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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
Film Stars, Often as Not, Able Financiers
Rr JAMES w. DEAN

New York, Jan. 13.-The impression
that all movie actors are profligates
generally exists. The public believe
that with most Of the studio folk it is
easy come, easy co."
Any number of instances might be
given to upset this belief. Perhaps
Ruth Roland furnishes the best instance
of sagacity among the women of the
screen.
Ruth Roland owns one of the high
est-priced business corners in Los An
geles. She builds bungalow courts,
apartment houses and knows quite H
bit about negotiable securities. Any
bank on the Pacific Coast would extend
credit to her. Her rating in Dun and
Bradstreet is the very highest. ..
When Ruth started with the Kalem
company, more than 10 years ago, she
received S2j a week, but she put part
of that away each week. Each week
since she has invested part of her sal
AIRY, which is now many times $25.
II saved for many weeks to buy
a diamond ring" Ruth says. -
finally bought one weighing one-half
carat. 1t looked like a headlight to
me, but nobody paid any attention to it.
Then | saved for bigger things. When
/ had $500 ] bought lot for 500
$40 down and $40 month. When ]
had paid good many .ten-dollars l
learned 1 still had $3.50 to pay. didn't
know much about interest.
Il still own that lot and it has in
creased considerably in value. Since
then / have bought and sold many lots.
After.I had accumulated little capital
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

ing at the studio before othcI members
of the cast she would rehearse her part
and suggest little variations n II trat
met the fancy of Neilan.
Having thus attracted attention 10
herself, Hugo BALM gave her prom
inent part in Vanity FaiI." Then
Hughes cast her for Souls for Sale,
and assigned her TO the featured role,
although such popular and experienced
actresses as Barbara LAMAR and Mae
Busch are in the cast.
Publicity may have helped Miss
Boarimrr considerably. too. Perhaps
you remember the widely circulated re-
ports of her engagement TO ChG=!Ie
Chaplin and the more recent reports Cd
her being bitten by wild cdmel roam
ing the great deserts of CalfornIa.
That Neilan permitted Miss Board
man to build her small Part into a
significant. one is indicative of the great
fault of the picture. Her business
had littl. to do with the evolution of
the story. Neilan tried TO crowd too
many small things into the film. Thus
the significance Of the story was cloal-
ed. .-.-.-
Neilan was confused with his story.
He started TO preach sermon on amiiy
between capital and labor. depressed on
the subject of reckless youth and wound
up with a romance that had almost
gone to sleep while he preaC he'd. 2
Neilan has great originality of ioeas
and expression but lacks coaesioh. he
is unwilling to complete one idea be-
fore he takes up another.
Hobart Bosworth is familiar as the
rugged hero of many sea films, so Mel
l., 70 i'm n ChtgNhTllInRI 4
The Strangers. Banquet" He doesn't
even walk gangplank in this. That
indicates the waste of material. Neilan
gathered IN all-star cast but didn't have
n star part for any one of them. The
Strangers Banquet" is en- animated
gallery OF who's Who in FINLAND"
What's all this fuss aboIt Fatty Ar
buckle. anyway? Arbuckle never was
banned from the screen by Will Hays.
Will Hays has not restored him to the
screen.
The day after Arbuckle was &c.
Quilted, nine months ago, Hays advised
against the immediate release of three
pictures that the comedian Lad complet-
ed before his trial.
This vas generally INTERPRETED "a a
complete ban against Arhuckle, that
Hays was acting as a dictator OF the
films. Arbuckle could not find en-
ployment with established producers.
He refused to work for wildcat con-
Germs that would have paid him a large
salary to make pictures that could have
been exploited on the notorlety OF Lis
trial.
When Hays visited Hollywood in ! O.
cember he saw the extremes to which
film men had gone in following his ad-
vice. Arbuckle could get employ mtnt
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

