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manly looking chap with a mop Of
chestnut brown curls. From the mo-
ment that saw him I was struck
with Tommy Meighan's possibilities
America I wired Lasky to look him
over. We engaged him. and Tommy
went to California to make his frst
picture. "The Fighting Hope"
Tommy no good: this was the
telephoned verdict which De Mile
rendered after this initial perform
and when I arrived in Los Angeles
the defendant got to me before the
prosecutor.
See here" announced Tommy. rue
fully, they say I'm no good around
this place. 80 I guess I'll clear out.
The Universal has made me an offer.
DO nothing of tho Sort" I COM
manded. wait until / SEQ your pic
ture first"
Ny view Of that picture convinced
me that our chief directors opinion
had been conceived too hastily. And
the outcome OF my tntercession was
q very distinct gain: A year or 50
day he 's Is one t Of {" the aef most S popular
actors Of the screen.
All this happened in. 1914. The
next year was ono especially signifi-
cant in motion picture circles.
Among the events contributing to it's
limpressiveness was that titanic con-
ception OF tho silver sheet. "The
Birth Of Nation" This Grinith pic
ture which, by the way. was the
first screen performance where two
dollars q seat was asked, might also
have been called THE Birth Of Num-
erous Stars" Mae Marsh, the Gish
girls. perhaps a dozen luminaries
who have since flashed across the
public consciousness. owe their sue
cess to parts in the giant canvas.
It was during this year that De
Mile and l went to dinner given
to Raymond Hitchcock at Levy's
Cafe In Los Angeles. We were half
way through when we were at
tracted simultaneously by a young
man who had just sat down at an
adjacent table. One look at the
clear-cut face and we exclaimed in
unison. isn't he attractive! Wouldn't
he be wonderful in pictures"
He was wonderful In pictures. For
his name was Wallace Reid. The
very next day we engaged him at a
salary of one hundred dollars a week,
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capitalization now increased from the
original 100000 to $250,o00.
But the domestic market by no means
exhausted our outlet. Always I have
possees shs % nSs.
try. That this Esperanto OF the stage
could be communicated to foreign coun-
! tries-here was the idea which In the
early summer Of 1914 sent me speed
| ing to Europe.
/ was interested in placing not Laslzy
products alone, for before my departure
Mr.. Zukor had asked me II would not
look after his interests also.
| Until this time we had engaged in
| no concentrated drive of the sort. For,
although Ir. Zukor had a representa-
tive in London. the agency waged only
| a haphazard, picture-by picture cam
| paign. Nor was my first important in.
terview pregnant with hope OF moro
| systematic sales.
Great Britain had always been active
| In picture production and her leading
| distributor was William Jury. who has
since been knighted. Mr.. Zukor's Lon
| don representative arranged my meet
| ing with this parsonage, and from al
most the minute ! began talking to him
l saw that Mr. Jury believed that
Britannia rules the films as well as the
waves. After he had listened to my
enthusiastic praise of both Zukor and
Lasky products. he told mo that no
| American company could possibly be as
great as l said we were going to be.
To this I retorted that no one 30 lack
ing in confidence in q product could
| possible be able to sell it. Having thus
clarified out views, Mr.. Jury and I
| parted. Almost Immediately afterward
l helped finance j. d. Walker to handle
both Famous Players and Lasky Aims
| in Great Britain. Under my contract
with him he was to take the output Of
| both studios and to pay US $4,000 ad-
vance against 65 per cent gross.
! After this my progress was compare
lively easy. Sweden, Norway and
Denmark promised to buy all the
pictures we made at something in tho
neighborhood of tk-ee thousand dol
| lars each. I closed deal with Australia
guaranteeing to take our complete
| output at thirty-five hundred dollars
a film; Germany put in the same large
order at an even higher rate-four
thousand each: Belgium and Switzer-
land contributed their quota, and al
though France represented our poor
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ut customer. even she did not with

