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TTTT3 STTTTDAT ORECIONTATT, PORTIiAITTJ, MAT 21, lpiG. ao5aa a at m (tsiiiiiis-ki a q e a'a a i b,i . i a Ff sr n ar n -tj-rn'm-m u:.a:-m-m .--m 1 mm- HER CINEMA DREAN A young woman of semi-tender years, ex ceedingly capable In her line of work yclept stenography began to act strangely. In other words, she grew muddled. Her shorthand notes. Judging from the way she translated them, were mere hieroglyphics to her Just like they might be to any ordi nary layman, and she gave strange and dis turbing answers to callers over the tele phone. At home she was not much better. Her family, greatly worried, called in a famous specialist. He took the case under advisement, and, after 60 days spent in profound thought at so much a thought announced that she was the victim of clne madeluslonltls. At the request of her an guished family and at so much per word he made out a detailed report of the case. This he mailed to the family, they, with their reqpest, having sent a stamped and aelf-addressed envelope for reply. "I DR. without doubt the most able specialist in the city on eye, ear, nose, throat, nerve. brain, hand, foot, hair, skin, tongue, hack, limb, and all Internal disturb ances, do hereby, having received pay ment in advance according to my usual custom, furnish a report, by request, stamped and self-addressed envelope at hand, on the case of Miss Mlttle Hit ten. Into HI Er and Picked lint Fran Ilia Clothes," weight 105, height i feet 13 Inches, color of hair light in spots, nose large, teeth slightly protruding, blood pres sure anaemic, temperature cool, and pulse beating. Actual occupation sten ography. Visual occupation motion pic ture actress. "In other words, a victim of the re cently discovered disease cinemadelu slonltls. an epidemic of which is with lis, the aforementioned ailment bidding fair in the opinion of this scholar of materia medica a scholar said to be the peer of all much more fashionable than either appendicitis or neurasthe nia ever were. Exceedingly popular. Patients enjoy It. Most difficult there fore of cure. Miss Mlttie Mitten, I have concluded and my conclusions are not to be sneered at has it in one of its most advanced stages. From my fre quent and prolonged observation of her from my fatherly chats with her I have discovered Just how the germ in oculated itself In her system. Briefly let me explain. "Six months ago Miss Mitten, a most "Finned Her Hat More Firmly Thas Et to Her Head Before She Lay Down.' capable stenographer the joy and bul wark of the estimable firm for which she works was persuade one evening by a frivolous young person to attend a motion-picture theater. After the picture a young man who had taken the part of a bellhop was recognized by someone In the audience and imme diately waa surrounded by adoring fans, I believe they call themselves T who asked him questions, peered into his eyes,- and picked lint from his clothes for their memory boxes.. Miss Mitten shyly hovered on the outskirts. Their eyes met. "It waa all of -with Miss Mitten. "That night on her way home she an swered only vaguely the questions put to her by the frivolous young person who had taken her to the motion pic ture theater. "Vaguely she prepared for bed. dis robing all but her hat. which she VOTE FOR TUB PICTTJRFJ OB YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER. Sessue Hayakawa received th highest number of votes last week. His picture, therefore, will appear In The Frame of Public Favor next Sunday. Of the other players voted upon the following si- are the leaders: Beatrix Michel ena, Donald Hall, Bobby Connelly, Helen Holmes, Mary Miles Minter and Olga Petrova. THE BALLOT. M, requests the pleasure of seeing the photograph of appear In the Frame of Public Favor One Week from next Sunday. Following Is the report of the famous spe cialist which he vurr" kindly, the under standing being that under no consideration should , his name be eliminated, lent a car bon copy of. The name had to be elimi nated, however, as the advertising depart ment declared thatthis page, no matter what It thought it was, was In no way related to classified, display, or any other member of the advertising family, and to please eon. fine attention to the special business of the page which had to do with motion pictures and motion picture people entirely. Wish ing no trouble whatever knowing that in on argument