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Richard Walton Tully, adapter Of Temple
Thurston's novel for stage use, was there
in the capacity of supervisor. The direc
tor, James Young, was somewhere about
But the man who really directs the action
for double exposure Is the camera man.
There iS chalk line on the floor which
the actor must not pass with foot or ges
ture. The camera man, looking into his
finder, is the only man who can tell when
this line is threatened. This camera man,
while he cranked, was saying: "A little
closer, Mr.. Post-a couple of inches yet
look out-you've reached the limit-step
back a little, Mr. Post-now all right
show yourself more from behind the door
that's good" And Post was obeying too.
How much now?" Tully inquired.
Fifty feet" said the camera man.
Enough" The cranking stopped. Only
five feet of film were needed for this little
scene. The five feet that show the actor
with the expression and attitude best ex-
pressing the emotion Of the moment will
be cut out and used, the remaining forty
FIVE discarded.
Our studio tour ended with a visit to
Universal City, several miles north OF
Hollywood, in San Fernando Valley
reached by way of deep and fragrant
canyon, Cahuenga Pass. Here is the
worlds largest motion picture expanse
There is no city in the ordinary sense
nothing but the Universal plant, but its
completeness makes ii film metropolis. To
the original $50 acres have recently been
added $50 more. Among its accessories
are a menagerie and a ranch with full
complement of cowboys and Mexicans and
bronchos not to mention mesquite and
chaparral.
In the course Of time sojourn in the
studio country dulls ones appreciation of
marvels. but something came into our
vision as we approached Universal City
that proved we we're not yet jaded. On
the crest of lofty hill, across the tops Of
the white buildings in the valley, we saw
a full rugged, three masted ship. On that
hilltop Robinson Crusoe" is being filmed.
The reason was plain enough when given.
1t is cheaper to build ship on hill near
the studio than it is to go down to San
Pedro and buy or rent one. And on the
hill the camera, shooting always at
background of sky, attains the desired
effect as of an illimitable ocean. Opposite
the entrance to Universal City is a perfect
reproduction of section Of waterfront
and pier as seen from the street of sea-
port, with yellow tunnels rising from a
dummy steamship aboard which countless
anxious couples have eloped to Buenos
Aires and Singapore. Just inside the main
gate stands trolley car labeled Monte
Carlo" in front and Battery Park" be-
hind. Such are the wonders of movieland.
ITO be concludcd.)
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table, covered with red damask, play
ing cards with blond who was fair to
behold. You could tell by the way she
pretended to study the cards while listen
ing for sound of approaching hoofbeats
that she was using the card game as ruse
to hold the young man until a rescuer
came galloping up. The players were Dor
othy Dalton and Milton Sills. This ended
their days work. Stills chatted moment
with the director. George Melford, and left
the stage with blue book under his arm
Looking for orgies, / suppose" he satd
passing US. my personal hobby is de-
cadent literature. Look at it." The book
was Robinson's English Flower Gardens"
Another set on the Lasky lot proved to
be boudoir. A beautiful young woman
with loosed blonde hair cascading over a
negligee house gown stood with her back
to the wall. This was Agnes Ayres. The
faultless face and form Of the young man
whom she held captive while registering
anguish was that of Conrad Nagel.
From Lasky's we went over to the
United Studios, one Of the largest in Holly
wood. Outwardly it might be gardeners
lodge on fine estate Inwardly 1t has
real gardens and four streets bordered
with cottages which are used as settings
as well for Offices and dressing rooms
One of these, red rooted cottage, housed
Mary Pickford and her staff while Little
Lord Fauntleroy" was being made. She
and her husband have their own studio
now. We entered stage which is 300 feet
long and 100 feet wide. We passed
gorgeous throne room and the interior of
the British House Of Commons and
stopped at bower where Guy Bates Post
was at work on one of the difficult double
exposure scenes of "The Masquerader."
Post, in evening dress, was standing at
door of the bower and gazing anxiously
into the night. And out Of the night the
camera was shooting him, through the
door.
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Albert Rhys Williams. These samples at
tested the truth of what had heard about
the range of Chaplfh's reading.
In cement walk outside the stage those
toeing out footsteps have been preserved
for the puzzlement OF future zoologists. On
the day of the cornerstone laying Chaplin
pranced the length of the walk, which was
