davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Although 1t is not always possible
for us to have breakfast together, we
always make it a point to dine to-
gether. This Is the one time when
we are determined to see each other.
and everyone in our respective organ
izations has Instructions to arrange
business affairs SO that our evening
meal can be partaken of at home
and in peace.
Thus. when the day is done we for
get all cares. all business or produc-
ton worries until the evening repast
has been served and cleared away.
This is our one brief respite from all
responsibility. the one opportunity to
relax physically and mentally as well.
Our dinners are always varied.
Douglas, Of course, demands a mans
meal. But with me 1t is somewhat
different. All during the making OF
my last film I found 1t necessary to
be very discriminating IN the things
1 ate. In fact, the doctor put me on
a diet of spinach and milk. the reason
being that 1 suffered considerably
from nervous indigestion.
But at home we follow neither rote
nor diet at the table. BY that l
mean that because ] am confined to
a diet it does not follow that the en-
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tire family must suffer the effects OF
1t. 1 infict neither my doctrines nor
doctorings upon guests or household
attaches.
Entertaining Doug's Friends
One OF our greatest pleasures
comes of entertaining our friends at
dinner. Needless to say. most Of our
friends are people of the profession.
This. of course. is because Of the
common ground upon which we
stand.
Among the frequent diners at our
home is Mr.. Charles Spencer Chaplin.
There are others. too, but l think
MI. Chaplin I'M most often. He
is delightful company and both Doug
las and l enjoy his visits immensely.
And yet, as 1 think of 1t. I can
hardly say that our guests are lin
tied to n particular class. For
Douglas. man-like. has a great habit
of bringing home anyone he takes
a fancy TO.
Imagine my surprise one evening
when I amt down to dinner and dis
covered that Douglas had invited a
number Of prizehghters and wrestie-s
to be our guests. There they satabort
the table With their cauiiiower ears
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and battered noses, wondering what 10
do with the array Of extra knives and
forks that confronted them.
And another evening. when Douglas
was entertaining. we had half a dozen
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT lank, ungainly fell
lows who knew much of silver saddle
mountings but little Of silver table
mountings.
Nevertheless they werc all splendid.
sterling fellows who would go to she
ends of the earth for anyone they liked.
The reason I cite these two cases is
Just to show that when ones husba nd
possesses an irrepressibie sense Ct
hnmor there no telling who the
honored guest for dinner will 1oe.
When the meal is over. II we have
been working that day. We usually see
h takes for the day run on in our.
projection room. BY the takes" I
mean the finished motion picture film
that has come from the laboratory thrt
day and that shows our latest work.
Than. as both audience and critics. we
SIT in judgment on our work. And
surely we have no more severe critics
han ourselves.
If our own takes are not ready. or
IL we are not working. We then devote
the evening to viewing one of the
H
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Mary and Doug at rest. They
are Ia front of the famous Pic..-
ford-Fair5anlss home 1t Beverly
Hills, to which they fly after their
buoy days of work.
Mr.. Talbot's Com
ments on Mary
at Home