with the aforementioned de partment a perfect lady bad not a chance in the world, the name was eliminated. If the famous specialist has anything to say yet him say it to the advertising department. They should worry. As before remarked, the report follows: pinned more firmly than ever to her head before she lay down. Looking at herself in the glass in the morning she discovered that somehow she was not the same, but she had a gay conscious ness of irresponsibility of a duty at tended to. Subconsciously, you see, she realized that she need neither comb her hair nor put on her hat. Later, at the office, she asked for an extra half hour In order that she might be able to go home and get her hat. When assured that she had it she was conscious only of a feeling of gratefulness that she was spared the Journey home. Her em ployers, I discover, nudged each other and winked. They thought Miss Mitten ' had not fully recovered from the night before. She had not, but they did not wot her disease. "It was her mind. Poisoned by the germ, it worked like this, while to all appearances It was operating stenographicaily. Like this: "'The young man standing in the lobby surrounded by gabbing fe males suddenly Jumped backwards and clutched his hair. It was her. He said not so loud that anybody heard it, "It Is her." And he took two steps, one to the right and one to' the left, until he reached her. Then he whispered, "What do you dor "Oh." she said, "I am only a poor stenographer working from 10 o'clock in the morning until 2:30 In the afternoon for my daily bread." "You!" he gasped. "Tou! You star, you I A stenographer youl Tou I" She said, "In Pete's name, what do you mean, kid 7" He said. "Come with me and I will show you," and like so many flies he brushed the others to one side and with her on his arm he rushed madly down the street to a door labeled "Studio," where he went In without knocking, and also into an offloe marked "Private" without knocking, and said to a handsome man with dia monds and tears In his eyes. "I've got her." " The man ceased his manly weeping. "At last!" he said, and he caught her hands and wrung her hands and raised his manly eye to heaven and thanked the God that had given him life for what he had got that day. "Come with me," he said, and with her on his arm he hurried Into a beautiful lamp-lighted studio-' where a picture was only waiting to be taken because the lead ing lady was no good and they needed another. All day they had waited and now it was night, and still had come not a ray of hope, and now now. Here she came it was her. " "All together they took her and dressed her in a gown of cerise satin with rubles and emeralds on - her fin gers and slippers of satin that looked like gold on her feet, and they said, "Now we can take this great picture," but she said,. "Before I quit my old Job, what do I get out of this?" and they said, "Name your price," and she said, "O, a hundred and fifty a month and carfare," and they said It is yours and gave her her carfare In advance and the pitcure went on. . Needless to say, the handsome hero fell in love with the beautiful ex-stenog and there was a beautiful wedding, but they went right on acting just the same, and all their little children ' "This is the way her mind works. When it comes to the children it goes back over the same thoughts again. In reality Miss Mitten is a stenog rapher. Visually she hasn't the slight est Idea In the world of the relation of a pencil to a typewriter. The faces of her employers are blurs. As she walks along the street, does she see newsboys, working men and working women? No, she does not. A queen, she walks along, surrounded by an admiring pop ulace. She hears the whispers, Tt la her. It Is her. Didn't you see she In that plotureT Some doll. Some doll. "Can Miss Mitten be cured T She can. Provided the Mitten family see fit to allow me to handle this case in my own way cash In advance I will guaran tee a cure. Let the Mitten family com municate with me at their earliest con veniencesending stamped and self-ad-dressed envelope if they wish me to re ply. And let them not forget that It takes fcrmo to read letters and that my time is valuable. I Inclose schedule of charges. No rates to nobody." Footnote: An expensive specialist, but we hope the family feel they can employ " him, aa it seems a shame to leave Mlttie uncured. If they do come across, a detailed account ofthe