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...difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...
Broken Engagement. Miss Pola Negri, Polish film tragedienne, from Charles Spencer Chaplin, film comedian...
...Cecilia Paget. One day, as they were on a shopping tour, she walked out of the door, slipped into a cab that the Marquis of Hastings had ready, drove directly to church, married the Marquis. About three years later, at the Derby of 1867, Hastings' horse was favorite. Chaplin's horse, Hermit, broke a blood vessel about a month before the race and went to the stake at odds of: 100 to 1. Just before the race Chaplin took every bet that was, offered. The race was run in a snow-storm and Hermit won, netting his master...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES? "How To Be a Successful Movie Star," keenly and amusingly satirized, in the person of Merton Gill who learned the technique of Valentino by correspondence and became a new Charlie Chaplin against his will...
Died. Henry Chaplin, 82, Viscount...