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Show BEAVER PRESS How I Broke Into Our Go vernment The Movies 1 Copyright by Hal C How It Operates Herman 1 By William Bruchart By CLARA BOW 4o back upon my WHEN I Ilook feel that I cannot rightfully say "I broke" Into the movies. I struggled and worried and fretted and received disappointments galore before I reached my goal. My goal? You ask. Certainly, I Uvays hud one a definite one. Who hasn't in this life? From my earliest girlhood 1 had a desire to become a motion picture actress. I could never see my way clear to that end. I thought about It a lot, and every time I went to a picture show I placed myself in front of the camera and studied over what I would have done had I been privileged to trade places with the star. Then Brewster's magazines announced a national contest with a screen test and a contract as the first prize. This was In my Junior year In the Girls' Bayridge high school, I took my father Into my Brooklyn. confidence, and, to humor me, he entered my photographs and the data requested. That's all I had to do except to sit back and wait Weeks and weeks went by. My picture was never printed among those of the other contestants, and I was on the verge of giving up hope. One day there came a precious letter. It told me that the judges, Neysa McMein, Harrison Fisher and Howard Chandler Christy, desired to have a personal Interview with me, and the time was set. I was trembling when I entered that reception room and found 15 or 20 other girls there ahead of me. They called us before the Judges, one by one, looked us over carefully and took down notesr Then they let us go. What an anxious time that wasl That afternoon the telephone rang and I was called back to the offices of the P.rewster publications In New York. They wanted me to take a screen test. An expert applied makeup, and I stepped before the cameras for the first time In my life. Then followed another week of waiting, but finally the announcement that A lit On 1 '4 im Clara Bow. I had been chosen as one of the winners. Pleased? I was so tickled I couldn't eat or sleep. I thought that I was to become a star tomorrow sure. But I found that I was a long way from that coveted place. They gave me a lovely gown, a fine silver trophy and a contract that I was to play in one picture, "Beyond the Rainbow." which was being pro duced by William Christy Cabanne for Metro, featuring Billie Dove. My part was a pitifully small one, so unimportant In fact that It was cut out of the picture entirely when It was finished. This nearly broke my heart, for I had taken a party of friends to the theater on the night the show was announced. My I how It hurt me when they laughed. It cut so deep that I gave up all hope of becoming an act ress and entered business college. Three months later a strange thing happened. Why, I do not know.- But Elmer Clifton called me at home one evening and asked me to come to his studio. He was casting for "Down to the Sea In Ships," and he signed me to 'play a small bit as the stowaway 1 learned Inter that one of the sub editors of the Brewster magazines had urged him to give me a chance. I played that part as though 1 bad been Bernhardt In "Camllle." I gave it everything I had. I must have been fairly good, for at least they left me In the completed picture. That gave me my chance. Next I was signed to play opposite Glenn Hunter In "Grit," and then followed increasingly better roles following my coming to Hollywood. B. P. Schulherg gave me my real chance when he signed me as a fea tnred member of his Independent com pany. When Mr. Sohulberg became associate producer with Paramount Famous I.nsky late In 1925, he brought me with him because of our unexpired contract, and I played In "Dancinc Mothers," "The Runaway," "Mantrap and "Kid Boots." Then they made "It." and "It" made me a star. So yon we, on top of It all, I have ii lot to thank Kllnor Glyn for. - Why Not Tomper? vegetable. top'po tors between a tomato and a pepper But why didn't they call It a pemater' The Is a new DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CASUAL visitors to the Capital City nation seldom receive suggestions from natives of Washington that they should visit the Department of Agriculture. The native here will freely point out places to see and the things of Interest that a tourist "should not miss," but the suggestions almost never Include the Department of Agriculture. It Is more easily understood than It appears. Except for the gardens and a greenhouse or two over which the department has supervision, there Is little appeal for the tourist In that part of the department located In Washington, large as that section real- Wireless Waves Used as Internal Poultice poultice, which Is The usually composed of bran, or bread, or linseed, with some admixture of mustard, is still a great standby for the family physician. The main trouble Is that it can only be applied to the surface, and therefore cannot actually "touch the spot" The latest report in medical circles is that it may soon be possible to put a poultice, in effect at least, on the liver, lungs, or any other Internal organ of the human body. This prospect has been opened up by the discovery of certain wireless waves which can cook the white of an egg and leave the yolk uncooked, or cook the yolk a more surprising thing and leave the white unaffected. Even now, preliminary and experimental treatments are being undertaken with these rays which produce selective Internal heating. Thus It looks as though doctors may be able, by adjusting the conditions, to apply this internal poultice literally wherever It Is most needed. Map Aids Flyer Uncle Sam's weather bureau and the Department of Commerce have developed i master weather map to add to the safety of flying our airways. Every four hours this master map transmits simultaneously to scores of airports throughout the country by means of a