The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-15
DOLLAR BILL HAS INTERVIEW WITH
 BIG SCREEN STAR
Learns That Lionel West Played Football for Three Southern Colleges and for California
By OLD DOLLAR BILL.

By OLD OOtsAAh BILL.
 They is still some queer ones what pronounce Alcazar so that 1t will rhyme with Belshazzer. but these is growing more extincter every day. But what I was going to tell you. as l set by my window and look out over these wide ex-pants of water is that Lion l.. West is down at the Alcazar this week. Mir. West is greatest athalete, and believe me, after giving him just one casualty glance, you might say, I concluded that he wasn't exactly the type of punch at hts jaw. He looks like a man what could talk on his hands and If I biffed him in the mush. he would no doubt say something In rebuttal On them hands of his'n.
 Before Lionel West got famous as a motion picture actor he was all ready well-known as a perpetual motion feetball player. He played at Mercer, and then he went to the University of Georgia in 1911 and in 1912 he went to Tech. He played feetball at all three places and after three terms at knowledge foundries in the east, he decided that man named West should follow out Hor- ace Greely's advice to young men and so west. So Lionel went right out to where he could hear the hinges of the Golden Gate squeak, and after he had been out there awhile he en- tered the University of California and played some more games In which they kick the opal around.
 At Mercer University he played tackle, at Georgia' he tackled tackle and at Tech he again played tackle. Then. after a four-year lay-off from feetball he decided when he was at California that he would like to be a end. So he played end and full back for California, and he stepped right out of the pigskin Armament with a sheepskin under his arm. and pulled a broken-field lope for the celluioid hatcheries, where he made good from the jump. Some of the latest pie lures, in which he took what you
 
 Wife" Half Chance" Lure of Egypt" Things Men Do," and Dan gerous Love" Of course I didn't tell Mir. West so, but that last-Lamed picture has superfloous word in it and that word is Dangerous" It is been my experience that all love is dangerous.
 , To make a long story finger, I will say that Lionel has been in the foe -f. l. thing they have ever been able to dig up again him is that he was born in Anniston, Ala. As Irwin Cobb would say, he was practically born and raised in Anniston and he's proud of it. They do say that Anniston is equally as proud of that fact.
 Mir. West come up to see me yes terday, and we had quite pleasant chat. He is great big fella, with a altitude of over six feet, and a chest acreage that shows he's a athalete. So. when they wanted somebody to mix 1t with Jack Dempsey they called for Mr. West and he went in there and took everything in the deck from Jack and still lives to tell the tale, which is pretty good evidtnts that he's a man. In all he boxed 70 rounds with the champeen and one time he caught Jack on the chin and put him on the canvas as we'll as Mike Angelo could of did it.
 This native Alabamian, who ap- pears with his feature picture Dan gerous Love" and also his bout with Jack the Demp. which should be called Dangerous Glove" has had a varied experience in the films He is been the hero, the villain. the charac- . ter man and almost everything OK cept N. G. New. And. now he is preei- dent of Lionel West Photoplays (Tnc-) and will return to California to produce and direct his own company after he finishes his present tour
 He is to be here all week. and has such a magnetic per onality that wisht 1t was all month instead.