FILM PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 20

FILM PERSONALS.

Buddy Messenger, the Century Comedy Company’s boy star, is heavily insured. The amount is said to be 100,000 dollars. Classic dancinnr should be taught to every young girl, whether planning for a prqfessional career or not. This is the opinion of Shirley Mason, the William Fox star Studios, Hollywood. Miss Mason, who at one time during her career was a dancer, declares that the training of poise and c-rriage received in such dancing schools is invaluable to a girl in any chosen vocation. And she adds, such training crives a girl a peculiar charm that nothing else imparts. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., the four-teen-vear-old son of the cinema star, made bis film debut at the RivoU Theatre in London as Stephen Harlow in “ Stephen Steps Out.” the film version of a story bv Richard Harding Davis. The critics highly praise young Fairbanks, who starts with a salary of £2OO a week. He has a remarkable* resermblanoe to bis father, especially in the famous smile and athletic ability. It is predicted that he will be. come a millionaire before be is twenty.

Pearl White has insured her right cheek dimple for £40.000, so ’tis said. The announcement of this clause in nn insurance policy taken out by Miss White has caused somewhat of a sensation. The clause also lays down that the cinema actress is financially protected from loss caused by an injury to the face which might lead to slight disfiguration which might prove nn obstacle to her film work- Miss White took this step as a result of having to undergo some dangerous stunts.

After his brilliant performance of Don Ctesar in “ The Spanish Dancer,” for which he was congratulated by Pola Negri, Herbert Brenon and officials east and west, Tony Moreno was i-hrust into a light comedy role, of the Wally Reaid genre, in a George Melford trifle. Tony didn’t care for it, and intimated as gently as a Krupp gun that he didn’t. “Because I have Wally Reid genre, in a George Melfc+’d lows that I can play Wally Reid parts,” remarked Tony ironically. “ Well, I can’t. That boy was too clever in bis line for me, or for any-

During the past ten months Lois Wilson has played in five Paramount pictures, many of which have taken her to locations in some of the most primitive spots in the United States. &he has appeared in “The Covered Wagon,” produced by James Cruze in Utali; “ Only Thirty .Eight,” a William de JVtille production; “To the Last Man,” an adaptation of a Zane Grey story, filmed in Arizona; “ Ruggles of Red Gap,” which James Cruze produced at locations in Northern California, and “ The Call of the Canyon,” filmed in Arizona.

Aileen Pringle, who has a leading part in “ In the Palace of the King,” a screen version of Marion Crawford’s well-known novel, is a member of one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic families in California, Miss Pringle received her education in exclusive private schools in San Francisco, London and Paris. She lived in Europe for several years, and is the wife of Sir Charles Pringle, son of a former English governor of Jamaica, and one of the largest landholders in the world. Miss Pringle was selected to play the part of The Lady in “ Three Weeks,” the Elinor Giyn novel, Conrad Nagel having the leading male part.

The following New York telegram, dated November 8, appeared in San Fracisco papers :—The lives of the people in the pictures are such an open boook to the public that I thought 1 would have a little fund and match my wits against them.” So Hope Hampton, film beauty, to-day explained her reason for keeping her marriage to Jules E. Brulatour, film distributor, secret. They were married in Baltimore on August 22. Brulatour is fifty-three and has amassed a fortune variously estimated at between 5.000,000 and 25,000,000 in pictures. Miss Hampton is twenty-three.

Mary and Do-ug. keep in training like a couple of athletes. They go to bed at nine-thirty and arise at six for a horse-back ride or a hike around their Beverly Hills estate. Every morning I>oug. weighs in one the scales, and keeps to the strictest- diet. Nothing j can divert Doug, when the hour of bedtime arrives. One evening while entertaining a number of guests, including Mr and Mrs Ernest Lubitsch, Doug arose at nine-thirty, and. excusing himself, announced he was going to bed. A few evenings later the Lubitsches were guests at a party given by the Charles Rays. About nine- j thirty, Charles disappeared from the i drawing room to show some guests i around the gardens. Noting his ab- | serce, Mrs Lubitsch asked naively, “Has Mr Ray gone to bed?”