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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
Kept Crdnking as Dynamite
MuSSed Nature All Up

'NHEf nudged log jam with n ton of
l. dynamite for Priscilla Deans latest
picture. "ConAict" and showcrcd some
of tn" pretticst scenery in British Co.
Iumbia with splintcrs and muck fer
miles.
OF course it had 10 be photographed.
1t had to be photographed close UP,
too.
Five minutes before they sent the
juice tingling down through the stack
Of powder Harold Smith set up cam
era in a shack about seventy five feet
away from the logs and about a mile
too near for either comfort or safety.
Behind Harold Smith stood n stupid
Swcde lumbcrjack. lie had his hands
on Smiths shoulders. II Smith loft the
camera the lumberjack was to be fired.
II Smith stayed for the party the lum-
bcriack was to get n pint of liquor.
They fooled that lumberjuck. He
thought that Smith wanted to go fish =
ing and that Stuart Patton, TIE direc-
tor. wanted him to stay.
'Ay tank he stay dere," said the
Iumbcriack. "Ay hold him.
Putting the lumberjack there was
Smiths idea. He isn't on to high =
tone human nature. He knew that a
ton of dynamite sometimes turns feet
toward the outgoing trail and he wanted
to shoot that scene.
That five minutes seemed like q
mOther-in Jaws visit
Then something happened. The sky
went black. 1t seemed all Uttered up
with dirty toothpicks. Smiths ears
pounded and his heart did a Zip. The
iumberjack swallowed his tobacco. \
second later Smith looked nt his wrist.
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worthy. That I must be na,,..
clsser than even you thought mo and
remember that 1, too. had hoe' me- And
TO you; you, so lovely and GU drawn
sweet. And then there was fresh fresh and
OF your personality. "' 'ne allure
1t was more than n wool ii,
IN New York, that H a.er, su back
OF you again. He came into rse n, Spoke
on his face. ''ouoied look
"Nella," he said. edo Won
meeting a girl called Annette a'VWWe,,mset MEMBER 4
DO l remember? OF courso =, et.s
answered warmly. uiSe do"
Well,' he went on. n sm;,.
ing through the trouble in oreak-
she wants to go into the monis tace, Z
was wondering whether nn and Z
could make place for hor w vi not we II.
am az sure she has talent, or gives peTe. nrs Ig
of having talent" e'eS promise
m. sure of III" I so;d ,o.. ss
There's something most St =, rg;,D,ssl.iVely.
unusual about her, Which ohnng and =
she a real person. Certainlv has bv;s mat
mere to us. Why noty' Or'ns her
He hesitated. Again tbo "a
look overcluded his expressive uoueld
aow well | have grown to % mac. iace.
its every change! W interpret :
Here's the difficulty" bo M
hnaiiy. ITS that fellow in tbo b"e SAD
mnere o0ne you were working before s'uass s.s,',
i felt the blood leave mr
looked at him sbarplv h,;. ht iace, H.
SSaz,ms Ssiom,s intently down into the - ,ty... was
The man in the studio wbO,,,
,mork,hs ,Mc"tod n before | came to 'you?" ! ". W.
YES. he said quickly, still III, .,
OUT looking at me. knew thot Il ],n-
us hard for him as it was for mo Wa W
mean Welles. Roland Wellcs," be % vo,i
My hands clenched in NV II, "a
the dressing table. ''p' under
Tel me all about it. Whit d. 49,.
mean l demanded breathlesslvu W you
He shook, his head in troubled r.,
Shes met him somewhere. md all,
IN love with him. And he has nras ras
lsed, OF course, to take her n 'V Sh,.
studio, and make her, and marry ="
But everybody knows him Thai. uh ma.
wanted to have her come here, T ~
get her away from him, if nossibI.
before it is too late" '''D''
l was amazed at what happenea >,
me. All my hard fought for self .con',
troll forsook mo in my time of need IN =
shook with one of my old furies T
saw red as the phrase goes. In tbst
dreadful moment | never even pays :
thought to the friend whom / was
wounding afresh. Thinking only Of nv
own reopened wound, l was unmindful
of his. His months of devotion were
as nothing. / managed to keep the
rage out of my voice; but it was cold,
and hard. ~
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
MARRIAGE, 4 La
MOVIEDOM, is
ON FULL BLAST
BY HELEN KLCMPH

