The Washington times., 1919-08-10
Ed Writes Long
Letter About !
Mickey"

At a private showing OF the IA
nous photoplay Mickey" which will
be shown at Polls -Theater all this
week, beginning today, H. c. Witwer,
the brilliant and witty author. made a
remark that afterwards materialized
in letter as memorable as his ia
NOUS Baseball to Boches" stories.
4 "Joe ought to know about this" he
isaid.
And the following week this char
aeteristie letter was received:
Atlantic Port
BY the name of New York.
I Well. Joe, I have just seen a movie
which makes them other pictures look
like osteopath views. or whatever they
call them things you look at with a
magnifyin glass. This here is some
picture, Joe, I'll tell the world, and
the name Of il 81 Mickey. Ne and
Jeanne went to see It on account OF
not bein' able to get seats for the
Fifth Avenue Library, and maybe we
amt glad. Joe. I'll say we are, only
Jeanne, she's afraid that Teller viii
come and collect, and maybe she's
right, Joe, because in this here burg
you never could get notfin' for moth
In, except we saw this for nothin'.
Well, Joe, they is more action in this
thing than they was at the battle OF
the Marine, and they amt dull min
ute from the time Mickey makes her
first grin at the audience till she
starts on her honeymoon and the like,
with the handsome and good-lookin
young hero. Mabel Normandy is
Mickey, and she is some dame, be-
lieye me! Joe, she can swim, ride.
scrap. dance, and, oh, boy, how she
can. love! Joe, IL 1 wasn't in the war,
would rather be in the movies, es-
pecially one with Mabel Normandy in
it. II the leadin' man in Mickey gets
any wages it is a outrage, because he
does nothin' but make love to Mabel
Normandy from start to finish, and If
could do that would pay the people
which made the picture.
; Well, Joe, 1 can't tell you all about
this movie, because then you would
save the money, and not go when they
play IL where you are, but / will say
that they is the greatest horse race.
for instance, in il I ever seen. It is
the same as the real thing, only better,
and l bet the guy next to me fifty
bucks on Mickey a place, joe. Well,
Joe, Mickey win it, pulled up, and this
big stiff wouldn't pay of because he
says it's only a movie, and he don't
think the other was tryin'. Joe IL
il hadn't been for Jeanne ! would Of
bust him then and there, but he was
big and tough, anyways. Joe, and they
is times when discretion is better than
a. punch in the nose. Joe. they is also
a fight in this spicture between the
hero and the villain which would make
the war look like a game of bean bag.
Joe, these guys fights with everything
but axes, and wrecks a house. doin' it,
whilst Mickey Is hangin' by her nails
from the roof. Well. Joe, got so
excited they was as many people
lookln at me as at the picture, and
Jeanne gets sore and says il ! am so
stuck on Mabel Normandy what did /
get married for. Well, Joe, with that
they was nothin' for me to do but
shut up, and anyways. they was some
guys in hack of me invited me to do
the same, because they claimed they
come to see Mickey, and not to hear
me.
Joe. the first time you get a furIow
go and see this here picture because
Mickey Is the greatest thing that was
ever throwed on a screen, and the rest
of them is just plain movies.
yours truly,
ED. HARMON,
CThe kaiser's nemesis).