est customer. even she did not with
IL It any wonder that a. I rode
from Berlin to Paris my head reeled
with the magnitude Of our success?
who q short time before had wand
cred over these very countries with
hardly . sou In his pocketf
Yet mine was no miracle Of success.
Travelled in Europe day and night.
pitted all my enthusiasm against
many citadels Of prejudice and scep-
from Liverpool ! was physically pros
trated by the long strain OF It all.
Even the triumph which have
just chronicled was doomed to only q
partial realisation. I could not anti
cipate. OF course, on that summer day
when. riding from Berlin to Paris, ]
counted up my Thousands. that In q
plode In Sarajevo which would change
tho map and the Psychology and the
industrial conditions Of the whole
world. And I certainly could not fore.
see, therefore. the broken contracts
ana the difficulty Of obtaining ships
to fulnl contracts which followed the
declaration OF war.
While in Europe ! was constantly
on the lookout for actors. and ono Of
the results Of my search was Edna
Goodrich. Miss Goodrich had three
assets at this time. She was beauti-
full; she had created a sensation on
the London stage, and she had re-
Gently Joined the famous recessional
OF wives OF the late Nat Goodwin.
Eventually Miss Goodrich made a
picture for US at $4,000 dollars. with
the understanding that IL It were sue
cessful we should have the first op-
ton on her second venture.
for the Lasky Company! Almost the
minute De Mile started to work with
her he wired me. Goodrich too cold"
In the aim world this 10 an epitaph,
Nor did Miss Goodrich live down her
obituary. Time refused to thaw her,
and was then initiated into the pro-
found truth that many an actress
whom individuality OF voice and
beauty OF colortng render glowing on
the stage arc absolutely calcimined
by the camera.
However. my interview with Miss
Goodrich resulted profitably in an
other way. While dining with her at
the Carlton in London I was intro
duced to q tall, red,
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the first and | have already indicated
his rapid ascent to fortune.
. AS to Blanche. who eight years later
BECAME Mrs. Marshall Neilan, it was
not until she began to work under Mr..
Neilan's direction that she justified our
expectations of her. l shall never, in
deed, forget my disappointment at see
ing her first Lasky film.
what" thought /. "Can this be the
same girl who was so effective in that
Griffith picture?"
: 1t was my introduction to a recurrent
tragedy in my career as producer. Va
rious times I have been attracted by
Griffith successes only to find that they
could not thrive In another environ
ment Just like Trilby when no longer
confronted by the hypnotic baton OF
Svengali. so many of the men and wom-
IN who have worked under Mr.. Griffith
cannot perform when deprived Of his
inspiring, force.
Meanwhile the Lasky Company had
been expanding tremendously. Like an
octopus it clutched at all the landscape
available In the vicinity Of the original
livery stable. New buildings kept go
ing up. New people were being added.
So swift was the!pace of progress that
De Miles brother William. whom we
had sent out meanwhile as a scenario
writer frequently voiced his leading
a little building away out in a field.
but to save his life he could not move
that little building fast enough. II
wake up in the morning after I've just
staked a fresh claim" he used to say,
land the doggone studio has caught up
with me in the night
A tremendous impetus was given to
both MIR. Zukor and the Lasky Com
pany by an organization OF the dis
tributers who had been handling our
Aims. About six months after Lasky
and / went into business these function
aries decided that in order to make
themselves a real force they would have
to guarantee to theatrical managers
throughout the country a larger num-
Der OF pictures. Their organization.
under the name of Paramount Pictures
Corporation, requisitioned 104 films a
year, of which our company agreed to
supply thirty-six. AS this was just
three times the number We had planned
to produce you will see the urgency Of
growth. 1t is equally evident why our
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CONTINUED from Yesterdays Star.
CHAPTER v.