still soft, and wrote his name in the soft
concrete block, with the date January 81,
1918.
Famous Players Set in
Frame of Pepper Trees
Continuing our drive through Holly
wood we came next to the studios of the
Famous Players-Lasky Company. 1t COW
ers two blocks near the center of town,
one for the Offices, stages, and other perma-
nent buildings, one for the outdoor SETS
Both are fringed with graceful pepper
trees. Here the sealed door opened with
the pressure Of a button because good
friend left the password at the gate. 1t Is
so hard to get by this gate that the visitor
shoots through in hurry for fear some
mistake has been made. He finds himself
in a hard packed sanded street fanked on
one side by the low office buildings, on the
other by three or four monster stages of
the now familiar sort, blending of ware
house and conservatory. My friend took
me into one of the stages. II was vast
place. We threaded our way among dark
ened sets until, rounding one of them, we
came upon patch of brilliant light. Nov
ing closer we saw that the rays of the
lights, fifteen of them should say, trained
from an upper level as well as the floor,
converged at spot where stood stalwart
young man In khaki breeches and cobalt
blue, open throated shirt He was In the
act of defying fat, epauletted, much med
aled Latin American generalissimo A d.
rector whom I couldn't see called "All
ready" Epaulettes turned his head to
blow out lungful OF cigarette smoke and
then, while the handsome Gringo regarded
him tensely, the camera began grinding.
Around the room in which this episode
was being filmed were scattered other Lat
ins-ragged poems with conical straw hats
and naughty lieutenants of the big chief.
knew nothing more except that they were
doing "The Dictator" and the hero with
the blue shirt was Wallace Reid. The di-
rector, James Cruze, was getting whatever
effects he wanted by speaking softly.
driving director? saw none Of his kind
anywhere in Hollywood.
Through another cavernous stage, laby
rinth OF sets, past the tank where sank
the Lusitania in Mary Pickford's Little
American" we walked until we struck an
other circle of light. This time we looked
into the living room of South Afri-
can farmhouse. A young man sat at
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from the street with geranium bordered
walk leading to the porch.
Its interesting on the inside, too" said
Joe. Lets go in" We stepped firmly up
to the porch, opened the front door and
were confronted by-nothing. That Is,
there were timbers propping up the walls
Of the house; otherwise merely stubbly
open space The house was a carefully
built and painted shell. The two large
trees that gave it shade-sycamores, /
think-had been brought from miles away.
The geraniums were in buried pots. The
lawn was transplanted sod. The brown
house was a set built in few hours for
Rupert Hughes's play, "The Old Nest"
The village of which it was part had been
peopled for day. Grass was now growing
in the streets. The studio spaces of Cali
fornia are filled with deserted villages. 1t
surprised me that they were allowed to
stand after their mission was accomplished,
but / was told that with little change
here and there most of them can be used
again and again for other pictures.
Beyond this melancholy Main Street we
came upon high arched wall and turret
with a window and balcony. 1t was here
that Will Rogers doubled for Romeo. He
jumped backward from the balcony to
landing net, then from the landing net
to the ground. With the film reversed and
the landing net cut out he Seemed in the
picture to spring from the ground to the
balcony to greet his Juliet.
Next we traversed a street in Pekin
constructed for Gouverneur uorriss photo
play, "A Tale Of Two Worlds" For Boxer
rebels several hundred Los Angeles Chi
nese were hired at $3.50 a day--the high
cost of Chinese being one of the reasons
why it takes so much money to make a
movie spectacle. Nearby was Mississippi
River town, created for "The Sin Flood"
stroll along the levee brought us to the
Five Points Of New York as that spot ap-
peared in 1862 reconstructed with the help
Of old prints for the Gertrude Atherton
picture, Don't Neglect Your Wife," Its
crazy groggeries, drunken lampposts and
rounded cobbles were all made on the lot.
Thence we passed into a street of New
York's East Side, which even the Hon.
Louis Zeltner would 0. X. The Yiddish
shop signs were authenticated by a rabbi
from Los Angeles. This street was utilized
in Hungry Hearts" There are twenty or
thirty acres of these strangely neighbor-
ing communities-all the world and its
fantasies In Goldwyns back yard. They
are much more fascinating to the stranger
than Coney Island, the only trouble being
that the stranger can't get in any more
than he can get behind the scenes in
theater.
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10000 Actors Rest
In Card Catalogue

