Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
BY O. d. KELLER

work. Iney all say IL is, u litter
viewers. And they do have to stay
up late. And some day the S. P. c.
movie actresses will do something
about making a 90-pound movie &C
tress carry around a mink coat that
would tax the resources of Jack
Dempsey, both at the shop and after
he was inside it.
Not to mention dancing and shak-
ing hands and listening to people
saying isn't she too perfectly sweet
and so on.
Being a movie actor must be hard
work, sure enough. I do not know
much about movie actors of either
sex. The first one l ever talked to
was Warren Kerrigan, for whom 1
have a kindly remembrance dating
back before the historic Volstead
act. He was working hard, too. He
wore leather coat and made
speeches.
At the auditorium Wednesday
night there were about 5000 movie
fans and fannettes and a Scotch
band and Eugene O'Brien, who also
seemed to me to have a trace of
cent, and the bevy of screen queens,
headed by Miss Martha Mansfield
and Miss Louise DuPre and Miss
Muriel Ostriche and Miss Willie
Mae Carson and Miss Helen Gardner
u believe that is all there were; if
say they were heading the delegation.
Gorgeous Coat
There also was a government man
there, Mr.. Orrih G. Lester, who
made an impassioned grafton on
Savings" just before Miss Ostriche
and Miss DuPre were presented to
the assembled populace, the latter
wearing a Lucille frock, and the for
mer mink coat that gagged by Mrs.
Lucllle's reported rates and the COM
parat1ve dimensions must have cost
upwards of $4,000.
Mr. Wylie West made the intro
auctions in his very best style, and
back-stage, while Mr.. Testers elo-
quence was in progress, l discovered
William Mckenzie. who had out
dressed Mr.. O'Brien by a narrow but
who informed us that he had retired
from the stage business and was
now country innkeeper. To prove it
he showed us pictures of the inn, a
most alluring place, at which Mr..
Wells said that INDECENT actors and
newspaper men always would be
welcome as long as they had plenty
Of money.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Lester had finished
his thrift speech and a delegation
had arrived from Druid Hills. includ-
ing Mr.. O'Brien. Miss Mansfield and
lot of exhibitors and exchanges.
and the program proceeded with
speeches. Mr.. O'Brien was in gen
ial frame of mind. He expanded gen.
erously and appeared disposed to hop
about and sing in the sunshine He
Interrupted his speech to drag forth
Miss Anna Eugene Aiken. editor of
the Weekly Film Review. for whose
middle name he had a manifest pre-
objection. and Miss Mansfield; and
having anchored himself firmly be-
tween the blushing damsels he ex-
planned pla1ntively that Fuzzy Wood
ruff had deserted him basely and
that he required moral support.
Stars Good Speakers
All the screen stars were speakers
of merit in at least one particular
their speeches were short. They
also managed to say something while
they were speaking, which is not per-
fectly usual in such matters.
Then they got the mob back and
had the grand march, which at times
resembled snake dance, owing to
the happy eccentricities of the lead
ers, who had plenty of room to in
dulge certain vagaries of idea in re-
gard to the pattern on which grand
they had dancing, after the gentle
manly announcer had announced
through a megaphone that tagging
would not be permitted, conveying
to certain old-fashioned persons
hazy impression that there was not
going to be any of this I-tagged-you-
now-you-tag-me business. There
wasn't. but there was a prodigious
scramble to dance with the pref
test, if not to kiss the one you
loved the best; and they all were
easy enough to look at.
1 must here interpoIate a feeble
note of appreciation for the under
students. They were there in pla-
ICONS, both holnme and femme. They
had their hair polished like that of
Wallace Reid, or marcelled as nearly
as possible like Mr. O'Brien's, and
among the opposing sex they wore
clothes just as nearly exactly like
what Miss Ostriche and Miss Gardner
md Miss DuPre were expected to be
roing to wear as human ingenuity
aud forethought could devise.
And all evening, homme and fem
ne, they moved about with their
'lins in the air and were mistaken
or movie stars by Mr.. and Mrs. Fl.
1n1loi. who nudged each other and