As illustrating Miss P.csford's
love of ell her people. one of those
queer twists Of fate. or whatever Il
may be. brought to the surface with
dramatic force the bigness OF this
little natural mothers love for her
family,
For before she finished dic.a;in;
the last sentence we both beard the
sharp rat-a-tat-tat of an aeroplane.s
engine. 1t was not the low dronins
that ZONES down out Of the air when
a plane Is at any great altitude. II
was rather like the sudden ear-split-
ting assault of a racing motor car
dashing by within a few feet.
Miss Pickford's face went sud
denly white. She sprang to her fee:
and dashed out of the room without
a word. Involuntarily l followed
although aeroplanes in Southern Cali
ifornia are as common these days a
automobiles.
On tho lawn OF her bungalow Miss
ricEford stood gazing up at he ma
chine that was coming like a whirl-
wind straight toward the little build
lng-and net more than one hundred
feet elevation. II was a very .porti;y
painted affair and with racy lines.
And in 1t va only the pilot. Within
a half dozen leconds the plans
crossed directly over our heads, and
shooting suddenly skyward. JUS,
cleared the roof Of q big glass stage
beyond.
l looked at Miss Plckford as /
heard a half suppressed sob. Tears
were streaming down her, face. Her
body was shaken with a veritabie
of agony. Suddenly she
clenched her hands and held her
arms up in the direction in which the
plane had disappeared.
,Oh Jack. oh Jack" she sobbed.
You promised you wouldn't"
Then she turned and ran into tho
bungalow and threw herself on the
couch in her dressing room. crying
her heart out.
a member of The Pickford organ
ization had seer 1t ali-and now
turned TO me with a WY smile and
az explanation.
TITS her brother" he said shortly.
Hes gone daffy over flying, and the
other Gay got his pilots license.
That's his own machine. He Just
bought it. And he told Miss Pick
ford and his mother that he was
going to call on both OF them today
shaving the roofs of the bungalow
and the Pickford home. ] suppose
he's on to repeat this stunt for. his
mothers benefit now And the point
is hat he promised Miss Pickford
that he wouldn't come near this lot"
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the story were held almost every day
at the house up until the actual time
pnotographing on the picture started.
might also add that almost every
thing pertaining to our new produc-
uons-"the Three Musketeers" for
Douglas and Little Lord Fauntleroy"
Tor myseif-is being supervised from
the Beverly Hills place and not from
the studio.
Two Kinds OF Home Life
It might be said. I suppose. that
we lead two kinds of home life. NV
reason for saying this is that when
we are actually at work on a picture
We live very differently from what we
DO when we are between pictures"
to use a phrase of the profession.
Let me illustrate this: During the
time l was at work on Through the
Back Door" I was up every morning
at seven and arrived at the studio
at nine. You see. our home is seven
miles from the studio. and in order
to battle and breakfast and dress
properly, one must arise by seven at
least in order to make this motor
trip.
My breakfast when working is lust
a. 40 WuEu L ann
between pictures. In consists of
either fruit and toast or just warm
milk. 1 v drink coffee or tea
because have discovered that they
do not agree with me.
When u pictures are in the
course OF making Douglas and I do
not alwl's a breakfast together.
the reason being that 1t is not always
convenient to do so.
For example. II Douglas is going
on a distant location. which is fire.
quently the case, he is often up as
early as 4 o'clock. And not infre-
quently it is I who must go on Ioca-
ton.
When 1t is necessary for me to go
away 1 travel in my location car"
a motor vehicle equipped for camp
Ing. This is built on the principle
OF a Pullman drawing-room, contain
ing beds and necessary paraphernalia
for preparing meals.
Ny maid always accompanies me
and serves breakfast after we arrive
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w re ARE both homelovinK per-
wv sons and our work and ambi-
lions and tastes are similar.
As a consequence this makes our
life ideal
Douglaa- of course, is a lover of
the out-of-doors- And our home is
30 situated that he can indulge this
great liking TO his hearts content.
Whenever opportunity presents he
Is of owe the brush-clad hills that
leap up in serried ranks behind the
house, and with him go all his dogs,
yelping with delight at the prospect
Of a day OF coyote or rabbit chasing.
This sort OF pastime. naturally, is
too strenuous for me. But II the
trip is to be made on horseback and
not on foot. then I often join the
party.
To me there Is no sport more In
MIGRATING and exhilarattng than
dashing over hill and across gully ON
a swift. ~sure-footed horse. Aside
from the sheer fun. there is also the
exercise and the great beneft derived
from breathing deeply of fresh. pure
air. Nothing a be more healthfui
than this
But u life is not one continuous
Tounu OF pleasure, much as we would
like It TO be. Our work is to be con-
sidered. AND there is probably no
calling more exacting than ours-act
ing for the screen. OF course, in
addition to appearing before the cam
era, Douglas and l manag our re-
Epective companies. Besides being
players We are producers. which in
wolves all the intricate procedure of
presiding over extensive organiza-
lions.
The fact that we both market our
plays through the United Artists Cor
poration makes it possible for us to
much of our business Jointly.
The result of this is that our home
is often our business office. Many
of the most important conferences
bearing on u work are held at the
For instance, practically all of the
preparatory work in connection with
my last picture. Through the Back
was done at home. Confer
snces regarding wardrobe. sets and
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my LIFE -
AS Told BY
NARY
To HAYDEN TALBOT
AS Told BY
MARY
To HAYDEN TALBOT

