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The Little Girl. Next Door
( (f-ryCHSi Tens! Tchs ow-ow-ow!"
I The bosom of the old lady
sitting next to me in the the
ater where "The Little Girl Next
Door" was being shown heaved spas
modically and she elicited the above
sounds with painful regularity as the
Sim wound on its way. She thought
she was suffering, but in reality she
was having the time of her life as
were myriad other ladies, old, young,
club, home and department store, and
as were men of all classes, ages and
nationalities, Including those of the
cast.
It's a safe bet that not many per
formances of this remarkable picture
go over in the Chicago theaters with
out the admiring presence of at least
some of the principals, said principals
composed largely of Chicago's world
famous pure politicians, William Hale
Thompson, Mayor, et al., with Lieutenant-Governor
Barratt O'Hara leading
the choir, leading soloist being Arthur
Burrage Farwell. accompanied by the
clergy.
The only pure missing are the cen
sors, and they, we are told, are not
dead just sleeping, having been put
into a state of coma for the time being
by some we shall not name, pure ones,
though, whose argument for adminis
tering the drugged needle is that it
was the means to an end.
For those of you who have not paid
your quarter to witness the picture in
question, let me briefly inform you that
it is the picturlzation of the report of
the vice commission! of Illinois. "The
Little Girl Next Door," who might be
your little girl or your neighbor's little
girl or the little girl around the cor
ner but who wouldn't be if she had
proper home influences and a mother
who was her pal, is exploited going
down the staircase of ruin, step by
step her descent, however, only being
used as a sort of spotlight to illumine
the strenuous virtue of the vice com
mission and the pure politicians, none
of whom would like to be our next
President. Oh, no!
I'd heard about the picture from the
pure politicians and their cohorts, and
I went to see the picture because it's
my business to go and see pictures in
order that I may talk intelligently
about them or as intelligently as I
can with what God gave me as inspira
tion. And there were others who went
.1 Yt n m v nsnvk T5 -1.
jiilE mo. wfcms mo, i s my private
TOPIC OF INTEREST TO
MOVINCPICTURE FANS
WILLIAM FARNUM, or "Bill," as he
la known to his friends, thinks
be is the only actor in moving pictures
who has the distinction of having been
born on the Fourth of July.
"I'll bet George Cohan would be will
ing to start all over again to be able
to say that," Farnum said In telling it.
"The year was that of the Centennial
celebration, so you see the 'spirit of
'76' was mixed up in it, too, so, if r
em not a patriotic, blown-in-the-bottla
Yankee, I am nothing."
"But, how about being the boy cor-
netist In the Buckport, Me., silver cor
net band," he was asked.
"Well, I've tried to live down my
VOTE FOR THE PICTURE OF
VOIR. FAVOKITE FLAYER.
Ruth Stonehouse received the
highest number of votes last
week. Her picture therefore will
appear in Thu Frame of Public
Favor next Sunday. Of the other
players voted upon, the following
six are the leaders: Arnold Daly,
Marguerite Clark, Hazel Dawn,
Harold Lockwood, Marshall Nu
lan and Billle Burke.
THE BALLOT.
requests the pleasura
of seeing
the photograph of
appear
In the Frame of
Public Favor
Ona Week from next Sunday.
MARGUERITE A "FLOWER
GIRL."
Slnca she was first able to tod
dle out into the garden Marguer
ite Courtot has been a. lover of
flowers, and she argues that no
home is complete without them.
It is a mania with some people
to set out photographs the mo
ment they enter a. new abode.
They do not feel at home until
the familiar pictures are all
about them. Miss Courtot de
clares she feels exactly this way
about her flowers. "I figure any
room is homelike with a few
flowers scattered about, no mat
ter how simply furnished it may
be, but to me the most gorgeous
place in the world would be bar
ren without them." she said re
cently to a visitor, and involun
tarily bent to lift the drooping
head of a blossom that was one
of a mass in a vase beside her.
opinion that the majority who dig
down into purses and Jeans for the
quarter which provides the open ses
ame do it in order to satisfy morbid
curiosity.
Tou can't blame 'em. They've "heard
of such things." Naturally, when an
avenue Is opened for them by the vice
commission itself and the city govern
ment and the state government for
the Governor is there, too, bless him!
signing something that "made It possi
ble" for the vice commission to do Its
noble duty to see what they have
heard of in a perfectly respectable way,
they're going to go.
