Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, TUESDA MOVIES ' AND MOVIE PEOPLE WARDS TO'GROW TREES. iy Illinois Proposes to Use Coaviets l BY MOLLIE MERRICK. to Plant Shruda SPRINGFIELD, Ii. (#).—Under a Nazimova, a star of the legitimate long divorced from it by her adventure be. fore the cameras, did not approach her new opportunity with a mizhtier-than- thou attitude. She went to it simply taking the routine work, and meeting it with the experience of an established ALABAMA BANKER'S HOME 15 GUARDED Threatening Note, Asking! $600, Laid to Educated Person. By the Associated Press. TUSCALOOSA, Ala, May 7.—Diction of a note threatening R. H. Cochran, bank president here and former presi- dent of the Alabama Bankers' Associ- ation, with death and kidnaping of his children if he did not deposit $600 in a designated tree stump, formed the basis of efforts by police today to learn ddentity of its author. Although police have been reticent concerning the progress of their investi- gation, they intimated that an educated | person may have sent the note| and supported their theory by the fact that its spelling, wording and punctu- ation were perfect. A special guard has | been placed around Cochran’s home. ‘The money demanded was wanted for 8 loan, which would be paid back with interest, the missive, signed “Richard the Bold,” explained, and cautioned the ‘banker not to make a false move. “There is a certain man who needs $600,” the note said, “and that man knows you have $600. The man in question is a criminal and $600 will save him no | Cochran received the note y ! HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 7.—Alla a bit skeptical of the legality of that Nazimova will come back to the screen with talkies. ‘The art which found her passe has itself passed over the border, and the new medium is sweeping those it jilted back into the fold. A strange cycle of pmsleulonu destiny that completes its circle. Alla Nagimova infused her character- izations in silent drama with a strange intangible force. Yet her power of per- sonality was not strong enough to sur- vive one unfortunate venture into art. The film which broke Nazimova was a from type. And all conservative producers cling to type. Alla Nazimova, as Mrs, Charles Bry- ant, was a factor in the colony. The charming house at the turn of Sunset boulevard—just where it meets the Beverly Hilis—was the scene of many interesting events. Nazimova was a boon companion of Valentino when that actor was the per- son of the movie colony. She fostered his stormy romance with Natacha Ram- bova when those two slipped over the Mexican border and married, only to find legal lights of the good old U. S. A. e S S, and was instructed to leave the money in the stump by 8:30 o'clock Saturday night. A decoy envelope filled with pa- pers and placed at the designated spot ‘was said by police to have been opened and ransacked while those who were watching the stump left for a few min- ute: marriage. Clad 1n brilliant purple silk pajamas, Alla Nazimova took her morning walk | along the roads that lead into the hills. | And passing tourists, fortunate enough to glimpse her, felt they had seen some- thing to give them cachet with the | home folk for the rest of their natural lifetime. ‘Then the shadow of unhappiness fell | upon Alla, the artist. Charles Bryant left her. “Sue for a divorce!” cried her | friends, indignant that their idol was | thus cruelly mistreated. “There can be no divorce,” said Alla Nazimova, simply, “for the very good reason that there has been no mar- riage!” . Hollywood, the oh-so-different, was rather shocked at this. Perhaps more shocked at the lady's frankness than at her action. For the romance. which | had covered a period of some 17 years, Seemed as solid and firmly anchored as any marriage. | Whether Alla Nazimova lost heart in movies, or whether movies—at that time just discovering a gold mine in the red-hot girls—lost interest in her, is difficult to determine. The charm- | ing home was leased. Became a hotel | —the garden of Alla—and the scene for gay and festive parties of a slightly different caliber. And Nazimova—artist to her fingel tips—took what fate offered. Of recent times it was offered a snug little berth with Eva Le Galllenne’s company at the Repertory Theater in New York. Alla actress. | sible only to the new Hollywood. That is the way she will come back to pictures when her return finally is achieved this Summer. Bringing to talkies the experience of the years. be- fore_she footlights plus the camera years. Quistly and efficiently filling her new niche in her own particular way. Nazimova speaks English, French and Russian fluently. The English version of a play by George Manker Watters will be an all-talkie vehicle. The French of land near penal institutions hospitals for the insane where tree propagation could be carried on. | plan advocated by Rodney H. Brandon, State director of public welfare, con- victs and insane persons in public insti- tutions may help block floods by grow- ing millions of young trees for refores- tation purposes. He proposes that the State buy tracts and and Russian releases will be done with dialogue only between the princnpals, And this 15 one of the changes pos- | (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- prper Alliance.) Hairdresser for Gold Coast. Natives of the Gold Coast of Africa are patronizing a hairdresser from Eng. land, who recently opened a miniature | beauty parlor there. The “latest” fash- fon ih coiffures makes femini) wearer appear as if she is “sproutin two horns. 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