Ever since our marriage, said Mary, we have lived in a very
simple manner, Douglas does not care for a hurlyburly sort of life,
with one round of entertainment following another, nor do L.
So as a consequence we really live an extremely quiet existence
at our house on the hill.
OF course, we are not refuses. We have our friends and we
get a lot of real enjoyment out of entertaining them. But these enter
tainments are almost invariably informal.
Dinners that take or tine nature of functions at our home arc
rare. But we do have them upon occasions. Usually this is when
some parsonage is entertained or when some official political or
otherwise, comes to California from the East and is invited to spend
an evening with US.
Like all happily married folks. our chief interest is in each other.
In this respect don't think we differ in the least from other happily
married couples
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at u destination. Other meals, too,
are prepared In the car. . This con-
veyance makes 1t possible for me to
travel all night without undue
fatigue IL it 80 happens that we are
going on a long trip into the noun
tains or the dessert.
But to get back to our morning
meal at home. This is always eaten
in the breakfast room and never in
the bedroom. There are no meals
served in bed at our housed We
think u breakfast room is one of
the most cheerful and attractive
rooms in the whole house, with its
cr~eam-colored furniture, bright flow
ers and lively canary. and the French
windows that look out across the
wide porch on to the mansion
studded mountains and wide, road
ribboned and house-dotted valley
below.
Always Dine Together
Truly. the greatest of all actresses
is Mother Nature. From these win
dows we view her in every mood.
Sometimes she Is whimsical. some
times capricious, again she is rocked
in the storms of anger=and on the
broad screen below us we see every
phase. every change reflected.
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latest photoplays. which we secure
from one of the exchanges in Los
Angeles. Thus have We been afforded
the pleasure OF seeing on our own
hcarthstone. so 10 speak. some Of the
most beautiful and successful pictures
CT the day.
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eTo be e~one.uessa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-12
SHOW INTEREST IN CONTEST
Boy and Girl Musicians to Compete
at Fair Tuesday Night

at Fair Tuesday Night
Great interest is being manifested in
the boys and girls musical contest
which will be held at the Kansas Free
Fair Tuesday night at 1880 o'clock
The contest viii be held m the peo-
pies pavilion and will be restricted
TO the piano, violin and voice Each
Of these divisions will be divided into
two groups. The first group will con-
sist of boys and girls who are under
twelve years Of age The second group
will be for contestants who are be-
tween the ages Of twelve and eighteen
years.
Three prizes viii be offered-in each
Of these divisions. The first prize will
be SIS the second prize is $40, and
the third prize is S. There will also
be a contest for boys. and girls glee
clubs The first prize offered in this
contest is $40. the second is $25, and
the third is SIS
Several students-fron the Topeka
high school will enter the contest and
a few of the members of the senior
class, who graduated last June, have
announced their intention of entering.
4 number Of boys and girls from the
Seaman rural high school will take
part. as will also boys from the music
department OF the State, Industrial
school.
The plan to have a contest CT this
kind at the fair is a new one It has
never before been attempted, but If it
proves a success this year plans will
perinteadeat of >the department, and
the officers of the association, for 4
larger contest next fall
The Topeka high school orchestra
Will play several selections at the pa
v1ien just before the contest starts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-12

4 heroic figure OF Massasoit is to be pre-
seated to Plymouth Mass, by the I'm
proved Order Of Red Men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-12
FAIR REQUIRES MUCH WORK
Secretary Eastman Has Had All He
Could Do for Months


It takes quite a bit of ingenuity to
call public attention in just the right
manner ard in just the right degree
to those who are in authority at the
big Free Fair As the big doin's is
the annual fro1ic of Kansas, Secretary
Phil Eastman doesn't like the word
authority in connection with it at
all. Maybe guidance" would be bet
ter. The secretary sought q means
OF Identifying the officials First.
CANDY ribbon badges embossed in
gold with gold fringe were used. At
the end OF the weeks grind they were
frayed and worn
The ernBlens for this year are two
inch medaIIions in red, white, blue and
gold and while that color scheme may
sound loud as q matter of fact the new
badges serve their purpose admira bly,,
the letters standing out prominently
so that even he who ruHs may read
and reading, find the official he wants
ingiy petty details that AaBe to beat
tended to long before the actual open
ing of the big Free Far and the alb
ssnee of any one of which would rer
suit in endless confusion. -
For instance, more than half hun
dred printed forms have to be pro-
vtded Red tags to warn the unTary
that automobiles running over a cir
zeuIaR track at the rate OF sixty or
more miles per hour have a certain
element Of 'Danger!'- Tags that will
permit coneessienaires to run their
business without molestation, permits
that assure service from wagon and
truck drivers-an these and many
mere make up the detail grind of the
secretary sh office for several months
before the show opens
The daily times., 1921-12-09
NEWS PHONE 1860.

