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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- S. Most Pathetic Pilgrimage in the World 'VJ jf1 ' I''1M,' WIWIWIWH.' ' limn nui pi iir inursaav. aroitniMr is. NEPIII. UTAI1 Scenes and Persons in the Current News niiV tij ji ,M c WML tIL ' IR(D)GEIR BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know Is just what I read In the papers. Been prowling around quite a bit lately away up In the mountains working on a Movie. Its the nrst time we have been on location since we made "Light" nln.". Well this time we A ..:...''-'- ' are making the old silent picture made that twelve 1 years ago called "Jubilo." It Is a tramp picture and everyone that sees me In my street clothes say that I excell In tramp parts. I like to play tramps. There is something about an old tramp that kinder hl's me, especially a kind of good natured one that dont take things too seriously. Did you ever see a picture com pany on Location? Well now that we have to carry all that sound equipment and men with it, why it looks like Barnums Circus coming. We have a very small cast, about five. Yet 1 bet there Is about 60 ot us. It takes lots of folks to make these things, even if when you see em sometimes you think they alnt so hot. And the funny part about It Is that a bad one takes just as much work as a good one, for we have never find anyone that can tell when its going to be bad. What I mean is that we dont make em bad purposely. They sometimes look like we did, but we dont. Its kind of a cuckoo business, but trains have been full for twenty years of so called smart people that were ccming out here to fix the movies, and they have all gone back. There is things that look like they ought to be changed, but the wise ones cant seem able to think of anything to improve on. Its sorter like our Government. Its the cokeyedest run thing, we sometimes think, but darn it we keep living under It and nobody can scare up anything any different. Like the other day at the Studio they was talking about a story. Said it had to be changed a lot, that the old Idea of the mortgage on the old farm was all out of date, that the villain robbing the train and hiding the money was all the hooey. They claimed that all stories had to be made modern and up to date. So 1 told em, say listen there never was a time in our lives when the fore closing of a mortgage was as timely as it is today. It almost comes under the heading of standard equip ment with most homes and farms, and as for villains being out of date. why villains are getting as thick as college degree's, and sometimes on the same fellow. No sir, there is no new situations. Wives are leaving husbands, husbands are leaving wives. Robberies where they used to take your horse, and if they was caught they got hung for it, now they take your car and if they are caught its a miracle, and they will perhaps have the inconvenience ot having to go to court and explain. The old horse if the horse thiet ever let him loose or give him halt a chance he would come home. Our automobiles dont stay at borne long enough to know where homes are, even it they could get back. So your movies wont be changed much more than your morals, or your taxes or any other of the things that you think should be remodeled. There is one epidemic now that 1 i think could be disscontinued. havent got any kick with my friend Bill Hayes, but you sometimes lo wonder it Its absolutely nessisnry before a picture la released that it have the word "Hell" in the ii:!e. Looks like if they had to have it. But its the old stuff. It comes from the Preachers. Take any old preacher that is having a time any drafting body to listen to bim, and he anauw oi nounces that his sermon next Sunday night will be on "Hell and Damnation," c.i.lj ti1 .rt,. or "I am going to skin the Devil alive and show ?V?c.--,'- up Hell." Weil that was just a lot of hooey like these titles are, but he knew that that title would catch on. He knew that be couldent give the devil any more ot a skinning if his title had been. "The Out come of a Life Without Christ.' Bat he was looking for something sen sutlonal, and thata where the movies got the Idea. Both of em ought to be made tc cut It out. A picture that cant draw without hell in the title alnt much picture, and a preacher that cant preach without hell In the title is just as weak as the movie. Why lont they just for a change use the word "Dam" Instead ot bell? It dont sound near as bad, and its much more of a novelty. Instead of jailing this pic ture "Tramping Through Hell," I want to call it. "A Dam Tough Villain, Dam fine gal and a pretty dam fair kind of a tramp." i 113!, M'..S,.,kl Synditalt, Ik. Y v i Pilgrims from all parts