NO CHANCE FOR
“DUMB DORAS,”
SAYS DIRECTOR
Hollywood Is Jammed With the
“Beautiful But Dumb” Type
of Girls, He Avers.
Take a BASIS of PERSONALITY,
season high with HISTRIONIC abil
ity, and garnish it with beauty, and
you have the recipe for a motion
picture star, as given by Director Ir
ving Cummings, who is considered
one of the greatest authorities.
Mr. Cummings directed “In Every
Woman’s Life,” which is shown at
the Liberty Theater tonight, and, be
ing a s’ociety love ■drama of rare type
required rare ability.
Beauties flocked to the studio,
seeking engagements—blondes, brun
ettes, Titian-haired beauties, and
beauties with bobbed hair, but FEW
and the BASIS of the director’s re
cipe—PERSONALITY. After select
ing the few “grains from the chaff,”
Director Cummings remarked:
“Hollywood is filled with beauties,
and there possibly was a time when
good looks were all a girl needed to
get into pictures. But that is all
changed now.
“PERSONALITY is the thing that
counts most now, and without it, no
girl should ever come to Hollywood
hoping to get work.
“By PERSONALITY I mean ‘brains
in the face,’ or the ability to think
PROPERLY of the EMOTIONS and
EXPRESS them in the face. A girl
may have the most wonderful sur
face beauty, but if she lacks the
TRAINED ‘EMOTIONS which comes
from proper USE and STUDY of
them, she is HOPELESS, for any
thing except mechanical work, or
the plaything of stupid men who want
a DOLL instead of a REAL girl.”
“The great mass of girls spend
all their time and thought on their
SURFACE appearance, and affected
manners. It is only the FEW who
have the BRAINS to spend most of
their energy in CULTIVATING the
PERSONALITY. This, of course, is
as it should be, for there is room at
the TOP for ONLY a FEW.
Mr. Cummings secured a rare com
bination of both beauty and person
ality for the leading role in “In
Every Woman’s Life.” She is Vir
ginia Valli, loaned for the M. C.
Levee production through the cour
tesy of Universal. Associated with
her in the cast are Marc MacDer
mott, Stuart Holmes, Lloyd Hughes,
George Fawcett and other favorites.
The picture is an adaptation of
Olive Wadsley’s novel, “Belonging,”
and presents the marriage problem
in an entirely newr light. There are
many novel scenes, notable of wrhich
is a society dinner where the guests
are seated on horseback, instead of
at tables, a battle upon a trans-At
lantic liner and an international horse
race.
Miss Valli, star of “The Signal
Tower,” “The Storm” and other big
screen successes, has put her best
work into this newrest of her roles
and MacDermott achieves the un
heard of feat of acting solely with
his eyes at one point in the drama.
Without movement of his head, body
or hands, he manages to convey his
meanings quite clearly. \
National Is Far Ahead
This Year’s Building
NEW YORK, Nov. 12. (JP)—The
total value of construction contracts
let in the United States from Janu
ary 1, to date now exceeds the two
billion mark, and shows a gain of
$392,607,000, compared with the cor
responding period of a year ago, En
gineering News-Record reports.
Private work contracted for so
far this year involves the expendi
ture of $1,169,638,000, and the cost
of public work is estimated at $862,
419,000.
Dreams He Is Afire;
Jumps Out of Window
VIENNA, Nov. 12. (JP)—Dreaming
that he was being burned alive, Bar
on von Pirquet, noted Viennese jump
ed out of the window of his hotel
at Karlsbad, suffering serious in
juries. He will recover, however.
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Natives Get Their First
Glimpse of An Airplane
MOSCOW, Nov. 12. (/p)_The na
tives of Kirkhizia have been treated
to the sight of an airplane for the
first time in their lives. A Soviet
machine has just made an exhibition
tour of this district of Russia, lying
just across the Caspian Sea from
Persia, and cut antics for the delec
tation of the wondering inhabitants.
Jack Chisholm, Anchorage whole
sale broker, who arrived in Sew
ard yesterday from the Westward,
departed this morning for his Inlet
headquarters.
Artificial pearls that only experts
can tell from the genuine are being
manufactured out of herring scales.
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Seward arrivals yesterday from the
Westward report that the San Juan
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ring at Seldovia. There are also sev
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season it is said the herring activi
ties continued until January 1.
“Pal O’ Mine," the trick airdale dog
of Jack Balaris’, which recently arriv
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wood.
Pastor Proposes a
Big Church Merger
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 12. (£>)—
Universalist, Congregational and Uni
tarian churches may participate in
a merger, it was announced here
after an address by Rev. Harold E.
E. Spaight, pastor of Kings chapel
(Unitarian), Boston, at the Univer
salist general convention. Spaight
surprised the convention by con
veying an invitation from the Uni
tarian general convention in ses
sion a few days ago for the Univer
salist convention to name a com
mittee of from three to five mem
bers to confer with a Unitarian
committee in considering prospects
of closer association of the two de
nominatl'.ns.
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Hsu Would Ban Liquor
and Tobacco in China
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (&)—So
greatly impressed is Gen. S. T. Hsu
of China with the effects of prohibi
tion and woman’s suffrage in Amer
ica that he will recommend the im
ediate prohibition of alcoholic liq
uors in China and the adoption of
suffrage just as soon as Chinese wo
men can be educated to it, he said
today.
President Mary E. Woolley has
been the head of Mount Holyoke
College at South Hadley, Mass., for
25 years, and is the only contem
porary president of a woman’s col
lege who has served so long.
For use in cold temperatures an
electrically heated fountain pen has
been invented.
Parkers’ “Big Brother’’ Eversharp
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Fire Routs Pajama Clad
Bunch of Fudge-Makers
SAjN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 12. (/P)
A midnight fudge party attended
by college girls in pajamas, against
the rules, was suddenly adjourned to
the street here today.
The gas stove on which the can
dy was being made overturned. Girl
students, in all states of negligee,
dishabille and boudoir attire fled to
the streets while firemen fought the
flames.
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