The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-08-06
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motion N.cture industry. One pic
ture producing company was about to
do, a play which required Belgian
village. With the accustomed ex-
pansiveness of the industry the d.
rector had ordered the entire village
of twenty houses built to order.
| He intended making them of paper
mache and to destroy them when the
picture was done. But certain resi-
dents of the village possessed fore
sight. The town was suffering from
the general housing shortage and
! they suggested that the movie men
could build of slightly more substan-
tial material without much greater
cost. So the proposition was made,
and accepted, that the township fur
nish the materials and the director
20 ahead with his Belgian village.
Now the picture has been finish ed
twenty families have moved into the
houses and everybody is happy.
From time immemorial pretty
maids have been kissed by grocer
boys. It was supposed to be one of the
perqlr.sites Of the grocer boy. job.
But the reformation of grocer boys
is one Of the newest, causes taken up
by club women and kissing will pos
sibly vanish, along with other at
fairs of 1.-The good old days. In the
meantime there are IL husbands lin
the fashionable commuters town OF
ScarSdale who are in strained rela-
lions with their club member wives.
Harry Brainard was delive.'.ng GRO
ceries to the Russell Sargent home.
One glimpse of the new maid, Irene
Barber, and Harry dropped a carton
CT eggs, and clasped one arm about
her neck, placed a kiss on her arched
left eyebrow. Irene failed to appre-
date the gesture and Wspt to- Mrs.
Sargent. 1t was enough. The Wo-
mans club was in arms and demand
ed that Harry be prosecuted. So
Harry, Irene, the Woman's club and
it's husbands all appeared in police
court---the most fashionable audience
any police court ever knew. Then
---tragedy---the club husbands were
drawn for the jury Twelve good
d. tizens and good husbands, they
locked patheticaIlly at Judge, wives---
and Irene, as they filed from the
room. Harry's only excuse to the
Judge had been that "she was pref
ty" and the husbands knew that
would be no excuse for them to give.
One juror had an inspiration and the
others agreed. Guilty with rec
omendation for clemency" they ver-
dicted. The judge gasped with relief.
"Guilty, but dismissed" he said to
'e. ri, oil
ed at Harry at the judge---but hard
est of all at their husbands.
At last, the motion picture drama
WITHOUT one title in lit has been pro-
duced This really marks something
of an epoch in the business---or the
art, as one sees it.. To be sure, there
was '"The Old Swimmin Hole in
which there were no titles, but that
was not a true drama with a plot and
everything 1.-The Journeys End" is,
and the plot is a fairly complicated
one. But Hugh Ballin, who is pre-
a9nting lit, has succeeded in doing ii
straightawa without one title to in
terrupt There are certain rather in
teresting devices which he has en-
ployed as occasional substitutes, a
calendar page indicates the advance
of time and a newspaper clipping
announces one incident. But even
these are rare. Direction and acting
serve alone for the most part---and
serve well.
New York, With it's jammed traffic
conditions, it's maddening rush hours,
and all the libels against it of haste
and carelessness has place OF high
honor in the matter of automobile
accidents According to the Nation
al Safety Councils statistics, it stands
lowest of Is cities in the rate of fatal
accidents per million of population.
There is possibility of bandits
strike in cur city. Maybe within an
other week or two, there will be no
one to climb into our windows at
night or hold up the jewelry stores
in the day time. The arrest OF Ger
aid Clair, the other day when he was
attempting to get all the money OF
one pCpulsl' cigar store, brought out
the fact that working" hold-up men
are being paid only $40 a job by
their ''bosses." Gerald Clair got that
much and the man who suggested the
robbery to him and accompanied him
while it was accomplished get the
rest CT the loot, as the rightful share
of promoter and skilled journeyman
holdup. Lot of the fellows are be-
ei.nnig. to object to the $40 rate
said Clair. ~.
Do you remember OacK to the days
of scenic wall papers? Dairy MAJ d.
and groves and all that sort OF thing?
| Well, it seems as though we may be
coming to the same fashion in clothes
Fanc.' that! A picture just received
in Ne5 York Of Mrs. Payne Whitney
CT this city who is summering lin
London, shows that always smartl!
dressed matron in 4 frock of which
! the material is adorned with grapes
goats and savages. in a regular re-
peated pattern. 1t holds startling
possibilities. especially for the nice
large people.
'.r..-", Toys.