The sign "No children admitted" Is,
t think, not the sign that should have
been put up. The children could go
and not understand what it was all
about. Those who should be excluded
are the youths and high school girls
whom I saw there, taking in with avid
eyes things that no censor would have
passed for a mlnut. had they been
presented in any regular picture. True,
the young girl, drugged and taken to
the house of ill fame, was horribly un
happy, but the ladies already there
were silken gowned, coiffed, manicured,
jeweled and apparently care-free. Also
the house was a comfortable and lux
urious abode. Not such a horrible object-lesson,
if you should ask me.
The "little girl" herself one of them
starts to her doom by way of allow
ing herself to be "picked up" on the
street by a youth of Ingratiating man
ner. Our pure and usual little girl, who
leaves home with her mother's kiss on
her lips, could no more be "picked up"
than well, if mother knows her busi
ness, she couldn't be picked up, that's
all or the chances are at least ten to
one that she wouldn't be. Of course,
heredity influences many but that's
another question.
If the ultimate salvation of the girl
who has slipped lies In the doing away
with segregation by all means let the
lid be clamped down; but don't you
think when it comes right down to
brass tacks that the responsibility for
her fallen sister lies with good women
those good women who lift their
skirts and pass with unseeing eyes the
girl who "has a bad name"?
As I see it, the only hope for "the
little girl next door" lies in the dawn
of world-wide charity of women for
women. That would bring results.
The emotional outbursts of politicians
sweet and pure only salve one sore
spot. They do not prevent the spread
of the trouble.
musical education," he answered, "but
the truth Is I went to Buckport very
young and with all the evidence now
in existence, I must confess I did at
tempt to play the cornet in the Buck
port band."
Farnum has built up a reputation for
himself as a screen "fighting man," so
much so, that Jess Wlllard says he Is
the greatest stage fighter he ever saw.
Every ounce of Farnum is masculine,
yet while he has the reputation of be
ing pugnacious, he really has the dispo
sition of an angel and the heart of a
child.
He Is a big, outdoor man a yachts
man and hunter a man who likes to
drive an automobile just a little faster
than the other man; a good swimmer,
but not foolhardy. His strong liking
for the great outdoors caused William
Fox, when he Joined his forces, to in
sist upon Farnum being a little more
careful of himself. Farnum insisted
that he could take car of himself, but
Mr. Fox Insisted and finally they agreed
that Farnum was to Insure himself for
$200,000 to be paid to the Fox com
pany If anything happened to him
through accident.
Now the insurance company manages
Mr. Farnum's sports and he Is not per
mitted to do some of the things he
liked best.
Before becoming a popular movie ac
tor and matinee idol, William Farnum
was a successful stage star. So, success
is not new to him.
"But there is one thing, I will say,"
he often says, "my first appearance
on the screen waa the most nervous
time of my life. First nights on the
regular stage were moments of com
parative mental quietude compared to
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THE popular vote this week was for
Donald Hall, of the Vitagraph
Company. He Is always to be de
pended on for his reliable ability in
spectacular acting. Mr. Hall Is an
Englishman and was born in Nurree,
N. A. P.. India, on the 14th of August,
the screen. I think I lost beween 14
and 16 pounds in the first reel."
Some of his screen successes have
been "The Bondman," "The Nigger,"
"A Glided Fool." "The Plunderer,"
"Samson," "Fighting Blood," "Battle of
Hearts" and a "Man of Sorrow."
Mr. Farnum has a town house in
Riverside drive. New Tork City, and
a home at Sag Harbor, Long Island,
where he and their daughter and Mrs.
Farnum spend their Summers. He is
an exceptionally hard worker. Much
of his time recently has been spent on
the "Pacific Coast, where many of his
pictures have been produced. He is a
good liver, and like most human beings,
likes to eat.
"Baked beans, bah!' said Farnum,
"and as for the sacred cod, it ia my pet
abomination."
Personally Farnum is good to look
upon. He has a mouth as straight as
a steel rail, a thickset neck and a
stocky, square chin that gives him the
appearance of indomitable force and
unscrupulous determination. But. his
smile is as Irresistible as that of a
baDy.
Although the New Tork market wllL
no doubt, have all of the maple syrup
this year that It needs, there will be a
number of hundreds of gallons which
formerly found their way there that
will be missing this Spring. This syrup
yearly comes from an orchard of over
20,000 trees in the northern part of
New Hampshire, and until this year has
been sought by the New Tork mer
chants. No one has ever known exactly
where it came from, or who owned tha
farm, so it may be a surprise for many
to learn that it came from the farm of
Mack Sennett, director-general of the
Triangle-Keystone Film Company.
