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NEW YORK, July 31. – Flo Ziegfeld has given out his specifications for the 1926 model girl of the chorus.
She will not be a blonde.
She’ll not be so thin as the 1925 girl and she’ll have, therefore, a curve or two, and dimples.
She may be a little taller.
Louise Gerard, the English authoress, who wrote “A Son of the Sahara,” Edwin Carewe’s First National screen version of which will be shown at the Palace Sunday, went from England to Tonffourt, Algeria, to observe the filming of some of the most spectacular scenes of the production.
Madge Bellamy in the screen version of the famous novel “The White Sin.” Every body has read the book; now the screen offers it with nothing left out, still censor proof. On the same bill the rollicking, good-natured cowboy. Buck Jones, in his latest picture, “Western Luck.” It’s a bill that will provide all the entertainment any fan could desire in one evening. Meet your neighbors at the Opera House.
The much questioned practice of admitting minors with adult strangers to theatres came up for a test before Recorder Pickersgill at 7 o’clock last night, when Morris Streiff was fined $15 for admitting six little boys to his motion picture theatre at 189 Hall avenue. The law permits that children under age may be admitted to theatres when accompanied by “parent, guardian or adult friend,” but Recorder Pickersgill contends Streiff did not have the right to permit a man to take in six boys whom he met outside of the amusement place, even as an adult friend.