The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 9

St ll eee THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, Product. ‘One Film a Week By Montague Glass. Mawruss, business ain't what it on used to was Abe Poté emarked to his partner, Morris F the farming reading Agricultural Bloc kept down by such things hap pening to farm ers like not pay ONTAGUE out the sas be GLASS. fore Mg run over tway with for lighting purposes It live in the coun e city he country, I suppose, utter commented eason, and the s ays too plentiful, understand, I don't mean people ake their living by farming, but “Jife on a farm, Mawr ss becomes dull like it is to-day longress to pass a law that the United tates Government must provide a harket for all the garments we 1 trade, and suit buldn’t get rid of to the re ibe, then maybe the cloak | anufacturers might have some ex-| { ise for making fun of the farmer, . understand, But as it stan untry, not the cloak and suit manu turers, and it wouldn't surprise me 2d farmer would change its mean h fer ‘ + | }rm Bloc in Congress is going to put ler any such law in this country, do H lu?" Abe said. ia BLOC FOR EVERY KIND oF Vt , BUSINESS. WHY NoT? ie y not?” Morris retorted. ‘4 ¥ * Bloc put over the Prohibition | av and a Woman Bloc put over the omen Voting Law, and with this im no reason to me, Abe, why we uldn't have, in addition to a Ca Bloc, a Packers’ Bloc, jtomobile Manufacturers’ Bloc, 4 je, Life and Marine Insurance Bloc, an , in fact, a Congressional bloc for iry business in the Business Diree- y from Architectural Iron Work inc. ‘Because you know what Congress- Aare, Abe. They've got the inter- derstand, and any business in | \ eountry can have a bloc named ling Tale Of Myst i "Cloak and Suit Manufac-| turers Might Have Some| License to Make Fun of. the Farmer if They Could) Make Government Pro-| vide a Market for Their, mean people who make t soon the word nd Perhaps the Film Man-! ufacturers Are Counting on Mr. Hays to Form a Congressional Moving Picture Bloc to Regulate Attendance on at Least certainly d ’ s, Mawruss, if they get the idea that moving actors spend only 10 per cent. of ther * studios and 90 per cent. in the divorce manufacturers things so that enough voters ed in such bust- fe it worth while to keep them jollied ” !mund Cholomondley aliv the voters enguse nm | few mutter, after about the in the morning paper, “which in former times competition was s farmers, y'understand, that they think moving picture business could be | to run it for them ihe he: attention he National Repub- to hotel signs Hican Committee about blowing manufacturers think that the condi tiring, and. tlon of the moving picture rolley cars while rotten condition that prac ing the city, y'understand, But could improve the farmer lives to a good @ age, on account of gas being done and | Moving picture busine public gets the anyway, Maw russ, it wouldn't do no harm to the | if the Ameri 1p automobiles making people just so quick {29 how one decent, respectable gentle- man engaged in it | PLENTY OF GENTLEMEN—ONLY THEY’RE NOT KNOWN. y, there's plenty of decent, their feet as people what live in “And the consequence is that there re too many farmers for the size of | Morris Perl- able gentlemen cngaged in the ‘Well, there was always too many farmers for the size of the country, ven when the surplus was also kept own by farmers mistaking one an- ther for deers in the deer hunting | Mawruss ‘vivors going home “1 know there is,” y ain't the kind you read about on nd cleaning out their shotguns with-|newspapers ut remembering not to forget tg look |moving picture them shotguns was loaded,’ Abe] derstand, everybody i id. ‘In fact, Mawruss, farmers was nd by farmers, bple who act like they'd spent their "Say!" Morris exclaimed. ‘"That's eady an exploded idea that spend- your entire life on a farm makes an easier mark than spending ir entire life in a cloak and suit ness, Abe, which if the cloak and “manufacturers would get tosether “Torm aCloak and Suit Bloc in Con- ess, y'understand, and when busi- s at esent, Abo, it's the farmer which is tting over such a scheme on the the least, Abe, if pretty soon the to such an extent, y'understand, it people would be saying: ‘You've. \p be a pretty early riser to get! 4d of that feller. He's a regular, }But you don’t suppose that the vorced or trying to stay divorced aft reed thei find omething was put over quence is that wh Se Congressional Bloc Business actically in its infancy there don't 4 moving pictur INTERURBAN FILLUM CORPORATION J. J. SUGARBERG, Proprietor LOLALOLITA SHOULD MARRIED MEN BEHAVE | picture actor Directed by Sigmund Cholomondley so busy tellin | ugarberg was | i? }of Congress strictly at heart, jthe fell