SCREEN FAVOURITES.
PLEBISCITE IN LONDON. CHAPLIN ' PLACED TWELFTH. LONDON, Aug. 12. Betty Balfour and Ronald Colman are England's screen favourites, judging by the results of a comprehensive plebiscite. A questionnaire among 30,000 people, including clergy, doctors, actors, actresses, peers and members of the House of Commons, showed that the most popular film artists were in the order given:— Women.—Betty Balfour, Constance Talmadge, Laura La Plante, Norma Talrnadge, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri. Men.—Ronald Colinan, Adolphe Menjou, Ivor Novello, Harold Lloyd, Ramon Novarro, Matheson Lang. Charlie Chaplin was twelfth, Syd. Chaplin preceding him, although legislators, actors, actresses, society people, and tha film trade prefer Charlie to anyone. Female voters put Pauline Frederick thi?'d, but did not give the late Rudolph Valentino a single vote.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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