Actress Says
much interested In- photography. In ad
dition to studying screen technique he is
that there 'won't be so much time wasted
between pictures, waiting for another
Job. Before "Miss . Hobbs," her first
picture f orV Realart, is half completed,
the next tarring vehicle for Miss. Haw
ley is chosen, a director engaged, and
the cast partly selected. All Alias II&w
ley has to do is choose her gowns for
the next picture, and presto, her career
sails blithely along at the velocity of a
shooting star.
Films Help Win
Detroiters' Oar
Sorviqe Campaign
Motion pictures helped win the $15,
000,000 bond issue for additional Detroit
streetcar lines.;, The films were largely
animated drawings. Small cartoon street
cars, which flitted across the screen, em
phasised the roundabout way woi-av.o
living. In some sections now have to
travel. At frequent intervals there
flashed upon .the screen "Detroit street
scenes showing- ears, crammed to the
steps, passing crowds of weary workers
at the corners. Of course. Detroiters
knew all this already. Only to see U
upon the picture screen made thorn ail
the madder. The pictures were thrown
into the theatres at T.tfl psychological
moment just a, few days before election.
: After the visualisation of the present
system there came I to life upon the
screen the many new lines which $15,
000,000 would build. These lines put Mr.
Detrotter to work in a hurry and In
most cases without even one transfer.
Mr. Detroiter voted he wanted that kind
of a system. . j "
Certain Detroit I interests bitterly
fought the bond issue.
now experimenting with colored photog
Managers
to Blame
raphy. Morris thinks the day Is. soon
coming when writers will study screen
methods at first hand and then adapt
their own stories to the screen. - When
i colored motion pictures, especially writ
ten for the screen by skilled writers who
help direct them, have arrived the art
of the silver sheet will be about as near
perfection, he thinks, as it is possible
for it to get. Meanwhile Morris has pur-
chased a camera and is doing some ex
; perimentlng with photography in colors.
By Margaret Mef fatt 6
! (Noted KniUsh AetrtM)
- Rial to Has Anniversary
:When the Rial to. theater, the wonder,
palace of the New Tork moving picture
world, held its anniversary celebration
it chose "Paris Green," the Charles Ray
production, as the feature number. The
house manager announced that all rec
ords for attendance were broken during
the two weeks' run.
LONDON. May 22. I quite agree with
Charles Cochran regarding- snobbery
on the London stage. The difficulty in
writing: a critical article on any stage
topio is that it invariably brings forth
two kinds of reply one, aa irate protest
There's Ileal Difference
Thtt ftneat thlnar about tMinor m. ifir
Double Harness,") a comedy by M.
F. Marks and E. A. Paulton, will be pro
duced in New Tork next season by Jo
seph Klaw. I
from those whom th shoe pinches; the herself Instead of a mere leading woman
ether, indignant denials from those who I for a man star1, says Wanda Hawley, is
are gunuess. mere is seiaom a iranx
and sensible argument put forth, conse
quently controversy such aft Mr. Coch
ran has j started usually, resolves Itself
felsi fy Ugj. I. GIRLS 2k
will
into a oeai or bickering,: ana tiie argu
Lily Pad and the Natatorium
It opened last week. dear and duck.
With bandd and trozen peaches,
With fancy diving by the frogs.
And long and watery speeches!
The Froggie Natatorium,
And old Professor Jim,
Stood steady, sir, and ready, sir.
To teach the mice to swim.
Sine the dreadful fldod in Tiny Town
The farmer mice aspire
A working knowledge of the art
Of fishes to acquire.
So when the pool's completed,
They don their water logs,"
And hurry off to Lily Pad,
To splash 'round with the frogs. .
So thorough and so skilled a teacher
Is Professor Jim,
That In two weeks there's not a tiny
Towner who can's swim!
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This brings us to a certain night,
Both meadow .towns are sleeping.
