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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
?The Question Mark?

Elsie-Yes, Edna Murphy, now ap- bearing in the Fox serial 'Fanto- mas" also played a part in lover the HiIl.;' No time has been set for end- ing the New York run of cover the Hill''s It will remain on Broadway as long as people continue to patron ie it. 1t is nowSin it's sixth month.
 l.. A. M-Priscilla Dean is mar riedl to Wheeler Oaknlan. She is to be seen shortly in "Reputation- Her new vehicle calls for the DOT trayal of dual roles, and is considered 'by officials at Universal City to be the best picture she has ever done. After that she will appear in Con 6ict."
 F. S. A-Harry Carey played The Stranger in 'sThe Freeze Out" I liked it as well as Overland Red" or Marked Men" What more can be said2
 
 Grayce-No. Tom Mix is not an as ezumed name, but his name in private life His latest picture for Fox is called 'HThe Road Demon" in which he displays his prowess as an auto driver.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
Four Years on Clutches Didn't
 Keep Bill From Making Good!

hlred the troupe. with Russell at $50 a wes&-big wages in those days-but ms ms n9otheTs would not permit him to
 Shortly after this he injured his hip so seriously while tumbling in 1h'e street that he lay four months in ped with 50-pound sandbag hung from the injured member Compli- cations set in, and he was four years on crutches; but he newer gave up. He went in for physical culture de aplte his disability, with the result cnat today he is strapping figure and has been among the cham pion amateur boxers of Am erica
 With Big Stars.
 really embarked upon his stage ca reer. For several years he appeared with such stars as Ethel Barrymore, Blanche Bates. Ezra Kendall, David wards he was made leading man in stock company in Philadelphia, and Ior two years starred in "St. ElTno.' Two more years were spent in vaude- pany, and then he took the big step of his Efe-he went into motion pie lures.
 MT RusselPs especial hobby is ath- ieucs When he went to Santa Bar. bara, Gal, he was an athlete from the eastern point of view, inasmuch as ne was swimmer, boxer and wrestler. Now he is all-round outdoor man and can ride a bucking horse and throw a rope with the best At his ranch near Santa Barbara he maintains open house, so that Let's run over and see Bill Russell this week end" has become a stock ex- preesion among the screen celebri- ties of the Coast. His favorite horses, Deacon and Babe however are among the main attractions at the ranch for Big Bill, and always are his first concern when he arrives. there.
 MT. Russell will be seen in Bridge port soon in his latest picture, ''The Challenge of the Law,' in which he portrays. with his characteristc one of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. It is a splendid part for Big Bill. and he does it we'll, as usual.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
WRITING SCENARIOS.

Scenario Writing Today. By Grace
 Lytton. Published by Houghton
 Mifflin Company.
 The mosts of young people who aspire to write screen stories for famous movie stars should be grate- full to Grace Lytton for her extremely helpful and readable book. Every phase of modern scenario writing is covered, and the author throws out many hints which should prove use- full to beginners. The fundamental difference between the literary story and the photoplay story is carefully emphasized. Miss Lytton always treats her subject from a practical rather than from a theoretical stand point, and her points are usually illustrated with concrete examples. The last chapter, entitled "A Modern Photoplay," is an actual working scenario, reprinted by courtesy of the Vitagraph Company of America.-N Y. Tribune.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
Gossip Pest Is
 Known To All