cure will be printed on this page vurr soon. Lubin Photoplay Landed. A prisoner In the Rhode Island peni tentiary adds his note to the chorus of approval with which "Dollars and the Woman," the new Lubin photoplay classic, has been welcomed for its wholesomeness. For some time past George Balsdon. manager of the Boston office of the V. L. S. E., has been re lieving the prison gloom by exhibiting Big Four pictured to the inmates once a week. ". With reference to the showing of the Lubin feature, this letter was received by Mr. Baldson: "We had the good fortune to see 'Dol lars and the Woman.' The boys think it is the best picture they have had. Everybody in the picture worked well. There were no impossibilities, nor was there anything suggestive. I looked around and saw many an eye wet with .tears." The story that is able to soften grim scowls on hardened faces into gentle tears must possess the elements of sympathy and human kindness. "Dol lars and the Woman," however, be cause one of Its chief characters Is a cooing baby, is banned in Pennsyl vania, by the Stats Board of Censors. . h - . . . r Y0 t.'p mmj - j-;--- 5 . Ur)A o:.- o ',' . ' o7 9AV - - - 4 ''''IRk m ft Arm fmv) i&t&Kxi THERE are some people who never miss a picture in which Bessie Barrlscale, of the Triangle Company, la scheduled to appear. This popular actress Is an American girl. 26 years old, and was born in New Tork City. Before entering pictures she was on the stage and appeared in numerous TOPIC OF INTEREST TO MOVING-PICTURE FANS TUST think of It! I am going to I travel thousands of miles In a " little tin box before San Fran cisco sees me for the first time, and even then I won't see the Golden Gate!" Peggy Hyland, the charming little British star, who has just made her first trip to this country in order to make her screen debut with the Fa mous Players Film Company, grew wide-eyed at the thought. Of course her remark is not to be taken literally. What Miss Hyland referred to was not herself, but the films containing her celluloid self. It is a rather striking PHIL: Land, child! If Z only had ono hour a day In which I felt good humored to answer all the ques tions that come In, I am sorely afraid this column would go to the bow-wows. I tell you how it Is. Tou see. I am so glad to hear from all of you that It puts uie in good humor whenever I take out my batch of questions to be answered. I must admit, however, that I am not always in a "state of exuber ant effervescence." Do write again, and thank you vurr, vurr much. In an swr to your postscript, a number of re sponsible concerns are In the market for scenarios. If you will send stamped and seif-addressed envelope, I will mail you a 11st- AN ACHING HEART: Mabel Nor mand is not married. Address her in care of the Keystone Triangle company, Los Angeles, CaU Be still, my aching heart; be still! R. F. G.: Letters to Dorothy and Lillian Glsh will reach them in care of the Triangle company, 71 West Twenty third street. New York. A 1AAIAB' (TIMBER (flvraSl u "ASK T ASK. ML ! u ff Bessie Barriscsle. productions, including. "Lovely Mary," "Mrs. Wlgga of the Cabbage Patch," and Lucj.a in "The Bird of Paradise." This part she created. In appearance Mias Barrlscale is most attractive. She is a little woman & feet ztt inches tall, has blond hair, brown eyes, and weighs 125 pounds. Her hobbles are fact, however, that the British star should have traveled S000 miles across the ocean to New Tork In person, as a result of which she may now remain In one place and yet appear in every city and hamlet in the country through the medium of the motion picture. In a few months the cltlsens of Painted Post, Oskosh or Pine Creek will bo discussing the capabilities of this new star and the object of their dis cussion will probably not have been 100 miles west of New Tork, nor will she over have heard of many of the com munities in which her name will have MRS. A. W. P.: Ia "Tho Cheat" tho Japanese man waa a real Japanese: also, by the way, ha is an exceptionally good actor. His name Is Sessua Haya kawa. He was. born in Toklo, Japan, and is 27 years old. I am mighty glad you like tho Right Off tho Reel page. Will you please keep on liking it? J. F. N.: Yes, William and Dustln Farnum are brothers. William Farnum is married. Ho is In his thirties. I have no information about his family. Your voto received and recorded. MRS. L. E. L.: The actress who took tho part of Elsie Stoneman in "The Birth of a Nation" was Lillian Glsh. She is about 12 years of ago and is not married. Henry B. Walthall was tho Colonel and Maxfleld Stanley took the part of the youngest Cameron brother. No. you are not too Inquisitive. Glad to bo of service to you. HELEN W.: Tickled to death to an swer you. (No, I didn't swallow a feather.) Charles Clary la with tho Lasky company, Los Angeles, CaL Write again some time, won't youT I shall always bo glad to hear from you. MAX: Ton are away behind tha times. Geraldlno Farrar quite some time since married Lou-Tellegen. No, he did not appear with her In either picture you mention.