cor COURSE I cant quite see
" Thcda Bara in orange blossoms.
Garry launched at me almost before l
finished apolOgizing to the last four
people | had stumbled over on my way
to seat. "But I think any one as
Young and pretty as Kathryn Perry
ought to be compelled by law to have
a regular wedding, with rose leaves
to walk on and tulle veile and
saccharine soprano voice singing II love
YOU truly" and an organ and =
"A groom who forgets the ring" I
added. ''Not for me. When Dorothy
Gsh and Constance Talmadge started
the fashion of dashing up to Green
wich, Conn, to get married they be-
came n great influence in the notion
picture world. Why on earth some of
these fans who chase all over the coun-
try trying to see their favorite stars
at personal appearances don't just go
up to Greenwich and patrol the road in
front Of Justice of the Peace Meade's
house for n while l can't see. Sooner
or later they'd have the pleasure OF
being the first ones to know about
wedding. OF course, every one knew
about Owen Moore and Kathryn Perry,
though"
Even Mr.. Selznick," Garry chimed
in. That was an inspiration on his
part to have them play opposite each
other in "A Divorcce of Convenience. ,
The picture is to be released soon, and
I'm told that Owen and Kathryn are to
be CO. starred as Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Moore. Won't the theatres be packed,
or do YOU suppose the broken hearted
girls will stay away"
'Stay away|' I echoed They'll
go to the theatre in droves and comment
loudly, OF coursc she's awfully sweet, ;
and all the time they'll be wishing they
were near enough to wiring her neck. 1"
Eyes, and no matter how happy
they are, some girls in the audience
will think they detect signs of wrari-
ness and trouble in his face and blame
It on his lovely new wife instead of on
the scenario writer. These motion
picture stars lead hard life some
times"
"Well. you d never know it to see the
Owen Moores nov" ] told her. "You
can save your sympathy for some one
else"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
Photoplay Shomn in Church
Causes Trouble in Alabama

A SUNDAY presentation of the film
"A THE Inside of the Cup" in the
First Tniversalist Church of Birming-
ham. Ala, has caused an investigation
by the city authorities or birmingham.
The Rev. Mr.. Clark. pastor of the First
Cniversalist Church, thought The In
side of the Cup" perfect sermon and
used it on Sunday night to illustrate
his own sermon. He had neglected to
obtain n permit to show the picture on
Sunday, and the incident Is now being
investigated by the Commissioner of
Public Safety of Birmingham.
A large congregation saw the photo
play Mt the church performance. In his
sermon, which preceded the showing of
the picture, Mr.. Clark said that motion
pictures as important in theme as 1.-The
Inside of the Cup" should be shown in
churches throughout the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17

Cupid invaded the Fox lot again the
other day at Hollywood aud stood in
the corner while Howard Mitchell, Shir-
ley Masons director, and Ailccn
Hughes answered few questions before
clergyman. Miss Hughes is u Los
Angeles society girl who was stopping
on Catalina Island when Mr.. Mitchell
was making a picture there with Miss
Mason. This Is the sixth marriage on
~ Fox lot in two months.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
Taxi Drivers In Abundance

The simple word taxi" served Ros-
coe (Fatty) ArbuCklc we'll when he
was in Chicago recently Timing scenes
for Freight Prepaid" Director James
Cruze wanted scene showing Arbuckle
besieGed by taxi drivers. so the cameras
were set and the star walked out into
the center Of the station and yelled ::
Taxi" Taxi-drivcrs appeared from
all directions. They swOOpcd down
on me like a ton of bricks" said Ar
buckle. 1--WE got the scenes and they
were great. And we didn It have to hire
lot of extras to get 'Cm, other"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17

MOST people seem to think there are
4'4 concerned in the making Of mo-
tion pictures just four classes Of people
ACTORS, scenario writer's. directors and
cnmeramen. 1t all seems very simple
The scenario writer sits down in
the morning and works out scene.
he wakes up the director, who
packs some actors and cancraman in
an automobile. together with picnic
lunch, and goes out to make the Dic-
ture on some lovely hillside. Then.
having finished the phOtoplay. they
take it around TO your local theatre and
exhibit 1t at twenty five cents seat.
As matter Of fact the motion pic
ture business, now the fifth national
industry in the United States. has rs
many phases and us many complexities
as any other industry in the world.
Broadly speaking, the motion picture
industry is made up of alliances be-
tween producing companies and dis
tributing companies.
The great distributing companies
employ the salcsmcn. advertising cX-
perts, business men. and 50 forth.
All the technical work concerned
with the making Of the picture. how
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17