This year things will be different.
Mr. Sennett has instructed those in
charge of the farm that every drop of
maple syrup from each of the trees ia
to be shipped to Los Angeles. '
"I always look forward to the maple
syrup mother sends me each Spring."
Mr. Sennett said the other day, "and
you know that I have been thinking
that there must be a lot of Easterners
out here who would like to have fresh
maple syrup Just at the time the sap
begins to run. Anyway, I have In
structed those at the farm to ship all
they have this year to Los Angeles, and
if the little boys like maple syrup on
bread the way I used to after coming
home from school, I think the entire
shipment will be more than welcome."
Thomas Dixon, author of "Birth of a
Nation, "Fall of a Nation," etc.. Is go
ing to utilize his big Hollywood studios
for the filming of operatic spectacles.
Constance Crawley, American-Mutual
player. Is now engaged in writing
scenarios, her latest being "Fear," a
two-reeler, .
DONALD HALL.
37 years ago. He received his educa
tion in London. Before entering pic
tures he was on the stage. He was
Identified principally with musical
comedies. He has been in pictures for
three years and has played only with
the Vitagraph Company. In apearance
he is five feet eight Inches tall, weighs
kaka th "Trea, let ilia
Contributors with nutty ten
dencies are beseeched to contrib
ute to this column. What did you
see? What have you heard?
What have you thought of mo
tion pictures nuttlly speaking?
Turn on tell!
MOVIE ALPHABET IN RHTMX
C's Charles Chaplin,
For Contracts and Coin
He rakes In for comedy
Shure, man, he's folne.
(I made this one up myself.)
THE SECOND POST.
"If l waa you 1 would stop asken
peopel to ask you ask you when all
they git when they do ask Is to tell
they alnt no good to try to git into
pitchers becuz everbody they need Is
in them all reddy. If everybuddy is In
them all reddy why ask them to ask
you ask you perhaps you think some
buddy la goln to dy huh.
THE CASE OF PARIS GRfcEN.
(Nutty Novel.)
By Gordon Seagrove.
CHAPTER IL
Paris Green's first day In the studio
was one of excitement. Her eyes
popped out of her head or what there
was of it. There were eo many things
she had never seen on the farm.
"Can you act?" asked Mr. Whoosh,
the director, who had persuaded her to
go into the movies.
"No," answered Paris, "but I'm sure
I can."
"Everybody feela tha same way,
answered he. "But fear not. we will
teach you."
Thereupon he led her to a high
bridge. Above it waa the aky. Under
neath It waa the water. On either aide
waa land.
"Jump .off!" ha commanded. Parle
obeyed. Somehow, although It waa a
200-foot drop, aha had absolute confi
dence in Mr. Whoosh. When they picked
her up Mr. Woosh was smiling. Then
he led her to the railroad track.
"Lie down on the tracks." he said
kindly. Paris did aa aha waa told. In
one minute the faat mail would ba
along. Paris could scarcely suppress
a little cry of delight. It was all so
new and strange.
Jhe.a the train bad run pvec her
170 pounds.
has gray-brown hair and
gray eyes. He is an outdoor man and
especially fond of golf and swimming.
The picture which most of us like him Anne, so If I were you I do not be
best in is, I imagine, "The Christian." lieve I'd be sending any of those deli
He is not married. We asked him if cacies to Mr. Bushman. Him might
he danced and his answer was: "Not dettum face dirty!
mis new rui: nu;
Nut? Call X?hr Hun mat
Paris waa picked up unharmed and
taken up In a balloon. When 4.000 the leads. Mr. Clary was warren Har
feet up Mr. Whoosh cried, "Now!" and court and Miss Sweet was Vera Maroff.
Purls leaned overboard. The air Miss Sweet Is not married. She's in
whistled past her ears. But Paris en-
joyed it. She had always been an out
door girl.
When she reached the earth she waa
rather disappointed that the Journey
had ended so abruptly. Admiring men
gathered around her, applying bandagea
and giving praiSe.
"Now," said Mr. Whoosh, "you are a
great actress."
(To be continued.)
If Tou Get Votes Enough. Ring, Other
wise NUT!
Dear Mae:
I'll buy you pop or ginger ale or any
other dope.
If you will brand me aa a star and
print my horoscope.
Til buy you ice cream soda, dear, of
any "shade or flavor.