fact, Mawruss, farmers was always too plen by farmers, y'understand. their living by who act like they spent t wouldn't surprise me in the least n extent, y'understand saying: ‘You've got to be a pre wet ahead of that feller, He's a to such p audiences to enjo think that Mr actor DO moving picture so to sp real name is Yetta Pleischkugel and she was the last person to sec Si shot was fired which waked up them as 12 o'clock, yvunder- bed stand.” earl bed just so early as the people of New York, and probably earlier even Morris remarked. | |THE PERCENTAGE WRONG IN THE PUBLIC MIND. Nobody says they didn't, Maw- russ," Abe sured him, “but it ain't what people does nowadays which ‘ount 1inst theni, Mawruss. It's | what they get publicity for doing, and it certainly don't help audiences to enjoy moving pictures. they get the idea from the newspapers that moving picture actors spend only 10 %0 per cent. in the police court. \lso, Mawrus , it's very difficult much of a thrill out of Klondike Ned going to jail to save for people to bis fian brother when as a mat- ter of fact they've read only that morning in the aper where if it wouldn't have been for two jurymen standing out in his favor he would have gone to jail strictly on his own unt. Sure 1 know, I've got ev in the "t for Mr. Hays, understand, what is the idea of moving picture manufacturers in making him boss of the moving picture industry? Do they think that when a moving picture tetor tells his friends he is starting for Reno to establish a residence the viends would ‘Listen, Lionel. Mr. Hays wouid . “but be awful sore if he thought you was | compliments that “AUTOMOBILES MAKE PEOPLE WHAT LIVE IN THE COUNTRY JUST SO QUICK AS PEOPLE WHAT LIVE IN THE CITY.” that Also, Abe My. is a nan of wonderful charact } every- th " y picture about t of them moving lex liquor in at ¢ re that if he were to full f uel he would never be able to look Mr. Hays Jin the eye a AND A NEW LAW MAY HELP THE INDUSTRY, TOO maybe t ' t - 1 f Mr, Hay V fix t fn ‘ hem parti ! ald » tO k, auto. unitia t nov | picture ui 1, “oe cause t ton newspi rs from ublicity to movin picture actors for d things which ought to do, Mawru wines picture actors to stop duing suen for % Just as dong a» there aro house propricior, or that Lola Lolita’s'tuings, Also, Mawruss, Mi, Hays is SMS! Author of *Lad, A Do RIGHT 922 Ov S ure ‘By AL AYSON TERHUNE A OTR RHUN HAS HAPPENED. ¢, Scott, thrown from a Fort Lee I North River by NNER and his col yan ice floe in th ho sees them from a motor boat, with a powerful voking plice on the Palisades nm to Red Ruin, Hilda introdu MAX, who invites the stranger to stay 3 himself out of hearing scolds t es to let Dayne girl for bringing a stra 8 wet clothing. ts and hides them in the folds of ¢ n he eeves of the coat tes later a servant enters Ge room and Brenner take Brenner decl ts of his poc ‘ armer” would phange th tt people Jayne has spoken dinner, whieh RHAM DASS, whom Bre the Fort Lee ferry | taking the dog to the roont with him. Brenner lights 4 mateh a Na copy of Franz Hals's The dog scents the é man who has pushed him from Brenner is seized with a chiil and rema Table scraps sent for the dog are ea aware of a queer | | |the opening, he resolved to follow the jore and more feebly 4 progress by before the! ngth or the es of coming © cooped in a people ‘in Hollywood who go to ed the heavy days has got Hays has g hip pocket. . boy, the only thin und an ex-Seer an Committ weighed much he people of Hollywood goes to Every ounce of sur! We're is with a buneh of r plus weight just then was a drawback | who must kill Impatiently wched back and yanked nufacturers or else who must ¢ , Hays to form a Congressional Moving Brenner had r his fingers closed presently about # tiny gold penknife which he carried habitually in a compartment of hig wallet, “Lueky this curtain [s hole," he the » been of view ght. Klee cked while from the sp; it would h was down at dinner, And I'd have nsi had to use my fingernails instead of an inch-long blade."’ Securing the tiny knife, he its single little blade and knelt ¢ before the painting. Remembering: the artlessly artful arrangement of |the spy hole, an arrangement whereby the picture had been cut in such a y as to leave the flap har w ve same pattern Reaching up, he found the top right hand corner of the canvas, Into this he drove the sharp inch of stec! ‘Then, paralleling the right hand si oft rame, he cut skilfully down | ward. His blade encountered no stronger opposition than the rotting canvas. it slithered its way noiselessly from top |to bottom of the picture, close to the |right side of the frame. Next, feeling his way to the frame's 1 aw passed | misdemeanor man behind it big pistol from his pocket, letting bottom in