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C'PViialit, PrinBle & Booth. Toronto, 1919
The Prince and the Pictures
If the cameramen could have their wish,
all temperamental film stars would make Edward of Wales
their good-natured model of camera conduct
By BETTY SHANNON
IT is too bad that the Prince of Wales can't find the time ofif from his duties of learning how to be a king to become a motion picture actor.
Have you ever seen nicer screen features? Can you think of any juvenile that could get away with that slim, aristocratic stuff the way he could?
And that smile! You know as well as I do that if that smile were given a chance at matinees alone it would go a long way towards clearing up the British war debt — even without the Flantagenet name behind it!
It's especially sad that prince-ing is such strict and occupying business when you consider how well Edward has gotten on in the movies. All fall and early winter he was the most photographed young man in America. Every news reel teemed with pictures of him. It wouldn't have taken any sort of an advertising campaign to have put him across big in drama.
And then, when, according to Tracy Mathewson, the photographer who took most of the pictures, he was getting "camera broke," he had to go back home to get ready to leave on a visit to India and some others of those overwhelming colonies he will have to rule some day.
The Prince of Wales is very fond of motion pictures. He knows most of the American stars. And as for the internal economy of a camera^Mr. Mathewson says that the Prince knows more about lenses and apertures and shutter speeds than most of the cameramen who earn their livings by turning a crank !
Mr. Mathewson is greatly prejudiced in favor of the Prince, which speaks well for His Royal Highness. If a man has a mean disposition he would have a hard tinle hiding it from a photographer who takes his picture every few minutes for three months.
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