company, and since We are engaged in
such work ourselves II is about these
posts that we must talk.
TT WE are to take the studio Jobs
L in their natural order. the first to
begin work on Il picture is, of course, ,
the author.
Each studio employs scenario cdi
tor. who is on the lookout for good
magazine stories or plays or original
scripts. lie himself is not 50 much n
writer n an analyst, who knows what
kind of stories his public wants: gem
orally he is an old ncwspapCrman or an
eX- magazine editor.
Having bought the story, lie turns II
over to Il socnnrioist--the "continuitv
writer, This type Of specialist is
much in demand. since no story can
survive a badly constructed scenario.
The scenario writer puts the story
into picture form exactly as Il drama
tist may put n novel into play form
for the stage. 1t is the scena'rioist, or
continuity writer, who really gives to
the story its screen value. Hence the
very large prices paid for this work
when it Is well done.
THESE "7dbIOM TaIkS' are con.
dcmscd from the material far book
by Mr. Emerson and Miss Loos 10 be
pabHshcd bV the James 4. McCdnn
Company, NcIC York;
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Easy Life Of a Director

Director Frank Lloyd, of Goldwyn,
is having rather strenuous time these
warm summer days. lie gets up with
his family at 3 80 each morning and
plays golf, then after the days work
they all motor to the seashore for an
after dinner dip about s o'clock every
night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
Another Building for Movies

Work has been started at the Lasky
Studio, Hollywood, on the construc-
tion of another building to house the
added directors aud members of the
scenario staff at the studio. Owing to
the influx Of writers and others for
merly connected with production work
in New York. the personnel of these
departments at the Lasky plant has
been considerably increased.
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Daily Tabloid Talks to Fans
on Breaking Into the Mouies

BY JOHN EMERSON and ANITA L0Os
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
' The
LOVE- STORY
of a
MOVIE STAR
This Is Hop the Story Begins:

MELLA MORELAND, most famous
N Of screen stars, hears that a
goung girl, Annette Wilkins. has
fallen in love toith Roland Welies,
an idol of the screen. Miss Moretdnd.
10 save Annette, prites the story OF
her opn tragic love affair ,cih
lVctlcs, intending TO send IL TO
Annette so she may knoD the Kind
Of man he is.
She tells hoU, tchile n pianist in
movie theatre in a Western Penn
syirdnia to,on, she met IVelles ,chen
ne made personal appearance
there, hoo he invited her to come to
N!ew. York and said he ,oould place
her IN thp mouies, hoo she came dnd
me chHy reception phich he gaze
her IN the studio. Then, becoming
interested in her, he gets her a JOB.
makes loue to her, proposes and she
IS deliriously happy until another
'comdn reveals Welles' perfdy. Then
she quits him and the company.
Later, ichen she has achieved fame,
WcHes redppcars and tries TO reneto
his love making, but she knoIs he
tcdnfs her for her rdlue as a fim
tdvorite IN his pictrcs,| and she
repulses him. Desperate, she prites
a photopldv fuH of dangerous
"sfunts,' and she and Il, her
director, toho has stood by her IN
all her troubles, prepare tn film q.
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|kysS TChs DaiyMovie Magazine
CLOSE-UPS of the MOVIE GAME
BY HENRY NJ. NEELY
There Are Interesting Things in Prospect for the Fall