A glance into the casting Office completed
our visit to the Goldwyn establishment
There they let us look into filing cabinets
where 10000 men, women and children are
card indexed, each with a photograph OF
the subject in his most alluring pose.
These are the persons registered for en-
ployment in the pictures as players OF
parts, bit people or extras.
The next stop on the grand tour was
Charley Chapln's studio in Hollywood.
On the way we passed several others, in
Guiding the massive colonial mansion OF
Thomas Fl. Ince and the steep rooted, many
colored. many angled, moated old mill OF
Irving Willat This curious structure is
said to be the House that Jack Built. II
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CHAPTER Nv.

WE rode from b, esaatsous a' HOLY Hollywood 9Sa
ocean, where derricks against
the skyline betrayed the oil wells of Culver
City. The car stopped beside low cottage.
Outside the cottage, with her back to US.
stood a crookback witch peering into
hand mirror propped on a window sill
while she applied dabs of fresh putty to
an already terrifying nose and chin
Our guide said, This is Mark Jones.
Mr.. Jones, I'd like you to meet this man
from New York who has come here to
write up the movies" The witch, turning
and grinning with every snagge tooth,
extended a hand Fine weather we're
having" she said, and Mark Jones, kind
liest Of men, blackest of motion picture
villains, returned to his mirror and make
up box.
The guide took us around the corner of
the cottage and we came to another one
which had front stoop. BY the stoop
crouched a Confederate soldier. He wore
q gray uniform with &C. s. A." on the belt,
forage cap, sword, square bowed spectacles
and short side whiskers. The witch went
over and joined him. The Confederate
groveled in the sand at her feet. then sud-
denly leaped up, grasped the sword hilt
and marched OF very fine and resolute.
Then he went back and did it again. He
said something to the witch and she leered
and clawed the air with wheedling fingers
twisting in front of his face. But he
waved her aside and, disregarding her
mumbled curses, strobe away He strode
maybe eight feet, then stopped and said
to a youth waiting at the camera, "All
right, let 'er CO." All the action was re-
peated while the camera man cranked.
Then the soldier came forward smiling to
meet our guide.
Harold said the guide, you better
shake hands with this man. He's come
from New York to write up the movies"
Good heavens!" cried Harold Lloyd, for
the "Secesh" was none other, "are we as
bad as that?"
He proved to be boyish, unaffected, lik-
able. He led forth his leading woman,
Mildred Davis, blue eyed, yellow haired,
fragile looking girl. She wished 1t to be
understood that she was indignant over
the published stories about Hollywood and
that lots of girls in the movies we're just
like those she had known at finishing
school in Philadelphia. She dropped
curtsey and said precisely, II am very glad
to have met you" before going to the auto
mobile which was to take them back into
the hills for other scenes Of the new Lloyd
comedy. Mr.. Lloyd paused to explain that
the fragment we had just seen was part
Of sequence in which he plays his own
grandfather. He had never worn dis
guise before
How long does 1t take you to make
comedy7" we asked him.
We'll, we've been five months and half
on this one, but it's nearly finished"
why 30 long" we said, knowing that
many pictures are completed in few
weeks.
II don't know, unless IL is that you've got
to take lot OF pains to make people
laugh" The lad, excusing himself and
holding the sword against his leg to stop
its gyrations, ran off to join Miss Davis
Our guide sprinted us around the second
cottage. where we came to a sign Central
Hotel swinging from two story shack.
A big man In a blue shirt and overals was
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"M0pieland" Quiet Because of Slump
Work, but Many Interesting Sights
Present Then1SeLpeS---HOw the Screen
Stars Line and Play and Work

