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FEBRUARY 1924
Fay Compton as " Queen Mary." British Screen Sisters.
Ellen Compton makes a most promising film debut in the impressive, if somewhat thankless role of " Queen Elizabeth " in The Loves of Mary Queen of Scots. She is by far the best " Good Queen Bess " as yet seen on the screen, and many would like to see her in a photoplay written around the authentic career of Elizabeth, whose personality, if not so romantic, was nearly as colourful as that of her fascinating half-sister. Despite deficiencies in height, in figure, colouring, everything, there is a decided resemblance between the sisters, and the camera accentuates this with great effect. Fay Compton's " Mary " explains to a great degree the attraction this ill-fated Queen possessed, but the character is as usual heavily whitewashed.
Top right : Quecnie Thomas. Right :
Joan Morgan. Beloz<< : Collette Brettel
and Henry Victor in " The Colleen
Bawn."
Ellen
Compton as Elizabeth."
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She Didn't Say WhyJoan Morgan spent her
Christmas in America. This pretty little star has heretofore resisted the tempting offers made her by Bryant Washburn and other American stars, but shortly after her work in The Great ]]Tcll was finished, she very quietly slipped away. With her apple-blossom colouring, and fresh, typically British personality Joan should have a great future overseas. She is no stranger to travel, for she has been in South Africa and several other wild places, after which New York and even Los should seem tame in comparison.
Flora's First Impressions.
" I have been meeting so many interesting people." writes Flora Le Breton from New York, "and going to so many dinners that my diary seems full of dates. I haven't recovered from my astonishment at the amount of champagne 1 find all over this dry (?) country. Nor from my disappointment when I saw that Pauline Frederick had bobbed her hair. But I was ever so thrilled meeting her at dinner at the Fitzmauricc's and she's perfectly wonderful. I hadn't been in New York a week before I had an offer from London for a leading stage part, but I've refused because 1 came out here to work in pictures and I mean to do it. I was also offered a role in several films about to be produced in Paris, but it's U.S.A. for little me this time and I turned that down too." Seeing Stars.
"It has been great fun meeting all the celebrities : Cyril Maude took me to his show ' Aren't We AH,' at the Gaiety and gave. yes. another dinner in my honour, and Daniel Frohman, Nora Bayes, David Belasco and Cecilia oft us were there. Dick Barthelmess was the next kincma star 1 met. then Madge Kennedy. 1 was asked to talk to American fans by Radio, so went to Metro offices and said a whole lot about Stage and Screen. 1 am rather glad my audience could not see my scared