SCREEN FAVOURITES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18043, 31 December 1926, Page 21

SCREEN FAVOURITES.

(24)—AILEEN PRINGLE. Aileen Pringle did not struggle to fame from poverty and obscurity (writes Cal York in “Photoplay”). She was educated in California, in Paris and in London. And then she met and married Charles Pringle, son of Sir John Pringle, former Governor of Jamaica. In spite of all this glamour, the movie stars who left school when the scholastic demands of the sixth grade proved too much for them, treat Miss

Pringle as an equal. For. after all, when Miss Pringle went out for movie success, she stood on her own feet and never used her social position as a bait for getting jobs. Tier very first roles were inconspicuous ones in inauspicious pictures Her early story in pictures is simply that of any other green beginner That shrewd casting director. Elinor Glyn, gave Aileen her first push to fame. Aileen was awarded the role of the Tiger Queen in “ Three Weeks.” Whether vou liked the film or not. it established Miss Pringle as a screen personality. In fact, it established her as an exotic type, almost too firmly for her own good. Oft the scrern. Miss Pringle is more interesting than any character she ever has been called upon to play. You feel that the screen has not. as yet, captured the complete colour of her personality. The camera catches her beauty, at the expense of failing to catch her intelligence. Miss Pringle still has unexpected gifts to give to the screen; she is, as the saying goes, waiting for her “big picture.”