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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 12th, 1930.

POSSIBLE FUTURE CINEMA QUEENS.

SIX YOUNG ACTRESSES WHO MAY. COME INTO THEIR OWN,

- Kathryn Crawford.....she's developed one of the lust singing voices in Hollywood and promises 1 star in the talkies,

2 Marion Byron.....mado ber debut with Buster Keaton and has since played featured roles in five big talkies.

Carole, Lombard,... startert sa Mark Sennett fathing beauty, and just look where she is now!

4-Dixie Lee......another one of those New Yorkers

5-Lillian Roth...

has

carried her stress with her Hollywood.

$13

.she was becoming fainous as a "Blues singer" when the talkies

lifted her from behind the foodlights. 6-Mary Doran....another product of the New York stage who appears to be on the.

path to movie stardom.

young of the most promising prospecta| year as in some time,

Much interest is centred on the Halty

Stars are the fart that Hollywood is turning its actresses selected each attention to the coming crop of having the best opportunities of Baby Stare out this year, for the attaining stardom. Nearly ali of first time in history, the ability to them have vocal altainments.

prominent sing is going to play a part, for the talkies have made it

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Marion Free Lance. Marion Byron made her debut

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Buster Keaton's

year ago

she

Mary, Broadway Product. Mary Doran, who is 2 direct product of the New York stage, has been out here longer than' either of the other two Broad- wayites. Mary was brought out

Ax in previous years there feading lady in "Steamboat Bill. here by M-G-M about a year ago are about half a dozen girls who Jr."

Following that picture she and since then has played are outstanding for their work signed a contract with Hal Roach. innumerable large and small roles The exim girls are interesteț

and practically eertain to he At the termination of that con- in quite a number of pictures. because all live in hope some day

among these chosen. They are tract nearly a of being included,among that select Parole Lombard, Marion Byron, started free lancing and has made a famous "blues" singer in Man- Liian Roth was becoming quite group Stars are interested he

Kathryn Crowford, Lillian Roth, remarkable progress. During her battan when the articulate movics many of Berza are Baby

Mary Duran ami Dixie L.ve. OF

free knee term she has Stars 1 fornær years. And

these three are strictly screen¦ tostured roles in five big executives are interested heranise

players and three have been im- productions. 12/124 they realize the

the. bonour which will he bestowed ported from the New York stage. All are under contract to various upon rirts whom they are trying to build into box office attractions, studios except Miss Byron whos is

Freelancing.

cause,

Talking

played came along and lifted her right talking out from behind the footlights. She still is quite a newcomer in this picture racket, but her work pictures still were somewhat of a joke around make-in "The Love Parade" stamps her believe village when Kathryn very potential young star. Crawford bought her first make-up Yorkers whose standing out here Dixie Lee is another of the New Caride Lambaril, whe started in box and started in "The who are just getting a frin Jool- på tures on the Mark Sennett lot¦legians" at Universal.

is largely on the strength of her ireputation along the Atlantic sea- held in filmadom le suse it will be several years ago, is now

under heen under contrart to that studio hard. However, from their ruiks that the "Tacky erontract to Patho During the ever since, but now

she was good enough to grab off a contract with R will beschosen.

past year she has appeared in featured actress and has develon Fox and her performances in her seven productions at that studio'ed one of the best singing voices first two pictures have drawn con- the 12 and is touted by executives as one in Hollyword.

siderable comment.

However, the most vitally interest- ed at all are the young actresses

13 Chosen Bach Year.

As you probably know

TO SEEK SUNKEN TREASURE.

Submarine Inventor's Plan.

Co-

She has

she is

shadow over the waters where he friends in vain efforts

to do an

I will search and grins, darting He died convinced that the ship

tug-boats break his reverie with was still there-somewhere. their

hooting whistles. But: Meanwhile Simon Lake himself the depths are, after all, Егін

had turned to underses adven- element. There ke gan dive and delve in solitude as complete as in, Verne's

ture. At 10 he had read Jules Colonial days, when

then the British

fantastic story: |ship went down.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." At 15 he was planning Simon Lake first heard the story to build a submarine, but it was of the sunken treasure from an ten years before he was able oid ses dog, a Capt. George Thou- construct the Argonaut, Jr. as. They were friends, the old was built of the crudest materials, man and the boy, and take learn but it worked.

ed every detail as he watched with

£0

It

NAVAL CONFERENCE

CHIEFS.

Tabloid Biographies of the Leaders.

Premier Ramsay MacDonald, 63, of Britain, "host" of the London naval parley, is a self-made man.

BlacDonald

Born of hum- ble. fishing folks in Scotland, he received scant schooling and went to work in London address- ing envelopes at 15/- a week.

MacDonald op. posed the World War and was de- feated for Parlin-

ment because of his views.

Ile

He has been called "Labour's greatest intellectual asset." was the frst and second Labour Premier.

Secretary of State Henry L Stimson, chief of the American de-

legation, is known as a poacemaker for his notablet work in Nica- rigen and the Philippines.

After gradunt- ing from Yale and Harvard law school, he entered Elihu Root's law! firmi. A daring

feat of horseman-

ship performed by

Stimson pleased

President Roose

Stimson

veltand he made the young lawyer, U. S. attorney for a New York dis- trict.

Dynamic, egotistical, combative, Premier Andre Tardieu, head of the French delc- gation, is the "go- getter" of the conference.

