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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
BILL MOORE LEADS CRIMSON CAGE TEAM
Seevral Birmingham Boys to Play on University
 Basketball Club

University, December 6.-(Special)--
 Basket ball, the third of the great trio
 of sports. which is expected to make
 great postwar comeback, will be rep-
 resented by strong quintet from the
 University of Alabama. according to all
 indications. The first call for prac
 tice was made Thursday and a flock of
 for the varsity five.
 Owing to the inability of the athletic
 association to secure coach, Bill Moore of Birmingham, captain of sthe team, has been designated to pilot the five this year. Moore is a former let- ter man and knows football from A to Z He is fully aware of the great ri- valry expected in college basketball
 this year. and is anxious to put out a winning five. Athletic Director Boone will act as general oserseer of the practice
 Letter men who are out for positions on the team are Stuff Agee, former captain; Yancy Goodall, who coached the team in 1917, "Foopy' Aston,
 guard; Hugh Montgomery. forward; Walter Kennedy, guard. and Tram Ses- SlOnS, SuDSIltute guard 50 mary new
 men are out fighting for a berth on | the team that these old men will have
 to put ou ttheir best to even get a 1 look-in.
 | If there Is anything in material, Ala bama should have one of the strongest teams in the south. It is too early to get much line on the new men, but Hudson, former star on the Montgom- | cry '.Y'' team, and Hall are formidable candidates. Practice will begin in ear nest Monday
 l Athletic Director Boone has an
 nounced that no games will be played 1 before Christmas. But strong sched- ule including some of the strongest colleges and clubs in the south. is be- ing arranged to begin after the holi- days. In the meantime. Coach Moore expects to select a team and whip Il ! into the best of condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
The Program FoNoWs::

led by Community Sing Director MT Nolan 8:1O-nvocaon R. Randolph infantry 815The Americansm of the Overseas Soldier Major Walter
 Brower
 s:25-"Organzaton, Purposes and Plans, Col T O Smith 8:35"Amercanism Reconstruction Rev M s. Barnwel 8:55-"Till We Meet Again. audience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
ABANDONS
 TRIP TO CALIFORNIA

Cambridge. Mass.. December 6.-The proposed trip of the Harvard football team to Pasadena. Cal. to play Vest ern university eleven on New Years day was abandoned late today because of objections by the fuel ndministrn- ton.
 Dean Briggs. chairman Of the com mittee on athletics announced the can cellation after athletic authorities had conferred by telephone with the fuel administration in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
Alabama Team Wins B. A. C. Cross Country Road Race Richter of the B. A. C. Finishes First Breaking Road Race Record-Jones Finishes Second-B. A. C. Team
 Takes Second Place
LOcAI.--BY WIRE

The University of Alabama croscountry team won the D. yesterday afternoon, with the Athetc CluD finishing Alabama beat the local team oy mar gin of points, being against the University ana o against the B. A. C. Miss A. & M finished thlrd Aclpco fourth Ga Tech fifth, L. S. U sixth and Cenral seventh
 of Richter o the D. A. also broke the record Rix the one fifth Rihers first and he
 He
 4aunie ih
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
Ohio State Wants to
 Change Football Date

Columbus. O.. December 6.-Because Ohio State universitys fiftieth ami versary celebration compels home football game on october Is. next year Athletic Director l.. W. St. John has advised Princeton athletic officials IL will be impossible for Ohio State 10 play Princeton on the latter's ground on that date, but advises some other date be considered. Princeton recently asked for a game with the Scarlet and Gray at Princeton on the date stated
 Director St. John also asks Princeton to consider game at Columbus Tn 1921, contingent upon completion or proposed Ohio State stadium to ac- commodate 50.000 persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
SPORTS

only shct the slow-fire stage and made very good score at that. The medals from the L. $. E. A. for the last indoor shoot came ard were delivered to the members winning them at the shoot Ths l.. $. K. A. still owes the members fof the outdoor shoot that took place in Oe- tober and they are expected soon.
 The following scores were made:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07

