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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Uncouer Works of Do Vinci

The Oldest canal lock in France
built by Leonardo da Vlnci under the
reign of Francois l in the Sixteenth
century, has just been rediscovered
near Vierzon.
Da Vinci, who boosted that he was
as great an engineer as he was a paint
er, constructed the lock because the
River Loire lacked sufficient water for
the boats, with their cargoes of salt,
that came up from Nantes. In the
course of centuries the lock disap-
peared and even its exact situation
was forgotten, but the old foundations
planned by the painter Of Mona Lisa"
have just been unearthed.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Broadcast Beetles Song

The ~broadcasting of n beetles love
song to his mate was the feature Of
a recent radio program sent out from
the London station of the British
Broadcasting company. The occasion
was a natural history lecture, in which
the life cycle and habits of the beetle
were discussed. At the appropriate
moment the beetle, which had a spe-
cial %microphone to himself. was per-
mitted to give his call. Many radio
fans complimented the beetle on his
performance. !
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
NERVOUS & HALF.S|Ck WOMEN
Relieved by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
These Three Letters Prove It

Lowell, Mass.-'1 am sending you
q few lines to let you know what good
your medicine has done for me. |
want you to let every one know that
it has helped me in nervous troubles.
l have four children and you know
there is a lot to do where children are.
They would come in from school and
they would start telling me about
their little troubles but / could not
stand it. / had to send them away.
l could not even walk on the street
alone | was so nervous. l found one
of your books and read it and then /
saw in the paper about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. l
got it and had taken one bottle when
| saw a change in myself. Twas sur
prised. The children can talk all they
want to now and it does not bother
me. l am still taking the Vegetable
Compound."-Mrs. JOSEPH LEMERE,
"a South Street, Lowell, Mass.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Sunday School Record

Ninety years a Sunday school mem
Der is the record of Mrs. Margaret AL
lison of East st. Louis, Ill. Joining
her first class in Scotland, she has
never missed attendance since. She
came to America as a bride and has
lived in Missouri most of the time.
The most exciting experience of her
life occurred one morning when Jesse
James and his gang applied at her
home for breakfast and she served
them the best in the house, under the
impression that her visitors were
Union soldiers.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Felt Like A New Woman

Springfield, Missouri.-"For four
or FIVE months / was rundown, ner-
vous, my back ached and | did not
feel like doing a thing. Sometimes
my legs ached and felt like they
would break and | had a hurting in
my sides. / had been reading in the
newspapers the letters of other wo-
men who had taken Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and the
advertising of it appealed to me SO
/ bought some and saw results in al
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
He Needed Them

Friend-What did you do with that
bunch of shingles you had left after
shingling your house, Brown?
BrOwn-SoId it to the man next
door, father of two pair of twins
Judge.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

remedy gave to me and l feel ure
that if other young mothers would
take the Prescription turnout the
entire period they would be saved
much of the distress and suffering
that most women endure
Mabel Ross, $50 Center St. All drug
gists. Tablets or liquid.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Defy Approach of Age

Robert Louis Stevenson gives good
advice when he says: "Cling to your
youth it is an artists stock in trade;
do not give up that you are aging and
you won't age"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Carpet for the Cellar

A piece of old carpet placed at the
bottom of the cellar steps will prove
a wonderful help in preventing marks
from rubber heels on the clean kitchen
linoleum.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

For your daughters sake, use Red
Cross Ball Blue in the laundry. She
will then have that dainty, well-groomed
appearance that girls admire.-Ad-
yertisement.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

most no time. l had hardly been able
to do my w work and after taking
the Vegetable Compound | felt like a
new woman. | recommend it to my
friends who have troubles like | did,
and hope they will find the same re-
suits. Mrs. M. CARPENTER, GOT w.
Chase Street, Springfield, Missouri.
40 Years Old, Feels Like 20
Hagerstown, Md. 81 was very bad
off with ~backache, a bearing-down
feeling in my body and a pain in my
left side. ! could not be on my feet
at times and once | was SO bad I
walked bent over to one side for three
weeks. My sister read of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
got me a bottle. / got so much relief
that took more until / was well. l
am 90 years old and feel like 20. |
am sure this medicine will help all
women. Mrs. MARY E. SANDY, 436
w. Franklin Street, Hagerstown,M Md.
Over 100, 900 wone have so far
replied to our question, "Have you
received benefit from taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound?"
SO per cent of these replies are
Eyes"
That means that SO out of every
100 women who take this medicine
for the ailments for which it is recon-
mended are benefited by it.
All druggists are having increased
sales of this medicine.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23


