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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929.

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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but surrenders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellinga, such as harbor, plow, mad altho.j

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35 136

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HORIZONTAL

1-Nickname of New

York City

B-Hardships

✪THE INTERSTIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont)

44-To go in

46-Custom

148-A half em

BA Southern State of 49-A father

the U. 8.

18-Egyptian sun-ged .

13-To incline

14-Girl's name - 16-Behold

17-To hit (slang)

18-Approaches 20-To give forth 22-Carols

23-Excessive anger 25-Early Norse rhymes 27-A Persian gold coin 23-Capital of Yucatan,

Mexico

29-A brief rain 30-Builds

34-A Spanish-American

War hero

37-A small wood

·98-A cavalry sword

40-A mountain In

Thessaly, Greece

(Gr. Myth.)

41-A ship's load

43-Te grow weary

[50-A noted English

school

51-Short for "Albert" 53-Craved

VERTICAL (Cont.) 16-An ancient weapon

17-An evergreen tree - 18-identical

21-Thoas who make

apart in maska 24-One skilled in

gardening

155-The marine force of 26-Ago

a country (pl.)

58-Almost

VERTICAL

1-An English order

knighthood 2-Toward 3-Great periods of

timo

4-Flesh of animals

27-Vaults

21-A familiar flower 32-A noted American

admiral

of 23-Gazes intently 34-Moro clovated 35-A smooth. glossy

fabric $0-The death of a

pection

uned for food (pl.) 37-To rule

B-The prongs of a fork, 39-Landed property

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7-Part of "to be"

8-Secured in a

dishonest way

10-A city In

45-A current

41.The goddess of

harvests

42-Made of oats

47-To presage good or

¡54-Correlative Bi

"elther"

11-The sacred river of 52-Four (Roman)

C. New York

india

13-Tardler

The solution of the above cross-word puzzle wili appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

IDOL OF PARIS

LEARNED ENGLISH IN PRISON CAMP

Maurice, Chevalier, songster idol of the French stage, first learned to speak English from a fellow- prisoner in a German hospital camp during the war. This man "Was Noman Kennedy, a British private from Durham, who remains to-day one of Chevalier's closest friends..

Chevalier and Kennedy were war prisoners during 26 months of the conflict, Chevalier having been cap- tured when wounded and left for dead in front of the French "Hnes during the first battle of the Marne. Chevalier's first motion picture, "Innocents of Paris," is now in pro duction at the Hollywood studios of Paramount. It is predicted that the star's strong romantic person- ality will make him one of the most popular men on the screen Sylvia Beecher, beautiful young stage actress, has the leading role opposite Chevalier and the picture is being directed by Richard Wallace, whose "Shopworn Angel" was chosen by crities as one of the ten best pictures. of 1928.

It's fascinating drama to see a youngster survive extravagant per- alflage and character, stripping of conversational Hollywood. It's fas- cinating, too, to realize that mil llons of picture goers elect – whom they choose to stellar heights, re- gardless of native prejudice, pro or

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

BEAVERS AZALEA ALC VE AC

Ben Lyen

THE CHINA MAIL,

Behind the Scene

m Hollywood

[By Dorothy Herzog] Hollywood. This department rarely goes

in for praise. Like producers, we're afraid it will make folks too happy. The following epistle, however, may be of interest. It comes all the way from Kyoto, Japan, to Corinne Griffith from that w.k, writer, E. Barrington: Dear Miss Grifth:

Here in Japan I have just had a huge bundle of British press elip- plugs about the London release of The Divine Lady.". I always knew that your beauty and sensitive ap- preciation were the ideal expression of Emma Hamilton's nature, but your triumph in Britain, where sharp criticism was naturally to be expected, was a triumph indeed and I congratulate you very warmly and truly. You have fixed an image of Lady Hamilton on British men and women which will make her memory a far more sympathetic one than it has been. I had that in mind myself in writing my novel.

Very cordially yours.

E. BARRINGTON.

Why, the lighting systems and the sound apparatus actually are known to refuse to function because of the grotesque temperature. What chance has the actor got? Pity the poor Indian mey eye.

Britain's colourful and excellent

Hal Skelly

FAY WRAY ›

FEMININE ROLE IN "FOUR FEATHERS"

The chief feminine role, in "The Four Feathers," A. E. W. Mason's powerful novel which is being filmed by Paramount as one of its most important productions of the year, will be played by Fay Wray, whom Erie. Von Stroheim lifted to fame when he selected ber to ap- pear in "The Wedding March."

Selection of Miss Wray for the parts of the heroine of "The Four Feathers," was made by B. P. Schulberg, general manager of west coast production for Par- amount, after Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, who are co- directing the picture, had looked

at two dozen screen testa:

Miss Wray is the second player placed in the cast of this drama, which already has been in produc- tion in the Sudan and in Tang- anyika, Africa, for a year. Richard Arlen was assigned the leading male role.

