Show 1 Jitney Jim Jiro M Masses k the Fair nema n Surprising rising g and Generous Gene Jus Offer By GENE M MORGAN ORGAN ITNEY JIM JIJI was plainly agitated agitate His J JITNEY face was was flushed yes hushed yes flushed with ex ex- Anyone could see sec It was not an alehouse tan Before Myrtle Mrrtle the box office girl at the Pl time Theater could say s1 tM t I M a word he be slammed his bis fist on the shelf shelt of or the ticket window and aud shout shouted d This thing must stop Dollie Dottie has gotto got gotto to q quit tt lt her bel job or Ill I'll know the tho reason why rhy 1 And M Myrtle gasped Who on earth Dottie Is 18 Dot tie And wh why arc are you ou going to n make makei ake i the poor girl quit her Job Y Jitney JUne Jim Im breathlessly explained that Dottie Dottle was his pet name for tor Swish the world famed movie actress Myrtle ny caught a faint Idea Ideo of ot what was worrying ln him He had fallen tallen head he over o heels beels In Inlove f love with Miss Swish as you know and for tor weeks had ben adoring her In the films Lemme explain It to you hastened Jitney Jim You dames never ne get anything anything any uny- thing straight unless s Its It's poured down your neck I 1 want Dottle Dottie Swish to quit 1 f In the movies mo I want her to quit cm cold I 1 dont care how much she's maim n a Week neck I I dont don't care car If It her salary Is 18 LOOD per per and If It s she e does get 75 In cash Theres There's something besides money In this thi i world A lot of ot us uS' folks are growing up ll strong strong- and healthy health even though weve we've I never never been presented at nt the court of ot Old King Kale Every b bliss bliss wagon waJon hasn't got wh wheels hi made mad a out out of or g gold goad ld pieces nor r tires pumped up with William J. J Bryans Bryan's breath Dot Dottie tic Swish may be getting wealthy 1 but happy b by a long ways ays An And car that's wh why 1 I Insist she quit her Job Tho Th way they're abusing poor Dottle Dottie e Is something fierce tierce you noticed it r Myrtle That's Thae the way with you women women- Your heart never ne burns In 5 sympathy for lOl n a poor female creature If It her complexion Is Isreal isreal isreal real and her gowns gown beat the thc ba baud d. d I sup suj t Nose Po oIe e It if the little gal were a regular old oUT i 4 t 0 I ii c 1 r r r t i f r You Should Have Iia Saw aw C Her Lips QU Quiver 1 r When o H Her r Boss Bawled Her Herfor Here Here- o for lor Spelling Efficiency With Only One Z wire the instead of rOC a peach you'd be he dripping tears and sending her over oyer hot het bi biscuits So you rou dont don't understand why Dottle Dottie Swish is is abused h hey Well Well have you ou seen geen her Liar In DIt any of ot the K toto rammers she's been playing pla in lately V Then you dont don't know what youre you're gagging a IDt about I Dottle DoU e Swish II is wow now playing Poor Loor Working Girls They wont won't let her play anything e else e. e When she he wants to appear as a society heiress ss or a a. cC cowgirl or n u fairy queen the cruel movie mo director lia says s 's Back to the steam laundry j It seems that Dottie Dottle scored C l. l an nn awful c- c big in The Shirt Wreckers Wrecker's s' s Lament A No Now Nov thc they make her ber ploy play working girls girls girls- with a u heartless brute bruto for tor a u boss boss all all the time That's wb why I want wont her to get ou out of ot the game me She's too sweet a little lass to be browbeaten and b bullied d reel after niter reel She needs a n protector and protector and that's me mc 1 La Last t night 1 I saw w her liar In a II film In which w slip was a employed lod as a n steno stenographer ral her The cruel boss in n the pIa play made malIc her life Ute miserable miserable miser miser- able Just because she couldn't punctuate and spell l Ill I'll ll admit she didn't have have- more moro than Hum on foot toot on her job She Sho handled the typewriter as if It it were the cash r lster on onn a free tree lunch counter I pitied her er She w was s using tho thol th Hunt system of ot typewriting and Dud once in awhile bt 1915 f 7 r 6 J she found the thc right ke key She spelled by car As for punctuation say Dottie Swish put the punk In it But Dut that was no reason wh why the cruel boss should shake his fist under her bel nose she the sole support of or a n widowed mother and ten children That wa was no reason renson why he he should threaten her with Instant dismissal dis- dis mIssal to send scud her out In tho the world with only a little shawl to protect her ber from the twirling swirling blizzard of Ot shredded agricultural as reports Finally In t the play pIny poor Dottie is canned And nd what can she do to support her mother and the hungry ten Sh She gets a Job In a chewing gum mill where she has hns hasto hasto to wrap Uli up a thousand packages an hour or s- s get st t ba bawled VIed out b by the thc rough foreman Poor Poo Dottle Dottie She Is tired d and discouraged n and nd one da day she gets an idea It comes while she Is la folding the thc kimono around a nickels nickel's worth of ot breath tamer She writes her name in the