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Show Lights of New York Hil J '' An acto stal l ing in a movie drama rented a bungalow near the studio Back of it, anoihei house stood, facing fac-ing the next street. The actor ami his wife occupied a bedroom m the real of their home and as he frequently worked at night she became nervous and had iron bars put over the win dows. When he came home he frequently fre-quently before retiring, demonstrated the stuff he had done that day. The neighbors told their real estate agent that they were going to bieak their lease. "Nobody," they said, "can be expect ed to live in this place. There is a -crazy man nest door who rants and roars and who is so violent that they have him locked in a room with bars at the windows. Sometime he might get loose." No man knows more stories of the stage or tells them better than Ernest Lawford. He says that Sir Henry Ir-ving Ir-ving once was presiding at a big pub lie dinner when a card was handed iiim bearing the information that Nat Ooodwin was among those present Sir Henry said: " have just learned we have with us tonight a great American actor, a tnan famous in two countries, a celebrated cele-brated wit whose name Is a household word. I call upon him to rise, and present to "you Mister Mister Mister Kit Goodwine." Several years ago a very rich man, who had in his day made and lost several sev-eral fortunes, decided that whatever oappened he never would be broke again. He therefore created a trust fund of considerable amount The income in-come was to go to certain specified charities, unless he needed it himself, when, by the terms of the trust, he was to have first call. I don't know, under present conditions, just who Is getting that Income now. The wife of Jesse L. l.asky, of mov-i. mov-i. g picture fame, is Bessie Lasky, the painter. She" really makes a vocation of her work with the brush and canvas can-vas and ber paintings have, been ex hibited in galleries in New York. Paris and London. Some of them have been purchased by the Newark museum. Her first paintings were of the Mojave desert Mrs. Lasky is a slim brunette, who looks far too young to be the mother of her son, Jesse Lasky, Jr. Elsie Scheffler Payne once ran her own dress shop but her present Interest Inter-est Is In life masks. Her first attempt was a mask of her own face, which she |