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In an American Version. At Poplar they have just beon killing Queen Elizabeth. Tho scene of her doath was a local cinema hall, the occasion of it a film version of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall," one of the chief rogioiden Miss Mary Pickford. And it was the cruellest of all murdors-tho murdor of a mory, writes Beverley Nicholls in the London Daily, Mail.

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should be allowed to parody Eng- lish history nutil it roads like a pirated edition of Mark Twain ?: A few close-ups" of Dorothy Vernon, as I saw it may enable you to judge for yourself, :

The Queen is now only about a hundred feet of film away, because, down in the! orchestra, something atirs. It ial only the voice of a rather hoarse trombone. But we know what it means, and a thousand Poplar eyes are reverently lifted.

Then she flickers into view. There is a gasp of astonishment, followed by muffled guffawa, "A King in Petticoats" is her sub- title.. "A Pantomimo Dame" would be an equally accurate, captain:

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The Queen in bed is too much for.Poplar. Moro guffaws change to shrieks of mirth. That night-cap That astound- ing air of an old maid who'suddenly romembora that sho has forgotton to roll the ball under! the bed in search of burglars. This is too good to be missed. Laugh!

There is lots moro-a comic Lady Vernon, not unlike Miss, Norah. Bayos, who falls off a cart into the mud, a number of supers who appear to have forgotten that they are not playing in a modern society drama, and dozens of tantrums on the part of the blue blooded Miss Plokford, like ooster lady on a Bank Holiday on Hampstead Heath.

But enough. I want to suggos to a really entorprising British film producer that in American history there are a great many national figures which might be eterred in roal punching, hundrød. per-cont, heart-moving dramas, il wo would only oxorcise a littlo cf that artistic licence for which Hollywood is so well known.

I could imagina, for example. a very toucking scene in which George Washington sitting in front of a window through which one could see a massed horizon of skyscrapers handed out justioc to the various malefactors of the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Having donlt with Mr. Washington, there should be endless scope for picturesqu offect in that famous scene in American history where is:

Mr

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with the chocolate-box face, the She is leaning on the arm of a slightly mincing walk, is a queen? courtier. She is caressing his Don't you believe it. Hollywood face. She is looring, winking-id written in every curve of her. one can almost hear, the pre- Prohibition voice saying "Oh, bayeel"

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occasionally scandalously open in her flirta- tions. But this... It is quite obvious that she learnt to be a queen by correspondence, and that she stopped the course after the first lesson.

Pass to Mary Queen of Scots. She is supposed to be escaping from Loch Leven. All wo see at first, however, are the results of a 900-horse-power, ball bearing wing macbine. I expect Mary Queen of Scots is escaping from that. Anybody would.

But no. There is the castle. Thoy have kopt the wind machine away from it, because if it got suffocated with falling papier too near, poor Mary would be

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CHOCOLATE-BOX FACE And there she igl Mora guffaw from Poplar throdts. So this lady

"Clumsy! You've spoilt my faint."" In this resonant Elizabethan phrase, Dorothy Vernon, of the bluest blood of old England, reprimands John Man- ners, son of the Earl of Rutland. They have been chasing each other through the woods, and the wind maoline has been in hot pursuit also. The reply of John' Manuers is hot quoted. It was probably too Elizabethan.

The happiest and most broad- minded disregard for more bis- torical truth is visible, in the fine Queen Anne lacquer cabinet which we next observe in Queen Eliza beth's bedroom. And there is afinë touch of democracy in the gest. ure with which Dorothy Vernon | plants her hand firmly across the seems not at all annoyed at this Queen's mouth. The Queen

gesture. She, too, is a democrat. Besides, she has probably seen the spot-lime, which, at appro- priate intervals, is flickering on

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