Marguerite Clark Misses Fire and
Edna Goodrich Doesn't Ignite at All.
N EANWHILE, of course, I had
M been negotiating with va
rious other stars Among
this number was Marguerite
Clark. Miss Clark. you remember, had
stirred the public deeply by her beau
tiful performance in "Prunella," and
this success Of the speaking stage
resulted In a competition between
taa. Mr: luxor Or and ourselves for her serv-
ices on the screen. Our final compro-
mise indicates how ably we lived ur
duct.
See here" called Mr.. zukor over
with Marguerite Clark. Now want
TO tell You something. I'm going to
get her, no matter what 1 have to
pay: SO you'll do me a favor IL you
o9nt old me up any higher" +.
L agreed to withdraw, but upon one
condition only. The Lasky company
nad Just secured the rights to Harold
McGrath's The Goose Girl" and we
mao been thinking for some time that
marguerite would be ideal for the
part part MY fnal understanding with
my competitor accordingly was
that he should lend us the coveted
star for this single picture. In this
arrangement, however, we reckoned
without Marguerite herself. What.
california;. exclaimed the stars sis
ter when called at the Clark apart
ment that first evening.
An Astor or Vanderbilt ordered to
go out and hoe potatoes, a Russian
hobleman sentenced to Siberia
neither of these could have expressed
more profound emotion. Nor was the
prejudice of Miss Clark's sister an
isolated one. I quote this exclama-
ton. indeed. as significant of an al
most universal obstacle I encountered
IN those early days. Stars did not
want to leave New York for Cali
fornia.
l soon suspected that in Mar
guerite's case the prejudice was a
more deep-seated one than could be
explained by climate or landscape.
The very morning after she agreed to
go out to the Lasky studios young
man in the employ Of Mr.. Zukor came
to my Office. His name was Harold
Lockwood and he will be remembered
for his work in some of Mary Pick.
famous star for the Metro Company.
After a little preliminary clearing
of his throat the handsome Harold
suggested the purpose of his call.
"Ahem," began he, Il hear you've
engaged Miss Clark to do a picture
AOt Sou.
Yes. yes. so I have" retorted ],
1eaf1ng over a pamphlet.
More pronounced symptoms of
nervousness by Harold before he
could proceed. "Ahem-well-I just
thought-of course you may not be
looking for anybody-but-"
We did not take advantage of
Harold's willingness to share Miss
Clark's banishment, but there are
numerous parallel situations where
We found the pressure more forceful.
Sometimes in fact, we have been
obliged to- take a constellation in
order to secure the services of the
one particular star which graced it.
Our engagement of Blanche Sweet,
of Pauline Frederick. and later ex-
periences with Geraldine Farrar-
these episodes to which I am coming
presently-reveal the extent to which
some emotional preference influences
the contract of the feminine star.
Well, Miss Clark did go to Califor-
mia and she made for, the Lasky
Company its successful play OF THE
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ard It was not until this first meet
ing that we discovered he had al
ready worked at pictures under Mr..
|Grimth's direction. The untimely
death OF this gifted and attractive
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young man. whose future held 30
much Of promis;. brought to his pro-
fession an irreparable loss.
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starry
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"Phoenix" Hose. In
High Shades, $1.85
Newest of shades at
a new lowered price
in full-fashioned chif-
fon or medium-weight,
perfect Phoenix hose,
with mercerized tops.
Gray, nude, Oriental
pearl, Aztec, tanbark,
cameo, and black.
tTirst Floor. The Hecht Co)
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Slim Capes Wear Soft
Fur Collars. $25

Furs are too becoming to relin-
quish, even when spring breezes in.
So these stunning long capes of
velvety black Brytonia wear soft
crush collars of mouflon or
Viatka coney. Slenderly fash
ioned, with lining full length.
Sizes for women and misses.
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High Colors Rule the
New Jacquettes. $25

New JacquetteS. %
Astrakhan cloth jacquettes are
arriving in the gayest colors-tiger
Lily, palm-leaf green, beige, cobweb
and white-with youthful crush or
chin collars of white or beige sum-
mer errnine (coney). Apple d
leather motifs and novel ball but
tons adorn others. For the young
girl, 16 to 20.
Gorgeous Beaded Frocks for Every
Spring Function, $25.75
For the club dance. For town
dinner. For afternoons. When
ever one would look prettiest-the
brilliant new beaded frocks. Of
heavy silk crepe, in palm-leaf green,
madonna blue, white, sand, cocoa,
brick. cobweb, navy: and black.
Beaded in crystal, steel, bronze, iri-
descent. For women and misses.
tsecoud Floor The Hecht COL
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Laddie the Revived Tailleur
With the Gardenia. $35

The suit - smarter than ever
with its dashing boyish style. The
jacket may be double breasted,
looped with one button, pinched in
at the waist, or straight and very
short. Of twill or serge, plain or
neatly striped. For misses and
small women. Special at $35.
Evening star., 1924-02-08

Iris. a Spring
Footnote. $5.85
Our famous Girls"
$5.85 shoes have never
sent a prettier model
than this black suede
sandal with its dainty
cutouts and slender in
step strap. Allsizes.
(Thst y1ess, The HseAt Col
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
SALISBURY
RAIDS REDST0NE
POOL HALL SAT.

On Saturday night, August 23rd.
Sheriff Salisbury and Deputy Sheriff
Newton raided the Redstone Pool Hall
which was being conducted by John
Boulds, but which is reported to be
owned by Roy Profit, prominent Red
stone citizen and a prominent member
of the church element and bosom
friend of Jud Matkins.
EIr. Profit Suspected that his place
of business was under surveillance
sozle time ago and it is understood
that in order to avoid any liability
in connection with his business he
transferred the same over to John
Boulds, a noted gambler from Plenty
wood. The sheriff seized 80 bottles
of beer which was kept in a back room
in an ice box and arrested John
Boulds ard Harold Cleveland on a
charge of possessing Intoxicating IL
quOrs.
After questioning Cleveland he ad-
mitted selling liquor fer John Boulds
and Roy Profit, and that he turned
the money over to them.
BouIds furnished bond to appear IN
District Court next November. Cleve-
land was released pending further ac-
ton of the authorities against Proflt.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
CRAVE CLOTHING
STORE ROBBED
SUNDAY NIGHT
Most Of Loot Recovered At Various
Places Around City Where 1t Had
Been Cached-O'COnnOr Arrested
As One of Principals.

