The New York herald., 1922-05-06
Miss Binney Heads
List of Actresses;
SemOn Leads Men
Comedian Dashes Into First
Place Among Actors in
Vote Race.

The white hot focus of public interest
in the movie popularity contest which
the Association for Improving the Con-
dition of the Poor is conducting as the
big punch in its May Carnival. switched
yesterday from the feminine phalanx to
the masculine mob. the latter evidently
feeling that the beguiling actresses had
held down the top of the newspaper
columns as long as they were entitled
to. The biggest upset in form occurred
in the mems division, when Larry
Semon came up out of nowhere and
simply hurled himself to the head OF
the list
The eccentric comedian never fell off
a roof with more speed than he rock
eted into first place. He did IL with hts
little 3,125 votes. Now the other stars
are wondering how they can bribe his
campaign manager away from him. He
slid Charlie Chaplin. with 2.165 votes.
into second place, as easily as II he had
smothered his screen rival under load
of dough-Semon's favorite film pas
time. Screen fans who are devotees of
other stars are offering odds that
Semon. who had been awarded a goose
egg on most dope sheets heretofore.
would soon take tumble. because that
has grown to be a habit with him in
pictures.
VIII Come IL Necessary.
But the vitagraph crowd. whose own
little custard. pie hurler Semon Is, were
willing to bet their last nickel and any
body else's that he wouldn't. They are
on the alert to hurry Seman East here
from Los Angeles il necessary and make
dramatic and eloquent appeal to the
populace with him. Semon, having fin
ished his latest picture. is standing on
tiptoe. ready to lead the film fans to
deliverance.
Among the feminine stars a new clus-
ter of light swan into the armament in
the person of Mrs. Lydig Hoyt Mrs.
Hoyt, who is known on the screen as
Julia Hoyt, scared into fourth place. be-
coming suddenly affluent with 1928
votes Friends in society who are back
ing her are said to be ready TO throw tons
oe votes into the scale for her soon. By
the time the contest ends at the grand
ball in the Hotel Astor next Tuesday II
Is expected that persons will become
reckless and lose all count of the number
of times they have voted.
Miss Constance Binney once more es-
tablished the supremacy of Gotham by
streaming into first place by evening,
way. 1t was an uphill race and Miss
Binney only won out by a nose. which
IN the contest is about equal to thirty
nine votes. Miss Mary Pickford was
still nesting comfortably in third place
with II 964 pledges of undying loyalty.
Speaking of undying. Swiss acrobat
came as close TO undying as any would
care to several hundred feet above
Broadway. AS spectacular stunt for
the drive the acrobat who is known as
"Kurtzo, the Daredevil Supreme" when
ever he isn't too dizzy TO answer to bis
name. crawled out yesterday on a rope
stretched above the Great White Way
from the twelfth floor of the Loew State
Building at Forty fifth street to the
top of the Hotel Astor, while there was
no net below, of course. just to make il
harder. That didn't stop about $4,000
persons from congregating below him
and specializing on the chances of his
falling on their heads.
After going forty feet away from his