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Show BITS OF GOSSIP FROMTHE SCREEN 1 Movie Star's Lira by No Means a Bed of Roses. FILMED VENICE IN JERSEY w On Aeeount of War Movla Company Had to Duplicate Straata and Build Brldgaa In SparMII, N. J-P. J. Cam. ron Bacomaa "Warden" In Ploturaa of 8ama Prlaon Ha Had Onca Vlaltad In Arizona For Plaaaura. Tun Hfo ol tho motion plcturo actress, especially tlint of tho comedy player, la no bed of roses. As to tho roslnesi of tho Ufo hero Is what Miss Madge Klrby, a comedy star, had to do lu ouo day. Incidentally tho day was of eighteen hours' length: Dresses nt dawn in room which Is having steam pipes put In, hut tho pipes nre not thcro yet Shivers. Climbs tower, 170 feet nbovo tho ground, to obllgo n mnguzlno which wishes to show tho daring of somo girls. Shivers. Bhowor bath scene. It Is now D o'clock. All tho January water In the world pours over her. Changes her clothes,. Shivers. Picked up by automohllo and dragged thirty feet Into water ditch. Still January water. Shivers. Luncheon, soup. Grcnso a-plenty on top. Shivers. Dig water Bccne. Speeding launch upsets. 8ho remains under water minute min-ute and a half. Shivers. Cafo set Evening clothes outdoors. Winds whistle through doors and draperies and evening clothes. Shivers. Dusk and lamps aro lighted. Cafo set continues. Night winds aro at work now. Shivers. Cafo set. Night winds still at It. Automohllo bursts through walls of cafe. Sho la missed by an inch. Shivers. Shiv-ers. Ilomo for tho day. Bungalow Is cold. Cook's day off. FIro Is out. Alarm clock set for 0 next morning. Shivers. And that Is an ordinary day, not alono for Miss Klrby,- but for n host of other girls Annetto Do Foe, Peggy Provost, Amy Jerome, Violet Eddy, Dot Farley, Gertrude Selby, Edyth Hosklns, Caroline Caro-line Hanktn, Ann Ivcrs. Venice In Jertoy. 1 On account of tho war and tho high 1 cost of ocean travel It was found lm- JW practical to send Miss Alice Brady and 1 her company of players In "The Him- 1 gry Heart" to Venice, Italy, for tho 1 filming of several Important scenes In l this claborato production. So tho next l best thing was done a Venetian street tl was duplicated In Sparklll, N. J. Tho ,1 buildings wero constructed on tho "1 banks of tho Sparklll creek and two T bridges wero built over tho creek. Tourlat at Prlaon Becomaa "Warden." tl liTaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaM bbbbbbI bbbePbbbbH tl .BMilBLBBf HbbbbbbbbH J H1H.1HH ftfl Br fllHlHl IbbbpJbbbF 1 i f -TJ" J bbbbbbbbbb til 9BHHJflr7 W i -Baaaaaaal.i LSZ" &jk' l' aaaaaaaaaV i' W 'H t'ii i'a3 t rfl iaB Vr 'V?ijtt i i.Kj ihi iVjI H aaaaaaaaaV " ''C V A TT','"flr oil m 'vflirMWlw$f&i? Baa Laaaal & 2wTjmk, 1 2iZ f V jfZ ..f 1CB .R -v FV && HaH $?& v;v3& ' aaa aWY t-M& aaaHL.H: . f-- i .jir. & JM P ( 'V VhAm? SV-i 'ik ,Um I i85Ti U b1I I11 I W V " & '' iQJM I WPKIIBB m -7jliMMiH ul ' P. J. CANNON BTANDINO AT THE MISON I DOOn AH "WARDEN.'' asH wlfl What pranks time can play! Tho tlri CflS0 of Doc r- J Cannon, tho Warden I'helan of "Tho Honor System," Is a ' tr'J caso In point. Twenty years ago, In mU 1807, Cannon, a prosperous young $ tourist, passed through Yuma. Ariz., I mid as a special privilege was permit- B ted to go through tho old stato pcnl- ' " tcntlary there, which has sluco been ' V discarded. Ho surveyed tho grim old , B nooks of Uio ptaco and congratulated ,1k m himself that ho did not have to stay ! WW thero over half nn hour and was frco ' to leavo It at will. In tho fall of 10U1 "? Doc Cannon again went through tho bcaaa! Ul llrls0"' Ill,t tIlla tlmo ll0 SI,cllt I L-ofl e'KUt weeks In nnd about It nnd was hrfl ,n fnct tho "warden" of It, slnco ho I H wns engaged, ins n movie actor, tft lord RpB It over tho hordo of mimic convicts i It H with