There Are Interesting Things in Prospect for the Fall
Nov forgetting
msn ans see " the comm" '''" promises US l" " 's Tor"
busy going to the sO
beginning pockets
turning people who sell the pictures
Of the crank, the oldmo " be
And there really are som & Tns%%y n m nDf n Ts os05ni p0 @ p 1
who the producing end Of have Kept busy trying out % ne" ideas i'm
will the result tn this fall and winter 5s & You Wi will .o sit % s. Sy HpGn ro
and deliver verdict either for against
Jr TOOK lot of ncrrc for producers
@ 3 & Sos { %"{G ] the '%H "1 T"s g, Kept '" D 5 % YOU % i
rorm get tired Of N''m9 and come ashore again
yEvE been talking lately poor of
" our our % @ n @ "snmcmo Tomm? No? lot of people dtdn
My that ] TOm%y % his xS @ % 9qGS sS s rsn
And the popularity of the its
merry Yet Sentimental Tommy was aivvor commercially
M There @ @ 0"G m% ] SRrn n oh ' % o fSs sDoE d nnns % the"
their old fiction form of Writing % to | writ "TI directly M for M 5s' @ s sn
winter dcus them from
written will be able form own
whether the experiment worth the very large sum of money
And we have perfect
They spending their They
spending and mine and the money the owner of our 6 ]
trouble of coming the of the city night
deal 3"f o ana and S goI Go @ nt~oc 3 w than "e so"o
do it in theatre; why in a And
to rh you things that diSpledSe
Ind don't forget hat postal chih
eingi rGludble his shoes
Tell him like the films
$ showiag. Hell pass the wod along
the will show
~ nI @ 3S" n ca to do a% D @ BEINGS 5 ON % | y @ e there n nal @ enough
keep them during the slump that hit the rest
of the
powerful novel The Four
transfer such
hope hghbrow
III his cri
sms
he of Sheba,
in
lot the
this produced
will
Mark Twans "COnnicut Yankee King Arurs Court
Ralph (Which by the just about saved the show in
early
in o remarkable
of
presenting
viewpoint mind
they have it.
highbrow
Fairbanks
Musk
Forever"
will sroheims foolish Special
director has just finished spending million
MILES of hmI MlLESto
o
STRIKES n the rule A
10 b as is to A is the oastage is pha kept is
the fooIiatness il a and : the possible "a
Whenever 0 M than
$40, get di:y and all mrd
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ever, is in the hands Of the producing
company, and since We are engaged in
such work ourselves II is about these
posts that we must talk
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1t was turning camera.
The scene viii be in Conflict"
Smith is Juggling around a letter of ap-
probation from Irving &. ThaIberg.
general manager at Universal City. 1t
SAYS something about "gallantry in
action"
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12

allies treat Germany, or Austria, or
Turkeyf
We are finding in practical expert
ence. OF course. that Europe is our
business We admit it Indignantly
in loud voice the moment 12 per
cent export tax on German foreign
trade for fOrty-two years is proposed.
We admit it in manifesting such a
lively interest in the terms of the
reparations. The Germans bank on
Europe being our business in plan
ming to take diplomatic advantage of
American discomfort with the repara-
tions settlement and In playing Am
erica against England and France
when the Harding administration. re-
jecting the Versailles treaty. ap-
proaches Germany for separate
peace Europe is like a quicksand.
No outside nation ever got into it
and came out to rescue the moral
aloofness of its earlier isolation. II
We try to withdraw from Europe. we
shall stay in. whatever course Mr..
Harding may pursue. He cannot
override the logic of eyents.-Spring-
field Republican.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12

that, but II is much more likely to
convince a great many Irishmen that,
if this sort OF thing happens to as fam
Gus an innocuous person like Dun
sany. much worse things are happen
ing to the obscure and suspected. And
while that may not be true, Dublin
Castle has created the suspicion. II
the men who are trying to restore
order" in Ireland have no more per-
ception than this, there is not much
chance of their efforts having any
other result than that OF making bad
matters worse.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12
HIS SHOT GUNS
Lord Dunsany Preferred to Pay q
Fine on His Few F'ewiinG
Pieces.

II was not q matter OF grave i'm
portance even to Lord Dunsany. that
he was convicted before British
court martial OF having some shot
military control" and that he paid a
fine OF SIS rather than spend three
months in jail. for he will not miss
the money. In the tragedy of Irish
rebellion and reprisal this is hardly
even comic relief, But from the
point of view OF tho British admins
tration in Ireland the episode is very
important indeed. 1t only a symp-
tom, but a significant symptom. 1t
proves that the British rulers in Ire
land are stupid: that they have no
Imagination; and in a situation such
as they are facing stupidity is a more
serious shortening than any amount
OF malice.
Dunsany is one OF the three or four
best-known men in Ireland. Any
thing that happens TO him is bound to
become known, and Immediately. the
world over. Incidently, he differs
from a great many OF the present op-
ponents OF the British government in
Ireland in that he fought CALAMITY
and was seriously wounded in the
British army during the war, Dublin
Castle chooses by arresting and trying
this man TO announce to the world
that it is a crime for a famous author
a veteran with an honorable record
a man who has never been publicly
accused OF any seditious enterprises
to possess a few fowling-p pieces in his
home. No doubt the men who had
him arrested thought II they thought
at all. that this would merely prov'
that martial law was no respecter ot
persons. Perhaps it ought to provS
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12
FREIGHT RATE STEAL
The F1imsy Excuse Put Up 10 Make
the Farmer Pay More for
implements