When down the lane a wicked wight
And enemy comes creeping. -
A vagrant city cat, who's heard
About the field mouse village ;
A hungry enemy who's bent
. On dinner--death and pillage!
(
The watchman saw his gleaming eyes
Glare through the gate; he sounded
The fire alarm now out of bed
And house the farmers bounded.
And to Lily Pad Town they sped,
Off to its friendly bQgs.
And after them the city cat
Stumbling on sticks and logs.
Into the pond jumped the little mice,
Oh, good, for Professor Jim
Wasn't It lucky he taught the folks
Of Tiny Town to swim ?
The cat wouldn't jump in the water.
The froggie folks pelted him hard
:With mud and stones, and away he
-r ran
Off home to his own back yard.
How Oliver
Elephant Got
His Big Ears
ONCE upon a time, -longer than long
apro. Oliver .Elephant had ears about
as large 'as a muffin, not one bit bigger.
- It was so inconvenient for him to hear
'cause when some little creature went to
.speak to hfm he'd have to get down on
his knees and -put his trunk to his ear
,' d find out What .they were saying? and
as, for, his appearance, well, it was Just
' ridiculous.. ' , ,
: ' One day, as he was looking "sadly in a
.' .forest pool ; and .wondering why his ears
were; so , small ' for the. rest of hinru the
little," old man of the woods " came- by.
And. the little old man of the woods is a
secdnd. uncle to a fairy, which nakes,
him quite magic ' '.- .
"What's the matter, big Oliver Ele
phanf?" -asked the little man of the
woods. .Oliver put-bis trunk behind his
ear and got .down on his knees, for the!
little fellow was ho bigger than a waffle.
'Beg pardon T' Said, Oliver Elephant,'
politely. The old man of the woods re
peated' his question .and -Oliver Elephant
asked him-'how it was his ears .were, so '
small, -when' all the rest of him was so
big.. , '
If they; -were larger my nose or my
trunk wouldn't seem, so long" wailed
iQUver . Elephant The . llttleman of the
.-' woods' shook-'His head1 wisely.
JThey "didn't grow long enough : they
-- must have-' been picked too. soon," he
- said slowly and-"sat down-on a tree
"stump to think. After a while he be
gan to dance around Oliver Elephant in
excited circles.
. "I have it. I have it: we'll plant) 'etn
again and then when they are big enough
I'll pluck them and wish them back on
you." - i ;
Oliver Elephant was a bit worried, but
When the little man of the woods as
. aured. him i that he could wish his ears
off without hurting him he Just heaved
a big sigh and told him to go ahead. So
the little man did and the next thing
that elephant person had no ears at all
and the little man of the woods had
dug a big hole and planted those he had
had. , Poor Oliver Elephant he had
enormous trials for a whole four weeks,
'cause he couldn't hear a single thing
anyone said. - His enemies slipped up
before he j could see them and nipped
pieces out! of him. and his friends were
all mad at him because he wouldn't an
swer their questions. How could he, I
''ask, without a single ear?
So finally he just went camping by
himself right where the little man of
. the woods had planted his ears. Every
day they grew larger and more shapely
and Oliver was tempted two or three
times to pick them, but restrained him
self because, of course, he could not put
them back, and a disconnected ear is
like a disconnected telephone no use.
The little man of the woods had gone
on a journey and just as Oliver Elephant
was growing very much frightened at the
slse his ears were reaching, he came
: back. ,
' "Well, said the little magic man of the
.woods, "didn't I tell you they would
grow? Are they all right?"
v Oliver could not hear a word he said,
but he nodded hard, and next thing he
was sitting down three yards off with a
terrible headache. The man of the
. woods had wished - his ears back so
quickly that the shock had upset Oliver
Elephant, j but hayricks, how happy he
waa He could hear even the grasshop
pers singing in the grass, and as for his
looks, well you know yourserr now Da
coming they are. Yes, that's he way
Oliver came to have big ears.
