Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-19
BILL" DUNCAN'S RECORD
100000 IN THREE HOURS
Dollars Rain Into Uncle Sans Lap
as Noted Movie Star Pleads for
Liberty Lean

Painless Parker. avaunt AS an eN-
tractor. Bill" Duncan, the man who
made a motion picture epic OF The
Fighting TRAIL is establishing a rec
ord that makes. some of these adver-
Using dentists look like mere novices.
But its on ten-spots and not teeth that
"Bill' is going after the record Also
ifty-spots and hundred-spots and on
I up.
Two hundred thousand dollars OF
/ Liberty Bonds sold from TO 10
o'clock Saturday morning. the first
/ day of the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
/ is the feat accomplished by "Bill' at
Long Beach, working on top OF the
tank Liberty" sent to that city by
+ the Committee of the Motion Picture
Industry of the Fourth Liberty Loan
campaign.
An immense throng was on hand to
greet Bill at Long Beach, a dozen or
more booths having been erected di-
rectly in front of the tank, and after
Bill concluded his opening talk, and
began to plead for purchasers. there
was constant parade toward the buy
ing tables
On the eth, the day before the for
NAL opening of the drive. Duncan and
a hand of a hundred cowboys which
he had. acted as an escort of honor
I for the two tanks, Democracy" and
Liberty" which paraded through Los
Angeles on their way TO Long Beach.
With these notable achievements as
a starter Duncan gives promise of
piling up one of the highest, If not
the very highest, individual sale rec
ord in the industry during the pres
ent campaign Abandoning all per-
sonal engagements for the entire pc
riod of the drive Duncan is devoting
every minute of his spare time during
the mex. three weeks to helping Sc
cure the sinews of war for Uncle
Sam.
When it was decided by the motion
picture committee to place film stars
in the Los Angeles theatres, Carl
Walker, manager of Pantages, put in
an immediate demand for Duncan's
services for every night of the three
weeks
1t is at Pantages where Duncan's
great serials, "The Fighting Trail"
and "A Fight for Millions" made their
tremendous local hits.
Walker refused to split up Dun
cans time with any other theatre, in
sisting that he is the biggest attrac-
/ ton Pantages could have during this
drive
On Monday night, the third day of
the drive, Duncan opened a. Pantages
A tremendous house was on hand
to greet him, and without any unnec-
essary preliminaries, bill" got right
down on the job, hammering the
/ BUY" spirit into his audience so
thoroughly that the bond sellers in
the lobby did big business after the
! performance.
On Wednesday night, which was VII
tagraph night at the big tank in Cen
trail Park, Duncan was the bright par
ticular star.
From 1880 until after midnight he
kept the crowd going, keyed to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm; working
more to the motion picture bond rec
ord.
During the course of the evening
Duncan received notice from the
Four-Minute Mems organization that
he had been chosen a member Of that
body, making him the only motion pic
ture actor to be thus honored.
The same night he appeared at two
performances at Pantages and as soon
as these we're over was back at the
tank working tirelessly until long
after midnight. And he has done all
this while putting in ten hours a day
at the studio.