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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. UTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News Howe About: How I Broke Into H The Movies fl A Proud Human Being Copyright by Hal Russias Plight Something Wrong . DIDNT break Into the movies. 1 was drafted Into them. I cant think of anything worse than playing the part of a Swedish housemaid. And that Is the first part I ever had in moving pictures. I cant tell about the hardships I endured as an extra because I never played as one. Sometimes I think that is an awful drawback to my career, Is the product of an age in which everyone pursues wrong policies: probably her father is as proud because he Is a voter as his daughter is because she is a girl. I am not proud about anything, but there are so many .mis takes I am accommodated. common and mistaken notion is that the people, after living . many thousands of years, have failed to the easiest and best way, and stil' stubbornly and meanly persist in traveling the wrong road. I have scarcely known a man who did not make this charge, or offer a remedy. One I)r W. J. Ltobinson, of New York city, had the idea very strongly,' and wrote to broadcast it. Speaking of Russia It is thi some months ago, lie said: only country which holds aloft a bea con of light and hope; the only conn try which is taking mankind out of its rut, and putting it on another track from the one it has been following blindly and stupidly for these thou sands of years since It emerged frou the jungle. During the past summer Doctor Rob inson went to Russia, and on his re turn tells an entirely different story lie saw crowds of workmen in Lenin grad returning from their summer va ' Oui cations, and wrote of them : poorest steerage immigrant arriving al Ellis island looks like a prosperous nmn in comparison. The impression was very depressing, and it was inten sided wherever I went." He found the bread uneatable; the hotels and rail road trains like pig pens, because of the general Inefficiency. In the rail road stations there was always a suf focating, overpowering stench ; mobs of ragged, barefoot people lying on the tloor. ne visited the largest and best hospital in Leningrad and said an American dog would not eat the food offered patients. At Moscow he visited the dining room where workers in a textile factory ate their meals, and says the prisoners in Sing Sing have better and more abundant food. The average pay of the workers in the factory was 70 rubles a month; the purchasing power of a ruble varies from 2 to 10 cents. Everywhere he saw long lines of people waiting to purchase sup plies; one man had been waiting six New portrait of Homer 8. Cummings of Connecticut, whom President Roosevelt named attorney general temporarily. 2 Chief Justice Hughes administering the oath of office to President Franklin D. Roosevelt 8 Field artillery from Fort Myer In the inauguration parade passing before the Presidential reviewing stand. 1 G!d Destroyer Is Blown Up for the Movies Speaker Rainey Wields the Gavel ENGLISH SKYSCRAPER Wallace Beery. a week wore off, but 1 stuck with two years. Then I did a little serious thinking. No, that Is not one of my comedy gags. 1 really do think seriously now and then. I remember how entranced all of the people in my home county in Missouri had been by my voice in hog calling contests. There must have been some cause for that, I reasoned. So I went to New York to try out my voice on a new audience. There I was told I had a good singing voice and was given a plnce in Henry Savages musical comedy organization. I stuck to tills phase of the show business for several years and became Savage's star comedian. Then came my introduction into the movies. I was playing with a musical company In Chicago when Henry McRae Webster, director general of the Essanay Film company, saw me. I dont know what he thought and I am perfectly willing not to know. It might be vanity. Anyway, he cornered me after the show and by the time he got through talking I was a moving picture player. I started to say actor, but that wouldnt be correct. For what did Webster do but deck me out in skirts and make a housemaid out of me. I havent liked them since skirts, I mean. Still, wearing skirts and a long blond For one wig had Its compensations. thing, I could live in one place and I could have my evenings free. I played most every sort of comedy role with Essanay and then came a real break for me. I was sent to the West coast. There I Joined the Keystone organization and played for a year In Sennett comedies. Again I missed the extra player grind but I was given most every sort of part. You might say that by this time I had broken into the movies but It had returned was not until after from a trip to Japan, where I took a company to make, a series of pictures, that 1 feel L actually did that. I was given the dramatic role of the villain in Marshall Neilnns Unpardonable Sin," and the critics and public were kind enough to say that I nmde a very good had man.-I- t seemed for a while then that I was doomed to be a villain for the rest of my days. I played all sorts of heavy parts and had Just (bout decided that I couldnt be anything but a rogue on the screen no matter how bad I wanted to be good. Then a break of luck came out of a clear sky, and with Ray Hatton, I enjoyed playing In a long series of comedy pictures. Among them an air picture which has made of me a real aviation enthusiast. Two of my latest parts were in The Champ, and Grand Hotel," and I am grateful to the public and critics for their approval of my work In these plays. of $3 the job for 90 per now be- cause of the iron attempt to make the entire country conform to the rules of He went Marxism, or Communism. everywhere, and wrote at great length about his visit, but found nothing to commend. Before starting on his trip he had declared that Russia was the one country in which the relations between the sexes had been put on a healthy, normal basis; on his return he said be did not see a single happy womans face; scarcely a decent, comfortable looking or contented man, I am tired hearing old things of no great Interest talked about over and over. As a young rnan reaches adult years, he begins thinking of mating. The same thing has been going on some millions of years, but we talk about it today as though such a thing never happened before, and watch the young man closely, in hope of discovering more about this new development In human nature. 0, 1I3. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. or breast-fe- d, Babies, bottle-fe- d with any tendency to be constipated, would thrive if they received daily half a teaspoonful of this old family doctors prescription for the bowels. That is one sure way to train tiny bowels to healthy regularity. To avoid the fretfulness, vomiting, crying, failure to gain, and other ins of constipated babies. Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin is good for any baby. For this, you have the word of a famous doctor. Forty-sev- en years of practice taught him just what babies need to keep their little bowels active, regular; keep little bodies plump and healthy. For Dr. Caldwell specialized in the treatment of women and little ones. He attended over 3500 births without loss of one mother or baby. Caldwell's CuticuraCares Somewhere off the coast of southern California, the gallant Moody, obsolete United States navy destroyer, has found her last resting place. The Moody, purchased from the government by a motion picture studio, was blown In two sections by a charge of dynamite placed in her rusty old tummy," simulating the disastrous ending of a motion picture scenic battle. The photograph shows the forward half just before It sank. the people of Russia are There Is something wrong with the story that times are good when farmers receive high prices for their produce. In Russia eggs sell at 10 cents each; beef at $1.50 a pound; butter at $2 a pound. Yet times are very hard in Russia ; the farm problem there is worse than in the United States, where lately I paid 17 cents for a piece of boiling beef, and it provided excellent soup and meat for lunch three days. (I told the story to a visitor from 100 miles away, and he beat It a cent with a story about a piece of boiling mutton.) With us eggs are 2 cents each ; butter 25' cents a pound; wheat and corn so plentiful and cheap that corn is being burned for fuel and wheat fed to cattle and hogs. There is also something wrong with the story of Malthus, an ancient still being admired for great wisdom. He declared It was inevitable that population tended to overtake and outrun the means of subsistence. In the United States there is a surfeit of food ; so much clothing that manufacturers are compelled to shut down. The people having produced too much food, the big talkers now say the remedy is to tax the people as a means of making food scarcer and higher priced. BOWELS A Doctor's Family Laxative ; in a vast prison, a hopeless hell, How to train BABYS SYRUP PEPSIN He found Kiev had bad 18 changes of administration in two years, each vieing with the other In the work of destruction. He declares the Soviet government an intolerable tyranny the people in a terrible plight. I re luctantly conclude, he writes, that the whole system Is wrong; not being able to give one of those success yarns on how I labored through weary years as an extra before getting my first part. But anyhow, I can tell of hardships I went through in struggling about before the camera In skirts before I graduated from the housemaid role, and I dont know but that has an extras tribulations outclassed any way you take P. It didn't take me long to realize that I wanted to get into the show business. I decided that when I saw my first circus. Consequently I left home and joined the Rlngling Brothers' circus when 1 was sixteen years old. You see, I got into moving pictures through a process of elimination. I tried out other branches of the show business before I found the one I wanted to stick with. The novelty of being guardian to a herd of circus elephants at a salary IN JAPAN Japanese women may obtain their first voting privilege In the near future. It will be limited to Tokyo municipal elections. Yielding toper-suasio- n of suffrage leaders that has persisted for 13 years, the election committee of the city assembly has agreed to Indorse a bill giving the right to vote to all women aged twenty years or more. Da. W. B. hours. of fTTU- -j T 1 cent Herman By WALLACE BEERY By ED HOWE human being I have TIIE proudest encountered turned up today as an elevator operator In a department store; a girl of nineteen and rather good looking. The floor mam ager told me she received $8 a week. What is the base of her pride? Probably the talk of love in moving picture plays and in magazine stories; the exaggerated compliments the man pays the woman when trying to entrap find no fault with the girl; she her. A C ADVANCEMENT Building operations for the first skyscraper in England are expected to be started soon at South Shore, Blackpool, where the Sun Ray hotel, a structure, will be put up. It will have a height of 511 feet, and an enor- mous ball, 27 feet 6 Inches In diameter, lighted with orange rays, will act as a beacon for miles around. The photograph shows a model of the proposed hotel. NEW FRENCH ENVOY Andre Lefehvre de Labuulaye, who will succeed Paul Claudel as French ambassador to the United States M. Lahoulaye is an experienced diplomat and a friend of President Roosevelt. Hdnry T. Rainey of Illinois, who was chosen speaker of the house In the d congress, opening the special session called by President seventy-thir- Japan Children Send Things to Army 1 The medicinal and healing properties of the Soap not only thoroughly cleanse the skin, but are most beneficial and helpful to it. If you are troubled with pimples or other skin eruption the Ointment will quickly heaL Write for special folder on the care of the skin Address: "Ciilicura, Dept. 8 3, Malden, Maas. Miserable with It MayWarn of Kidney or Bladder Irregularities A persistent backache, with bladder irregularities and Tired, nervous, depressed feeling may warn of some dis- ordered kidney or bladder condition. Users everywhere rely on Doans Pills. Praised for more than 50 years by grateful users the country over. Sold by all druggists. 'ills A Father said I would head off. my cough I was frightened. But mother laughed and gave me us. Veteran of Stage Arthur Byron, veteran actor of the stage, was born In Brooklyn April 8, 1872, the son of Oliver Doud Byron and Kate Byron, both players. Diuretic Not in Natures Scheme People who are eternally bent on being happy at all costs are the foolishest. M. Children who are members of the Dai Nippon Uokoku Dan, one of many patriotic associations now flourishing in Japan as a result of the events in Manchuria, shown loading trucks with the various articles they have donated and collected and which are to be shipped to the soldiers in Jehol province. Backache? druggists. For FREE sample, write to 732 Ceres Ave., Los Angeles. At your |