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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
THE MOVIE FANS LETTER.BOX
Bv HENRY NJ. NEEIY

II. s. v. p. Uno. and others who
have asked about Harry Myers. the
leading man of "A Connecticut Yam
kee'-Ive delayed answering your let
tefs because | wanted 10 get the Myers
dope as complete as possible. 4 friend
OF mine knew the actor we'll when he
was here. and has continued the friend
ship since, so | asked him to write a
sketch answering my various questions.
I've Just received 1t. 1t goes thusly:
Truly Philadelphia boy is Harry
Clifford Myers. appearing in the Will
liam Fox production of a Connecticut
Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
and in Turn to the Right Harry, or
"Christy.' as he was known to his
many friends, was born in Hartford,
Conn. September IL. 1885. and at
the age of seven years came TO Phila-
delphia when his parents moved here to
make this city their home.
'..At an, early age Harry showed
fondness for the stage. was always
the leading man. whenever the boys
gave show in the back yard or cellar
Of one of the actors homes. charg-
ing the usual two pins for admission.
Soon firing of this sort of acting he
applied to Drew A. Morton. who was
then stage director of the Girard Ave-
nue. Theatre Stock Company. for n job
-and he got it. His first appearance
was as Roman. carrying a spear. at
fifty cents a performance in a produc-
ton of 'virginius.' Mr.. Morton took
q fancy to young Myers and soon made
him super captain. and before the
first season was over he held the posi-
tion of assistant stage manager. He
remained with this organization for
three seasons, during which time he
met and married Nellie May Campbell
ON September ). 1907.
4 AFTER spending several seasons on
the road. doing production work. he
came back to Philadelphia and started
his screen career at Lubin's studio. in
this city. After the Lubin plant closed
he went to New York with the tniver-
sal Company, later going t" Jackson
! vim Company, in which he had an
interest. This venture did not turn
tout as we'll as was expected. and he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07

deserted the screen and returned to the
stage for one season, appearing in
vaudeville. over the Orpheum time.
''GOing 10 California ne first ap-
pearcd with Charley Ray in several
pictures. aftcrward appearing with a
number of the leading stars. His first
big success was made in Connecticut
Yankee in which he plays the leading
male role. Myers recently signed a
five year contract with the Universal
Company. and Turn to the Right was
the last picture he has made before this
new contract. He Is now making a
serial on the adventures of Robinson
CruSoe for Universal.
Mrs. Myers and their three children
Harry Clifford, Jr.. thirteen years
Nellie May. eleven years. and Mary.
eight years. are still living in Philadel :
phia, where they have remained during
all the time that Harry has been away
from home.
"A Flapper" writes: 81 certainly
do enjoy your column. Not so much
the fans letters as your comments. ]
did think 'Sccnarist' gave the movies a
fine razz. 1t certainly is true, but he
was rather hard on them.
ism IL queer tnat no one seems 10
like Peter Ibbctson'? | was wild over
It. ! adore the book and Elsie Fergu-
son was just my ideal as the Duchess
of Towers. Every now and then Wally
comes out and proves that he really can
act and isn't just a matinee idol. And
wasn't George Fawcett fine?
II hav" agreed with everything yOu We
said except about Garcth Hughes in
Sentimental Tommy | loved that
picture and Gareth was just my idea OF
Tommy. May McAvoy is wonderful.
Why Ia she wasting her time making
such foolish pictures?
Did YOU really see anything fine
in The Queen of Sheba'? 1t seemed
to me just using Bible story as an ex :
cuse for disgusting costumes. The plot
was so asinine, too. Betty Blythe l.
surely beautiful, though.
II cant stand Mary Pickford. !
was so glad to find some one who agrees
with me. Do you like Dorothy Gish in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07