which It was now peopled. Doc crnHJ Cannon In his role of Warden Phclnn ' is H had to inalntolu. n natural mnkciip for ) 1IB eight weeks, rolylng upon n half grown "Ml 1'card, without greuso paint or "tin- " ers." hoiH (Bj Sapho Not Rod Croaa Nurao, exefl Bnplio not to bo n Ited Cross nurso! J It, was tho original Intention In adapt- lag "Sapho" as a'plcturo, with Paulino Frederick In tho Btcllflr role, to show tho ultimate conversion of tho model Into a Ited Cross nurse. Stern facts, howover, rendered this Impossible, as tho telling of tho early chapters In Sapho's career required so much spaco that tho details of her Ited Cross work could not be gono Into. As n result re-sult tho closing scenes of tho plcturo ns It was finally screened show simply Uio conversion of Sapho to tho better things of Ufo as represented by her prcseuco in church. Nat Qoodwln'a New Love. Voudovlllo probably will loso Nftt Goodwin soon. Mr. Goodwin Is organizing organ-izing bis own motion picture company, tho ofllcefl of which will bo located In Milwaukee, A studio will bo erected at Mr. Goodwin's ranch near Juanltn, Cal. Tho veteran actor will star In all tho productions of tho new company. Max Has Herculean Job. Moro than 10,000 persons men, women wo-men nnd children havo written Max Llnder, noted European comedian, for his autographed photograph. "Mon DIeu I" exclaimed Mar, his eyes bulging 08 another big batch of letters was placed beforo him, "to give them all autographed pictures would leavo mo no tlmo In which to glvo them my motion mo-tion pictures." Max has devoted an hour n day, however, to tho solo occupation occu-pation of writing his namo across his photographs. Coxon'e Mining Claim. Ed Coxen when still a boy decided ho would like to bo n prospector and, with another young follow ns a part- ! ner, staked out n claim In southern Cnlifornla. Illchcs did not como In sudden rushes, os ho had fondly ex- pectod, nnd ho soon relinquished his 1 claim to Ids partner nnd hied himself j back to tho brighter lights and running I water. Years passed to tho number of i twelvo or fourteen, uiul whllo walking j down a Los Angeles street tho other day Coxen encountered his one tlmo I partner, whom ho had not seen In nil tho Intervening years. Greetings over, I It cumo about that tho former partner still held tho claim, hnd been working ' It ull theso years nnd was Just nbout as far along In the acquisition of this world's goods as tho twoTJoys had been years beforo when they flrst staked ! their claim. "Hut thero aro worso things than being nu actor," thought I Coxen. Facte About Mary. It has not been figured out Just how many hours Mary Tlckford works a day, but If reports aro true sho put In as much as 1,4-10 minutes a day to get tho plcturo "Tho Poor Llttlo Rich I Girl" started. Jack Plckford Is Mary's brother, Lottie her sister, Owen Mooro ' her husband, Tom her brother-in-law, Matt ditto, and AIIco 'Joyco1 Is Tom's I wife, which, according to Hoyle, makes her Slary's slstcr-ln-law. Jack Qoea Back to 8hort Troueere. j Jack Plckford strolled Into a Fifth . avenuo department store. Now York, tho other day and startled n floorwalker floorwalk-er by announcing that he was looking for a pair of short trousers. Tho floorwalker floor-walker took ono appraising glanco at Jack and led him to tho riding suits I department with a gcntlo corrective "I prcsumo that you mean breeches." "Not on your life," declared Jack. "I want short pants plain pants tho kind I graduated from a few years ago. I am going back to them, my 1 dear sir, because long trousers tlcklo my shins nnd mnko mo nervous." So tho poor, bewildered floorwalker escorted es-corted him back to tho boys' depart- ' ment and looked on In consternation when Jack nctually bought a pair of short trousers. |