New Britain herald., 1916-09-21
TERRIBLE PLIGHT
 OF MOVIE QUEEN
Press Agent Almost Got Her
 Name in the Papers

New York, Sept. 21.-A potential movie queen-she'll have to be called Lizzie Smith or something here be- cause the reporter, who has a no good
 memory, lost his notes containing her honest and truly name-was being fought for by two rival movie com panies and she was locked in a room in a Broadway hotel and detained against her will and Lizzie was suffer- ing something terrible until a press agent got so busy yesterday that Jus t1ce Cohalan was asked to issue a writ or habeas corpus to compel somebody or other to realese Lizzie Smith.
 Armed with the writ, the represen- tatlves of one of the companies which Is making a picture in which Lizzie smith Is to appear-the name of the movie concern and the title of the picture were on the notes too, but zip! breeze hit the notes and blew them away-went to the hotel and demanded of the proprietor of the hotel that Lizzie Smith be released from bondage forthwith.
 Lizzie Smith, so the movie folks cried out excitedly had come here from the old home town last wednes- day because back home Lizzie had de- cloed that Mary Pickford and Corene Uzzen and Anita Stewart and the rest or the stars had had the field to themselves for altogether too long a time
 Her Beauty Unbelievable"
 And then-so the hotel proprietor was told all over the lobby-what did a lot of low lived, white livered, mo- account rivals do, once they heard h9t zuin
 up in her room in that very hotel and threaten her with physical violence if she attempted to escape
 The unbelievable beautv of Lizzie Smith, it seems, had caused the rival company to go to&. lengths simply something awful in Hcrder to force Lizzie to sign up with them. Where fore Lizzie, so the folks who applied to Justice Cohalan said, at last had to telephone to the press agent or somebody the following message:
 1T am locked up in a room in this | hotel. I am threatened with violence 1 if I-get off the line, centraH--if T. central will you please bring back that pahty and then leave this here line alone!-Hello! He1lo!-Yes it's me, and I say I am threatened with ''oAS1iSS II ciICClIpl tO SSCdpe 110lp muh! Help muh! Help muh!"
 Well, well, well, well, wen!" ex- claimed the hotel proprietor in deep distress. ''So she had to telephone from her room down stairs here to our hotel telephone girl to connect her with someone away down town to lire a lawyer to go into court to get Ter out of room. Wonder she didn't happen to mention the dastardly out age to our telephone girl here when lsking for the downtown number. Or maybe if she had te1ephoned down ta1rs here to the desk we might have ent some one up with 8 pass key"
 Press Agent Explains.
 She was so excited she never bought of that cried the press gent, while the hotel man personally vas leading the way to Lizzie Smiths GOT; and, sure enough. Lizzie Smiths GOT was locked
 Unlock the door," called the hotel roprietor, knocking.
 Lizzie Smith turned the look and tood there weeping in third floor $ ungeon with southern exposure [ was fitted out with Broadway win , ows also and had a private bath at / ached, but there was notbine else to { el1eve the gloom of her prison ex- ' ept some furniture and nictures and Y