Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

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The Edward Nugent Fan Club, per its president, HELEN DONOVAN, of Hamilton, Canada, asks for better roles for Eddie. GIOVANNA DE CICCO, of Baltimore, Md., would like to see Lillian Gish play a vamp for a change. Wonder how Giovanna will like La Gish's first talkie, ''The Swan." FRANCES THROWER, of Hendersonville, N. C, offers a bouquet to the talkies for bringing the players of the legitimate stage to the screen. "It may be arsenic to theatrical producers," says Frances, "but it is ice cream soda to us who have never been to New York." A group of high school girls in Hudson, N. Y., headed by HELEN FITCH, send in a pouting protest because so many handsome screen actors are spoiling their good looks by raising mustaches. SS.oo s7 ~(TtA*~<L Grower wilt be sent C. O. D. or you can send money with order. If money accompanies order Postage will be prepaid. 1 LUCILLE YOUNG. ■ 663 Lucille Young Building. Chicago. III. bena me your new discovery for growing eye 2 lashes and eyebrows. 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She says: "Audible weeping, as heard from the sound screen, instead of impressing the listener with the heightened pathos of the drama, tends rather to produce in him a sense of irritation and discomfort." .MRS. DOROTHY DOUGLAS, of Buffalo, N. Y., wants to see opera on the screen. "Now with sound and all the beautiful Technicolor effects possible, every child in our land should know and love all the operas and their wonderful music. I would want to see them many times myself." A wisecracking bouquet from JACQUELINE DUMAS, of Marshfield, Wis.: "In the talkies we have talking, singing and music all for the price that we once paid for a silent picture. Now, say, isn't that a break for the Scotch?" A True Story of an African Nightmare [ CONTINUED FROM PACE 47 "But I shall never forget the lion experience. Mumu, the native gun bearer, Mr. Waller, in charge of the expedition, and a white hunter and I went to hunt. "We crawled for hours through the brush, hoping to find the animals, and then, suddenly, Mumu whispered, 'Stop!' "We were entirely surrounded by lions. We lay flat on the ground waiting for them to spring. But they didn't spring. It was hours later that I shot one. THE lion struggled for a moment and then fell limp on the ground. I ran over to il, delighted with my first experience as a hunter, and just as I got within a few feet, the beast jumped to his feet, uttered the most fantastic cry I have every heard and then fell dead. "But I wasn't frightened. I don't know why. I wasn't at all frightened in Africa. I seemed so close to the very root of everything. It seemed as if nothing could touch me, or if it did it wouldn't matter. I was a part of all that went on around me. I felt Africa! "One night I had heard the tom-toms beating until I thought I would go mad. Ceaseless, as if they had been beating since before the world began and would go on forever. I felt strange and savage. I jumped out of bed and began to dance. I can't make you understand about it. I can't make anybody understand Africa who hasn't been there. That is why I feel so strange being back. That's why Africa is the only reality." The pale gold hair spread itself out against the pillow. There was something infinite in her eyes. An ordinary little girl snatched up by the gods of the cinema and thrown headlong into ^uch experiences. Two men who started out with the company came back after the first month. But Edwina, flower-like and beautiful, weathered and became a part of Africa. And hers was the most difficult role of all. The men might wear pith helmets and spine Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed. pads to protect them from the stark glare of the sun, but as the goddess, Edwina did her scenes in a wisp of a costume and without head covering. Twice she had sun-stroke. Once she was a victim of malaria. Her mother sat at home and prayed that she might be well. The two, mother and daughter, had promised that they would write the exact truth to each other, but when Edwina was ill she wrote that she was fine and when her father was not well, her mother told her that everything was all right at home. Her mother had remembered an old saying that the things you don't worry about are the things that happen, so every night she checked over a long list of worries — fear of illness, fear of jungle beasts, fear that the natives would kidnap her child. "DUT the natives were Edwina's friends. Her ■'-'own particular boy, Jacob, who was a Christian and had been given the Biblical name by the missionaries, adored her and was her devoted slave after the uprising when she saved him from a severe sentence by proving an alibi for him. The native women, fascinated by her blonde hair, stood about her in a circle and imitated her every gesture when she put on make-up. Like monkeys, they held out their hands for powder, and she put a little pat in each black hand. They were delighted. Edwina Booth stood the trip bravely. Beset by every danger, subject to every illness. She is back now. The picture is finished. Her job is done. Africa is a dark chapter in her life and the powers that be at the studios are satisfied with the film, "Trader Horn." And Edwina must now adjust herself to the business of a commonplace life. Books are dull — what excitement is there in a printed page after what she has seen? Plays are but the silly gestures of actors against a painted background. Edwina has seen the roots of life — what is there left for her now?