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Alma Rubens, Ruth Roland and her husband, Ben Bard, Helen Ferguson, Aileen Pringle, Leatrice Joy, and several others are trying their luck in one place or another. It would seem a pretty hopeless job for these thirty-odd screen people to try to reinstate themselves if it were not for three little facts. Three screen players who were definitely on the skids this time last year have recovered their lost ground with a vengeance : Estelle Taylor, Esther Ralston, and Ricardo Cortez. And yet it has been barely ten months since I remember all three here in New York and feeling pretty low, too. Esther was dancing with a twisted ankle. Estelle had a big voice and didn't know what to do with it. Ricardo was appearing in vaudeville four times a day and trying to look after his then wife, Alma Rubens, who was just staging her come-back — in his spare moments, if any. -But how times have changed! Esther Ralston, who everj'body said was a "nice, pretty girl but had no place in talkies," has just been signed b}r Metro to play Lawrance Tibbett's leading lady in his forthcoming picture, "The Southerner." Some honor ! Estelle Taylor, who appeared with Charlie Farrell in "Liliom," is now playing Dixie Lee; the hot, mama, in Richard Dix's "Cimarron," which bids fair to be one of those great big outstanding films which lines them up at the box office. And as for Ricardo, with a five years' contract with Pathe, he should worry ! However, as we run our eyes back over the present list of stage hopefuls who are trying to recover their lost screen ground, only one stands out mightily. And that one, strangely enough, is the little Chinese girl, Wong Lew Tsong, which translated means 'Frosted Yellow Willow,' but in cinema circles we understand it to be Anna May Wong. Because Miss Wong could only be cast in a limited number of roles in this country, she went to Germany. Germany and England have been the graveyards of many screen careers. Once out of Hollywood, few come back. But Anna May has come back. She shows more outstanding dramatic talent than any one screen woman who has appeared on the New York stage. And it isn't luck. She prepared herself! After appearing in "Tsong" and other pictures written for her by the great Dr. Karl Voelmoeller, author of "The Miracle," Anna went to England and played in, five British pictures. Also, in an old Chinese stage play which Basil Dean produced. Next, Miss Wong went to Vienna and sang and danced for ten months in a Chinese operetta. But even while she worked she studied strenuously. And returned to America with the ability to read, write and speak perfectly, not only English and her own native Chinese, but also French and German. She made her Broadway debut in Edgar Wallace's mystery "On the Spot," and the whole town fell into her arms. There is no question but that film producers will be clamoring for Anna May. She can return to Hollywood any time she likes with a big fat contract in her hand. Lillian Gish is another movie star who has made good on Broadway. She appears in one of those Russian plays in which everybody loves the wrong person and nobody gets anywhere. It is perfect for Lil and the critics raved. Don't tell on us, but we were bored. As the sweet, gentle wife of an old Professor, Miss Gish is perfect. But whether she can be versatile, whether she can do anything more than gently sway in the dramatic wind, remains to be seen. She should. She has studied with Max Reinhardt. George Jean Nathan, celebrated writer and stage critic, is her good friend, and his experience could guide her. But whether she is willing to throw off the girlish protective covering which she has worn since her Griffith days and 'get out among 'em' is a problem only Lillian can solve. Lois Moran is another fair bet, but she has been handicapped for years by her splendid performance in "Stella Dallas." Nobody can forget that Lois is a nice girl, not even when she appears in "This is New York," in a rather sophisticated role. I think she should go postively radical— adopt an extreme coiffure, extreme clothes. She ought to quit being sensible — at least for publicity purposes, and play some interesting girls, and then maybe we'd believe she is a real flesh and blood human with the capacity to err as well as the capacity to drink her tea prettily. Lois has all the stuff. The only question is, has she the courage to let herself go? Poor de Putti, the vest-pocket vamp, has never had a break since "Variety." They know so little how to handle her in this country that perhaps it would be a good thing "for her to go back to Germany and start all over again. Her Broadway play folded quickly. We don't have to worry about Karl Dane and George K. Arthur. That comedy team can always keep the wolf from the door. Basil Rathbone had already made his Broadway mark before he ever sniffed the air of Hollywood, so there's no fear for him. Herbert Rawlinson and Montagu Love are good troupers so we needn't be anxious about them. And now we come to Colleen Moore ! We had a letter from her while she was on the road in "On the Loose," in which she said : "I am nearly dead — done nothing but catch trains and every night is an opening night. If I weren't so exhausted I could have a lot of fun. But I am so tired my sense of humor is at a low ebb. This trying out a play is like the circus. Off after the night show. Up at dawn. All we need are the trained seals and the elephants." Colleen has worked so hard and amused us so long that she has earned the right to try her luck in another medium. But her play never reached New York. All through the middle west, however, Colleen was a big personal success. The folks loved her. But her play wasn't good enough. Colleen is now resting at the Battle Creek Sanitorium, getting ready, we hope, for another try for Broadway. There's no reason why Colleen can't make the grade. She has brains, great sensitivity to art. color, form, and drama. She is getting away, too, from that Dutch doll make-up and creating a different, more sophisticated personality for herself. When she Rets her true bearings, I