Sometime between Saturday night
and Monday morning, the F. w
Graw1 clothing store in Plentywood
was burglarized and about $500 worth
of clothing was taken. The burglars
entered the store by climbing ento
the roof of a shed adjoining the store
and breaking a window. After gain
ing entrance they opened a rear door
thru which the loot was carried into
the back alley.
Immediately upon discovering the
robbery, Mr.. Crave notified the Sher-
if and after a few hours a man by
the name of J. E. O'Connor was ar
rested and charged with grand lar
cency. O'Connor, it is reported, was
an inmate of the North Dakota state
prison until August 9th at Bismark,
having served there about one year.
The arrest was made after dis
covery that O'Connor had been try
ing to sell some of the loot to several
/. w. w. members and to divers other
people around town. By Monday
night all Of the loot had been recov-
cred with the exception of about
leather vests and several silk shirts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
Ole ]. JERDE, COM
ERTOWN FARMER
DIES AT HELENA
WENT TO VETERANS HOSPITAL
NUMBER 72 FOR TREATMENT
ABOUT MAY 1st. FOR CON
SUMPTION.

Ole J. Jerde, veteran of the World
War and prominent Comertown citi-
zen died at U. S. Veterans Hospital
No. 70 at Helena on Wednesday
morning, September 3rd.
Mr. Jerde was a member Of the ex-
peditionary forces in Siberia from
May 10th, 1918 until Nov. 7th. 1919,
where he contracted his illness which
finally caused his death. His health
was gradually failing until last April
when he decided to apply to the Unit
ed States government for treatment.
He was finally admitted to the Veter-
ans Hospital at Helena early in Nav.
but his condition was then such that
his recovery was doubtful. Finally cn
September 3rd. he passed away.
The remains viii be shipped tn
Comertown for burial It is expected
that the body viii arrive todav. Fun-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
CIVIL WAR BREAKS
OUT IN CHINA

Reports from China are to the ef-
feet that armed forces are in conflict
in that country and it is not known
to what extent the uprising will ex-
tend at this writing.
The warfare at the present is be-
tween two rival governors. A big
battle is pending at the present time.
Six people were killed IN clash
between Ku Klux Klan members and
those opposed to the Klan last Satur-
day afternoon at Herrin, Illinois.
Four of the dead were Klansmen
and one killed was a by-stander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Satire of st. Paul, Wis
tied Sunday at the Andy Hansen
home. Mr.. Satire is agent for the
Sig Ellingscn Stock Commission firm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
HIGH LIGHTS ON FARMER
LABOR MEETING
J.W. Anderson. Farmer-L

J.W. Anderson, Farmer Labor
candidate for United States SEN
atOr:
If Robert M. L Toilette is red,
I want to be red.
The Farmer-Labor party stands
= for mass prosperity
Great monopolies can be broken
. down but net by men who believe
: in them.
I am as class conscious as a
= banker. The only difference is
. that I'll admit it.
: There must be a new lineup in
= this country before the power of
. wealth is broken.
x Ther has never been such a
: demand for a change of admins
= tration as in this country at the
present time.
. Not only in our country but in
= every country the masses are long
ing for freedom, the solution of
which may be found in the prac-
: tical economies of life.
h|Ae~fCAg -ApHSesAD Il cl4OLr
= guises. It is now before us in
the gUise of wealth. And wealth
: is the most potent form of slavery
: because of its complexity.
Frank ]. Edwards, Farmer-La-
Dor candidate for governor:
If each party asks credit fer
better prices and good crops, let
them have it but insist that they
allow US to elect a president every
year and then we will have per-
petual prosperity.
I am against matching dollars
with the U. S. government on the
"better roads" plea to give aid
and comfort to the cement trust,
steel trust and automobile manu-
facturers. If we economic we'll
find it practical to provide our
own roads.
If the farmer don't make money
he has none to pass along.
- =
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
ELIZABETH NIELSEN IS NOW CLOSE SECOND
AS Time Grows Shorter Candidates RedoubIe Efforts to Land
High Honors and Enjoy Wonderful Trip to State Fair
Many Ways to Secure Votes.
CONTEST CLOSES WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18th
Send in Your Renewal New Subscription and Give the
Votes to Your Favorite Candidate Get Your
Friends to Work for You-Anybodys Race AS Yet.