The Times Office has installed an
other phone on a separate line in or
der to accommodate the news as we'll
as the business of the Office. The
commercial phone remains the same
number 70, while the number of the
news phone is 1869.
We desire the public as far as
possible to follow the rule
of calling 10 for business and
1869 for news. OF course If one
phone is busy call the other We are
adding thk 3xtra expense in order to
serve you and will appreciate orders
for advertising. printing and any
thing else you may need in our line
The daily times., 1921-12-09

affirmed its insistence that China be
er the Kiao-Chow railroad. The ques-
tion of the road, which is considered
to be the heart of the entire Shan
tunG dispute, is expected to be con-
sidered again on Wednesday, the
Chinese said.
In reaching the agreement on the
Tsing-TaO customs. it was stipulated
that the Chinese government would
recomend to the inspector general of
customs that Japanese traders at this
port be permitted to communicate
with customs officials in the Japa-
nese language. This was agreed to as
an alternative proposal by the Japa-
The daily times., 1921-12-09
LEAD COLDS
Melt in spoon: inhale vapor
apply freely up nostrils.
V13G:lk$:S: s.:
Over IL Million jar, Used YeaI
EDISON'S son
DESIGNED NEW WEAPON.

DESIGNED NEW WEAPON.
Florence. Ala, Dec. 6.-While
Thomas A. Edison was yesterday
showing Henry Ford through the
great nitrate plant. built on the
shores of the Tennessee River to
manufacture explosives, he told OF Il
new weapon designed by his son.
which, he said. under experiments by
the Council of National Defense PROV
ed a great success.
I'VE had an island down in the
Key West group all to ourselves as
an experiment ground" said Mr.. Edi
son. The new weapon has a steel
shell in the form of wheel. stand
ing about three feet high and six
inches wide Around the edge was a
steel rim, smooth and heavy.
This shell wheel could be filled
with T. y. T. or some other high eX-
plosive. i'll which was a time fuse
by which we could regulate the eX-
plosion of the charge.
This wheel thus charged, could be
set on a shafting and attached to a
Ford tractor. very highly geared. 1t
could be set revolving at q tremend-
Gus velocity. When the speed develop
ed to 1000 surface feet second it
was automatically released from the
shafting.
I'm front was an inclined plane
down which the revolving wheel sped
with the speed of bullet. 1t would
sometimes go two miles, cutting like
la knife through everything in it's
path. 1t went through $50 feet of
wire entanglements close set, as if
they had been cobwebs. 1t would eat
its way through wall and shoot on
until the time fuse exploded it, when
it leveled everything within $50
feet
I'VE designed these to be sent into
the German trenches to clean them
out before charge, but we never got
ia chance to use them before the war
stopped"
The daily times., 1921-12-09

damage Of more than 100000 and
for a time threatened the entire bust
ness district of Louisburg. The large
store building of McKinnie Brothers
and Company was destroyed by the
flames. the roof of the Union Ware
house was damaged by a falling wall
and minor losses We're suffered by
establishments in the Immediate vi
cinity. Heroic work of the Louisburg
fire department finally checked the
Flames which had gotten good
start during the early morning hours.
The daily times., 1921-12-09

nese tht the Japanese language be
included as one of the official langu-
age be included as one of the official
languages of the customs service.
This proposal was rejected by the
Chinese. who, however, in view of
the inability of many small Jap3nese
traders to speak Chinese, agreed that
Japanese could be used in their com
INJUNCTION with the Chinese inspector.
The conversations will be continu-
ed tomorrow afternoon when the
question of public properties will be
taken up. 1t is the Chinese conten-
ion that all public properties should
be under control of the Chinese gov
ernment.
The daily times., 1921-12-09

housing problem announced TODAY he
mad requested the convening OF an
extraordinary session of the grand
jury to consider the charges against
the electrical workers union No in
mission to extort money from non
union workers.
The daily times., 1921-12-09
Woodard Bros. & Co
Distributors.
CRAWFORD
Distributors.

