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~9lS: Geraldine Farrar In • Carmen u, a De MilJe ".coop" and a never-to .. be.. forgotten picture, which marked a big .tep forward ill the film indu.trv.

LITILE over ten will be a notable event. The finest A years ago, Cecil B. stories have been secured and they DeMille was putting in will be interpreted by artists who his second year in the take pride in upholding the DeMille moving picture field, tradition of Supremacy! 1916. Under DeMille'. manaaemeo.tbUWaJly" and he was working The clean, fresh beau ty of Leatrice Reid w .. tbe elt loved feverishly to prove that Joy and the charm of Rod La­ of movie heroel. there was a place in mo­ Rocque have been i:aptured for tion pictures for bigger these DeMille pictures. And there and better films. are hosts of other well known In between those first desperate names, each a guarantee of quality days and the present time, is a in itself: Joseph Schildkrau t, J etta record of achievement which has Goudal. Lillian Rich, Noah Beery, been equalled by no other producer. Henry B. Walthall, William Boyd, 1920. Gloria Swan.on With each succeeding DeMille Vera Reynolds, Robert Ames, -Lila Lee -Tbomas Meillban - headed for triumph, it has seemed as though Robert Edeson, Theodore KosJoff, fame In "Male and the topmost pinnacle of Motion Rockliffe Fellows, Clive Brook, Female". Picture perfection had been reach­ Edmund Burns, Julia Faye, Trixie ed, and yet when it seemed as Friganza-just to mention a few. though there were no further heights to which he could climb, EW talenc being dcweloped there burst upon the world, two N in the DeMiUe Seock Com­ years ago, that grea test of all De­ pan,.: In addition to those ar­ Mille spectacles- "The Ten Com­ tists who have already made a mandments"-a production so vast place for themselves, Cecil De­ and sci absorbing that it held au­ Mille is constantly working new diences breathless and convinced person ali ties in to his pictures. He 1924. "The Ten Com. that DeMille must, indeed, has a glorified Stock Company in mandment." - a etupen.. them be a worker of miracles to have which promising youngsters are do... loeetacle, .tlll plavlng drilled, encouraged and shown the to crowded houleo. No ~rought so stupendous a master­ one can afford to mlos it. plecef way to make the most of their own possibilities. HAT will Cecil B.DeMille All Cecil DeMille productions, W do nexc? DeMille is looking and those of his Associates, will be re­ forward to even leased through the more glorious Producers Distri­ achievements in the buting Corporation. future. He and his There is untold Associate Directors wealth of entertain­ 1922. "Mao slaughter'" have planned a ment ahead of you. brought to Meillhan a series of pictures, Watch for future new leadiog lady and each one -of which to the public a new Idol announcemen ts. -Leatrice Joy. A maloiticentpicture maRnitict:ntly acted And now/''The Road to Y elterday", DeMille'.fint by Jo,eph Sch ild· great independent offerinll through the Producers kraut. Jetta Goudal. Di8triburinll Corooration. Adapted by Jeanie Vera Reynoldl, Wil. Macpherson and Beulah Marie Dix from the play lIam Boyd and Julia by Beulah Marie Dlx and E. G. Sutherland. Faye. RELEASED BY ...... _-----PR.ODUCER.S DISTR.I BUTI NC CORPORATIOhl_ --" c52lNNOUNCING: The Greatest Editorial Staff in the Motion I Picture Field!

R. EUGENE V. BREWSTER, editor-in-chief of The M Brewster Publications, announces a number of important editorial changes in connection with The Motion Picture Magazine, The Motion Picture Classic and Movie Monthly. Mr. Brewster is the world's first motion picture editor, editing The Motion Picture Magazine for many years after it was founded in 1910. One of the greatest authorities on motion pictures, EUGENE V. BREWSTER he always has personally directed the Brewster Publications.

FREDERICK JAMES SMITH has been appointed to his old post of managing editor of The Brewster Publications. Mr. Smith was for five years connected with these magazines, first as editor of The Classic, as managing editor of the magazines and as first edi ~or of Shadowland. Mr. Smi th has been engaged actively in motion picture criticism and editing since 1912. He was one of the first motion picture editors of The Dramatic Mirror, he was editor of The Motion Picture Mail, he was managing editor of Photoplay, and managing editor of Screenland. Mr. Smith is considered one of the foremost authorities on pictures and the leading editor of the screen world.

Bali MISS AGNES SMITH has been appointed editor of The Motion Picture FREDERICK JAMES SMITH Magazine. Miss Smith has had a distinguished career ip the film world. She comes to the Brewster Publications from Photoplay. She was for several years motion picture critic of Picture-Play, and she was a member of the now famous staff of The New York Morning Telegraph for a long time.

LAURENCE REID will be editor of Movie Monthly, being adva,nced from the post of associate editor of that magazine. Mr. Reid came to The Brewster Publications recently from The Motion Picture News, one of the leading film trade publications, of which he was editor Ball of the review department. Mr. Reid is recog­ AGNES SMITH nized as one of the greatest experts on motion pictures. He was a star member of the editorial staff of The New York Review, The Dramatic Mirror, and The New York Evening Mail. LAURENCE REID BaU No army is greater than its generals and no magaz;ines are greater than their editors The Brewster Publications Are First In Fearlessness, Accuracy, Authority and Presentation of the News These Writers are Contributing Regularly to the Brewster Publications: Harry Carr Frederick F. Schrader Don Eddy H. W. Hanemann Alice Tildesley Robert E. Sherwood Sara Redway Hal K. Wells Tamar Lane Harriette Underhill Dorothy Donnell Don Ryan GU MOVIE M 0 l',JT H L Y

T.A.BLE OF· CONTENTS Stars Feal,lJ,red ~n Volume III DECEMBER, 1925 Number 3 This Is sue PAGE THE STAR THAT CAME TO EARTH ...... By Neil Moran 6 Alice Ardell ..... • . ..•..... 57 Serial Siory HEROES OF THE BORDER ...... •.. By Frederick F. Schrader 9 Clara B-)W ••• ' ••.•...... 41 LAURENCE REID SAyS...... 13 Monte I 'ue ...... •...... 4J Pictures and Personalitie~o;; Tyler BlOokc ...... 57 THE GIRL WHO MADE THEM LAUGH ...... •..... By Don H. Eddy 14 Harry C Hey ...... 36 It.'er"i.", "'ith Alherla Vau,"" A BROTH OF A BOy ...... By Warren Dow 16 Ben Conel! ...... \0 1"ler"i.", .",i/ll lack Muillall Marion :navies 56 WHAT IT COSTS TO BE A WELL-DRESSED COWGIRL ...... By Scott Pierce 18 Marcelin e Day ...... 49 SPECIAL BUCK JONES SECTION...... 19 A liON KEPT HER FROM ROMANCE...... 23 Jack Il"mpsey ...... " ...... 6.1 Sk,tch a"d pictures of Jlirg;nia WartlJ;ck Willian. Desmond ...... • ...... Jg THE CALGARY STAMPEDE-A Story ...... •...... •. . By Fred H. Shipman 24 Dorothy Dwan . ...• ...... • ...... , 56 FREEDOM OF THE KNEES ...... •...... 28 Piclures of halhi", girls Lefty F ynn ...... , ... 41 SHIRLEY KEEPS THE HOME FIRES BURNING...... 30 Florence Gilbert 54 P.·ctur, pages of SI,,'rley Mason Kather:,Jl_e (xrd.nt ...... 57 THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY--A Story ...... By Paul Crawford 32 FORKING A BRONCO ...... By Hal K. Wells 36 Eddie GribllOn ...... •...... 46 Article 0" ItOtll h-arry Carey trains horses Theln.a Hill ...... • " ...... 57 WILliAM AND MARY AND MARY JO ...... 38 Piclttre pa,es of William Desmo"d ""d family Pee;V ee Holmes ...... SO MARION'S DAILY DO.?:EN...... 40 Lloy, Hughes ...... 41 Picture Ptllft' of M,1rlO" Nixo. PAGING MR. DEMPSEy ...... 41 Texa,. Jack ...... Pict"re /Jate of screen fithters Buck Jane" ... . • ...... 19 WITH THE WEST COAST STARS ...... By Don H. Eddy 42 . •...... 64 GO WEST-A Story ...... By Fred H. Shipman 43 Frances Lee ..... EDDIE GRIBBON FROM HARLEM ...... By Dorothy Calhoun 46 Shi.-Iey Mas.)n .. 3U I"ter"ie", ",i/ll Eddie G.'ihho" Jack Mulhall .... . 16 THE SHEIK TAKES TO TliE SADDLE ...... 48 Piclure page of Rudolpll Vale.,itlo Mari,m Nixo1 ...... 40 THE DAWN OF A NEW DAy ...... 49 Georg.e O'Brien .i6 Pict1J,re pate of M arcelitJe Day MAGPIE AND DIRTY SHIRT...... 50 wlarie Prevost >6 Picture pate of Pee Wee HOI mes Q1Id Be." Corbett Josie Sedgw:.ck 18 THE REVIEWER HAS HIS SAY ...... : ...... " ..... By Laurence Reid 51 THE GIRLS HAVE A GILBER1. TOO...... 54 Elsie Ta,'ro1l 57 Pictttre pate 0/ Florence Gnb, yt Rudolph Valentino 48 "YOUR OPINION" CONTEST...... 55 Alherta "aughn 14 CAMERA GOSSIP ...... ·...... 56 STALKING THE STARS...... 58 Bobbie v "mon 64 Gossip of the studios George V / alsh .... . 4J M,OVIE MONTHLY PUZZLE PAGE ...... 61 \~irginia 'Varwick ... . . 23 Co"er desig"-Bilee,, Sedg",ick, pain fed hy Leo Koher /,om a pllolograpll hy Freulich ~

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The setting was a-glow wit.h animation and color, and Phil's work. And simply because I don't want him to be an imagination quickened when he sensed the fact that here actor he walked out of the house and left me flat." was the life that he wanted so eagerly to live "But perhaps the young fellow," said Mr. Bryson. chew­ ing on one of the banker's cigars, "might make good in the N the library of his F ifth Avenue mansion, Horace movies, Mr. Vanderhaven. As I get it, his heart's set on Vanderhaven sat opposite Pat Bryson, head of the that." detective agency bearing his name. Horace Vanderhaven stood up and looked at Bryson I The well-known banker had summoned 1\1;r. Bryson­ with belligerent eyes. to consult with him on a matter of the greatest importance. "I didn't get you up here," he said crisply, "to tell me "Now," he said, his deep voice booming through the about my son's inclinations. I summoned YOll to put any room, "you understand the situation,' Bryson. It's the amount of money at your disposal to keep his name from kind of problem that many a man in my position has had going on the screen. That was what he told me when he to face. A good-for-nothing son and a father worth mil­ went out the door. That the name of Vanderhaven woule! lions. An old story. This boy of mine has refused to open up the way. He said it was his name and I couldn't ~.... ------~------~. The Star That Came to EARTH

WITH this issue, MOVIE MONTHLY introduces its new serial in six parts. Mr. Moran, the author, has written a fascinating romance of the movies-the make­ believe world which so many aspirants try to enter­ and fail. With a keen knowledge of the background that occupies the production of pictures, the author places his young hero against it-and makes him shift for himself.

By NEIL MORAN Illustrated by Douglas Ryan

take it from him, and I don't want any enterprising mo­ tion picture producers capitalizing my name." "Very good, sir," said Bryson. "You're the one to please. Now I see a way to crush his ambitions. I certainly see a way to keep the name of Vanderhaven off the screen. And if it works, and I believe it will, I'm betting that he'll be so disillusioned that he'll come crawl­ ing back to you ready to do as you ask." "If you can accomplish that," said Horace Vander­ Phil had good looks and person. haven, "you're my man. How do you propose doing it?" ality-and, best of all, the keen Bryson drew up his chair. enthusiasm of youth. Naturally, he had unbounded re~pect in his ""Veil, sir," he said, "if you'll just wait until I light ability to make good this cigar, I'll lay before you a most ingenious plan." II THE young man with the nonchalant air who had flirted one of his resolutions. His high and mighty father had outrageously with several pretty girls in the train, step­ told him that he couldn't do a thing without the Vander­ ped off at the next stop and looked around. He had haven name. He really disliked parting with it in this twelve dollars and forty cents in his pockets. He had a manner, for it was a good, old name, a nicely sounding lot of resolutions tucked away in his brain and a large name, and one that he really cherished. And there was amount of energy no denying that it stored up in his sys- would have been of tem. He started to help. But no hero walk. H AVE you ever entertained a desire to enter the movies, would have tolerated \Vithin an hour he become 'a star and have a hero-worshiping world at it under the circum­ had found quarters in your feet? Surely you have. Such an ambition ignites stances. And he was a house and had paid a hero, if for no other a week's rent in ad­ the spark in every youthful heart. When you read this fascinating romance of a young man who felt he was born reason than that. he vance. He also had was going to work. paid the friendly to conquer the world through the movies, you will be living over your own dreams and illusions. He would not use landlady several com­ the Vanderha Yen pliments that won her name. Instead, he confidence in two would rise to the top minutes' time. And under an alias. Then he ~old ~er that he was Harvey James who had come to when he had reached the pinnacle of fame he could call Cal~forma to make the movie world sit up. Another the newspaper boys in and say, "Men, I've fooled you all. aspIrant! She had her house filled with them and, of I'm Philip Vanderhaven. But don't I deserve some credit /""A11 .... CD n'; c:th.oA t..:_ 1...... 1 .. f' • • ..." .. • • 8 The Star That Came to E,'lrth the movies and I happened to men­ tion that you had come looking for work." "That's great!" said Philip. "An actor, ell? A real, live actor! Shall we go along?" They went and as Mrs. Lafferty knocked on the door, the victrola stopped. The door flew open and Mr. P\immer Toms ap­ peared. , '1' his is the gentleman." said Mrs. La ff e r t y, "Mr. James. Mr. Toms, Mr. James, and now I'll leave you two actors alone." At the mention of "actors," Mr. Toms straightened. He extended a large hand, which Mr. Vanderhaven had difficulty in There was great activity on the set as Phil, trying to control embracing. It was his agitation, accosted the caRting director and asked him such a large hand that it reminded Mr. Vanderhaven of for a job a ham. "Come in, come in, sir," said Mr. Toms, who had sus­ ~t was thus h~ reflected as he s~t.in his rOOI11 listening to nicions that Mrs. Lafferty was hanging around for her a VIctrola up-staIrs. Of course, hIS Identity, perhaps, would . ·ent. "That is all, Mrs. Lafferty. Thank you!" become known long before he would want it to come out Mr. Toms, who had never been an actor before the day but even so there was no reason to worry about that. II ~ was drawn into a mob scene and told to run, rather One thing he was sure of: So far as he knew, no one in f ; '. ve the impression that he was the star of stars. He was. California knew him. Unless it was someone he had met SI lictly speaking, an extra, and prior to that, he had done in those travels ahroad. He had come back to America Sl, Idry jobs ranging in selling oil-stoves to books and almost a stranger to his native land. He had had his kr i yes. He had a good heart, however, and at once Mr. picture taken. And one of them, 'twas true, had been run V; llderhaven was aware of that fact. in a magazine. Underneath: "Philip Vanderhaven, son of . I', . r. Toms was a tall. gaunt man, whose age was a the well-known banker." That had been the only reason marh _'r of conjecture. He might have been thirty-five. for it : The Vanderhaven name. So it wasn't likely that He . light have been forty-five. As a matter of fact, he every Tom, Dick and Harry he passed would know who was t l1irty-seven, but a far-away. hungry look made him he was. Though, of course . there was always the chance appe, .. . years older. that someone he knew would bob up and want to know Hi!' hair, Mr. Vanderhaven noticed. was ullusually long. what it was all about. It drap ~d the hack of his collar. And this, spreading in thr But he was taking chances. He took a chance when he front . ... 'as adorned by a necktie of the flowing variety. In walked out of his father's house. He had come to like other ~~ '.rticulars Mr. Toms had a low, pleasant voice, chances. He wanted chance to like him. which, ;t . the slightest provocation, could rise to tremen­ He jumped as he heard a rap on the door and a pleasant dous vol '" meso His clothes were not in so good a condition voice exclaim: "Oh. Mr. James! Are you there?" as Mr. \". mderhaven's, but the trousers were just as well It would take him a little time to get accustomed to this pressed a' d the scuffed shoes just as highly polished. name of James. He assured her that he was and then in The fall that Mr. Vanderhaven was a novice won him response to a ';May I come in?" he got up and opened the over to MI. Toms at once. It was Mr. Toms' delight to door. talk to tho;;\ . who knew less about the movies than he did. Mrs. Lafferty stood smiling at him. \Vith other. .; directors and actors, for instance, he was "I thought perhaps you'd like to become acquainted with very discreet In other words, he had little to say. But Mr. Toms. He has the room overhead." now as he lct ked upon Mr. Vanderhaven, who was smil­ "Why, yes 1" said Philip. "Like to become acquainted ing at him er. '- 'agingly, he knew he couldn't be stopped. with everybody. That's awfully kind of you, Mrs. "Yes, sir," .le said, as he dropped into a chair opposite Rafferty." and assumed '- contemplative pose, "yOll are a type. Has "Lafferty," she corrected. anyone told yot that?" He leaned over eagerly. "Have "I should say 'Lafferty'," he replied flushing. "Shall I yOlt thought of t hat yourself?" - ...... "' ...... 1 ...... 0 0 hoC nr'Jnt to rAn1P nnwn?" "You mean," , ;a~d Philli~, "a type for the movies ?, HEROES of the BORDER By FREDERICK F. SCHRADER

Ill. Texas Jack This is the third of Mr. Schrader's notable series of true life stories of the f01nous pioneers, pathfinders. scouts and Indial/ fighters whose lives have been touched upon by our 11l0tion pictures. ((Buffalo Bill," W. F. Cody. and Kit Carson, the subjects of the first two articles, have been prominent characters in several films of pioneer days, and Texas Jack, this month's subject, has figured ill seT-feral historical photopla'ys of the r'Vest. TEXAS JACK

1'\E of the most famous Indian fighters, hunters sentment, and by bringing into play his native detective and scouts of the later-day border who still sur­ talent, Jack discovered that Enders had a wife living vived the Santa Fe trail, the pony-express days, whom he had attempted to put out of the way ,in order to 0 the, building of the transcontinental railroads marry the young heiress. and the Civil \\Tar, was John B. Omohundro-Texas Jack informed his father of what he had discovered; Jack-sometime associate of Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill the elder Omohundro aroused the farmers of the neigh­ Hickock. borhood, and on the day that Enders announced his pros­ Above six feet tall, broad-shouldered. lithe and agile as pective wedding to Miss Victor to the school, a band of a race-horse, with a face of keen, intelligent good nature mounted farmers appeared on the scene, but just too late and chestnut hair falling in a wavy tangle to his shoulders. to prevent the crafty lawyer and his bride from getting Texas Jack was an uncommonly picturesque specimen of on two swift horses and putting off at a break-neck pare manhood, who made you instinctively realize that YOll with the intention of gaining a near-by mountain pass were in the presence of one who combined the spirit of a where pursuit would have been futile. daredevil with the modesty and good manners of a gentle­ A wild chase ensued to cut off the escape of Enders and man. The Omohundros were said to be of good Huguenot his victim, and Jack, riding the swiftest horse in the pur­ stock that settled in Virginia, where Jack was born. suing party, caught up with the fleeing couple as they were about to disappear in the Adventures Began Early pass, and after b~ing fired at by Enders, killed him. H IS career of a<;lventure FREDERICK F. SCHRADER, the author of Ever since he had been began when he was this great series, is ably fitted to write of the able to ride he had won about fifteen years of age, glamourous days of the West. His early life prizes at races and shooting attending a country school. was spent as a newspaper man in St. Joseph, contests, and when not yet This school was taught by Missouri, which at that time, was the center of sixteen years of age he a young man named Poss many pioneer adventures. Later, in Denver, made up his mind to be­ Enders, who was leading a Colorado, he came to know all the famous come a cattleman some day double life. In reality, En­ sheriffs of the Rockies and learned about the and own a grazing ranch i;1 ders was a dissolute young thrilling encounters they had with notorious Texas. $0. with ninety dol­ lawyer who had taken the outlaws. He was one of the pal~bearers at lars in cash, a rifle. a re­ position of a country Texas Jack's funeral. Mr. Schrader is well volver and a blanket and ;;chool-teacher to gain the equipped to write this notable. series. saddle, and astride his confidence and affection of horse, Roan Racer, his dog. a young pupil named Grab, for a companion, the Daisy Victor. young knight errant set Jack one day had offered to take the punishment in­ out for the Lone Star State to realize his ambition. tended for a weaker boy, and had not only suffered a violent vicarious beating at the hands of the school­ Quick on the Draw teac~er, but been compelled to witness the subsequent HE had got so far as the North Carotina mountains. beatmg of the boy for whom he had offered himself as a when one night he stopped at the lonely cabin of a Movie Man thl V's Series

money, acted in so suspicious a manner during the night he escaped from the locked room is a thrilling chapter in that the boy lay awake until morning and was glad to itsel f: suffice it that he did escape, and gained the open escape with his valuables. The next night he discovered air. But though free, he realized that unless he could the same mountaineer at an inn where he was about to recover his horse, and put miles and miles between him spend the night, in secret confab with the innkeeper. and his enemies before morning, he would be captured Some time after midnight Jack was aroused by heavy and compelled to submit to arrest and trial. breathing near his ear, fol- He therefore resolved to lowed by a clutching at his get his horse, and with this throat by a heavy hand in view crossed the yard whose owner he could not TEXAS JACK was a picturesque specimen of and entered the stable. The distinguish in the dark. manhood. He was six feet tall and his chest­ inside was pitch dark, and There was the startling re­ nut hair fell in a wavy tangle to his shoulders. to add. to his perplexity port of a pistol and a heavy He was in many respects the quickest draw on there were a number of fall, which aroused the a rifle that ever roamed the West. horses in as many stalls. household. The light of a He was never known to miss his mark when How could he tell Roan lantern revealed a dead he pulled his trigger finger. Racer from any other ani­ man lying on the floor, He was a great friend of Buffalo Bill and mal? He solved the prob­ clutching a bowie-knife. It toured with him in his Wild West Show. lem by his sense of tOllch, was the mountaineer, who, and having conyinced !Jim- doubtless in collusion with the landlord, had entered the room from a trap-door in the ceiling to rob and mur­ der the occupant of the room, but had himself been killed by a well-directed shot from Jack's revolver, which he had deposited under his pillow in anticipation of just gllch an emergency. It was a plain case of self-defense ; but there had been an obvious understand- ing between the land­ lord and the would-be assassin, and, probably actuated by a determi­ nation to get possession of the boy's money, his horse and trappings, the owner of the tav­ ern insisted on locking Jack up in the room with the dead man un­ til he could send for the sheriff and have him arrested. The mountaineer, he de­ clared, was a sleep­ walker, who had acci­ dentally strayed into his guest's room without intending to harm him. True Western Pluck To put it mildly, young Jack found himsel f in a desperate situation, locked n p with a dead man in a room from which apparent- ly there was no escape, with the sheriff about to arrest him, and prejudiced wit­ nesses ready to testify that he had been guilty of deliberate .. of Real PIONEER STORIES

self that he had identified the roan by feeling its points, he for that purpose, put himself and horse aboard, and hav­ quietly led it out of the yard and rode as fast as the animal ing reached the middle of the stream, he cut the rope and ('auld carry him until sunrise. With daylight a great sent the boat with its cargo floating down the river. surprise awaited him. Instead of Roan Racer, he had got He continued his journey in this way the greater part possession of another horse, and he felt none the better for of the day. The country was sparsely settled and he had realizing that now he was amenable to the law for an even little to apprehend of being headed off by advance infor­ more serious offense in the eyes of the population of that mation of his adventure. Toward evening he saw a house section than kifling a man-that of horse stealing. on the shore, and to avoid meeting anyone to whom he In the early dawn he came to a river which could might have to make embarrassing explanations, he used be crossed by a rope ferry. The flatboat was on the the pole that lay in the boat to steer ashore and disembark. other side, bl1t Jack pulled it over by the rope provided He reached firm ground in safety, and mounting his horse struck off into the country to camp for the night in some place where there was grass for his beast. Gets His Man .N he was riding along he suddenly sighted another horseman, who also saw him and immediately beat a ·retreat. This was suspicious, and Jack wisely re­ solved to be on his guard, although he could not ex­ plain how any horseman from the neighborhood of the inn could have covered so great a distance in the time it had taken him to float down the rapid current of the . stream. He was more surprised when he caught an­ other glimpse of the horseman and discovered that it was the landlord's son, mounted on Roan Racer. As he afterwards found, the river described a semicircle and doubled back on itself, and he was only about five miles from the inn. He was now sure that he was in serious danger, and to meet it and discover the real purpose of his pur­ suer's hanging on his trail instead of galloping back for help, he resorted to a bit of characteristic strategy. Jack picked a patch of woods for his camp, tethered his horse to a tree and lighted a bright fire, as darkness had meanwhile set in. Then he waited. Far along in the night he saw his pursuer on foot creeping like a snake through the underbrush until he had gained a position which commanded a clear view of the camp-fire and the form of the sleeping man stretched out beside it. Several times he brought his rifle to his shoulder, aiming at the motionless form as if uncertain whether to fire or not. At last he pulled the trigger. There was the report of a rifle, followed by a second, and the next moment the midnight stalker, intent on murdering a sleeping man, was rolling on the ground with a bullet in his vitals, while Jack stepped from be­ hind a tree unscratched. He had rolled up his blanket to resemble the form of a man and covered it with his jacket and hat, leading his enemy to believe in the dark that he could easily dispose of the unknown boy and rob him of his money and possessions. Before breath­ ing his last, he confessed that that had been his purpose. Jack left him where he had dropped to look for Roan Racer, and soon found his animal tied to a tree. along with his dog, Grab, who had followed the horse: but when once more mounted on the roan, he at­ tempted to drive awav the horse he had bv· mistake taken from the stable,' the animal re fused to 'part com­ pany from him and thus passed into Jack's possession to serve him a long time in Texas, an even better animal than Roan Racer. Becomes a Texas Ranchman N we have stated, Jack wanted to become a ranch­ . man, but he knew that to realize his ambition it would be necessary to begin at the bottom· and start as a cowboy. And thi~ ~pp?rtu~ity_.can;te to him almost 12 Heroes of the Border