w. MeDougal, B. A. c. J. McDougal, B. A. c. w. w. Covington, l.. $. U. K. Fuqua, Acipeo. A. D. Worthington, Miss A. X NJ. Henry Beatty, U. of A. Guy Walker. Acipco. D. D. Fouche, Ga. Tech. E. J. Hamilton Miss. A. & NJ. Douglas Beatty, Acipeo. R l.. Pace, Miss. A. & NJ. I. H. Flyler, Miss. A. & M. c. F. Coleman, Miss. A. & M. Richard Deas, Acipco. J. R. Pickens, U. of A. Robert Nash, Aeipco. E. D. Morrow, Miss. A. M. H. R. Ramsey Miss A. & M 10. H. Jamison, Miss. A. X M. r. c. Milner, Ga. Tech. H. K Brown, |. of A. F F. Cotton, Ga Tech. (unattached). S. L. Chestnut, Central Y. H. Fuqua, Acipeo Homer Smiles, B. A. C. w D. Reed, Miss. A. X M L. l.. Dill, L. s. w. T. Johnson. Central '. Ted Young, E. A C.. E. Fl. Cato, Miss A & NJ. tuuattached), J. D. Sheperd. Ga. Tech O. D. Rabenhorst, l.. S. U. Joe Lother, Central Y. I. G. Helms, Ga Tech. J. R. Hull, L.. s. U.
 S A. White l.. $. U. R. E. Perkins, Central Y. William Rogers, Central Y. w. H. ffindon, Ga. Tech. James Hicks l(unattached). H. E. SmitL, Miss A. X M. (unat- tached).
 Max Copeland, Central Y. Referee-H l., Cobb.
 Head Judge--Borden Burr. Head Timer-Jack Riddle.
 Chief Scorer-H N. Starns. Jr. Starter-C. W. Streit, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07

A bolt of lightning which entered the home of Mir and Mrs. John Jones Of Boyne City, Mich, completely empued a glass of water that Mrs. Jones was about to raise to her lips The glass was not knocked from her hand, nor was she injured
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
How ''Bide" Dudley
Became a Librettist

II never shall forget" said Bide
Dudley, author Of the book and many
Of thes lyrics OF Come Along" the
musical comedy. ''the first time tried
to write for the stage. Ny initial ef-
fort was song, the name Of which
have forgotten. II came about like
this: J. ]. iRoseDthal was staging a
musical show with the intention Of
taking IT West Jane and / had come
into contact often. as liked his brand
Of cigars. At this particular time he
needed q lyric for his show. We met
on broadway and he gave me cigar.
'Bide,' he said, can you write me
song?'
mo replied.
Good Jake almost yelled. You're
the very guy I'm looking for. AL the
| others say they can write me dozens
OF songs. That's the trouble with
them They're too cocksure. When
you get home tonight write me a lyric
on Love" Do get 1t tomorrow
well, you know, Jake / replied.
originally was a telegraph operator
and then a grain buyer out In Kansas.
However. IL you want to take a
chance I'm game. I'll write the lyric
That night 7 fixed up a couple of
verses and the next day I handed the
nnisncd product TO Jake and ran. He
'phcned me later to say IT was great
and that it would go into the show
Immediately. 1t did. The show went
broke on the second stop out
Jake didn't put all the blame ON
the song-that is. he said IT might
have been something else that ex-
ploded the show. At any rate, he
didn't lose faith in me. Three months
later he handed me an old moth-eaten
comedy script and suggested that
make 1t a musical play. i demurred.
but he gave me a cigar, and so ! went
TO work. A well-known composer was
| called in to do the score, and we
labored together a month. Then we
submitted the new musical comedy &c
Jake.
Its great he said. Then he
threw the script in his desk, and we
went forth expectantly. For a whole
year I inspected the billboards close
ly, but saw nothing that would ind1-
cate that Jake had produced the piece.
At the end of six months more / re-
ceived the script in the mail. A man
had bought the desk at an auction
and had found the play in the drawer.
All he asked of me was that I return
him the price of the postage. /
thought that reasonable enough. so he
got his stamps back"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24

