One cannot but be am e that Miss Mae West has not been-able to sustain: the popularity which she enjoyed few years ago or, at rate, shared w Miss Shirley Temple. - One does mot say that the last one or two films of Miss West have been exactly "flops." but certainly they have not maintained her record for irresistibility It would seem therefore that Miss West is learning a lesson and will not in the immediate future rely on her unsupported attractions. She and her producer are trying to secure Ai Jolson for her next picture and are. it is said, holding out an inviting hand chnozzle" Durante and Mae Robson. Miss West is evidently as good a business woman as general rumour a: rts her to be. delight in being different. Since he made his notable appearance in the guise of Scarface, he has kept the make-up men ingeniously busy. He seems to have the ability to mold and hold his features almost in the tradition of David Garrick who was said to be able to, laugh with one side of his face and cry with the other at the same time. His impersonation of Louis Pasteur was about as far from Scarface as it could be. Now he is engaged in another equally masterly impersonation of the great French novelist, Emile Zola. Not a little of the new film will be devoted to Zola's heroic defence of Dreyfus, the unfortunate Jewish officer who was unjustly convicted of espionage and sent to Devil's Island until such champions as Zola and Anatole France secured his exoneration and release.
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