- Fannie Ward hath been, married. If 1st now knowst not. Tea, Wallace Reid is married. He Is married to Dorothy Davenport. Ses sue Hayakawa played with Fannie Ward in "Tho Cheat." HELEN B-i X can't imagine hjr you ccgx. horses, and babies. She is fond of outdoor sports and especially likes to play tennis and baseball. Before going to the Triangle Company ?he waa with Lasky and the New Tork Motion Picture Corporation. A notable photo play In which she appeared was "The Cup of Life." She la married. become a by-word. Whence arises the platitude that tha wonders of science will never cease. Miss Hyland'a actual American trav els have thus far been limited to Jack sonville, Fla, where she went almost Immediately after her arrival in this country- for the purpose of getting the exterior settings for the adaptation of "Saints and Sinners," which was chosen for her debut on this side of the At lantic. Though it is interesting to note that the play is the work of the cele brated English author, Henry Arthur Jones, still this fact had no bearing upon Its selection as a vehicle for the little British star. The play was chosen simply because of the fact that it was considered to bo especially fitted to her personality. e "I'd rather die than marry a low- didn't get an answer to your letter. Whenever a stamped and self-addressed envelope Is Inclosed tho letter is an swered within a week. Sometimes it takes several weeks for answers to ap pear in the paper. Tou see, there are so many, and they must be taken In their turn. My dear, when you ask re garding tho casts you must name tho producing company, otherwise I will not be able to help you. Mr. Ford and Miss Cunard are not married to each other. No trouble at all. child, VERA L: Oliver Fuller Golden Is with tho Universal company, 1600 Broadway, New York. There la no studio In Buffalo that I know of. You might writs to tho postofflco depart ment there and Inquire, however. You're welcome. F. B. C: If yon are still a bachelor It certainly Is not your own fault, for you are evidently a most susceptible gentleman. I certainly do feel flattered to know that away off in Walla Walla somebody sits looking at the picture of the lady on the sofa who says, "Ask me! Ask mo!" and thinks she's "some lady!" "Thank you. sir." said she. and. still thanking you. she continues to declare that Ironbound office rules for bid her flving information regarding herself and her adventures, matrimo nial and otherwise. Billy: Crelghton Hale is with the Pathe Freres Company. Address Billle Burke in care of the Kleine company, tyi East Ono Hundred and, Sovanty.- down, sneaking Bassett." declared Hazel Dawn, flinging back her rebellious curls and stamping her bare foot defiantly, aa she gathered her coarse homespun dress about her and stalked majestic ally out of the scene. "Great stuff," declared Director Fred Thomson approvingly, and the shaggy mountaineers who were grouped about her grinned their satisfaction. They were real mountaineers, these specta tors, for the Famous Players' star had gone to the hill country of Northern Georgia to stage "The Feud Girl," her forthcoming Paramount picture, which was released May 15. . There are many points of exceptional interest about this photoplay, as it is the first feud story ever to be filmed in a real feud country. The mountains which . form the backs-round for "The Feud Girl" have been the actual setting of many a grim scene in days gone by, for it was in these very hills that some of the most bitter struggles have been fought out. Many of the bearded old men who responded to the director's call for volunteers when he was col lecting "fighters" for the Haddon-Bas-sett feud were men who had taken part in these scenes of years gone by, and there were many interesting and excit