A fter a day's hard travel he stopped at a house one impressed with the boy's achievement that he appointed evening to ask for supper and a night's lodging. The him a Government scout. only tenant was a young woman and a child of two. Her It was not long after this that Jack became the witness name was Mrs. Elgin, and her husband was absent on the of an Indian attack on an emigrant train of sixty wagons, range where he had some two hundred head of cattle. without being seen himself. He felt sure that the whites ~1rs. Elgin received him hospitably and assigned him to would stand off the. horde of redskins while it was day­ her "spare room," after serving him with the best supper light, but he feared that they would not be able to with­ he had eaten since leaving home. That night a gang of stand the strategy of the Comanches after nightfall. Only desperadoes who had been the means of sending Elgin on five hours of daylight remained and he was twenty miles a wild-goose chase purposely to enable the leader to sur­ from the fort. But he made for it headlong, alarmed the prise the young wife alone in the house, surrounded the fort, changed his horse and rode back with the cavalry, place and demanded admittance. They fonnd the door mounted on the mustang which he had captured in his locked and bolted but were not aware of her reinforcement first fight with the Indians. in the person of the adventurotlS young Virginian. Jack The issue of this fight was eventful. The wild horse cautioned Mrs. Elgin not to inform the gang of his pres­ carried him right into the midst of the redskins, baffling ence in the house. When every effort he could make she refused to open the to check it, and led to his door, they began to use being captured and carried force, but their attempt to HERE comes Bridger-J im Bridger! The off to the Indian camp. burst in the door was un­ famous scout who made frontier history in The cavalry had cut the successful, and when a bat­ the old days of the West-the picturesque Indians to pieces and his tering-ram was brought to pioneer who was immortalized on the screen in captors were in no amiable bear upon the stout boards, The Covered Wagon will be our Hero of the state of mind when he Jack fired through a loop­ Border NEXT MONTH. You've all seen The reached the camp and was hole in the wall, and one Covered Wagon-and you remember Bridger bound hand and foot and man lay dead on the as its greatest character. But you will want to thrown into a lodge to ground. - A second shared know more about him_ Frederick F. Schrader, await the judgment of his the same fate, as also a the author of this series, will write about him savage jailers. third, by which time the in his authoritative and entertaining way. Re­ His escape seems little outlaws felt convinced that member---'-Bridger in MOVIE MONTHLy-NEXT short of a miracle. Dur­ they were dealing with MONTH. ing the night he was ad­ supernatural powers, and dressed by an Indian who after trying in vain to set spoke to him in English fire to the building and los- and told him he knew him. ing another man, they abandoned the attempt and fled. In reality the man was a white renegade who had once This was Jack's introduction to Texas and the life of served a prison term for murder, had escaped and as a a cowboy, for he was immediately employed by Mr. wretched tramp had been kindly treated by the young Elgin, with whom he remained for some time, learning a Virginian. He told Jack that he held the rank of third good deal about the cattle business and considerably more chief in the tribe and thought he could save him if the about those things that make up the education of a plains­ prisoner would allow him to declare he was his brother. man. Before turning to other scenes he took part in a consent to become a member of the tribe, and promise, raid on the stronghold of the outlaws who had attacked under any circumstances, not to do anything to betray the Elgin ranch-house and saw the leader laid out in all him or his red friends to the soldiers. his cold beau tv. Jack gave his promise and the white Indian carried out His next o~cupation was that of hunter for one of the his part of the· contract, presenting him as his long-lost Texas forts commanded by Colonel Loring. He soon brother and insisting on his being spared and adopted proved himself such an expert hunter that Colonel Loring into the tribe. The consent of the Indians was finally presented him with what was then--:for all this occurred won and Jack passed six weeks in their midst until able before the Civil 'War-a mechanical wonder. a Colt's re­ to make his escape and return to the fort. Colonel Loring peating rifle, capable of firing six times without reloading. had given him up for dead and was happy to see him back, alive and well. Routs the Comanches A Truly Great Scout JACK had never had a skirmish with Indians. which were only too frequent in those days, and was eager to test IN his capacity of scout Jack soon showed how well he his mettle in a contest with the Comanches. deserved his title when he presently got on the track The opportunity was at hand. 'While on a scouting of a gang of outlaws who were in the habit at certain trip. he suddenly found himself surrounded by a gang of seasons of waylaying Government supply trains, killing redskins. His horse was killed and it would have been the crew and sacking the trains, leaving no trace behind. all up with our hero but for his repeating rifle. To put a stop to their de~redations, he got in with a group The Indians were still using bows and arrows, but of loafers at the settlement, and so completely won their Buffalo Bill has testified that he saw Two Lance, the confidence that they eventually invited him to their moun­ Sioux chief, make good his boast of being able to send tain haunt and initiated him into their plan to ambush a an arrow clean through a buffalo bull in full gallop, and supply train which Jack knew would soon be due. in the hands of the prairie Comanches, who were noted The problem he was suddenly called on to solve was hunters, a bow and arrow was not a weapon to be spoken how to get away from the outlaw retreat long enough to of with contempt. But these Indians had never gone up notify the fort without being suspected of treason to the . against a gun that could be fired six times without being gang. By pretending to go hunting, for which he made reloaded, and the skirmish ended to the entire satisfaction open preparations, he struck off in an opposite diredion of our hero, who returned to the fort with three scalps from that of the fort, and then doubled on his tracks. and one of the best horses the Indians had-pursued and notified the commander and 'rode back by a circuitous ou mled it is true. but victorious. Colonel LorinQ' was so ( C ontinu ed on bane oS) Laurence Reid Says- .. Pictures and Personalities Small Town Exaggerations in circles. Just because one paints some penetrating ITH all the hue and cry being raised for satire of life in the hinterland, it is no rcason why all truthful representation of types, whether they should jump on the band-wagon. live in the city or country, it seems a pity that A little more imagination and invention-and less care­ W a more accurate drawing cannot be made of less catering to the conventions-should be employed in the picture of the small town. the small town gentry. As depicted in eight out of ten pictures of bucolic life, There Are Some Human Villains the villagers are nothing but a hopeless group of uncouth barbarians. who scarcely know enough to come in out I F the directors have erred in their representations of of the rain. small town characters and customs, at least they are Are we blind to the truth? Is life on the farm or trying to humanize the playful bounder, who tries his best around the general store so commonplace that it must be to win his neighbor's wife, and the companion in sin who painted in artificial colors? tries to best the righteous chap in some business deal. We do not think the small town people are getting a Such characters surround us everywhere. They are square deal from either the stage or the screen. Picture goaded by a will to succeed and if there is a loop-hole in after picture comes along which represents itself as a ro­ the law they generally get away with it. mance of the rustic community. And what do we find? Noone condemns them, though it is conceded that Nothing but caricatures. The gossips strut and stick up those who are fleeced watch their step the next time the their no!'es and scoff about the "likes of him," and "such shady individual crosses their path. goings on 1" It may be that Chaplin set the fashion for humanizing There must needs be a town skinflint, who holds a the villain. In A Woman of Parl:s the gay bounder was mortgage on the home of every aging widow. There subject to the same emotions as the good people. Chaplin must needs be a town sport and a town bum. :Moreover, didn't set him aloof from his companions. He was they must wear the most outlandish clothes and do the merely a vain, strutting chap who was born a great lover. most outlandish things. When one of them isn't gossip­ Indeed, to love indiscreetly was his weakness. But we ing about some scapegrace son or erring daughter, he didn't condemn him. Chaplin had humanized him. must find an outlet for his energy in outwitting his neigh­ N ow comes Cruze with another smiling villain. As bor in some business deal. Adolphe Menjou had won our admiration in A Woman of Paris, so George Bancroft conquers us with his por­ The Screen Needs a Change trayal of a bad man in The Pony Express. THE screen has become surfeited with these gross cari- In the early days of the West such men lived. They catures. And it's about time to call a halt. There swore and gambled and loved and fought-and most of should be a big Small Town Movement which would have them were cast from the same mold. Some were unlucky as its leading slogan-the Right Representation of Life enough to get caught in some escapade-and died, while in the Open Country. They should get together and com­ the fortunate survivers had to continue playing the game pel the movie powers to give them a square deal. of life. Some of the blame rests upon the authors, but most of Mr. Bancroft makes a very interesting study of the it rests upon the directors, who in their desire to add bad man. You actually extend him sympathy in his ginger, or spice, or comedy relief, resort to all kinds of adventures. His bad man is excellently humanized. exaggerated hokum. There have been other pictures which had characters Are they so unfamiliar with the roads traveled bv the catalogued as villains. But beneath their affectations we rural mail carrier that they are unable to draw the ;ustic found them subject to the same human weaknesses as folks and firesides accurately? Surely, they've glimpsed those who played the game on the level. the big back country in their journeys between Los Lubitsch is one director who has humanized the villain. Angeles and N ew York. In all of his productions we cannot remember having They should appreciate that the auto, the radio and the seen the evil character stressing his sin. R. F. D. have brought adventure, romance and color into The day will come when all the characters will be rep­ the lives of these people-besides a liberal education. In resented as human. In light comedies the evil play-fellow scoffing at the small towns they forget the fact that the has already made an about face. It is in the melodramatic cities are nothing but grown-up villages, or better, groups field that the types must be strongly contrasted. To create of small towns. suspense and action, virtue and villainy l11ust be sharp!v These people of the farms and villages are not sym­ divided. . bolizing the spirit of the backwoods any longer. They The bad man's character will be shaded a little finer know pretty well what to say and how to say it, what to when the directors of melodrama learn that vice run­ wear and how to wear it-and, as for knowing a thing or neck and neck with virtue. The hero is not infallible-­ two about life and how to live it, weU, the flivver has and the viUain is not necessarily a disciple of sin. carried them along a good road and brought them into contact with the outside world. And the radio ha~ Truth Will Tell broadened them. E vr:RY little while the idea is broadcast that eighty per It's all right to burlesque them in a rural comedy­ cent. of the screen actors could not act on the legiti­ made to extract laughter and nothing else. But when mate stage-that the profession is cluttered up with a lot t~e small town citizens are caricatured in a picture which of pretty women and handsome men whose ability to act alms to show them as something distinct from civilized is determined by their good looks. people of culture, it is time to shout-Give us something Some of our so-called stars have won their way to the .a~1 I tAn h"H +-:l""rc r.r thp f";)r-t thp, <'::f"rpp.np(~ ,, ~p l1 Thn<.::p ,:u h n The Girl Who Made .. Them Laugh

OLLYWOOD is chuck-full of astonishing stories, but none more unusual than that of Alberta Vaughn. H To-day. at an age when most girls are in high school, Alberta stands well toward the top of the heap of younger screen comediennes, with a very fair chance of achieving stardom before she's twenty. And she broke into the movies because she could make a funnier "face," a more ludicrous grimace, than any girl in Southern California. Chop the last three years off the calendar, and turn the hands of time back to the spring of 1922 when a publicist by the name of Harry Brand, grasping an opportunity in the fact that Buster Keaton needed a new leading lady, \iberla can look pretty when promoted a "Funny Face" contest, open to every girl !hey give her the chance in Southern California. The rules of the contest were very simple: The contestants were to meet at various times and places and make funny faces until the judges could decide which was the funniest. After which the win­ ner would he given a contract to act as Buster's leading lady. Now it happens there are two daughters in the Vaughn family-Alberta and Ada Mae. On the morn­ ing the contest was announced in one of Los Angeles' leading newspapers, they discussed it over the break­ fast table.

Wins With a Funny Face "I'M going to enter," said Alberta suddenly out of a clear sky. By noon that day her name was on the list of contestants. For the next two or three weeks she led a hectic existence. There were at first more than a hundred contestants. They were alI calIed together one dav and

Above, here's the funny face that Alherta wore and which got her a job in the movies. At Ihe right the popular star tries her comedy on the dog, which answers to the name of Bonnie. He's just plain dog, but is superintelligent ~~lberta Vaughn Broke into the Movies With a Funny Face and She's Kept Them Laughing Ever Since

By DON H. EDDY

marched past the judges. Each girl made her funny face just as she reached the first judge, and held it until she passed the last one. More than half the contestants were eliminated that first day. Other elimination tests were held from time to time, until finally the list narrowed down to twenty girls. They met one day at the Buster Keaton studios in the presence of Buster him­ self. Harry Brand. Eddie Cline, the director, and Lou Anger, general manager of the Keaton productions. For an hour they paraded back and forth. grimacing for all they were worth. The next morning Alberta was awakened by the ringing of the telephone. Alberta may have a "You have won the contest." said funny face, but there's her calIer. "Please come down to the studio and sign nothing funny or phony vour contract." about her figure. Left, . That was destined to be a big day in Alberta's young Alberta dons Japanese attire and adopts a serious mood just to show that she call play Madame Butterfly

life. Before she had finished dressing she had a phone call f r0111 the Century comedy makers, asking her to visit the studio at once to talk about work in pictures. Feeling that the Bus­ ter Keaton contract was assured, Alberta visited the Centurv plant first, speaking ~ith A be Stern, one of the producers.

Signs the Papers

I T is believed that it was during this interview that Stern first pulled the famous line which has since become a sort of tradition in the studios. Looking Alberta up and down. Stern frowned and said: ;'Are you so funny? Make me laugh 1" She didn't, but Stern evidently thought she was prett~· funny. He offered her a five-year contract, but she de­ clined to sign for longer than six months. And it transpired that she never did work for Buster Keaton, after all. She signed the contract, but every time Keaton was ready for her to go to work she was busy at the Century lot, and to this day she has never worked in a Keaton picture. ( Contillued on page 66) A Broth Of A BOY

toward women that make them more irresistible to the fair sex than all the Don Juans who ever tried to coax amorous chords from the strings of a rented guitar. As Celtic as the Shamrock IT is of this second group that Jack Mulhall is a charter member. He is as genuinely Celtic as the shamrock, the Irish potato, the city of Dublin, or that famous Irish ukulele that once was strummed in Tara's halls. He is a lineal descendant of that great racial strain that has given America some of its finest firemen, traffic cops, bridge builders, full­ backs, writers, and actors. I was given ample opportunity to realize anq. appreciate the extremely likable personality of Jack Mulhall as we lounged in comfortable canvas chairs near a set on one of the big, cool indoor stages at the United Studios the other morning. \Ve were chatting between scenes of Joanna, a First National pic­ ture, in which Mulhall plays opposite Dorothy Mackail!. I had been greeted with an easy courtesy and friendli­ Jack Mulhall is the quiet type of ness which made me feel as Irishman who looks the world thoroughly at home as though straight in the face and appraises it for what it is really worth I were holding an informal little reunion with someone from the old home town. ACK MULHALL is as The reason for Jack Mul­ ideal a specimen of Irish­ hall's appeal to feminine thea­ man as can be found tergoers is not hard to under­ J among the long roll of stand. His eyes are a deep and Erin's sons whose genial chaml distinctly Irish blue, and his has been such a powerful aid in dark brown hair has that incor­ making Hollywood famous. rigible crisp waviness that defies Not that Jack is a brawny, freckled, red-headed six-footer, There are neither bogs nor snakes with fists as huge as they are thirsty in Hollywood, nevertheless, Jack for combat, and a brogue as wide believes in being up where it is high and dry. Below, Jack al­ as the Atlantic Ocean. P opular \\·'I.ys wears one of those Irish smiles tradition and every orthodox book when he meets a real Colleen of jokes to the contrary, it is possible for a person to possess none of these rather striking physical attributes and yet be as genuine and unmistakable a product of the Emerald Isle as ever lived. There are in reality two great types of Irish-the "hilarious Irish" and the "quiet Irish." The first group includes the beloved Irishman of tradition. jauntily swaggering, with flaming and impetuous ardor both in warfare and courtship, laughing, witty, usually en- gaged in a blithe and cheerful hunt for trouble, and usually finding it. The individuals of the second group are quiet, with a native whililsical wit all their own, a cool, straight-thinking ability .... to appraise the world for just about what it is really worth, and an inborn courtesy and charm 16 Jack Mulhall Started in Life as a Spear Carrier, bu t His Irish Luck and Pluck Carried Him to the Top lack Mulhall is a lineal descendant of that great By WARREN Dow racial strain that has given America some of its finest firemen, traffic the best efforts of any brush or cops, ball players, ac­ comb ever made. The corners tors, tenors and politi- of his mouth have a trick of Clans quirking upward in one of the most peculiarly ingratiating and infectious smiles on record. He has the gift of wearing clothes with the effortless, non­ chalant grace which every man fondly imagines he possesses when he dons a new suit for the first time, and so seldom does. At the left is a scene Our conversation had natu­ from one oC Jack's rally drifted to things Irish, and early pictures. The Celtic roles on screen and stage. little lady who will share the picnic Longs to Play a Real lunch is Mary Miles Irishman Minter "SOME day I hope to playa real Irish story on the screen," Jack said musingly. "It would be a splendid oppor­ tunity because it is something that never has been really done as yet. The few Irish vehicles that have been tried on the screen have invariably had either policemen or firemen as their leading figures. Such stories are good so far as they go, but the real Irish play that I have in mind would be of a little different character. "It would be staged in one of the big manufacturing towns in Massachusetts or· Pennsylvania. The hero would be an J rish lad

Above, Jack and Dorothy MackailI have sentimental moments after hearin' an Irish tenor sing Mother Machree. At the leCt Jack bull­ dogs a steer and comes up smiling

who began at the bottom ill one 0 f the big mills and, through sheer pluck and ability, fought his way to the top. He would be of that type to whom mother Jove is such an intense and sacred trait that they seldom marry until their mothers are gone. He would have the abil­ ity to take with a smile all the hard knocks that came his way in his climb toward success, and the one ( C onfinued on page 78) What It Costs to Be a Well- Dressed Cowgirl ... By SCOTT PIERCE

Last month MOVIE MONTHLY presented a ':abula­ The flappers of Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue and tion of the well-dressed cowboy's garb, totaling Michigan Boulevard have nothing on the well­ $1,269. It is interesting to note that a cowgirl, dressed cowgirl. Josie Sedgwick posed for this arrayed in all her glory, wears exactly $1,007's special page and has detailed the exact cost of worth of Western finery. each item of her costume.

The black silk neck­ The sweeping tie tops off the re­ brimmed, high­ galia with the nomi- crowned hat of the nal cost of 52 regulation "two­ gallon" variety, with­ out which a genuine Western outfit would be as incomplete as a wedding without a The heavy satin bride, costs $125 blouse, hand-made and specially fitted, costs $60

The usual gun-belt worn by Miss Sedg­ wick is not included here_ This belt is hand-carved and is equipped with an ivory handled re­ Josie's saddle, not volver of fairly heavy tabulated in the cos­ calibre_ Miss Sedg­ tume total, is worth wick can handle a the price of a six­ six-gun with ease, cylinder automobile however of the modem price class, $1,500. The leather is hand-carved throughout and the conchos and other decorative meta) The skirt is the most work are of beaten expensive item of sil.ver Miss Sedgwick's re­ galia_ This, made (rom the best quality of white buckskin, heavily fringed and hand-stitched through­ out, is valued at $475

The riding boots, made especially for The spun of silver. Miss Sedgwi.ck; are inlaid with gold, .are valued at S45 worth S300

Note that, in the expense account of the well-dressed cowboy and cowgirl. we have not listed the horses and their trappings. The Western player's borse is adorned in a style befitting his calling. and the screen stars frequently spend more upon their steeds' outfits than upon their own .. 18 ..

W. F. Seely Special Buck Jones Section •

Buck Jones and Beatrice Burnham in Western Luck

Bu('k Jones in The Timber Wolf

Above, Buck and Carol Lombard in Hearts and Spurs. At the left, Buck Jones and Lucy Fox in The Trail Rider A Hoosier Cowboy BUCK JONES was born in Vincennes, ' Indiana, but claims Indianapolis as his home town, since he received his edu­ cation in the Hoosier capital, while living on a farm on the outskirts of the city. He was fifteen years old when he started West to make his debut as a cowboy with the big V outfit near Ponca City, Oklahoma. After a year and a half on the big V ranch he joined the Mil1ers' 101 ranch where he remained the rest of the year. A few years later he joined the United States cavalry and found service in the Philippines fighting the Moros. After three years of army life Buck received his honorable discharge and, in 19]0, went back to the old work of cow-punching. There wasn't enough action to suit the young cowboy, so he joined the cavalry again, for service in Mexico, though after a time he succeeded in getting trans­ ferred to one of the aviation corps. In 1913, when Buck had completed his period of enlistment, he returned once again to cow-punching, working at various ranches throughout the West. The call of the 101 soon claimed him and it was this period on the Miller ranch that changed his destiny. That year, 1913, he was tried out for the' big show and made good. While trouping the second season, Buck married Odil1e Dorothy Osborne, one of the girl riders, whom he had met the previous season-the ceremony taking place on horseback after the show one afternoon. In 1916 Buck and his wife joined the Golmar Brothers show and the following year they joined the Ringling circus. When the big show struck Los Angeles in 1917, Mr. and Mrs. Buck decided to settle down in Hollywood. And so Buck made his debut in pictures. He started as an extra with Universal and after three months of doubling and playing "atmosphere" he signed with William Fox as a stunt actor. The director who started him on his picture career was Frank Lloyd. On October 20, 1919, Buck Jones made his debut as a Fox star in The Square Shooter. And he has been a popular favorite ever since.

Mr. and Mrs. Buck Jones and their daUllh~llr, Maxine, spend most of their spare time in tbe saddle Buck Jones's Message to Movie Monthly Readers

I F folks are surprised when they see me in the odd characterization of a small New England town "lazybones," which is a considerable change of scenery and story for me-just remember that a change of pasture every so often is a mighty good thing for a man as well as for his horse. Everybody has a goal in life, I reckon. Mine is to make my pictures worthy and true of the life, traditions and spirit of the West they represent. I'm a cowboy. And cowboys are not supposed to be dramatic actors. But there's no reason why a man who wears chaps and sits on a horse. can't act. As there is no law against trying, when William Fox gave me the rare chance to play the leading dramatic role in so fine a story as Lazy­ bones, under the direction of so able a master of picture production as Frank Borzage, I just naturally jumped at the chance, even at the risk of getting "piled." If this Lazybones horse don't throw me, I'll know I've taken a step forward in the betterment of my brand of Western pic­ ture, so far as drama is concerned. To prove that a horse will always return to his old stamping ground, I have completed three Western pictures since Lazybo.nes. These are The Man Four Square, The Desert's Price, and The Cowboy Prince. "Silver Buck" and I wish aU MOVIE MONTHLY readers. green grazing this year. BUCK JONES.

A cozy, snug atmosphere is registered in these interior views of the home of the )oneses A I • Lion Kept Her from ROMANCE

Virginia Warwick Wai ted Two Years to Become the Bride of Jimmy Adams-All Because Of a Comedy Man-Eater

ONE of those comedy lions was the innocent cause of taking two years off the romance of Virginia Warwick. · While working on the Century lot a couple of years ago, Virginia met Jimmy Adams, the Christie comedy star. But the romance was suddenly nipped in the bud. It became a triangle when the villain, the comedy lion, stepped between them. When the jungle beast found a new pasture two years later, Jimmy wasted no time in picking up the threads of his shattered romance-and he pleaded his case so earnestly that Virginia took the comedian to her heart. But lions or no lions, the pretty bride found it difficult to settle down to domestic life with its great gaps of time in which there was nothing to do. So sht' returned to the screen as a Western heroine in the Pathe serial, Wild West. It is worthy of mention that Virginia is a native of St. Louis-that she began her career with Mack Sennett-worked her way up to play Valentino's sister in The Four Horsemen-and that her accomplishments include toe dancing. The 1 CALGARY STAMPEDE By FRED H. SHIPMAN

happiness, always must be at tilt with one obstacle or another. So with a song on his lips and a strange exultation in his heart he felt the swift rush of the wind as he galloped his stallion over the grassy ranges in his strange flight to the north. It was not until weeks later when he looked into the lambent brown eyes of Marie La Farge that he understood why he had chosen a northward course in his wanderings. He had met Marie on the ranch of her father, Jean La Farge, in the govern­ ment reservation of Wainwright Park where the vanishing buffalo herds which once swept the prairies have found their last sanctuary. He felt, when he heard her voice, that his quest was ended and that on his next long journey she would be riding beside him. But this feeling La Farge took • ~[ep forward, and tbe younger man, fearing that the enraged father might use his gun in his excitement, only proved grappled witb him to secure the weapon that he was totally un- UST why Dan Malloy had left the ranges of acquainted with Wyoming and headed towards the heart of Canada Marie's father, a even he would probably have been at a loss to ex­ ranch man and J plain. The sheriff had not been after him, for deputy game war­ despite a certain exuberance of temperament, Dan had a den, whose love fair fighter's respect for law and order. It was inex­ for Marie plicable, then, this impulse which had led him to forsake prompted him to his friends, yeomen of the great cattle baronies with look with extreme whom he had roamed the fenceless plains since he had disfavor on been a youngster. Perhaps he sought some distant place this presumptuous where his fame as a buckaroo was unknown. wandering cowboy His reputation as a horseman had made him a celebrity from the States. in his own state, for on Cheyenne Day, for several years, Marie, however, he had, among other victories, always won the Roman had her own ideas Race. An adept at riding, roping, branding and other of men and despite accomplishments of the cow-puncher, his greatest delight the disapproval of was to find himself with his feet planted firmly on the her parent man­ backs of two fleet horses, lines in his hands, the track aged to meet Dan flowing back under him like the smooth water of a swift frequently. She and powerful stream. There was no question of his always rode with superiority at the diversion-others who rode in the Neenah, her maid, Roman Race usually entered only for the zest of competi­ and while Neenah tion and the honor of second place. Perhaps life had held too much for Dan; it may be that like the young Alexander he yearned for new worlds to conquer or like Don Quixote he had the spirit which, to attain The Romance of a Rough-Ridin' Cow­ boy Who Squares Himself with the Law

was an Indian she was also a woman and always vanished on the occasion of these lovers' trysts. She would withdraw and dream, perhaps, of the time when Fred Burgess, whom she adored with all the fire of her girlish heart, would be released from the penitentiary. Despite Jean La Farge's threats, dusk generally found Dan and Marie together. "Why won't you marry me?" Dan had pleaded on one of these occasions. "My father he don't like the name of Malloy/, the girl had answered. "But if you really love me," he objected, "surely you won't let such a silly reason stand in your way." "But I do love you," insisted Marie. I'You must know that--"

When Dan, who has ass~med the name of Chuck Jones, did the chores around the Bar-O ranch he was the butt of much good-natured joking because the boys believed him a half-wit

She turned at a sound behind her, and Mal­ loy, looking up from his rapt gaze into her rosied face, saw Jean L;i Farge standing in the shadow of a tree_ Furious because his commands had been ignored he had descended upon the pair of lovers and surprised them together. He advanced menacingly towards the American. "By. Gar!" he spluttered. "How many tam I to]' you my Marie not for no-good cow­ punch air ?" Dan kept his temper from rising, although his professional pride WjlS hurt; and also the remark seemed to cast a reflection on the sin­ I cerity of his love for th~ brown-eyed girl be­ side him. "I'm a darned good cow-puncher," he said l quietly, "and I love Marie. Moreover, I want to marry her."

The officer drew his gun with light­ ning speed. "Y /Iu're wanted," be said grimly to D~n, "wanted for the killing of Jean L, Farge. So tlet on your horse and come alnng" 26 The Calgary Stampede out furtively from the shadow of an outbuild­ ing. The Indian girl started and turned to flee-but only for an instant. Her keen black & , eyes had recognized the man and she rushed into his arms. "F red!" she e x­ claimed. "At first I 'fraid, then I see that eet is you! Ah, my heart eet is so happy!" But there was a strange lack of respon­ siveness on the part of Fred Burgess . "Where's La Farge ?" he growled. "I want to see him, not you." Neenah felt a vague feeling of uneasiness stir within her. She had always known that Burgess was rough and unscrupulous , but never before had he treated her with such scant consideration. "La Farge an' Marie -they both away," she informed him. "Why you want La Farge?" Apprehension seized her as he replied bit­ The cow-punchers did not believe that Dlul could stay in the saddle. Realizing that his role was that of a tenderfoot he maneuvered to take a sprawling dive to the turf, where he terly: "La Farge sent sat with a dazed and foolish expression me to prison-an' I ain't overlookin' it!" La Farge's retort was a string of Gallic oaths which The girl tried to placate the rough, sinister-looking Dan had little difficulty translating into the assertion that half-breed, reminding him that when he had been caught no pig of a wandering cow-hand could ever gain the heart shooting elk on the reserve La Farge, a deputy warden, and hand of Marie. Happily, the scene was interrupted had no alternative but to give him over to the authori­ by the appearance of Bill Harkness of the Royal Cana­ ties. But Burgess would not be swayed from his deter­ dian Mounted Police, who could not suppress a smile mination to have revenge. when he heard the sputter- "1 get him sure!" he ing of the black-eyed threatened. "Jus' wait an' Frenchman and saw the see!" rather downcast counte­ Fictionized by permissi01I of Ulliversal Pictures Cor­ "But why mak' trouble? of Dan Malloy. He poration. From the original screen story by E. Richard \Ve go 'wayan' get mar­ nance Schayer GIld Don Lee. Directed by Herbert Blache. did not even have to ask ried, Fred-is eet not bes' what the trouble was, for CAST OF CHARACTERS t'ing to do?" the voluble La Farge was "That's one thing to do," as full of words as he was nan Malloy ...... Hoot Gibson Burgess conceded. "One of indignation. Marie La Farge ...... Virginia Brown Faire thing to do-afterward! I Jean La Farge ...... Clark Comstock "He want to mak' love Neenah ...... Ynes Seabury ain't no dog that can't bite to my Marie!" he burst Fred Burgess ...... Jim Corey back." out. " ToM a ri e-z e Harkness ...... W. J. McCulley During the days that fol­ daughtair of Jean La Callahan ...... Philo McCullough lowed Neenah lived in an Regan ...... Charles Sellon Farge. He want her to be Trixie ...... Ena Gregory agony of indecision. She ze wife of heem!" Horton ...... Bill Gillis felt that she ought to warn Dan Malloy had his own La Farge, but after all system of treatment for would not this mean the men who referred to him betrayal of her lover? And slightingly, but for once he allowed himself to come out her passion for him was great. Fred Burgess had second best in the stormy battle of words. After all, Jean achieved one great thing in the course of his worthless life La Farge was Marie's father. \Vhich might have been a -he had captured and held the heart of a primitive lucky break for Jean La Farge on that particular occasion. woman who could love with the gentleness of the early­ spring chinook or the sweeping ferocity of winter storms. NEENAH, after leaving her mistress alone with Dan, Come what might, Neenah could do nothing which would had started back to the La Farge ranch-house and harm the great hulking brute whom she idolized. was turning- her horse into the corral when a man stepped So Neenah kept silent and rode daily with Marie, who The Calgary Stampede 27

Neither was aware of the presence of Jt'an La Farge until the game-warden had crossed the threshold with his usual catlike stride and stood before them in a blind rage. "So! You come to steal my girl!" he roared, drawing his gun. "Like a fief you come w'en I'm away!" Marie tried to appease her father's wrath, but he shr-iveled her with a glare. "Go!" he told her sternly. "Go to your room an' for shame lock yourself in there." And the brown-eyed girl, taught al­ ways to obey, left after casting a plead­ ing glance at Dan-a glance which implored him to have mercy on her father. "N ow!" said La Farge, when she had departed. "I will show you, detestable peeg, how I treat such as you." He took a step forward, and the younger man, fearing that the enraged father might use his gun in his excitement, grappled with him to secure the weapon. For an instant they struggled and swayed, mature strength and youth­ ful agility ; then there was a sudden explosion and to the amazement of Malloy the iron arms of La Farge re­ laxed and he slowly wilted to the floor. "It couldn't have gone off!" was Dan's astounded utterance, and he took BUI'gess had become conscious enough after bis fatal ride to escape the 'pistol from the hand of the expir­ the law to confess his guilt to Dan ing man to examine it when Marie. frightened by the shot, burst into tht' room. now found so few opportunities to see her lover that Dan finally resolved to visit the La Farge ranch-house and A FEW yards from the ranch-house, in the midst of a see his suit through to a swift conclusion. He chose a little clump of trees where time when he knew that Jean La Farge would be absent. (Continued 01/ page 70) "You should not have come, Dan," Marie protested­ but as Neenah quietly made her way out of the room she slipped into the open arms of Malloy. "It means danger to you," she added, looking up at him, "for my father may be back here at any moment." " We can't go on like this," Dan com­ plained. "I've come to take you away. I know your father will forgive us once we're married." The girl clung closely to him, but shook her head sorrowfully. "Dan-it would break his heart," she cried. Dan Malloy was oblivious to all but the clinging softness of the girl he loved as he unleashed all his arguments for immediate flight. Marie's eyes were soft and dreamy ass h eli s ten e d.

