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Show Gill 5T1S11 IS ' 1UT0JIJ1ST "Wild Bill" Hart Displays a Weakness for National Cars. It is hard to believe that our cinema idols are not the same in real life as in reel life, according to Sales Manager Olson of the Randall-Dodd Auto company, com-pany, local National distributors. We like to think of Charlie Chaplin whil-ing whil-ing away his leisure hours by throwing custardi pies and it pays us to learn that Theda Bara can's' be a "rag, a bone and a hank of hair" without a makeup. "Partner, I reckon there 'ain't no heap of difference 'tween a hoss and a ottermobile. Pusson'lly I'm inclined to put 'em in the same corral, seein ' as how I size 'em both up 'siderable 'fore I saddle and mount. I know that critter crit-ter over yonder. Becognized the Circle Twelve brand on the fore flank as 1 was passin '. Aud I saj's to myself, 'Bill, you're a stranger in this here camp and can't expect no favors bein' done j'ou, but they can 't give you no necktie party for steppin' up and ask-in' ask-in' the loan 'of that gas 'line grazer for a day or so. So, partner; here I be." That is the way in which we would have had "William S. Hart, wild-riding, hirshooting, one-hand-cigarette-filling hero of the western films, talk when he entered the salesrooms of the Eiseman Automobile company of Cleveland recently re-cently and asked that he might use a twelve-cylinder National, mate to one that he has in his own garage on the Pacific coast, during his stay in the Ohio metropolis. But Hart 's manner of speech did not eome up to our fanciful speculations. He left the musical lingo of the plains behind to keep his chaps, his boots and his lariat company during his absence. He voiced his reason for selecting a National Na-tional Highway 12, however, in language lan-guage that was just as forceful, if not as picturesque. His tribute was this: "It is a car that appealed to me because be-cause of its fighting spirit, enduring strength and wonderful speed. These are the same qualities that I seek in a horse. He, too, must be made of the stuff of champions." - And fastening the strap of his broad sombrero under his chin, the cowboy of the movies put spurs to the self-starter and rode range on Cleveland astride a National mount, branded with the Circle Cir-cle Twelve iron. |