package A few te days afterward she receives a n letter It Is from om a young man who bought the package And AmI ho Is the tho son of or her ber former cruel employer Dottie Dottle throws him down She t figures sure that the thc boy would be a tyrant lkc Ike his dad If It she married hIm You Tau see sec Dottle Dottie can coo cook nearly as us well as ns she can cnn spell shell r I the young Joun man marry an f. f way pleaded Myrtle 1 the wa way the play goes said Jitney Jim 4 But ut the young sink gink Is not n 21 real mUll man He lIe doesn't beat up the thc cruel chewing pun gum um ta factory tory t foreman r man W Why he couldn't c even cn n beat bent a gum machine I tell you ou what Dottle Dottie Swish needs Is Isa Isn isn I bet et she's sines a n regular guy u for tor tora u a protector tired of shredded wheat heroes heroes' b by this time lime But nut Jitney protested Myrtle Miss n Swish doesn't really suffer when the horrid boss a abuses buses her her- herIt's Its It's Just in a a. a pIa play Jitney Jim looked He e retorted re re- re- re tortel I t tSay i Say If It you sai the thc tears I to her herh h h. bw T T. T K vl v i f n. n i r i I j eyes n and d lips quiver you wouldn't say It was acting Not ot if It you ou saw how bow sad she looked when the thc boss bos bawled her out for tor spelling efficiency with only one Z Every Ever once In lu a while her great big eyes would look right ight at me in the most appealing sort or a. a way It got my goat to sit there help help- less unable to jump on the screen and knock her boss buss into tho the middle of t the sixth reeL I tell ten you Dottie Swish h has B got sot to give T Tup r rup up her ber position I dont don't care are how much money she will lose by chucking the job I We can starve together Im I'm willing Writers Writers' 1 Fortunes Await of Photoplay C Comedies t j O. O PARSONS By LOUELLA fw vrr iv script nn hOG bear i fn in mind that fh the stor story tr 1 what O 0 ul at is so 80 rare as as as' a clever comedy IllE mo most t difficult to write r tc T TIlE THE Is the comedy v Fo people are arc a able lc to create a scenario that is ie spontaneously spon span tan funny unu One reason reason for the scarcity of or humorous screen material out of ot person to the thc fact tact that only one every err ten tell has a developed l s sense ne of ot humor or A funny tunny incident with with- no plot is not a n comedy Along with the the- scintillating cIn story w Its bright hits bright hUs of ot humor ono one needs a 1 plot Subtle Is the most effective Ire c com comedy m. m ed edy dy It Is not nol always tho the c comely comedy n that re reads ds well on paper that carries a a laugh on the time screen Frequently the most mOt rd rollicking rol rol- licking ng l film lm comedy sounds the tho most fu iu funereal on paper er it wl will l rend read r nd with no mo more e suggestion of or merrl merriment tha than the proverbial proverbial pro pro- graveyard or a pair of ot crutches In selecting ng the subjects cb- cb of ot your O lr farce e straight or slapstick comel comedy ovoid old making any one class clagg of or people ridiculous Keep away from affliction and death kc keep p away from drunkenness and especially avoid an any suggestion o of vulgarity Vulgarity Y r is 18 not fun tun No comedian no nom m matter how how gifted gl l he he Js Js cnn f hope hoh to l tam tain his lils popularity and still sUll l c to the world arid pl pictures t unfit to be shown In Ia in writ fw vrr iv script nn hOG bear i fn in mind that fh the stor story tr 1 ing fag your which offends good taste or stretches a point of ot decency decency will not sell Aside from tr m 1 N I a athe J. J the sensitive censors censor's abhorrence of at things I l suggestive the film man d does s not Dot care eare to 8 e establish the tho precedent of giving vin unwholesome le- le l some some me stories to the hc public i j There are various kinds of ot comedy comedy- the farce force the slapstick the tho refined ned or Of straight comedy and the pretty com comedy comedy- dy- dy r 1 drama dramn which holds holds' both a laugh Augh and a tear The Thc slapstick comedy seams seems to be bethe t. t the one most In vogue Just now I r r The K Keystone co company pany with their sidesplitting side side- t splitting comedians were the first company to mal make e a specialty of ot tumble rough f t unique bits of fire fu were ft pictures These w rB I b billed cd Keystone comedies and found t tremendous tre tre- f- f mend us favor In the eyes yes of ot the picture t I going public 1 Since that time many companies ln Int In t fact ct m most st film companies have bave established d It a special comedy company compan whose dufy t is to produce the slapstick variety Charley Ol Chaplin and his many imitators belong to this tW's p particular school of ot comedy Its a ahard r hard tl thing to write Is this coDi comedy photo photo- play l i. i It If you can do so bettor better make D make ke comedies comedies come come- v dies your sp sp for tor th the mal who maa can h turn turn out salable slapstick co comedies Deed need nt never e cr fear tear the tho gnawing pilings of t LD h hunger or I r I I l |