It was at a favorite trysting place that Dan pleaded his love for Marie. As be looked into her lambent brown eyes he asked her to marry him Freedom .. of the KNEES

Left, Eve I y n Pie r c e' s bathing suit deserves the oft. repeated phra8e-"that's all there is, there isn't any more." Right, Lois Boyd's water·proof bathing suit is made of patent leather and sheds water like a leaky umbrella. Below in a standing posture is Elsie Tarron, who is bounded on the left by Thelma Hill and on the right by Evelyn Francisco. They are members of Mack Sennett's swimming club, "The Little Dippers"

• Speaking of knees and bathing suits, we cannot help asking the Sennett sextet-"Are there any more at home like yours?"

The trained seal, which occupies this rock to sun himself, has just splashed into the water to make way for Ena Gregory who likes to tease the buoys. Right, Natalie Kingston believes in displaying a generous smile as well as a generous expanse of knee when she parks herself on the beach. Her wolfhound protects her from the sea wolves

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Shirley has a snug little bunga­ low which she makes very homey with shrubs and trees

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At the right we find Shirley in a sweetly pensive mood picking a bouquet of flowers Shirley Keeps the Home Fires Burning

Above, Shirley Mason and her dog enjoy solid comfort on the porch. Right, a corner of the Mason menage is given up to a desk and Shirley uses it every time she composes a letter • The Road to Yesterday

By PAUL CRAWFORD

F someone had asked Malena Paulton, before her looked from his young bride to his left arm in its black wedding-day, what it meant to be in love, she would silk sling. His dark eyes gazed into hers, and they were have said that it meant to respect and trust a man, somber with suspicion that quickened to certainty. I to enjoy his company, and to be flattered and pleased Startled, she stared back at him. by his love and admiration. After her wedding-her "No! No! Not that !j, she said breathlessly, her marriage to Kenneth Paulton-Malena would have told glance flying from his tense face to his arm in the sling. you that loving a man meant a great many things, some "Yes-that, just that," he said very quietly. "I was of them very confusing, but that, for her at least, it a fool not to think of it before. I'm repulsive to you did not mean finding happiness in the caresses of her because of this arm of mine. That is why you shrink husband. from me the way you did a minute ago." This was something that sotely puzzled Malena and "I tell you it's not true." Malena was close to tears. made Kenneth miserable. Their courtship had been brief, "I never think of yoUr arm, except to be sorry for your and if Malena had at times felt a strange shrinking from sake. An accident caused it to be as it is. It might hap­ the man she had promised to marry, she had assumed that pen to anyone. Please believe me, Ken, you're not all girls feel that way before marriage, and Kenneth had physically repulsive to me, not--" she broke off, and regarded it as the natural timidity of a sweet and added uncertainly: "not in the way you mean." modest girl. "What do you mean by that?" His hurt young eyes But in their hotel suite at the Grand Canyon, regarded her sternly, his jaw tightened suddenly. after the wedding, when he tried to express "1 mean," she said slowly, "that the tender passion that he felt for his bride, when you take me in your arms and she shrank from his kisses and caresses. hold me close and kiss me, a and drew out of his embrace with a strange, unaccountable fear sweeps look on her lovely face that forbade over me, Ken." further attempt to make love to her. "You mean you're afraid of me!" His astonishment made her say KENNETH, his face hastily: drawn and white, his "Not really of you, Ken, as I right hand clenched know you, but way down deep-­ tightly at his side, oh, I can't explain it." Malena rubbed her eyes and forehead as if

Adrian was astonished and his pride was hurt when he discovered Beth radiantly happy in her new-found Jove The Road to Yesterday

brushing away cobwebs. "It's as if something bur.ied Jack reached the upturned sleeper and found Beth uninjured. deep in my memory springs to life .at your touch, telling She refused to let him carry her to safety until he had Adrian me to remember-remember-something that I only rescued vaguely feel. As if some time, somewhere, you had hurt me-hurt me terribly, Ken, and that is why, against my with tears, Malena watched him, until his hand touched own will, I shrink from you." the door-handle, then she sprang after him. "I swear it isn't that, Ken. Please, please believe me. FOR a moment Kenneth said nothing, staring at her too dear !" amazed for speech. Then his scorn found expression. He turned and faced her. "You've let Beth Tyrell and that silly aunt of hers, fill you with all that rot about reincarnation. What you're "I'VE been very gentle with you, Malena. I've been trying to say is that in a past Ii fe of ours-thousands of patient and tender, and I haven't forced my love on years ago, or is it hundreds-we knew each other and I you. But you don't really love me, or else my useless arm injured you in some way. Now, because your soul re­ repels you. I'm going to leave you now. I won't inflict members it, you're afraid of me. Is that it?" my love-making on you." .\nd with that he left the rool11. "Perhaps it is, Ken. I told you I couldn't explain what I fee1." He studied her for a moment, then his face hardened. "See here, my dear gir1. I love and adore you. You know that. You consented to marry me-God knows why, if you can't bear to have me touch you-and you told me you loved me--" "I do-I do love you, Ken dearest!" Malena interrupted eagerly. "You said so, yes," he went on bitterly, "but you don't act it. As for this transmigration theory, you know just what I think of such nonsense, and you're too intelligent to put any stock in it. You're just making use of it as a blind to your real feelings. It isn't fear, Malena, it is what I said before, repulsion. I realize that now, and nothing you can say will alter my opinion." Kenneth turned from her and walked slowly to Beth was in a dream world the door of the which carried her back through the centuries a8 suite. Lips trem­ Kenneth demanded her bling, eyes filled hand in marriage 34 The Road to Yesterday

Lonely and miserable. Kenneth wandered along the unjust, for Kenneth believed that God was responsible edge of the Canyon, when suddenly he heard a bugle for all the injustice and misery that had come to him­ sounding Taps. The short, sad, little call broke in upon his inability to win the girl he loved and his useless ann the evening stillness and in- which he had come to regard· tensified Ken's mood of as a curse. despair. He had observed a \Nithout cant or useless camp for boys not far from A startling tale of modern and medimval words, Jack Moreland sug­ the hotel, so the bugle call. gested giving God and His he assumed, came from romance and how reincarnation restores goodness a fair trial. He there. Wandering on, he love and faith begged Kenneth to see what found a bench. with two prayer might do, and gave articles upon it that struck him a small rustic cross. him as incongruous-a urging him to pray to God man's sweater and a prayer-book. Kenneth sat down, to cure his disabled arm. This was the beginning of the wondering to whom the sweater and book belonged. A friendship between the two men-a friendship destined to few minutes later a man approached and picked up the mature under strange circumstances. two articles. Without a doubt he belonged to the prayer-book, Kenneth thought quick­ ly, noting that he was a clergyman. He was a different type, however, from any that Ken had ever met, for he was virile as weI[ as young. and his kind. thoughtful face was as manly as it was noble. Something in Ken's expression arrested the stranger. who stood quietly looking down at him and then said gently: "You look as if you needed a friend." His words were as direct as the glance from his frank gray eyes and he offered his hand. "My name's Jack Moreland. If there is anything I can do for you, please let me do it."

THE eager and sincere friendliness of this unusual introduction struck a chord in Ken's aching heart, and some deep impulse made him quickly respond. He took the proffered hand, met the kindly eyes and gave his name. Then, following a strange impulse, he cast reserve to the winds and told the stranger of his unhappiness. He admitted his lack of faith in a God so

Beth knew that if she could reach Jack and give him his sword that he could easily de- fend himself

Before Jack, who was caught unawares, could raise his sword, Stren­ gevon had wounded him The Road to Yesterday 35

Another friendship had begun and was ripening under the blue skies and life­ glvmg sunshine of Arizona. Previous to Malena's marriage to Kenneth she had met little Beth Tyrell and become fond of her. That both girls were now at the same hotel was a happy ac­ cident. A few days after the meeting be­ tween Kenneth and Jack Moreland, Beth came to Malena's suite in great excite­ ment over an adven­ ture she had just had. She needed a more sympathetic con­ fidante than dignified Aunt Harriet, and Malena, unhappy herself, was just the one that Beth desired. IT seemed that while on an expedition with Aunt Harriet and Adrian Tomp­ kyns, the former got into difficulties with her small burro. Jack was a brave swordsman, bllt he was no match for Adrian had gone back on the trail to rescue Aunt Harriet, Strengevon's men, who closed in on him (rom every side and Beth had dismounted and wandered away. Then a strange thing had occurred. Something had . suddenly come whizzing through the air, struck into the top of "But, my dear, won't your Aunt Harriet be furious Beth's hat, carried it off her head and pinned it to a with you?" near-by tree. Beth, astonished, but not frightened, had "I suppose she will, but I don't care. I may never see looked up into the eyes of a young man who was sitting my 'he-man' again, but I'll never love any other man. on a rock ledge above the trail. He then leaped down Now let me tell you the rest of my story. When Jack to apologize and explained that one of his boys had taken took out his knife to cut the arrow from the tree, I saw the bird on Beth's hat for a live creature and had shot that it was a queer old hunting knife. The sight of it at it with his arrow. The affected me in the same hat was rescued by cutting way that Jack did. I mean the arrow from the tree. that it seemed like an old "And, my dear," Beth Fictiollized by pernllsslOn of Producers Distributing friend, as if I had seen it said excitedly, "the minute C orporalion. Sanarioi:;l'd by Jeanie Mac Phl''Yson and long ago. He told me it we saw each other, Jack B eulah JHOI·ie Dix from the pia)' by Belt/ah Marie Dix had been in his family for and I-his name is Jack and E . G. Suth('rlOltd. A Cecil B. DeMille Production. years and years and when Moreland-we felt the The cast: I took it out of his hands, strangest attraction. It Kenneth Paulton ...... Jose ph S childkraut what do you think, Malena, was as if we had always Malena Paulton ...... Jetta Goudal without knowing why I did known and loved one an­ Beth Tyrell ...... Vera Reynolds it, scarcely conscious of other, and having been Jack Moreland ...... W illiam Boyd what I was doing, I pressed separated for years and Dolly Foules ...... Ju./w Faye a secret spring which re­ Adrian Tompkyns ...... Casson Fergusoll years, had just found each Harriet Tyrell (Aunt) ...... Trixie Friganza vealed a hollow in the other again. I can't ex­ Hugh Armstrong ...... Clarence Burton handle and out of it I drew plain it, I can only tell YOt. Anne Vener...... Jos ephine N ormall a shred of paper and a how we felt." Watt Earnshaw ...... Charles West withered rose. Jack was "But, my dear Beth, how too astounded for words. about Adrian?" He had never known about "Oh, Adrian! He came the spring and I couldn't upon us just after Jack turned and walked off. I sup­ tell him why I knew it was there. Then when I gave pose Adrian saw me in Jack's arms and saw him kissing it back to him and he started to replace it in his belt, I me. I couldn't help it, Malena. It was like meeting some­ took it from him quickly and thrust it inside his shirt. one I'd loved for hundreds of years. I couldn't help kiss­ A strange look came into his eyes and he said: '\Vhen ing him. Adrian made sarcastic remarks about 'he-men did you do that before?'. It was all so strange and of the great open spaces,' and I gave him back his ring." ( C olltillued on page 67) .. -

Forking a Bronco

By HAL K. WELLS •

"RDE 'im, cowboy!" . "Yipee-ee-ee! Powder River! Let 'er buck I" The range "outlaw" whirls with lightning speed, bucks, rears, "sunfishes," rolls, and savagely tries all the other known ways for a horse to commit manslaughter, while his rider adds to the colorful action of the proceedings by furi­ ously slapping his steed with his hat and yelling weird and un­ couth battle-cries at the top of his lungs. That is the conventional Easterner's idea of a quiet morning on almost any Western ranch. As a matter of fact, that picture is about as far removed from the real thing as Circus Day in a small town is from the usual placid life of the village. Just be­ cause a herd of elephants strolls down Main Street of a Saturday morning doesn't necessarily mean that big-game hunting is a daily feature of the hamlet. "The outlaw horse, the man-eating terror that can't and won't be rielden by mortal man, is distinctly a 'show' horse, and an ex- hibition product," Harry Carey, bronzed and veteran player of Western roles on the screen for a dozen years and more, told me when I spent a day recently at his ranch near Saugus. Trained to Buck "T HERE are a number of bucking broncos, of course," Carey went on, "and they're mean; plenty mean But they're mean only because they've been made so, trained that way, as an animal trainer teaches a lion or a leopard to jump through a flaming hoop. The usual bucking bronco is an artificial product, turned out to meet the requirements of rodeo promoters, Frontier Day cele · brations, round-ups, and-yes, the movies. People want action, and a bucking bronco will sure give it. That's why broncos are taught to buck." Carey ought to know. Known as the "Bret Harte Westerner," he has ridden horses all his life. Not only have all his mounts been genuine wild horses of the open range but, almost without exception, they have been horses that Carey has captured, broken and trained him­ self to do his bidding on ranch, stage, and screen. Carey is one of the best wild-horse trainers in the country to-day. He knows the Western bronco as few men do, and has an unbounded admiration and respect for that tire­ less and plucky little piece of high-powered horse-flesh. Carey's Corral ow on his 1,250-acre ranch in the hills above N Saugus, some twenty-six miles from Los Angeles, Carey has a corral of more than fi fty Western horses, everyone of which he has broken in from the wilds personally. Visitors to the ranch will testify to the thoroughness of the breaking. Some of Carey's horses are gentler than others, but none will throw a rider. They have been trained to have better manners. "Most any bronc is a ticklish proposition when it's first caught," Carey can· tinued, "but it's not native From top to bottom Harry' Carey demon­ meanness, just fear of the strates the knack of rop­ human. The animal onlv ing a wild horse, affixing follows a natural instinct to the "war bridle" (a real protect itself. By using pa­ trick to accomplish), and teaching him to be tience and going at it easy. tractable by rubbing him any bronco can be broken to with ,a blanket ride without bucking. • Harry Carey Gives Some Pointers on Real Western Horsemanship

"Encouraged to buck, on the other hand, a horse of the plains develops real proficiency. It's in the blood-to buck and kick and throw off its ene­ mies. For one of its greatest natural foes .has been the mountain lion, that tawny terror of the range which springs on a horse's back and, from that vantage point, rends with claws and teeth. "·Working on this natural fear, rodeo cowboy performers have taught their captured wild horses every pos­ sible trick of simon-pure meanness, and have produced the bucking bronco as he is currently known to-day. The meaner the horse the better for show purposes, and the larger the prizes that will be given his successful rider." Carey and I were sitting on the ~op rail of the corral fence as we talked, where we had ad­ journed after a brief tour of the ranch proper. An interesting place is this ranch, nestling in a valley and climbing the slopes of the hills a few miles north of Saugus. Besides the corral of horses there is a settlement of thirty Navajo J ndians, who weave wonderful blankets and rugs, make moccasins for the feet of palefaces, evolve ornaments of various sorts, and construct other objects that find a ready sale to tourists at the "Frontier Post." Two Old Pensioners

THERE are two pensioners on the ranch. One is Dahandanez, an eighty-five-year-old Apache who was with Geronimo in that famous Indian chief's campaigns. Despite his years, and belying his seamed and wrinkled features, Da­ handanez is still spry of limb and keen of eye. His principal activities on the ranch now, how­ ever, are smoking a long pipe filled with the best tobacco Carey can buy, and recalling exploits of his wild frontier days for the entertainment of visitors. The other pensioner is "Pete," the famous wild colt of the ranges, captured and broken by Carey years ago and trained for his later work in scores of Western pictures. Although only sev­ enteen now, Pete was a stage These four views from top to bot­ and film hero for twelve tom show Carey placing the saddle gently on the horse to keep him years-plenty long enough from bucking, cinching the belt to earn honorable retire­ so as not to excite him, binding ment, his owner says. All the animal securely so that he may that Pete does for a living be 8addled, and mounting a wild now is to give an occasional horse-which is something of a t.rick in itself. The small picture ride to Carey's young son at the top of the page shows the when the latter takes a no­ star with "Old Pete," who has been tion to mount him. So re­ retired after twelve years of stren- sponsive to the bit is the uous work in Westems (Continu.ed on page 74) 37 WILLIAM and Mary and Mary Jo

Here are Popper and Mommer (remember her as Mary Mcivor?) and little Mary Jo register· ing the fact that they are desperately happy. When the youngster is not with her parents, she cOlllliders Billy Reid, son of Mrs. Wallace Reid, her best pal and severest critic

When Daddy Bill returns from the studio, he has to play horse for Mary Jo, who saddles him and gallops him all over the parlor rug Right, to show that Bill Desmond is a well­ trained husband he tacks up a window-shade and does it smilingly. Below, to judge from the astonishment in Mrs. Bill's expression, the youngster has just stumped her Daddy with one of the most puzzling questions from the "Book of Knowledge"

Bill Desmond has a smile for every occasion, but he saves up his biggest smile for Mary and Mary Jo when he returns home from a hard day's work at the studio Marion's Daily Dozen ..

Marion's recipe for good health hasn't anything to do with dieting on spinach and pineapple, but in performing a daily dozen or two

Marion always wears her athletic "keller­ manns" when she stoops to conquer the dumb-b!lll Marion Nixon keeps her trim, boyish figure by ex­ ercising with a pair of Indian clubs

,HI . , Paging Mr. D. empsey.

Left, Clara Bow plants a wicked "haymaker" straight from the shoulder on her daddy's jaw. At the right are a couple of Hollywood white hopes demonstrating the art of "infighting." The lad in the black trunks has just delivered a left jab to the solar plexus

When Lefty Flynn strikes The two white out with his hopes who have portside delivery, left their corners his opponent al. to mix it up are ways assumes a George Walsh prostrate posi. and Monte Blue tion on the 800r

Lloyd Hughes squares off to make you take it and like it With the West Coast Stars

By DON H. EDDY

OMETIMES it doesn't pay to appear too prosper­ tions based on 0 . Henry's stories. Nye has played ous. A case in point is the recent experience of opposite Corinne Griffith and Evelyn Brent, and is re­ Charlotte Mineau, a character actress, who nearly garded as one of the most promising young actors. Slost one of the biggest opportunities of her career. The story going the rounds of Hollywood is that Miss :Mineau arrived at the Mary Pickford studio looking like Recovers From Illness the proverbial million dollars to apply for the role of a FRIENDS of Katherine Hill are rejoicing over her re- slovenly character in Mary's new picture. Scores of covery from a serious illness that for a time imperiled actresses had failed to satisfy Miss Pickford and her her screen career. The young actress was offered a role director, William Beaudine, and they sent for Charlotte immediately after she left a Los Angeles hospital, where on the recommendation of studio officials. she underwent an operation for appendicitis. The actress didn't understand that she was to don rags for the casting test, so she arrived at the studio looking. her best. Told that she was too attractive for the role. The British Hlnvasion" Miss Mineau hurried home and returned to the casting ACTORS of British birth right now are enjoying unusual office an hour later in make-up and disreputable attire. popularity, judging from the choice roles that have The transformation of the fashion plate into the desired come their way in various Hollywood studios. Probably character won her the coveted role. the four Britons who have made the greatest screen strides during the past year are Percy Marmont, George K. Arthur, Ian Keith and Victor McLaglen. Marmont A Grapefruit Villain has long been a recognized figure in the silent drama and WHAT do the villains do when they're not pursuing recently was signed to a long-time contract. The others heroines and plotting against heroes on the screen? also added to their laurels-and pay checks-in current It is rumored that many of the motion picture "bad men" productions. Arthur has had one of these so-called are the gentlest of individuals in private life. And now meteoric rises, winning fame in comedy portrayals. comes the announcement of Warner Oland, one of the heaviest of screen heavies, that grapefruit cufture is his goal when he finally deserts the Cooper-Hewitt lights. Good-bye Stage, Hello Screen! Oland owns a ten-thousand-acre ranch on an island off VAUDEVILLE has contributed another celebrity to motion the coast of Lower Cali fornia, and hopes some day to pictures. Alan Brooks is said to have deserted the devote all his time to raising grapefruit. Some wag sug­ stage to try his fortune in Hollywood. Although the gests that the erstwhile menace secure the contract to former exponent of impressionistic drama in the two-a­ supply comedy studios with grapefruit for use in slap­ day has signed with a well-known producer, it is not yet stick breakfast scenes. known whether Brooks will spe­ cialize on writing, technical work, or acting. · The thespian-play­ Vet Wins Choice Role wright won considerable fame ORLD war veterans in Holly­ -- with his original ·one-act produc­ W wood are elated over Mark tions on the stage. Hamilton's latest assignment. For Mark is one of the boys who answered the call to arms, served He'd Dye if Necessary , ; . overseas, and then returned to . JOHN SAINPOLIS, one of the best- work in the studios as if trench known character actors in life was just a between-pictures pictures, has become a bleached vacation. Mary Pickford selected blond for the sake of art. When the former warrior to play the he recently was cast as an aging chief comedy role in her new pic­ scientist in one of the year's big ture. During the past few years features, Sainpolis bleached his Hamilton has had good · parts in bushy locks for more than two several features. months to suit the character.

A Real Birthday Gift All for Art \ IF you were -an ambitious young I F work interferes with honey­ actor, and always had dreamed mooning, give up honeymoon­ of the "big chance," and when Il, ing, evidently is the way Lilyan your natal day rolled around a Tashman and Edmund Lowe y \.. juicy contract was offered you as view real (not reel) married life. a gift, wouldn't that be a thrill These two well-known screen that comes once in a Ii fetime ? It players were married just about the was to Carroll Nye, the juvenile time the bride signed a new con­ whose work in several recent pic­ tract, and almost immediately she tures won him the romantic lead was ordered to locate in Alaska. in a series of forthcomin2' oroduc- (rnnf;"J1IP'/ n .. },,,ru, Ql \ ... GO WEST

By

FRED H. SHIPMAN

The Humorous T ale of Homer always liked to hold a good Homer scans the horizon for lost hand when playing poker or hearts a Box-Car Tourist Who cows while walking with the girl Learned to Love the Cows OMER HOLLIDAY was in the Cactus Country the species of box-car that Homer starting out into the 'Would select. And if this particu- world to seek his for- lar adventurer with the poetic H tune. The time-honored manner of doing this, moniker didn't smile-for he never smiled-everybody you will recall, is with a stick over the shoulder, and fast­ who took a look at him did. Most of the onlookers ened to the stick a kerchief enclosing the fortune-seeker's smiled loud and uproariously, for Homer had a face that worldly goods. But of this combination all that Homer was well worth hiding in some other part of the' country. had was the shoulder. He had no handkerchief, certainly and also he was equipped with a section of bologna and a no worldly goods to wrap in it, and as for the stick-well, loaf of bread which he had filched from the family cup­ Homer had experienced a slight taste of that at the hands board-leaving the cupboard quite bare, in consequence. of a n irascible Homer decided to she r iff ; and it go West, that being wasn' t Homer's the direction the shoulder that the flat-wheeled freight­ sheriff had put the car was going, and stick over. It was anyhow he had a an entirely different vague remembrance part of Homer's that a certain anatomy, if you Horace Greeley had know what I mean. gained renown and This modern had a five- cent D' Artagnan had no cigar named after spirit of high em­ him by advising an prise in his heart, ambitious young and no smile on his man to go in that face. Homer never direction. Our Hero smiled. A corre­ had a vague idea spondence - school circulating about his detecti ve w 0 u I d otherwise empty have deduced from head that probably the facial expression the young man had of Homer that the tried to touch latter's uncle had Horace for a loan died leaving him and his advice was only such articles as founded on the fact another "uncle" at Homer wore his poker face and never hatlea an eyelid when the that the West, be­ the sign of the burly Westerner drew his gun and shouted-"Put down those cyards and put up yer hands!" fore Hollywood folk Three Golden started commuting, Spheres would have was a long way off. advanced not one Russian coin on' and there were other So Westward Ho went Homer, resolved to conquer the essential differences between this p~st- Volstead musketeer world and maybe just a little part of Chicago as he passed and the gay Gascon who, if Doug Fairbanks (and inci­ through. dentally Alexander Dumas) had it right, left his ancestral The day on which his migration started-a date which home on the back of a piebald pony. Homer chose a may yet attain the dignity of a national holiday-was more modern means of locomotion, being mounted on a marked by a peculiar incident which is revealed here in .. t..! ... ______I .-_ .LL _ c ·. . . " soirited box-('~r Th .. h,,~ _ ~~~ · \"~rI a~ • ••. \" ~ ~1~ .\..~. \.. ~ :- ~ 44 Go West

socks that later got her into an original bathing-girl vaudeville act. So it can be readily seen from all these cosmic distur­ bances that Homer's destiny must have been strongly • hooked up with the West. A word here on Homer's birth, background and early career. He was born in the era that the horseless carriage made its advent, and grew up with carburetors and spare tires. and while Homer was never lucky enough to get very many gallons to the mile in his wanderings, he became quite a braw boy at that. It seemed that he was born prac­ tically with a hoe in his hand and, as came dawn after dawn in movie title ·a fter movie title, it developed that life to Homer was nothing but a rocky row along which he must toil and stumble. It was found when he tried to acquire an education that he was in one way a valu­ able asset to the School Board. An applicant for a position as teacher, who could cram a Homer sensed the presence of a tough-looking brake­ calory of in formation into the man behind him who promptly gave him the air. When cranium of Homer, was conceded to have proved his or he came down he made the mistake of sitting on a cactus her efficiency and was hired on the spot without further mental or physical examination. Thus Homer, the boy, Horace Greeley, which would naturally be on Greeley then later, Homer, the man, seated on a pile of straw in Square, reached up and stroked its green whiskers with a box-car, toying with a well-nourished bologna and a a metallic hand. A traffic cop, who beheld this, immedi­ chunk of bread. ately held up a fleet of Fords while he dashed to a booth Now, Homer made one tactical error; He had wanted and put in a telephonic complaint to his bootlegger ; and to go West, and he had made the mistake of trying to do an old lady from Peoria, who happened to be gazing at that. His intentions were excellent, but he never did the statue under the impression that it was Grant's Tomb, anything right. Three or four days slipped by, so did the dropped her lip-stick and fainted, bologna, the loaf of bread and many miles of countryside. revealing cerise garters and sheer Then, hungry with what he believed was the zest of the vVestern wind and the delicate tang of sage-brush, he

