruplets, daughters of Mrs. Sadyc Gilmartin of San Francisco have become the "Gale Sisters"-Jane, June, Joan and Jean- and they're as similar as their names. They are the only quadruplets on the stage to-day, are 18 years old per each; measure 5 feet, 4 inches per person and generally manage to tip the scales at exactly 115 pounds: After several years of amateur dancing, they took to the stage two years ago and George White finally landed them on Broadway in "Flying High."
this "ad of prumise" during the past few years, the uld screen
Heading the list of feminine last spring. favourites continue to hold their
There you have them, the six, stars is Clara Bow, for years places in the hearts of movie fans,
known as the queen of movie releaders of the silver screen with- This fart has just been proved heads, Clara also was voted the gut a stage name among them-
"Miss Wills?--I wish her happi- by a poll of the tre managers biggest box office
unless you want to consider Naney
"Mr. Bald- throughout America.
These men 1928. And the previous year she arroll a product of the legitimate 0's," said Suza inc. ranked the players according to was in recond place. Incidentally theatre. But Naney deserted the win?-Oh, but you see that's my business and nobody else's. I'm footlights for Hollywood while a values which lara's vote for last year, as well
with enthusiasm. "I mean to make woman player."
her supremacy. In Europe, her seems to be about the best way of a 1928, was far ahead of the vote very small group of men still were not going to talk about that.
This new work, however, is aja success of it." dreaming that someday we might
Mlle. Lenglen will concentrate bandeau has always corapeted with Wills determining popularity.
received by the most popular man have talking films. Consequently, great adventure for me," she saidi "A Business Woman" Now. on sports fashions in her design- the eye-shade which Miss The results of this pool seems Fallowing Clara Was Colleen to indicate that stage players im Moore, with Nancy Carroll in third she has made her reputation on
Regarding the possibility of ing. She plans to try out her own brought over from America. ported
Mile. Lenglen put style into her. to Hollywood have not place. This would seem to in-
finished The Circus" two years open tennis tournaments and her ideas on the tennis court and the taken the plices of those who have dieate a rather decided pubile pre- Some Stars Excepted. ago. His "City Lights" will not chance to return, as a professional, golf course she offers them to her dress. Each day she usually ap built their reputations on the silver ference for flappers.
In justice to a few of our big be ready until fall.
to high-class play, Mile, Lenglen customers. She is still as slim and peared in a tournament with her
graceful as ever. sheet. These legitimate folk may
Fairbanks and Miss Pickford gave little hope for her admirers.
dark hair adorned with a different In Chaney, voted the most time stars such as Charlie Chaplin,
"Of course, I won't give up be famous along Broadway, but popular male-lar for 1928. again Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks each made only one pieture during |
Lcd Sports Fashions. jcoloured bandeau, which always the others are better known to the heads the actors
their in the newest and Harold Lloyd, we must say 1929,
co-starring film, tennis permanently," she said. "I
To Mlle. Lenglen, women's sport matched the well-cut cardigan rest of the country.
poll. That he has been a con- that this poil is not à fair indien "Taming of the Shrew," having still love the game, but at present fashions already owe much. Un-jacket she wore over her practical Winnie Lightner, who heads the sistent favourite is indicated by tion insofar as they are concerned. been completed too late for a am a business woman.
In private life, Mlle. Lenglen al- list of feminine stage importa- the fae that he was in third place Since each of them makes only one showing except in a few key cities.nlay for pleasure and. I may go questionably she created the short, dress when she was resting... tions, rank eighteenth among the for 1927.
been an Following closely on the picture a year, they have little Lloyd was in that came boat, tack to intensive playing at any dieeveless d'uss which has now be
of the well-dressed fair sex when it comes to draw heels of "the man with a thousand chance of competing at the box "Speedy" was released in April. time, I think that if I trained come practically the uniform of ways has
and fashionable ing power at the movie box office, faces" is William Haines, often re-office with players making from 1928, and his last picture, Wel hard 1 could be just as good as the woman tennis player. It was example And Al Jolson, who has led the terred to as "the play boy of the four to six films yearly.
ean Danger." was not shown jever, but from the present outlook Suzanne, too, who first introduced French woman male invasion of footlight eslebri- sereon.”
And in third place we Chaplly, for example, has not until late in 1920 and then only in I have little hope in open tourna the famous bandeau for the hair houses were glad to advertise that ties, must be content with tenth find Hoot Gibson, who has replaced completed a pictura since he key cities.
ments. Certainly I would fear no which had such a vogue during the wore their clothes.
I still.
A POOL OF PEACE: STEPS TO ACQUIRE LONE TREE CRATER.
excellent
Some time ago, the Rev. P. B. Clayton, Founder Fadre of Toc H, announced that steps are well in hand to secure Lone Tree Crater, near Kemel, as a "Pool of Peace." Sir Charles Wakefield has undertaken to bear the cost of purchasing the crater and thus securing it from commercial intrusion. It was originally intended to secure the crater of St. Elol, in the same district, but it has been decided that Lone Tree Crater, which is larger
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