Tardieu

Tardieu was a power in French politics when the World War broke out. He enlisted as an infantry- man, was wound- ed, gassed, and became a major, commanding the famous Blue De- vils. He is 54, an author, has held a number of diplomatic posts, and is one of the. best dressers at the conference.

Reijiro Wakatsuki, chief Japa- nese delegate to the naval confer-

ence, is a special- ist in taxation problems end an. expert financier.

At school, hei WIS a champion! at jiujitsu, arch- ery, rowing, ten- nis and baseball.! While Premier, his carour threatened be- cause his photo was taken while practising clad only in a common kimono. cold stomach trouble, whisky.

he prescribes wine, for

was

Watakauki

For a

Dino Grandi. the Italian Govern- ment's chief delegate to the naval conference. is a most colourful figure.

Granti

causes

a sensation in sartorially per- fect London 80-. ciety every time Be- he appears. low his wing col. lar and white tie, he often sports a black shirt-mark of the Fascist.

Although startled, Bond Street tailors admit the black and white combination looks well on Signor Grandi, who

Grandi

interest the elurts of Captain Then, in ever-increasing size has an olive complexion. Thomas to find the treasure for and practicality, came a long line bimself.

lof submarines which made Lake

famous the world over. According to this story, #

Many British pay ship reached New Fessels for the United States and foreign nations have been design- the King's

York in 1783 just as

With

hidden under a cargo

forces were evacuating the city. ed and built at his Bridgeport They were being concentrated at shipyards. Among his other in- a point on the Connecticut coast, ventions is a submarine apparatus and the vessel was ordered to pro- for locating and salvaging sunken ceed there before being unloaded.

vessels and their cargoes. Searcely had it turnd about than Wants Government Co-operation. it struck Pot Rock, in the Hell Gate whirlpool, and sank.

Lake's own craft, the Defender, There

only privately owned submarine in 'me to salvage the $4.000.000 in gold, for it had been the world, has been used in con-

ducting numerous of provi-

Bufety and sions, so that if rebels seized the salvage experiments, and this will

his base ship it could be scuttled before searching for the lost British gold. of operations in the money could fall into enemy The Defender is fitted with a sea hands.

hatch which permita divers Heave the craft while it is at rest has submerged his chances for cargo," Lake said. "Sixty-three! There was no way then of als-on the bottom of the sea. great wealth in unselfish service is a pretty ripe age to go to work ing the heavily loaded vessel, nor

"There are some new devices as an inventor and designer

life-time ambition. But could it even be located after a which we are going to try out this submarines, at last has decided to dreams that last so long are few years. Pot Rock since has summer,” Lake declared. "But seck his fortune.

worthy ones, I guess.

been dynamited to clear the chan-I'm not at liberty to describe them He expects to and it deep in the "And if the money is there, by nel but its former location still is just yet." olly mud at the mouth of New George, I'll find it."

The Defender, only private owned submarine in the world, in which Sinron Lake, famous inventor, shown in inset, will search for sunken British treasure in the harbour of New York.

Simon Lake, who for 40 years hoyhood to find that old ship and

of on

Dynamited the Channel.

charted.

"

to

a cer-

Rep. John Q. Tilson, of Con- York's East River. If it is there,

You are sure, talking to this It was nearly half a century ago|necticul, is seeking to obtain the and if Lake finds it, he will own pioneer of undersea engineering, that Captain Thomas went to Eng-Government contract and $4,000,000 of old British gold that he regards the treasure hunt land and looked up the records tain amount of. Government, co- less. 10 per cent. for the Govern-

in the treasure hunt. ment of the United States, which not as a feat of technical skill and of the lost ship. Everything talli-operation had just won its fight for life when Precision but still as a romanticed perfectly with the yarns that Lake's confidence of success is he had heard, so he got a govern-based partially on the fact that in the chests of specle are believed

ment contract to salvage it. But recent years he has located more to have been lost.

he spent his personal fortune and than 30 sunken ships in Long their the fortunes of several of his Island Sound:

adventure.

"It has been my dream since

To Dive in City's Shadow. Skyscrapers

will cast

BARONETS' BADGE.

The

The work of designing the stituted by King George last May, Baronets' Badge, which was in-

has now been completed. new badge bears the red hand of Ulster, because it was granted as an addition to the coats of arms

by King James } to the first baronets, created in 1611 to pro- vide funds for the plantation of Ulster. The shield is surmounted by the Imperial Crown, the whole enclosed by an oval border em- bossed with gilt scroll work. The ribbon is orange with narrow dark. blue edges.

The granting of a badge to all baronets not of Scotland meets one of their long-expressed petitions." At various times other privileges have been desired on their behalf,. such as knighthood for their eldest sons, the ancient courtesy title of "Honourable,” and oven the prefix has been suggested of "Baronet" instead of "Sir."

There does not seem ever to have been a claim by women to be eligible for creation as baronets, though there. precedents.. Charles I created a lady Baronet or Baroneteas of Nova Scotia; and James II conferred on a lady in. Holland the title of Baronetess of England.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

TWO NOTED STARS.

Marylin Miller, one of First National's biggest favourites.

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Myrna Loy, popular Warner Bros. screen star.

A bird's eye view of Kochow, where the Ironsides recently took up thei

headquarters but have since been compelled to withdraw.

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