- ' I Dr. Dollbv
"Recovered nicely from his spring fever,
and it was a very good thing, too, for
several accidents befell the Nurseryville
folk. Clarabelle China Doll fell out of
the window and landed (fortunately) in
the trash barrel. She was cracked, but
not broken. The baby threw Teddy Bear
into a pot of hot tar, and now he is a
colored Ted. I haven't any idea how to
get it off, and neither has the doctor.
Lucy Lee Rag Doll was run over by a
kiddie-kar and had several cuts and
much loss of sawdust The needle and
thread the doctor always carries in his
emergency- case saved her life. She is
much thinner, though. Phoebe Lou, her
Bister Rag, had Just the opposite experi
ence. She fell in the water and her saw
dust swelled so she burst all through her
skin. Rapid repairs and patches also
saved her, and she is drying in the sun
and gradually regaining her figure.
I
the
Dollville Happenings
Estelle China Doll sat too .near
candles and scorched all her golden
curls. ; She was much disturbed, but
Doctor Dollby says to cut off the singed
ends and the curls 111 be as good as
ever. I -' -
A terrible accident resulted when the
baby built a castle of blocks in the cen
ter of the electric railway tracks. The
train knocked the blocks in all direc
tions, pre landing in the Teddy Bear's
stomach, another in the goldfish bowl;
still another came crashing through the
dollhoUse window, spreading cake batter
all over poor Aunt Dinah. Several china
dolls were cracked, two automobiles
wrecked and the. walking rabbit's spring
was broken. Wasn't it disastrous?
! A New Doll Flat
-The Tiny Doll Family has found the
most commodious and comfortable quar
ters. .AH the Nurseryville folk are sorry
they -are not small enough to follow out
their very brilliant idea. They have
taken the top floor and basement of the
old school companion. I am afraid it
will be very -warm in summer, but, as
they point out. the roof being movable.
Uu y can nave all the air they desire, and
yet close it up if there is a storm, or
trey are in a anger, j. snouia tnink a
small window could be cut in the top.
should n t you? ,
The
Paws and Claws
Club
A Slip for Summer
The very easiest way to make a slip
or petticoat for your doll to wear under
heri thin summer dresses is to take a
straight band about one inch wide.
Measure it right under the doll's arms.
Then gather a straight piece long enough
to reach to her knees and sew it on to
theband. Put ribbon straps over the
shoulders'' and lace around the bottom,
and there you are.
j Fruit for Dolls
This season of the year the doll chil
dren should have plenty of 'fruit. Ox-
heart cherries t make beautiful doll ap
ples and the red pie cherries fine toma
toes, f When serving fruit use paper
napkins and rlcnlc plates. Fruit stains
linen very badly I
I DO wish the dogs would be more par-
ticular about street crossings. . There
are so many accidents.-. Personally I
think special signs should be put up for
their benefit.: How can one expect them
to read the stop and start signs 60 dog
feet over their heads?
This is a very busy season for the
birds ana feeding their large families
keeps them busy early and late. : Buf
they still have time to sing, I notice,-and
in that they are better than we are, for
not many of us sing at our work. We
ought to help these lirle feathered
fathers occasionally. Market iag is hard
on Mr. Robin, for his family have truly
enormous appetites. Rents are so, high,
too. ; : j . ' 4 w j . ' -
Animals are like ' people in a good
many ways. Some are interested only
in themselves and their own affairs,
while others are wide awake and curi
ous and interested in everything about
them. . - i ;
Cows and chickens and sheep and pigs
are more interested in eating than any
thing else and will seldom look up if a
motor passes or if anyone comes to see
them. But take a dog or. a horse ; they
are almost human in their alertness. . A
horse, if he hears a noise, will turn to
see what is going on. He is interetsed in
the affairs of his master- and will look
appreciatively at beautiful scenery, stop
to look up at .n airplane and generally
manifest intelligence in what is going on
around him.i As for a dog, he is almost
too curious and is into everything. That
is why horses and dogs are so compan
ionable. They .really represent the
scholarly part of the animal world, the
part that thinks and reasons. Birds
often seem very wise, too, but the horse
and dog head the list.