large leather COW
cred davenport and
chairs, a fiat mahog-
any desk, bare Of
papers as an indus
trial captains should
be, and a small shelf
Of books. On the
shelf were copies of
Punch and LIE Rire,
a collection of poems.
Behold the Man;
i" Shakespeare in
London" La Vie
des Lettres" and
Through the Rus
sian Revolution" by
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picture making plant. Joe Jackson and I
walked around the property room and
glassed in stage that would house Yep
pelin and found ourselves standing in
front of the Town Hall and fagpole and
looking past Anders feed store, down a
village street toward comfortable looking
cottages behind fine shade trees. liked
especially an old brown house set back
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Miss Adelaide Pinned d tg
who recently underwent al opera.
ton for appendicitis Of the West
Penn hospital IN Pittsburgh 1 fe:
covering nicely at this time.
Mrs. "a. i. Heffner went to
Monndsvlle today 10 spend the
week end with relatives.
Mrs. Dan Berry and children.
Joaune and Mary Ellen have re-
turned to their home In Manning.
to after q visit with the formers
mother. Mrs.. Ellen Ganghan IN
this city
Mrs. Emerson A. Bell OF Chi.
cage street has gone TO Cois.do
Springs, Colo, where she was cath
cd by the serious illness OF her
granddaughter Mary Jane Ridgely
the little daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Ridgely.
James Kennedy and sister Miss
Rose Kennedy have gone to Bal.
tinore where they will spend som
time.
Mrs. Frank Kisner has retnrne
to her home on Maryland avenue
after being aSpatient at Cook hos
pital for some time. Mrs, Pierce
Reynolds OF Ciarksburg Is the
guest Of Mrs. Kisner at this time
Perry Saunders OF Hammond
was a visitor here yesterday;
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ago Judge Meredith. who has been
IN tho city Tor o week, was Joined
Hby his wife this week. They have
leased theif ir5ne IN Fairmcnt / 3
m. and Mrs Ketaa clnris Who ira
both well known her Ichafleston
GAZETTE
Club Entertained
The members OF the "a. ID. Sew
Ing club were delightfully."- enter
talned on Thursday evening at the
home OF Miss Pearl Francisl The
next meeting Of the club will be
Held at the home OF Miss Hazei
Morgan, IN East Park avenue.
Junior Class Activities
The Junior class of the Fair
mont high school ts at work on
plans Of activities for the rest OF
the year.
Committees are preparing for
two entertainments to be given In
the near future, they. are:
The presentation Of the w. v. U.
q%uartette in a concert.
Tie staging Of a cabaret enter
tainment.
These are two big events to be
given at the high school building,
and are being supported by the
entire class. Tit proceeds will 60
to the class funds.
Besides this the Junior class
will publish the Naples Leayes,
the school annual, which It has
been working on for some time,
and give a class play this spring,
which is an annual event.
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VETS Would Break
The Constitution

"1f the vets succeed the blow
they strike will break down the
constitution said Oliver W. Stew.
art, president of tho Flying Squad.
rom" and editor OF tho National
Enquirer in bis address yesterday
afternoon, at the Methodist Protest,
ant Temple.
Mr.. Stewart told Of the boast OF
the VETS to nullify as much Of the
constitution as ~interferes with the
liquor traffic, and said that this
impending danger to the entire na.
ton must be fought, and fought
.fiercely.
Rev. Norma Camille Brown who
was the second speaker on yester-
program Is the only woman
with the Flying Squadron" and
she brought a vital message to the
people Of the city.
Rev. Brown Is a young woman OF
very pleasing personality. During
1921 she served as chaplin Of the
Illinois senate. being the first WON.
an in the history OF that state to fill
the position In either house.
Tho meetings yesterday marked
the closing OF the law enforcement
campaign, launched in this city by
the Flying Squadron" under the
auspices OF the Ministerial Assu.
citation.
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DANISH
Wendelrs Pills, a IN bition
Brand. For Run-D Down
Tired Out People

If you feel tir.d out, out Of sorts,
Respondent, mentally or physically
depressed. get a 60 cent box OF
Wendeil's pills Ambition Brand. at
Il. 6 II. Drug Co. today and take
the first big step toward Telling
better right away.
II you work too hard. smoke too
much, or are nervous. Wendell's
Pills, Ambition Brand, will make
you feei better In thre1 days or
money back from II. & Fl. DRUG Co.
on the first box purchased.
AS a treatment for affections of
the nervous system constipation,
loss Of. appetite, sleeplessness or
Nervous Indigestion, get box Of
lWendoll's Pills, Ambition Brand, to.
dayton the money hack plan.
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lodge at Fairmont on Tuesday
evening.
Mesdames l. McIrura and q. NJ
Rogers were shopping n Fairmpnt
on Thufsdsy
Dr. u Rinehart d -Four
State q i visitor IL town IN
wednesday,.
David Thorn and s. 4 Jaenbs
attendedsth the sessions,of EntcrpTiSe,
Eneampment at Enterprise on.
"Wednesday evening.
Mtnter J. Bell OF Middleton was
stransacting business here on
Thursday.
Joshua Manley and Henry G.
Saunders OF near Everson were
attending l, o! o. F. lodge here on
Tuesday.
L. NJ. Kuhn OF Monongah was a
visitor here on Thursday.
Chas. W. ellis Of Carolina was
q business caller here on Thurs
day.
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GIVES WARNING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-warn.
ing against the four power Pacific
treaty drafted by the armament
conference and similar pacts is be.
ing sounded in India BY Sir Rabln
Dranath Tagore, poet and dramatist
and Nobel Prize winner, according
TO the American commission to pro,
mote self government in India.
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LOCAL SOCIAL EVENTS