ing tales spun by them. Thomson, always ready to adapt him self to his surroundings, incorporated some of the best Incidents into the action of the photoplay, with the rosult that the feud will perhaps be the most realistic that -has been depicted on the screen. As Nell Haddon. the wild mountain daughter of old Haddon. the leader of one of the warring factions. Miss Dawn does superb work. It is one of the most tenderly sweet but unusually powerful characterizations which she has ever done on the screen. Nell has long been the close friend of Luke Haddon. whose love she has never been able to return. Their -clan has been at war for years with the Bassetts over the possession of Iron Mountain, which lies between them. When railroad engineers dis cover the value of the disputed prop erty they attempt to reconcile the war ring factions In order to negotiate for control of the mountain. Frank Daniels, oomlo opera comedian, , who has been "working under the di rection of C. Jay Williams in a series of one-reel comedies for the Vltagraph CompAny, is so thoroughly Interested in his work that he Intends to forsake the legitimate stage forever. He has been acting the role of an old soldier and his antics have been so amusing that the work in neighboring studios - has often stopped that the directors and actors may be amused. In one scene. Mr. Daniels was re quired to consume a quantity of food, throwing it in with both hands. He displayed such dexterity at this that Director Williams questioned him about I am ambidextrous, Daniels admitted. "When I was a boy my father always said to me: 'Frank, learn to cut your finger nails with your left hand, for some day you might lose your right hand. " e e "It could have happened." In that short sentence a writer on the psychol ogy of the photoplay describes "Dol lars and the Woman," the six-act clas sic referred to by other critics as a play without a villain or a fight. Re cently the owner of a theater In a lumber district town wrote a personal letter to Slegmund Lubin, whom ho knew in the screenless days. "When you feel like making a mo tion picture for us up here In the wil derness that will make us sit up and take notice, don't put a fight in it- We can see a real fight by stepping around the corner any day. And we don't like villains. Give us A heart-and-home picture and you'll get the lumberjack nomination for President." Heart and home is a -terse synopsis of the story In "Dollars and the' Wo man." and. as a suggestion, when you go to see it take an extra handkerchief with you. e Miss Neva Gerber recently acquired a valuable pearl necklace as a result of one of Wallace MacDonald's offhand Jokes. Both, with Dick Rosson. were acting in "Won by One," a new "Beau ty" comedy directed by Archie Ma Mack in And to be released February 9. Tho story is that of two salesmen who represent rival fake Jewelry con cerns and the salesmen become flfth street. Now Tork. No trouble at sJU Jennie:. Tour Idea that njotion pio ture acting Is a "barbed wire fence that separates one from church" is all non nense. There are quite as many church goers in the theatrical profession. I Imagine, as there are in any other. I HSWTA n IB cuiib-jl' 1 WAHTA Q To CMOaxW Better get rid of some of those fool notions. Myra M.: I think yon did a lovely thing yourself In writing me such a pleaaant letter. I dp appreciate the thought that prompted it. Francis X. Bushman and his family live in New Tork at the present time. Tes. his pic ture has been in the frame several times: tha last time it appeared was November XI. Tea, Earle Williams picture has also been In the frame. Vernon Castle gave up dancing to be come an aviator, hla Intention being to enlist his services in the present Euro pean war. I haven't heard whether or not he is yet in active service. Dorothy K.: As soon as the lady gets enough votes ber picture will appear. Dorothy, dear, so be of goo& sheer. HIT Wt ' - rivals for Neva's hand and heart. Botls. have laxpe grips of glittering but falsa finery. During the play each make Neva handsome gifts from their stock. After one of the scenes had been completed, MacDonald laughingly placed a rope of supposedly pasts pearls around Neva's neck and with v much ostentatious ceremony an nounced to the company that he was making a present of them to the popu lar star. The necklace was discovered later to be genuine and valuable, and now Mr. MacDonald is wondering