In spite of the fact that the actual
wild days OF the west-the sort Med
Buntline. Col. Prentiss Ingraham, Buff
faio Bill and few more used to tell
about in the old dime-noyei days Of
our youth-have long since passed
largely into memory: while II Is only
In the COW country, SO called. that the
real Western spirit still retains any
thing like its glamor Of old time: while
Indian fighting il happily no more and
bandits are not SO promiscuous aG they
Bill Harts studio in Hollywood, Cal.
is like a breath OF the prairies, Of the
ranch house. of the range.
You go down a hill to a sort Of gully.
where the studio stands. As like as
not you will see, besides the modern
autos standing about, several horses
tethered-cow ponies by the look OF
them; probably you'll fnd a few
punchers in their homely but pic
turesque garb, lounging about the en-
trance; their faces shaded by wide
brinmed Stetsons, gaudy silken ker-
chiefs knotted about their throats.
After passing through the once into
the prop" room you win see saddles.
. brides. spurs. bits, boots. chaps, hats,
guns and so on in Heterogeneous con-
fusion-the smell OF rawhide and
gunpowder seems to pervade the
atmosphere
You pass on into the stage and
there. most likely, you'll nnd a big
set representing a Western dance
hail or barroom, peopled by the most
villainous crew you'd expect to see IN
a years travel And in the midst OF
them. probably, will be Bill Hart,
towering a head above most OF the
others. his grim face set In tense
lines as he enacts one OF those thrill
ling scenes that have made him SO
great a favorite.
The Hart studio is unlike anything
else in the studio line. II possesses
that Western atmosphere that cannot
be found elsewhere. Then. too, the
very presence OF Hart lends a fascina-
, tion to the scene. You feel his pres
ence even before you see him.
Follow Hart and his motely crew TO
a location and you'll get more realism
There you'll find the cook tent-the
chuck wagon-and all the primitive
characteristics of the actually. For
when Bill and his companies go on To-
cation in the mountains. desert, or
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
Hart's Camp Atmosphere

elsewhere. they 1--we the life. the NE OF
the frontier. They take along q camp
cook and they eat game II there's any
to be had: or they dine sumptuousiy on
beans and bacon and hspjsck and such
like provender that n more or less
characteristic OF the punchers or
frontiersman's menu
While waiting between scenes. the
boys will 20 in for q bit Of sport
roping. riding. shooting or the ike
And I'm all these sports OF the range.
Bill Is pretty sure 70 excel Many .
time he has surprised some newcomer
from the interior; some rather boat
full chap. perhaps. who had q local
reputation for shooting and ropinG.
One and all have conceded that Bill
Hart can best most Of them st their
own game.
Mr.. Hart Is an Easterner by birth
and a westerner by adoption He was
raised In the Indian and cattle ooun-
try. He knows every inch Of country
between the Pacific Coast and the
Midwest He knows the tricks OF
every untarned pony. the qualities OF
the weapons used In the West; can
Knock the center out Of q dime win,
a six-shooter. and as for roping. there
are few who can touch him
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
The Supersiious Sidman

comedian scanned walker white
sides route he discovered that there
was a cemetery on the line Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. be-
tween Plainfeld and Bound Brook.
II was on the left hand side of the
track as the train headed West This
was fatal indeed. and with near
tears in his eyes. Sidman implored
the manager of the Little Brother
Company to take the Pennsylvania
Railroad to Washington. instead OF
the Baltimore and Ohio.
The manager was soulless fndi-
viduai, and II took much arguing to
convince him that the company
would be in Jeopardy unless the
cemetery could be passed on the
right hand as the organization sped
westward. The difnculty was solved
by Sidman being supplied with a
parlor car seat which. being on a
swivel, could be whirled around
and thus by riding backwards. the
comedian was enabled to pass the
graveyard upon his right. instead
of the fatal left.
Sam Sidman plays the role OF
"Shinovitch." a marriage broker, in
'-The Little Brother"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
"Oui, Oui, Mari"

