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Show WOULD STEER SHY OF CAMERA j Colonel Wh'ittlesey, Leader of "Lost Battalion," Backs Off From Motion Mo-tion Picture Machine. Although Colonel Whittlesey, an ae- : five melnber of the American Legion, led the famous ' fi't'rv "lost battalion" f "2 "4, through the Ar- f I ; i ;;' i gonne and was f; . one of the 54 .; "' ?f) Americans who ! i "' f won the blue ro- A. . sette of the con- H:: is gressional modal T f honor, he told d "Fa"y" Arbuckle , ?i t - V;s;3 be "scared to death if placed before a motion picture camera. "Y'ou can starve a man ; you can -wound him with bullets," said Colonel Whittlesey during a recent visit to a Hollywood movie studio with the portly port-ly comedian, "but you can't dim his love for tile movies. Just a few hours after my hoys of the Three Hundred and Eighth infantry had landed in a safe billeting area on being relieved from their perilous position, the whole bunch were in a 'Y' hut watching a five-reel comedy." |