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Fairbanks and Chaplin do a Turn
Together.

Fairbanks and Chaplin do Turn
Together.
The ultimate in comedy has been
attained, Douglas Fairbanks and
Charlie Chaplin are in pictures to-
gethei.
This is no tale of broken contracts
or shattered hearts Of producers. 1t
all came about as a perfectly legiti-
| mate part of a days work and the
| two highest salaried fun makers are
still safely welded TO their respective
| arts.
| Fairbanks was enacting a scene Of
| The Matrimaniac" across the street
| from Charlie Chaplin's studio Charlie
! was cutting capers in front of the
camera and spied the Triangle-Fine
| Arts star Telling his director to wait
a minute. Chaplin rushed into the
| street in his grotesque makeup and
sat down on the curb to watch Fair
| banks
Now make me laugh, Doug he
| said. TN be your audience"
| Fairbanks entered into the spirit of
| the occasion and soon he and Chap
lin were romping together, uncon-
| sciously reeling off a skit that it
| would take nearly all the money in
the motion picture business to buy.
Although the Triangle-Fine Arts
cameraman continued cranking his
| machine, the hard-hearted director
ordered the scene deleted as entirely
irrelevant to the story in hand.
Roth Eafrhanlsc apd Cba Min ho1xr-
ever, insisted on having prints devel-
| oped to add to their private collec-
tons.
Mary Miles Minter has been four
teen years old for five years. And
her real name is Juliet Shelby, and
she was a stage player at the age of
| twelve.
Lorna Volare is the youngest ac-
tress in the world-age three.
A lady who signs herself S. c. and
lives in the provinces, requests that
| print this communications The
gay Lochnvar who has a way of
taking a girl out to see 4 feature pic
| ture about every so often. but always
| has lot OF work to do at the office
on the night 81 show hits town, may
think he is getting away with IT, but
he is not
Both Pearl White and Irene Castle
are chasing about in Preparedness
| serials these days. but it is not true
that President Wilson thinks of APP
| pointing either or both OF them to the
post Of Secretary of War
George NJ. Conan will do his first
acting before the camera shortly. He
has engaged Cecil B. De Mile. who
arrived from California last week to
| be present at the first showing of the
| Geraldine Farrar Joan of Arc pic
ture, to supervise the production of
| the film version of broadway Jones'"
| which will introduce the comedian to
| the movie millions. Mr. Cohan Jour
neyed to Fort Lee last week and visit
Cd Mary Pickford's studio to absorb
atmosphere and knowledge Miss
Pickford told him some OF the secrets
| OF the studio and didn't even scold
him when he crossed the chalk mark
and got within focus of the camera.
Mr.. COhan will write his own sub
titles a promise full of interest when
| one considers the Conan penchant
for the snappy sentence.
The interesting motion pictures of
the American boys who form the
corps of the American Ambulance
Field Service at work in France,
shown last week at the benefit for the
coIps at the Strand, will be exhibited
at that theatre during the next two
weeks as a part Of the regular pro
gram. The series includes pictures
Of the American aviators with the
French Aerial Corps.
The Mutual does not like the word
movie" and is taking a poll of news
paper men to determine whether
they prefer that word or pix as a
substitute. The Mutual professse to
dislike "the somewhat unpleasant
term, movies We contemplate the
use of the word pix" the propagan-
va EOIo Oli ~ odf 80 gOu Hti maps
have guessed by this time, this is
derivatiyc Of the ordinary piece OF
newspaper parlance in which the ed
itor In discussing pictures always
says pic We think that this would
be a welcomed short word for the
headline writer, and amply descrip-
tive of the object in mind namely, a
motion picture" We had not guess
ed the derivation of the new word
nor do we believe the public would
willingly delete movies" from its
vocabulary word singularly apt be-
cause il is descriptive of the very es-
sence of the cinema-Here in Ben
nington the word sounds more like
"picsh."
Work on the filming of "Arsene
Lupin" in the Vitagraph studios has
been postponed for several weeks on
account OF the illness of Earle VIII
liams, who will be seen in the title
role. Mr. Williams is recovering at
his home in Brooklyn from Illness
brought on by over-exertion in acting
for films.
Director Chautard built an elegant