termination and opportuneness of the
guardians arm, Miss Provost could
resist the lure Of the bait for eye and
nose. but when apples came, ana her
stomach said, Think how good they
are," Eve, in sunbonnet and apron.
scrambled over that wall and picked
apples. They were green, but she
took plenty. She hid some In her
own bed and some in the beds of
other girls. One little girl she didn't
warn, and when that little girl
scrambled into bed and lay on an
irregular and lumpy mattress OF
apples, she gave the alarm.
Miss Provost was convicted. Miss
Provost was elected. She insisted it
was only a prank. but there was no
comedy company in operation there.
Years later, Miss Provost arrived in
Los Angeles. With friend. she made
a tour OF the motion picture studios
one day. and when she stood outside
the Mack Sennett comedy studio, two
little boys began fighting over some
apples. Green they were and, alas,
stolen, too. Tho larger boy took
what he could hold and threw the
others inside the comedy lot, a place
forbidden to the hungerinS younsstcr
He cried.
Miss Provost agreed to retrieve the
green apples, having a sympathy in
such affairs. 1t seems a pretty girl
is denied admittance nowhere. She
sailed through the big gate. a portal
forbidden to thousands of hopeful
seekers of Jobs. tracked the errant
apples to their lair, and was standing
with them in her hands. ready to re-
turn them to the small owner. when
director looked up.
"Who you working for?" he asked.
az? Why, I'm not working for any
body" she answered.
well. hurry up and get some make
up on. I need you for a half-hour
in my picture. Lottie, help this girl
make up in a hurry"
Lottie did.-Motion Picture Maya
zine
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
Gaumont-Herald News
Graphic Just Issued

Camp Devens, Mass.-'Boston's
Own" in farewell review. 1o1st In
| fantry reviewed by army. State and
city officials.
Atlantic City. N sJ.-Annual Eas-
ter parade at famous seaside resort.
Beautiful spring weather brings out
fashionable throngs.
The Traymore Hotel was the mec-
ca of the fashionable world. Birds
eye view of the boardwalk from the
eighth floor balcony.
Gotham's elite parade on Fifth
avenue as usual.
Philadelphia, Pa--Mummers pass
in bright array to aid in loan.
Crowds in merry mood cheer all
the way.
Cnveiling the Victory statue.
San Francisco. Cal.-"Marinettes"
are taught jiu jit su. Lady 'Ieath-
ernecks" got tricks that gave
shock" to the Prussian Guard at
Belleau Wood.
nous ride reproduced. Lieut. Hun
neman impersonates patriot of the
revolution in his dash to Lexington.
Reading. Mass.-Citizens build a
park in one day. Memorial trees
planted to honor city's heroic dead.
San Francisco, Cal-America's
only Chinese sporting writer. Lee
Woo. of the San Francisco Bulletin.
has his own ideas about the Great
American Game"
Sycamore, Mass.-Steamcr Belfast
crashes into Cape Cod canal bridge
Ships super-structure torn away
and several injured.
Los Angeles, Cal-Heroes are
home. Mighty ovation given boys OF
the Fighting Seventh as they
parade eflower-carpeted streets.
Santa Ana, Cal.-Thrills and spills
at the fourth annual hill climb.
This 500-foot course Is over a sew
enty-two per cent grade.
Calvin Lambert. who went over
the top and the tank" tread that
enabled him to do il.
New York City.-Belgian heroes
here to aid Victory Loan. They rep
resent twelve different regiments
and all have been decorated.
The Victory Loan opens with a
boom. The 332nd Infantry. who
won fame on the italian front, are
led up FIFTH avenue by Pershing's
famous headquarters band.
A medal commemorating the bat
ties fought in Italy was received by
Col. William Wallace. commander,
on behalf of thsregiment.
Thousands welcome New York's
old Fighting Sixty
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
MARIE PROVOST.

