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Will I some day number myself amongst those who say "I adore Ruth Chatterton?" It

A

strange thing that I have yet to really like her. 1 admire her work, but there is just that some- thing about this exceedingly clever woman which either repels or fascinates. She is courageous; she is a great actress; she is the loat word in culture-In fact, there are those who dislike hor, who say "She is so cultured that her It hurts." I met her in charming mother-in-law's pretty bungalow (Mary Forbes, now the wife of Charles Quartermaine, who recently appeared in "The Bishop Murder Case"). She never studies camera angles. She mere. ly stated that "the lines on my face have been etched there by time and thought and experience, and that surely people will value them more than If I try to block them out with grease paint, and present a smooth mask with no- Ruth thing written upon. it." Chatterton is a thinker; she lea fatalist. I am reminded of that old Arabian proverb, "What is to be, is written," but she seeks beauty; she expresses it in every form imaginable. She is a patron of all the arts, and she and her husband (Ralph Forbes) are a ways to be seen at the best con certs, Art Galleries, etc. Their home in Beverly is wonderful. It is a great honour to be invited there. They never "play to the gallery." They do not pamper for popularity. For a time there was unhappiness and a parting of the ways between these two, but I a more devoted have never seen couple than they are now. Ruth is older than Ralph. She is wis Er;

she has learned life's great lesson, Tolerance, and so I hope they will go on many years facing' only the happiness to be found in this-the greatest gift to mankind.

"The Lady of Scandal."

In this play of Frederick Lonsdale's, "The High Road," re- named "The Lady of Scandal," she is not at her best, because it is not a great acting part.

Just a drawing-room drama with the old plot of show girl and gon- tleman of birth, and the usual hostility of the same gentleman's family. There is this much to be said in its favour--we will at least understand WHAT is sald, with auch support as Basil Rathbone and Ralph Forbes; in fact, the English language is rampant.

When I was a child I can re- member a great tragédienne, by name Nance O'Neil. Now we see her in minor roles in the Talkies. but everything she plays is n cameo. She deserves bigger and botter parts, as she is still a great actress, She will be amongst

CAMPAIGN AGAINST those supporting Miss Chatterton

SLAVERY.

Movement for World Abolition.

in this play to be seen. In the Queen's.

Ralph Forbes is tall, blonde," When I first re- and handsome. member him he was more or leas trading on his extraordinary like. ess to the Prince of Wales. Ho Geneva, Oct. 14. first went to America in the same Steady progress is being made company as Claud Allister, the towards the gradual, world-wide British touring company that Casablanca, Morocco, Oct. 22.

abolition of slavery, acccording to played "Havoc" Then Forbes The French Government to-day League of Nations Officials.

was asked to play in musical redoubled its efforts to check ex-

According to official reports re tensive traffic of rifle smuggling|ceived by the Secretariat during the Into the dissident sections of past year,-effective measures for Morocco which have not yet sub reducing or ending Blavory have mitted the French arms

been put into effect in Persia. Soudan, Abyssinia, and in Trans- Jordan.

of

For years the smuggling has been carried on in a small scale, but lately army pasta have found In addition, the number that captured natives are equipped nations that have ratised the with better rifles and equipment League's International Convention than ever before. The "peaceful for the Progressive Abolition of penetration" of the resisting terri Slavery Increased from 29 to 84. tories has been made more difficult.

The most difficult aspect of the problem, according to Leaguers, les In the Mohammedan countries where slavery la recognised by the religion.

mics.

After skirmishes with the un bending Moors. French soldfers have found American, British, Gorman, French, Italian and Aus trian rifles and machine sur Elavery and Economics. strewn along the battlefeld. Ré-

Here it is not only the religion cently at Tezla soveral scores of that counts, but also the fact that French soldiers were killed by the the whole economic life of the natives, although the French Country is often based on the slave colonial office did its best to keep system. An effort at sudden aboll- the affair quiet in the press. then would result in the temporary

Resistance Stiffened, Attempts have been made to economic ruin of the country in the squeeze confessions about the same way as the sudden abolition of slavery affected the economic life of source of the rifle smuggling from the southern states In America fol- captured, Moors, but stubbornly lowing the liberation of slaves.-- they refuse to talk They have It is estimated in League circles told French army officera that they that there still remain 5,000,000 pay about 1,200 francs for a good slaves throughout the world repeating rifle, in excellent condi- United Press.

tion. Their story refutes the con-

tention of some that the arms are

being furnished free to the natives

Raib Chattertons-

comedy with Miss Chatterton, type of work new to them both. They met, fell in love, and married almost at once. He was a success in pletures before she was, and she was content to be simply, Mrs. Ralph Forbes, although she was.

by a power unfriendly to France, the rocky Morocco-Algeria border, casily amongst the greatest of The Government has inform net far from Oran From here Broadway's stars I have seen

that 45,000, modern repeating, rifles

her often with Henry Millar, to the are quickly run south by whom she owes so much of her camel caravana, hidden under the

Now It Is Buth who is usual trappings of an Arab travel-

Artist; friend hus kes quite

Gove

band

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Jack Pickford has taken a third wife, also another Follies girl (hoi [avours them). . "The Royal Family" have received the new Mrs. Jack, so all is peace in the house of Pickfair,

Basil Rathbone has returned to the New York stage. Declares that the work in the Talkies cramps one's individuality.

