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Show MOTION PICTURE TOOTHACHE BAD AS REAL THING Which would you rather have In your mouth an honcst-to-goodness toothache or a big wad of cotton battling to simulato a toothache? Of course the dental bill is likely to bo less with the cotton batting tootliache, but take It from Miss Convince Con-vince Blnney, tho cotton Is Just about as uncomfortable as any toothacho she' over Jiad experienced, and If any body doubts it, let Mm stuff .'his mouth with cotton for a day and see how he likes It. Tho cotton batting toothacho was only one of many harrowing experiences experi-ences endured by the Ilealart star . during tho fitmlng of "Something Different." In the first place the wholo company hid to go to Cuba In August to got tho proper Spanish exteriors. And It was tho hottost 'August on record. Mosqultos, fleas, nnd oher small insects with tigerish appetites for blood did their modest bit towards making life well nigh unbearable for the visiting motldn picture people, and tho sun beat down relentlessly out of a clearnnd cloudless sky, so that woik was pos Blblo only from four to about nine o'clock' n. n. each day. After tnl the company took to cover In the hotel nnd spent long Idle days hating hat-ing Cuba, nnd wondering why they hadn't gono In for polar cxploilng or fur trading In Alaska, or mining In the Klondike, lnstood of ndPi Ing a profession that made trips to Cuba in summer a necessity. Then, because she was tho star, nnd the star of any piece is supposed to suffer more than any of tho other members of tho cast, poor wilted little lit-tle Miss Illnney had to stage a tooth ache, ono' of theso swelled face affairs af-fairs that spoils a girl's beauty, twltftn her face awry, and makes her look like a comic valentine A largo wad of cotton gently but ever so firmly Inserted in her left cheek by It. William Nell!, her director, di-rector, supplied the necessary swelling. swell-ing. But only a staunch devotion to ' I her ait and a steadfastness Inherit-1 cd from her Mayflower ancestors,'! bupplied ,thu' fortitude that kept it1 i . I there. '"Cotton puts your teeth on edge, ou know," said Miss Biuney pen-' pen-' ' " I ulyely, when relating tho -experience after her return to New York where tho interior scenes were filmed In the big new Famous Players studio in Astoria. "And It kept slipping too. Altogether It was tho most uncomfortable uncom-fortable kind of tootliache that anybody any-body could very" well Invent. Next tlmo I havo to do a toothacho I'm going to experiment with some port of exterior addition to my natural face, as they do when they want to chango an actor's nose. Tho cotton Seemed simple enough but I mupt say that tho other mombers of tho cast seemed to enjoy my affliction hugely It's always so much' easier to seo thgn to bo one, you know." "Something Different," with Spanish Span-ish atmosphere In great layers, but minus the heat, and Miss Blnney' cotton toothache, and everything, comes to tho Lyric thentro in this city on Friday for a two days run, |