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DEVISE SAWYER, in First National Pictures
“ MOVIES ”
Edwina Booth, her career of film stardom cut short after a brief triumph in “ Trader Horn,” entered a million-dollar suit for damages against M-G-M recently, while confined to her bed as a result of the ravages of her African exposure.
Nakedness played its part, too ; for her daily sun baths in the nude under the broiling tropic rays enforced, she says, by Metro directors as the price of stardom, wrecked her health and made her the invalid she is today .
Regularly on shipboard bound for the African jungles where “Trader Horn” was filmed. Miss Booth was forced to bare her tender skin to the sun to obtain the proper degree of tan, she charged.
En route from Naples to Mombasa, on the African Gold Coast, she had to lie out on the baking decks and tan herself, the. beauty said, and then —
“/ had to remain in a tree, exposed to the sun. suffering such undue heat and exposure that I fell from the tree and was injured.”
As the goddess of the picture, a white girl gone native, she had to run barefoot and half nude through spiky, thorny bushes which scratched and lore her body , and feet, the luwsuit said.
The result was a nervous breakdown which closed her film career in 1930, before “Trader Horn ” was even completed. Since that time she has been suffering from some mysterious tropic disease, that has wasted her body and destroyed her beauty.
In the leafy recesses of the dark continent, where the flaxen-haired heroine and Duncan Renaldo played out their parts to the splashing of crocodiles in the Nairobi River, the jinx also touched her personal life.
If hen she came back Renaldo's wife charged that more than stage love had prompted Edwina' s close friendship with the dark-haired actor. She sued for $50,000 damages on ary, alienation count, but lost.
Failure to provide proper medical care and attendants were charged in the suit. The star said she was robbed of proper treatment when her illness became serious in the jungles.
The current issue of “ Psychology ” magazine, the only popular monthly in the field of applied psychology for both the student and the psychologist, has an excellent article (illustrated) concerning Walter Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and ‘‘The Three Little Pigs.” The article, extremely interesting and enlightening, appears in the November edition . . . “Esquire,” an imposingly good publication for men only, recently made its appearance on the newsstand of the nation. All we can say is that it is most excellent . . .' “More Sales,” another new magazine, is doing well in its particular field, selling for a dime a copy. Allen Zoll edits it in New York City . . . “The American Art Student and Commercial Artist,” started in 1916, is . scheduled to make its appearance very soon, at its regular “two bits” a copy price . . . “Wilfred Waves,” as a bi-monthly, is publishing a series of articles, — interviews with stage and screen stars, written by a well known psychology
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