Please. PLEASE, Pest Verse 1 Writers, write one side Of the pa per; DON'T have your verse longer than ten lines; write ONLY about the Pest of the current week.-Mrs. week 1 it is the Gossiping Pest, fema1e-and NOT the Don't Care'' Pest! | The Pest Verse Editor has had to | throw away number of verses be- | cause they did not come within the rules governing the contest Keep within bounds, then go as far as you l like. A couple of tickets to Polls popular vaudeville theater is the re- ward for the best verse each week. You may write free verse, blank verse, or regular verse-but Imericks are preferred. And don't forgotten Send in YOUR verse about the Gossips who sit back of you at the movies and discuss all their neigh bors in no uncertain tones.
 This weeks Pest contest closes Sat urday at midnight Here's today'S grist:
 Wished so, Too! There was an old lady named Brown, Who had all the gossip in town; To the movies she'd go, And all through the show Her loud gossip made everyone
 frown-
 She had a side partner named Bingo, Who was equally good at the lingo; Together they sat, And kept up such a chat That folks wished they were in San
 Domingo!
 F. H. F..
 314 Fairfield Ave
 How Do They. Do It? Can't they ever st@p talking
 About this and that, My baby has just started walking
 Someone would say who near you
 sat-
 Isn't that a heautifuJ r,ic+,1reo or Another one would say And all this kind of a mixture Of talking would let any fool go Q. astray. Can't they ever stop Jabbering and talking You can't keep your mind on a pie
 ture. When every gossiper is talking Talking about everything, noth- |
 ing, a mixture If someone could hit them with a |
 mallett And end their career once and |
 for all Or hit them with an iron billet
 And stop them from talking at ABRAHAM MITCHELL
 204 Beardsley street. With Apologies to the Wen-Known
 '.Bucket.'' The gossips, the gossips, the iron The moss-backed old gossips that sat at the show. Their talk was so foolish Their laughter so mu1ish We wondered with anguish how soon they would go! The brass-tongued old gossips, the moss-backed old gossips, the iron-jawed gossips who spoiled all the show!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24

HOOP GIBSON, with the freiight playing upon his clean cut features, has the little old trigger all ready. Ard he can shoot, too. The gloves don't make so much difference, after all. Watch the left, too. For all its noncha1ance, 'Hoot'' had a reason for placing it thus.
 "Hoot'' was born way down in TekaInah, Nebraska-no, I never heard of it, either. He comes by his histrionic talents rightful- ly, for his mother, Della Gibson, was an actress before him. Cow boy life suited him ito a T, and he is the proud possessor of gold belt given to him in Ore gon for being the champion cowboy of that section in 1920.
 This daring gunman of the screen made his debut in pictures in 1910 when he was a member of Dick Stanley's Congress of Rough Riders. Now he is with the Universal people and is be- ing starred in five-reel Western stories.
 He is a good-looking fellow you can see for yourself-weighs 160 pounds, and is five feet, nine inches tall. He is a blonde, too, with a fair complexion, as blondes should have. He is very fond of prize-fghting, and can always be found at the ring side when there is a bout of any size within reach.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
MARCH "A, 1921
Amusement Calendar
X DAILY FEATUR,

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
By ZELDA BEDELI,

"Do You Want to Get Into the Movies is the title of an illuminat- ing and highly instructive story in
 the April Pictorial Review" just out, and it is as full of good sense as an egg is full of meat. Written by Benjamin B. Hampton, head of one of the large motion picture cor porations, and a pioneer in this in fant industry that is growing so fast and so we'll, it carries weight because of the knowledge and experience put into it's writing.
 Many movie illusions are "shot to strangely enough, as they have not been before Written in vigorously entertaining style, the article is de- lightful in it's phrasing, not to men ton the complete information with which it is filled.
 The stNice GirI.''
 An excerpt tells about the wrong idea that prevails concerning the nice girP' in studio life:
 Tt almost seems as if it must be unfashionable to speak or write soberly of the movies or to tell the plain truth about studio life. The public has been convinced that studio-land is filled with arrogant, unlettered, autocratic directors who wear sporty clothes and below loudly through megaphones; with eX-bar- berS who have become stars and who have only a holding acquaintance with good manners, good English, or good morals; and with young women who spend most of their waking hours loIling in boudoirs waiting to vamp strange men,
 .'All of which is far from the truth-and all of which injureS the in various ways, among others, in that the nice gif1, ambitious to be- come a screen actress, is almost in | variably discouraged by her family 1 and her friends.
 '"The movies need the nice girl the girl that comes from a good fam | fly with education and tradition back | of her. An old adage declares that | a silk purse can not be made of | leather which might be paraphrased | into a modern statement that a fine | screen actress can not be fashioned | out of coarse material
 Fat girls, won't do, nor too thin | ones, nor too tall ones. writes MT.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
MISS WOOD FIRST.

Phoebe Wood, of 15a Charles street was the first to recognize the profile of Police Commissioner John C. Stan ley, which appeared in yesterday S Times. Others who had correct an swers were: M. J. OReiNy, 53 James street; F. H. Downs, 1889 Mo- b1e avenue and Frederick C.. Wesche, 53 Washington terrace.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
Do You Want To Get Into the Movies?'
Review.