The princess of Sheridan Coun-
ty contest is getting into the open
stretch and the next II days will see
the contestants vie with each other in
their campaign for votes. In the past
few days, some Of the contestants who
were among the lowest have jumped
several thousand votes.
Halle Wheeler and Lillian Gunder-
son have jumped suddenly from 1000
votes to $500 and 1850 respectively,
thus showing that they can catch up
with the high contestants any time
they want to. Inga Olson of Conner
town rolled up gain of 400 votes
since last issue and Ruth Olson of
Outlook also made a substantial gain.
EACH ISSUE CONTAINS
100000 VOTES.
1t is easy to get votes if you go af-
ter them. Each issue of the Produc-
ers News contains 100000 votes in
free coupons alone, and you can easily
secure additional votes by soliciting
subscriptions which gives you 600
votes for each renewal and 1900 votes
for each new subscriber secured. Also
you may earn additional votes by col
lections of accounts which gives you
one vote for each cent collected.
REMEMBER THE
DATE OF CLOSING
Don't forget that the contest closes
September 18th, instead of September
20th. The date of closing was set
three days earlier than originally
planned so as to give the Princess
time in which to prepare fer the event
and to secure instructions from the
Queen of Montana Manager at Hele-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
OUTLOOK STORE
is ROBBED And
AUTO STOLEN
Thieves Get Silk From N. ]. Nelson
& Co. Store and Ford From r. o.
NelsOn-ThOught to Be Booze Run
ners.

NelsOn-IhOught to Be Booze Run
ners.
Last Tuesday night or early We'd
nesday morning, burglars broke into
the n. J. Nelson & Co. store at Out
look by means of boring through a
door lock and escaped with S13.0O in
cash and several hundred dollars
worth Of silk and two suitcases.
Before leaving the town, the bur
glars also helped themselves to a
new Ford car owned by r. o. Nelson,
assistant cashier of the Security
State Bank. The car was stolen
from the garage near the Nelson resi-
dence and the theft of the car was net
discovered until Wednesday noon.
The news of the robbery was tele-
phoned to the Sheriff's office Wednes-
day noon, and two deputies and the
county attorney Immediately went to
Outlook to investigate the case.
Two quite we'll dressed young men
were seen lettering about Outlook
Tuesday evening and it is thought
that they were implicated in the
thievery, and were probably members
of a gang of auto thieves and booze
runners who crossed the Canadian
boundary after committing the crime
to dispose Of their loot The fact that
silk was the only merchandise dis
turbed showed the robbers to be pro-
fessional at the thieving game.
1t might be well for all small towns
to put on extra watche5 during the
next two months 10 protect their pro
perry from the marauders who gener-
ally follow the large band of harvest
hands to the country in the fall, hop
ing to escape dete ton because of the
number of strangers here al thai
time
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
WHEAT WEIGHS 64 LBS.
TO THE BUSHEL AND
YIELDS 331z BU. TO ACRE

Pete Marron Of west of Plentywcod
brought in 100 bushels of new wheat
to be ground into flour at the Plenty
wood Mill last Thursday This is the
first new wheat to come to the mill
this year and it weighed ga pounds to
the bushel. The wheat averaged 3315
bushels to the acre.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
AIDA FRALEY LEADS IN PRIN-
CESS C0NTEST--RACE is HOT
OUTLOOK HOSPITAL
AID TO HOLD BAZAAR
Lunch Will Be Served and Bazaar
Held Some Time in October
Date to Be Set Later.

The Outlook Hospital Aid is
planning to hold a bazaar and
lunch some time in October, the
date to be set later. All those
interested in the Outlook Hospital
are asked to contribute something
to be sold at the Bazaar. Prices
viii be reasonable and it will be
a good place to obtain your
Christmas gifts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Frank J. Fishbeck, age 81, and Nell
lie M. Goodman, age 21, both cf Plen-
tywood, Tuesday, September End.
Ed. Richards, age So, of Plentywood
and Sally Schumacher, age so, of Balm
vile, Wednesday, September 3rd.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-05
TIME GEI-
TING SHORT

This unique honor Of being elected
princess of Sheridan County will come
only cnce in lifetime except in rare
cases, 80 you do not want to pass up
this opportunity A few days OF hard
work is all that stands between you
and the honor of being the princess
cf Sheridan County and perhaps the
Queen of Montana Should you win
the latter honor, you will receive a
free trip to the Petroleum Exhibition
at Tulsa Oklahoma