If he owes anybody any money. Miss Gerber laughingly insists that sho will retain the precious pearls. Julia Fa ye. who has been charming theatergoers by her clever work la Triangle-Keystone features. Is a daugh ter of the South and was born in Rich mond, Vs., in 1896. When she waa about six. her parents moved to St. Louis, where the young woman re-, ceived most of . her early education from a private tutor. Later she had a year at a New York finishing school, then a trip abroad with her mother. About two years ago her parents moved to Los Angeles. Of course. In Los Angeles, nearly all of the younger members of the social set have at ono time or another appeared In pictures, usually aa a sort of a dare. Miss Faye was one of these, but when she said she had only wanted to act once Just for the fun her director thought dif ferently and insisted that the young woman select the screen as a pro fession. After making a picture or two with the Fine Arts Company under direction of D. W. Griffith. Miss Faye became a member of the Keystone Stock Com pany. She Joined the Edendale Com pany the latter part of 1915. and In the short space of a few months has risen rapidly on tho. Keystone ladder of fame. In private life Miss Faye leads a simple, one might almost say a com monplace life. She does the usual things that the average society girl does and has a host of friends among the younger social set. She is rather slight, has dark hair and eys. She lives with her father and mother in aa attractive Hollywood home. t see "Powder" which has been given an enormous production at the American Studios at Santa Barbara, is a stupen dous five-reel masterpicture, de iuxo edition, replete with exciting events. A large munitions plant la destroyed by a terrific explosion. Mr. Maude and Constance Crawley head the cast and appear to splendid advantage in powerful situations crammed with thrills. Two warring nations compete to control a new won derful explosive and hair-raising sen sations result. e e The other day Hug-hie Mack, the come dian, had a clay pipe shot out of his mouth in a scene in a one-part comedy. Charles Rlchman, "Battle Cry Charlie," was on hand to witness the sharp shooting, and was very much Impressed. ..He threatens to take up shooting, but Hughla says it won't bo his mouth that will hold tho pipe. - e e Harold Lockwood and May Allison, the popular young stars who have Just completed their first feature for tho Metro programme. "The Come-Back." have gone to the wilds of North Caro lina, where they begin work on the exterior of a new production. The -story deals with life among the moon shiners, and Fred J. Balshof er, who is directing the Lockwood-Alllson fea tures, has arranged with Government agents to use buildings and locations that were once the rendezvous of real moonshiners, and where thousands of gallons of white liquor Were illicitly made The locality has long been cleared of the lawbreakers, but their perilous single horse trails along the mountain sides, their old shacks, dis tilling kettles and other paraphernalia still remain in the picturesque and rugged country. Altogether 15 players were in tho Lockwood-Alllson Com pany, Including Howard Truesdell and Lester Cuneo. an Kdlth Storey. IF there la anything in tho influence surroundl-sg Mr. Pieces. Edith Storey, who was born March 18. there fore comes under this sign, and should be: Thoughtful Sensible. Curious. Alert. Apparently sub missive, but really vurr vurr determ ined as to what she wants to do. Skeptical regard ing religion. Consclen t I o u a. Despondent at times. Sympathetic Philanthropic. Nervcus and -xacting in all things. Wear a bloodstone, it Is her birth stone. Ci oose Intimates from among those born between June 23 and July 22 and between October 24 and November 22. Dam id HsIL Donald Hall, born on August 14. comes under tho sign of Leo. If tho sign means anything he: Is courageous. , ---. l Is jovial and Is afraid of no one. Always has a "come back." Is extremely emo tional. Is not - studious but observant Is mechanically . inclined. Is A sulky little chap when, offendod. Is comical in imitations. Has great respect for the law. Can be depended on to carry out wht he believes is right. Is extremely healthy. Should wear a sardonyx, as It la his birthstone. Should choose sympathetic friends from among those born between March 22 and April 20, and between oven bar 28 asd Deeombor 24, rsm