When Homer took to the saddle the Western wind and the delicate tang of sage·brush struck him full in the face Go West 45 •

When Homer sought the shade of a sheltering tree an,l drank in the vast silence and the endless reaches of prairie ventured to look out of the side door of his private car he said to his shadow-"You and I should be great pals to see if the Rockies were in sight. In the distance he out hyur" caught a shimmer of white. "Ain't them wonderful?" breathed Homer, for he was lash of the whip where the sheriff had once applied his of the opinion that he was gazing at a snow-capped peak. stick. "Stop interferin' with these here employes!" But after continuing to gaze and analyze the scene be­ bellowed the foreman. Homer backed away cautiously, fore him Homer saw that the white expanse, which he had deciding that cotton-picking held no future for him. at first believed to be snow, was a cotton-field. Many A fter all, Horace Greeley had picked darkies were walking back and forth, plucking qeamy the right direction when he had advised whit~ tufts from plants, slaughtering boll-weevils the young man to go West. The SOllth rather bloodthirstily and singing mammy songs the (Continued on page 68) while. Having a good voice and being especially fond of mammy songs, Homer thought that he could easily 'qualify at cotton-picking, which looked like a very soft job to him. He tumbled out of the car, glad to stretch himself after his days of confinement, and walked in the direction of the field in which the darkies were at work. Homer had once seen "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Strut Miss Lizzie." The scene before him struck romance to his soul. "Hey, you black rascal!" called Our Hero to one of the decided brunettes in the field. "You­ all tell yo' mastah Ah'm here and want a job." The young cotton-picker looked up with a Ritz-like expression. "Where d'yuh get that stuff?" he retorted in purest Nordic accents. "You are impudent!" charged Horace. The cotton-picker hoofed a few late steps of the Charleston while he tapped a monogrammed cigarette on his case and then lit it and blew out a perfect smoke-ring. "Aw, so is ·your old man!" he yelled. . Then he skipped to the end of the row, cranked a car with balloon tires and drove away toward a Night Club in the vicinity. It was just at this moment that Homer descried a Simon Legree sort of person, wearing a black hat and look, furiously lashing a black horse with a black whip. This, deduced Homer, is none other than the foreman. r He was indeed cor­ Homer realized that if rect, for the new­ he wanted to become 8 hard·ridin' cow·puncher comer strode for - he won],J haVp. t.O .donl Eddie Gribbon

From • HARLEM ''The Sidewalks of New Y ork- Boys and girls together, me an' Maggie O'Rourke--"

HEESE it, the cop!" . "e A scamper of small feet down areaways, into alleys, and in less time than it would take a cop to stay Jack Robinson,or to be more accurate "What th' hell!" the street is cleared. "That's how I learned to run-getting away from cops," grinned Eddie Gribbon, "aw Gee! Those were the days." The burglar of the movies (he has burgled his way through pictures for years and is now housebreaking in Seven Days at the Christie Studio) is that rarest of human beings, a native New Yorker, born in Harlem when it was Goatvi11e and the neighborhood gangs played baseball on vacant lots a,mong the tin cans and real estate signs. "N' York was a great place for a kid," sighs Eddie, "say, they can talk about the country all they like but I'll bet no hick boys and girls ever had the fun we did. Say, most of the tricks and the gags I use in my pictures now I remember from the time we used to do them in Harlem. There's the wop fruit pedler one. I've used it in a dozen comedies-one of the kids would' call down the dumb­ waiter shaft to the fruit man to send up a dozen bananas for his mother, see? And the change for a dollar bitl. So the wop would send up the fruit and the money, and the kid would snitch them and run up onto the roof and across the tops of several houses and down the fire-escape to the street while the rest of us gathered round the pedler and learned a lot of wop cuss-words. Aw Gee--)) A Typical New York Kid To listen to Eddie Gribbon's reminiscences of his boy­ hood is to catch a glimpse of a bygone day, gone now with the corner saloons and the Jawn C. Mulligan Political Clubs and the vacant lots, the day when Al Smith was a youngster and small Irving Berlin, son of a Jewish cantor, was playing catchy tunes on a harmonica for the neighbor­ hood children to dance to down in the Yiddish quarter and

Eddie used to hold the towels for the prize;fighters-and longed to become a fighter himself

... The Native New Yorker Who Was Chased By the Cops

By DOROTHY CALHOUN

Richard Croker was the Big Guy at Tammany Hall. It was a day when the hurdy-gurdy ground out the tunes on every block-:-and the favorite tune is now known far and wide as Al Smith's campaign song. "There were five boys of us and one girl living packed into a railroad flat, one of those with long halls and the rooms opening off one siele," Eddie relates, "all of us strapping youngsters-Irish-German! There was always something doing in the Gribbon flat and Mother had her hands full. If she wasn't putting away the foot- ball suits, she was hauling out the basebalI suits. If one of us wasn't getting a licking for playing hooky from school and having the truant officer after us, another one was getting licked for hooking a watermelon off a cart and bashing the fat dago grocer over the head with it when he came up from the cellar with a basket of eggs. Aw Gee--" In the summer he never had dry hair. While the watering-carts were sprinkling the asphalt in preparation for the blazing hours, Eddie and his gang would be off with wild whoops to the Hudson River where all day they swam and soaked and splashed each other in a state of nature. Then there were the hurdy-gurdies at night under the flaring gaslights, and the hoky-poky wagons and the political outings .on the old side-wheel tugs down the bay to Donnelly's Grove with barrels of beer and wienies for all. "Boys and girls together-London Bridge is fall-il1g dowll--" And at Hallowe'en there were the traditional stockings filled with sand to whack the passers-by, and at Thanks­ giving the streets were filled with masqueraders in clown costume blowing horns. Election years were the best, for then there were bonfires on the vacant lots beside the political tents, and free entertainments. And always there ( Continued on page 76)

Eddie learned m08t oE his comedy trick8 while playing tag with the Eruit pedler8 and leading the cops a merry chase THE SHEIK TAKES TO THE SADDLE

At the left, the appropriate cry is "Ride 'em, Cossack!" when Rudy sets hiulself to canter over the Hollywood steppes

At the right, we discover Valentino rarin' to do some rough· ridin' stuff, togged up as he is in the clothes of a cow·puncher. In the oval below, Rudy invites us to give his sheik of hOr8&-ftesh the once-over .. The DAWN of a New DAY

The epitome of girlish charm and person. ality is suggested in these delightfully quaint studies of Marceline Day, who is living up to the promise of becoming one of the leading luminaries of the screen

Woodbury, L. A.

Miss Day is seventeen, a sister of Alice Day, Mack Sennett comedienne, and no less an authority than' Frank Lloyd has declared her to he one of the real discoveries of the year. She has a prominent role in Mr. Lloyd's new pic. ture, The Splendid Road, and word comes to us that she creates an outstanding achievement Magpie and .. Dirty Shirt

Ben Corbett (left) and "Pee Wee" Holmes represent something new in cow.punchers. To the boys on the Uni· versal Ranch they are known as "Mag. pie" and "Dirty Shirt"

Ben and "Pee Wee" have been members of the Universal Ranch Riders for years and have played in all types of Westerns. Since they have demonstrated their talent on various occasions-since they are comedians as well as cow· boys-Universal has elevated them to stardom. When they appear in filmizations of W. C. Tuttle's famous magazine stories, they will whoop things up in colorful style .. The Reviewer Has His Say

By LAURENCE REID

HE glamourous days of the Old West have that the California governor wants to secede from the been brought to life again by James Cruze. Union and found an empire of his own. Then it . His production, The Pony Express (Para­ swings into its most stirring chapters as the pony T mount), deserves a place alongside The express rider, Frisco Jack, begins his long ride over Covered Wagon not only for ,its melodramatic da?h the trail. ' and spirit, but also for the breadth and scope of Its scenes. Pivoting as it does around one of the most Picturesque Characters romantic figures in the history of the West, it grips FOR such a film as this, real characterization was the imagination and stirs the pulse. It kindles a needed, It has received such from a finely balanced response for its historical highlights, and because it cast. Surprisingly good is Ricardo Cortez' portrayal is done on a spectacular scale and records real mov­ of the express rider. He gives an honest, sincere per­ ing drama it is Ii fted high above the usual Western. formance. Perhaps he is a little too handy with a gun' for strict adherence to truth, The Hazardous Trail but then his melodramatic mo­ THE plot brings forth the ments bring a real flavor to blazing days when the coun­ the story. try was plunged into a Civil There are other players, who War. Its locale stretches from are thoroughly in character. California to St. Joseph, Mis­ We mention Ernest Torrence, souri, and most of its action Wallace Beery and George is centered around the hazard­ Bancroft, who take advantage ous trails over which the fleet­ of, every scene to color it with footed ponies carried their picturesque incident. Particu­ courageous riders with the larly fine is Bancroft, whose vil­ news and correspondence of lainy is always within bounds. the day. Indeed, he is a bad man who has When Cruze sticks to his been splendidly humanized. subject he carries us along on a The love element takes an high tide of suspense. But important part of the film, there are moments when he has Seven Days though it is dominated by the allowed the plot to become bur­ larger romance of the theme. dened with counterplots and much extraneous inci­ All in all, it is a magnificent effort. James Cruze dent. This serves in prolonging it beyond the proper has conveyed the spirit of those days of the West conclusion of the story. Of course, he had a big with an imaginative background that features Indian idea, one that deserved considerable expansion, yet skirmishes, political schemes and the more honorable at the same time in expanding it he has sacrificed pursuits of a people who lived, struggled ·and died unity of plot and the tempo of his action. in their achievement of great undertakings. For the first half it builds easily and excitingly. We see the Sacramento of 1860 with the spotlight The Modern West turned on a political campaign, we see the shadow CAVING the adventurers of the Old West, we take up of Lincoln swapping stories in his Illinois law office the study of the modern cowboy who becomes the -and the suspense quickens when it is established central character in an obviously plotted story, The

The Eve,.kuting Whisper ' His Majesty Bunke,. Bean Below the Line 51 52 The Reviewer Has His Say

Cn/gary Stampede (Universal.) Hoot Gibson is the cow-puncher who car­ ries on here. We discover him a victim of persecution as he tries to outwit the Mounted. There is no ingenuity in the plot. The authors even rely upon that ancient device of having the villain discard his sweetheart in order that she may reveal her knowledge of his guilt. But before this climax occurs we are treated to some typical Western action which is dovetailed with crisp incident, a measure of suspense, and plenty of atmosphere. Hoot IS accused of killing his sweetheart's father. So he runs away to be hounded by the law. A Splendid Romeo WE can pass over the early scenes. They will not linger in the mind to any extent-and all of them go over very familiar ground. What is interesting, however, is the introduction of a bang-up rodeo show, staged up Calgary way. Even the news cameramen have never caught any such spectacle as this. The plot is well timed to bring Hoot, who has played the boob through most of the action, into the limelight. He dodges the officers until he enters the Roman race. Then it is only a matter of seconds before he clears himself. The rodeo introduces some novel scenes, such as the wild cow race in which the boys must catch the cows and milk them. There are thrills, and plenty of laughs. Taken in its entirety, this Western is Hoot's best picture. It contains all the customary ingredients, plus some fresh ideas, which, of course, make it worth seeing. We might add that the players get everything out of their respective roles. Syd Chaplin Masquerades IT was to be expected with the success of Syd Chaplin in Charley's Aunt that he would again don feminine garb and burlesque his way in his next effort. Sure enough, he bobs up as an acrobatic comedian in a role which permits him no end of amusement. The minor characters in The Man on the Box (Warner Brothers) have little opportunity to do anything but bounce on and off the sets-so much is Charlie's brother in the spotlight. He manages to m.ake the action romp along without any straining tor effect. It is boisterous, but good-natured fun-with Syd indulging in an orgy The PlaJtic Age of absurdities. He juggles with stacks of dinner plates and cuts up various didoes with all the abandon of a clown. And he doesn't overdo it. He makes a comely character of his masquerade--even when he caricatures the whims and fancies of the modern flapper. Incidentally, his enactment of the lady hoyden far overshadows his Lady from Brazil (where the nuts come from) in the previous picture. Of course, you know that the picture is adapted from the novel and play by Harold MacGrath-and that it traces the amazing adventures of a young American trying to keep the plans of a flying machine from being stolen by foreign spies. This calls for some ground and lofty tumbling on the part of the hero, to say nothing of some amusing high jinks which are executed to keep the pot a-boiling. There is a pajama excursion and a ride in a hansom cab--these furnishing no small share of the laughs. It may be preposterous, but, happily, the director has kept it in the spirit of broad farce. As a result, it disarms one from any attempt to dissect it on the grounds of logic and reality. The other supporting players have little

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The CaiIlOr'f Stamoede The Reviewer Has His Say 53

to do, uut they manage to take .care of their work satisfactorily. Which wins good marks for Alice Calhoun and David Butler. Rustic Life Is Overdrawn THE John Golden play, Thank You, which has been converted into cellu- • loid by William Fox, does not approach the homespun realities that were brought out on the stage. The original had its moments of humor and hokum. The screen version has more moments of hokum and less, far less humor. It seems as if it had been robbed of all its sparkle when one considers how the director \las developed it. Certainly the small-town characters which parade before us here are not typical of any hamlet, no matter how distant it may be from a railroad. They are shown up in all their gossipy, prying, noisy goings-on, presumably to point the contrast to the central character, who has merely to wear a benign expression and to work miracles in the community. We follow him regenerating his niece from Paris. He casts her a reproachful look and she- wilts and gives up her cigarettes. And in the twinkling of an eye he reforms the wild youth. These people, aside from the minister, are caricatured to a ridiculous point. And when the sponsors tire of presenting them in this manner, tlley rely upon exaggerated comedy relief to score some interest in the picture. The story carries a moral and it makes a big play for sympathy to be extended the preacher who mutters a "thank you" for every crumb and morsel that comes his way. It carries on to the climax when the good man recovers from his illness and is restored to prosperity. Alec Francis has a heavy burden to overcome the sentimentality, and it is a credit to his fine shading of characterization that he makes one of the two human figures of the film, the other being impersonated by George Fawcett. George O'Brien .and Jacqueline Logan struggle bravely to appear con­ vincing, Qut the action is against them. Mix Against the Whispering Pines THE other Fox entry for this month is entitled The Everlasting Whisper and it takes Tom Mix and his large audience far up among the whisper­ ing pines and the murmuring hemlocks. It is quite excusable on the part of the star if he fails to search for originality in every picture he produces. New ideas are hard to collect when one is constantly visualizing life in the open spaces. Here we find him and Tony ridin' hard and fightin' hard; They have their work cut out for them-Tom in rescuing a city girl from certain death, and Tony in giving battle to a flock of wolves. The plot presents the simplest kind of triangle as it flourishes out yonder. Which is to say that the hero must overwhelm the villain who is determined to win the girl. It keeps moving briskly, and while it is perfectly obvious, the situations carry plenty of nourishment in the shape of fights and rescues. Moreover, it contains a rich assembly of picturesque shots. The star and his leading woman, Alice Calhoun, conduct themselves sincerely and convincingly. That goes for Tony, too. A Train Wreck WHERE ra~l~oads se realistic and excItmg tram ·wrecks. By holdmg back the chmax untIl everyone is in a pitch of suspense, there is always a deep sigh registered when ( Continued on page 64)

The Man on the Box

• A Son of Hill Father The Girls Have a • GILBERT, Too

To be pretty is to be popular. Which, naturally, introduces Florence Gilbert, whose person· ality is something to write home about. With radiant smile, flash­ ing blue eyes, golden hair and a peaches-and-cream complexion she's a girl you can't forget

IT looks as if it is going to be a big year for the Gilberts. Now that John has put himself definitely over, Florence (no relation) is certain she can succeed as the heroines of Buck Jones' pictures. To every film actress there comes, sooner or later, a chance to playa role that just fits her type. Florence's opportunity came when she was picked to play in the Van Bibber Comedies. She was standing on the set near her set of masculine admirers when along came Old Man Fate disguised as a director-with a contract in one hand and a megaphone in the other. He wanted a healthy, athletic girl, who looked well in sport clothes or evening gowns-and he wanted her quickly. Since Florence answered all the requirements she got the job. 54 " "Your Opinion" Contest Last Call to Enter Our $2,500 Contest

F you are interested in writing criticisms of the a fine lyric quality that brings a lump into the spectator's movies, if you are eager to show your appreciation throat. As the tender lover, Doug is quite irresistible and of your favorite stars and if you would like a part he has been dealing unfairly with us in keeping hidden his I of the $2,500.00 in prizes, there is one date that must ability to so perfectly portray such a part. The final scene be uppermost in your mind these days. This date is in the bridal chamber is the most beautiful love scene in January 1, and it is important because it marks the new pictures. closing of "Your Opinion" Contest. ' Enid Bennett as Maid Marian is lovely to look upon, A sickening moment of regret is in store for you if you which is just about all that is necessary to the role, but fail to send in your reviews of pictures you have seen or Wallace Beery as Richard Creur de Lion, is utterly soul­ if you neglect to cast your vote for your favorite players satisfying. He must have loved doing the part, for it and pictures. All we can do is to warn you that the time rings true in every detail. How dreadful it is that there is short and it's up to you to take advantage of the oppor­ are not more such roles for him to grace so that villains tunities which the contest offers. might be left to lesser actors. There is no limit to the number of criticisms you may MRS. HOWARD SEVIER, Tallulah, Louisiana. enter; so, regardless of the number you have already sent in to ' us, you may still send more. On the other hand, Dangerous Innocence it is not too late for our new readers to enter their re­ THIS romantic comedy contains elements that make it views. Read the rules in detail on another page of this an excellent screen offering. All the world loves a issue and remember the closing date! lover and when the hero, splendidly acted by Eugene We want you to read some of the especially interesting O'Brien, sweeps the little ingenue, charmingly done by reviews that have been written by our amateur critics: Laura La Plante, into his arms for the grand close-up, one is quite caught by the sheer youthful charm of it alL Forbidden Paradise Innocence, when real, has infinite possibilities for humor and pathos. These qualities are stressed in fine style by "F<;.RBIDDEN PARADISE, taken from the stage-play, La Czarina, is a splendid examp!e of how nearly flawless Miss La Plante. a picture can be with the combination of artistic and ex­ Hedda Hopper, as the mother who clings vainly to a pert direction and comprehending and finished acting. romantic urge, is convincing in her portrayal of feminine Without the able direction of Ernst Lubitsch, the story frailty and pride. Jean Hersholt takes the prize as a would be tawdry and commonplace; without the breadth villain. William Humphreys is excellent as the kindly of understanding and sheer acting ability of Pola Negri, understanding husband and father and wins one's sym­ the character of Catherine would be vulgar and uncon­ pathy straightway. Situations gripping in interest vincing; but together they form a combination that should abound. The direction shows a skilled and sensitive touch. never have been broken. Pola here displays her old fire, MRS. ROSWELL HOWELL COBB, Birmingham, Alabama. giving an even better performance than her famous Du As Man Desires Barry. Forbidden Paradise probably contains three better per­ AS MAN DESIRES is not a great picture, but it is an enjoy­ formances than anyone picture. Pola Negri, of course, able one. is unsurpassable. Adolphe Menjou, perfectly at ease in The prologue, explaining why a regimental surgeon be­ the court setting and his elaborate uniform, puts forth comes a pearl fisher, is the least happy portion. The his customary finesse and subtlety. Rod La Rocque, as lighting is defective at times, with disastrous results to Catherine's young lover, also displays a warmth that Mr. Sills's hands. Furthermore, the sentimental love­ marks him as a comer. Altogether this sho~, which is making there required is less in Mr. Sills's line than such sophisticated and not a family picture, is a worthy one in chivalrous gentleness of the strong toward the weak as which the personalities of its players and director rise that with which, later in the play, he draws to himself his above any flaw in the picture. little half-breed wife, overwhelmed in the presence of her rival. His look and gesture are poignantly true and HELEN BUCHALTER, Washington, D. C. simple. Robin Hood In this main part of the picture, from the tim~ when, having fought the island bully, he faces the gaping mob DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS' production of Robin Hood is a with grim, sardonic humor, Milton Sins does some won­ splendid picturization of a legend beloved of youth derfully fine work. Especially is this true in the power­ for many generations and the sets are pictures that the ful scenes in which, fighting his baser self, he deCIdes to mind must treasure forever. Great banquet halls, troops save the life of the man he believes to be bringing him of armored knights, lofty castles veiled in mist, fire the death and disgrace. . imagination, and one lives for a space in the days of The close of the picture is. highly artistic. Al­ chivalry when knights were bold and ladies fair, when though the happy ending, apparently so necessary to honor was more than a name and life a thing to be lightly screen dramas, is hinted in the presence of Gloria given for God, for king, Gordon, the wind-blown for country, for love. candles symbolize the N ever has Doug been only possible outcome: so charming in his favor­ Watch for the Special the bowed figure of the ite role of swashbuckling HARRY CAREY man above the patheti­ as he is in playing the cally perfect little dead noble and romantic out­ Section in Next Month's Pan. law, and there is a new HELEN M. PERKINS, ."...... MOVIE MONTHLY -_~_ I I ,---- ll_ _ ..t,..al..:lou r~l; f rn' Camera Gossip ,

One of the best ways of keeping in trim, according to George O'Brien, is to take to - the with the flying rings

Jim Jeffries has just been knocked into a sprawling position by one of Dorothy Dwan's wicked left jabs to the jaw. Note the d,ear old ,vater-bucket On the left is Marion Davies, who is basking in the sunshine that sweeps over her home at Beverly Hills, tinting the roses over the summer·house and lighting the swimming pO,ol with shafts of silver

Marie Prevost togs herself up like a cow.girl and seated comfortably in, the saddle of her wooden Man­ o'·War she canters all over the yard • ,

Thelma Hill and Elate Turon, like all good Sennett girls, have donned their bathing luiu and parked themeelvel in front of the fireplace to wait the arrival of Santa ClaUI. Both are Iiltening intently for this nice old butler·and·egg mlln from the North to tumble down . the chimney

Katherine Grant and Tyler Brooke have just f'iniehed an archery match. Tyler is mad and Katherine is glad, for Ihe's beaten him with a shot right in the bull's-eye

Alice Ardell is olle of the most expert toeeere of the medicine· ban to be found on any man's beach. She • swing~ the ban way back and lets it go like a forward pass Stalking the Stars •

the other woman's hand-that "powder and paint" is a new slogan for an old war: Woman vs. Man-that vanity in the case is better than vanity in the mirror-that mud packs generally precede the marriage pact.

THERE have been several lunches in New York given by various film companies in honor of visiting stars and directors who hopped off the rattlers from Holly­ wood. At one of them Richard Talmadge startled the guests who were seated around a big "horseshoe" of eats by making a bounding jump and handspring from the top of a staircase to a well-padded couch. This was Talmadge's entrance. He certainly demon­ strated his talent as an agile acrobat. Before the finger bowls were taken away he indulged in some "knock-'em­ down-and-drag-'em-out" stuff. Another luncheon was given by Warner Brothers in honor of Ernst Lubitsch, the director. The German master of the megaphone responded with an appreciation of America and certainly sold himself solidly as an artist and a man gifted with a sense of humor. He isn't what Here are Rin-Tin-Tin and his beautiful wife, you could call a handsome man, but his face is intelligent Nanette. There will be no villainous canine and expressive, and he attracts you by the sheer warmth lovers stalking around, not with Rinny keeping of his personality. active watch through the day lind night FRED THOMSON h~s put a ban on make-up. By the use HERE was a little scare thrown up the other of a special kind of stock and camera lenses, the West­ day by a news dispatch from Paris telling us that . ern star contends he is able to get a better effect in the Gloria had not . married into the nobility at aU. photography of faces for himself and most of the players T Of COQrse, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Cou­ than in the past. Fred says that make-up does muc!) to draye promptly labeled it as a gross figment of some busy­ "kill" certain phases of character in a man's or woman's hody's imagination. face on the screen. "I want to be called 'Hank,'" said Gloria's husband when the official documents did not men­ tion his title. Well, Hank he may be to Gloria and to his inti-' mate friends, but the American public, at least, will continue to call him Gloria Swanson's hus­ band.

