Show Q Oar Own Letter From rem i BY BEATRICE BLAIR on on and appertain in to great hum humanitarian movements that will not be found listed in the to AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican Year Tear Book for 1920 is Harold Lloyds Lloyd's never-ending never crusade in be behalf behalf behalf be- be half of the American pie He is exerting exerting exerting ex ex- erting his best efforts to keep the pie where it belongs belongs in in the home home and and has come right out openly in his declaration that as long as he is cutting cutting cutting cut cut- I ting up before the camera it shall not be exploited in his movie ovie studio for forthe forthe forthe the ridicule of ot a heartless populace It was this attitude probably more than anything else that won for the Pathe Pate comedian the exalted rank of ot President Emeritus of the American Society for the Protection and the Propagation of th the to Pie He has put this idol of the American home back backon on one the pedestal from which it was slammed a few years ago by every every- body who tried to make a movie t I comedy N Now w the to funny part of it is is' is that Harold isn't particularly f fond nd of pie pIc He respects it and admires it but he lie would ne never er burgle an lc icebox box to steal a piece On th the contrary he has laid his aft affections at the feet of the to Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Choco Choco- late Sundae and he consumes them at a perfectly alarming rate In making making making mak mak- ing one of ot his famous two-reel two comedies comedies com corn edies edles for Pathe Harold thinks noth noth- nothIng nothing ing of t completely annihilating Chocolate Sundaes He does this without even removing his glasses The truth of the matter is that Harold Harold Har Har- old Lloyd is as strong for Sundae as Robinson Crusoe was for Friday But getting back to the pie Issue It was common talk when H Harold rold first began to wear his rimmed horn spectacles in pictures that he did it to keep the flying lemon meringue I out of his eyes Such was not so however and there was where he be began began be- be gan to fool the pie destroyers RIght Bight then and there he issued his ulti ulti- His Hid platform was Self de termination for pies He felt that every pie in the United States whether of the open-faced open variety like the lemon meringue and the tho pumpkin pump pump- pumpkin pumpkin pump pump- like the apple kin or hunting-case hunting and the prune should be allowed to live its life as it saw fit and should not be forced to take up a moving picture career against Its bett better r judgment Consider the pie says Mr Lloyd I admit that it hasn't had much consideration consideration consideration con con- from comedy producers inthe inthe in inthe the past but if you have nothing better better to do for the moment I re repeat repeat repeat re- re peat consider the pie Once upon a a time it was In a class with baseball and politics as a purely American in in- in Why in a certain section of ot the United States that I shall shan n not t name It was to to be found on every well regulated breakfast table The housewife took pride in her skill as a pie fabricator Even Even- the blushing bride tried her Inexperienced inexperienced hand at it and thereby made m de deher her young husband marvel at the fact that hands so soft and fragile as hers could turn out a flour product t that so so closely resembled Portland cement in a solid state Now take the pie you will find in inthe inthe inthe the average restaurant That is to say take it if you have the courage I will award a winding self-winding fountain pen to any man woman or child who can can fi find d the to remotest similarity between between be be- be- be tween the restaurant pie of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce merce and the kind mother used to make In contour and general outline outline out out- line the two are alike After that they have nothing in common I be believe believe believe be- be lieve it was wag the disrespect engendered by the made machine-made sewed hand-sewed open hearth BesseI Bessemer ler finish restaurant restaurant restaurant res res- pie that was entirely responsible re responsible responsible re- re for trying to get rid of as as many as possible in the movie studios without resorting to the to probably fatal alternative of eating them My idea is to get back to the old Continued on page 4 OUR JOUR OWN LETTER LETIER r c t Continued from page 3 I f so so far tar as as pie Is concerned X Let LetI t I f ruts think more about It let us teach uL children how hew to make the kind 4 hal half can be bo eaten With ith Impunity or orl orI l I 1 other dressing that ngay- ngay appeal I 6 o t tie e Cater ater eater We Wo should install pie I Ciu nurses In our schools we should Inon In- In it iti on pie eating contests in the li Games r believe the future of the Amer- Amer cg pie is in the hands of oft I the ul Ic Let us live Uve each day so that ii san fan an look ook every pie squarely In the yes e an and ano tell tell It that we re with it l tart m rt and arid soul s ul Then and only then then Vida if we be giving the tho pie the square that I Its s highly honorable his his- entitles it to nay to-nay nay my friends j ands for it I thank you pro pro- applause and raucous shouts Pie Fe forever fore long may she tf A e Ie hattle In subterranean cor- cor or- or below a pirate castle takes place In the sixth episode of Bride 13 Willlam Willlam Will Will- lam tam Foxs Fox's great serial sertal A A. naval aviator William Lawrence going to the rescue OBrien O'Brien of of then the hero John OBrien O'Brien and the the he heroIne heroine herome hero hero- ine me Marguerite Clayton encounters a a. band of the scoundrels and fights them i off oft The pirate leader Edward F F. sees the heroine Marguerite Clayton about to be stung by a tarantula In episode episode episode epi epi- epi- epi sode six of Bride 13 13 William Foxs Fox's great serial serla The villain does not wish the heroine to die as that would deprive him of the ransom so he shoots the insect off her arm with a n rifle rUle After an nn interregnum of publicity work for tor managers mana-Kers of the Rialto Strand and Capitol theatres in New York Abe Abc Mass has returned to Metro in the capacity of assistant to Arthur Zellner Zenner at the tho New NewYork Tork York studios No 3 West Sixty first street Mr Zellner Zeliner Is assistant to Maxwell Maxwell Maxwell Max Max- well Karger Metro director general In the tho nick of time time the hero John OBrien O'Brien and the heroine Marguerite Clayton escape from the pirates on a I balloon In In the sixth episode of Bride 13 13 William Foxs Fox's great serial Th The pirates fire on tho the balloon but tail fall to bring It down own In episode six of Bride 13 13 William FI Foxs Fox's ox's great serial tho the heroine Marguerite Marguer Marguer- ite te Clayton is bound helpless on on a n rack while the tho Greta Hartman looses a a. tarantula to strike the girl At New York City Fox News No 87 1 Teso obtained some interesting r views of IV when Sir Thomas Lipton Opened the opened the tho defeated yacht for tor public In In- In It looks O. O K but everybody Is wondering what held It back Fox News No 87 81 got t another scoop when It obtained exclusive views of Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Cantu of Lower California who has has' openly defied the Mexican M government govern govern- ment lie He Is shown Inspecting the new capitol First pictures are arc shown show I In In Fox News vs No 87 of Charles lonzi the money wIzard wizard wizard wiz wIz- ard wh who overnight became an international international figure in finance He claims to have made to In n one year and the government Is Js trying to find out how he did it No wonder his biB wife loves him An Interesting scene Interesting scene taken In Dayton O. O Ii showing the tremendous celebration 1 fr reeT and nd monster parade in honor r of Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Cox by his home city upon his nomInation nomination nomination nom nom- for the tho presidency Is shown In Fox loo Fox News No o. o 8 87 i Episode six of Bride 13 William Foxs Fox's great Trail f serial is entitled The Tarantulas Tarantula's |