Peters saves Mr.. Moore from death in
the flames. OF course ofiicials of film
company do not risk their expensive
actors in such scenes. and double were
employed. Perhaps 1t was one double
and one dummy. Anyway, the double
saving the dummy was very badly
burned before he could run out Of the
blazing woods. The company immc-
diatcly took up collection upon hear
ing of his mishap. cars were offered by
a hall. dozen people, and offers Of aid BY
the score came. from all directions. It
was heartwarming to zee sucl. sympathy
and kindness.
Little Miss valli was cold and mis-.
cradle, but not word Of complaint
came from her lips. She faced the prob.
ability Of standing about in q biting
wind until dawn, and I envied her her
patience and sweet disposition. Finally
she bundled us all of home. assuring US
that she was perfectly all right, and
waving a cheerful good.by. Before the
car bumped around the corner, I caught
last glimpse Of her huddlins over a
little bonfire.
These are the scenes the audience does
not see on the screen, but something Of
the steadfastness Of character OF the
players must come to that same audi
ence. 1t might be one explanation Of
the immense following that pictures
have. ' 4.t 49,
The sympathy Of motion picture peo.
pie Is extended Kathlyn Williams be-
cause Of the death Of her only son last
Saturday.
Herbert Rawlinson's next story will
be "The Black Bag" which was writ
ten by Louis Joseph Vance. adept at
the connection Of mystery tales. King
Baggot will direct "A Suburban Hand
leap" an all-star production. Marie
Provost will be starting soon on Never
Mind Tomorrow" in which she will
drive the winning car in n race. They
didn't tel II me It was the winning car,
but surely the heroine could drive no
other! .+
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
THOMAS SANTCHI
TO APPEAR IN
TWO REEL FILMS
BY CONSTANCE PALMER
HOLLYWOOD. Calf

tom ANTCHI. we'll known to
L movie. soers a. few years ago, is to
be starred by Universal in q series Of
two-reel Western and Northwest
Mounted Police pictures. No leading
woman has as yet been selected.
They've been having q lot of hard
luck filming "The Storm" the feature
production starring House Peters. When
things start to 20 wrong on a picture.
the property man told me, they just
naturally are hoodooed till the last
scene is shot. Nothing can make things
right. Lovely little Virginia Valli Is
Mr.. Peters leading woman, Matt Moore
is also in the cast.
went out to see Miss valli the
other night when they were working on
some forest fire scenes, which are IN
tended to give the picture it's punch.
Fifty big pines had been hauled that
many miles, and set up on a hill near
the Universal lake told you about.
They were saturated with kerosene and
other inHammable material, sixteen
cameras were set up and the word giver
to shoot The story has it that Mr..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07

I wish he'd do differently, but then I'm
an old crouch and nobody ought to nay
any attention to me. So there y'are.
Ontario sees some pictures before we
do and we see lot before they do. It's
all matter Of booking. Sometimes
our local first run" theatres have
their schedules filed up for some time
ahead and new picture must wait It's
turn. Consequently other cities see 1t
before we, do. And the rule works in
reverse quite often.)
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

Shaw have all worn boards, while Mat
thew Arnold wore whiskers.
"The great ages of poetry are those in
which they allow. the boards to grow.
Thus, as we should have expected, the
lawyers, who were all of them prosaic,
are the least given to wearing boards.
"But one is amazed at the vanity of hu-
man beings who will thus expose their
features to the general view when nature
has provided so easy a means Of disguis-
ing them. II is not even that they get
any pleasure from shaving. There is no
operation more tedious, quite apart from
the danger Of being infected with anthrax
from shaving brush. As for being
shaved by barber, that, too, has its
perils.
Despite all the perils of the shaving
brush, and the still greater perils of the
BARRIERS shop, it seems to us likely that
Englishmen will continue to shave till a
Queen sits on the throne again. They will
shave in greater numbers than ever as
soon as the game of Beaver spreads to
taxi-drivers, bus conductors and news
boys. Life will become intolerable for
the bearded man when children rise up
out of the pavement at every step and
surround him with loud shouts Of 'Bea-
ver.'
Men do not, however, grow boards as
a challenge. They grow them, as q rule,
for purposes Of concealment, and, when
their efforts at concealment only serve to
bring them into the limelight, they will
be compelled either to emigrate to free
country or to retire into the obscurity of
a clean shave.
mo doubt, in time Il will become as
elaborate in its niceties as poker. What
ever its future, however, we feel sure that
il will remain purely an English game.
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

Queen Elizabeth had boon. II is strange
that Queens and boards should thus go
together. Queen Anne alone seems to
have ruled over men Of genius who grew
no boards.
'It would be worth some statistician's
while to 20 over the great names of Eng
lish literature and compare the amount of
genius that has gone bearded with the
amount of genius that has gone clean
shaven. The beardless, we figure, would
be In the numerical majority, but we can
estimate the weight Of genius on the other
side when we remember that Chaucer,
Shakespeare, Bacon, Spenser, Dickens,
Carlyle, Ruskin, Browning, Tennyson,
Swinburne, Meredith, Morris and Mr.
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

