FILM PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18009, 20 November 1926, Page 24

FILM PERSONALS.

'J. Williamson, Ltd., arc n,egotiat- ; ing with William Desmond, the well- ' known American screen star, for a season in Australian vaudeville. -If negotiatioiis are successful, he will present a. novel entertainment dealing with his j work in the studios. “Big Bill” has keen' absent from the screen for a considerable period, having dropped studio work for a tour of the' vaudeville circuit in the United States. ' Clara Kimball Young, a favourite screen actress a few years ago, at present is appearing at the London Coliseum in .a . comedy. Miss. Young was ] noted on the screen for her; statuesque ; beauty,',•flamboyant style of acting, and costly wardrobe. She began her public career, on the legitimate stage, having inherited a taste for acting from from both her parents, who were: members of a touring company. 11s Charlie ' Chaplin descended from Charles 11.. Britain’s merriest "monarch ? i. I had a chat a few days ago with one of the Chaplin Sisters, who form a trio , o£ old-fashioned' music-makers 'in .“And So To Bed,” at the Royalty Theatre, London, and claim to'be.cousins of: the great comedian (says a London-writer). She told me that her family claim descent from the Duke of St. Albans, a son of .Charles 11. A ring belonging to the King was in the possession of the family for a long time, and also Nell Gwynne’s Bibje. If Charlie’s stock ever needs putting up in America, this suggestion of-royal blood ought,to send it up to fever : point! The wedding of Mabel Xormand and Lew Cody has been accompanied by less gossip, newspaper and otherwise, than aiiv like event in the film colony (writes a Hollywood correspondent, under date September 25). Miss Normand is authority for the statement that -ever since the two worked together in Charlie Chaplin's “Micky” they have been much in each other’s company. "Yes,” she .said, “Lew wanted to marry me several times but I just couldn’t see it. Last night 1 was up to his house for dinner, with, some other friends, and again he insisted. It was midnight and we decided that what was worth doing at all was not only worth doing well, but at. once—so we went to Ventura --that’s all there is to it.” llow does Mary - Pick ford keep in “fighting trim”?. How does she exercise, and does she ever diet? The answer is "Xu.” She doesn’t have to. The petite star is often asked how she “trains,” and what she does to keep fit. Miss - Bickford swims a great deal, but she dees not :do it to keep fit. Her work keeps her in trim. She so hard in pictures that she has no need to .worry about surplus flesh. Even while making "Human Sparrows” when she was packing a baby on her back for days, and working in sticky bog, she , did not lose weight. “MV work keeps me in trim,” Miss Pick ford said. “I have never had to resort to systematic exercise or dieting to keep thin. Even when 1 am away from Hollywood for a‘long time it is no problem, for then I am travelling with Douglas Fairbanks, my husband, and that’s when I really lose weight, for it’s hard work.” On their last European trip Miss Pickford found herself losing weight for the first time, and the journey was curtailed because of it. But ordinarily she'eats what and when she pleases without a thought of calories.