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ACTUALITIES 109
lish dramatic critic sees it through the eyes of an " American author of wide repute," whose style and views remind one of those of the adorable Mr. Mencken.)1 " Hollywood's ' Brilliant Inanity '," by Mr. Arthur Weigall. (How the English archaeologist sees it).2 " The White Slaves Of Hollywood," by P. G. Wodehouse. (How the " famous " humourist sees it).3 " Hollywood's Fallen Idols and The New," by Alice M. Williamson. (How a novelist sees it).1 " Film Stars Must Be Temperamental," by Mr. Charles Whittaker. (How a producer sees it).5 ;' The mysterious Pola Negri ... is credited by rumour with possessing a temperament so devastating that before her arrival in England (1929) people spoke of it in hushed tones." " But," continues Mr. Whittaker, " she was so angel-like in Cornwall that the children got to calling her Auntie Pola." (Those children !) " Hollywood Has Got Old-Fashioned," by Iris Barry. (How the film critic of the Daily Mail sees its methods and conditions).6 " Studio Murder Mystery." (How the strange morals in the Hollywood studios are seen and exposed by the producer).7 " My Lonely Life at Hollywood," by Pauline Frederick. (How an early star sees it).8 " What I Saw At Hollywood," by Lady Diana Cooper. (How the Madonna in " The Miracle " sees it). " Lady Diana, who is the third daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland, has just returned from America. . . . During her visit there she went to Hollywood, met all the stars of the moving picture world, and saw them at work and at play."9 Her point of view of the " stars " is quite Madonna-like. " From a Window in Hollywood," by Harold Brighouse. (How a playwright sees it.)10
1 The Observer, June 16, 1929.
2 The Daily Express, November 11, 1929.
3 The Daily Mail, December 6, 1929.
4 The Evening Neivs, August 29, 1929.
5 The Daily Mail, September 9, 1929.
6 The Daily Mail, December 12, 1928.
7 The Daily Mail, August 18, 1929.
8 The Daily Express, April 17, 1927.
9 The Weekly Dispatch, April 4, 1927.
i° The Manchester Guardian, June 12, 1929.