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make a modern picture shortly—
but she’ll probably wear at least
one costume with fenthers on IL
Apparently she hns learned that
the public has hnd enough of trick
frocks and ponderous scenery as a
substitute for plot.
^RACIK ALLY everybody is up in arms over the change in
Merle Oberon’» looks. You’ll recall, perhaps, that Samuel
Goldwyn announced that she was to be turned into a regular
American girl- and unfortunately the transformation has taken
place—so far as her looks arc
concerned, at least.
direct pictures; she'll make two for
Her eyes no longer look United Artists, but will not act In
tilted. Her forehead is still them, Clmrlle Chaplin will direct
one.
very high, of course, but it’s a
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defect rather than a claim to bentt
ty. She haa lost every hit of the
•xutlc appearance that made tier
Individual, and looks like Just one
more girl who work« In pictures,
■ nd it's a crying alíame. Iler worst
enemy couldn't have taken sweeter
revenge on her than thia change
that has iieen effected In the name
of motion pictures.
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Ths Adrienne A mea Bruce Cabot
matrimonial split verifies the pre
dictions made ns far back as tho
time when they were married, but
It does seem a shame that two such
nice young [»copie couldn't make a
go of things, doesn't 111
Meanwhile Stephen Amea nnd
Raquel Torres seem hnppler than
ever. She Is going to make a pic
ture in London (as who Isn't?), so
they're closing their beautiful now
home and departing from Holly
wood together.
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Remcml>er Dorothy Dell?
Iler
sister has been appearing with Arn-
helm's bund, and hns tunde such a
hit that Paramount Is making
screen tests of her.
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And do some of you old timers
remember Scssue llayakawa. one of
the favorite villains of the silent
Aims? He's now In Shanghai, head
ing a troupe of Japanese actors.
"So Rod tho Rooo" seems to have
boon Just one long battlo for
Paulino Lord, the celebrated etago
actress, ao she and Paramount
finally called It quite and she left
tho cast Janet Beecher will have
her role.
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Mnry Pickford Is finally going to
It
looks
as
If
Universal'»
"Stormy" would be a really thrill
Ing picture, ilex, the wl.'d horse,
will be featured, and Navajo In
dians are rounding up one thou
sand wild mustangs In Arlzonu for
(lie production.
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Warner Brothers nre so pleased
with the way the film version of
"Midsummer Night's Dream” turned
out that they're going to film four
more ot
Shakespeare's plays—
' 'Twelfth Night,“ probably with
Marlon Davies; "As You Like It,"
with Josephine Hutchinson, arxl "A
Comedy of Errors." with James
Cagney, and “The Merry Wives of
Windsor." with Guy Klbber. What
good news for high school students
who have to rend the plays!
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ODDS AND KN DS . . . Now Wi
Metro that hat ngned up an Amerwun
tenor who made hit reputation in
Europe; he’i known m Norway, uhere
he‘e an eitablnhed linger, at franco
foreita . . . ¡Mor fazenda und her
huiband. who n Hull U allit, a motion
picture executive, bate gone to Alaika
for a vacation . . . Hamon Navarro it
going to South America with a picture
he made etpecially for that market . ..
Horn Karloff is Io do a horror picture
called “The Electric Eye“ . . Marion
Daviet is president of the Motion l‘ic-
lure llelief fund for the third year in
tucceiiion.
Ci Western Newspaper Union.
Naming of Island of Crota
The island of Crete was named
for Cres, In myths, a son of Zeus
by a nymph.
HIGH QUALITY OF
AIR MAIL PILOTS
OF PRESENT DAY
fteventy five years ago the pre
cursors of those who now carry the
mall by rail or air over the moun
tains to the further coast Inaugurat
ed Hie pony express with the aid of
the "flight performing" horses, ii»e«f
"the noblest of the train that wait
on man.”
Emerson described the
;>ost office as un Institution of “ever
lasting energy” nnd as "the first
measure of civilization.” ft Is of In
terest to note that It was private
Initiative and venture that did the
pioneering. A great freighting Arm
built the stations along the way,
procured the hardiest horses and em
ployed the bravest men to hold the
stations In the solitudes and to ride
the poides at the risk of attack by
Indians or wild beasts. The [»ledge
or oath which every pony rider was
required to take or make does not
seem to be quite in character with
the rough habits of the Far West of
thnt flme:
"I do hereby swear before the
great and living God that during my
engagement ... I will under no cir
cumstances use profane language;
that I will drink no Intoxicating
liquors; that I will not quarrel or
fight with other employees of the
firm; and that In every respect I
will conduct myself honestly, be
faithful in toy duties, and so direct
all my acts as to win the confidence
of my employers. So help me God.”
The occupation of these intrepid
horsemen has long since gone. Their
romantic service has become legend
ary. The air mall pilots have given
us ample proof that the young men
of like service today are of an even
higher breed, if that may be, than
those who kept to the ground with
all Its perils of savages and heat
and cold.—New York Times.
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Record Photograph Shot
The longest photograph shot on
record was made by an army pho
tographer from an airplane at as
altitude of 23.000 feet. The camerj
lens caught the peak of ML Shasta
Calif., 331 miles away.
one in Y
GIVE ME THAT
I QUICK !
Thentrlcnl producers are trying
to lure Mary Boland and Charles
Itugglea away from the movies for
a couple of new plays.
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Leslie llownrd hns written n piny
(don't ask me how he could find
the time!), but turned bashful
about taking credit for It, ft's said,
so he gave the name of the author
as Philip Howard.
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1 he popularity of the “G-Men“
moi iei hat itarted a lol of thingt.
I'hillipt Lord, already famout on the
air at “Srlh I’arker,” hut written a
dramatic eerie» about G-men and lined
up a radio tpontor for hit ekelchet.
Quite a change from the Sunday night
hymn programi that made Seth I'arker
famout.
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Now It's the lovely Irene Dunn
who's decided to change the color
of her hair. Technicolor trouble?
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Jean
I'arker
Ims been hnvlng a
HEN kidney« function badly and
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York. Seems funny that once upon
burning, «canty or too frequent urine«
lion, getting up at night, twollen feet a time people who dwelt In Holly
and anklet; feel upset and miterable
wood complained that they were
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■tuck there for years and years—
Doan's are etpecially for poorly ns they were—and never got n
working kidney«. Million« of boss«
chance to see new piny a or new
ore uied every year. They are recom
people.
Now they leap Into a
mended by utert the country over.
plane nnd are In New York before
Atk your neighborl
their eastern friends know they're
coming.
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It also stems funny that Micky
Neilan has a son who’s practically
grown up. Ths young man hat
bean visiting in Hollywood with
hie mother, and every one le de
lighted with him and with hie re
semblance to hie famoue father.
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Now it's John Gilbert who Is go
1402 2Srd St, Leng Island City. N. V.
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