''The girl who is to get a genuine chance at stardom must be of me- di11m height and medium weight, and if she is not medium in these require ments it would be we'll to be slightly under in both height and weight. Girls with pronounced irregularity of features or physical defects can not succeed in pictures. A nose too that turns down at the corners, ankles that are beginning to be too thick-any of these items may oper- ate to keep a girl in the list of lex tras."
 Worry not about the color of your brown, or chestnut-it matters little. Many items are of much more inn portance than the color of hair. For example, eyes that Are too light are difficult to photograph
 Not Made In a Hurry.
 The bubble of making a movie star overnight is also priclzed quickly and conclusively, thus:
 Stars are not made quickly. Sue cess does not come overnight. No matter how many newspaper and magazine articles you have read about beautiful Lulu de We're, who left high school in Algona and became pie ture star within a. few weeks-it is not true. Things do not happen that way. Newspaper articles are written very quickly; newspaper readers love sensational and colorful stories.
 'AThe story of Lulu makes good reading for a day-and no one takes the trouble later to learn that Lulu was 1ured to Los Angeles by a fake promoter who got her money and gave her in return nothing but prom ises. Nor does the newspaper pub fish the story that Lulu, broken and disil1usioned, is now waitress in a restaurant
 "I wish we could drive home the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24

Frank Chance looked over the Cubs at Pasadena yesterday, but would venture no pennant predictions on the Johnny Evers outfit
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
SIX BEST CINEMAS

Miss .Annalee Vernon, known as one of the most discriminating critics on Broadway, has made these selec- tions of the six best April photopIays, after seeing advance showings of all important films:
 'What Every Woman Knows" the Barrie play filmed for Paramount by William DeMiIle.
 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Fox picturization of the Mark Twain story.
 'The Witching Hour" William D. Taylor's production of the play by Augustus Thomas
 Buried Treasure" a Cosmopolitan production featuring Marion Davies.
 ''Uhe Faith Healer" a George Mel ford production for Paramount of the play by William Vaughn Moody.
 "A P1aything of Broadway" Jus tine Johnson starred in Realart pie ture.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24

In jest Hopper called upon him to initiate his own portrayal Of "Ch1m- mic Fadden," and the effort of the boy, then nine, was so creditable that Hopper retained him as a feature of the show.
 Young Russell was then living in the Bronx, to which he had moved from East Seventy-sixth street, where he was born. In the East River he became an expert swimmer and fancy diver, and once swan eight miles through the traffic-laden stream Other of his feats were to swim through the treacherouso Hell Gate and through the Harlem river to the Hudson.
 While sharing the honors with Hopper in ''Chimmie Fadden" Rus sell decided to be an acrobat. He re- hearsed for months with a troupe of cient tumbIer. Ringing Brothers
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
By ZELDA BEDEII.

'The man who smokes" once said Bulwer-Lytton, celebrated English | writed-philosopher thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. He knew life, did this wise writer. and if he hadn't lived in the 17th cen tury, we might think he had written
 the above aphorism around Big Bill Russell, red-bIooded portrayer of red b1ooded types on the screen. For Big Bi1rs constant companion is his black briar pipe, well-flavored-
 well-seasoned and '-as sweet as a nut. :" he insists. It gives him inspiration when he works; it is his solace when he rests. What more could a man want?
 loved men of the screen. Always a
 hero, it would be difficult to think of
 him in any other part.
 Met Witl, Accident
 He has had a life that should be an encouragement to any young man, either on the screen or off, for when he was young man he met with an accident that crippled him for four years. Far from making him down cast, Bill went right along as if his hip was alright-his trouble was fractured hip-devoted himself to physical culture, and after a while, the today he is six feet inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. Four years of crutches didn't mean a thing in his young Gfei
 D4S bIiI began HIS stage l1Ie when eight years of age, as office boy for Julia Arthur, president of the Professional Woman's League. Then he checked hats and was water boy at Palmer's Theatre at Broadway and Thirtieth street, New York city, for merly and later known as Wallack's but now vanished. There he got his first real chance when Charlie Hop per, starring in the title role of "Chim- mic F'adden,' had him substitute for a boy who was ill.-
 Sol Smith Russell was my uncle" insisted young Russell in seeking the place." and can sing and dance and tumble and do limitations and every thing.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24

fact that these picturesque yarns of quick and easy success are untrue and dangerous in the extreme.
 There is just one road to success in pictures, and that's the o1d-fash- toned road of patience. persistence, hard work, and good habits.''
 There's a. lot more-Pd like to run it all, if I had space-and it's worth reading, every word of it. And the reason is very -Imple-it is all TRUTH.
 This is not an advertisement for Pictorial Review" although the magazine is an excellent one, but if you want to learn what to do to get into the movies. and more important than a1l-what NOT to do-buy this magazine and read MT. Hampton's story.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24