OF no kind In the industry. Then Hays
said that, as an individual, he did not
want to stand in the way Of Arbuckle
going to work. This statement was in
terpreted as reinstatement" Of Ar
buckle.
Arbuckle has gone to work for Jo-
seph SchCnck, his former employer. He
is not starring in pictures. He nay
later appear in pictures.
ANY dictatorship" Of the movies Is
an artificial position. The motion PIC
| ture is one OF the leading industries of
the country. 1t depends on its relation
with the public for its success. The
only dictatorship Of the movies is pub
| lie opinion.
There are 10000 people employed in
the making Of pictures. They can lot
be ruled ever as. subjects Of a Kingdom
of czardom. They are artisans end
artists pursuing their chosen vocatIons
with the usual conditions tnat prevail
between employer and employe.
| No one man, regardless of his posi-
ton or Of his employees can tell those
10000 or any one of them when they
can WORK and when they can not. If
he had that power, his position would
be out OF keeping with all ideals OF
American government. Hays is an nd
wiser, not a dictator. l have talked
with him at some length and know
that the above statements reflect bis
attitude and sentiments.
You know, and l know, and Will
Hays knows, that the only thing that
will restore Arbuckle to the screen or
keep him off il, will be pubic opinion.
Will Hays has outlined a constructive
program for the betterment of living
conditions in Hollywood. Tie colony Is
being planned as a great industrial cen
ter. A community house, ggmnasiunis,
librabries and other civic Projects TINT
will unite the various factions in their
recreatiOnal and community life are TO
be established. As q welfare worker.
Hays will accomplish more for the
good of the movies than he possibly
could accomplished as a dictator.
II he CFn bring about better under
standing between the public and those
engaged in the making of pictures he
will do more for the uplift Of the screen
as a moral force and as an art thnn
all the censors, authorized and unauth-
orized. Hays is working 10 that end.
not to the end Of establishing or in
creasing his power as a dictator.
Saw Ethel Barrymore in Romeo and
Juliet" She never acted better, but
never was worse cnst Saw The
Strangers Banquet" in which film
Marshall Neilan does the small things
exceedingly well, but is Ineffective in
telling his story. I" /" Saw Will Hays
He would have made a great actor, fol-
he is emotional. imaginative and very
expressive. ." Saw Thousands witt
faces turned heavenward listening e
the chimes of old Trinity playing
Nearer. Ny God, to Thee" New lesr''
Eve, while one skunk into a doorway
to drink bootleg hooch, as they cal
it. Saw the Equity Players II
why NotP Jesse Lynch Williams
clever satire on divorce. Almost cyerl
line of it is an epigram. Sow
Gloria Swanson appear in so many dii
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

survive without a vigorous magma
ton"
I think Griffiths psychology Is
faulty. Almost any business man viii
tell you that the man just out OF col
lege has too much imagination and not
enough lorse sense. After all, nine Of
ten students are in college because their
imaginaticns led them there.
The beauty Of the screen seems 10
have come straight from the farms.
Three hundred girls were hired for q
ballroom scene in poor Mems Wives.
OF that number, 223 were boln or reared
on farms, IS in small towns, thee in
New York and six in other large cities.
This seems to wreck the conceit enter
tanned n some quarters that all Of the
nations beauties are on Broadway or
Fifth avenue.
Miriam Cooper, Castor Glass and
Joseph J.. Bowling are featured in The
Girl Who Came Back directed ny
Tom Forman.
Shirley Mason. June Elvidge and
Buck Jones are cast in The Elcve 1th
Hour"
Clara Kimball Young's next is
"Cordelia the Mafnificent."
"a Hula Honeymoon" Christie com
edy filmed in Hawaii, is completed.
May McAvoy and Lloyd Hughes head
the cast Of Her Reputation" formerly
called News" 1t is Thomas II. lncc S
first picture for 1923.
A baby sen lion is shown in "Dwell-
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ferent dresses that she Hint Lave
time TO act in My American Wife
- Saw "WilI Shakespeare" one
of these rlays which one remembers fn-
years. keeping it as standard by
which to judge other plays. Saw
Lloyd Hamilton in THE Speeder Mt
the Riyolj and heard the heartleSt
laughter have heard on Broadway in
several months. Sam Emanuc!
Cohen, editor of Pathe News reel. His
job is much like that of managing chi-
totr of n big newspaper. Each OF his
reporters is a photographer.
Violet Virginia Blackton is TO play
the part of a lady-in-waitiag in The
Virgin Queen" the film dealing with
Queen Elizabeth and starring Lady
Diana Manners. Violet is II. Her
sponsors say this is the first time that
child so young has played the role
of IN adult heroine on the screen.
That nay be so, but the marvel Is
that it has not been done before. A gil
of -, II seems to me, should be mich
better equipped to play the role OF a
woman than a woman is to play Siri
of -. The latter is tried very fire.
quently, usually with an amusing re-
suit.
A girl Of IL knows more about a
woman than a woman ever can know
about a girl of II. S..
D. W. Griffith says that it was a
curious development that the universi.
ties proved the least profitable field
ever searched for motion picture pos
sibilities. His staff searched universe
ties for possible talent for tSo years.
college training seemed to have
blanketed the imagination Ct the stud
ents," Griffith says, land NJ actor Can
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

