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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927.

WOMAN A. R. A. CREATES INTEREST.

ELECTION OF MRS. LAWRA KNIGHT.

THE FIRST SINCE 1760;

Widespread interest will be aroused by the announcement that Mrs. Laura Knight has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, bays a London pupor.

Hollywood: Random Notes from an Afternoon Stroll Along the Boulevard: Saw Trixie Friganza, echo of the gay Nine tics, who is here to play a part in "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds"..Also Although Angelica Kauffmann Cissie Fitzgerald, famous for her and Mra, Moser were original wicked wink and said to be the members of the Royal Academy first woman in the United States in 1769, there have been no wo» to wear a wrist watch..... Dis-men members or issociute since

nction? No ehd....Saw Ray- those days. mond Hatton. clean-faced AB Mrs. Knight is one of the most usual. He and Wallace Beery use vital and interesting of contem no makeup. Hatton, in his early porary English' artists. All her daya, had a part which required a work is robust and forceful, and beard and the thing caught fire. essentially modern; she succeeds, Since then he's been shy on facial as few painters of to-day succeed, shrubbery.... Picked up Eatherin expressing what she sees with Ralston dining in the Motmartre. à directness and, energy which She ought to know grammar, hay compel the spectator to be in- ing attended no less than 168terested.

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schools over the United States Mr. P. G. Konody, the Daily while touring with the family Mail Art Critle, in a recent criti- vaudeville act. In some schools cism of one of Mrs. Knight's ex- ahe stayed two or three days....hibitions, said: Well, well. Clara Bow with an- It is the zest with which she ther dog. She has purchased no enters into the spirit of the scenes less than eight dogs and one eat which stir her creative impulse, in the last six months. If you more even than the technical ex- have a dog. bring it out here and cellence of her work, that capti- show it to Clara....There goen vates the spectator, because she Bebe Daniels. She walked home makes him see through her own the other night--from work. In eyes and share her sympathetic the filming of a new picture she interest in the pageant of life. rides a horse, and was riding it home "when Pegasas waxed nervous. A few bucks and Bebe got off, unconventionally. It's a tough break, having to walk in | this mulsj-motored community,

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Her Pictures..

She has all the qualifications that would serve her for the in- terpretation of dramatic incident by means of line and tone. But, as it happens, she prefers to find her subjects in the theatre dress- ing-room, in the circus, on ballet stage, among the holiday- makers on Hampstead Heath, in the street-wherever, there is life and movement and gaiety,

the

To be healthy be tattooed That is the advice of Lee Parker, who plays the tattooed man in the side show for the new W. C. Fielda-Chester Conklin picture, Parker says tattooed men rarely catch contagious diseases and

In order to paint "Carnaval," never have skin eruptions such as

her picture of the Russian ballet itch and bolla. Parker is a beauty at work, and now in the Manches expert, too. He has tattoed exeter Art Gallery, Mrs. Knight spent brows on women and tattooed many hours at the theatre during. girls' Ups ret, saving the rouge. performances and rehearsals.

Talk about birthplaces! James

The result was a masterpiece of Quina, specialist in tinder-

tingling energy and animation. world roles, was born in the dress-But in a theatre or on the Cornish ing room of the Grand Opera cliff her splendid vigour is equally House in New Orleans.

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Her etchings and aquatints Some of the boys back from show an almost Chinese knack of Bishop, Calif., in the Sierras, entching a simple gesture and where the picture "Jesse James,"

translating it into poetry. In was on location, tell of a progres- none of her work is there the sive advertising stunt in that.re slightest trace of feminine weak- mote community. The garage inness or hesitation. Bishop has a big glass tank out- aide its front door, and in the tank the portrait painter, in 1903. She married Mr. Harold Knight, are twenty trout. Two of thera are big enough to attack a whale, members of the company say Few fishermen pass" that way without asking, “How come?"

She was Miss Laura Johnson, and at one time WHE a leading spirit in the art circles of Not- lingham. She studied at the art. school there and afterwards won several medals at South Kensing- ton.

She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903, and she is re- presented by her work in the Bri- tish and Victoria and Albert Museums, in Manchester and Bir-

The flapper, cause of much com- ment during the last few years, is gone, according to Mary Astor "Of course the modern girl is far different from her mother." says "the actress. "But she is also different than the flappermingham, as well as in galleries who put in an appearance. short in South Africa and Australia.

ly after the war. Young girls

now are taking freedom as a mat- ter of course instead of celebrat-

Studio over Stables.!

ing the breaking, of restraint She was the first English- bonds as the girl of yesterday did. woman to serve on the jury of Like any revolution the change in the International Art Exhibition, customs for girls was marked by a distinction which she enjoyed excesses. To-day those excesses at Pittsburgh, United States, in have vanished. The girls are 1922. Tol. C. 5503.

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Mr. Francis Dodd, the painter, was also elected an A.R.A. at the. meeting of the General Assembly of Academicians and Associates.

She lives in a little studio over some stables in St. John's Wood, N.W., but in summer she usually There is a small troop of Boy: migrates to the little colony of Scouts in Newhall, about 20artists which has established it- miles from the film capital, who self in recent years in Cornwall. certainly are glad that one of their members managed to break into pictures. None of the boys ever had been inside of a studio until a few days ago when they Mr. Francis Dodd, of 51, Black- spent a day on the F.B.O. lot as heath-park, S.E., who is 52, was guests of Buzz Barton, new 13-educated at the Haldane'Academy, year-old western star. Buzz is a Glasgow. (travelling scholarship), member of the Newhall troop and and his principal works include a very active acout, too.

"Smiling Woman" and "Miss Dacre at the Tate Gallery,

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Not Naturally" Funny.

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class are famous for the fact that they aren't naturally funny.

joker and can turn almost any kind of a situation into a joke- which usually riles Karl. I'saW a good example of the way things go while visiting their set a few days ago.

Of course, there are a few ex- ceptions, Charlie Chaplin is moody -sometimes very funny and other times equally as serious, Wally Beery can't do anything but It seems that Arthur had just "clown."

put some grasshoppers down Out on

the Metro-Goldwyn- Dune's back and the big fellow Mayer lot, however, is a comedy didn't like it very well. They team whleh Includes both types of men. Karl Dane, the biggest portion of the team, can't see the humour in anything. George K. "Aren't, you ever going to take Arthur, his much smaller running a serious slant on life?" queried mate, laughs at anything. Such Dane. "If you aren't, I'm just a combination seems to be per- going to break you in two one of fect for film purposes because these days and get another part- their recent picture, "Rookies," ner."

were just getting well into their argument, which went along some- thing like this:

is one of the best comedies of "Aw, for the love of Mike, lay off, will you?", returned Arthur.

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