FILM PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17230, 22 December 1923, Page 1 (Supplement)

FILM PERSONALS.

Emil Jannings and Werner Kraus, described as two of Germany’s foremost screen actors, recently left for America, and will take up their residence in Hollywood. Eddie Polo, known as the Serial King, filed a suit for divorce against his wife in Los Angeles on October 17, the petitioner charging desertion. Polo, whose real name is Edward Wyman, was married in 1908. Irvin Willat, director of Paramount Pictures, was married on October 27 to Aliss Billie Dove, motion picture actress, at Los Angeles. Air AVillat is now engaged on the filming of ” The Heritage of the Desert,” a Zane Grey story, for Paramount. This picture will be in New Zealand in 1924. Bill Hart announces his return to the screen: ‘‘ln returning to the screen I sincerely hop© to convey to you the great spirit of the country in which I was raised and which I love so well. I’m glad to get back, folks, because I've missed you all a lot. So has ray little paint horse, and he’s not letting me get away with anything. He’s come back too.” Bull Alontana is positively one of the queerest-looking men in the world. If anyone introduced you to him and said he was a star on the screen, you would be ready to up the asylum. But the fact rei that Bull receives more money ,-y week than many of the so-called favourites, chiefly because lie can appear in a dozen pictures in small parts at once, and collect lull time from every one of them. According to a London trade review, Sir Oswald Stoll lias booked Sessue Hayakawa, together with liis wife. Iruri Aoki, to appear in two films, of which the scenarios have yet to be written. Sessue is now* appearing at the Stoll vaudeville halls, and the work j on the films will begin in January. | John AYebb Dillon, who created the | part of Inspector Burke in “ AVithin ! the Law,” has been signed by William Fox to appear in a number of liis coming special attractions. His first appearance will be with John Gilbert in “The Exiles.” Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Laskv j have just announced that Cecil B. De | Alille has signed a new agreement with j the Famous Laskv Players Corporation | covering all his future productions. The agreement, which has no time limit, ! provides also that De Alille shall re- « S ume active duty as director-general i of the company, duties of which he was j relieved three years ago at bis own j request. Air De Alille made this statement : “ 1 am happy that my associI ates. whose long-continued personal | and business friendship T value among j my richest possession, have approved if the contract for my production without a time limit. This permits me to I make plans for pictures far in the fuj ture—ten years, if necessary.” i During a recent cliat with the editor of an Eastern newspaper, Tom Alix,

die William Fox star, told how he Happened to break into movies. “As j. boy in the south-west 1 saw Buffalo Bill do sharp-shooting in the circus ring. 1 was a crack shot for a young- 1 ster and on getting home 1 tried shooting glass halls from th© toj> of my .ittle sister’s head. Dad arrived as 1 oi ied to get the wood-shed range against which stood sister. You should nave heard dad broadcast his heir from die shed. AVlien I broke into movies l was a cowpuncher getting 40 dollars a month. AVlien they offered me 10U dollars, I thought they meant a month instead of a week. But I’ll always attribute my success to Buffalo Bill’s inspiration.” Helene Chadwick is to retire from the screen. Upon conclusion of her present contract with Goldwyn she will become a Los Angeles real estate promoter. Aliss Chadwick has dabbled in real estate—including the promotion of a theatre named after her—with such success that she has decided that the earnings of even a movie star are as nothing compared with what can be achieved in Los Angeles real estate promotion. In order to keep fit for her work before the camera, Aliss Chadwick goes through a course of physical exercises under a professional instructor. When her physical course became common property in Hollywood most all the movie queens purchased running trunks, punching bags and what-nots to ‘‘keep in condition.” But not a great many of them kept it up after the novelty had worn off. Anna Alae AA'ong, a .Chinese beauty, appeal's in ” Drifting,” a picture in which Priscilla Dear, is the star. About three years ago Aliss AA’ong was the winner of a- beauty contest held among Chinese fairest belles in San Francisco. This (says the “ Chronicle ”) not only started her on the road to fame as the first Chinese screen actress, but also something else—a tong war, almost. However. Aliss Wong lias fairly earned her laurels as a beautiful and remarkable emotional actress. This distinction is all the more remarkable when it is known that the Oriental very rarely expreses emotions through the facial features, the typical Oriental face being almost blank in this respect. In ‘‘ Drifting," which is a story of the traffic in opium. Aliss AA'ong is enabled to display her emotional talents to the fullest advantage, her acting being a principal part in the climax. which sees an entire Chinese village consumed in flames. Jackie Saunders was a blonde star several years ago, when the trademarks ire saw upon the screen were not only put in every title, but the producers insisted that every scene should have a cardboard trademark planted in a conspicuous position. Don’t you remember ever seeing the Kalem sign, the Selig or Lubin Beil or Edison diamond stamped on the office door while the villain choked the heroine? AA’ell (says an American writer) it was in those days that Jacqueline Saunders was a baby-faced starlet. She was never a big favourite like Norma or Alary, but she got well paid for the amount of fan correspondence she encouraged by her work on the screen. To-day Jackie has grown to be a woman. She is no longer a. doll-eyed cutie. She has blossomed forth into a woman well worth railing statuesque. And the natural thing is for her to change her name. And this is what she lias clone. From now on Aliss Jackie Saunders becomes Jacqueline Saunders, and this warning is to tell you that when you see that' name flashed across the screen in several of the big pictures in which she aims to make a come-back shortly, you will know that it is the same Jackie of years gone by. Alimony ” is her first, and the girl with her in this production is Ruby Aliller, tlie English actress.