A writer in the Harvester World
throws an Illuminating light on what
the excuse OF Increased freight
rates. has done for the farmer in the
prices OF farm implements. He says
that this excuse" In new rates has
added So to the cost of binder.
S12.40 to that of a header. s2l.T5 to
that OF a power hay press, and $4s to
that OF thresher. He bases his cal
culatlons upon the higher freight
charges on raw materials coming into
the Harvester plant and takes no ac-
count OF the raised cost OF shipping
the finished product to the farmer.
In explaining the increased freight
on a ton OF steel from Pittsturg to
Chicago. he makes clear the impor-
tancs of what he calls the absorbed
freight, that Is, the freight costs on
materials used in the making Of the
steel. Before the recent rate in
crease" he writes, the freight on a
ton of steel to Chicago was $40. and
the absorbed freight charge on the
raw materials to the mill was Ss.65,
total OF $I4.O5. or O3 per ccnt Of
the SAT price. Since the increase the
freight to Chicago has jumped to
$3.50 and the absorbed freight to
SI2.O5. and we have a total of $19.s5,
or AZ per cent Of the price OF the steel
at the mill"
lie treats lumber similarly. point
ing out that "of $1,000 spent for oak
lumber today s46.67 is absorbed
freight. and to deliver tho $1,000
worth to Chicago will cost s25s,Os, or
total freight bill OF s299.73. OF this
amount s7s.s3 is increase due to the
new rate"
IIo asserts that the Harvester COM
pany will be taxed by the increased
freight charges approximately $4,000
900 annually. the equivalent Of the
earnings OF $4,000, 900 invested at c
per cent. In reply to the possible ar
gument that the increase in absorbed
freight on steel cannot be figured In
as an added cost to the Harvester
company, since the steel companies
have not raised their prices since
August. he replies that, II II weren't
for the Increased rates, they would
probably nave reduced prices.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12
TO CUT OUT PROFESSOR
EducahonaI Men Do Not like TO be
So Designated Outside OF
School.

II you had been called very
bright lad through grammar school
and high school. had gone to college
for four years and taken honors, had
spent three years more in post
graduate study, taught for five years.
and were in receipt Of a salary of
$3.50 a month, would you care wheth-
er your students and friends (if you
could afford any friends) greeted you
as professor" or mister" That is
what many think.
Yet they are getting up an associa-
ton to protest against the use OF the
title professor for college teachers
outside of business hours. They say
it is stiff and undescriptlve. They
want to be called plain mister"
We should think so. With the
teaching profession paid as it is. in
proportion TO the amount of time and
money those gentlemen spend In
preparation for their work. to recall
the nature OF their Job to them by a
special appellation is not complimen-
tary. 1t is, indeed. cruel.
A Chinaman hates to be called
John. A porter prefers not to be ad.
dressed as George. This is not be-
cause the names themselves are un-
pleasant-not at all. 1t is because
they are associated with Chinks and
PullmanS So with the professor.
Every time you call him that he
realizes afresh that he is that. And
it hurts his feelings. When you call
him mister" he remembers that, in
spite of lns pay. he is still human
being. The thought encourages him
to keep on with his job. Some day
he reasons. people will come to re-
gard him as of as much value to So
ciety as a plumber. and pay him ac-
cordlngly.
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA,
TAe six snip"

China, the original home of seri-
culture, has sent a Silk Mission TO
attend the International Silk Ex-
position at New York. This is
surely linking past and present for
according to the native records of
China, silk culture dates from a
very remote period. The Lady Of
Sizing who was Empress in 264O
Z. c. did much to advance the in
dustry, caring for silk-worms with
her own hands. Tradition also
credits her with having invented
the loom for weaving the silken
threads.
Great strides have been made
through the ages in the matter OF
spinning or reeling the cocoons, in
the Standardization Of raw silk end
in weaving the floss, but the silk
worm lives and dies and spins his
burial shroud-the precious cocoon
in the same old leisurely way Ls
did 5000 years ago.
However, new methods Of pre-
serving eggs and caring for the
worms have been discovered. To-
day there are countless millions OF
siIk-worm eggs kept in cold stor-
age. When needed they are taken
from storage, subjected TO a uni
form temperature of 20 degrees F.
until hatched. Then ensues a busy
The St. Joseph observer., 1921-03-12

time-the feeding time. Mulberry
leaves, young, tender and finely
chopped, are fed seven times a day
for the first month, at the end of
which the worm goes into the first
of his five sleeps. Feedings are
diminished between sleeps. At the
end of the feelings and sleepings
Mr.. Worm spins a cocoon about
himself.
At the proper stage the cocoons
are collected and the pupa killed to
prevent its further development m
to a moth which would burst the
cocoon and ruin the silken fla