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Show J..-C Jg&& fW S V not all addressed to the same person. By a judicious scattering through the hero's activities they meet any situation situa-tion likely to arise in a motion drama. A glance at them shows that before the invention of the exclamation point a movie hero would have been impossible. In the days of his prosperity the hero is snappy dresser, with a new straw hat adorned with a fussy little bow; semifltting sack coat and carefully creased trousers. For evening wear he has sometimes a dinner jacket and sometimes, a claw hammer and at his own wedding he invariably wears a gardenia in the buttonhole of a frock coat. He is also natty when firing the locomotive, loco-motive, and even when returning from a run through western Pennsylvania his overalls are spotless as he emerges from the cab. If we were a prize fight manager, looking for a white hope, we should make haste to get in touch with the have underwritten the chief actor for six buffalo nickels. We believe he would almost undertake to preside over the next Republican-Progressive nation SJSv al convention. eM He is equally at home in all nations and in all strata of society. Whether about to. be burned at the stake by early American Indians, to bo popped into the kettle of Fiji epicures, or to walk the plank just ahead of the cutlasses cut-lasses of Chinese pirates, his attitude is the correct one for the particular occasion. oc-casion. One would imagine that being hurled over precipices, cast into turbulent turbu-lent whirlpools, dropped from the Wool-worth Wool-worth building, and fed through mangling mang-ling machines would crease his face with lines of care and silver his brown locks; yet his face still wears the lusty look of vouth. and his spirits are those of a sophomore right up to his wedding day. The lines and the silver threads may come after that, but he ceases to anrear in public after the ceremony. |