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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1935.

ANNE SHIRLEY'S RISE TO

SUCCESS CAN'T TURN HER HEAD

SHE EVEN LIVES WITHIN HER INCOME

fret option was taken up.

GIFT THRILLS HER

BY DAN THOMAS

Hollywood. Anne Shirley is headed for the topmost brackets of moviedom.

You can hear that prediction on almost any Corner in Hollywoot these days.

And I'm convinced it will be borne out. Certainly she's one of the Bix best bets among our younger screen actresses. No giri with her enthusiasm and sanity, coupled with obvious acting ability, could miss gang rks to the top.

Sanity! You" don't often hear that word in connection with Holly. wood' netresses. Neither do you expect to find it in a 17-year-old girl with a healthy mop of reddish blond hair and no freckles,

Anne has it, though. Prouf is the manner in which she lives. Her scale of living hasn't begun to keep pare with her advancement on the screen. That in itself IN 14 rarity in Hollywood. The usual thing is to live way beyond your Income.

However, this young netrees has learned from experience that anch living doesn't pay. Having sup- ported her mother and herself since she Arst entered pictures, she has Jong known the value of a dollar.

Neither has she forgolten the days when their budget was limit- ed to $10 a week.

The budding star walked the five blocks to and from the studio every day, too-except on rainy

Perhaps mother finds it advisald, Then she took a taxi.

a bar, but

to inject a wise word now and then afford it yet. But on the whole Aane has proved

herself a pretty sensible rir.

days.

She wanted

didn't feel she could

However, when her option was

Even when she signed her con-ake up, she selected the nato she truet with R.K.0, last tal she was wanted, a small black expe, and perfectly content to go on living pait a deposit of $50 on it.

in their tiny three-room apartment above a hardware store.

*16 Fm lieky, Pl be able to get it in a couple of mont b«” she

coupe arrived- u

FAME

Bubbling over with enthiinam at both work and play, Anno Shirley is one of the most popular of Hollywood's younger se- tresses. And she's not worrying about sweets ruining her figure, As the pose at left shows.

sech enthusiasm before, hat never in such quantities in it fairly bubbles out of her.

The zeal with which she attacks work and play alike is overwhelm. ing.

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The young actress is trementous. ly popular with Hollywood's young- er crowd. And she likes the crowd. She enjoys her school giri mances, too. Despite the fact that she's a potential star and studies under a private tutor at the studio, she's still a school girl-until Jane, when she gets her high school diglama.

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"DATED" JACKIE COOGAN Jackle Coogan is one of her old suitors. She's вест with Tom Brown frequently now. And short time ago she went with the That sume boy for three months. was a record.

"I used to go dancing or to shows with boys just because I liked the "But ism of going out." she saysı.

I don't do that any more. Unless I really like a boy, I can't be both- ered."

She ati ikes to go at, though, particularly if the evening's schedule calls for dancing. That's favourite pastime. But she neither smokes nor drinks. She's tried both and doesn't vare for either. Se she leaves these plea- sures for others.

INTERESTED IN PICTURES Anne's hirf interest tlse days centres around pictures. Even when she isn't working 'ale spends

great deal of time prowling around the studio to watch other players. There isn't A picture maite on the R.K.O, lot that escapes her,

And when she isn't watching them being made, she's in a theatre looking at the finished product.

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"I must be an awful judgo of ilms, though." she confesses. never get a kick out of big pictures that everyone else thinks are so good. But I fairly wallow in pic- tures most persons elnim are fer- rible."

When she isn' all wrapped up) in pictures or the making of them, young Miss Shirley spends most of the sunlight hours at the beach. She loves to swim and fortunately doesn't sunburn easily.

Now that she has her own car for transportation, she expects to spend most of her spare time this simmer in a bathing suit.

Batil recently Anne was known as Dawn O'Day, her real name, and her hair was almost bisek: Photo ; graphic reasons prompted her to Change it to its current reddialı colour.

Really you should have seen her, Daimed, plopping down on the her first car! And she wanted to davenport and drawing her kures a freedom the tell the whole world it was hers.

up under her chin Not until she was eat for the thought,

A table was loaded with other overalls permitted. "I'm always a tite role in "Autre of Gren Galiles" i Then out ef a clear sky a shiny presents. Even the trick yellow tle bit crazy." But bordny Print- and futur success Became certain, jik

prosentveralls she was wearing, were a

terly mai.

don't mind So

any- did they move into their present from studio executives en her 17th present from her mother, But the thing I do or say.”