S u c h bearing
pains that | had
to keep to my
bed a great deal.
One day l read
of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Pre-
scription and de-
cided to give it
a trial. / was
very thankful for
the comfort and
relief that this
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Fast-Mouing Planet

Jupiter's diameter is about ten times
that of our earth, but so quickly does
1t spin that a day there lasts only
nine hours and fifty minutes.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
To Have : Clear Sweet Skin

To Have a Clear, Sweet Skin
Touch pimples, redness, roughness
or itchile, If any, with Cuticura Oint-
ment, then battle with Cuticura Soap
and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and
dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to
leave a fascinating fragrance on skin.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

Red Cross Ball Blue should be used
in every home. 1t makes clothes white
as snow and never Injuries the fabric.
All good Observation-Disclosures.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

In your version of the story the
other fellow makes a poor showing.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23

Those who resent criticism are driy-
ing with the brakes set.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-23
Advice to Mothers

Salem, Oreg.-"During each ex-
pectant period my back ached ter
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Return Of The Prodigal.

gradually evolved the promise that
was in him. The Coward" gave him
his first great range. The Clod-
hopper, The Pinch Hitter" THE
Sleuth." AN Old-fashioned Boy" and
other typical Ince-Ray hits estab-
lished him in the minds and hearts
of the American public as the tradi-
inherently decent and courageous,
outwardly bashful. awkward. uncon-
sciously comical and unacquainted
with the ways of an evil and sophis-
ticated world
Then, after eight years. at the peak
of his popularity and prosperity, Seri-
ously ambitious, and dazzled a lit
tie, perhaps, by the financial sue
cesses of other box office attractions
that had gone in on their own" he
organized company and started pro-
ducing stories which appealed to him.
1t seemed for a time that he, too,
would succeed. During this san
guine period. in a mood of whimsical
gratitude, he inscribed a photograph
to Thomas 1nGe; You made me what
And far-seeing Ince replied: Not al
together, Charlie. l hope you will re-
turn to me some day for a few fin
ishing touches" A wish now full
filled:
In lieu of the fatted calf of the
Biblical barbecue Mr.. Ince is said to
have provided Ray with the best
story possible for his return to his
former status. Smith," the tenn
porary title of the story by c. Gard
ideal opportunity to come back" in
the sort of picture in which he is
most lovable, most understandable
and most appreciated.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Movie Critics Behind Time

"As 1 said before, our self-appoint-
ed leaders of thought and arbiters of
taste have missed their exit cue-they
are still talking to an audience that
has left the room. Some of our most
vociferous critics continue to ridicule
the throwing of custard pies in the
movies, yet the use of custard as COM
edy is just as absolute as leg-of-mut-
ton sleeves and high-wheel bicycles
language in, our subtitles. when
many Of the leading novelists, play
wrights and magazine writers Of
standing are writing them in the.
vivid English of the best dramatic
literature. They are still laughing at
mindful of the fact that in no form
of dramatic expression is there, on
the one hand, such authenticity of
setting. and, on the other, such imag-
cry and beauty.
I'VE go to great expense to send
company into the heart of the desert
to film desert scenes and consratulate
ourselves that on the screen we have
caught the mystery and beauty of
Arionza But you can't fool the wise
ones. They know the desert was
built in the studio and that the Sier-
ras in the background are only an
indifferent backdrop done by studio
sign painter.
pictures" and 100000 salaries and
yet no reputable company makes any
boast of the amount of money its
pictures cost or the salaries that are
paid it's artists.
.1sbsa nas it stsss;v sossths se-wse moges have
their dsstiny. guided % Almost soieiy Ieya5s ss
motion picture people and unaided
by outside advice, although, heaven
knows We have had plenty
Evening star., 1924-06-15
BY HALLETT ABEND.