Every Thursday a picture of Qhe dressing room of some popu- 6Ar movie star will be shown on this page. The articles of dress, shown in the picture, will give you an idea, if you're a good movie fan, how to answer the question.
 The first person to send in a correct answer will bee given two tickets to the Lyric theatre An swer must be written on coupon below.
 Come on, now, see how we'll you know your movie character people. There's a lot of fun in 1t and your tickets if you guess right. First one in gets the prize.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-24
RAILROAD CONFERENCE
 IN GENEVA

Geneva, March 24-The Second international Railwaymen's confer ence will be held here in April.
 Twelve countries were represented at the first conference in London last October and their delegates claimtd to speak for 1857, ,000 workers
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
Calomel Users
Take Awful Risk
Very Next Dose of Treacherous
Drug May Start Terrible
Salvation

The next dose Of calomel you
take may salivate you. 1t may
shock your liver or start bone ne
crosis. CalomeI is dangerous. 1t is
mercury, quicksilver. It crashes
into sour bile like dynamite, cramp-
ing and sickening you. CalomeG at
tacks the bones and should never
be put into your system,
If you feel bilious, headachy, con-
stipated and all knocked out, just
go to your druggist and get a bottle
of Dodson's Liver Tone for few
cents which is a harmless vegetable
substitute for dangerous calomel
Take a spoonful and if it doesn't
start your liver and straighten you
up better and quicker than nasty
calomel and without making you
sick, you just 60 back and get your
money. F.. ri, -. 4. g. :
Don't take calomel! It&can@inot
be trusted any more than a'leopafd
or a wildcat. Take Dodson's Liver
Tone Which $traightens you right
up and makes you feel fine. No
salts necessary. Give it to the chill
dren because it is perfectly harm
less and can not salivate.-Adv.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
Gathering the Crops
Order of the Day

Public Wells, Oct. 24.-Not much
news this week. Everybody has
been busy these pretty days. Pota-
to digging goes down as history
through this section and corn gath
ering is on in full sway. The yield
is fairly good and seems to be in
fine condition for gathering.
Lewis Elliott and wife of the
Bethany vicinity have new six and
one-half pound boy.
J. Q. Adams, ST., and Bennett
Fields are attending the old soldiers
reunion at Chattanooga and will
also visit their children, who live
in Nashville, while gone.
Fielder Travis tells me that one
day last week one of his fine mules
got a small stick stuck in its body
just behind its shoulder and blood
poison set up, which caused its
death. Fielder had fine pair of
mules and he priced them very
highly, and he certainly regrets to
break his team.
A large crowd attended preaching
at this place on last Sunday. DR..
Beasley certainly is a great preach
er and explains the Scriptures in
such a way that any one can under
stand them. He has been at Mar
tin twelve months and says he has
averaged preaching a sermon a
day since he has been there.
there
Hafford Morgan left Sunday for
Paducah, KY, where he goes to
work, and his family will go in
few days.
There is quite pile Of logs at
the. saw mill near this place, but the
company says the weather is TOO
pretty for saving now,-Rip.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
- "a -
NONRESIDENT NOTICE

Silas IL. Holland, ct al VS.. J. E.
Choate, ct al.
No. 996-In Chancery Court at
Dresden, Tenn.
To Venie Choate, Lube Choate, Roy
Choate, Lora McCalpin and hus-
band, Venie McCalpin;
In this cause, it appearing from
bill of revivor this day filed that
M. M. Choate, one of the defend
ants in the original bill in the case
has died intestate since the filing Of
his answer; that he left as his wild
ow Venie Choate, and his only child
dren and heirs at law, Lube Choate
Roy Choate and Lora McCalpin
wife of Venus McCalpin; that
all of said parties are non-res-
idents of this state, and asking that
the suit be revived against them as
parties defendant: they are there
fore, hereby required to appear
before the clerk and master of said
Chancery Court at his office in the
court house in Dresden, Tenn, on
or before the
First Monday in November, 1921
and make defense to said original
bill and bill of revivor, or same will
be taken for confessed and the
cause proceeded with ex parte as
to them o7-14-21-28
This Sept. %, 1921.
l. L. BANKS, G. & M.
Thomas & Francis, Soils. for Com
claimants.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
Cutting Poles to
Rebuild Phone Line