Lirthday. apartament building:

[bije bronto eyes could neg only the I dropped by her apartment that esi.

While it was the new muto which Anne was standing in

captivated her for the morment. afternoon.

ZEAL HIS AMAZING

Anne usually has that same girlish one at the front of the building the window admiring the small car

enthusiasm for everything, I'vel Gables,” only a few weeks ago, when Anne's in the street below.

Then they took very small apartment, moying into a larger

Leslie Charteris, of England, quecossor to Edgar Walince, late writer of basi-zeller detective stories, is shown in his, New York hotel suite. He is the creator of "Alins the Saint," a character that appears in his 20 Looks.

PACIFISM UNKNOWN

"I feel

crazy tu-day", she

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the grounds that such wars are the the police had to be ou the alert! tools of capitalism; but for a civil to prevent the Czechs and Germans war to overthrow sealled bour-from killing each other and de-

furniture gends capitalism in their own resmolishing

during pective countries they are ardent fight over the possession of the advocates.

historical insignia of Charles Uni versity, which both claimed.

MEANINGLESS WORD Austria

It is zeal they demonstrated in

not only several times IN MANY PARTS

Viena. Juhe 2. In the vocabulary of University Students in Austria and the Dani-

immediately after the great war! Also it was demonstrated by the but also in July, 1927. and Febru-Nazis. in. Austria in months of ary, 1934, on both of which no activity in the manufacture and sions Sealist revolts in which small boughs, some even in the they participated were suppressed buildings of their own schools. bian states generally "pacifismi" is only at a cost of scores of dead and And; likewise in the intermittent anti-Semitic riots in Austria, an almost non-existent word. hundreds wounded.

Belief in peaceful methods of

Christian movement, i Hungary and Rumania and the Student settling disputes is pressent in no such as those in the U.S.A. and Segle versus, Croat riots in Yugo-

●jatudent body.

Great Britain and some parts of Slavia.

"Turn the other cheek" is about South America, which have tended! Even the Jews in Danubia are! jas popular in Central and South-for a decade to develop into cen-, roads for a scrap. In Vienna enst Europe as a hull in a tea shojn.. fres" for pacifist proguaganda, are tuniversity, for instance, there are Even in student-body affairs an; practically unkuowa in this part, several so-called student corpora- appeal to the st is considered as of the world.

Lions composed exclusively of Jews ja much more persuasive method of

PRAGUE WARFARE

which enltivate the tradition of i Arguing than speeches from the de- i Among all races and religions the German students of face bating-hall #alform or the round represented in the university stashing in sabre duels whose and to the ex- | stúdent life a definite anti-Purifist¦ justification is said to be the fent that the various rival bodies militancy is dominant. At the stamina such duels instil in the of all politient colours can evade the moment the racial nationalist's participants.. That these same t

form probably the majority in every | Jews are not pacifists in their out- student body. What such a form look toward either internal or) of nationalism shrnifies was de-international polities goes, +1 monstrated recently it Prague course, without saying-uit vel

Press.

table conference;

police this methods is practiced.

Socialist students profess to be opposed to international wars on

| when at intervals for several daysį

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And she changed her name to Anne Shirley when she bærame the title character in "Anne of Green

Virginia Briscos is only 17 and seemingly too young to be in pressed hy royalty, While in Budapest the daughter of Powe) Briscoe, wealthy American of operator, and the opportunity (most girls deem it an honour) of dancing with the Prince of Wales. Virginia, however, claims that he wne "not so hot na A dancer," and that she'd "lots rather dance with the boys back home."

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The Rev. Desmond Mario-Boycott; London clergyman, shown with the tattered document which la now being studied by experts in the hope that it is what the clergyman believes it in, a reproduc- tion of a lektor written by Jesus. Although no trace of the writing. of Jesus has ever been discovered, theological exports affirm He must have written much. The document gives the laxt of two lotters, one șid to be written by Agbarus, prince of Edessa, in Arabia; the other stated to be the reply of Jesus. The Rev. Morso.. Boycott said the document in his possession was printed in Britain centuries ago.

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