Show 4 y M m Z i I I A r Gar Yr Influx f Within Recent cent Months X f of o f Many Man Gorgeous or New j European Beauties Now J r Y Making Good Good With Public 9 DOLORES DEL Sets Hollywood Speculating E. E s lossi on Possibility of Their Snatch Snatching i Popularity t. tJ f c z f r Grown Crown From Cohorts o of Miss America Americas H o t r t- t tl l iki V fH A ItH l s j i ci GRETA GARBO I f a. a g a A New Lights on the Horizon 4 LITTLE T ITTLE EUROPE in Hollywood that's Hollywood that's what they call the newest colony in in the worlds world's film capr cap cap- r jt f ital Strange and delicious foods exotic dances LJ which originated many thousands of miles mile away and conversation which includes no shop entertain enter enter- tarn tain guests at the weekly soirees 4 33 d is r i q r f. f Many of the new stars star peeping over r the he horizon are of Latin and Slavic descent Old Mexico sends some of her talented daughters From adro across across' the he Atlantic however however- comes most of the newl newly dis discovered dis- dis discovered covered talent talent Russia Russia Spain Hungary France and w 1 Italy each making its contribution to the art which universal is now i b. b 6 B By Alice L L. Tildesley r l J y 9 n fn 4 rY n 4 4 J r i. i j. j mk a lA ti a i 9 Yr A 54 y ny H Y 5 t lY r S 'S i. ff 9 Gt and aS r fl li y r yu J b y fn kr 5 r gf y f J 5 N 04 Y r. r yi y x tY y 4 J. J jJ I f r 5 jn J v 1 Y u i 4 ti y Y f 4 Y r i. i an l i Y Y 4 i r Jr a y yr r r. r R k y i i f RG sJ Yr yF Yv r li Y i. i l Mfr vi r f f. a tJ i rr ra ro a 2 Sit f V yf r rr r I a 1 l latest te t and most popular indoor THE sport of H Hollywood producers producers' js is bringing over over foreign beauties for the tUms films Not so s many an years immediately ago ago immediately after Rudolph Valentino's amazing success success success suc suc- cess in The Sheik the Sheik the cry was all for Latin lovers Panther Panther like like youths youths- hair and burning with patent leather 5 eyes were eagerly gathered in by very every company engaged in making pictures pic pic- tures Some of the Spanish types were Side and picked up on New Yorks York's East given new names and birthplaces one oneat oneat oneat at at least was was really Irish but all of ot them could dance well and go go into a passionate passionate passionate pas pas- love scene that sent cold shivers down th the maiden spine An And now we have to thank thank thank-or or bl blame me that that duo of lovely ladies lad es Vilma Banky and Greta Garbo for heading a gold girls that threatens rush of gorgeous to blot from the screen the American 1 variety 1 Pola N Negri gri of of course came first but buta a c combination of poor stories poor stories and unhappy unhappy unhappy un un- un- un happy direction prevent prevented c her from taking tak tak- l ing the place in the cinema heavens that i was rightfully hers Only now that re real l tragedy has blasted the flowers flower that should have blossomed along the road to to fame are her feet set in th the right tion S Vilma Banky the Dream Girl of Budapest Budapest Bu- Bu Budapest Bu Bu- created a a sensation with her gold golden n beauty but Greta Gret Garbo the Northern Northern Star Star fairly disrupted the theW W Western stem Continent when her languorous l loveliness was flashed hashed on the screen S Give me another Greta Find me mea me a second Vilma pray the producers as s exhibitors exhibitorS' press and public clamor forthe forthe for forthe the pictures wherein these charmers harmers I appear I Viima a was a UFA A star when Samuel Goldwyn saw her photograph i in a Jew Jew- jew jew- 4 iJ elers eler's window In Budapest and and de decided de- de to come home with the original rigi- rigi nal And nd now a a photograph of f a foreigner can send a whole cohort c hort i 1 of producers prod into palpitations nO VERA Y y j 4 fc J y g r w if A s y I 4 r tri s tin j A whole n new w galaxy of stars has has' arisen in the film firmament nt recently foreign talent predominating 4 They say that somebody saw a phot photo photograph photograph graph of a blond UFA pl player yer and cabled for fos her but when she arrived she vas was short and dark and much too fat and d nobody has had the ner nerve e to t to p put t ther her into a picture yet Serves them right nod the American Ameri- Ameri can girls now suffering from severe cases of disjointed nose Greta Garbo reputed cause of f all aUthe the is is a n daughter of a seafaring family no member of which ever before trod the boards of any stage She has corn colored hair and sea-blue sea eyes she is tall taU and fair and she is subject to moods Hollywood calls calIs her temperamental temperamental temperamental tempera mental but Greta is royally indifferent nt t to anything anybody says She does does' as she pleases when she pleases and if her pleasure interferes with other people why why that is just too bad for bad for them Only last week Le Lena a Malena daughter of a a gypsy v violinist of Berlin was signed by C. 