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Show gods who wear particular 'collars or some J special clgarets. But It never got him , anything. 1 I One day in a football game at Cornell he had his nose broken and his theretofore thereto-fore handsome map marked up like a battlefield bat-tlefield In Flanders. Hi atage career, toward which Wolheim had been studying, study-ing, seemd doomed. Hut Just then a. moving picture company, headed by Lionel Li-onel Barrvmore, came to Ithaca to film some scenes. Requiring a particularly I villainous face, the director eTigHped I young Wolheim. Barry more got to talking talk-ing with him. and finding him ambitious! sud talented, gave him a part in one of j his stage productions and trained him In the art Of acting. , When Kugene 0'Nm wrote his romance ro-mance of "beauty and the beast." known ss "The Halrv Ape." it was a question ' If he could ever find an actor who could ; both look and play the part. Ifcirry-mor Ifcirry-mor unhesitatingly recommended V "'- ; he m. and the hit he scored Is a pnrt of rerent theatrical history. Then when j Cosmopolitan productions acquired the) motion picture rights to Jsrk Boyle's fa- j mo. is "Boston Blackie ' stories, and Li- I onel Barrvmore was encRcd for the i leading role In "The Face tn the Fog.' , he recommended Txuls Wolheim for Trie Face." As fetru. the Russian '"Rrd" j terrorist Mr Wolheim aaln score on , the screen with his acting ability, as well ss with "the face." which realises the title of the picture. jHu Face Is His Fortune "His face is h's fortune" might be wrtttrn of Louis Wolheim. who plays the part of IVtrwa. the r.us!iit Red." In "The Face In the Fog " Not that Wolheim Wol-heim would win any prize in a beauty conteat, for. as those who have seen him In "The If airy Ape knnm he wears the most villainous face Imaginable. Wolheim Wol-heim used to In quite a, handsome boy, with a perfect profile, straight nose and powerful Jaw just like one sees In the advertisement deplrnng young Oreek |