Peaches would be more fitting to
talk about in connection with Marie
Provost, but truth shall be honored,
and it was green apples that snatched
her from a convent, green apples that
teased her into a moving picture lot.
and green apples that bobbed before
her on the day she became a leading
woman in the Mack Sennett comedies.
And they are the only green features
in the career and personality of Marie
Provost, the slender French Canadian
girl who came sliding down from the
frozen north in a spray Of gayety,
with mirth and merriment for her
skis.
Only 10 years old she is now, and
the central figure in a half score
of comedy films, a quiet. quizzical-
eyed girl with emphatic good looks,
so slender she has never found the
pant in pantomime, yet so rounded
and graceful in form the wise old
sea gulls crowd in for a fuller squint
when the scene provides her with a
bathing suit.
Like so many condolences Miss
Provost is of mixed descent. her
father a Frenchman of rather dis
tinguished ancestry, her mother Eng
lish and Scotch, with Just a hasty
kiss of the Blarney Stone to proclaim
the IRISH in her veins. Up Montreal
way, Miss Provost was born. Tho
father was a famous athlete. and little
Marie was in tam-o'-shanter and furs
and out on toboggans and skis when
but babe. She can't remember when
she couldn't skate.
Then came the restraint Of the con-
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24

Sam Sidman. the comedian, denies
that he Is superstitious. However.
sam Sidman opined that II Walker
Whiteside had begun rehearsals OF
The Little Brother on Thursday,
the Eth, instead OF on Friday, the
18th. the success of the play might
have been a shade better than It has
been. And when william st. James,
OF the Whiteside company, opened his
umbrella on the stage, just before
going out into a heavy downpour,
Sldman intimated that, while he did
not believe in bad luck, ST. James
was calling trouble down upon his
head
Also there was a clarinet player in
the orchestra whose instrument was
a bright yellow. Everybody in the
theatrical profession knows that a
"yaller clarinet" tempts fate to do its
worst. but Sidman merely passed II by
with the remark that an orange tinted
clarinet wouldn't help business much
IL any.
Sam Sidman contends that there
Is one ill omen that every actor
should avoid: that is that graveL
yards should never be on ones left
hand as one passes by. When the
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
Miss Bowdin of Saccarappa

carappa and came to live in Boston.
Then came the desire to go on the
stage and Miss Bowdin appeared in
stock at Peaks Island. Maine. After
that summer engagement she Joined
Henry Woodruff in "A Prince OF To-
night" and then had her own act in
vaudeville.
All of this time. Miss Bowdin
says, she didn't know that she could
be funny and. in fact, she desired to
play only ingenue roles but 1t was
discovered that she was an uncon-
scious comedienne and Philip Bar
tholomae selected her for the role of
the telephone girl which she created
in Little Miss Brown" when that
play was produced at the Forty
eighth Street Theater in New York
by William A. Brady. This of course
was the first comedy part Miss Bow
din had ever played.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
OLGA MISHKA's TRIP STEP.

The Hobble Skirt Trip is the
name Of a new and eccentric dance
travesty which has been worked out
by Olga Mishka. the little dancer in
'"Tumble-In." and which will soon
be put into the performance at the
Selwyn Theater. New York. follow
ing a successful try-out before
Arthur Hammerstein and Archie
Selwyn last Sunday afternoon
The awkward step and the shack
led-limb effect that mark the hob
ble-skirt addict are some of the
foibles that viii be played up In
Miss Mishka's new dance, which
will be appropriately costumed
with a grotesQue representation Of
the hobbls skirt Miss Mshka says
she owes her inspiration for her
new dance satire TO q recent RAIN
storm. when a woman wrapped in
one of the new-fangled hobble cres-
tions tried to run for shelter, much
to the amusement Of a hundred on
lockers.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
Saccarappa!

