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CHARLIE'S NEXT LEADING LADY.
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She's only 20, and so far has been only în minor roles in British movies and in adver- Tisements for which she uns modelled. But Patricia Detering, or Sari Maritza, ns she is known_profesxlobally, is believed to have won the artistic approval and perhaps the affee- tion of Charlie Chaplin, upper right. Patricia, shown here in two puses, at left with a pet marmoset, may gn to Hollywood when the famed comedian returns to America.
London, Mar. 28. take a considerable, par! in the Then the reporters. Booked at Don't be surprised if the next next Chaplin film.
bucks, One of them geen of Hollywood, or at least
Anyhow, London is su that broke the ice by asking a question. that part of the film capital owned her fortune is made. For every | Whereupon the silent film became by Charlie Chaplin. is Patriela time Chaplin has very much ad-
a talkie. Ever since then that. Detering, or Sari Maritza, as she mired a pretty girl, he either has faithful band of reporters has been in known professionally over here (starred for ur married her. And Chaplin squat. Their regular Mary and her Hittle lamb had in both cases that meant wealth assignment is to elironicle the nothing on Charlie and his little and luxury.
star's daily doings, Patricia. For everywhere
To be entirely correct, it should
The star is always doing "se Charlie went, Patty was sure to las stated that it is Mr. Charles; «4" things. Only it's a secret of Ja, Charlie not only took her toj Chaplin of Hollywood who visited!
Palehinello, Is ther lunch on his owa; be waltzed her here. He let the Charlie Chaplin verybody's. For, somehow, when right in among His aristocratie of anywhere, back in the States, he makes a "secret" visit to his old Triends, Sir Philip Sassion andi “Charlo" is always dusty and home street in Kensington others. When she walked in, they rows; his clothes are all at sixes surprise" visit to his old school, all sat, up and took plenty of do and sevens; his cane is a joke; and all the reporters are there and so lighted notice.
Patty ta petite, Elorde and bine! Mr Thapli ін inmanately are the news photographers, eyed. She is English on her fasi dressed in the best that American! ther's side and Hungarian on her tailors can turn out. His shoes between Mr. Charles Chaplin mother's. Also she is 20, lives in Es ivory-krobbed; and his vor democratic, almost common.
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Lives in Luxury.
earning a living filling moderatej zigarettes. are long and expen-tail of life, with all the down- and, on the side, posing for some! "Charlie" as everybody knows, and-outs, the pitiful and the pour, very lovely pictures for facial is bute in the films. Mr. Chapdin, } creams and other advertisements, however, has been fatervieweil by
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LASI aene of English réporters.) Mr. Charles Chaplin has lived in Where Chapfin not her is his And he talked, though not at first. London in the rarest air the nation secret. But his admiration for The Pressmen gathered around] affords. Be has met no less a the pretty girl is notonly's serret, him and indulged in silence and person than the Prime Minister. It has been blazoned to all the a lot of .. So did Mr. Chaplin, He has swapped stories with ebuntry. It also is understood in fact, it lonked like a silent film erudite George Benard Shaw. that she is going to Hollywond to all over again.
He has linked arms with Lady
TALLULAH
BANKHEAD.
MAKES FINE IMPRESSION IN MOVIES.
At Astoria, Long Island, where; movies are made when they don't eone from Hollywood, the manners, customs anul salon wit of London's; Mayfair are being superimposed; upon a typical pleture studio serne,
Quite different from many of the withely advertised youngsters Trom the Hollywood lots, Miss Bankheal did not muve into, one of the obvi ously ritzy hotels and take a great site. She picked a quiet, out-of- the-way place in the Fifties,
She does, to be sure, appear al| work in A most expensive looking! car. with a tricky chauffeur.
She does, also, carry a secretary| and dictates letters and newspaper quotations when not appearing be fore the camera. She does have) certain gestures when flicking the ashes of ber specially mude ciga- rets. She does drug into a languor bus state of relaxation while rest. ing. Her movements and enrriage and general behaviour is of the sort that some other actresses have tried to imitate on the screen when play ing the role of a "lady of miners." After observing Tallulah, it's ob vious that few know how to do it. Tallulah, just a girl from Alabama who made good in London, has been around quite a bit in the just eight years. She doesn't have to affect. What some might take as n salon pose is natural to her. She is nul- mated, dynamle; quick at repartee, a swell wise-cracker, sophisticated, quite a young woman of the world, apparently trying her darndest not to be understood.
In its
Tallulah Bankhend is shown here as she appeared in three scenes from "Tarnished Ludy,' The man in the scene at the upper left la Alexander Kirkland.
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no ritzler than the average, nieco of Senator-elect John B. According to Director George she keeps a supply of light reading, Bankhead, Tallulah had not exactly Cukor that she has already passed with which she relaxes while wait- knocked Broadway dead when she the test of the trouper. Earlier in in for a call. The film and stage went overness less than 10 years the picture some shots had to be magazinea she rends avidly, ago to try her fortunes.
retaken half A dozen times. She whether or not she is mentioned.