Los ANGELES, June 1.-THE mo-
tion picture colony here has been
somewhat Jared by cables from Toxic
and agitated Paris dealing with the
Japanese police ban on bronze repro
ductions of Robins famous statues.
1.-THE Kiss" and Spring because, to
quote from the chief of Tokio's metro
politan police, kissing is an unclean
habit. the encouragement of which is
not desired by the Japanese" The ac-
tors, actresses and most of the directors
are wondering what happens to films
in which kisses are shown upon the
porters and exhibitors, is that kiss
ing scenes are ruthlessly cut out of
all films before they are shown on
the screens in Japan. Usually the
eXciSions are made here, before the
films are shipped, but if the makers
forget the Japanese never do.
Some films are very funny with the
kisses left out. All is ready for the
"clinch," and then instead of the
usual embrace the Japanese will see
the hero in his next scene. lighting
cigarette, and the heroine calmly
turning the leaves of book:
Japan blames American films for
the epidemic of romances. Time was
when Japanese parents arranged the
marriages; now both the young men
and young women do their own
choosing. And films are blamed, too
for the new craze for bobbed hair
which has seized Japanese women
and girls.
Mary as Peter Pan
Jesse L. Lasky, accompanied by
Mrs. Lasky, has left for New York
and London to confer with j. NJ Bar
rie about the filming of Peter Pan
He took with him all the screen tests
made of aspirants for that role. Ru-
NOR has it that Mary Pickford, now
in Scandinavia with Doug, will meet
Lasky in London and that she may be
Peter Pan. Barrie has always ex-
pressed his preference for Miss Pick
ford in the role, and when she was ir
New York not long ago she held &
long secret conference with Adolpf
Zukor, president of Famous Players
Lasky and Paramount.
Walter HERS, while in New York
last week, signed a contract to make
series of two-reel pictures, six OF
them in all, on the Christie lot.
Sam Wood, long Lasky director
has decided to become an Independent
producer as soon as he complete:
work on The Female" starrins
Betty Compson.
Thomas H. Ince yesterday signed
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Hunting a Torn ado.

blo~eth where it lIsteth. And the
biggest wind of all the tornado, is
llkely To come along most any time
and place. Moreover, il is likely 70
come so fast that il will he all over
before the cameraman can get "set
up
Baggott wants the tornado as the
piece e-de-resistance of The Tornado"
the screen version of Lincoln J. Car
ter's melodrama, starring House Pc
terS.
In consultation with the weather
bureau, Baggot .has mapped out the
hunting grounds most frequented by
tornados, and statistics have proved
that the early summer season is the
most favored by this specimen of the
elemental furies. That's about as
close as ii can be localized
Forty cameramen are stationed at
various points in the United States.
eleven of whom are in so-called tor
nado territory. Other likely points
are being covered by special camera
men sent from Universal City. who
Will keep in close touch with the
weather bureau with their CAMERAS
loaded and ready to shoot at the first
sign of a funnel-shaped cloud.
Evening star., 1924-06-15

stXIJHAT motion pictures need is
w more intelligent criticism"
So says Jesse L. Lasky, motion pic
ture producer "And by criticism / do
not mean the weekly review or the
professional newspaper and magazine
film critics; they are hard-work1ng,
skiIlful and experienced lot of men
and women, and their comments on
current screen offerings for the most
part have been not only 9n intel inteiiigent snt
also helpful to the producer.
what 1 do mean is the stereotyped
criticism of the so-called intelligent
sia. the superior minded folk who Ia
tuously profess scorn Tor tne MOVIES
and who, over and over again. parrot
the nat phrases OF rid1cule Wnlcn
were adopted when motion pictures
were in their early bogs of custard
"These good people, SO far as mo-
tion pictures go, are still jeering on
the corner long after the picture pa
rade has passed. The motlon picture
about it's business and has left them
moutbing their witticisms. uncon-
scious that those jfbes have become
stale and that they themselves are
becoming family ridiculous and not a
ut is rather difficult to define this
group of people, but mostly they are
the same folk who think the general
public is naturally foolish, 1lnteraLe
and lacking in taste. with the cor9i-
likes is wrong. AS a part of their
program of uplift, they have tried
yaliantly to convince the public that
motion pictures are silly; oanaI ana a
waste of time. But the american
an enormous amount of amusement
out of motion pictures despite these
volunteer MENTORS
Evening star., 1924-06-15

