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...plays checkers with the palace flunkeys. When the Queen goes away and a revolution breaks out he sides with the people. By the end of the film he has thrown the dictator out, put the radical leader in his place, married the princess to the plumber. If Actor-Director Sherman had stuck to the mood of drawing-room satire in which the play was written he might have been successful; as it stands The Royal Bed falls to bits between Graustarkian romance, farce, and heavy-footed satire. Best shot: the Queen's reminiscences of her trip...
Suit Won. By Col. Zack T. Miller, owner of the 101 Ranch circus; against Cinemactor Tom Mix. Col. Miller charged that Actor Mix had agreed to appear in his circus, had joined instead the Sells-Floto circus. Col. Miller asked $325,000 damages...
Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...
...elephant that can bow, flap its ears when requested, dance, lie on its master without crushing him is usually a distinct asset to a vaudeville actor. But when work is difficult to obtain, an elephant, black or white, becomes an imposing handicap. Many a vaudeville actor or circus man must starve himself to keep his animal going...
Died. Dr. Luis Philander Berne, 48, Manhattan plastic surgeon; of heart disease, while operating on the nose of Mrs. Muriel Sisnan Dodge, second wife of Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...