Of condcrcension in her attitude toward
tbe camera. From Something 10 Ihipk
About" 10 MY American Wife is a
far cry. Once Gloria Swanson was the
most accomplished actress OF the screen.
1t was ner ability TO act that made Ger
star. Now she is flat, co!orless. Her
clothes seem to be too much Tor Fer
frail strength.
Antonio Moreno Is Gloria's leading
man in MY American Vie. Moreno
Is Of the same type as Valentino. His
personal elegance has been hidden under
bushet as it were, for he has up
reared in many mediocre films and hns
Ind little exploitation. Perhaps the
Paramount people are grooming him to
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

A baby sea lion is shown in dwell
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

70 hav. employed the crystal chandelier
motif, being weighted with many pounds
of glass.
from a leather pillow with fancy fringe.
At another time Gloria swagSers acryss
the screen with a veil that drags on the
floor. One dress hobbies her like two
gated horse is hobbled TO make it p.ce:
She wears a bowler, riding habit and
boots and carries a crop, out rides In
an auto. One hat with a long beak
makes her look like a spoon ill catfish,
while another with a propeller blade on
each side makes you wonder when she II
hop off.
! Gloria Swanson's enthusiasm Of youth
Is gone. Being q star seems TO bois
her a LOT. There seems to be q note
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
BY JAMES W. DEAN.

q my American Wife" presents Clio ia
Swanson again as n clothes manncqu!n.
As a photoplay it is fodder for the
morons. A fair estimate of the play
lies in one Of its subtitles, This is ut
terly ridiculous"
e Gloria IL by no means style man
neouin. The things she wears we're
never IN style and never will be. IEey
are such garments and baubles as
might be worn by followers of raciEG
camps and 80 a race track story is told
to give her the license TO wear the
clothes.
Ideas for her fashions are borrowed
from many sources. One gown seems
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

supplsnt Valentino who has quit that
company. Moreno, in appearance at
least, is better qualified to take .Valen'
tino's place than Charles De Roche, the
newcomer from France.
Eleanor Boardnan makes her first
public film appearance in Marshal
Se;lan's The Strangers Banquet
Hers is G remarkable rise IN fame.
She was selected by Goldwyn's cast
ing director less than year ago in {
competition against many others. Sht
was given a small part IN Rupcr
Hughes Gimme"
The part assigned to her in "Th'
Strangers Banquet" was originally ~
insignificant one but she built il intc
one Of considerable proportion. Arriv
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

ers Of the Deep" This IS the first
time in the history of the New York
Geological Society that one has been
photographed. 1t lived only "A hours.
HAS the World Gone Mad?" is the
alarming title of new photoplay by
Daniel Carson Goodman. Robert Ele-
son, Hedda Hopper, Elinor Fair, Vim
cent Coleman, Charles Ricbman and
Mary Alden are in the cast.
A print Of "NanOok Of the North
has been presented to the New York
Museum of Natural History.
A juvenile version Of Hamlet" Is
to be screened with little BUDDY Martin
in the title role.
Maurice Flynn will be Alice Brady
leading ran in The Snow Bride"
Rex Ingram still wears his old army
oycrcoat.
Betty blythe is now working in The
Garden of Desire" Hope she has no
weeds to pull.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
Gossip of the Latest Pictures

Gloria Swansons Latest Gives Her Chance 10 wear
: Clothes But Not to Act-Hays ana Arouckie
Eleanor Boardman Makes Her First Screen Ap-
pearance-College Training No Aid to the Film
b Actor.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
School Kids Itch.