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She returned with the acclaim of did ask that a "stand in" be used She explains that she wants England, a favourite of salons and in such preparations as did not re-catch up to all the low down" she of the stage, with the American quiro her presence, but that's nothi- may have missed while away.
The great Episcopal Cathedralĝin 1873 obtained a charter for it of St. John the Divine in New from the New York Legislature. | York City has been more than a The first part of the enthedral half century in the planning and built was the crypt, just below the building. And it is still far from choir, where services were first completion.
held in 1890.
The church, in completed stage, will take rank as the third largest place of worship in the world. This classfication is based on the total ground surface covered by the structure.
The choir and crossing were completed in 1911. For some time| the only part in evidence was a great arch that stood out over the vast expanREY of Morningside Heights,
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The world's largest church is St.
The nave is the crowning glory Peter's, Rome, with an area of 227,- 069 unre feet. Next comes S. of the cathedral. It is 96 feet in vile Cathedral, Spain, with 128.670 width with a line of piera 86 and stare fert.
fert high. This is virtually St. John's covers 109,082 square fert.
cumpleted. Nearly 37,000,000) has St. John's was first proposed in been agent on the nave, the west 1872 by Bishop Horatio Potter, who front alone costing $4,000,000,
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least 310,000,000 to prove as lasting as the pyra" UNFAITHFUL. gorgeous Park Lane home to Sining thinks at Phillp Sassoon, England's most more is needed. When completed, mids. The main piers, measuring
at least $30,000,000 will have been 11 feel by IG feet 3 inches, have a Ruth Chatterton's New eligible and richest bachelor.
heavy outer casing of limestone And the press has just gloried spent on the cathedral property,
core of squared granite in it. Time anal again they have; It is being built without iron or with told their readers
Ruth Chatterton may be that Mr. steel framework, in much the same rocks, each weighing from five and Chapila, although he has lived in laborious manner as were the old one-half to seven tons.
faithful to the Paramount studio, America long time, is still an European cathedrals. It will hold
Huge pipes and fillings in the where she now is under contract, unnaturalized Englishman. Mr. an audience of 10,000 persons. It cathedral are installed with the but she makes good pictures for it Chaplin hasn't got that
feet long. The interior belief that they will last for cen- just the same. That is awful in 601 nasal American voice and accent, height of the nave, floor to vault, taries without a leak. It la the proved in No sir! Mr. Chaplin speaks with is 125 feet and the central tower is hope of engineers that 2,000 years | faithful.” the cultured, low tones of the well- 400 feet high, in the final design. hence their works will be the bred Englishman.
The massive building is expected marvel of designers.
WORLD'S
TALLEST BUILDING.
Farther from the ground than anything.else over built by man,” the" monument-like : tower at the peak of New York's mammoth now Empire State Building is shown in these aerial photos as it appeared after the removal of the scaffolding which surrounded it. Note, in the striking picture at the left, the tiny figures-of two men at the top of the tower, where facilities for mooring dirigiblos and discharging passangers in the heart of Man- hattan soon will be provided. There are observation towers at the top and just beneath. the base of the mast. It's 1,248 feet from the tip of the building to famous Fifth Avenue below, and the view at the right gives a vivid impression of the height and architectural Hnes of the world's tallest skycraper.
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her latest film,
The story is a rather complicated one of a wife who guins the repu tation of being unfaithful because she shields her sister-in-law for fear of hurting her brother, Ruth plays the role of the wife, who shortly after her marriage to Paul Cavanagh learns that he is playing around with another woman. But when she learns that the other wo- man is her sister-in-law she refuses to divorce her husband because of her love for her brother who is madly in love with his unfaithful Juliette Compton gives an excellent portrayal of the chisel- Ing" sister-in-law and Donald Cook is equally good-ns the brother.
wife.
But of course Ruth must have a love Interest, which is supplied by
Paul Lukas, with whom Ruth falls in love. But because she will not divorce her husband to marry him and will give him no reason, he be gins to think that she actually de- serves the bad reputation she has gained. Naturally he learns the The truth In the closing reel. proper motion picture formula wouldn't have been followed if he hadn't.
Shows Genuine Emotion. We always have regarded Ruth as one of our finest actresses from a tochnical standpoint, but in our opinion she has heretofore had too much technique without putting enough genuine emotion into her roles. But in "Unfaithful sho proves conclusively that she can feel her characterizations as well as enact them.
Lukas, too, deserves special mon- tion. Being somewhat of the same type as William Powell, we don't feel that Paramount has much to worry about in`losing Powell. With one or two more productions like "Unfaithful," Lukas easily will be sufficiently popular to take the star- | ring niche left vacant when Powell
went over to Warners.