telegraphic typewriter system the latest weather conditions not only along the regular air routes but to either side of these routes so that if a pilot U forced off the regular route he knows what kind of weather to expect until he can regain or revamp his course with the aid of the prepared map. Pathfinder Magazine. wpMiap "Father was angry because w had to leave the picture show when couldn't ttop coughing. Next time we'll take a bot which you live. But I would not have you understand that the department has only this method of serving the farmers. Although their work lacks the appeal that Is required to attract sightseers, the vast offices of the department In Washington are thoroughly filled with men and women and with equipment as each one of them proceeds to work out some new factor In connection with plant and animal life. People are too prone to think of the department only In connection with wheat and cotton and corn and cattle and hogs, etc. As a matter of fact, its other work Is more basic. Let me relate the circumstance of one office as an illustration. Presiding over It is a small man, a German by birth but an Immigrant to America at an early age. Fie Is highly educated, uses many terms In conversation that go far over my humble head, and plods along with his studies. And what does he study? Peat, peat bogs, uses of peat, how to use peat lands. He Is recognized throughout the world as an authority on peat, and slowly but surely out of the vast researches that he has made and is making Is coming Information that will result In utilization of millions of acres or land that Is looked upon now by those residing near as not worth the taxes Its owners have to pay. It may be Interesting to note. In this connection that this peat expert has established the value of peat as a fertilizer and that In consequence It won't be many years until truck farmers will be buying peat to mix with the soil of their farms the better to produce their crops. The Individual about whom I have written above Is Just one cog In a great machine,- known In the department as the bureau of chemistry and soils, an agency of earnest men and women seeking facts. Scientists, they are, and scientists they will remain, and while superficially their work may be made the subject of laughter and agricultural life of America owes much to them. , For Instance out of the constant Investigating that goes on by that group, we already know that certain kinds of wheat will produce In greater valume In Kansas than formerly could be grown In that bread basket of the nation; we know that their soil studies have evolved ways of fertilizing that will break up "hardpan" and subsoils which the farmer despises, and we have learned from them that crops requiring soils free from acid can be grown In sections hitherto held to he areas where such crops were unprofitable. In other words, the work the scientists do Is of the sort that the farmer may not see Its value until he suddenly discovers through his farm paper that the experiments have shown. It feasible to plant a certain type of seed or do some other thing that opens a new avenue of profit to him. The chemical examinations, the soil Investigations, and the studies of fertilizers, to mention a few, all lead directly to benefits for those who till the soil and with their produce feed the nation. It Is only a step In one's survey of the department activities from the bureau of chemistry and soils to another section the bureau of entomology where the Investigations are directed towards means of saving the crops wjjlch the other scientists have found can be produced to better advantage. The scientists In the bureau of entomology can tell yoo about the life history of the potato bug or any other that has been discovered as a parasite on American plant life. And what Is more Important to the agricultural producers, those scientists can tell you how to defeat the ravages of the Insects that are known to be Injurious to tie crops. Naturally, too, since they study Insects, the same scientists provide the with Information nation's about the honey bees, and how to protect them from the dangers that threaten them. s ft USJ. Western Newspaper Unloa. .It tle of Bronchi-Lypt- u for cough." Salt Lake City Directory Fifty and Fit Used Pipe, Fittings Valves Sc Newly threaded and coupled for all purposes, Monsey Iron and Metal Co. 3rd Meet - Salt Lake City, Utah. 700 So. CRI8MON ft NICHOLS AND CHEMISTS ASSAYERS and Laboratory 239-23- 1 S. Weal Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah. P. O. Box 1668, Mailing envelope and price furnished on requeat. Office I v v. .X Jit ENJOY I TRIP A SALT LAKE TO AND NEWHOUSE "1 Playful Crab's Pinch Got Owner in Trouble There are drawbacks to buying live crabs and carrying them home with no more protection than a paper wrapping, as a Sofia business man recently learned to his sorrow. This man, according to a New York Times correspondent, attemped to read a newspaper in a crowded d street car with a crab under h'i arm. Suddenly the woman sitting next to him, who happened to be wearing a dress, jumped up, tore the newspaper out of his hands nnd slapped him in the face. The crab had torn its way through the paper and pinched her arm and Bhe thought the man had pinched her himself. paper-wrappe- short-sleeve- d To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce' Pleasant Pellet. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. That It, Minor Criminal A criminal has no finesse. He steals Illegally. Exchange. IIMi I I 1 MAN is as old or as young as his organs. At fifty, you can be in your prime. Why go along with "fairly good health" when you might be enjoying vigor you haven't felt for years? There's a simple little thing anyone can do to keep the vital organs stimulated, and feel fit all the time. People don't realize how sluggish they've grown until they've tried it. 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