CHARLES RAY has stepped back
into the old shoes of his famous
homespun hero of former days at
the Thomas H. Ince studios He has
done this 50 easily and naturally that
he is wondering whether he was
ever really away from the old lot, or
whether it was Rip Van Wrinkle
nap and his three self-made pictures
were a beautiful dream, a dream that
took a sharp turn at the end of
nightmare of financial difficulties,
which woke him up to the world of
reality and finally sent him back to
the direction which developed his
unique genius and the roles which
won for him him the ;, appellation Of
1t is really much like the return of
the prodigal son. this hgurative lay
ing of the figureweary head on the
triplicate Ince bosom. Ralph Ince is
said to be beaming on all and sundry,
supremely happy to be directing
Charlie" again. John Ince is happy
to be assisting Ralph.
And as for Thomas H. 1nce. his
feelings are much like those of the
good father who saw his son return
ing when he was yet great way on
and ran to meet him. 1t is not re-
corded that he fell on his neck and
kissed him, but he did say: Bring
forth his old hat and his old shirt, his
old pants and his old socks and shoes.
and put them on him" And, 10, they
fitted him. His feet had grown no
smaller and his head no larger dur
ing the years he had been riotously
producing super-pictures.
1t will be remembered that Ray be-
gan his screen career eleven years
ago, when a Los Angeles high school
student as an extra at 1nceville. in
Santa Monica Canyon, the charming
little village which has since burned
down Carefully selected stories and
Evening star., 1924-06-15
What Hays Has Done.

THAT Will Fl. Hays. former POST
master General and now fippantly
called the Judge Lands of the
Movies" is something more than a
mere politician Is attested in an
article by l.. w. Bornton. which ap-
psared in the May Is issue of the
Wall Street Journal
or March 6. 1922" says Mr
Boynton. The leading producers and
distributors called Will H. HAYS into
the industry to undertake this job
Of organization and to galvanize the
relations of the industry with the
public.
One of the first things Mr.. Hays
dld was to create a committee on
tween the industry and the public.
On this committee are representa-
ttves of some eighty educational.
social. welfare and civic organiza-
tons, representing, in their combined
membership. some 3O.000,OOO Amer
leans.
No industry every before under
took to mobilize public goodwill on
so vast scale.
The committee. through repre-
sentatlVes, previews films. 1t is not
a censorship body. The motion pic
ture industry is against censorship,
but 1t welcomes constructive sugges-
tlonS. the committee is a consulting
body which recommends good pic
lures to Its constituent organizations
published by them. The circulation
or these publica tions is about 9,000,-
600.
IF the committee does not like GER
tam phases of film it makes infor-
NAL suggestions to the producer.
through the Hays Office ONLY in one
instance has the producer failed to
act on the suggestion, and in that in
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Hollywood GOSSIP

