Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

January 15?//, 1921. Ifl i6<Ho6— fdrt&sL f%ayehs iTUDIOS. AND GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR OWN STARS not long ago. The studio belonged to tlio late Sir Hubert. TlerUoincr, Die famous painter, ami (lis magnificent house, which is really more castle than ordinary duelling, stands in the romantic ground?. The British Film Actors' Studios are certainly situated in an exquisitely lovely district. There is a real atmosphere of eameradcrie and good fellowship about the whole place. Wanted a Wife. JACK HOBBS declared he wanted a wife, but I warn my readers it is not easy to know when he is in jest or earnest. " She must be able to ride, dance, and piny the piano," he: told me, " because I adore dancing." When J asked him : "What attracted him to pictures?" he answered with his merry, boyish laugh: " W ant of money ! 1 was tempted, and I fell ! " Fewlass Llewellyn. DR. JENNER, in "The Lady Clare," is one of the dominating characters throughout the performance. So natural are Fewlass Llewellyn's movements, so subtle his expression, that he is the distinguished doctor whom he impersonates to the life. Mr. Llewellyn leads a very busy life. I snatched a few minutes' conversation with him the other morning at the Ben Greet Academy of Acting, in Bedford Street, Strand. " Teaching is my hobby," he said ; and I must confess that he looked as joyed it. if he en of The Value Movement. MR. FEWLASS LLEWELLYN has played in " Dombey and Son," "Goodbye," and, of course, in " The Lady Clare." " British films are certainly coming to the front," he declared. " There is an atmosphere about them that means we There is tremendous FEWLASS LLEWELLYN are going to do things, value in movement — movement with reason, with knowledge behind it. A student who begins to understand such values jumps ahead at once." rd Ronald (JACK HOBBS) with his brother leers, after having been made aide-de-camp to the Duke oi Wellington. A First Film. MISS BETTY FAIRE, who is playing in " Paddy The Next Best Thing " at the Savoy Theatre, is now at work on her first, film, at tho Alliance Studios. She tells me that she likes the work immensely. During the war she devoted her time to nursing tho wounded. Betty Faire won the scholarship at Tree's Dramatic Academy. She played the Proud Princess in " Once Upon a Time." Betty Faire is dainty and charming, but she leads a very strenuous life. When last I saw her it was nearly six o'clock one foggy afternoon — and yet she had been doing exteriors in golden sunshine only a few miles out of London. " Now I've got to hurry away to ' Paddy,' " she laughingly said, when we parted. Wilfred Noy. WILFRED NOY, the famous producer, told me the other day that he has been associated with film work for eleven years. For a joke, he once took the part of a sergeant of police. Then he was asked if he would like to try his hand at producing. In tho office he was handed some rough manuscript and asked to show how he would treat it, and the result was satisfactory, and he commenced to produce straight away. In those days a coal mine was created out of black paper, but such make-believe times are past : since then, for filming purposes, real coal is used, " and 1 had a mining engineer to help me fix up such a scene," said Wilfred Noy, " so that it would be absolutely correct in every detail. BETTY FAIRE. " At the Clarendon Film Co., with whom f was associated, we turned out twenty five films a year, \intil long subjects came in. Then they made me a director, and so I remained until it was transferred to the Harma Company. Wben I left, I became a free lance producer until I joined up, and now, of course, I am producer for the British Actors' Film Company." The Phillips Film Co. Present " The Lady Clare," by Alfred Lord Tennyson. William Noy's Six-Part British Actors' Photoplay. Scnario by Dale Laurence. THE Earl of Robhurst (Sir Simeon Stuart) is an elderly bachelor. Lady J ul ia Medwin (Mary Forbes), the widow of his only brother, is anxious that her little son, Lord Ronald, shall inherit the Robhurst estate. The Earl falls ill. Dr. Jenncr (Fewlass Llewellyn) tells Lady Julia that the Earl must have a nurse in constant attendance. Lady Julia, terrified that a pretty nurse would prove* a danger, sofours the country for the ugliest woman procurable, and her friend and "confederate, Mrs. Thrale (Lena Halliday), helps her. Artifice and Ugliness and Sympathy. MRS. THRALE confides this story to her friend, Clare Hampden (Winifred Evans), who succeeds in making herself ugly enough to_ satisfy Lady Julia, who engages her. Clare's sympathy to the broken man influences him, and when she is about to leave him, he ask3 her to marry him — and when Lady Julia hears the news, the Earl has already • married his nurso. The Countess, however, dies on the day her child is born, the Lady Clare. Dr. Jenner finds a young foster-mother, Alice (Barbara Everest), who is persuaded to part with her own baby so that she may entirely devote herself to the heiress. One day Dr. Jenner notices the marks of cowpox on Alice's hand, and informs the -Earl that she will never have smallpox. Soon after an epidemic of smallpox attacks the village ; the Earl sends his baby daughter away with Alice. But Alice longs to see her own child, takes Lady Clare to her own home, far away from the plague ; but on the journey across country the child develops smallpox and dies. Alice succumbs to the sudden temptation of substituting her own baby for the dead Lady Clare. Love and Happiness. SIXTEEN years later the Lady Clare (Mary Odette) has grown into a beautiful girl. She has many suitors, but her sole passion is for her pet animals. She likes no one so much as her cousin, Lord Ronald, but on account of her obvious unreadiness for love, ho refrains from pressing his suit. Lady Julia urges him to do so, and so secure the estate, but in vain. WILFRED NOY. The Marcpjis of Hartlepool (Charles Quartermaine), one of Lady Clare's suitors, and who was once in love with Lady Julia, is in need of money, and tries to kidnap the little heiress. Lord Ronald discovers the plot. He fights a duel, and the Marquis is killed. Clare's heart opens to love, and Alice reveals her secret, but in the end all is well, and finishes with Tennyson's famous lines : " If you are not the heiress born, And I," said he, " the lawful heir, We two will wed to-morrow morn, And you shall still be Lady Clare." Editu Nepean.