they are publicly rcverenced in another.
In this respect the people Of Sacramento
rather than the people of England are fol-
lowers Of the ancient tradition.
"To play Beaver Is to put oneself on
the level with the children who cried: Go
up thou baldheadr to Elisha, for TO laugh
at the superfuity of hairs on the chin is
on the top of the head. Apart from this,
the nation that owes so much to the Old
Testament should treat boards with re-
spect
England, above all other nations,
should be slow to speak disrespectfully Of
boards. The greatest age Of English his
tory was the age of boards. In the spa
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

the same player first sees a second
bearded man he or she scores thirty, or
"thirty love" of tennis. The third beard
is "forty love" and the fourth beard is a
"set"-a game-that is, II the player has
seen each beard before the other player.
If the players have alternately called
Beaver" up to forty it is "deuce," just
as in tennis, and two points must be
scored by one or the other before he or
she can be declared a winner.
When the game is played for single
points, each discovery Of Beaver" or
beard, counts one.
Of course, if this game were based on
mems nfrmities, like crossed eyes or hare
lip, and so on, it would be cruel rather
than funny. The fun is based on the rec
ognition that nobody need wear a beard,
and that if he persists in doing so in this
enlightened age he deliberately assumes
the risk of being laughed at.
Mr.. George Ade, the we'll known and
perhaps sometimes rather ribald Ameri-
can humorist, has put the thing aptly in
this little epigram:
"a harclip is a misfortune. Cross eyes
are an affiiction. But side-whiskers are
mans own faultp'
But the game of Beaver" has many
variations-and this is where the embar-
rassment to King George comes in.
If, for instance, one of the players sees
a white beard he calls. polar Beaver"
and it counts him two points-that is, II
the game has just begun and a white
beard is the first seen, the player who
has first seen it scores "thirty love-; or, II
he has already won one point, 1t counts
him up to "forty love"-and so on.
Now, in some unknown way, it has hap
pened that by common consent the sight
of any member of the royal family who
wears beard counts a full set and gives
the player who first spies the royal whis-
kers the game. On observing these whis-
kers he or she calls out "Royal Beaver"
And that particular game is over.
Naturally all this is very embarrassing
to everyone who wears a beard, because
everyone in England, high and low, with
smooth faces, seems to be playing "Bea-
ver." But It is infinitely more embar-
RAISING to King George, because It was
hard enough before for him to keep up
the traditions of the Throne, nature not
having particularly endowed him, as she
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

One of the most interesting of these
comments recently appeared in the Eng
lish Liberal weekly, THE New States
man." and although not signed is thought
to have been written by Gilbert K, Ches-
terton, the well-known philosopher and
essayist.
Nothing could more effectively demon
strate the confused state of IT, civilized
world at the present moment" says this
article, "than the fact that while the in
habitants of England are playing Beaver
the male inhabitants of Sacramento in the
u. s. A., were ordered few months ago
to. grow boards on pain of being fined half
a-dollar a day. Thus are boards turned
into sport in one patch Of the planet while
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

cious days of Elizabeth the
boards were as spacious as the
days. Shakespeare wore a
beard, and, if he were alive
to-day, undergraduates would
be looking over the garden
wall at Stratford and shouting
"Beaverr' And had not one
of the Queens agents abroad
a beard five feet long? Yet
so degenerate had England
become by the end of the
eighteenth century that Lord
Rokeby's growing beard was
regarded as evidence that he
was mad, and 1t was said that
he was the only peer in the
country who did not shave.
''In the nineteenth century
the revival Of literature was
followed by a revival of
boards, and the reign of Queen
Victoria was as prolific of
bearded men of letters and
hon Y,dpd artists ps tho rpipn of
The Washington times., 1922-10-29
LONDON, Oct. 20.
GEORGE Of England
r. may lose his beard!
There have long been


There have long been
disquieting threats of uprising in
India; the menace 10 the Empire
of loss of her valuable interests in
Egypt is ever present, and the agi-
tation over the Turkish contro-
versy is, of course, intense. But
the great problem Of the royal
beard overshadows all these.
The reason for this Is an ex-
traordinary one.
Somebody, nobody now knows
who, started what was apparently
an innocent, childlike game called
Beaver" This at first seemed to
be a perfectly harmless pastime
like counting white horses and red
haired girls. But it has grown into
a thing of such Importance that
the existence of the royal whiskers
constitutes a menace to the dig
nifty of the throne. Therefore,
king George will most probably
have to shave the royal whiskers
off.
The game of Beaver" It should
be explained, can be played by two
or more people at any time or any
place where men are likely to be
passing. Any amount of money
or other things can be bet on it.
The game is scored exactly as in
tennis, or, and this is more usual,
it is played for ten points or more.
The player who first sees a man
with a beard cries "Beaver."
When the game is played like
tennis this counts him fifteen,
and is equivalent to the
"fifteen love" of tennis. II
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