- Flower Boxes
- The pasteboard boxes, painted, make
darling doll window boxes. Fill them
with sawdust and plant grapefruit seeds
In them. The dolls will love' to watch
them grow. But don't forget the plants
have to be watered.
ment gets nowhere. , . -v-
Many of our actresses are much more
anxious j to appear as "ladies" before
their audiences than to act the parts
assigned to them.
I played in a London production with
a well known actress who was cast for
a dowdy, middle class woman. When
the time came to talk tabout dresses she
was , in a quandary. Some one - sug
gested: . '
'Why don't yoo dress the part like
seme of the types you see among your
"trades' acquaintances 7"
1 ARTS ABE CHA5GEK
The actress , tilted her nose, sniffed.
and said, haughtily;
"My dear, I don't know . any such
people!" -
Dear, dear! She dressed the part in
purest Bond street, and the manage
ment allowed it for fear of offending
her. She had a reputation.
I played in another piece In which
the "star" had the leading part entire
ly changed and the play altered out of
all logical character rather than dress
her part In Brixton instead of Han
over Square. She was a favorite, and
the management permitted the 'artistic
sacrilege. We have all seen many such
instances. There is more vanity than
art in the acting profession. So far, Mr.
Cochran la right.
But what about the snobbery on the
part of managers?
How many of them, when casting a
play, consider the artistic fitness of the
artists for the parts? The alleged social
status of the player often takes prece
oenco in the manager's judgment, rather
than physical, mental or artistic at
tributes. They consider first, what they
call a "name" ; that fallacious fetish of
the West End manager.
They prefer a "name" to play a part
badly at the risk of a valuable prop
erty rather than to chance the play to
an unadvertised artist who may be bet
ter suited for it. n. .;
The "name" rarely j plays ' the part
written; it plays its own, self. And in
these times we call lit "acting." It
need not even be an actress ; for
"name" is often made in the restau
rants and social diaries rather than be
hind the footlights. ,
WHAT MAKES FAILTJEES -
Mrs, Grundy and Dame Fashion are
responsible for more failures than Dame
Thespls. i
I "know of a manager who, jnot long
ago, turned down a play which he was
most keen about because the , author
would not consent to the manager's se
lection of the leading lady. The lady
in question was under contract to play
the lead in whatever play the manager
produced whether she was suitable for
it or not.
That is a splendid system for.' the
progress of art, isn't it? It may be one
reason why English actresses seem to be
inferlpr to those of other countries. But
it is not their fault. They are as- good
as ahy, when intelligently cast and prop
erly produced. t. -- i
Tet I sometimes wonder if the man-
agers recognize talent when they see
it except through the eyes of the box
off loe, of publicity, or through the-in
fiuence of a set of sables on the appli
cantoften borrowed for the occasion.
The fault, dear manager, is not in our
stars, but in yourselves.
- .;" J I ; Slides '.
Leather straps are the very best doll
slides I know. Be careful to use the
unbreakable! dolls, though, 'cause it'
very dangerous. :
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A robber came to Taffy Town r
And robbed the pepper mint.
He was a hard, hard candy rogue
Dark licorice In tint!
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The candy soldiers gave him chase.
The horehounds tracked him down
And bound with candy chains they
Brought him back to Taffy Town!
Into the melting pot he's cast
With sugar nuts and spice :
And now he is a Nougate man
And really awfully nice.
When candy' folk grow stale, you
' know.
They're apt to go astray;
Sometimes I think that people are
A little bit that way.
Author Interested
In Color Films
Gouverneur Morris, who is in Califor
nia superintending the making of- his
new Gold wyn picture, "The Penalty," is
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