If you will print my pitcher In tha
j-Tame or rupno avor.
OS NER
BOOKOO! O. SO BOOKOO!
(Adv. distributed by a photo tudio.)
To please and to be all the time
grateful to their good friends and
customers, the Proprietors have ' en
larged their premises; adding luxivrjoua
Rooms. Dressing Rooms, with all the William Roselle: Judge Freeman. Hen- rolea ia taking twice aa long aa that
necessary things for a good picture. ry weaver; Lois Freeman, Jule Power, for the ordinary picture.
, There can be found fine scenarios and Gloria's governess. Marietta Ster- One of the most stirring fights ever
representing the Interior of the Church ling. No trouble at all. Write again disclosed on tha screen has ajrady been
of Rome and others, who add an ar- soma time, won't you? staged for 'this photoplay. Three husky
tietic effect to the Pictures. M. N. No, Francis Ford Is not mar- miners who had never appeared In mo-
New and last photographio apparels rlf.d to Grace cunard. Her picture has tion pictures before were engaged to
has been purchased here and abroad appeare(i m the Frame. Carlyle Black- "beat up" Dustin Farnum. with the re
conforming to the best and last lnven- well wUh tne Equable company. BUlt that after a sensational tussle In
tlons; and the Trade can be assured of Ho married, whom do I think the which the star had all be could do to
the best and refined results. most beautiful actress in movleland? to protect himself. "Dusty" was com-
Tou are hereby invited to pay ua a T6ll ms rirst who you thirfk ia pelled to postpone further work for the
visit to convince yourself, where you Thomas Chatterton plays opposite d.y
will find the most courtesy. . .... . ,. , . , ... t,.,.m
Besides you will have a chance dur-
ing May and June to get the following
GIFTS. ENLARGEMENT at your own
choice and eo on in proportion to the
order.
OUR WEAKLT CONUNDRUM.
If Thomas Commerford says he la S2
would that make Clara Kimball Young?
IF TOU CANNOT BE BEST TOU
HAD BETTER BE
WORST THAN
1 U. x.
WHEN AN'XA LITTLE
RIDES.
When Anna Little rides, it's a
good equestrian who can keep
up with her. Eh has had more
or less to do with horses all her
life and knows Just all there la
to ba known about them. Along
with her lova of them, she doea
not know what fear la, conse
quently aha la able to enjoy her
daily long ridea more than would
the average girl rider who ex
periences timidity. It ia her pas
sion for horseback riding that
makes her like so well the Indian
and Western pictures In which
aha Is ao often featured. The pic
ture shows Miss Little and her
favorite mount enjoying a desul
tory conversation before starting
to work.
Inquisitive Friend: Tou are
so complimentary I gladly for-
give you for being Inquisitive
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since you seem to think forgiveness vurr sorry to disoblige you. Billle
necessary. I am glad you wish I could Burke is in her 20s. "Gloria's Ro
have half of the paper for all my own. mance is the serial in which she la
but I must say I could not echo the
wish. Just think of all the work that
would mean! B-r-r! B-r-r-rt Beverly
Bayne is with the Metro company; Lil
lian Walker and Maurice Costello are
with Vitagraph; Blanche Ring is with
Morosco; Mabel Normand and Irene
Hunt are with Triangle; Billle Burke,
Kleine; Ethel Barrymore, Metro, and
Winnifred Kingston, Pallas. Twek
kum. Old Timer I am mighty sorry you
have had to wait ao long for an an
swer, but you know there are so many
questions to get answered that each
must be taken in its turn. Arthur
Johnson Is dead. No, I have never
heard of the other actor you mentioned.
Henry Walthall is still with Essanay.
Erwin August is with the World Film
company. Indeed, I waa only too glad
to receive thia letter from you and I
do hope you will write again aome
time. It is pleasant to know that "old
timers" are "present timers" as well.
Ohn Johnny musty gettee more
votes than anybody elsee to gettee him
tablets picthur in framee pubbes favor.
Worried Ann
It Is a difficult thing
to eat lobster gracefully. Worried
Henri I don't bleat! I never bleat
In my life, and if you asked me three
times before, I ask you to ask me once
again. I always answer my corre
spondents. Probably you didn't give
any name on your question or your
question had been asked and answered
so many times before that I did not
think it necessary to write It again,
and I don't bleat! Tou say "Say some
thing." Here it Is: I don't bleat!
