If you walk up Bond-street these days you will see outside one door a lovely photograph of a lovely brunette and, underneath, the name Lee Garmes.
The beauty is Mrs. Lee Garmes, and her husband, formerly Hollywood's top cameraman and more recer.tly. ce-director of those outstanding films, "Crime Without Passion" and "The Scoundrel," took the pic. ture, The Bond-street announcement means that Garmes lizs set up in business, far away (for the moment) from the chaos of the studios.
Some of his current plans are these So Donat has a number of five shilling shirts, a shade too big for him, amd some collars that don't match and are a shade bigger still, The collars are "in training" now, carefully crumpled in a box. Their d fit, Donat says, will absolutely To create a complete stock film library of England, town and country To combine with the making of this library a series of short films of Eng el" lines. attached to English studies, although so far they have not provided her with anything to compensate her for the series of bad pictures which came to her lot in Hollywood and, it is said, accounted for her leaving America and coming to England. It was stated when she arrived in London that she had in her desk the scenario of a film dealing with the Empress Josephine. According the latest statements, this is but another version of the old-time melodrama. "The Royal Divorce," which has done duty on the stage for several generations. This picture with Miss Chatterton in the chief female róle will shortly be made by Mr. Herbert Wilcox and the part of Napoleon will be played by Pierre Blanchard.
As this appears to be a choice of Miss Chatterton, one must assume that she thinks well of the part and the script. It is true that she is an in the grand manner and can carry off a part which in any other hands might appear old-fashioned. All the same, one wishes that so ighly accomplished an actress would gratify her public in a picture which might be accounted good and strong in the modern idiom. Her unquestionable success in "Dodsworth" showed her as capable of assuming a character role, but one felt that in it one was seeing neither the authentic Fran nor Miss Chatterton at her true height.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.