order | his own feeble progress the | or something if ev nee then hie welurers has fot to do is to clean too exhauste und turn out re sonably good fillums wruss, if Act of Congress AMERICAN GIRL A WINNER WHEN JUDGED BY CRITICS AMONG BRITISH WRITERS per cent. of their time in the studios ‘On Every Feminine Virtue, From Constancy to Self-Reliance, She Gets the Highest! Rating From Women Who Have Observed | Her Under the Most Severe Tests. By Ruth Snyder HE American girl ipression left on my | widow of Canon Barnett the American girl by foreig English cousins especially hav found much to admire |vorably—with John Bull's i jured and to mend what is broken; in The latest word of . consequent of Mary's: silver good qualitic and stronger than older eoan rrupted by « eakened by confu wedding slippers “Many American women for Sty eS) BLADE ENCOUNTERED NO STRONGER OPPOSITION THAN THE ROTTING CANVAS.” en's average can walk out odds against But it ts not only in footwear is heen compared Asquith who i lose to ninet entiate them not « lish sisters but from the cle, “and it i pup of English won left upper corner, he made a similar slit from top to bottom. — Working |without sound and manipulating th |knife so slowly as to prevent ar {noise of ripping, he cut the anc |canvas from side to side, at the |tom, close along the base of tl frame Then, pausing, he listened with his ear to the loosened canvas for any possible sound from the far side The canvas hung now from its 00 cut top surface like a curtain Pook loting the razor-sharp little knife and balancing himself precariously on + istone shelf, Roy Brenner wer \pulled aside the loose hanging cany |flap with his left hand. With hie \right he prepared to explore tl japerture behind it. He was a-ting! jwith excitement. His nerves were on jede. Hefore the man’s hand could reach forth into the — apertu Sco growled fiercely, Through the dari ness Brenner could hear the s\ padding of the collie’s feet as Seo! ivit his piace at the foot of the sn and trotted sharply across the room The collie, Hike all the best of jerand breed, was quick to note } master's every change of mood. 1) ing the past hour he had seen Bren ner was nervous and eternally 0 guard against something or som: body. ‘Therefore Scott had at on dropped into the role of watchdog ‘That was why he had reported t presence of some one behind the pi ture, half an hour earlier That toe was why he now gave a second alarin Trotting to the doorway he growled threateningly. At the same instant a knox sounded at the panel of the door. ‘The unexpected summons darted through Brenner's tense nerves. like a cannon shot. He slipped silent! trom the shelf and across the roor As he reached the door the knock wa repeated; this time more impera tively. Roy called out, sleepily strangling an artistic yawn as he did Who's there? ime tO get up “This is Dayne,’ came the old jman's voice through the door, its d cents oddly stirred and uncertain 'L came to see if you are all right I'm sorry | waked you. I've brought you some whiskey to top that quinin and sor “Thanks,” snapped Brenner, in ex cellent imitation of the crossness of newly awakened man, “1 don’t drink And if 1 did 1 wouldn't take a dri you offered me, Not after the dirty trick you tried to play on my colic en-if you don't like dogs it w ten to try to polson Scott. He my pal and 0 * echoed the old mat he asked, thickly. don't understand, 1 nf tried to get out tell you about it,"" gruml y nother prodigious yaw i oun somebody'd locked me 1 t's tt idea of treating a gi that? 7 was so sore [ made up my mind 1 and had they footing on which t is unstinted is fortified by held by the American ma show outwardly and childishly toward conyenti vality but br But kere is some more wait till the door was unlocked then get out of your house. 1 ha splitting headache, so T put out t his. [ tried to stay awake in lark. Bat 1 fell asleep and Phe locking of the door was a m take,’ soothed Dayne “One of t nts in locking the house for t | night turned the key, not know |you were in the Gray Room. It ein with t locked, now, May [ ¢ |whiskey, or’ It is not unlocked, now Brenner, erossly, “f bolted it nd I don't care to 1t I'm dead with sleep a that chill and all the fat Ly t sh. If you'll let me ba ep again I'll promise to clear ¢ at daybreak Good night."" He stamped away from the doc ne himself noisily on t Dayne waited a moment | Koy could hear him tipt the hall They wanted to watt till en them were tn the hou to mak Jof finishing me," mused Brenr hin If, ‘and then get me to ¢ ie A pleasant crowd They He further Th st [siler " split by “tee or scream -a scream of mingled anguish und f Then came a fa Brenner!) For God's sa me! Pt | stiungte@ Into quick tines (To Be Continue > a