Colleen Moore rehearsing for her stage appearance in New York It has always been a puzzle to mo ever made good, HOW that giri and why she was so popular.

Evelyn Laye's first Talkie has been re-named "Escapade" Lilynn Tashman is to sing in it.

Quite a number of marriages. William Boyd ja to marry Dorothy Sebastian; although she has al ways led us to believe she intend- ed marrying Clarence 'Brown, the Carbo's favourite Director. But- Oh well, Hollywood folk are not

lived 20 months in a frozen re- that is gion. In a stark world white, dead, and silent, they built a city of half buried huts and tall radio-towers, and called it "Little America." They discovered the Pyramid that Amundsen left there on his trip to the Pole. The ac- tual flight over the Pole with four fron in the plane covered eighteen hours in the air. I hear that this picture caused sansation In London. It IS mighty grand to see the real thing, NOT Hollywood Studio stuff. Wherever this film has been shown the school chillike plain common or garden folk: they change their minds and hus- dren have attended in large num-

bands as they do their clothes. hers. It is an education as well

Talklag of clothes, two of the as a pleasure, and I note that the

most fascinating

have Women management of the Central are

married dress and art designers. kindly allowing a special conces-

Dolores Del Rio recently ran away sion for the local schools. They

to marry the attractivo and clever will charge only twenty, cents for

Irishman, Cedric Gibbons, and the upper circle at the 2.80 and

now the beauteous Jetta Goudal (1 5.10 shows. It is advisable that teachers inform their classes of have never spoken to any one more fascinating) has married this treat.

Harold Grieve.

*Panny Wise

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Ralph Forbes will play opposite the fiery headed "It" girl, La Bow, who recently, celebrated her twenty-fifth birthday.

"Penny wise and pound foolish." WHAT is the use of giving us pictures that were made in the in- fascy stage of the Talkies?

Ruth Chatterton and Claudette saw "The Wolf of Wall Street" Colbert will play their parts in the nearly two years ago, and I can New York Paramount Studio. safely say we will as much under-

Fola Negri longs for more stand what is asid na we did at triumphs, and is about to start on "The Wild Party" and "The Dana Talkie. She speaks English, gerous Woman." There are hun-French, German, Spanish and dreds of up-to-the-minute films Polish fluently. that should be shown here. How Asa Yousman, lately of Russia, kng have we been promised but more recently of the Land of "Flight," "Anna Christle, etc.7 Liberty, has been strutting his We are all keen fans. We"gonny Boy" stuff in Germany. patronize the best pictures, but and acted in a film in that lan- HOW can one recommend pictures guage. After all, ha-native-lan- that are half lost in the reprodue guage was Yiddish, and it is very tion?

akin to the Deutsch. Al Jolson will shortly make his first picture with United States, "The Sons of Guns," with Lily Damita in the original part she has been playing on Broadway.

Take the case of "The Love Parade." We were lucky to see it so soon, but did it not pay the

Anita Page,

It

Central management tenfold? broke all records. It was excel- lent in every way, especially the sound. There was more progress made in a few months of the Talkies than was made in ten years of the Movies. All the time Give us the best improvements. pictures like "Dawn, Patrol," "The Big House," "Raffies" "Holiday

innumerable really fine produc-. tions and the manager will find no falling-off in the attendances. By-the-bye Columbis are turning out really great stuff. 1.1ke Jack Holt in the Talkies, See his with Lila Lee and Ralph Graves, a first rate trio, and they would prove popular here..

On Thin Ice.

Quite a loss to us over here, now that the. Majestic is showing the pictures of the Contrai. OH! WHERE was the Censor that "The Four Coconuts", was EVER allow. ed to pass? It is easily the most vulgar film I have seen, and NOT funny at that y

Another picture that skated on thin ice was the recently shown "Navy Blues." I think William Haines was most ill-advised In trying his best to be vulgar and common. Of his leading lady, Miss Anita Pago, I cannot speak; words fall me. I am only left re peating the slogan of Hollywood-- HOW do they get there?

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP. Gloria Swanson now declaros that she will mit divorce her mar quia husband I do not think she could bear the thought of Con- stance Bennett being the next Marquise, so the very latest in formation for the eager publicis that it only ends in separation

Bin Can anyone who knows pleturck. imagine Mar) Pich I can't

ore Ulrichay this Norma, AT with Ronald Colmenas

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