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B De Mile Mille l Lenas Lena's passport passport passport pass pass- port would be up up in fn another two days ays and find Lena was naturally in no mood for dallying You want me hero hein 1 Say S y y yes s quick In a hurry I am m. m I 1 must go back in a afew afew afew few days she announced In Irk the face that of-that of that what could be bedane done but hand her lier a a fo fountain n aiu pen and show her w where ere to s sign g 1 IN TN THE interests of truth it must be added that Lena was a dancer at the in Berlin when UFA A took toak herto her herto to its it's fold Mrs Joseph wino had seen her at the 1 often recognized her at a dance given by th the German colony here and gave her the note that admitted her to the De pe Mille casting office But it was Lenas Lena's own assurance that she was offering something something some something thing thing worth having that sent them scurrying scurrying scurrying for th the contract form Though they rush to to bring the foreign lasses to America it has bec become m more or less of a habit f to cast the Continental Continental- Vilma charmers in Westerns Even had to spend pend ten w weeks e s on a desert portraying portraying por por- tr ying that cowboys g girl rl B Barbara Worth Arlette Marchal Marshal discovered during the making of Gloria Swansons Swanson's French picture picture picture pic pic- ture ture Madame Sans Gene had been virtually confined to girls of the wide wide- open spaces until she was vas given a small mall part as a French girl French girl in Wings the theother theother other ther day And nd the first t thing ing done with Marietta Millner of Vienna who looks like a c combination com combination com com- m.- m. bina o of Cleopatra Pompadour and that international spy who kept things lively lielY li elY for all an Governments in the he late var war only to make a final exit before a shooting hooting squad was to cast h her r in Drums of the Desert There There is NatH Barr Balf whose real name is both and unpronounceable who married Prince Eugene in the early days of the war and lost him during the revolution Nathalie Jova Kovanko ko is the daughter of ofa ofa a colonel in the Imperial Guards Her HerI I first husband was a commander in the Russian Army Three months after their marriage the dread Bolshevists tore him from her side and killed him When Nathalie was first presented to society she attended the opera one one night with wit her proud father was seen and admired admires by one lav Russian director who begged her to play playa a parsin part pars partin in his current production I tI should sooner see dead said Nathalie's father in approved of head the-family the style and that was the end of that But only for a time When the widowed Nathalie again crossed Tour Tour- jansky's path she yielded to his importunity importunity importunity im im- and became first the leading woman in One Thousand nd and One Nights and then the leading woman of her directors director's life life for she married him And there is Vera who wh not only was snatched from UFA A to play in Paramount pictures but has just been snatched matched from Hollywood to play opposite Sir Sir Harry Lauder in his first film effort Veras Vera's life has been so f full of drama that playing in tn pictures must be a nice rest When she was very young she married a doctor of law in Kiev married Kiev married for love in in spite of the fact that both were classed as aristocrats when revolution reared leared its fla flaming head over their land They had hadd to walk circumspectly and J J s say y nothing in order to keep out of trouble something not easy easy to two so young and spirited A A A CERTAIN c consulate in their city was headed by a fearless gentleman who was not hot in sympathy with the B Bolshevists Bol Bolshevists l- l but whose power was as great as his courage He protected aristocrats therefore he must must be banished But how Vera walking along the the he city street l looking oking as us usual al neither to right nor norl l left ft felt a hand upon her arm A bearded man in plain clothes walked beS beside beside be be- S side de her Come along long quietly he said and since there was no help for forit it Vera presently found h herself at headquarters rs The terrifying men behind the desks so awed th the little Russian that it was some same minutes s before she understood that she was was being instructed to frame the hated Consul She was given thirty days in which to vamp the fearless one and I bring about his dishonor If she failed failed wen well w who o would care greatly if f there were were- one Jess less blonde living in Kiev They let her go home and there sh she waited in tearless terror for her husband hus hus- band In the night they fled carrying their shoes about t their heir necks their feet wrapped in rags to deaden the sound of their footsteps They h had d very little money and the jewels they had taken with them could not be sold since their sale meant discovery so the flight was wasa a a nightmare of hunger and cold old and fear They forded rivers and had to let their wet clothes clothes' dry on them as they hurried through the dark They stole vegetables from peasants' peasants fields and ate them raw They slept in deserted stables stable and under hedges Their only comfort lay in in the fact that they were were together AT A T LAST they reached and crossed the border barder and drifted from there to Vienna where the war the conditions conditions conditions condi condi- were desperate The young husband