I T seems as if the favorite in- door sport out Hollywood way is handin~ out advice to the lovelorn. Eluior Glyn started the fashion-which has been taken up by most every actress, married or unmarried. Here is Elaine Hammerstein telling the feminine world that if you make your face attractive your husband will not desert you for the woman who does-that a prospective husband holding your hand is worth two holding • Bill Hart gets an "orch~tra seat" ri~t down in lront when his boys begm to play. The band consists 01 . "Bear Valley" Charley and Charley Williams. "Bear Valley" is a great radio broadcast favorite. Both fiddlers have parts in Bill's newest picture, Tumbleweelh IDtemational Newne"" Gossip of the Studios-East and West

The experiment was tried while Thomson was filming great shock of hair that has always distinguished this star some exteriors--and not a single player used make-up. has turned quite gray, but it is still as thick as ever. He The close-ups were so lifelike that the star sees no keeps himself in marvelous physical condition, and knows reason to smother his face in the future with more about the science of physical cul­ • Camera yellow, Indian red or Mexican brown. ture than any of the stars in or out of Hollywood. H AVE you listened m on Evelyn Brent? The popul ar star of H OLL YWOOD has gone for another crook characteriza­ new sport. The latest fad is to tions has just con­ buy skates and whippet dogs and cluded a country­ then train them to lead you over wide radio speaking the ice. It is just recently that tour which carried Los Angeles acquired an as far East as ice rink, and all the stars Pro vidence are cutting capers and and as far figure eights. We under­ West as Chi­ stand it's very exciting cago and when the whippet dogs Kansas City. run their races. So far as we could To con tin u e wit h glean, there Hollywood, this fair community- the port of missing Broadwayites - has ensnared another prominent victim and as the Bingville Daily Bugle would say, "New York's loss is Hollywood's gain." This time it is the erst­ while boulevardier, Tom McNamara, the cartoonist that made mischie­ vous boys famous the world over. Tom is a pro­ fessional native son-and what's more, a member Gill iam. Service of the Hollywood screen colony, if any. When he first breezed into was no static at the time .that Evelyn did her stuff. the picture capital he intended to give it the double 0 and then return to the land of sky-scrapers and scalpers. But THE name of Bushman is to be perpetuated on the the lure of the wide open spaces and the purple hills and screen by Ralph, son of Francis X., once the most the other things mentioned in sunny Cafeteria's written popular star of the celluloid drama. He has signed to titles, got into the young artist's blood-stream-and so star in a series of pictures. As for Francis X-well, another good tourist went wrong. you'll soon have a chance to see him again when Ben Hur McNamara has a snug little bungalow near the foot­ comes to town. He plays the Roman villain, Messala, hills and in his study he draws his cartoon strips for the who opposes B. H. throughout the story. This is the papers. He has blossomed forth as a collaborator with character which was originally portrayed on the stage William Beaudine in directing Mary Pickford. And by Bill Hart. when the picture is finished, he will step out on his own What of Beverly Bayne? Well, she just recently di­ "dogs" as a full-fledged director of features. vorced Francis X., and according to our Hollywood spies His initial venture in pictures was with Hal Roach and he is very lonely. F. X. has a home which adjoins Valen­ he conceived the idea of the now-famous Our Gang tino's and lives there with Ralph and Mrs. Ralph, sur­ comedies. rounded by luxuriant trees and flowers. It was fortunate that Mary Pickford selected him to A strange trick of fate carried him to· the high places help out on Little Annie Rooney. Most of the gags and kid • and then kicked the props out from under him. He has by antics, and all of the subtitles, came from Tom's lively no means entered an eclipse, for he is still in demand at imagination and his experience with the kid comedies. a large salary. But there So Tom McNamara is is considerable bitterness in making good. He is now his cup of life. Can it be p08&ible that Jack Dempsey is traininl! Rudolph singing the old chant, He has six children, five Valentino to take the place of Harry Wills as his next opponent? Anyway, he is supervising Rudy', boxiDI! lessoDs, "Give my regards to by his first wi fe, and one with "Gentleman Gene" Delmont, a professional pugilist, as Broadway, but tell 'em I'm by Beverly Bayne. The the .tar', spalTinl! partner here to stay." Stalking the Stars THE years have taken their toll of Dan Mason, who Fred is in the market for white horses-and anyone you will remember as the motorman and conductor who has an· unusual white horse might be able to do a of the Toonerville Trolley, but he is just as spry as ever. "David Harum" with him. He wants these horses to The other day he celebrated a golden anniversary with provide atmosphere for Silver King. The star has just Charlie Evans-of the old vaudeville team of Evans and returned from a trip up the Coast during which he visited Hoey~with whom he is working in a picture. many of the big ranches of the West in his search for It was fifty years ago that Dan and Charlie first ap­ unique blonds of the equine world. • peared together in the old-time variety shows. The sub­ ject of this sketch has been on the stage since 1872. In JACKIE COOGAN, who knows as much about valuable 1912 he entered pictures and popularized himself as the real estate as the boys in Miami, owns a stip of land famous old skipper of the Toonerville Trolley line. . in one of the busiest sections of Los Angeles. Now what do you think young John intends to do? He intends ONE of the most successful of all mystery melodramas building a $500,000 picture theater, with a seating will Soon be converted into celluloid. The picture capacity of three thousand. There will be play rooms for rights to The Bat have been purchased, and word comes children and quarters for community welfare work. that an all-star cast is being assembled. The identity of It is the plan of the boy's father to make the theater the players is being kept a dark secret, for some reasori the first of a chain to be built in the name of his famous or other, although it is our guess that the central char­ son. They will be erected in the principal cities of acter must be shrouded in mystery. To reveal his identity America. Jackie already owns two buildings and many would be giving the plot away. valuable pieces of property in Los Angeles. And he is The players who have been already selected are busy casting an anxious eye in the general direction of Florida. "shushing" one another, for fear the identity of Mr. Bat will leak out. If the picture enlarges upon the ex­ VICTOR SCHERTZINGER is at it again writing songs. citement of the play, it will be corking entertainment. When the director isn't busy with a megaphone, he Let's hope that another good drama won't go wr6ng. takes up his violin and composes a melody. He has gone down the road to fame as the con1poser of Marcheta, the THE case of Charlie Chaplin versus Charles Amador sensational song hit that broke all records for total sales and the Western Features Productions has come to an in sheet music and phonograph discs. He also has com­ end-with the Superior Court confirming a lower court posed the scores for a number of motion pictures. decision prohibiting either the company or Amador from His newest song is N ostramo, named after the Joseph producing or distributing motion pictures which Chaplin Conrad book from which the film, The Silver Treasure, alleged were in imitation of those in which he was the is adapted. featured actor. There is some smoke in this legal battle. The counsel ONCE in a while the order is reversed and we have a for the defendants had asked for a new trial following play adapted the lower court settlement of the case. Amador's attor­ from a picture. neys wanted a modification of the ruling that would per­ Some years ago a mit The Race Track to be released. But the final play was made out judgment was propounded in Chaplin's favor-and Ama­ of a Constance dor's picture was called an imitation. Tal mad g e fi 1m. Meanwhile, Charlie of the Chaplins is still in New York (Con. on page 65) and there's no telling when he will return to N .aIBon·Smith Hollywood. His company gave him a farewell luncheon some time ago, but he is in no apparent hurry to return to the Coast. Chaplin has changed his hotel to be away from newsy and nosy interviewers. He has become an inveterate first­ nighter-there being very few play openings he has missed. N. proof that Fred Thomson is exceptionally kind to his noble steed, Silver King, and that he gets his three square a day and all the comforts of the barn, the American Animal Defense League has officially ~ndorsed all of the star's produc­ tions and elected the horse to honorary membership. . The star has been commended by the League for the gentle manner In which he handles his famous stepper. In the future when you see a Fred Thomson produc­ tion you will notice a line to the effect that it has been Here is Frances Lee; who plays opposite Bohhy Vemon(ol the Christie lots), demonstrating very easily endorsed by that she caD do the split. France8 . was at ODe time a leatured dancer in the movie palaces 01 thp ::I~~nr;::It;n" u : __ ...... 1: ... L ... _ L_~.- ._ .... _ Movie Monthly Puzzle Page A Prize Contest for Limerick Lovers • $25 PRIZE SlO PRIZE $5 PRIZE We're all glad he', back on. the ,creen, Th~ business 01 catching a bandit; On. the stage he', called a fine actor, It', Theodore Robert, we mean.; It ~n't '0 hard il you 1umd it, On. the ,creen. he', as important a lactor; There', n.o Olle who efJects 10 To Buck Jon.e, to do, They all tarry more, Much smoke with Perfecto" With a pistol or two, . When. John. Barrynwre He', the /ill' hu1fl4lt smoke·,tack we've And ,ome pretty girl to demand it. Make, love, which he surely has tact lor. seen. Won by Agnes Corlin. 1136 Ridge Ave., Won by CbarlotteMisb, 962 Mt. Adams Won by Bessie Flint, 370 Ontario St., Philadelphia, Pa. Drive, Portland, Ore. Hornell, N. Y.

AYBE you have never written a limerick line first, second or third place, the prize will go to each lucky and maybe you have never made a rhyme in contestant. an your life; then you will never know how There is still another part of this contest that will M much fun you have missed until you try your appeal to many of you who are limerick lovers. Some hand at completing the unfinished limericks which appear of you have made up your own limericks about popular on this page. movie players. Weare interested in seeing them and if When you get started you will find this writing of we can use them we will pay you 50 cents a line for every limerick lines so fascinating a pastime, you will think of limerick we publish. You will write only four lines, a whole string of last lines for each limerick. Happily, as the last line will be written by our readers. Your there is no limit to the number you may enter, so send limerick will bring you $2 if it is accepted for them all along. publication. For the best last line a prize of $25 will be awarded ; In choosing the subjects of your limerick, try to write for the second best, $10, and for the third best, $5. Every about those stars and pictures mentioned In MOVIE last line submitted for these limericks win be considered MONTHLY. As you read the magazine you will come in choosing the winners if it reaches our office not later across many names that will suggest limerick lines and than December tenth. rhymes to you. Address your limerick lines to MOVIE MONTHLY The unfinished limericks, for whose last lines prizes Puzzle Editor, 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, New York. and their winners are announced on this page, appeared Do not enclose stamps, for no entries will be returned. in the October number. Announcement will be made of In the event that limericks of equal merit. are found for this month's winners in the January number.

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The Star That Came to Earth • (Continued from page 8) "I didn't mean," said Mr. Toms, in ;;n ' " But remember"-Mr. Toms raised the go over to the Miniature Studio. I heard unusually deep voice, "that you are type forefinger again and waved it-"there have they're going to do a picture there. There for a page." By which it will be seen that been extras who have become stars. I are two meA who are going to start some­ Mr. Toms occasionally got off a bum joke. predict such for you." thing soon, Goldstein and Steinberg. Be • It was his privilege to laugh and he did. "Say," said Philip suddenly, "have you sure to get in. And then later I'll see you It sounded to Philip more like a cackle. had dinner yet?" at the house." He noticed that Mr. Toms was shy a "No," said Mr. Toms slowly, "but--" "\~T here are they?" asked Philip, whose couple of front teeth. "But it's true, sir. "Well, then come along with me," said unbounded enthusiasm had begun to react. You are a type. I predict in no time Mr. Toms took a pencil and paper from you'll be a star!" Philip. "And on the way out I'll show 'you one of those pictures." his pocket and wrote down the address. "You really mean that?" Philip said, He gave Philip directions and told him ''I'm very much interested in the pic­ leaning over and ready to give Mr. Toms that if he had any trouble s~me pedestrian his watch. ture," said Mr. Toms', at the same time would point the way. visualizing a picture of some steaming "Be sure to see Mr. Goldstein," he in­ "Of course, I do! My dear fellow, I food. know! This is a day of types. They sisted, and he gave Philip a pat on the can talk as they will, but the face is the III back .. thing. With a face like yours, direction is No matter how Mr. Toms' appetite was The Miniature Studio, as Philip had sur­ a secondary matter. And as for a story­ inclined to gravitate, he was interested mised, was a small building, having ac­ well, you could write it yourself. In other in seeing the photograph as well. And quired its name from the size of the place. words, you'd put the picture across!" when he beheld it, he went into ecstasies, It was at present occupied by Messrs. It was wonderful enthusiasm, impulsive stood off and surveyed the one who had Goldstein and Steinberg, who had become enthusiasm, but Philip took it all to heart. sat for it, and then made comparisons in venturesome enough to strike out for them­ He glanced at himself in a mirror and the his own qeliberate way. selves. Messrs. Goldstein and Steinberg had worked for film companies and had decided face that looked back was illuminated with "This clinches it," he said. "You are a a wondrous light. that there was more money to be made 011 find! May I have this picture?" their own. They contemplated doing one "What-just what made you say that?" "If you really would like to have it, you picture and they were looking for some he asked, in the way that his father might may." way to do that picture well. They wanted ha ve put the question. "Not for myself," said Mr. Toms. to put over a knock-out-it was Gold­ Mr. Toms stood up. "Though I assure you I should cherish it stein's invariable expression for it-but "To begin with," he said, shaking a con­ at that. But with it I hope to show some just w.hat the knock-out was to be neither spicuous forefinger, "do you photograph director a golden find." for the moment had decided. well ?" It seemed easy to Philip, this business "Do you mean do I take a good picture?" In other words, they hadn't started at of getting into the movies, and already he all. But word had got around that they HYes ." was beginning to develop some of those Philip thought for a second: were going to do big things-word in­ symptoms of the swelled head. His talk spired by the crafty Goldstein, who be­ "Well, I'll show you one a little later at dinner was animated and voluble. Mr. and you can judge." lieved that advertising plays, and manu­ Toms, having won his complete confidence, scri pts had come into their offices and "Ah! I don't need to see it, but I was acquainted with his dreams. should like to, anyway. I know that you actors and others had been flocking to do. That being settled"-Mr. Toms for "I want to make good," said Philip. their doors. no reason coughed-"we get down to other "I've got to make good." And he consid­ However, just as it should happen, the assets. You don't need to be told that ered the advisability of telling Mr. Toms waiting-room was devoid of visitors when you are a handsome young man. Just a who he was. But no, Mr. Toms would Philip called. Save for a sleepy-looking second." Mr. Toms produced a tape then undoubtedly want to advertise it. In office boy who had slumped in a chair, the measure and began to take measurements. fact, he suspected that Mr. Toms would place was deserted. The boy suddenly He measured Philip's head, his face, his insist upon that. It was just as well for came to his feet. shoulders. He stood off and surveyed his the present to let Mr. Toms bring Harvey "Is Mr. Goldstein in?" asked Philip. work. J ames to the bat. And the boy, not at all impressed by the "Perfect!" he commented. "You have So the following day when he accom­ visitor, wanted to know what it was about. the most symmetrical head I have ever panied Mr. Toms into a: studio, he was "I'll tell him," said Philip, not liking seen on a man. And your features are introduced by that gentleman to another this reception any too well. superb. You will flutter the feminine gentleman' who appeared to have consid­ "You gotta state your business to me," hearts." erable to do with the casting in hand. This said the boy, with the air of a regal per­ "Do you mean," said Philip, finding that gentleman, however, was altogether too sonage who was talking to one of his he liked Mr. Toms real well, "that all matter~of-fact . He looked at Philip slaves. you say will help me?" steadily, asked a few questions and did "Just tell him Mr. James," said Philip, "Of course, I do. All you need is for some entering in a book. He didn't seem growing a little exasperated but trying to some one to bring you out. I f I had the at all inclined to enthuse. In fact, when hold his temper in check. money myself, I have no hesitancy in de­ Mr. Toms produced the picture and made "What business, Mr. James?" claring that . I would do that gladly. By a noble speech over what it was all about, "Oh, the devil!" said Philip. "Will the way, can you ride, swim and dance?" the other gentleman nodded listlessly and you go and--" "All," said Philip. appeared to be interested in a fly on the The door leading into the private office "So far, so good. You may have to do wall. . opened and Ike Goldstein came out. As any or all. And how are you fixed for "All right," he said. "Nothing doing always, Mr. Goldstein emerged with the clothes ?" to-day. Try us again to-morrow." air bf just having come out of confer­ "I can have them send on a trunk." It was to Philip a crushing blow. Why ence. "Good! I may want to borrow a thing didn't this indifferent person throw open "There's Mr. Goldstein now," said the now and then, but you are at liberty to the doors and ask him to come in? Why boy, and Philip beheld a short, rotund anything I have. We are about the same didn't he pay more attention to what Mr. man in the early fi fties whose bald head build. Only--" The difference that Toms had to say? He seemed altogether glistened on the top. Mr. Goldstein could was running through Mr. Toms' mind was too unresponsive in his talk, and Philip be either affable or disagreeable, but as in the weight. "However," he said "we put him down as an outright stick. he looked at Philip ' there came into his won't discuss that now. For the p~esent eyes that expression when he was most "Then there is nothing to-day?" Mr. desirous of making a friend. we want to get you started and I think it Toms asked, as though waiting to be would be a good thing to come along with reassured of that. "You wanted to see me?" he asked, me in the morning." . st~dying Philip intently and stroking his "Glad to," said Philip. "Do you play "Nothing. But wait I Say I maybe you chm. Those eyes of Mr. Goldstein brjght­ big parts?" can be used, Toms. Suppose you stick ened. That quick mind of his was con­ "Well, not so big," said Mr. Toms. around." necting things up. Was it possible? Could "That is, not what you would call a star. It made Mr. Toms feel a little better and it be that this fellow-no, he would wait; Or a featured player. But the movies he drew Philip aside to console him and wait as was his custom to hear what the couldn't get along without us. I am, so explain. other fellow had to say first. to speak, an extra." "We don't always hit the nail on the "My name is James," said Philip, and "Oh!" said Philio. head." he said. "But here's a tin : You oerhaos he mil!'ht have wondered whv the 63

"You are a beginner." said Mr. Gold­ , light in Mr. Goldstein'~ eyes went out. It into the films at all. His name would was as if Mr. Goldstein suddenly was get­ open the way. He'd find those who would stein deliberately. "And ve are villing to ting another trend of thoughts. be glad to exploit him. Have you thought take you under our ving. Ve like you. "J ames?" said Mr. Goldstein, as though of that?" If you do veil, ve shall make another pic­ the name didn't mean a thing. "Of course, I have. It's the very thing ture and give you a hundred a veek." "Yes, Harvey James," said Philip. "I I have in mind. If he is ' not Vander haven "Wouldn't it be well to sign Mr. James was told to ask for you, Mr. Goldstein. I he looks so much like him that ve can turn up for a year?" interposed Sam. "I f he • want a chance in the movies." it to gain. Don't you see? Ve have two comes with us, we want him to stick." "Oh, so that is it?" said Mr. Goldstein, chances." Ike sat down and counted on "To be sure," said Ike. "I vas getting who acted as though he had heard that the fingers of his, left hand. "Two chances. around to that. Ve viII sign him up for story before. "~Yell, my dear man, ve ' There is a chalice that this is Vander­ two years. And--" haven. Ve don't know. But there's the haven't started up yet." "And I'm only to get at the best a "So I was told," said Philip, who was chance. And if he ain't Vander haven, there's the chance, too." hundred a week?" Philip was not at all beginning to get a taste of the inactivity impressed. of things. "But I thought that perhaps "How?" you might be casting and--" "How? Vy, don't- you see? If we can "Vell," said Mr. Goldstein, who meas­ ured out money as he, did his salt, "ve are "Casting?" gurgled Mr. Goldstein. "Vell, get this, feller James, let it go at that that it's James, ve take a ' chance on putting not the big fellers. Ve are not a big not just yet. But--" He drew back his company. Mr. Steinberg and myself are head and surveyed Philip as though he him out. He looks the class. He don't know much what to act but ve ' can take striking out for ourselves. Ve vant to do wanted to get a good look at his ears. , right by you and by each other." There was something about Mr. Goldstein care' of that. He can learn. Believe me, that puzzled the scion of Vanderhaven he viii be as good as some that are in. "But I'd have to think it over," said House. But he had no idea what was Now ve pull our publicity stunt. VI!. an­ Philip, who, in view of the circumstances, passing through Mr. Goldstein's mind. Mr. nounce shortly before the picture is re­ didn't want to be too hasty. Toms had Goldstein was puzzled. He was only leased that ve have a feller what looks boomed him up. These two men wanted puzzled simply because he didn't believe like a veil-known society man. Who is it? to get hold of him. No, he'd look around. that two persons could look so alike. And Ve get the public aroused. Ve offer one "Of course," said Ike, "you vouldn't get then the idea that had been formulating hundred dollars to the first answer received everybody as easy as us. You go to a big in his mind taking wings, he shoved out saying who he is a dead ringer for. Ve company and vat are you? An extra, run­ a short, pudgy hand suddenly and in­ viii get thousands of replies. He must ning around in a mob. You run so Quick sisted on a shake. be veil known though I never seen his that nobody can see your features. You're This, as Phili p reflected, was as it should mug before I picked up that magazine. lost in the crowd. And you go on and on. be. He wondered why Mr. Goldstein had However, he must be known in the East. Vaiting, maybe forever, to get a chance." taken so long to discover such a gOod His pictures have been seen. Answers "011, I don't know," said Philip cockily, thing. come in. Ve give it one month. A regu­ remembering what the enthusiastic Toms "I f you viii vait," said Mr. Goldstein lar contest, you see. Then ven the time had said. "Somebody might pick me up." "ve might be able to do something at that.': expires, the letters are thrown into a barrel He might have added: "You gentlemen and the first one opened that says he looks He shot into his office suddenly and like Vanderhaven vins the prize. A mil­ seem anxious to." Philip heard the door slam. As it did, lion dollars' worth of publicity. Every­ . "Of course, somebody viii pick you up!" Sam Steinberg looked up. Sam Steinberg body viii go to see our filni." said Ike. "Ve've done that already 1 Ve was playing himself a game of tick-tack­ "And if he is Vanderhaven?" asked Sam, vant to give you a chance. And listen toe. Mr. Goldstein rudely snatched the whose interest was becoming more aroused. !1ly I?<>y, your name viii go on the scree~ paper and tore it into shreds. m bIg letters. Now I ask you vat big "Then, ve have a trump card! It viii company would do that for you right off ?" "Listen I" he said. "Alive to business! be up to him to admit who he is and ve You hear? I think ve've run across our can say in good faith that ve didn't know "Yes, that's an inducement," said Philip. chance." ourselves." "But-- " . Since Mr. Goldstein had been running "Yes, it ain't bad at all," said Sam. "But it's a Question of money, eh?" Mr. across chances for months Sam was little Goldstein spread out his unlovely fingers impressed. ' "But if he is Vanderhaven, what's his game?" on the desk. "I'll tell you!" he said sud­ "What is it this time?" he asked. "How should I know? But if he is­ denly. "I'll be a sport! I'll give you a "Shh I" e"!itted Mr. Goldstein, putting !lnd, mind you, I have the feeling that he hundred dollars a veek to start I" He a finger to hIS lips. He reached over and IS-you can bet he has reasons of his own. snapped his fingers as though he had given picked a magazine from the desk. He But I vouldn't ask him. That might spoil away his heart and banged the desk. turned the pages, stopped in the middle and "That's guaranteed I No monkey business 1 shook his head. it all. It viii all come out in gOod time if he is." You get paid I" "It's either this Vanderhaven or some­ Well, if it was a hundred, Philip natu- vone that could be a twin." The whole thing had possibilities and Sam Steinberg saw them. He was just rally thought he might get more . . "Where.?" asked Sam, looking at the "How big is the part?" he asked, pIcture wIth the wording underneath. as cheap in his ideas as this partner of his. It looked like a chance to turn a big Mr. Goldstein looked at his partner. . "Outside. I ~nt that you should see thing. So he gave his consent. "We haven't decided," said Sam. "But hIm, too. A feller calling himself Harvey you'll get a lot to do." James. Maybe he is. No doubt he is. "All right," he said, "call him in. I "I won't be the star?" said Philip a That Vanderhaven vould be a fool to come' guess we can get him cheap. We ought to little disappointed. ' be able to start on things soon." bumming around for vork. But I never :'1 f you" could act better you might," seen two human beings that looked so alike. Philip was waiting patiently and when saId Ike. Ve may have no star. Ve viii Now vat first you should do is to go to the Mr:. Goldstein came .to th~ door, Philip have featured players. You viii be one door and take a look. Then come back smIled. Mr. Goldstem smIled, too. His of them. Remember, your name goes up and I'll tell you vat I think." smile was dazzling and he pleasantly on the screen. Big letters I That's guar­ Mr. Steinberg scrambled to his feet and asked "Mr. James" to come in. anteed I" Mr. Goldstein snapped his crossed the room. He opened the door Mr. Steinberg was introduced. And fingers again and took a hasty turn up looked out for several seconds and cam~ then after c!gars had been passed around, and down the room. ',' back. Mr. ,Goldstem drew: up his chair. Philip wanted to know what featured "Veil?" said Mr. Goldstein. "Mr. James," he said, "to begin with, players meant and Steinberg explained. ~am Steinberg shook his head. you are a type I" "And a hundred's the best you'll do?" It could be this Vanderhaven but of He couldn't have made a better start so said Philip. course it isn't." , far as Philip was concerned, and he " Positively! Absolutely I" said Mr. "How do you know?" beamed. 'Goldstein. "A hundred for the first You "Well, ~rom just what you said. Why "You have the looks, the vay"-Mr. viii be under contract for two years: You • should thIS Vander haven come looking Goldstein flicked his pudgy fingers-"and make gOod the first picture and to show around for work? And if he did why you viII be made to act. Now after talk­ you I'm a sport, I'll give you two hundred should he call himself Harvey Jam~s?" ing it over with my partner, ve have de­ a week the next." "Yes, vy,?" said Mr. Goldstein. "That cided .on thi~; Ve viii make a picture. ::And the others?" Philip asked. feller outsIde vants to be an actor Vy You vIII be gIVen a good part. Ve viii try It depends on how many pictures ve shouldn't Vander haven vant to be an to get good people. Ve vill start soon. do. Anyway, come here to-morrow and actor ?" Ve viII give you, say-fifty dollars a veek. ve vill have our lawyer and be able to "But why should Vanderhaven if he That's guaranteed." settle this thing." 'fanted to b~ an actor, call himself 'Harvey "T~at's ~ot muc ~,: ' saidJ 'hi.I.!!>:_ wh~ h.ad "All right," said Philip. "We can talk !\ ~ I...... n . . , . , J r·" 64

ve'll do it. Believe me, my boy, you viii the men he interviewed, and they didn't on Mr. Toms' door. Mr. Toms was in. I be a fool if you don't show up." mean a thing to him. He wanted to get He threw the door open and upon behold­ in to directors, presidents of companies, ing who it was, gave a glad cry. IV and the like, but the doors were closed. It "You're just the man I want to see 'I" he Both Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Steinberg did seem to him that Mr. Goldstein and said. "Good news!" were fully convinced that he would show Mr. Steinberg were pretty kind at that. "Good news here," said Philip. "I've up. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup Here they had given him an audience, an been offered a part!n and the lip. offer, and Yf"t he had held back. The best Mr. Toms was all excited and wanted • However, so far as the next few hours thing to do, then, would be to go over to hear Philip's story first . When he fin­ were concerned, it was all settled in Phil­ there to-morrow and sign up. It would be ished, Mr. Toms gave him a playful crack ip's mind. He went to several of the com­ a good start and he needed work. He sud­ on the back. panies and whether it was an off day or denly remembered that he had just a few "What did I tell you?" he cried. "You're what, he couldn't even get extra work. He do\)ars left. a type! Already you've been picked up! couldn't, also, get in to those he wanted to So upon reaching the rooming house, he There's something else coming your way." see. Harvey James didn't mean a thing to went straight up the stairs and knocked (To be continucd)