School Kids Itch.
vanishes after few applications Of
Imperial Eczema Remedy. Not greasy
or bad smelling. Druggists are author
lied TO refund your money il it fails
(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14

Wagner Auto Top Co.
now at North Flores and Warrej
streets. Crockett 7517.-(Adv.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
SEVENTEEN NATIONAL BODIES

Continued from first page)
right to pass laws giving it's children
even greater protection than the ma
ton may give.
"The amendment should authorize
congress to-
81. Prohibit the labor of children
below an age to be fixed by later con-
gressional action. The amendment
itself should contain no legislation;
it should be an authorization, giving
congress the power the people thought
congress had when it passed the first
and second federal child labor laws
to legislate in the interests of Amer
lean children;
"2. Limit and regulate the en-
ployment of boys and girls who are
not prohibited entirely from work
ing. To safeguard them in industry
from such evils as night work, dan
gerous and unhealthful occupations,
and overwork, is as important as to
keep younger children out of indus
try Therefore the amendment must
clearly give congress power to legis-
late for boys and girls until they are
at least 49,"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
SWEET CHARITY
Steel Trust Splits With I'll.
Paid Labor

New York.-The mighty steel trust,
with millions upon millions of dollars
in its surplus account, announces
through Judge Gary that it will "split
the difference" with employees in re-
ducing the workday Judge Gary says
"all concerned" believe this is fair and
just, but he does not indicate how
the views of his employees were as
certained.
"In deciding the question of adjust
ments as related to the 12-hour men
it was deemed fair to split the differ
ence' between employer and employee" J"
said Judge Gary. "That is, the 12-
hour men should have their hours of
work decreased to eight hours, but
would receive pay for 10 hours on the
basis of the old rate per hour, and
that the employer should bear the ex-
ira cost thereby created. This was
deemed by all concerned to be fair and
just.
"Now it is proposed to split the
difference between the employer and
employe concerning the 10-hour day;
that is, to pay the workmen compen-
sation for II hours at the old rate per
hour. This decision is considered
equitable and will place the 10-hour
men on parity with the eight-hour
men. Existing conditions will not per-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
INSIDERS" PROFIT
Officials Report Shows Vast
Sum in Taxes Refunded

Washington-Acc to a report
by Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Blair some citizens profit amazingly
through refund of taxes. 1t S
shown that refunds this year reached
the unprecedented total of 1923 ,992,-
800 This compares with $14,000,000
in 1920, $28,000,000 in 1921, and
$4S, 100000 in 1922. Out of the 1923
refunds, $71 ,980,947 was returned on
claims accrued prior to July /, 1920,
and $34,502,757 on collections for
1921.
The details of these vast refunds
are secret. Members of congress have
frequently demanded publicity on such
repayments, but this agitation has
been fruitless. Rumor and scandal
allege that political favorites fare
very well in getting money restored
to them. Every now and then some
expert drops out of the internal rev.
enue department and becomes mirac-
ulously rich as professional adjuster
of cases, it is stated.
Figures by Commissioner Blair
show that the cost of collecting taxes
has reached the record breaking peak
of $173 for every 500 coming into
the treasury, as compared with 55
cents under the previous administra-
ton. Treasury officials explain this
increases by claiming that the depart
ment machinery has to be increased
to catch up with back work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
Is ALL WRONG
Government By Injunction
Is Not Government By
Law, Says Shipstead

Duluth, Minn.-"G Government bv in
junction IS not government by law"
declared United States Senator Shin
stead in Labor Day speech in this
city. The speaker revealed wide
knowledge of the injunction and it's
development from the days of Rome
when the plebeians found it necessary
to elect annually two tribunes with
extraordinary power to curb economic
and political oppression by the pa
tricians.
This was installed in the English
system through the development of
chancery courts, and today the sys-
tenn is used by the same forces as
in the days of ancient Rome.
"The constant encroachment of
equity courts upon the province of the
courts of law constitutes one of the
gravest dangers to a government by
law" said Senator Shipstead
Government by injunction is not
government by law 1t is government
according to the will and pleasure or
conscience of a man. Government by
law is government by the people.
Government by injunction is govern
ment by an autocrat. 1t does away
with trial by jury and makes of the
court, judge, the lawmaker, the ac-
cuser and jury. 1t is a system gradu-
ally encroaching upon and displacing
government by law. AS government
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
TYPOTHETAE MUST
QUIT PRICE
FIXING SYSTEM