charged 70 the fair while cents
y charged 70 witness
minstrel show
Elected Officers
The following officers were
elected at d meeting OF the women
Of st. Peters Catholic church held
yesterday afternoon a. st. Peters
PatoehIA school:
President, Mrs. j. NJ. MELON.
nell; vice president, Mrs. ]. =.
Sloan; secretary Mrs. j. 9. Bur-
chinal; treasurer, Mrs. D. r..
Vets to Meet
A special meeting OF the B anu
%. Veterans association will be
held this evening at the K. Of r..
hall. The Women's auxiliary OF
the organization will also meet
with the Veterans association.
Delegates from the Grand lodge
will give reports at the meeting
and a social hour will follow the
program.
Pre- Nupital Events
A number OF pretty prenupital
events are being carried out this
week complimentary to Captain
John Kingsley Powell Of Metucheni
NgsJ., and his bride TO be. Miss
Frances West Kinsey whose mar.
riage will take place tomorrow
morning at. Christ Episcopal
church. The affairs include the
bridal party members Of the two
families and out OF town relatives
! lore for tho marriage. Last even.
Ing Marshal and Mrs. 9. e.
! Smith entertained for them at a
buffet supper. Today Mr.. and Mrs
NJ. E. Ashcraft entertained at
lunch and this evening Mr.. ana
Mrs w. H. Conway will enter.
tained at dinner. Mr.. Powell's
brother. Frank Powell. arrived
here today from New Jersey and
will attend his brother at the MAJ
riage tomorrow. His sister Mr9.
Esther Sartor accompanied him
here Wednesday. Other guests
here for the marriage arc Mrs.
Harry hardwood OF Keyser and
Mrs. Robert Collins OF Keyser.
. .
viii Install Officers
Miss Marie Lane of Wheeling
district deputy of the Catholic
Daughters Of America, will install
the new officers Of Court Joan OF
Arc, Catholic Daughters OF Amer.
j lea at a meeting TO be held this
evening at the K. OF c. hail on
Main street at 7:45 o'clock.
Classes VIII Meet
The Volunteer Bible class will
meet This evening at 1880 O'clock
at the home. OF Mfr. and Mrs. e:
ISW. Musgrave at lilo CASTOR ave.
nue.. Prof. G.. H. colebank will
conduct the lesson which will be
the 10th chapter Of st. Mark.
The Winona Bible class will
meet this evening at 1880 o'clock
at the home OF j.. H. Snider OF
Carleton street.
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a bill was recently introduced in.
Washington providing for the free
transportation to Europe by The
government Of parents and wives
OF American soldiers who died over.
seas. The purpose Is for them to.
visit the graves OF their dead whose
bodies lie in-mllitary cemeteries IN
Europe.
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concernlna the Meredlthse'

Judge and Mrs. James "A. Mere
dith, former residents Of Fairmont,
are now residing at a local hotel for
a short time. Judge Meredith was
appointed US Judge Of the supreme
court by Governor Morgan not long
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ceurty Fair Toniqht

The Senior class, the c. D.
Robinson class OF the Fairmont
high school win hold a minstrel
bhow and county fair this evening
beginning ut seven O'clock at the
high school. The affair will be
|Iuite uniuue and enjoyable and
many stunts will be pulled off for
he entertainment Of the visitors
IN admission Of ten cents will be
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WoRTHINGToN
A New RESTAURANT

A New Restaurant
Mesdames Elizabeth Wood and
H. B. Berdins have opened UP a
restaurant In .Michaels .bu;lling on
Main street where they will serve
meals al. all times.
Car Wrecked
Claude N. Rodgers met with IN
accident one evening this week and
wrecked his new automobile but
was fortunate enough to escape
injury: to himself when the car
sktdded and went over the bank.
Officers Elected
The directors Of the First Ma
tional Bank Of Worth'ngton met
at the banking house and re-elect-
cd the old officers to serve another
year. They are: Vi F. Davis,
president: George W. MILAN, vice
president; A. j. Mcdaniel, cashier
and Georgia NJ. Schultz. assistant
cashier.
Visited Chicken House
One night recently chicken
thieves visited G. W. Millans
poultry house but failed 10 secure
my poultry as Mr.. MILAN had
Installed a burglar alarm and when.
the visitors attempted to open the
door Of the poultry house the
alarm sounded and Mr.. MILAN ap-
peared on the scene with his shot
gun. The thieves ran but whom
Mr.: MILAN. fired at them they re-
turned the FIRE.
Mesdames W. D. and j. @.
Jacobs attended the Rebexaa