The Reviewer Has His Say (Conti,~ued from page 53) the inevitable catastrophe occurs. Such this a corking good melodrama. He is Moderately Diverting melodramas build true to form. There here, there and everywhere-and he acts must needs be romantic conflict and a without a trace of self-consciousness-a HIS MAJESTY BUNKER BEAN (Warner measure of villainy. Place these elements quality that might be adopted by some of Brothers) doesn't live up to its against an appropriate background satu­ the leading thespians, as well as tha't promise. It is just a moderately diverting rated with detail and atmosphere and you other quality of registering zest for the version of a story that contains rich possi­ have a picture which is, at least, sound, work. bilities for entertainment. Surely the drama tic ally . . , As in most stories of this kind, the un­ original by Harry Leon Wilson and the Of such material is The Limited Mail derlying theme has to do with the dog play by Lee Wilson Dodd carried much (Warner Brothers), which doesn't have rescuing his friends. He loves his master more spark and humor-and the figures any pretentions, but which tells its story -does Rinny, so it is quite natural that he were much more real. In the picture the with fair economy of effort and saves its would be relentless in punishing the vil­ comedy highlights are missing-with the big climax for the finish. lain. But he does more than attack this result that it becomes just so much slap­ Monte Blue is the chap in overalls who bad actor; he has to fight a whole pack stick. In other words, it has been ex­ pilots the Limited Mail on its wild of ferocious bloodhounds .. aggerated. Perhaps the director thought journey. \Vhen the crash comes, he is There is one scene which is unusually that the formula needed to be freshened able to tell the girl that his only rival is vivid and thrilling. It presents a race up a bit. However, in the process killed. This picture carries a punch and between Rinny and the pack. With the of developing it he has used very broad like most of the others of its type it camera following the dogs, in the same hokum. doesn't take to the switch in telling its manner that it is set up to record a horse­ Matt Moore is cast as the timid youth story. M,r. Blue, Vera Reynolds, Tom race, you can well imagine the effect ac­ who finally believes in himself. But we Gallery, Willard Louis and the others complished. think that this actor is out of his element take care of their assignments efficiently. These are but samples of the stunts here. He just doesn't get the hang of furnished by the dog star. He climbs the role as created on the stage. We fol­ Creighton Hale Has His over barriers of dizzy height-and makes low him consulting two fake clairvoyants Moments that death grip work overtime. In all, who tell him that he's the incarnated here is a fast-moving melodrama the ex­ spirit of Napoleon. When he fails to THERE .are very few actors who could citement of which causes you to forget overcome his in feriority complex, the seers have gotten so much out of Swen the obviousness of its plot. And Rin-Tin­ trace him back to some ancient Egyptian Days (Producers Distributing Corp.) as Tin deserves all the credit that doesn't go king. . Creighton Hale. This young man has ' to the director in putting him through his Had the picture been pitched in a been around a long while, but it strikes capers. John Harron and June Marlowe quieter key it might have hit the bull's­ us that his accomplishments have not seem rather unimportant compared with eye. been appreciated fully. Probably because· the canine wonder. he hasn't been given just the right assign­ Not So Exciting ments. He is a first-rate light comedian. Just Another Picture All one need to do to discover that fact FRED THOMSON'S newest entry, Ridi,,' is to watch his work in the picture, By no stretch of imagination can A Son the Wind (Film Booking Offices), adapted from the play of the same name. of His Father (Paramount) , be ca\)ed doesn't come within a mile of his last He more than makes up for the dearth anything else than just another picture. previous pictures. It is cast in a very of plot and novelty of situation by timing Harold Bell Wright's plot offers no quiet mood if you compare it to The Wild every situation correctly. He gets results originality - and there's nothing human Bul/'s Lair or That Dwil Quemado. The without resorting to gags and gestures. nor convincing about the characterization. hope of seeing an "up and moving" type Everything seems to have been subordi­ of Western is mostly dissipated. Even In the role of the young fellow who nated to build incident. The figures are dece;ves a gossipy aunt by taking on a Silver King. the noblest s~eed in the phony bride, he breezes through with sharply divided. The hero is supposed to Thomson stables, is kept from executing plenty to spare. You see the old lady does be a fighter like his father (hence the any of his startling tricks. Aside from not know that her nephew is already title), while the villain is the usual black­ pushing an auto, which has seen better guard. Between them they fight over an days, down a hill and gloating over it divorced. Hence the reason for hood­ Irish colleen transplanted from the old winking her. with a nod of his head, the horse keeps sod to the alfalfa country of the South- pretty well subdued. The picture may lack originality (in­ west. ' deed the idea has often been employed The plot traces the effort of the high­ The action depends entirely upon a in one shape or another), but it moves minded hero to prevent the girl from Westerner winning the love of the pretty briskly enough-and is brightened up with learning about the disgrace of her weak­ school-teacher and establishing himself as an exceptionally clever array of smart ling brother. All of this calls for heroic the proper man to become a party to the and witty captions. It makes fairly lively sacrifices, heavy villainy and the usual nuptials. Thus he is forced to rout the entertainment-the type of entertainment climatic fight when the bad hombres are bad hombres. that will please seven persons out of ten. routed. There is some melodramatic conflict to What mbre can you ask? The picture has nothing but stock stir up the romance, but it never arouses situations, which preclude any chance to much suspense. After bits of typical Rin-Tin-Tin Does His Stuff provide suspense or action. Warner Bax­ action stray into the plot, the picture comes THAT extraordinary canine, Rin-Tin­ ter plays the son. We'll have to dismiss to an end. In the cast are Jacqueline Tin, accomplishes wonders in B elMIJ him with an "adequate." Bessie Love Gadsen, Betty Scott, Lewis Sargent, ~~~ , Li?:.e .. (~,ar~~r B,ro~hers). I~ fact, .the pl.ay.s !he ~olle~n with a certain amount David Dunbar and David Kirby, 65 Heroes of the Border ( Col/timled from page 12) route. When the attack on the supply law under the name of my State as you of the Kansas bad man and urged him train was inade, the soldiers were them­ are." to resume his scouting duties for the Gov­ selves in ambush, and killed or arrested "What State might you hail from?" ernment ; but just then at that stage the the entire gang. "I might hail from Texas, but I'm not Civil War broke out, the Government • It was some months after his escape telling you." troops were transferred, and Jack entered from the Indians that Jack joined a train '"I guess you are a greaser," taunted the the Confederate army as a scout and path­ of gold-seekers going into New Mexico, man from Kansas. finder, serving the Southern States as having resigned his position as scout for "And I gu'ess you're a liar I" Buffalo Bill and Wild Bi11 Hickock served the Government, but he soon tired of A crowd had gathered round the two the Northern. mining; and we now come to the interest­ men, and Kansas Kit looked particularly The writer of this sketch first met ing story how Mr. John B. Omohundro vicious as he replied : Texas jack in Denver in 1880. He was of Virginia came to be known ' as Texas "Say, boy, I'll have to clip your claws, then the star of a dramatic company in Jack. I reckon; but as I wants to know all which he was presented as. a plainsman, about you for the obituary and tomb­ scout and Indian fighter, and was married Earns His Monicker stone, I again ask you from what State to Morlachi, a very handsome, womanly do you hail?" and graceful premiere danseuse of Italian HAVING parted company from his min- ing partners, he jauntily rode into "From Texas." birth, who had a prominent part in the Santa Fe one day on his Indian horse, "Ah," exclaimed the bully ; "I ain't got performance. caparisoned with a gorgeous Mexican sad­ a word to say again that State, and as dle, with a gold buckle on his belt, shining you comes from there I'll christen you Joins Buffalo Bill Texas Jack." silver trimmings on his sombrero and NTER the war Texas Jack was active jingling spurs of shining metal on his With that the bad man from Kansas on the Western frontier chiefly as a boot heels. He put up at the best hotel, suddenly raised and uncorked a bottle of guide for big-game hunters from the East and after sprucing up a bit, strolled out in wine he held in his hand and shattered and Europe. Here he and Buffalo Bi11 the evening in search of a little innocent it on Jack's head, deluging him with the were frequently thrown into each other's amusement. Hearing the sound of music wine and sending him to the floor in a company, and final1y were induced by Ned and shuffling feet, he was lured into one of heap, unconscious. Buntline, the novelist, who made them the numerous dance halls of the place. When he awoke he found himself in his room at the hotel, where he had been famous by his stories of the plainsman in For some time he surveyed the swaying sent by the senorita. He was shaken up the N tW York W u kly, to appear together couples on the dance floor with that vague but not badly injured. He discovered that in a play, The Scouts of the Plains, in interest of one who is a complete stranger Kansas Kit had not been content with his which Wild Bill joined them. When the and fearsome of venturing to ask a girl achievement, but that he had taken Jack's latter left the combination, Bil1 and Jack to dance with him. He was relieved of horse and saddle, and in the fulness of starred together in another play for sev­ this responsibility by a handsome, star­ his insolent pride left word that if the eral years, and then parted company, each eyed senorita, who presently approached owner wished to recover his property, the appearing by himself until Cody founded him and asked him to be her partner. present custodian could be interviewed at his Wild West show. There was probably no finer-looking speci­ a certain gambling place known as Monte Texas Jack had gone to Leadville from men of manhood within several hundred Hall. Denver. His wife was appearing at the. miles than Jack, and he and the senorita Grand Central, a permanent theater having were soon a center of attraction. Kills a Bad Man a stock company for the performance of plays as wel1 as a company composed en­ The pair were getting along right well JACK now had a title but he still lacked until Jack was approached by a stalwart satisfaction, and in quest of this solace tirely of vaudevil1e actors, who catered person of decidedly sullen appearance, for his injured pride he promptly pre­ chiefly to the miners who filled the boxes known in the town as a typical bad man, sented himself at the appointed place and from the close of the dramatic performance who said he objected to the Virginian's ,confronted the ' gambler in the midst of a . to the peep of day and often got so full attentions to the senorita on the ground crowded room of card and faro players. of enthusiasm and champagne that they that he had a prior claim upon her regard. There was a short, sharp interview. One threw gold and silver coins on the stage '"I reckon that's for the lady to decide," of the Kansas Kit's sycophantic friends by the handful. drawled Jack. jeeringly suggested that they fight a duel. "This is not .time for trouble," retorted The suggestion was accepted, the duel to A Favorite Everywhere the other; "but if I should ever meet you take place then and there. ALL who came in contact with Texas again I'd like to know what to cal1 you. An army officer, Captain Kelmon, hap­ Jack liked him. There was certainly ~1y name is Kansas Kit." pened to be present and offered to act as a strain of the real gentleman in him. As "And mine is Jack." Jack's second. The further arrangements an honorary member of the Tabor Light "Hain't you got a handle to it?" de­ were looked after by Captain Kennon. A Cavalry company of Leadville, he would manded Kansas Kit. lane was formed so as to leave a wide join the boys on their rides into the moun­ "\Vell, then, my name is Jack Omohun­ space for the dueli'sts, and it was agreed tains, and if strongly urged would give an dro, and I ain't ashamed of it, as you that the men would fire at the word exhibition of his ski11 as a revolver shot, probably are of yours," came back the "three" as counted off by the officer. The by stripping his horse of its .saddle and, reply. two men faced each other from opposite like a Comanche, shooting at a card from "Jack what?" insisted the Kansan. walls of the smoke-filled room. At the under the animal's neck while hanging on "Omohundro." word "three," two shots rang out, and the mane and with one foot over the "O-my-hunky-o," sneered the other. Kansas Kit collapsed where he stood, with horse's haunch. The writer never knew '"\·Vhat a name I" a bul1et hole through his forehead. His him to miss his mark. "There's one thing about it I like," said adversary was uninjured. He died in Leadvi11e in the winter of J ack. Jack desired to stand trial, but Captain 1880 of pneumonia. His body lay in state "What's that?" Kennon assured him that the town was at the Tabor Opera House and the writer "It's my. own, and I'm not dodging the only too glad to be relieved of the society was appointed one of his pall-bearers. Stalking the Stars (Continued from page 60 ) Now comes the news that Zona Gale's UNABLE to resist the lure of the Kleigs, C AN it be that Wallace Beery intends to Fa·i"t Perfllme wil1 be presented in the Gaylord Lloyd, brother of Harold, is become a cowboy star? His very spoken version at the New York N eigh­ retiring as casting director of the star's latest exploit was riding a wild steer, and borhood Playhouse. Like her Miss Llllu outfit and will resume his career immedi­ then bull-dogging it. And .he didn't do Bett, it has been offered in every possible ately. Gaylord will remain with Harold this rodeo trick for a picture, but just for medium-as a magazine serial, a published and wil1 specialize in character work. His amusement. He attended a rodeo at novel, a newspaper sedal, a motion picture last screen appearance was as a general in Cheyenne and was challenged to pul1 the --and now a play. Which is something one of the mythical Paradise armies of Hoxie and Mix stuff. And Wally got of a feather in Miss Gale's cap. Why Worry. away with it. 66 The Girl Who Made Them Laugh , (Continued from page 15) As may be imagined, Alberta's defection harbor. It was at night, and Alberta wore stirring experiences which she undergoes to the movies caused more than a slight only a flimsy evening gown, in the movies. furore in the ranks of the Vaughn house­ hold. Papa Vaughn, a wholesale furni­ She Shivered Beautifully Love Me, Love My Dog , ture dealer, had small tolerance for the The director singled her out of the The Vaughns-father, mother, Alberta rosy promises of the movies; the sure crowd for a close-up. "You shiver beau­ and Ada Mae-live in a two-story house profits of the wholesale furniture business tifully," he complimented her. "But," in the heart of Hollywood, along with a looked a lot more solid to him. said Alberta, "he didn't know the shivers dog named "Bonnie," One must be care­ And besides, as he often told Alberta: were rea!." ful in talkillg with Alberta. If she ever "You ought to be in schoo!." At the close of her engagement with gets started on the subject of "Bonnie," Mother Vaughn, while she didn't believe the Sennett Studio, Alberta was placed there's no stopping her. According to Alberta would ever set the world on fire, under a long-term contract for F. B. O. Alberta, he (or maybe she) is just plain took a more tolerant view. It was Mother attractions, and· is still engaged on that dog althollgh possessing superhuman in­ Vaughn who engaged a private tutor to contract. There is every indication she telligence. "Bonnie" opens doors, carries keep Alberta up in her studies, and who will soon be given leading roles in fea­ handbags and makeup cases, and has a cheered her on when her spirits flagged. ture -length special productions made room of his own in the Vaughn house­ under the F. B. O. banner. hold, with a bed and everything. There W as Never a Bathing Beauty One of her first F. B. O. assignments are dog pictures on the wall, and all the was a leading role in the telephone girl comforts and conveniences which might Alberta's first picture appearances were series, and it was there she lellped to appeal to a dog of such unusual intelli­ with such comedians as Harry Sweet and almost instant public recognition. She gence. Lee Moran. She went to Fox and worked went from there to the Go Gl'tter series, "Adorable" was the word Alberta used with Lupino Lane and Clyde Cook. Mack and then into the Pace Makers, all ·of In referring to "Bonnie." Sennett signed her, and she worked on which added further to her fame. the Sennett lot for several months and When it was decided to make The Ad­ Fond of Music never wore a bathing suit I But she was ven.tures of MOIi.zie, dealing with the It is worthy of note that Alberta, like co-starred with Harry Gribbon and had affairs of a stenographer who is beautiful her stage counterpart, Elsie Janis, is fond the lead in the first Harry Langdon but somewhat dumb, Alberta was picked of music. She emotes much more satis­ comedy. . . for the starring role. factorily to tnusic. Probably because she broke in via the "And I've had to be dumb for months," When she's a star in feature-length "funny face" route, Alberta was invari­ she complained whimsically as, perched comedy-dramas, she intends to have an ably placed in comedies, At first she con­ on the edge of a desk in an office at the eight-piece orchestra on the set playing fessed to a yearning for heavy dramatic F. B. 0, Studios, she crossed and un­ continuously. roles, but that soon faded. Now she is crossed her trim silk-clad ankles, And as for the rest of the family-­ "sold" on comedies, and hopes to play In aehieving stardom, Alberta has jus.ti­ Well, Papa Vaughn is still true to the parts like Colleen Moore or Constance fied the faith of the Wampas, that or­ wholesale furniture business, but Mother Talmadge. ganization of shrewd young men who, Vaughn has become sufficiently movie­ It may have been her one experience in in 1923, selected her as one of their struck to stay around the studios a great drama that rather soured Alberta on that "Baby Stars" and predicted for her a deal of the time. And Ada Mae, who is sort of thing. She was borrowed one career of great success. a striking blonde, has already signed on time by the Paramount people and played As for her home life, it's a lot more the dotted line for a part in a forthcoming in a panic scene on a yacht in Los Angeles simple than would be indicated by the Emory Johnson production. The Reviewer Has His Say (Continued from page 64) Evelyn Brent Has Another share of suspense, but even with this Since the plot carried no dramatic sub­ element in its place the story lacks punch stance the director should have compen­ Crook Role and interest. sated for its shortcomings by relying upon EVELYN BRENT appea!"s again as a crook Miss Brent deserves much better ma­ the local color and atmosphere. The who finds redemptIon and travels the teria!. She'll do her part if she gets the acting is capable enough-with Donald straight and narrow path. In her latest chance. Keith and Clara Bow conducting the ro­ picture, Three Wise Crooks (Film Book­ mance. Henry Walthall and Mary Alden ing Offices), the star is as sincere as ever Bright College Years appear in parental roles, but their acting and succeeds in vesting her role with PERCY MARKS' best seller, The Plastic opportunities are few. The Plastic Age authority, but the plot is trite and un­ Age (Schulberg), has been converted. is just fair entertainment. convinCing and filled with obvious hokum. into celluloid, and it shapes up as a fairly Which rrevents us from placing it in the accurate picture of college life. The Jack Hoxie Appears same c ass as Smooth as Sa.tin, after psychology of youth, .the impressions and BUSTIN' THRO UGH (Universal) is just which it is apparently modeled. reactions of the boy which were so domi­ an ordinary Western, which follows The girl and her crooked pal find the nant on the printed page, have not been the usual line of action, In this case, the city trail too hot for them. They hike brought out very emphatically in the central figure must be under a cloud of to the country where under the sweet and screen version. suspicion as a thief and he must be simple charm of a kind, old woman they The picture reduces itself to a simple harassed 'til the climax in order that he are regenerated. The hokum is piled on little romance of the young collegiate­ may outwit his enemies for the happy pretty thick in the rustic scenes. The old whose 'four years on the campus take in ending, lady brings forth a picture of her dead a hazing ' episode, some athletic incident The hero owns some valuable land daughter and remarks to the pretty crook, in which our hero makes the football team which is wanted by the scheming father "She'd be just your age had she lived." -and the love affair which stirs up a of the heroine. Thus the conflict is in­ There are other bits of incident typical certain amount of jealousy in the heart troduced. When the villain appears to of this type of plot. The heroine plays of a rival. double-cross the parent (with whom he is hymns on the organ and one of her pals The film is as quiet as its setting. a partner) and to make things unpleasant plays around with a homespun girl­ There's nothing in it to get very excited for the cow-puncher, the latter gets right which introduces the comedy relief. over. The director might have been more up on his hind feet and puts him in his The action carries on obviously and accurate with his atmosphere and he proper place-behind the bars. There is terminates with a climax in which the might have gone to greater length in a ' fair amount of hard riding, and some crooks foil the native skinflint by stealing staging his football game. quick rescue work. When the action tuns his mOlley, . wrung from widows and The things you expect to see, like the its course, the hero saves the girl from a orphans, and returning it to the victims. boys wearing wide trousers and going runaway team. An average Western, this There is a detective employed to harass bare-headed-these are touches which be­ ---;with Hoxie and Helen Lynch occupying the crooks. He serves in bringing out a long here, but which have been neglected. the important roles. 67 The Road to Yesterday (Continued from page 35) wonderful, Malena. It was then that he stricken and miserable, went to her room had prayed for himself had accomplished took me in his arms and kissed me." and locked the door. It was only after­ nothing. Now he prayed for someone wards that she knew where Ken went else-for the woman he loved, to save • THREE weeks after this strange en- when he left the house-of his visit to her, not for himself, but because her life counter between little Beth Tyrell and Jack in the mission church in the slums, was too precious to be lost. Jack Moreland, the Paultons, established and of the scene of blasphemy, when Ken­ Fighting the smoke, praying for in Kenneth's ancestral manor, gave a re­ neth cursed his friend and his God. All ception in honor of his home-coming with strength, Kenneth beat his way through she knew at' the time was that on her the wreckage. The beam which pinned his wife. To the outside world, Malena husband's return to the house, instead of and Ken were a happy bride and groom, Malena down was too heavy for mortal going to his own room, he came to hers strength to lift. Yet Kenneth, in spite but their actual status had not altered and knocked on the door. The lockc:d since the hour at sunset when Kenneth of his crippled arm, in fact using it, Ii fted door and her silence acted as a match the beam and dropped it to one side. Then had left her in bitter disillusion. Now, to gunpowder. He pounded on it and however, his bitterness had gone. With in both arms, he lifted Malena and carried at last, throwing his weight against it, her away from the burning wreck, and all his heart he had prayed for his wife's uurst it open. love, and for the full recovery of his into the little church beside the track, injured arm, and he felt that his prayers M ALENA, frightened and outraged, where the wounded were being brought. would be answered. That very night a fought desperately against him, try­ noted specialist was coming to examine ing to escape. But he seized her, with a JACK MORELAND had overtaken the train his arm, and Ken fully believed that thl! savage cry that she was his wife, and a moment after the collision. Wildly verdict would be favorable. then all went dark in the soul of Malena. he searched through car after car for Among their guests were to be Beth When he left her, Malena, desperate and Beth. At last, smashing his way through Tyrell and her Aunt, and-unknown to determined, threw a few things into a bag, wreckage, he reached the upturned draw­ Beth- Jack Moreland, Kenneth's new and left the house, vowing never to enter it ing-room, and there was Beth, imprisoned, valued friend. Beth's joy at again meet­ again, and boarded the midnight train for but safe and conscious. She refu ~ ed to ing Jack was somewhat lessened when Chicago, to return to her people. She let him carry her away until he had lifted she saw him in clerical dress, but he, knew nothing of her husband's plan to go the unconscious Adrian, and carried him taking her love for granted, asked her to Chicago that night. In his mood of to safety. Then, once more in the strong to marry him. The hurried sequence of desperate bitterness, he had not stopped arms of the man she loved, Beth felt her­ events, she told later to her friend, to tell her what the specialist had said. self carried against his heart, out of the Malena. She was fleeing from him, and he, never smoke and confusion and horror, safely At first, Beth, concealing her love for suspecting her flight, took the same train. into the place of refuge-the little church Jack, scoffed at the idea of marrying a Beth and Adrian were in a drawing­ -where she found Malena and Kenneth. clergyman. She told him that all her room. Jack, discovering the crazy plan, Later when the two girls were once more friends would ridicule her and she hated tried to catch the train, and failing, tore at home--or rather in Malena's home to be laughed at. Jack, a little scandalized after it in his motor, hoping, by taking where they all motored in Jack's car­ by her apparently flippant attitude, over­ short cuts, to overtake it at a junction. Beth told to her lover and her two came her resistance and made her consent The drama of four lives drew swiftly friends, Malena and Kenneth, a tale so to marry him. Then, to his disgust, she to a crisis. Malena, feeling that her life strange and marvelous, that it must be told him it must be a modern "trial" mar­ was ruined, wished she were dead. Ken­ told here in her own words. riage-the kind she had planned to have neth, distracted by what he had done, "I hammered and hammered on the door with Adrian. Jack, honestly outraged by made up his mind to kill himself. And of that stateroom. Suddenly J tell back her insincerity, treated Beth with the while all this misery was torturing the on the floor. I suppose I was what is sternness she deserved, and· she, true to hearts of Malena and Kenneth. unknown called unconscious, yet I knew all the her modern notions of independence, let to either of them, Beth was having her time where I was and who I was. I her anger and humiliation drive her from own drama in the drawing-room of the never once, during the strange flight of his love back to Adrian. She told Adrian sleeper. .Adrian, losing his head, or per­ my soul, lost the sense of my identity as that she would marry him on her own haps, taking too much for granted, and Beth Tyrell. terms, and he agreed on condition that not reckoning with Beth's inherent inno­ "Call it a dream, or memory, anything she run away with him on the sleeper to cence, attempted to assert the mastery of you like. I was back in 1625, the ward Chicago that night. F{)olish little Beth which he was now certain. Beth, dis­ of Lord Strengevon-that's Ken's ances­ agreed. tracted by fear; fought with great fury tor, whose portrait is up on that wall­ and abandon to hold him at bay. Just at and he wanted to marry me to get my WHILE all this drama, with Beth as its this fateful moment in the lives of these property. I didn't love him, and I escaped heroine, was going on, Ken had his four young people, Fate took a hand. from his castle and ran away, while he interview with the specialist, who had pursued me. I met a discharged soldier arrived while the party was in full swing. A SUDDEN roar, deafening and horrible; -that was Jack-and he helped to hide From that interview he emerged more a crash; the sounds of ripping me in an Inn. Strengevon was really in bitter and disillusioned than before. His timbers and splintering glass; a submerg­ love, or had been, with a beautiful gypsy arm required an immediate operation ing sound of terror in which human cries, girl. That was you, Malena. He had which might save it. He must go to shrill and piercing, mingled with the hiss married her according to gypsy rites, but Chicago 011 the midnight train. of escaping steam and the grinding of had tired. He was cruel and hard, and Malena, alarmed by a peremptory mes­ steel upon steel. The train rocked and he declared that his will was stronger sage from her husband to break up the swayed, then settled, some of the cars than the will of God. party, met him in the hallway after the upturned. , "A great deal of what I am tetring you guests had gone. In a flash she saw that In the drawing-room, Adrian was happened so I could see and hear it-be a terrible change had come over him. The stunned and Beth imprisoned-the window a part of it. Some of it I seemed to know gentleness of the. last few days had van­ out of reach and the door jammed. Ken­ had happened or was happening. For ex­ ished. He looked stern and hard, and neth, picking himself up from the wreck­ ample, the meeting between Malena and! she shrank from him with a more con­ age, was barely on his feet when the Strengevon-Iet me call him Ken, for· scious fear than she had felt before. At locomotive of the colliding train crashed he looked to be Ken-in the woods out­ that moment she glanced up at a portrait through the shattered car, coming toward side her gypsy tent, when he stopped to of an ancestor of Ken's whose hard and him. Then he heard a low cry-his speak to her while on his WilY to find me. cruel face looked down at her from the name called in Malena's voice. No time Malena begged him to be true to her, I canvas. Her eyes flew back to Ken's for surprise, horror or any other emo­ but he taunted and accused her of help­ face and she saw it trailS formed under tion. Malena lay pinned on the cow­ ing me to escape. her gaze into a visage as relentless as catcher by a huge beam. With a cry of "Ken finally came upon me in the Inn, that of. his ancestor. terror, he sprang to reach her, but felt where I was disguised in boy's clothes. She could no more have hidden her himself thrown backward. At that mo­ His name for me was 'Lady' Elizabeth! fear of him than she could have explained ment the wreck caught fire. Flames and He told me he would marry me that night what the fear . meant. With a sudden smoke shut his wife from him, yet her in his castle, and I shrieked that I start and a sneer, Kenneth told her that voice called . his name once again. wouldn't because he was Malena's hus­ he would discuss the matter with her Then, for the first time in his Ii fe, band. I called upon Jack to save me. but after he had settled with a friend. Kenneth really .prayed to his God. The Strengevon's men fought and overcame ;'L~_ ' '-.... ~ ~. .. ..,_ , _ i-- _ __ _ _ ------_ L_ L_--' ,,_!_~ .... \"'~1: ...... 4lIo ~ ...... 1..4 ... k G f r"".'; +tH nA ,,4t hn nb 7Q) 68 Go West , (Continued from page 45) was no place for a man of Homer's com­ Square lights and an attractive blonde that this man meant no good, so once more plexes-the foreman had made this very who happened to be passing. "And this he streaked over the roofs of the rocking plain. isn't such a bad little burg, either," he cars. When capture seemed imminent, Later-that night-he was in a box-car ruminated, dodging a taxi. Homer applied his knee to the pursuing f again, bound for the great open spaces of But the call of the Great West was official and with one bound reached the the West where men were men and not strong in Homer's bosom, so as soon as ladder leading to the bumpers between the foremen. Texas Guinan's new night club had closed cars. He descended this in record time, "My West '" he murmured, as the car and another day streaked its way along ascended the ladder on the next car, and rattled and jerked in its journey toward the horizon toward Brooklyn, young in this way managed to get the whole the setting sun. "My great, big, wonder- Holliday made for the freight yards and' length of the train. The conductor and ful West '" . found his old box-car. the two brakemen followed his example. Now, Homer made one tactical error : "It's good to be home again," he said "This is rather amusing. It's like a He had wanted to go West. Yes, that with feeling, as he found a sandwich and game," said Homer. And then he felt was wher.e Homer had wanted to go. But decided upon a light breakfast. "Now the hot breath of the Western desert rise in all his entire career the things he had this train can't go much farther East un­ up and strike him in the face, and at the wanted he had never gained. less it goes into the river, so it must be same time a new railroad tunnel rose up Passed a number of days, during which going West toward the land of my and struck him on the head. This caused he kept himself carefully concealed in his dreams." Homer had picked up quite a Homer to leave the train and take to the box-car, which was easier now, for Homer little knowledge of geography in his desert very suddenly. was growing thinner. Little or no food wanderings. Homer rolled away, the train rolled eaten while concealed in a box-car is one It was just about the instant that Homer away, and thus our hero and his box-car of the choicest remedies known to medical was apostrophizing the land of his dreams parted company forever. science today to preserve one's youthful that a hard-faced brakeman discovered When Homer was able to brush the figure. Homer grew svelte, lithe and him. He tried to locate Homer, but the constellations from in front of his eyes, sheiklike. latter had learned various ways of hiding he gazed around him. He noticed a large On the third or fourth day he found out, and it was with a song in his heart rattlesnake a few feet ahead of him. The the atmosphere growing decidedly chilly, that he heard the engine whistle and the serpent was coiled up, looking Homer over. and this, he believed, indicated high alti­ traip start on its way. "Why, this is a real Eden," said Homer. tudes, and he was certain that at last he "Well, there's no other direction but "If there was only a woman here-now, must be crossing the Rockies. West left to go," he said to himself, for for instance. And I think I could eat an Again he opened the door of his car, after many days of solitude in a box-car apple," he added, trying to swallow, as the and, finding himself in the pine woods, he Homer was going a little goofy and held desert sand got into his parched throat. at once pole-vaulted to the conclusion that long conversations with himself. "How Despite the Eden-like appearance of this he had reached his destination. The first in the world can men be men?" he com­ great space, Homer backed away from time the train slowed down, Homer slipped plained, "if they can't get to that big the snake and sat down; but he made the to the ground beside the track and made he-man's country out toward the wester­ mistake of sitting on a cactus and he de­ for a cluster of shacks which betokened a ing sWl? How, I repeat," he continued, cided to stand up again and to keep stand­ camp of some sort. The foreman, a giant and then, coining a phrase, he added: ing. He felt hungry, too, and, shading Swede, looked him over quizzically. "Echo answers nothing." his eyes, was delighted to make out some "Please, kind sir, I would like a job," Each day, now, he grew more hopeful. low buildings in the distance. He heard said Homer. "I'd like to ride over the Peeping from the chinks in the car and a low whinny, too, and turning, saw a sage-brush and whip my wide hat at the keeping out of sight of the keen-eyed mustang galloping near him. vast hordes of cattle sweeping over the brakemen, Homer saw many large butter­ "Come on, horsie," invited the young wide plains," he added. "Why, yuh ornery and-egg men at the various stations. man. His keen brain had realized that short-horn," he continued, falling into "Verily, I'm on my way to God's coun­ here was a means of getting to the low Western vernacular, "I'd like--" try'" he chortled in .glee. And then, as buildings in the distance. "Yust a minute," broke in the blond the sun was sinking one day-it was to­ "Nice horsie," he repeated, and this time giant. H\Vhat's the idea? You ban ward evening-he noticed the prairie, and he managed to mount the mustang. He lumber-yack? You ban wood-chopper?" something told Homer that perseverance remained mounted for a full second; then "You know it, hombre," said Homer, had won. He was in the West at last! the horse deposited him with considerable reaching for the Swede's tobacco and The train came to a stop, and so Homer, force on the' floor of the desert and gal­ papers and trying to roll a cigarette with like any well-regulated Cook's Tourist, loped away. So Homer made the journey one hand. "I used to cut all the kindling alighted to get the air and limber his to the ranch on foot. for my uncle." limbs. The engineer was inconsiderate Homer's debut as a cowboy on the ranch "Save that yazz talk for vaudeville," enough to start the train while Homer of Matthew Thompson was entirely unex­ commanded the upstanding Norseman, as was trying to catch a jack-rabbit, some pected. When the young argonaut dis­ he lurched a Number Eleven shoe in distance away from his car. covered a pair of chaps and a cowboy's Homer's direction. The upstanding Norse­ "Hi '" yelled the young adventurer, hat in the ditch, he did not realize that man had evidently practiced this before, racing after the train. "Hold!" they belonged to a discharged employe. for he caught the recedjng Homer ac­ While the engineer paid no attention to He clothed himself in the discarded re ~ curately. Our Hero, thus helped on his these shouts, Homer just managed to catch galia, wandered toward the ranch-house way, once more found asylum in a friendly the hand-rail of the caboose's rear plat­ and claimed to be a cow-puncher of ex­ box-car. form, and as he swung himself aboard perience. "Can I ride?" he repeated in He was more certain than ever after found himself confronted by the conductor answer to the rancher's question. "Why, this experience that Horace Greelj!Y had and a pair of brakemen. say, boss, I've seen the time when I've been quite a citizen. The Swede, between "Where ' are you goin' ?" came a trio actually slept in the ' saddle. That's me. his helpful' gestures, had told Homer that of voices . . boss, a hard-ridin', straight-shootin' son he was in the heart of the Canadian ''I'm on my way to the golden West," 0 ' the West." woods. The South was no place for a said Homer, proudly. "Out where--" Gloria Thompson, the rancher's daugh­ young man and neither was the North. "Out is right '" repeated the trainmen ter, looked on simperingly. Her heart The West was the place for a young as they started to give Homer the bum's fluttered as she admired this stalwart man, and Homer set out in that direction rush. But as quick as they were, Homer youth. She slept little that night. She again, resolved to reach Pike's Peak or was quicker, and levering himself to the felt that she was in love, and, indeed. bust. top of the car, sprinted along the roof Homer also felt that in this girl of the Now, Homer made one tactical error. of the train. The trainmen speeded close golden West he had found his ideal. Destiny whirled him around until he was behind, and the red-faced conductor yelled Now, upon the Thompson Ranch dwelt dizzy and he went East, by mistake, trust various remarks after the non-paying one Brown-Eyes, a peaceful muley cow. Homer for that. After several days he passenger. Homer continued to love Gloria· and still found himself in New York. . Finally Homer stopped. "I can't hear have a great deal of affection left over Horace used his eyes and after careful you with all this noise of the train," he for Brown-Eyes. It almost broke his deduction doped out that this was. a big, said, politely. "Do you wish to stop the youthful heart when he ' learned, one day, ... teeming city. "I'll bet many a girl's heart train so that I mlly get off?" that Brown-Eyes was scheduled to go to has been broken on this gay street," he The conductor made a lunge at Homer. the slaughter-house. The ranch-hands said to' himself, wiping away a tear that ' "It won't be necessary to stop no train '" liked Brown-Eyes, but they were unscrupu- he might get a better view of the Times he replied, grimly. And then Homer saw (C ontinued on page 80) , Advertising Section 69 VICTOR SEASTROM Director , ORMA SHEAR.ER. am/LON CHANEY directed hlJ VICTOR SEASTR.OM in "THE TOWER OF LIES" Still another proof of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's superb genius for selecti,ng Stars and Directors to produce the utmost in motion. picture art.