Preparations for filming that part of the story which will be made at the Paramount studios have been rushing at top speed for two weeks and will continue at that rate for two weeks moro at least. The actual studio shooting schedule has beer set at a minimum of ten weeks. Fay Wray's career in motion plc- tures has been ap uninterrupted

what people said. They couldn't all ascent. She began in comedies be wrong. How did she get by?

when she was 16, a student in Holly- wood high school. Two years "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

later Von Stroheim saw her in a reached the public. The White girl western picture at the Universal Congratulatory letters studio and selected her for the lead- First National perked ing part in "The Wedding March."

Alice had actually

Emil Jannings saw several reels and

Years ago, Shayle Gardiner, an- other British actor, who, at this profited. perning, is playing George Arliss poured in. doctor in "Disraeli," played with P, startled. Ellen Terry in one of George Berelicked. She actually had a follow-of that in a projection room nard Shaw's plays. Miss Terry, -ising, and a large following. Un sought her services as his leading accustomed studio speed. She was woman in "The Street of Sin." She you may recollect, ranked among

offered a new contract at the same won further recognition in this actresses. It seemed, however, that salary stipulated in the option that picture and followed it with the week. jead opposite Gary Cooper, in "The she had difficulty remembering her had been dropped--$600 a lines. She was 58 at the time she Alice grabbed it, thankful for the Legion of the Condemned." appeared in Shaw's play and during opportunity. those years she had absorbed many a play. Hence, her lapse of memory: may or may not listen logical.

Be that as it may, she showed remarkable agility in substituting her own lines for Shaw's. Shaw

sat it in the orchestra. He stood it

Bessie Love

She with

was then chosen to co-star Cooper in "The First Kiss," recently completed.

She was shoved into stardom. Frankly, she didn't know what it was all about. She just saw, sud-ve, " denly, that she was the cinematic centre of five celluloid reels. She

learned slowly. They still talked HONG KONG HEIGHTS

about her. Alice's personality will

always be the target for comment) For the information of visitors until she graduates from mental the following list of some of the flapperism.

highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:---

Island. Victoria Peak Signal. Station Mt. Farker

But she did her best. She work- ed like a buck private in her last picture, wherein she was called upon to be a versatile musical comedy trouper as well as talky actress.

About this time she met Sid Bartlett. Sid is tall and clean cut. He looks others straight in the eye. He knows what it's all about. He is known on the New York stage. Sid is a singer with a grand voice. He met a lot of girls in Hollywood. He met Alice White. They liked each other. The like grew to friend- ship. It may have grown into love. One can't say for sure..

Alice intrigued Sid. So did the gossipy stories about her. He has discovered the stories to be founded on verbal froth for the most part. He has found, too, that there are glimmering depths to the girl, depths befogged by uncertainty, fluttery bamour, fear. They've been going together several months now.) Alice has changed. She's getting acquainted with herself, which is al- ways a shock, if one waits too long,

She's passed that stage. She has quieted. One doesn't hear her ner- more. She's stopped playing up to a cold audience.

as long as he could before exclaim. You giggle in public any ing:

"My dear Ellen, your lines are charming. Perhaps they are more charming than mine, but they are not my play."

contract, destroyed it before it ex- First National destroyed her old

pired. She has a new one, and her |

motion

Whereupon Miss Terry, captivat. salary has shot to four plump figures ing and bewitching as of yore, a week. A man who really knows smiled prettily and replied: "My that if Alice White keeps her feet pictures said recently dear George, I am so delighted you on the ground and her head out of like my play better than yours!". -

the clouds within two years she will One of the really fascinating be among the biggest box office at

tractions the screen has over known. | stories in Hollywood is Alice White. Much has been written about Alice. Much of the copy has carried a sting. The White girl has stood out as the Cinderella of the screen even in her stellar glory.

They've called her dumb. And haywire. They've even sniffed, at her picture. "How does she get away with it?" The answers were not always pretty.

Alice knew what they said. She didn't care much. One saw this by her dress, her conversation, the vague stories handled around about

her:

It was approximately a year ago that Alice's contract with First National neared completion. There was no talk of renewal. Her chief service to the studio had been play- ing “atmosphere" in the tests taken of newcomers.

And then Famous Players pur chased "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."" They needed a Dorothy. AHce was tested. She got the part. It was a lucrative way for her to conclude her F. N. contract. Shortly after her contract expired without being renewed

Alice was worried. She believed:

Verily, this village, manufactures

drama, but the real drama is too poignant to reach the screen. And

that's all.

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