Guffee's Store, Oct. 24.-Fred
Carlton left here Saturday night
for some point in the west. Fred
is our neighbor boy and kinsman,
and an all-'round good boy. We re-
greet very much to see him go, and
hope he will return home shortly.
There will be meeting OF the
Meridian telephone exchange SUD-
scribers next Thursday at Stafford's
Store, in 16, to arrange to go to the
river bottom to cut cypress poles 10
repair the lines from Staftords
store to the switch board, distance
of about three miles. 1t is Wills
pered pretty generally over the en-
tire county that MERRIAM exchange
gives best service, both night ana
and day.
There was very entertaining
law suit held before Esq. Alden on
last Thursday. Grover Young sued
S. E. Pittman for not working ana
gathering his crop that Plttman
has raised on Young's land. Sell
don Maiden represented Pittman,
while Esq. A. M. Stout took care OF
Young's case. Young lost the case
and paid the costs.
Master Jesse Lee Bates, son OF
M. v. Bates, has been very SICK Win
chills and fever.
A good crowd attended the sale
of the late Luther Jenkins on last
Thursday. Everything that was
sold brought a good price, consld-
ering hard times and low cotton.
Grover Stafford, Will Priest and
Will Bates have the contract Of cut
ting 20 cords of wood for the Mt.
Arie high school.
Prof. Luther Cooper will occupy
the Jno. Cantrell place next year.
Monroe Priest, our hustling truck
farmer, carried a large load OF
sweet potatoes to market Thursday.
Esq. Henry Pope, the corn king
of the 16, tells me his corn crop is
extraordinary this year and that
he already has gathered nine large
loads, and not done yet.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
INSOLVENCY NOTICE

The insolvency Of the estate of
W. R. Hawks, deceased, having been
suggested to the county court clerk
of Weakley County, Tenn, by R.
W. Bandy and A. M. Dunlap, exec
utors, all parties holding claims
against said estate are hereby noti-
fled to file the same with w. J.
Jeter, clerk of the said county court
at his office in the courthouse in
Dresden, Tenn, properly authenti-
Gated, on or before the first day of
January, 1922, or same will be for
ever barred in law and equity.
This Sept "a, 1921. 24-4t
r. W. handy,
A. M. DUNLAP
Executors.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-10-28
CHANCERY LAND SALE

81. In obedience to a decree of sale
made by the Chancery Court at
Dresden, in the cause of The Duke
dom Bank vs., l. C. Stowe, ct al,
will on
Saturday, Nov. S, 1921,
at about l o'clock, p. m, at the
north door of the court house in
Dresden, sell to the highest and
best bidder, on a credit Of seven
months and in bar of the equity of
redemption, the land in said decree
described as follows:
Situated in the 9TH civil district
of Weakley county, Tennessee, be-
ginning at stake in S. e. corner of
tract, in Dresden and Mayfield
road; runs north Sd 1-2 poles to
stake in said road; thence west 1876
poles to stake in ditch; thence south
Sd 1-2 poles to stake; thence east
1876 poles to the beginning, con-
tanning 6S acres, more or less, and
is tract conveyed by W. A. Win
stead to l. C. Stowe. o14-21-28
The purchaser will be required to
give good personal security,
|. L. BANKS, C. & NJ.
J. W. Thomas, Solicitor.
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Let AL Gardner sell you your
shoes and it wont take so much
money to shoe the family.

We want a lady or gentleman
agent to handle city trade in Ores
den and other vacant cities. This
is a wonderful opportunity, as you
will be retailing the genuine j. r.
Watkins Products including Wat
kins Cocoanut DOLL Shampoo, Gar
da Face Powder, Fruit Drinks and
over 1877 other products. The J. R.
Watkins Co., Dept. SO, Memphis,
Tenn. 24-4t (p)