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Show oo Alhambra Presents Picture "Just Around the Corner" Next Wednesday I Chance brought to Sigrid Holmquist. thp "Mary' Pickford of Sweden," her opportunity to win fame In motion pictures. Miss HO)mQUUt, who has 0 leading part in "Just Around the Corner." a Paramount Cosmopolitan production, which comes to the Al- , hambra theatre next Wednesday, was horn in Sweden but went to London !v.i:en a child. She is a blonde, and her beauty attracted the attention i of an English director, who saw her In a refeaurant, Ho asked her if she jin a restaurant. He asked her if she would eonscnt to appear in a picture. At first Miss Holmqulst'i parents Objected to her giving up the musical career they had planned for her, but finally consented. Later Miss Holmquist Holm-quist had leading roles In several Swedish productions. Besides MJss Holmquist those who have important roles are Margaret Seddon, Lewis Sargent and Fred C. Thomson. |