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he had concealed his horse, Fred Burgess "Give 'im the rowel I" he commanded "Must be kinda tedious peelin' spuds all leaped to the back of the animal and rode Malloy. "We're right in their path 1 day," , Callahan offered, as an opener. swi ftly away. Neenah, aghast at what she Quick I" "Ever do any ridin'?" had seen, hesitated a moment and then With the brown avalanche behind them, The potato-peeler shook his head. :'N ope," fearfully entered the cabin. She noticed their· horses broke into a sudden, elastic he answered. "I f I gatta have bhsters, I that Malloy, too, had seen the hastily de­ lope. Gradually Dan's mount drew away want 'em on my feet." parting horseman, and he brushed by her from the horse of his captor, and, looking At the end of a fifteen-minute interview quickly as he made for his own horse to around, the cow-puncher saw that the ani­ to which the seedy-looking cook's helper give chase. The Indian maid tried to com­ mal of Harkness had bolted and had had mainly contributed monosyllables, Cal-, fort the grief-stricken Marie, despite the thrown the s~rlet - coated figure to the lahan rejoined Regan. "I reckon I was fact that her own emotions were in a tur­ ground, wher'e it lay straight in the path on the wrong track at that," he admitted. moil, and she was glad to see the tall form of the macerating hoofs of the advancing "You sure was," Regan agreed. "Why, of Harkness as he strode into the room, herd. As for himself, he was safe-free that tenderfoot don't know even how to puzzlement in his face as he saw the man from the herd, free from the arm of the 'saddle a cayuse. He seems to have a ter­ on the floor. law. But Dan Malloy could not play the ror of 'em. Yep, ye sure pulled a bloomer "What's happened. Marie?" he asked. game that way. He rode swiftly back there, Callahan. But that ain't no reason "Who did it?" But Marie could not speak toward the myriads of bobbing brown why you should go hungry. Chuck-time'll because of her sobbing, or else her lips heads, leaped from his horse and, placing be here in a few minutes. Stick around could not frame the message which she the inj ured officer on the animal beside and eat with us. And say, speakin' 0' believed to be the horrible truth. him, continued his, race for life. Nearly rielin', come on over an' give your eyes a "Malloy he come for Marie," stam­ an hour later, victor over Death by the treat. Ed Corbett' is a-practicin' up for mered Neenah. "La Farge he mak' big merest margin, he rode into' the La Forge the rodeo, an' if that bird don't clean up fuss-Malloy go 'way in beeg hurry." corral and gave over the care of the in­ over at Calgary, then the punchers here­ In another moment Harkness was on jured man-hunter to Neenah, the Indian abouts won't have no funds for smokin' the back of his horse, riding at breakneck maid. Tenderly he walked to the side of for six months." He pointed toward the speed out into the hills. Ahead of him the sobbing Marie to comfort her, and then figure of Corbett, erect on two horses rode Dan Malloy, crouched low in his started back, bewildered and hurt, as he which he was Roman-riding around the saddle, gradually overtaking the man who saw the look of accusation in her eyes. big corral. Various cow-hands, spending a had fired through the window of the La "You ain't believin' it was me /" he few odd moments before chuck-time, grad­ Farge ranch-house. The cow-puncher kept gasped. "Why, Marie, I'd have let him ually gathered to watch the exhibition, and doggedly on, unconscious of the fact that tear me to pieces an' never Ii fted a finger, soon the slouching figure of "Chuck he, also, was being pursued, until his just because he was your-your dad I" Jones" joined the group. Callahan's sharp horse, stumbling into a gopher hole, threw But there was unbelief in the girl's face, eyes watched his face change expression him headlong but uninjured to the ground. lack of faith in her tearful eyes. Malloy as Corbett put the horses through their It was while he was gasping for breath regarded her for a moment while the color paces. "I reckon you'd think that was a that Harkness swept up and drew his gun flowed from his face as wine from a glass. pretty scary thing to do, wouldn't you ?" he with lightning speed, Then he shuffled from the house, climbed asked. "You're wanted," he said grimly. wearily to the back of his horse, and loped "I sure would," said the cookee. "Wanted for the killing of Jean La away over the prairie. "But listen," Callahan urged. "You Farge I" gotta learn some time. Now, why not "Wanted'" Astoundment was in Dan's A year later, three hundred miles to the give the boys a laugh? You don't look tone. "Why, I was after the fellow who south of Wainwright Park, a man was exactly yellah. Why not take that little shot La Farge." · peeling potatoes outside of the cook-house bronk by the fence an' see if you can stay A cynical smile flitted over the face of of the ranch owned by Andrew Regan. on 'im for · a coupla minutes." His eyes the big mountie. There was a disconsolate slouch to his back were gleaming and expectant, and the fact "And I was after you," he retorted. as he bent to his task. His battered hat was not overlooked by the cookee. "And I've got you. Get on your horse and was drawn down over his eyes. "I'll convince this bird for good," he come along. Maybe you can think up a It was Dan Malloy, erstwhile champion said to himself. Then, aloud : "Well, I'll better yarn!" Roman rider of the United States, now try it, stranger. 'Tain't that I'm afraid. Finding his protests of no avail, Dan cookee and general helper on the Bar-O It's just that I ain't never learned how." finally was forced to mount and ride Ranch. And his name, to his present as­ To the good-natured hoots and shouts ranchward with the pistol of · the officer sociates, was plain Chuck Jones. of the cow-handlers, he allowed himself trained on his back. Chuck was the butt of much good­ to be lifted to the back of the fiery-eyed The scene brought a malicious smile to natured joking about the Bar-O, but he bronco, and for two or three seconds, the face of Fred Burgess, who watched accepted it all with a vacuous smile and while the outraged horse sun-fished from from a distant covert. He believed that an assumed lack of comprehension which side to side, he kept his seat. unmindful 6f he had a good chance of escape now. He might indicate that he was a half-wit. He the role he was playing. Then, realizing was sure that Neenah would keep silent was out of danger, he believed, and he that his role was that of a tenderfoot, he on what she had seen. But might not the wanted to bide his time until he could maneuvered to take a sprawling dive , to truth come out once Malloy was taken into vindicate himself in the eyes of Marie La the turf, where he sat with a dazed and headquarters? The smile was replaced by Farge by apprehending the murderer of foolish expression. a look of foxlike cunning as he shifted her father. "Yuh tried it, anyhow, cookee," yelled a his gaze to a great herd of buffalo quietly News of the slaying of La Farge had cow-puncher. "You might learn to ride if· browsing in a little hollow between him swept throughout Canada, and news of the you lived to, the age 0' that Methusaleh and the two horsemen who were now arrival of a queer new hand at the Bar-O fellah." The other cow-punchers joined in slowly cantering away from him. After had come to the keen ears of a certain Cal­ the merriment. But when Callahan rode all, if this Malloy could be put out of the lahan who wore the scarlet coat of the away that afternoon it was to start 'on a way, would it not be best? He leaped on mounted police. He droppeq around cas­ long journey, and his reason for the trip his horse and rode madly towards the rear ually one day to seek information regard­ was closely allied to the fate of Dan of the buffalo herd, waving his sombrero ing the silent stranger who peeled spuds Malloy, alias Chuck Jones. He smiled wildly. For a moment the startled beasts and moped about his duties from day to grimly. No tenderfoot could have stayed milled around in their excitement and fear day. Regan was moved to hearty laugh­ for a split second on the back of that par­ and then, as Burgess had hoped, they com­ ter at the idea of the harmless and good­ ticular bronk. menced to stampede in the direction of natured, Chuck falling under the suspicion Regan was making his rounds of the Dan and Harkness. The half - breed of such an astute man-hound as Callahan. ranch. He paused" at the · cook-house. quickened their flight with a few shots "Come 'round to the cook-house an' look "You've been a pretty faithful worker from his pistol. him over," suggested Regan, still smiling. around here, Jones," he said to the cookee. Like a swollen stream after a cloudburst "I want you to see just how wrong you "How would you like to come over to in the hills, like a turbid yellow flood, the are. Why, this spud-peeler wouldn't kill Calgary for the rodeo? I reckon you terrified animals flowed over the undu­ a potato-bug." But Callahan followed could earn your grub by takin' care 0' lating prairie: The first intimation of the him to the cook-house and gazed keenly Corbett's horses. That hombre sure can happemng that came to the mountie and at the slouching figure of the cookee. ride, but he's a little high-feelin'. He won't his prisoner was the thunder of hoofs. "Howdy," greeted Callahan. do no chambermai'd work for animals, you Harkness ' turned to see the bison horde Chuck'looked up listlessly. "Howdy," know." . Advertising Section 71

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Marie watched a dash of his old-time spirit, he struck out, came to the dull eyes of the cook's assis­ him until she was sure he was well out felled the drunken Blackie, carried him to tant. "I'd sure appreciate it, Mr. Regan," of ear-shot. a stall ; then with a feeling of abandon he said. "Guess it's goin' to be a big jam­ "Tell me again, Dan," she pleaded. leaped on one of the horses, rose to the boree this season, ain't it?" "Tell me it wasn't you I" .position for the Roman race, and a min­ Regan puffed on his cigar. "It's a big ,"I, swear it wasn't, Marie. You-you ute later, as the stands were in a riot as one for me," he answered. "I've been a know it wasn't." the starters were well beyond the post, gambler all my life, and I sure am "I believe you, Dan." rode madly down one of the chutes and a-gamblin' this time. I f Corbett don't win The roystering cow-hands would have onto the track. A brown-eyed girl in a box that Roman race for me, I s'pose I'll be seen an unusual sight if they had been recognized the rider and fear was mingled lookin' about for a job as a cow-hand. I looking just then-the surprising sight of with the admiration in her eyes as she got every dollar, every head of stock, their humble cookee clasping a beautiful looked up at Harkness, who with Neenah, everything on the place, staked on that brown-eyed girl to his breast. was sitting in her section. race." His face twitched nervously. "But "I must go now, Dan," said Marie. "If With loose rein and intrepid spirit Dan it's a sure thing, in my opinion," he added. I linger around it would look suspicious. urged his horses into the contest. Grad­ "There ain't the like of Ed Corbett in I hope it will all come out right. Oh, how ually he passed entrant after entrant. It North America in a Roman race." He I hope it willi But we must find my was like the old days in Cheyenne. What turned and strolled off in the direction of father's murderer." matter if, after the race, he would be the big ranch-house. For an hour after she had gone, Dan thrown into jail? He could not see Regan ruined through the inefficiency of his lieu­ Dan Malloy, alias Chuck Jones, had Malloy mooned over his dishpan with the light of rapture in his eyes. Queer that tenants. As he finished the race, a scant numerous thoughts as he continued on his foot ahead of his nearest competitor, he never-ending job of spud-peeling. He liked he had never before noticed what a beau­ tiful thing a potato was. felt that it had all been worth while. Regan, who had treated him square. He Regan, his face half puzzlement, but none liked the boys of the outfit who had the less elated, rushed up to him and wrung wagered their last penny on the results of All roads led to Calgary the following his hand. The stands were in a frenzy. the big Calgary Rodeo. Like the big boss, week. Dan Malloy got a genuine thrill And Harkness, the mountie, had a sorrow­ they were a hard-gambling crew. After out of his wanderings about the crowded ful look in his eyes as he rose and said to the meet either they'd own Calgary-or city and his work around the spirited Marie : "It's a shame to arrest a man that ride away broke. He had heard rumors horses, although several times he had to can handle horses like that. But it's my of Regan's sky-high betting with Horton, keep a tight rein on his temper when in duty to arrest Dan Malloy, your father's the owner of the adjoining ranch; how he, the presence of the swaggering Ed Corbett, murderer I" in his earlier career, had won and lost who in spite of the fact that Andrew Re­ "It is not true I" cried Marie. "Dan several fortunes and now, with old age gan's fortune was in the balance, drank Malloy he is-yes, but I tell you he did creeping upon him, was taking one more plentifully and enjoyed himself riotously not kill my father. I know it. I can feel big chance. There were whispers that from morning until late at night. When it in my heart." Horton would stoop to trickery, if neces­ the day for the rodeo dawned, Dan felt a "I'm afraid that sort of evidence sary. And in his heart, Dan Malloy was queer nostalgia for his old riding days. wouldn't go ' on the witness stand," was not so sure of the swa~gering Ed Cor­ Under other conditions he believed he could the rejoinder of Harkness. "Malloy's bett's skill. He had notIced him on sev­ win for Regan-but he had come upon been a fugitive from justice. As an officer eral occasions, and it was his opinion that Harkness about the crowded Exhibition of the Mounted I must bring him in." he held too tight a rein on his horses. Park grounds and knew that recognition He stepped over the little paling into The cookee's eyes glowed. If only he by the mounted policeman would land him the runway and made for the stables. But could ride for Regan 1 He looked up sud­ in a felon's cell. He slunk away into the Marie, who had been listening to hurried denly. A queer sensation was running crowds and wandered listlessly back to­ whispers from Neenah, called him back through him. He felt that he was being ward the stables, where he found B1ackie before he turned down the stable-chute. stared at. He turned to gaze toward the Brent, one of Regan's riders, sitting with "I told you I could feel it in my heart, porch of the ranch-house. Approaching a tall bottle of whiskey before him. Mr. Harkness," she said, tears of joy him were Callahan of the Mounted-and "I'm ridin' the Roman race for Regan," sparkling in her eyes. "1 .have just heard Marie La Farge. Blackie said, boastfully. "Corbett's broke some news that has made the world seem His heart beat furiously. Then his time his leg. An' groom up them horses there, a good place. Fred Burgess killed my had come 1 Marie had come to betray cookee. I want 'em right. I'll bring that father. Neenah has known it for months, him! There was no outward agitation 'in pair in first if . they got it in 'em." and she has remained silent rather than his manner, however. He bent to his With a heavy heart, Malloy went about inform upon the man she loved. But she menial task and calmly continued to ply· his servile duties, while outside he could has found the man unworthy of her love his knife until the policeman tapped him hear the yelling as the preliminary events ' and trust." She pointed to a section of the on the shoulder. were run off-the wild-cow milking con­ stand slightly to the left of them. "There's "Is this the man, Miss La Farge?" The test, the steer - riding, bronco - busting, Fred Burgess I" she said. "And there's officer's tones were cool, smug. His eyes bull-dogging, roping, typing and branding. the reason why Neenah has broken her held the light of victory. He felt sure of He wondered if Ed Corbett had really silence." The "reason" was a flashily his quarry now. broken his leg, or was this some trickery dressed woman who was engaging Burgess For a full half-minute Dan gazed into of Horton's? At any rate, the result in conversation. Neenah's black eyes the face of the woman he loved, saw her would be the same-the boastful Blackie, crackled in resentment as she looked at her about to speak, perhaps to damn him for­ an indifferent rider at best, was in no faithless lover and his newest Iight-o' -love. ever. Then he saw a softer look replace condition to compete. Blackie staggered "Burgess is yellow," continued Marie. the expression iti her eyes. about as the call came for the Roman race. "He'll probably break down and confess. "No," said Marie. "This man did not "Hustle up, there!" Dan commanded And whether he does or not, Neenah was kill my father I" impatiently. "I've got the horses ready.': an eye-witness to his ' crime. And while The officer shook his head. "Well, it "You mind your bus'ness 1" retorted you're bringing in your prisoner, Mr. was just a strong hunch I had," he an­ Blackie. "Your bus'ness is to chamber­ Harkness, I have a prisoner to bring in. nounced. "But it seems I was wrong. maid them horses. I'll do the rest." too." That lets you out, sonny," he said, turning Dan looked quickly about him. The With her eyes soft with love she vaulted to Dan. "I won't pester you any more." stable was deserted. He could not see his the little paling and raced in the direction He walked toward the corral and, mount- benefactor, Andrew' Regan, ruined. With of the stables and Dan Malloy.

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The fictionized photoplays will be better than ever. In fact, you can't afford to miss this issue. .,. MOVIE MONTHLY 175 Duffield Street Brooklyn, N. Y. 74 Advertising ,SectioB Forking a Bronco » ( Continued from page 37) horse-actor that silk thread is strong strayed into it, getting its legs tangled enough rein to direct him. and scratched. But the next morning the Carey and I had adjourned to the corral animal was found there, standing still. in order that I might be given a first-hand Had it threshed about, as undoubtedly demonstration of real Western methods in would have happened had the colt had schooling a newly captured wild horse. no training, it would have torn itself to Carey does not do his training for public pieces. exhibition. Unless you are sufficiently an "Place' the saddle on a new horse acquaintance to know where hangs the ~ently," Carey continued, illustrating his key that unlocks the gate that leads up Instructions as he went along. "A horse's to his house, you cannot get past the back is a very sensitive and vulnerable "Trading Post," and will have to do busi­ region. He will invariably buck at some The. II a tremettdou.4i1f"erence in bob•• Som. ness with his man Friday or some other new weight placed there suddenly, so be ... wollderfiilly atttactiv. and becomiDg. while' oth.... 'WIU - which kind II youn ? Indian attendant. But if you are lucky careful when you saddle him. I wiob you could picture the becoming lrind I enough to be one of the favored number "Then, when you come to cinching the have in mind - the anrt that maka m ... tum to belt of your saddle under your horse's admire. I can't teJJ you what the color iI, but of his friends, he will sometimes show his it'. fulialthoaetinydancinillighu that somehow training methods. body, stand off at a little distaQce. Tight­ luUat auburn, yet which are really no more ac­ He showed these to me that afternoon ening of the strap always tends to excite tualcolorthaa.unlighti•• It'lonlywhen the head i. moved that you CIItch tha auburn luaeotion­ and even permitted a cameraman to catch the animal, and he may rear and plunge at tha fleeting glint of gold. a numbe'r of real action shots, illustrating first." You han DO idea how much your bob CIIn be some of the high points. One Eastern impoovoci with tha "tiny tint" Golden Glint Correct Way to Mount Shampoo will live it. If you want a bob like that thoroughbred in the corral to which Carey I have in miDd, buy a package .ad 1ft for your­ pointed with a snap of his fingers, aroused HERE is a decided knack in correctlv .eI£. At aU drug atOrea, or oend 2'~ direct to an occasional remark of contempt. "I T mounting a horse, particular Iy a green J.W. XOBI Co., 656 RainietAv•. , Seattle,W... wouldn't give a nickel for him," he said. one. "Face away from the animal's head," "Look at the pipe-stem legs I No more Carey advised: "Grasp the mane in your Golden Glint real use in the hills out here than a china­ left hand and the saddle ring in your right. SHAMPOO ware hobby-horse." Place your left foot in the left stirrup, with your left knee in the soft spot just Demonstrates With a .. Paint Pony" back of the animal's left shoulder. Then swing aboard. Never face forward when A VIVIDLY marked "paint pony," with a restless flare in his rolling eyes that mounting a horse, because in that posi­ spoke of his very recent wild life on the tion you cannot follow him easily and LqRIETc!1P keep your foot in the stirrup if he turns open range, was used by Carey as the around in an effort to escape." t I. model for his demonstration. Teaching a horse not to kick, and to "A trainer must realize that horses have make it gentle for shoeing were other personalities just like people," the Western tricks of the trainer that were demon­ star explained. "They differ in their strated. Both methods are similar and natures and have to be ha11dled according consist in wrapping . a blanket loosely to their kind. Very few can ever be around a pole and rubbing the animal handled alike. "The first thing to do in breaking a gently about the sides, under the body, wild horse is to get rid of its fear. The and about the legs with this improvised horse should be caught without roping, "tickler." Becoming accustomed to it, the if possible. Have your helpers surround horse soon ceases to make a fuss when the horse, force it gently into a corner anything touches it. of the corral, and then slip a halter over Teaching a horse to stop quickly when its head. Of course, there are some horses, on the dead run, without jerking it up nervous and full of life, that have to be violently by the reins, is another of the arts of the trainer. This stunt is par­ roped. "I f you must rope a wild horse in a ticularly useful as a spectacular touch in corral," Carey advised, "do not swing the Western pictures. The horse is taught to lasso over your head, for this frightens stop when the rider merely leans over in horses. Drag it on the ground and throw the saddle. To the audience it appears it from below, preferably around his fore­ that the action has been caused by a quick jerk of the reins. legs." AffixJng the Bridle Creatures of Habit AFFIXING the "war bridle" was the first HORSES soon become creatures of habit. stunt Carey did to show the taming of much like humans, as Carey illustrated a horse. After the animal had been caught, in telling of a recent incident on the ranch. a one-inch rope was slipped quickly but A few Sundays ago a young woman, ac­ not violently over its back and drawn companied by several girl friends, visited under the body just back of the forelegs. his ranch late in the afternoon. She took A strong bridle with a ring at the bottom one of the horses for a ride up the canyon was put on the animal's head, and through and, being told the animal was trained this ring the inch rope was drawn. This to stand without tying, left it while she was then tied firmly to the corral fence. hiked over a hill for a change of exer­ "Wave your hands excitedly in front cise. Five o'clock came, which happened Be Sure to Read of the horse, or open an umbrella sud­ to be the horse's usual time for feeding. denly before him, and the animal will pull The girl being still on her walk, the horse About the back," the trainer explained. "But he'll trotted calmly back to the <;orl"al, and was OPINION CONTEST pull back on himself, pulling on the tied found . there waiting by the gate. But rope through the bridle ring and under his she was a persistent young lady, said on page 77 shoulders. He soon learns this, and in a Carey. She came back five Sundays and few minutes you could explode fireworks finally got the horse to forget its dinner under him and he wouldn't move. A war hour. P...... ladradi. bridle is a great peace agent." A somewhat similar incident once hap­ !7 Mall : .. How easily a horse may be taught in pened to Carey himself. Mrs. ,Carey re­ ...... -._ :.=... Q ..,1f)/ this · way to stand under almost any con­ lated the story to me in spite of the some­ to urn .2 .00 to ditions was illustrated by Carey from a what sheepish protests of her husband. ..

'"U~&TUlT_LOW.1IAIAW I ___.1·iI-·~'··r...... YTERMLT."'_~. recent happening. A two-year-old colt on Carey had ridden one day to Elizabeth Eft .....,. _ ...... _ r •• for~_ •• which he had worked for only two days Lake canyon, fifteen miles distant by CNW_.0 50. .... 11'stu ____ • PDISOtIAL INST'RU • r ... . .'_.0 __ _ got out one night and entered an adjoining horseback trail and seventy-two miles by SPECIAL RIDUc:ao TUITION OPnR fjOw ... to_. _ tea.. fa, ~ ..... booII. on ...... a. ranch. There was a large heap of loose auto. .... road. He rode one of. the colts. that Advertising Section 7S

answer promptly to his whistle, and "all that bunk," as the wife of the actor put it. • Late in the afternoon the colt cantered back to the corral, with saddle empty. Realizing what had happened, Mrs. Carey got out the auto and drove the seventy­ two miles of rough graveled road to the canyon. There she found her husband waiting on a log, peeved as a rooster after a shower-bath. His complaint, how­ ever, was not at the colt that had not stood without tying, but because he was out 0 f cigarettes. But that is only one case. For the most part, the horses on Carey's ranch will do exactly what they have beet) taught to do. They have had individual train­ ing, and they are striking. examples of the wonderful.results that can be achieved by a man who both loves and really understands horses, as does Carey.