of the world shown aa they pray for cures at the Grotto of the Blessed Virgin of Lonrdes, at Lourdes, France. The walls of the grotto are lined with discarded crutches and false limbs left behind by the cured. Some of the pilgrims are so badly crippled that they have to be carried Into the grotto on stretchers and others come In wheel chairs. These Bluejackets Have a Right to Be Proud t " ' m.' xL"-'- v i V" ?' L - 3i A mighty proud bunch of bluejackets are those aboard the scout cruiser Detroit, and equally proud is Capt Nathan W. Post, their skipper. Their ship has Just been awarded two of the highest trophies In the navy. One Is the battle efficiency pennant, known to navy men as the mast bait The other Is the gunnery trophy for ships of her class. In addition to these two honors the Detroit also holds the trophy presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution. anti-aircra- Texas Weed May Yield Fortune ;. K -- Jit :A , COIT MEMORIAL v i 1 s - i;.rr Iff - V V St. The Colt memorial at San Francisco, In the memory of Lilly Colt, will be a thing of beauty and will rise to an elevation of 200 feet from the crest of historic Telegraph hill. There will be a power- w That heretofore useless Texas weed, the "devil's shoestring," may turn out to be a gold mine for the Lone Star state If experiments now ful searchlight to act as a beacon being made by the Department of Agriculture experts prove successful. to the seafarer. It Is chockful of poisons fatal to Insects, which poisons. If they can be extracted from It In usable form, may very well take the place of 10,000,-00NEW PRO CHAMPION pounds of pyrethrum flowers which are now Imported each year to make American Insecticides. The photograph shows It. C. Koark. chemist In charge of Insecticide division, with some "devil's shoestring." 0 Largest Ship Built Since the War - 4 ,.,IH'ti, .!! ,,5 Olin Dutra of Santa Monica, Calif., who won the national professional golfers' championship In the tourney at St. Paul. Not All F.Yor.d The Rex, 64,000 ton superllner and the largest ship built since the The mills of the gods grind for World war, Is the newest of the Italian line's modern fleet of passenger all, but the holders of the sacks hips. She Is 880 feet long and has a required speed of more than 27 knots. vary. Exchange y 11 1 View of the Rio Grande flood, looking from Texas toward the Mexican town of Laredo and showing how part of the Missouri & Pacific railroad bridge was carried away. 2 J. W. Hildreth, supervisor of marine fisheries for the state of New York ; William U. Raye and Mlas Margaret Lave celebrating the opening of the oyster season on Great South bay off Sayvllle, L. L 8 MaJ. James H. Doolittle photographed at Cleveland after be had set a new world record of 293.193 miles an hour for land planes. Huge Plane for South American Service The new giant Sikorsky amphibian plane as It was placed In the water for the first time at Bridgeport, Conn. It has four motors capable of developing 2,300 horsepower and can attifla a speed of 145 miles per hour. The ship, the very latest In construction, will be used for South American passenger service. HONORED BY HIS CITY New Miss America Is Chosen y:f;ky n .lirr - i J Tom K. Smith of St Louis, Mo., president of the Boatmen's National bank, was selected from 100 outstanding St. Louisans to be honored with the first award to "the resident of metropolitan St. Louis who contributed the most outstanding service as to bring honor to the community." With the certificate award goes $1,000 which is the first of its kind to be Issued annually for the next ten years by a fund established by an unknown donor. Smith was chosen for the award as a "wise and humanitarian lender of a great philanthropic cause, throunh whose rare devotion and outstanding ability as chairman of the citizen's committee for relief and employment thousands of men and women have been cared for." He donated the $1,000 award to charity. i? - i ' 4 , If 7 , f ; ? L t . t9 GOOD WILL ENVOY ' ' ' Mayor Bright of Wlldwood, N. J., presenting to Miss Hann of Camden, N. J., the trophy emblematic of the title "Miss Dorothy after America," she had been chosen from among the hundreds of girls who competed for the honor of being the most beautiful and shapely girl In the country. j&glSStilL - vv'.-,- : V; (A A Gar Wood's Boat Victor in Race I c , -- , " f 'e' vi; , -- ; t Alarmed by persistent rumors of strained relations between the United States and Japan, the Japanese foreign office ordered Vice Admiral Klchloaburro Nomura to sail for the United States on a "good will" mission. .""uKrcS,? I Oarmsworth trophy aye Lion's boat. Miss KnglaiM r. "c,eul'"K IIL The engines of the English Teasel broke down in both heats. |