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FILM STARS WITH MUSICAL NAMES.
Being a Note on Those of Some Famous Play ers, and Incidentally, an Interview with a Beautiful British Star.
HAVE you noticed what musical names somo of our most famous players have ? Say them slowly, linger over their harmonies — Marguerite Clark, Elsie Ferguson, Dorothy Dalton, Mao Murray, Irene Castle, Alice Brady, Ouida Bergere. Are they not lovely, ?
Equally musical are those of some of the popular favourites of the British stage or screen. Think of that of Marjorie Hume, the brilliant young film star who is the heroine of " The Great Day," the stirring photo-play, adapted by Miss Eve Unsell, from the Drury Lone drama by Louis N. Parker and Geo. R. Sims, which is the F. P. L. British Producers' first production at their new studios at Islington. London.
Marjorie Hume ! Note the music of its syllables. And every look and movement of its graceful owner is like her name — living harmony.
Camera Consciousness.
IT was while she was playing at Daly's in " The Maid of the Mountains," that she was first lured to the art of the screen. Remembering that she had also won stage success in " My Lady's Dress," " The Man who Stayed at Home," and the revival of " Milestones," I asked her as to her early experiences of the films.
" Did you, in your first venture, miss the audience, or suffer from ' camera fright ? ' "
" At first I did miss the audience, but did not feel ' camera fright ' so much as camera conMiss Hume took the part ol the mad girl in the film version of Ethel M. Dell's story, "The Keeper ot the Door.'
s-iousncsi. I just realised that it was there, and found myself inclined at first to act to the rhythm of the camera's music. But I had lost all camera consciousness by the timo I was at work on my second film, and the work became to me even more interesting than the stage. There is more variety, and one can express so much more."
A Keen Artist.
PAINTIXG has aUvays been more than a hobby with Miss Hume, who, as a child was keen to study art, and wa3 for some time a pupil of Miss Edith McGill, the famous British artist who has made a speciality of animal life.
Apart from her success as a painter, Miss Marjorie Hume is talented in other ways, is very musical, fond of books, and of all out-door life and sports, particularly tennis, riding and swimming. The last two accomplishments she learnt for the purpose of her work for the screen, and she may need to swim in the thrilling scene towards the end of " The Great Day " which is set in a low, riverside, underground cafe in Paris, called the " Guardian Angel."
Strains of a Jazz tune set Miss Hume's feet tapping. Laughingly she cried :
" You can add that I am mad on dancing ! " And anyway, it is the sanest kind of madness, and howsoever much the London sky may be overcast, Miss Hume is certainly one of those " earthtreading stars that make dark heaven light."
MARJORIE HUME is one oi the most brilliant actresses in the British film world, and will soon he seen in the star part of the film version of " The Great Dav." Here are a Jew characteristic photographs of her. She is a firm believer in mascots, and has many weird little animals on her dressing-table.