did his father, the late
King Edward, with an
impressive presence.
! OF course, In the
case of the King, peo-
pie playing the game
do not usually rudely
shout "Royal Beaver"
when their eyes fall
upon him. But they
do convey the discov-
cry by signal. On at
least one occasion,
however, the shout jar
red In most unseemly
fashion upon the royal
ears. The King was
visiting recently at
Cambridge, and as he
entered the hall where
the students were as
sembled a | m ost the
whole undergraduate
body arose to their
feet with the shout of
"Royal Beaver! Game,
set, matchw
Il was a very great
scandal, but it was
hushed up and the
newspapers wisely de-
cided to ignore the in
cident.
The NEWSPAPERS,
however, have been
forced to take cogniz-
ance of the game and
comment daily on It's
The Washington times., 1922-10-29

The Two Champion "Whskerinos" Of The World.
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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-11-17
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DIAREo DE OMNIBUS ENTIRE SAN JUAN ARECIBo
PRECIos FIJos DE AcTUALIDAD.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-11-17
Se1oras
Debilitadas.
Recommendations por I'm
rnedico especialista

ST padece I'd. de malestar debilidad
desarreglos peculiares del sexo, 81 care.
ce de fuerzas o del magnetismo que atrae
y cautiva, 81 Sc siente nerviosa, irritable
quebrantada de salud, tome alimentos
sanos, particularmente 1egumbres, espi-
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otras bebidas alcoholics y, despues de
cada comida, dos tabletas (comprimi-
dos) de "HIERRO NUXADO," producto
cstrictamente cientifico de formula como
cida que doctores recomiendan y que ven.
den todas las buenas boticas.'
"HIERRO NUXADO" confiene hero
organico como ell hierro de la sangre
misma. Contiene ademas el principal
constituyente quimico de la fuerza activa
nerviosa que ahastece prontamente ahun-
dancia del fluido vital Cos gastados
nervios y de tai modo, no solo da las
mujeres mayores fuerzas, vigor y resis-
tencia, sino que renueva tambien la fuer-
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attractive que los hombres tanto admiran
en- el bello sexo. Fortificando asi su
ORGANISING s'IiIERRO NUXADO" es de
gran ayuda para renovar la juventud y
guitar arrugas otras seias que enveje-
cen el rostro que menudo originan en-
debilidad organica. Asi es como muchas
seioras obtienen una vitalidad sorpren-
dente las dos semanas de tomar este
valioso t6nico.
No acepte I'd. sino eI legitimo SHE
FRO NUXADO" que lleva el nombre de
Dae Health Laboratories. Ningdn otro
producto es ia misma cosa," ri da '.el
misme TesuItado."
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de fundar ell alegaciones conclucio-
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Aar!ss Il que comanda don Felipe
Ortiz
Prestan serviciuS cn aquel pueblo los
policias Arturo padilla Emilio dc
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Evening star., 1922-03-21
LEGION URGES GIVING
JOBS TO NEEDY VETERANS
Employment Drive Starts With
Plea to Find Work for Those
in Actual Distress.

Former service men who are in ac-
tual distress should be given first
consideration in the national thirty
day employment drive started Nester-
day by the American Legion, Arthur
Woods, chairman Of the emergency
committee on unemployment, an.
nounced in a telegram to National
Commander Mac,lider of the legion.
Mr.. Woods outlined a plan for the
campaign as follows:
First relieve distress. IT there are
men in want, take care of them.
Next, make sure that a man who
needs Job knows how to look for 1t.
Is the local employment agency well
run, and do the men use it? Hunt
for jobs, and keep on hunting. 1t
will surprise you how many will turn
up il you work, and don't miss tricks.
Don't wait-apply at every employ
sonal letters, make calls and get your
friends to work for you. And there
is a friend in need waiting for every
job you unearth. Only don't go so
far as to have some one else fired to
make room for your men.
Last, stir things up SO as to Gre
ate more jobs. Spring is here; it is
the time to clean up. freshen up,
paint up. dig up. spruce up generally.
Everybody's doing it. The nation.
your state. your town. companies,
that needs to be done. Only do it
now-don't wait. You'll get it done,
and you will help some one in the
doing who needs and deserves help"
Employed war veterans all over the
United States, Col. Woods said, have
volunteered to aid in getting Jobs
for their less fortunate "buddies.''