OUT ON BOND.
Salisbury. Dec. 8.-COnductor r.
Z. Crawford of Asheville held for the
killing of Engineer Sam Hinton of
AsheyilIe, who died in hospital
Monday night as the result of in
juries inflicted by Crawford was
given preliminary hearing in the
Rowan county court here today and
was admitted to bail in the sum of
S7,500. A number of witnesses were
offered for the state.
Crawford attacked Hinton with a
bottle after the latter according to
The daily times., 1921-12-09
WILL PLAY OCT. 9TH.

New Haven, Conn, Dec. S.-Uni-
versity of North Carolina has not
been dropped from the Yale football
schedule but will play the Blue on
oct T.
The daily times., 1921-12-09
ELECTRICAL.
WORKERS UNION.

New York Dec samuel Inter
meyer counsel to the Lockwood leg
islative committee Investigating the
The daily times., 1921-12-09
CONTROVERSY
NEARS SETTLEMENT,

Washington, Dec. 6.-Steps toward
a settlement of the Shantung contro-
versy were taken today at the re-
sumption Of conversations between
the Japanese and Chinese delegations
to the Washington conference when
hold "all preferential rights with re-,
gard to foreign assistance in persons,
capital and material stipulated in the
Chino-German treaty of March g.
1885,
These rights had passed to Japan
under the operation of the Versailles
peace treaty. They included the un-
dertaking that when any foreign as
lsistance was needed in Shantung with
respect to capital, material or men
the Chinese government would first
come to Germany. (and later Japan
ese) merchants and manufacturers
| in procuring such assistance.
At the same time an agreement
was reached that the maritime GUS
toms of Tsing-Tao be made an inte-
lgral part of the Chinese maritime
customs system, while the question of
control of the Kiao-Chow Tsinanfu
railroad was deferred for considera-
tion at a later meeting.
Action regarding the railroad, it
became known at the conclusion of
the meeting today, had been postpon-
| ed after Saturdays conversations
concerning the railroad at the re-
quest of the Japanese delegation.
While no reason was given, the Chi
nese delegation assumed, according
to a Chinese spokesman, that the
Japanese desired to communicate
with Toxic China, on Saturday re-
The daily times., 1921-12-09

Crawford made some remarks which
Crawford thought reflected on the
character of his wife.
The daily times., 1921-12-09
GOVERNMENT GINNERS
REPORT Z, 64O,:

Round as 1-2 bales excluding
linters, VS.. 1O,141,293 last year.
Washington census bureau in repor'
issued:
The daily times., 1921-12-09
100000 FIRE IN LOUIsBURG.

Louisburg, Dec. Fire OF unde-l
term3ned origin this morning caused
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
RECOUNT robson
WINS FIRST BLOOD
Committee Orders All Precincts
of Clear Creek County Re-
canvassed to Make 1t Real
Plain that Chas. Jaynes Won.

Members uf the election COM
mittee of the house OF representa-
tives Thursday voted, five to four,
10 order allthe ballot boxes from
Clear Greek county sent to Denver
and the votes recounted by the
house. This Sdecisy,r IN the unt
come of an election contest fled
hy former Representative J. H
Robson who, the returns show,
was defeated by Charles Jaynes.
Robeson alleges irregularity in
his contest proceedings. The five
representatives voting for recount
are: Dickerman. Lambert, Moffatt,
Young and Kelly of La Plata
county, the only Democrat Oh the
committee. Voting against the
recount were: Representative Pol
lock, Allen. Howard and Carter,
committee chairman.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
A. b. BeneSch of Gem
Mining Co. in City

A. B. Benesch of New York City
sin the city looking over the prop,
critics of the Gem Mining company
in which he is interested, and says
he is we'll pleased with conditions.
He says, too, that financial cond'-
tions are gradually improving. al
though money is still hard to get
He believes that it will be only a
question of very few months un-
til prices will have been reduced
to normal, as there is already a
noticeable reduction in the east.
Mr.. Benesch plans to return to
New York Saturday.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
Bill OF Interest TO
Mining MenOf District

The following are some of the
bills that are interesting our min
ing men:
Dan M. Grouse. San Juan-To
create fnnd for the benefit of the
mining industry.
A memorial offered by Repre-
sentative Dan M. Grouse OF Silver
ton, urging congress to hasten
passage of an emergency tariff
against foreign ores competing
with American ores, unanimously
was accepted.
Another memorial, asking con-
gress to pass law enabling hold
ers OF unpatented mining claims to
pay $25 to the counties in lieu of
assessment work, was referred to
the committee on mines and min
ing.