Saccarappa!
Maybe you have never head Of this
place. but that little town in Maine
lost a very lively school teacher
when Rae Bowdin, who has the role
OF Flora Virgins. prominent
waitress, in Leave It to Jane"
which begins a weeks engagement
at Polls Sunday night, made up her
mind that she had anything but the
characteristics for a school mis-
tress.
The family had all made up their
minds that tutelage was the right
sphere for Miss Bowdin, but she de-
termined otherwise and so the stage
secured an inimitable comedienne.
when the halls OF learning lost a
preCeptress.
She was sure teaching school was
no place for her and she left Sac
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
WHAT THEY'D BE IF THEY
WEREN'T WHAT THEY ARE.

"If Bessie Barriscale something she would be
sunshine cake"
Gloria JOY the of Mission Productions, thus catalogs
the Bessie and in this she has doped
all her avorites. Here ar few of them
If Mary Pckford something wear, she'd be suit
OF rompers.
If Bill Hart a plant he'd be
II Theda Bara orchestra, she'd be Jazz band
1T Roscoe Arbuckc house, he'd be office building
If Dustin Farnum a fish, he'd be a killer whale.
If Douglas Fairbanks musical instrument, he'd be
ukelele.
Ii Kitty Gordon fruit, she'd be bunch of Tokay
grapes
If William Farnum a Dance he'd be fox
If Lillian Walker resser, she'd be cusard
pie.
If Charlie Chaplin something drink, he'd be spar
king burgundy. (Ths isn't Gloria's).
If May Allison candy, she'd be box of mik-fed
chocolates
Ii Julian Elnge a woman, he'd be the handsomest
in the world.
If Clara Kimbal Young toy, she'd be Teddy bear
Hughey Mack grass, he'd be a load of hay.
If Jackie Saunders flower, she'd be butercup.
Ruth Roland a bird, she'd be nightingale.
M. P. Magazine
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
DOROTHY'S SOME GARDENER.

Dorothy Phillips. whose place in the
cinema world was cemented and Sc
cured through her performance in the
Allan Holubar superdrama, The
Heart of Humanity" does not in
dulge in temperament away from the
studio as might be expected from her
emotionalism before the camera. Her
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
Fairbanks Completes Contract.

Douglas Fairbanks has completed
his last Famous-Players production,
a seven-reel feature called ''Knick-
erbocker Buckaroo." Mary Pick
ford's last with the same company
was Capt. Kidd, jr." D. W. Grif-
fifth has one more to finish after he
completes THE Chink and the
Child for the Aircraft banner
These pictures will terminate the
contracts of these three of the big
Four combination
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24

vent. With fifty other girls, she
adopted the alluring graces of a Sc
cluded, prayerful life. until the apple
entered the garden. and Marie Pre-
vost found she was closer kin than
she thought to Mother Eve.
That tantalizing apple tree grew
just over the wall of the convent
garden and. when spring came, teased
the good little girls by flicking boughs
loaded with blossoms, just out of their
reach and just into their thoughts.
The sisters said Hands Off" The
seductive perfume of the blooms said
Hands on" The agile Miss Provost,
with her athletic heritage, tried to
climb the wall one day. found she
could where all the other girls had
failed, and was just about to garner
a bouquet when the angry arm OF
one of her guardians reached out and
seized her leg. Then she had TO make
beds for an era just short of eternity,
it seemed to her, in punishment.
But when fall came. there were the
APPLES, green but plentiful, and they
had usurped the nearness OF the
taunting blossoms. BY might Of de-
The Washington herald., 1919-04-24
test delight lies in potter

greatest delight lies in pottering
around her own little garden and TAX
ing complete charge of vegetable
patch and rose garden with impartial
care, giving both equal attention as
the true lover of nature that she Is.
Books on gardening and seed cata-
logues are eagerly studied, and she
has even had shrubs and bulbs sent
her from China and Honolulu.