W. E. E. This little pig said "Wee!
Wee! Wee!" In "The Black List"
Charlea Clary and Blanche Sweet took
L-
her 20a I think you would be looiisn pletion ot "David Garrick." Dustin
if you did miss the Reel page. In Farnum has returned to tha Pallas Pic
order to be extremely wise, see that tures Btudios In Los Angeles and has
you never miss It commenced work on his next vehicle.
Goldy I am glad you didn't wait un- The Parson of Panamint." This aub-
til I was dead to tell ma you like my
pag. .It ft a perfect shame I cannot
enlighten you regarding the grand
opera stars, but. you see. I am sup
posed to know nothing whatever about
the ODen. T refer vou tt our musical
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critic. Tha only time an actor's salary the new film. Is experiencing no little
Is a secret Is when he is not getting trouble in securing the exact types for
enough to brag about. the minor parts. The story, which tells
Sal K. No. Sal, I never get tired, of pioneer days when the greed for gold
The cast of "Gloria s Romance" is aa became so prevalent that a sma 1 strike
follows: Gloria Stafford. Billi. Burke; ld mnt tho ntnt c" j
Dr. Royce,. Henry Kolker; Richard tn as equally small as the find, de
Freneau. David PoweU; Pierpont Staf- nmnds types that are scarce. As a re
ford. M. T. Carlton: David Stafford. ult of thia tha casting of the smaller
Earle wmlam. not marrleov Tou
are vurr, vurr. welcome.
John I never beard that it waa nee-
essary to play leapfrog before one
could become a motion picture actor,
Of course, tha mora physically fit ona
is the better chance he stands of win-
nlng out in any line of work. Play
1 you wauv
A, Disgusted Movie FaJk--I am yurr
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fbntorit mount J
ASK. AE.JW
sorry you are so vurr tired of havinc
me say vurr. but I ean't vurr well help
it, because I am vurr used to it now.
appearing. She was seen before In
"Peggy." Tou are vurr, vurr wekkum.
J. T. Webster Campbell ia with the
Vitagraph company.
H. B. M. Any letter that's been
copied three times certainly ought to
be a pippin. In "The Child of the
Prairie" Louella Mazane took the lead
ing part. A letter addressed to Grace
Cunard. care of the Universal com
pany. Universal City. Cah. will reach
her. No. the great Mr. Kerrigan is
still unhampered by the bonds of mat
rimony. I cannot send you my picture,
because I haven't any' picture to send,
but that's no reason why you shouldn't
send me one of yours. I'd dearly love
to have It- Not a bit tired. H. B. M.
Tou bet your life I'll write to you
personally if you will send me a
stamped envelope. Tes, if ever I am
over there, I certainly will call on you.
Theater Manager How should you
judge whether a picture being shown
is a success? I'll tell you. If they
snore It's a sedative. If they get sore
It's a menace. If they weep it'a either
decided failure or success. If they
laugh It's a aura fire hit. Make 'em
laugh!
r. P. E. In regard to your letter,
my dear Mr. D. P. I am afraid I
shall have to continue to ask you to
ask me. Surely you can see it would
be far from diplomatic for me to re
veal the secrets you ask me to. I as
sure you, however. I do appreciate your
appreciation. May this page not de
preciate in order that you can con
tinue to appreciate.
Me I am printing the answer to
your question Just as soon as ever I
can. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford
have been identified with the Universal
company for many years. Grace Cunard
is not married. Francis Ford has
been. I believe. Beverly Bayne ia In
ner 20s-
Dnstin l'arnum'MXew Play.
After a short vacation upon the com-
Ject has been taken from tha story by
Peter B. Kyne which appeared In tha
Saturday Evening Post, and gives an
exact account of conditiona in tha
"mushroom" mining towns of Nevada
40 yeara ago.
It ia understood that "The Parson of
Panamint" will prove the biggest pro
duction yet undertaken by Pallas Pic
tures. Among the mora elaborate sets
now being built is a replica of a com
plete mining town on the spot In the
desert whene a "boom days" mining
town formerly stood. This will be the
most pretentious set ever erected by
the Pallas organization, which. Judging
from those used In "The Gentleman
From Indiana," will necessitate an
enormous expenditure.
William D. Taylor, who Is directing
h,s U8U8.1 leading lady. Winifred
Kingston, in the role of Buckskin Liz.
a character that will particularly al-
low her personal charm and talent wide
play. Other principal parts are en-
trusted to such able players as Howard
ravies. Herbert Standing. Colin Chase,
Doc Cannon. Ogden Crane and Jane
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the photographic work,
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