Lives 8S He Does on Screen DURING the day that I spent as his guest I was impressed by the fact that Carey on his ranch is the real Carey of his pictures.. Except for the luxury. of ~is home, with its handsome furnishings, Its . well-selected and l!lrge library, his IndIan attendants and hIs expensive auto­ mobile, you would take him for the rough ~Iainsman of his screen productions. He lives on his ranch much the same life that he lives on the screen. And· he really lives on the ranch. The twenty-six-mile drive to the studio in Hollywood is taken every day that he ~ot a care in the world works before the camera. Then, no mat­ ter how late he may be kept on. the studio lot, he drives his car back to the ranch Many women would give a fortune to acquire the peace at night. of mind this woman possesses. Just now he is preparing to make his debut in a new screen contract that calls And that is quite possible, without the expenditure of a for twelve Western pictures for Pathe. The first of these will be titled BlIck cent. Women can be happier today than ever before in Up, and will be a real epic of the open the history of the world! Science has set them free! range, according to those who have read Time has lifted the curse! the script. Wealth-Freedom-Love Do You Want Peace of Mind? If you want to keep your youth, beauty, Laurence Reid Says- They weigh so little when the spectre of and health-hold your husband's love­ fear holds bony fingers above gay scenes and be filled with the gay zest of living -stills happy laughter- dilutes life's (Continued from page 13) t~at makes a woman so alluringly attrac­ thrilling moments I There can be no tive, then you must have "PEACE OF indict them should remember that so long abiding happiness if you are worried over MIND." This is a delightfully frank as their voices are silenced the average the intimate problems of your sex. and interesting little book written by a fan is not worrying much whether one woman who understands you far better of them could give a correct reading of Woman has been the burden bearer in this regard, since the dim, dark days of than you understand yourself. For Hamlet's Soliloquy or Juliet's wail over poor, unfortunate Eve I Some women twenty years she has worked with an emi­ the loss of her dear Romeo. are rebellious-some are resigned. Both nent physician and a staff of expert The public, however, is discriminating. are unnatural, unnecessary states of mind. chemists, striving to bring the same It has already discovered the genuine from degree of physical freedom to women the imitation. 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At this rate I'll be in sat in the balcony and threw peanut shells the big leagues pretty quick--" when down on the heads below and hissed the a knock interrupted him. The letter was villain, and the prize· fights. brief. Mr. Gribbon's place would here­ after be filled by the star of a college team Plenty of Fights who would work for half his salary to get practice." The prize· fighters were the heroes of Eddie's boyhood, and the boyhoods (and "I tore up my letter to my brother," girlhoods) of thousands of other New grins Eddie, "I threw my baseball mit York kids. "We used to fight each other into the waste-basket and walked out of for the honor of holding the sponge and baseball for good. And I'm glad of it. the towels while they trained," says Eddie An athlete lasts only a few years at best, wistfully, "and -if we could get to ride but an actor is good for a lifetime if on one of the coaches that took the pugs he can dodge the tomatoes with tin cans to the fights-you know, with bands on wrapped around them 1 I joined up with top and big banners down the sides, we a vaudeville team with a singing specialty, thought we were made for life." A Night in a Park, and came out to the From holding the towel at the ringside, Coast. Mr. Sennett saw me and offered We train you qtticklyrlghtinyourown ambition was born in young Eddie's heart me a job in comedies-and here I am I" home. Tremendousfieldin Modern Photo­ and he slapped his knee as if to reassure emphy. Newspapers, ma28zin,~,advertiseIS, etc.. to become one of these glorious beings­ need tholLlanda of hilrh·dass photos. 35,000 splen. a prize-fighter - himself. He watched himself that here indeed he was. did locations open now. My amazlngoew method breathlessly every jab and feint, every equips you to earn $50 to $1008 week while learn· The Screen's Best Burglar inll'. Showl you how to do the kind of work turned punch and blow, and practised them him­ out in ChicAgo And New York studios. Also how self. When he rubbed the heroes down Though Eddie has made his greatest to start big 100lley business of your OWD. after a tough round; he gloried in the successes in the roles of burglars, he has WriteatonceforPREE feel of bulging muscles and began to go FREE camera offer. I g{veyou tried several times to reform his screen hlll'h emde professional Camera to the public gymnasiums. Public School career. Once he went to a studio and /r... O/ferQPen onlY8horttime­ No. 27 saw him occasionally-when he begged to be cast in a prize· fighting series. acrat onco. I J1I&rallt •• my trablinl[, couldn't outrun the truant officer, but most INT•• NATIONAL tlTUOI08, 1_ He offered to fight any actor on the lot aM1 ...... Av•• Dept.nu, of his education came from the sporting to prove that he was good, then he offered O"...... U••• A. pages of the papers. to fight ariy casting director on the lot, "I thought I d be a pug-till I saw there STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, then he challenged everybody on the lot CIRCULATION. ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT was too many of them I'd have to lick to come on and fight him-and last of all OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 2 •• 1912. of MOVIE to get to be a champ," says Eddie, looking MONTHLV. publl.hed MONTHLY at JAMAICA. he wanted to bet a hundred dollars that N. Y .. for OCTOBER lot. 1925. State of NEW YORK. down at two huge fists the size of hams. he could lick the star of the series. And County of KINGS. Before me. a NOTARY PUBLIC "When I was in my teens I put on the yet in spite of all these munificent offers, in and for the State and County aforuatd. penonaUy gloves and trained with some of the best, appeared DUNCAN A. DOBIE. JR .• who. havl.,. been Eddie says sadly, they wouldn't engage duly .worn according to law, depoaee and aay. that he Is Mike Gibbons and Gunboat Smith. I him. Indeed they seemed relieved to see the BUSINESS MANAGER of the MOVIE MONTHLY wanted to see what chances I'd have if him going. and that the followlnC I•• to the belt of ha knowled.e I went into it for a profession-I sawall aad belief. a true ItatemeQt of the ownerahlp. manaae. "I belong to the Hollywood Athletic ment (and If a daily paper, the circulation). etc .• of the right, all right. I'd have a ten-to-one aforeNid publication for the date .hown in the above chance to get my ear bitten off, and a Club and keep in practice over there," caption. required by the Act of Au.uat 24. 19\2. embodied says the screen's best burglar. "A heavy In section 443. Poatal Law. and Rea:ulation• • printed on seven-to-one chance of getting a broken the revene of thl' fonn to wit: l. That the namea and nose. Look at the big fighters-how many has to be in condition, and a comedy heavy addreuel of the publisher. editor. manaeina editor. and has to be an athlete. But I'm not the buol"... manacen are: Publl.her. BREWSTER PUBLI­ of 'em get through without having their CATIONS. INC .• 175 DUFFIELD ST .. BROOKLYN. features messed all over their faces? man I was once---" he flexed his big N . Y . Editor. FREDERICK JAMES SMITH. 175 Gentleman Jim Corbett-well, he was muscles and sighed heavily, "Aw Gee 1 DUFFIEI,D ST., BROOKLYN. N. Y. Manaclllll Wish I had the last ten years over I Or Editor. FLORENCE OSBORNE, 175 DUFFIELD ST., lucky. I didn't want to spoil my looks so BROOKLYN. N . Y . Buoln... Man.. er. DUNCAN A. I quit the ring and went in for baseball." I wish I was the man I was ten years DOBIE. JR .• 175 DUFFIELD ST.• BROOKLYN. ago. There's no fighting worth the name 2. That the owner 10: (If the publication 10 owned by 8" any more. I go to the Stadium every Individual hi, name and addreae. or If owned by more Takes Up Baseball than one Individual the Dame and addre.. of each, .hould Saturday night just to see how bad the be liven belowj If the publication I, owned by a corpora· Baseball-every small·town kid plays tion the name of the corporation and the namea and young pugs can be and they're r-r-rotten." addreaae. of the Itockholder. ownlq or hold Ina one baseball from infancy, but the New York But nothing is as good as it used to per cent or more of the total amount of atock .hould be City boy lives where baseball is made. It give".) EUGENE V. BREWSTER. 175.DUFFIELD be, Eddie I That's the trouble-perhaps ST .. BROOKLYN. N. Y. J . That the known bond­ is he who gets splinters in his nose looking Harlem and the political outings and the holden. and other security bolden ownlna or holdlna through the cracks in the fence at the 1 per cent or more of total amount of bondl. morta:ace•• swims in the Hudson weren't such fun, or other leCuritiee are: (If there are none, eo atate.) Polo Grounds, he who watches the great perhaps the hoky-poky wasn't really as NONE. •. That the two paraaraph. next above, alvlna: heroes of Swat at practice. Eddie Grib­ sweet as you remember. Perhaps it's tbe namee of the owners. Itockholden. and eecurlty bon joined a small-town league team and holden. If any. contain not only the U.t of stockholden being young that gives the glamor to and leCurlty holders u they appear upon the books of on the opening day of the season made memory. the company but al80. in cue. where the .tockholder or two home runs. In vision he saw him­ eecurlty holder appears upon the bookl of the company "Boys and .qirls together, me and Maggie u trustee or In any other fiduciary relation. the name of self swaggering grandly out onto the field the penon or corpol'ation for whom luch truatee 18 actina. in the uniform of one of the Big Leagues 0'Rourke--" Is a:lven; alllO that the .aId two paraaraph. contain Itate­ under the admiring gaze of thousands of menta embraclna: affiant', full knowleda:e and belief as to . But Eddie Gribbon gives his huge the circumstancea and conditione under which .tock­ fans-but the very next day he was laugh. He's a cheerful chap, this screen holdera and eecurity holden wbo do not appear upon the dropped. The pitcher, it seemed, had a books of the company a. tru.tee... bold .tock and tough. "And why not?" says he. "Why securities In a capacity other than that of a bona fide sister whose husband needed the place­ not play a burglar with a sense of humor? owner; and this affiant haa no re&80n to believe that any one of those things. other penon, ueoclatlon; or corporation haa any lntere.t They all of them have one. The ~ad direct or indirect in the saId .tock. bond.. or othel' Next a New England bush league team. men in real life don't go around scowhng !Securities than '88 10 ltated by him . .5 . That the averaae Eddie was going strong, rolling up a number of coplel of each Illue of thl, publication IIOld or and sour-faced.' They're full of jokes . dl.trlbuted. through the mall. or otherwtae. to paid g:eat batting . average, and then he~urned and tricks! Do I know any burglars? 8ube:crlbel'll durlna the alx month. precedlna the date hIS ankle on a lump of soft coal In the ,hown above II", , , . . . , ... , . , . ,. (Thl. Information Say 1 I could get you killed for a nickel J I. required from dally publicatloDl only.) DUNCAN A. outfield, and again he was laid off. When Or I could have once-those were the DOBIE. JR. Sworn to and lubocribed before me thl. his ankle came back to normal size, he 22"d day of SEPTEMBER. 1925. E. M . HEINEMANN. days. Aw Gee'--" (My comml.. lon e.plreo MARCH 30. 1926.) joined another team and in one game made three out ' of five scores. He was in the "--tripped tlte light fantastic on the side­ : act of writing his brother, "Dear Harry, walks of New York--" :, :.., e,:' ~- i~' I .. _. I "THE STAR THAT CAME TO EARTH" .'-_ . starting in this issue Reaches a big climax in the January MotJie Monthly Advertising Section 77 "Your Opinion Contest" Closes Jan. 1st, 1926

Because of the tremendous interest that our readers are taking in "Your Opinion Contest" we have extended the closing date from December 1st, 1925, to January 1st, 19261 Enter your votes and criticisms now . You may win one of the prizes. Do you like the motion picture productions you see? Who is your favorite star? Send us your criticisms and opinions. Do it today. Remember this contest closes January 1st, 1926. We Have 105 CASH PRIZES and MEDALS for You $2500.00 in All The Grand Prize ...... $1,000.00 1st honor, a gold medal and...... 100.00 2nd honor, a silvef medal and...... 75.00 3rd honor, a bronze medal and . • ...... 50.00 4th honor...... 25.00 50 prizes of $10.00 each...... 500.00 50 prizes of $5.00 each...... 250.00 Medals to contestants and stars...... 500.00 And Dont You Want to Give a Medal to Your Favorite Star?

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The ticture that is the subject of we reserve the right to publish any these criticisms will count as a the 'OpinioK' winning the first we receive whether it wins a prize ballot in favor of the players men­ prize will be fictionized in MOVIE or not. tioned. MONTHLY, if permission can be S. This contest will end I anwry 1st, 7. The best criticisms of pictures will obtained. 1926. be decided by the judges, but the 10. Vote for your favorite picture. Address: "Your Opinion" Editor, BREWSTER PuBLICATIONS, INC. 175 DUFFIELD STREET BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 78 Advertising Section A Broth of a Boy (C olltillued from page 17) unpardonable sin to him would be self­ build a personality and a technique strong pity. His sense of humor would always enough and attractive enough that when allow him to laugh quietly at himself, the time comes I can step into character even when cut the cruelest. That is the roles and gain in some measure the re­ kind of real Irish part that I'd like to spect and esteem that is, accorded such portray." sterling veterans of the screen as Fawcett The hero of Jack's ideal story contains and Theodore Roberts. To me there is a great deal of Mulhall himself. Jack has something inexpressibly great and fine received some savage buffeting at the about careers such as these men have A 14-Kt. white gold·tliled wrl.t watch, or n heoutifnl man's ironic hands of Fate during his profes­ achieved, and the secure place they hold wn teh. or your choice of llny of sional and private life, but through it all in the hearts of audiences the world over." tbe vorlo,," /lIfts listed In ollr cntalogne withont n penny's he has smiled gamely, though sometimes Mulhall was born in Passaic, New cost to Yon, for (]e-voUng n. few through lips that were white, and has Jersey. His father was a native son of hOllrs of your ~ I' n r e time In carried on. Dublin, Ireland, while his mother, though Rt'lllng . our dell dOllS 111gb-grade ('omly to your friends nnd Be­ Mulhall has one of the sanest and clear­ born in Scotland, was of straight Irish q118IntnnCf':iI. est ideas of the real possibilities and diffi­ parentage. The stage was Jack's one aim Wl"lte to - d u y for onr li'REE Premium Book, ~lvlng full in­ culties of his job of any player with whom in life from the time that he was first formation bow yOll ('so secure I ever have talked. able to think. He began his career as a one of these fine gifts. very youthful "spear carrier" in the REPURJ.IC TB.<\))ING CO. 211 \1'. Rroadwftv. Belieyes Screen Work a Game ,theaters of his home town, and soon grad­ N"w York, N. Y. uated into vaudeville in New York. Dept. 188 "I N this game the first ten years are the hardest!" Jack grinned as he said it, Started with Ingram but his eyes were serious. "I mean, that it takes that long for a player really to find A FRIENDSHIP with Rex Ingram led to himself, and to work with genuine poise Jack's making ' his first movie appear­ and have confidence in his abilities. ance in a minor role for the old Edison "I spoke of it as a game, and that is Company. Ingram at the time was just out just what screen work really is today. of college and was making a precarious The competition has become so keen that living as a scenario writer. Both Rex unless a player is up on his toes all the and MulhalI then went with the old Bio­ time he is in serious danger of becoming gr<\ph Company for a short time, playing lost in the shuffle. The caliber of moving with Blanche Sweet, Antonio Moreno, picture casts has become such that even and other luminaries who first got their the minor characters in nearly every com­ start in that famous pioneer studio. In­ pany are real artists 0 f genuine ability and gram and Mulhall starved together with long experience. . mOre or less cheerful fortitude in a tiny "A leading character does not da~e loaf apartment in the Bronx, and formed a on the job even ,momentarily, nor try to close friendship that has survived to this breeze by on his past performances. If day. he does, he is liable to be rudely awakened Jack came to Hollywood several years ~!, ! ~,~! !,~ when he finds that a minor character has, later, and since that time his progress has you like to know!,! if you.. , .. are adapted to this work 1 JJ through the sheer excellence of his work, been steady until today he is regarded as Send 10c for our Tweh'e-Hour Tnlent-Te/lter or Key to Movie Acting Aptitude, and find whether registered with a briI1iance that dims the one of the most successful free-lance luster of the supposed principal part. players in moving ,pictures. He has A ~~~er,°uin:;:u~ti~t:da~d ~:fuau61e ?\~~~;k. Ac~~~gd "One of the hardest things to do, par­ played opposite nearly every well-known dime or 8tamps today, A large, interesting, illus­ trated Rooklet on Mo\·je Acting included FREEl ticularly for the free-lance player who feminine star on the screen. For a time FI(M IN FO-,!MATION BUREAU. 811_A. • J.okl ••• Mloh. works on many different lots and under he was under contract as a leading man many different directors, is to establish a for Norma and Constance Talmadge. BOYS J rock-bottom personality that is distinctively CHRISTMAS MONEY GIVEN his and his alone. When he succeeds in Has Played Opposite Many GI R L S Send name and address. 'we will establishing such a natural and , human send you 50 sets Christmas Seals. Easily personality, he can then build his various Stars sold 10 cts. a set. You keep $2; send us $3. roles effectively upon it. That is why I Be first in your neighborhood. We trust HIS work during the last few months say that the first ten years are the hardest. includes the leading masculine roles in you. Many earned $10 last Christmas. Building an essential personality, and gain­ Write at once: pictures featuring Colleen Moore, Corinne MISTLETOE SEAL CO .• De,I. 45. Br.oklyn (It), N. T. ing the technical skill and confidence that Griffith, and Dorothy Mackaill. When result in poise, are not labors that can be J oann,a is completed, Miss Mackaill and BOYS & GIRLS E arn X mas M oney done overnight. Ten years is really a Mulhall are to go to New York to appear Write for 50 Sets 8t. Nlohol.. Chrt,tmu 8111.. s.n short time to allow for the full develop­ together in a picture made in an Eastern tor 100 a set. When Bold ..nd UB $3.00 aDd keep $2.00. 110 Worl<-Ju.t Fun. ment of such factors." studio. It will be Jack's first work in the ,St. Nlohot •• 81al Co. Dopt. 192 BrooILl ... N. Y. Mulhall was silent for a moment as we East since his early Biograph days. watched the action of a scene being shot Mulhall's place in his profession is ~~'{fL~ $2.00 Given ~8s1~~ on the set before us. It was a library secure. He knows exactly where he is Simply sell 50 Sets of Our Famous Chtfotm •• 8 ..1. for 10. a .et. When sold lend us f3.00 aDd lI:eep $2.00. interior. Dorothy MackaiII, a fiame­ going, and he knows exactly what he Truot YOU till XIII'" colored silk gown vividly setting off her Amorloa. Chrl.tmu 81al Ca. Dopt. 138 Brookly., N.,Y. must do in order to get there. As a suc­ classic blonde beauty, was playing an cess formula, that combination is un­ emotional bit with George Fawcett, beatable. veteran and beloved character actor. Personally, Jack Mulhall is one of the most likable men I have ever known. Has Ambitions to Follow He is the kind of chap who would be selected by a dyed-in-the-wool ,football Fawcett fan to be his boon companion at the one "T HERE is my one ambition for the fu­ Big Game of the year. And that is one ture." Mulhall indicated the grizzled, of the most sincere personal compliments yet sturdy and genial Fawcett. "1 want to that can be paid any man.

A Striking Human Interest Story About BILL HAR'T in the January Movie Monthly Advertising Section The Road to Yesterday THE JANUARY • (ContimU!d from page 67) him. That night, dressed for my wedding and praying to God to save me, I saw Malena come through a secret door into the oratory. She gave me Jack's hunting knife. I opened the handle and found a Motion Picture rose and a scrap of paper on which he had written that he would come to me if I would put a lighted candle in my turret window. I did it. "JACK came to rescue me and I gave Classic him the knife. Strengevon heard him, followed. up the secret stairway, and they had a fearful fight. One of Ken's men knocked Jack unconscious. Then Ken told me he'd have Jack hanged if I The foremost screen authorities are writing for THE CLASSIC: didn't marry him at once. I had to agree to this to save Jack. Down in the court­ Eugene V. Brewster Frederick James Smith Harry Carr yard, Malena, muffled in a cloak, was among the merrymakers. Adrian, he was Robert E. Sherwo~d Dorothy Donnell Tamar Lane my enemy then, recognized her and raised the cry of 'Witch,' because he disliked Harriette Underhill H. W. Hanemann her. "Then Ken introduced me to the crowd as the new Lady of Strengevon. At that moment, Malena darted out and cried that she was his wife. Then came the cry THE MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC is the most from Adrian: 'Burn the witch!' Wicked Strengevon, seeing a chance to rid him­ authoritative magazine of the screen. The best self of Malena, made no effort to save her from the fury of the mob. She film writers of the country are contributing to its pleaded with him, reminding him of his pages each month. old passion for her and declaring her love for him. She told him he could save her by raising his hand. When he paid no It tells the screen news first-and fearlessly. heed, she said to him : 'May your hand that you will not Ii ft to save' me, fail you at your need I' I t dares to tell the things you want to know. "While all this was going on, I was in Remember its rec~nt revelations on stellar salaries, torture, for I loved Malena. Finally, as the mob dragged her off, I fainted. At on what famous film hits have earned and what least I fainted way back three hundred years ago, but to-night, wkl ile I relived the big film failures have lost? There are more those awful scenes, as I told you, I was of these startling articles to come. conscious all the time. "They carried me into the castle, up­ stairs. Ken followed and showed me It presents fascinating new slaQ,ts upon the Jack, half dead from blows, and trussed up by his wrists. At that moment the screen folks you know. And it tells af the new light from the pyre where Malena was film finds first. In THE CLASSIC you read first burning dyed the room blood red. Just as Ken was boasting to me that not even of W. C. Fields. Other magazin'es told of him God could cross the will of Strengevon, he looked out and saw Malena perishing a month later. THE CLASSIC presented Roy in the fire, and heard her calling his name. D'Arcy first. The January issue will have another "Jack had whispered to me to find his knife, which had been thrown on the floor newcomer. during his fight with Ken. I found it and cut the cords binding his wrists. He crawled up behind Ken and stabbed him, Briefly, you must read THE CLASSIC to be In just as he was gazing in horror at Ma­ lena's funeral pyre. real touch with the motion pictures you love. "Now comes the last of the horrible dream-the reliving of that old incarna­ tion, for I know now that it was that. I supported Jack and tried to get him into the oratory. We had to pass through a The January Classic secret door. I went ahead and turned to help him, but touching a hidden spring the door closed between us. There was Will be a beautiful and highly interesting holiday number. Jack on one side dying, and I on the other Among a score of other.. sensational features you will find the side hammering desperately-in vain. first published interview with F. W. Murnan, the now cele­ "AND that was the hammering, relived, brated German director who made "The Last Laugh." as I hammered on the door of that stateroom. And the smoke of the wreck to-night was once more the smoke drift­ ing from the pyre where Malena burned, to where Ken lay dying on the little bal­ ('vny. And the terrible curse Malena put You Cant Afford to be Without upon the man who had not saved her from death and who had betrayed her love caml" to his ears. ' (Colltinl'ed on page 80) ------The Classic!------80 Advertisiug Section Go West • (Continued from page 68) • lous at the dinner-table and just loved to slaughter each other, the train crew in beefsteak. They wouldn't have known a flight-and Brown-Eyes, dear little Brown­ vegetar.ian if they'd met him. They liked Eyes, imperiled I What to do I raw, red liquor, those ranch-hands, and To think was to act with Homer. they liked their beefsteak rare and plenti­ Dodging the bullets of Jackson's gang, ful. It was with areal pang that Homer he ran over the tops of the cars, even as saw that he would indeed need all of his he had done on a 'previous occasion, en­ guile if he were to save Brown-Eyes from tered the cab of the locomotive, grasped death. "Yes, death-and worse I" he said, the throttle boldly and slowed down the one day, as he gazed into her luminous train. Several hours later he guided the orbs. "Death-and then beefsteak I" hissing monster into the stockyards city. The days rolled by, and Brown-Eyes Knowing now that nothing could stop received no reprieve. But when she, with him, he unloaded the huge herd and drove the others of the doomed herd, was loaded them in the direction of the stockyard 11•• 1 1 in the cattle cars for shipment, Homer, corrals. Poor Brown-Eyes was in that I chivaJrous youth, stowed away in the herd, and Homer's heart bled for her­ I I feed-rack. Once more he was traveling but duty was duty. over the countryside, But on what a And it is true that fortune favors the I FREE' . I mournful pilgrimage this time 1 He gazed brave. For just as the cruel killer's knife ~ WARD y";' I down from the rack at Brown-Eyes, chew­ was about to close the career of Brown­ I NartU
___• __ ..... _. __ ._.. ___. ___ ._._._• ••• _ ... I ing a wad of hay, brave to the last. Eyes forever, the grateful Matth'ew Brown-Eyes looked back at him. Her Thompson reached the scene. L1~.!.=.;;;;;; ..::::.:.:::: . ~. ;;;;:.;,;;;;.;;;;;.;.~.. ~.~ ...;;.J eyes held a trustful expression. They "Stop this execution I" he yelled. "Stop were a little bovine, too, but then so were it, I say I" he repeated, chewing his mus­ Homer's, tache. Tom Jackson, the sworn enemy of And so, there in the romantic atmosphere Matthew Thompson, the rancher, had re­ of the stockyards, there where wild-eyed cruited a gang of gunmen to hold up steers were daily made into nourishing the cattle train and seize the stock. calories, Homer Holliday turned toward Homer's first inkling of it was when he his grateful employer, who gave him a was awakened by a fusillade of shots. shove into Gloria's welcoming arms. The train was in motion, he could see "Take her, Homer," he said. "Take that, but it was swaying in a most peculiar her, my boy." manner. You couldn't fool Homer much Matthew looked as if he was mighty on the swaying of trains after the mileage glad to get rid of her, but Homer didn't he had made in it box-car. He looked out, see this. He was standing there dream­ and a bullet imbedded itself in the sidE ing. He knew that he had won. He had of the car directly over his head. But Gloria, a fortune-and Brown-Eyes. And in that instant Homer had seen that the a home in the Great West. An infuriated engineer and the fireman had been forced bullock ran into him from behind as he by the gunman to desert the train. Here was dreaming, but Homer picked himself Money In Photoplays! was a real dilemma I The cowboys trying up and went on dreaming anyhow. Ca~lgy:~m:ri~e a:h~r:;~&hJf:!;eT.p:!d ef~:y t~li:~~e k~act,; to find out. Send tOe. for our Telt·lAllIOG aad Talent· Detector which will Quickly ehow whether or not you Fictionized by permission of M etro-Goldwyn Pictllres Corporation. Starring are-adapted to this work. Get tbl. uniQue and Inatructive pubUcation at once and learn If you have or have Dot Buster Keaton. Written anJ directed by Buster Keaton. the Deceuary imaginatioD and ability to produce plcture­ play acenariOi. Delay may mean lost opponunitiel. Send dime or ten cent8 In 8tamps today. CAST OF CHARACTERS PHOTOI'LAY INSTITUTE; Dept.3, Jackeo.. ,Mlch, Homer, the Drifter ...... , ...... Buster Keaton Owner of Diamond Bar Ranch, ...... , ...... , ...... , .. . Howard Truesdale His Daughter ., ...... " ...... " ..... , .. .. Ka.thleen Myers BE ADETECTIVE Earn Big MODey A. Bovine ,., ...... , ...... , ... , ...... ,', ..... ' ...... Brown-Eyes Work bome or navel. ~eoceUD~.Partlcularafree.WrlteDept.M.M. American Detective System, 11118 BroedwW'iw YORK The Road to Yesterday OPPORTUNITY MARKET (Continued from page 79) AGENTS WANTED "'Through lives and lives. and hells and lous and silly girl that I have been, was hells, tilt the will that has made is un­ given this power to go back into the past I'll prove to you that you can make ,96 a week made-you shall pay!'" and know the truth about us." taking orders tor Jennings' Guarantf'ed Hosiery. Beth turned suddenly toward Malena "We don't scoff, Beth." Malena said I turnlsh complete eq ulpment and otter you an Essex coach without cost. Write now. The Frank and held out her hands appealingly. softly. "We haven't your psychic gi ft, B. Jenningl Co., Dept. K·1l22, Dayton, Ohio. "And he has paid, dear. He has loved though I for one have often had vague and suffered, and it is because I know that haunting memories, but after to-night, I HELP WANTED-FEMALE he is now worthy of your love, that I don't think any of us will ever doubt have told you of my experience to-night. again, Do you, Ken?" Laugh-scoff-if you wish, but we live, For answer Kenneth took her in his Glrl&, women. Learn gown deolgnlng, makln" at bome. EBrn $25.00 week up. Learn while earn· and live and live again .. I always believed arms and kissed her, and there was no Ing. Sample le.80no FREE. Write Immedlatel:y. in the things I heard about reincarnation, more fear in her eyes, nor shrinking from Franklin Inotltute, Dept. K·1iS5, RochestH', N. Y. and it is. becalue I believed that I-frivo- his touch and his yearning love for her. Glrl&, women. Learn gown designing, making at · home. E.rn '211.00 week up. Learn while eBl'n· Ing. Sample lel80ns FREE. Write Immediately. Franklin Institute, Dept. K·570, Rochester, N. Y. MOVIE MONTHLY features its HELP WANTED-MALE F ASCINA TING FICTIONIZED PHOTOPLAYS

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