The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-24
HART ON VISIT
 TO NEW YORK
Two-Gun Toter Says He Doesn't Believe Fatty Arbuckle Could "Be Such a Brute.'

New York. Sept. 24.-William s. Hart, he-man, two-gun toter of Holly lined precincts of the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, thereby driving Sam Mac Farland, the whole-souled, (genial and talented publicity director of the hostelry. into nervous prostration-
 If there's anything Sam hates more than another in this world it's to have a celebrity pause at the Wal dorf and the newspaper men hear of it.
 Cant we keep this thing quiet?'' said Roy Carruthers, managing di- rector of the Waldorf.
 fHowinellcanwe? 2" said Bill Mo- Cusker, his assistant, who is on into- mate terms with all the crowned heads of Europe and the uncrowned heads of Ireland and America
 They appealed to MacFarland and Sam appealed to the members of the
 Boys" said Sam, "migawd - have a heart.'
 You have a. Hart - William $. Hart. Trot him out.''
 Bill Properly Attired.
 So Sam reluctantly. consented. and William, or Bill, as he is called TOT short, received the boys in his three room suite in a broad sombrero, skin tight riding brooches, tattooed knee length boots Mexican spurs orange silk scarf and a well-thumbed edition of Old Man Colts six-cyHnder contri- button to art and literature.
 Of course everybody asked Bill what he thought of Fatty Arbuck- le, and Bill said it was "awful-hor- ribIe" and a lady reporter asked him did he think MT. Arbuckle could De such a brute, and Bill said, "Cand1dly, mo-
 Did Bill know anything about the Happy Hundred' at Hollywood who were said to cut up monkeyshlnes and drink quantities of hooch?
 t.Iye heard of them,' said the he man of the movies. "1 never went 10 any wild parties. Personally don place any faith in those stories There is smart set in every branch or society. and there may be few high flyers in Hollywood, but the men and women in the movies out there nave to work too hard to go in for raising he'll"
 No Fear of Hold-up Men.
 Bill says he works eighteen hours a day-some days-and that he's here to have his first vacation In seven years. No. he not afraid of our hold-up men.
 But if I am stuck up: my hanos mas are going to stay up till MT. Bad Man tells me I can lower them, ne said. Never get gay with a hold-up man."
 A woman reporter asked Bill this: MT. Hart, is it fact or is 1t not a Miss Novack?
 " Bin biushed like a spanked baby and said no, it wasn't a fact. Not only was it not a fact, 1t wasn't even true. r.
 Just then the telephone rang. It was sam MacFarland. He said that man had told Roy Carruthers' Who told Bill McCusker. that Police com missioner Enright had stationeo special detail of police in and around the Waldorf to see that MT. Wllham s. Hart, the famous movie bad man, did not get loose and shoot up, the town. Had MT: William B. Hart heard anything about it?
 MT. William s. Hart said: Halls Balls Naw.''
 Gee. It sounded awful real and made on think one was way out west and all like that.
 Gets Away With Murder.
 William S. said he had heard a lot of criticism about his shooting up or capturing twenty men with par or shooting irons A friend of his, Wyatt Earp. who is seventy-three, told him recently, hexsays, that he, Wyatt, held I'D 200 men one time in Tombstone, Ariz.
 Wyatt person ?" Bill was asked.
 'I do." said William, shifting his chaw. "I does"
 Bil says there isn't the money in the movies that there used to be. His income last year, he said. was ss2'ooo and his income tax amounted to s99,OO6. The year before that, he says, he paid an income tax of s199, 9,S19-2o.
 The 20 cents, he says. was a tax for the luxury of paying the $199.S19.
 Did you ever seen yourself on the screen 2" The World representative asked.
 Bill said sure. he had.
 Asked how he liked himself, he re- piled:
 ''I get away with murder. don't F"