husband husband hus hus- band could not find work and Vera who had studied dancing before she was married married married mar mar- ried tramped fro from agency to agency looking for a chance on the stage Ag Again in she walked down a city street and again some one one touched her on the arm rm But this time it was a director who who was casting a picture and for lack lackor of or ora a casting office was wa picking up extra talent where he could Vera played atmosphere for three days then a vaudeville manager wandering about the theet set et hap happened to see her dancing for her own amusement while she waited for her call She danced thereafter at the theatre where a UFA A director saw her see To-see To ro see Vera is apparently to covet her so presently Vera was twinkling on the German silver sheet and now it is Sir Harry Lauders Lauder's luck to exhibit the fascinating fascinating fas fas- Russian for the next producer to ro desire Old Mexico contributes the gracious and highborn Dolores del Rio who has delighted a critical public in What Price Resurrection Glory and in Tolstoy's will further charm the fans Two years ago Edwin Carewe and Mary Akin Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell slipped down to Mexico City to have a double Wedding Mr Mx M Carewe carried with him an introduction to the Del Rios from an influential friend in Los Angeles The letter threw open the hospitable doors doors' of the Mexican home but the guests spoke no Spanish and the hosts no English so conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion must be supplemented Dolores obliged by entertaining with a song and anda a tango and the director in the bridegroom bridegroom bride bride- groom Carewe responded He urged that Dolores come to Hollywood and let him put her on the screen Husband father and mother raised hands in horror at the idea A highborn highborn highborn high high- born girl in Mexico would be eternally disgraced But me confides Dolores I wished to go All AIl my life what I have wished I have had by thinking So I think hard And l presently the Del Rios Rios for for nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing could separate Jaime and Dolores- Dolores came to Hollywood Down in the Mexican quarter of Los Angeles another budding genius is c coming coming com com- lm- lm ing to flower Her name is Armida Armida- nothing J else else and and it is a name already famous with her countrymen although Armida is only a scant 18 She has great dark eyes eyes as soft as black velvet velve and as as' as bright as as the flame of an altar candle curling dark dark hair and the self- self possession and assurance of a young Queen Lya de called the toast of Berlin by German writers rs is also of those whose address is now Hollywood Hollywood Holly wood Lya got the De from a Baron who was also a colonel in the Hungarian Army His uniform proved to be the only attractive thing about him so Lya turned to the stage In Berlin she met and and- married an of the Norwegian Embassy whose re recall re- re e- e call to Norway left his bride behind since she must have a passport from Hungary a bit of paper impossible to obtain while Hungary Hungry indulged in revo revo- I lution So Lya waited in a fever of impatience impatience tience and mid while she waited Joe May the German film dire director tor discovered her herand herand herand and started her on ori her meteoric career as the talked of beauty on the Continent Helen of Troy is to be the first part played in Am America rica by Maria Corda one of the host of of UFA graduates graduates' that has become part of this serious foreign invasion MARIAS MARIA'S ARIAS ARIA'S father was a noted concert J V-L V violinist in Budapest and Maria was early accustomed tamed to the life of the European European Euro Euro- artist Their house was always alwan full of pf interesting people musicians played writers and artists and actors talked and there were always celebrities of the first rank to guide the little Maria in her music her dancing and her essays into drama i So slowly but surely Hungarians and Russians Russian and other exiles are building up a Little Europe in the heart of Hollywood Holly Hony- wood At Ivan at the Cordas' Cordas Maria has married Alexander Corda Cords and they have a small son at the Var- Var conis' conis and at other hospitable houses weekly soirees are held where strange and delicious foods are served in unlimited unlimited unlimited un un- un- un limited quantities and music and dancing are interspersed with brilliant conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion and clever cleer entertainment and the word picture is never heard L On these occasions Maria usually dances perhaps in a painted chiffon dress in which she looks like a poppy that has spread its petals and bows in ina a summer wind There are others many others from Ginette Maddie so newly arrived that no one knows more than her name to toJ J Jetta etta Goudal who has been In tn the film capital almost long enough to be called a native daughter And still they come the foreign beauties beauties beauties beau beau- ties competing for the screen crown of the world And still no producer remembers that it wasn't a Latin lover who took up the scepter when Valentino laid it I down Copyright by u Ledar |