with First National for the fourth
successive season for the release of
all his films made this year. His
production schedule calls for the eX-
penditure of several million dollars
before winter.
Louise Fazenda, abandoning com
edy, has signed for heavy sob part
in "Clinging Fingers which will
star Virginia Valli, for Universal,
with Norman Kerry as the leading
man.
Vivian Martin, who will close her
stage tour in Just Married" within
fortnight, will probably return to
the films for the summer.
Claire De LoreZ. one of the new
crop of screen vampS, will soon marry
DR.. Montrose Bernstein of Detroit.
DR.. Bernstein is moving to Hollywood
and Miss De Lorez will continue her
screen career.
John E. Kevan and William Stroh-
back have organized the Strovan
Productions, and will make six five
Ralph Cedar. director, has been
signed by Mack Sennett to direct a
series of two-reei comedies with
Billy Bevan. Madeline Hurlock, Bar
bara Pierre and kalla Pasha.
A Great Enterprise.
Louis B. Mayer, president of the
MetroGoldwynM Mayer merger, an
nounceS a production program call
ing for fifty pictures to be made this
season. These productions. together
with the building of four new stages
and three new administration build
ings as we'll as a huge prop" build
ing and wardrobe department, will
entail an outlay of s15.000.oOO be-
tween now and the end of the calen-
dar year. The company has twenty
directors under contract. Four are
now making pictures and $50 people
are on the pay roll When all twenty
are at work, and that will be within
a month, the pay roll will carry
nearly 1000 names.
Half a dozen years ago Margarita
Fischer was one of the popular stars
| of the screen. Then she married
| Harry Pollard, the director, and re-
| tired. Now she is going to ,''come
| back" but she will begin alt over
| again, and will be screened as Mar
garita Pollard. She will be featured
by Universal.
First National has purchased the
| screen rights to Struthers Burt's sue
| cessful novel, The Interpreters
House"
julius Bernheim, general manager
| of Universal. has gone to New York
| to confer with Carl Laemmle, presi-
| dent of the company, before the lat
| ter sails for a summer in Europe
Copyright, 1924. by Hallett Abend.)
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Actors and Clergy.

DOUGLAS MACLEAN is one of the
cleverest of straight comedians
of the screen. His father for years
was Methodist clergyman in the
Capital and is said to be not at all
opposed to his sons pursuing the
stage or the screen as a life work.
Frequently an actor becomes a
clergyman. Washington can cite the
example. Before taking to the pull
pit Rev. Earle Whitley, pastor of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church, is
said to have been "a Thespian An
other instance will come to the view
Of Washington amusement seekers
this week. He is introduced by
declaration of principle.
Il would rather be true to a mask
than false to cross.
Il would rather change my coat
than wear it wrong side OUT
That is the startling apology, if
apology be needed, of the Rev. J.
Edwards Davis, who left the pulpit to
become an actor, won exceptional
recognition on the stage and is now
playing in motion pictures.
Mr.. Davis appears in rThe Woman
Evening star., 1924-06-15

stance the picture proved financial
failure.
"The classic example of how the
committee works was furnished IN
A representative Of the Boy Scouts
objected to the way in which the
character of Kit Carson was por-
trayed. Kit was made to appear as
devotee of bootleg. 1t was urged
that Carson was Boy Scout hero
and that he should not be shown in
such a hilarious condition. The sug-
gestion was passed along to the pro-
ducer. The same day the change
was made and the character altered.
The committees work goes even
further. The advice and suggestions
of the members are sought before
filming Of the picture is begun. This
plan also has worked to advantage.
Another function of the committee
deals with exploitation. 1t is con-
suited as to what sort of pictures the
members of its organizations will be
interested in, and thus a ready made
market is guaranteed, and the sales
path of the picture rendered easier,
all the way from studio to screen.
THE activities of the Hays organi-
cation, within the short space of two
years. have heightened the good will of
pictures are being made. 1t is uni
versally agreed that the product offered
the public today is individually, and on
the average, far superior to that of
even two years ago.
1.-The Hays organization started with
nine producing and distributing COM
panies. 1t now has twenty-five in its
membership, and these represent 80 per
cent of the production and distribution
of motion pictures in America.
THE making. distribution and exhibit
ton of pictures is no longer game, but
a real business on a solid foundation"
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Chronicles of America.

SCOLCMBCS," the first film spon-
sored and produced by Yale
University Press in its series of his
torical photoplays. The Chronicles OF
America" is soon to be shown here.
The Yale University Press for three
and half years has been engaged
in the filming of an accurate, un-
biased account, of American history
from Columbus to Appomattox in a.
series of thirty three photoplays for
thea trical distribution. Columbus"
will be shown at the Chevy Chase
Theater June Is and 16.
The Chronicles of America" seem
to NIL a definite need of the screen
Already the project has been hailed
as a milestone in the progress of mo-
tion picture production. Educators
have lauded it as the incentive to a
rebirth of interest in American his
tory. Editors have commented upon
its splendid worth as a force for real
Critical theater men
have tried out the first picture and
found it a profitable attraction. Best
OF all. the public-the average movie
going public-has relished it as
unique, interesting and thoroughly
entertaining.