The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-01
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MOVIES
(By Paul A. Stamey.) :,
THE DARN FOOL. BY
ONE. :

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Chapter one-Introduction.
Laughter is not contagious. !.
There is great deal of it scatter
led about this. planet, but not enough
to make It distinctly noticeable.
1t is not a feature of our daily liv-
Ing, but "a sort of side';which accom-
panies the big order. and is slipped
alongside our plate for us to par:
take of if we feel inclined or shove
aside if we are naturally dyspeptic.
There is a big drought in laughter
in the world at present, which is
not due se:much to the fact there
is nothing to- grin over, but that we
are so busily engaged in stumbling
over each other to: win in this sue
cess race, or marathon for wealth,
that we permit lot of real good,
healthy fits of laughter to pass us
by without acknowledging them
with even a smoker. 49,.
Some have said that we haven't
d ~ time to laugh. That's rot.
There's plenty of time. We're not
o 1t to catch a train to the grave
and there's no penalty attached to
good broad smile, no matter who
emits it.
There all sorts of shapes and sizes
of laughter. There is the hollow,
rasping laugh that CRATES on the
nerves and denotes the shallow
Drain behind it; the repressed
chuckle, accompanied by a gleam
in the eye which -divulges the cum
ing and cruel intent of the person
behind 1.-THE sort of individual
who would probably laugh inwardly
at a funeral. Then there's the laugh
that is used in the face of trials, in
spite of heart-breaking, soul-t1ying
incidents, revealing the finest splrl1
known; the laugh that has tears be-
hind it and seeks to hide the hurt
that has something of the divine in
it; the smoker, grin and a dozen
other facial distortions which add
beauty and ugliness to facial lex
pressions. The most unpopular is
the sheer, which betrays doubts and
inward mockery and is used very
little by educated morals, and only
on rare occasions by even the deni-
zens of the underworld.
There are people in this world
who have never laughed! Imagine
what terrible lives they must live.
A laugh is simply an expression of
the soul, and the soul that has never
known a nome 1t IS joy, it were bet
ter that soul had never been born.
Some folks are too stingy to laugh;
others are too mean. Neither are
needed; neither would be missed
were they not here But, the soul
that is ever light and free and
which goes through this world with
a radiated countenance, passing a
smile here and tossing a good laugh
there, is the one that will be sadly
missed when it has caShed in its
chips.
To make people laugh; to be natu-
rally funny is one of the greatest
gifts bestowed on any man.
Now the Universal people have
discovered such a man, one whom
they have termed The Darn Fool.
He is so funny, that he makes
Rocky Mountain burro chuckle itself
up the steep grey cliffs of a canyon
and if he doesn't curb some of this
foolishness, he is liable to be charg-
ed with homicide, for it can be prov
ed by experts on laughology that
half of the American people are
roaring themselves to death, And
Billie Richie is responsible, for he
is Staying them with laughterl-
(Cont. next week.
Paul Panzer, alias Owen, the vii
liam in 1.-THE PerilS of Pauline will