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NORMA SHEARER DESIRES TO QUIT FILMS.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927.

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CONNIE TALMADGE. LAUGHS.

Remarkable evidence by a doctor concerning a patient who, in his Join the movies and see the opinion, was wrongly certified as a world. That's Norma Shearer's lunatic, was given at an inquest at advice to young men and girls who Hampstead, N.W., Gilbert want to go places and see thinga. Southwood Melklejohn aged 45, "Aside from the navy and a described as a journalist, of travelling salesman's job, the Ebury-street, Westminister, who movies offer more opportunity to was found shot on Hampstead visit various places than any other Heath. vocation," says Norma.

"When I first started working cent, Chelson, said he had known Dr. Oscar Parkes, of Hana-eres- in pictures I TVBS surprised Meiklejohn for about four years, at the amount of travelling lately as a patient. In 1924 he was that wag necessary to make certified as a lunatic and taken to A floi. I was working In West Park Asylum, Colney Hatch. New York then. We used to go He remained there for six months every place from Canada to Florida and then escaped. on 'location' trips. Since practical- "In my opinion," said Dr. ly all of the large studies have Parkes, he was not certifiable. I. concentrated, their production in saw him at he asylum and I also Hollywood, there aren't so many saw the Lunacy Commissioners. I. location trips now, but there are was prepared to help to get him enough to satisfy even the most out when he escaped. From that adventuresome person.

time his norves wont steadily downhill, and last June I received a letter from him telling me that he was in a very bad way."

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Miss Shearer, by the way, is the only cinema actress I have ever known who admits that her time.on the screen is limited, To admit that you will not remain in the celluloid heavens indefinitely is an unheard-of thing in the movie town.

Meiklejohn was then staying at a nursing home. He returned to London for advice. He was much depressed and was working very hard on a book on lunacy reform.

The Deputy Coroner, Mr. Dan-

"I want to do one film that will ford-Thomas: What were the cir- stand out above all my others- cumstances in which he was certi- then I will be ready to retire undfied? live on my laurels from that pro- duction," she declares.

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Dr. Parkes: He had just then decided completely to alter his ways in many respects. In order Norma objects to being called to make some sort of definite bind- superstitious but she is. Sheling contract with himself to be a always drives to the studio via the teetotaller he had cut a small cross same road because it has brought on his chest with a knife. He said: her good luck; she will not move "It's just like "the Crusaders. I into a more elaborate dressing made a cross on my own body to room, which has been offered her register this vow." It was partly on several occasions, because she on the strength of that he was cer rose to the top from her present tifled-for self-mutilation. studio quarters and is afraid to Dr. Parkes snid that Meiklejohn change; she must go into a picture had an extensive knowledge of feeling that it will "flop" or it masonic matters, although he was won't be a success; and she must not a mason.. "He told me that go to a fortune teller now and then, this knowledge came to him from During the early part of her people on the other side., He gave career as a star, Norma fought for me a number of signs, and a friend super-special productions of a of mine who is a mason assured serious nature. She didn't want rae that they have a direct bearing) ordinary programme films, espe- on masonry."

cially those of a light comedy vein; Mr. Danford Thomas: You say but she was finally persuaded that that this man was certified with- they would be good for her. And out your knowledge?—Yes. Ho now she shuns special and serious was undoubtedly temperamental. pictures.

He was very strongly built, and. rather than argue with a man he would always knock him down.

"Be Yourself.” "Be yourself!" says Constance Talmadge,

So many persons seem anxious to convince the world that they play a pretty serious role in life," declares the blond comedienne.

"They like to give the impres- sion that, at heart, they are really profound and full of deep thoughts if only the rest of humanity would take the trouble to understand them."

In your opinion, then, he was misunderstood ?--Yes. After he escaped no effort was made to getj him back, to the asylum.

The police produced a copy of the official record, which stated that on June 24, 1924, the police were call- ed to a house in Well-walk, Hamp stead. Meiklejohn was in a much excited condition, and suffering from flesh wounds in the chest.

Miss Talmadge won't admit.it- He said he had inflicted them to but she is probably referring to purge himself and go follow Christ. her fellow screen players. Some- He also decared that he had bee where in the neighbourhood of 75 fighting for the Army and Navy per cent. of them are just such all day and he had got to fight his characters.

landlady and her daughter that night. There was no doubt the man had been drinking heavily, Four days later he was seen by a lunacy Justice and a medical man, and certified as dangerous,"

"Playing serious isn't my way," remarks the actress. "I believe in laughter and the joy of living. I'm positive that the vory best thing in the world is to make other people laugh. It's not easy but is wonderful when you succeed.

Mr. Danford Thomas said there was ample evidence that Meike- "I have been doing it all my life john's mind was unbalanced. He --kidding, laughing and trying to was in various troubles and difficul- make others laugh with me. Ever ties both in the way of health and since the days when Norma, Nata- finance. A verdict of Suicide

lie and I grew up in the little while of Unsound Mind was re- wooden frame house in Brooklyn, corded.

I have been the family joker, and

I'm glad of it."

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have put in their. appearance. Stars hastened to have their pic- tures taken wearing the various

on the vast amount of publicity be- ing given the Atlantic conqueror.

Connie makes no pretence about being among the lofty intellectuals. emblems in order to "hern in" She would rather dance than read a book--and admits it. The fact that she injects life into an endless string of parties proves that she never tires of them.

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"Riding in western America is not a pastime, it is merely a means of getting from one place to an- other." Such is the way Philip Strange, young English actor, sums

"People tell me that, I should use my spare time more seriously than I do," she says. "They try to in- cite me to study psycho-analysis up horsemanship in this country.

or something equally dull. I would "In England we pay particular at- rather play. Leave the serious- ness in our family to Norma, be- cause she is naturally that way.

"The movies offer a good exam- ple of human tendencies, especially

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tention to form while riding. It is very important there. But in thia country, people pay no attention to form-they just ride."

Chester Conklin's success before among women. As soon as a girl the camera may be traced to a begins to get somewhere playing job he had in a St. Lonis bakery at ín comedies, she immediately the age of eighteen. The propri dashes off into drama. I have etor, a German, had a long mus watched dozens of girls do just that tache which made Chester laugh very thing.

every time he looked at it. That "And comedies are really more mustache he has copied for his difficult to play than dramas. In present day make-up comedy, the slightest over-empha- sis turns a situation into a burlas- que and it is ruined.

Will Rogers is funny everyone admits that: But he will have to "But whether a person is in "A Texas Steer." The reason is do some acting in his next picture. pictures or some other walk of life that Louie Fazenda has been sign- he, or she, should fight down the ed as his leading lady-and Louise urge to act at all times. If you is funny, too are naturally of a serious tempera-

ment, be serious; If not, be funny.

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