The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-03-25

\ good salary. and riding in one o the handsomest automobiles in town and having all the fans write let ters to him. and getting offers al the time, and
 "Ah, dear me. mo-" said Lockwood burlesQuing gesture of disparage ment. "it would please me mucf more were I just one of the extra actors. Then should escape the cares and worries of being star You know 1t Is so lonesome to be a star Oh, rot!" he added, laugh ing again. Sure like it! Sit down and have a smoke"
 didn't see any leather chair ol even straight-back to sit on, SC draped myself over the edge oi the trunk and made myself at home
 "How do yos like being a mati nee idol?" asked. and I had nc sooner said 1t than Lockwood swung around in his chair and I knew l udu Splllcu lue DeduS.
 Who said I was a matinee idol? fired the star. "If the matinee idols have long. wavy hair and use Djel Kiss and wear wrist.watches and sticks-and for all know they do then I'd rather be a stage-hand" Lockwood. 1t seems, as Boggs ex plained. has acquired the quite sensi ble habit of taking a strenuou! workout with baseball and glove every morning before beginning his regular labor before the camera And the only intermission in thc sport occurs when the wild arm of the film star precipitates the sphere under pile of lumber oi among the chickens in the yard next door to the studio. whence a wild squawking and a succession of flap pings denotes the fact that Lock. wood has winged" a chicken. The youth in the outer office stucl; This head in at the door to ask a few questions, and incidentally I got some new angles on the inside fact about the correspondence of a film star. Here another idea of min was exploded. Having imagined heretofore than nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand letters addressed to a masculine film star came from gushing women or movie-struck youngsters, the news that a large proportion of Harold Lockwood's letters contain sincere and constructive criticisms of his pictures was a distinct revelation.
 You know" said Lockwood, by way of explanation, "I get some of the best criticisms of my work from direct personal letters from fans. For instance, here is a letter from young man in Dallas. who tells me he liked the picture, The Prom ise.' better than Big Tremaine,' ana why. When they say those things. and let me know just exactly how the pictures are getting over, the letters are very valuable"
 While talking about sports, out. door and indoor, it developed that Lockwood spends two or three even. ings a week in those places about town and at the beach which are celebrated for meals, entertainment and dancing, and that the film star on each succeeding morning as well as the other four or five days of the week, is up and motoring by 7:30.
 The well-merited question, "How do you do it" elicited the reply that Lockwood, when cabareting and dancing, enjoys the meals, the music and the dancing, but eliminates the drinks.
 "The only way" declared Lock. wood, "that Motion Picture actor can keep late hours and be at work for the earliest flickerings of the camera in the morning is to push aside the drinks. Booze may be all right for curing snake-bite and for other medicinal purposes. but it doesn't help the actor in his work And personally. don't care for It.
 One more of my preconceived no tions about picture people and the consumption of fancy drinks was blown to the winds.
 Among other things. learnt fur ther, from observing this star from the vantage-point of the dressing room, that Harold Lockwood, physic ally, consists of about six feet O! bone and hard muscle; topped of by clean features which register we'll in harmony with the well-con ditioned body; that Lockwood pre- fers doing anything which is healthy and invigorating to such easy-goine sports as croquet and five hundred; that he prefers a stiff game of poker with the boys at the back of the stage to a rubber of bridge in g Hollywood drawing-room; that he would just as soon fight Lester Cuneo to the finish in the pictures as eat his meals; that he does moi