Washington The United Typo
thetae, of America, with offices in
Chicago, has been ordered by the fed
eral trade commission to discontinue
certain price-fxing practices.
The commission objects to the
standard cost-fnding system and the
loose-leaf STANDARD guide" which, it
is declared, makes it possible for all
members of the typothetae to arrive
at the same price for the same char
acter of printing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
oy injunction advances, government

Uy IIIJuIICtIofI duVdIICeS' SUVeT IiIIIefiG
by law passes away"
Senator Shipstead said that the two
most effective weapons of capitalists
in their war against labor are the in
junction and the control of credit.
"The power to assess the war cost
on the farmer through low prices was
given to capital by the government
when the government gave to the fed
eral reserve banking system the con-
troll of discount rate and the control of
money and CREDITS" he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
NIT a general increase of wages"

rITIU q ScIIcIstI IIICIedSe OF wages.
The judges reference to splitting
the difference" means that under the
12-hour system worker was paid
$3.50, or 40 cents an hour. Under
eight hours, the steel trust did not
dare offer him the beggarly wage of
$500, so it "splits the difference" and
pays him $4, or at the rate of 10
hours work
The 10-hour men will be paid for IL
hours, or $40, while the eight-hour
men receive Sd.
The Dolores star., 1923-10-26
INFORMATION Department
HIGHER PRICES FOR FARM CROPS
REPORTED DURING SEPT

Washlngton.-Farm prices tended
upward during September and on Oct
l the index figure of prices paid to
producers for the principal farm crops
was 27.3 per cent higher than year
ago, 25.6 per cent higher than two
years ago, but lib per cent lower than
the average price OF the last ten veal.
on Oct. l.
These statistics were announced 4
few days ago by the Department Of
Agriculture, which said the price Level
Increased about % per cent during
September, while the level for the last
ten years decreased about AZ pr cent
during that month.
Prices Of hogs. cattle, sheep and
chickens paid to producers Increased
7.6 per cent from Aug. IS to Sept. Is
while in the last ten years prices de-
creased Is per cent in the correspond.
ing period.
The index figure of prices for theN
meat animals on Sept Is was about
per cent lower than a year ago, 10
per cent higher than two years ago
and 21.4 per cent lower than the aver
age Of the last ten years on Sept ID
The Dolores star., 1923-10-26
The East,

And then ] saw the men of the East
they were looking at me. The whole
length of the ictty was full of people.
saw brown. bronze, yellow faces, the
black eyes, the glitter, the color of an
Eastern crowd. And all these beings
stared without murmur, without n
sigh, without movement Moth.
ing moved. The fronds of palms stood
still against the sky. Not a branch
stirred along the shore, and the brown
roofs of hidden houses peeped through
the green foliage, through the big
IeaVes that hung shining and still like
leaves forged of heavy metal. This
was the East Of the ancient naviea-
tors, so old, 50 mysterious, respIend
ent ana somber, living and unchanged
-Joseph Conrad, in Youth.
The Dolores star., 1923-10-26
/. W. W. Denounced by Federation

Portland, Ore.-The lndustra
Workers of the World were denouncea
as force aiming to destroy organ
lied labor, and investigation OF !"
activities was ordered by the American
Federation Of Labor in conventioa
here. LET us not overlook the fae'
said declaration which was adoplea
that there are Industrial Workers
the World ut the top of the inou'
trial world, and that these are 'e'
influential and much more dangefOu
than the Industrial Workers OF w
World among the working people
The Dolores star., 1923-10-26
wallae. Say. Troubles. Near End

Syracuse N. Y.-Readjustment which
Is in progress will end discomfort
among agriculturalists in the opinion
of Henry o. Wallace secretary Of ag
riculture here for the worlds dairy
congress and the national dairy expo
sition. "The farmer is not radical and
never will be-" Secretary Wallace SAID
"he Is our best conservative citizen
and any talk of radicalism is bunk
Former Governor Frank o. Lowden Of
Illinois stated the American whea1
farmer must organize co-Operativel
and study world conditions.