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A bove : Francis Lederer (left) as the villainous fro-Nazi in " After Mid- night ," with Wanda Hendrix and Alan Ladd. The small portrait shows him as he appeared in Erich Pommer’s German production, " The Won- derful Lie." before making Three Godfathers, Impact and The Snake Pit. Impact brought back another star who won fame on the silent screen. It was as the Slave Girl in the late Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad that Anna May Wong’s exotic, exquisite beauty was first given its real chance to be appreciated by filmgoers. She appeared as Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, and then came to England to appear in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Piccadilly. Her first talkie, by the way, was also British— Flame of Love. Although she was bom in Los Angeles, she is of pure Chinese ancestry, and her work for her war-torn, -troubled country has been one of the reasons that has kept her off the screen, together with her strong feelings about the type of role she was called upon to play. Impact was her first film since Lady from Chungking —seen in 1943. The only other Far East star to come to mind in the forty years of English and American film making is Sessue Hayakawa. Born in Japan in 1889, he w r as educated for the Japanese Navy, but taking to stage work instead, went to America. Not long afterwards, Sessue Hayakawa was one of the highest paid actors in Hollyw'ood, earning more than a thousand pounds a week. His most notable film of those days was The Cheat, opposite the famous Fanny Ward. ~ In 1933 he left Hollywood and went to France, film-making. He is a talented artist and it was through an exhibition of his paintings in Paris that he was discovered and offered the role in Tokyo Joe that took him back to Hollywood, where he stayed to make Three Came Home. One of the greatest of the silent comedians was Buster Keaton, the original " frozen-faced ”■ star, who acquired a reputation because he never smiled in a picture, but won it with his brilliant talents as a pantomimist, his originality and his polished performances. Nobody who saw him in those brilliantly funny films Our Hospitality and The Navi- gator could ever forget either. Another great figure of the early days of films who found appreciation in France is Erich von Stroheim. Actor, Buster Keaton (left) with Con- stance Talmadge, her sister Natalie, then his wife, their mother and young Joseph Talmadge Keaton Junior. A bove: Buster Keaton with Judy Garland, S. Z. Sakall and Spring Byington in "In the Good Old Sum- mertime.“ Back in the carefree nineteen - twenties — Anna Q. Nilsson and Ben Lyon have fun on Santa Monica beach. The inset portrait shows the Anna Querentia Nilsspn of to-day.