Show DEALERS IN FAKE STOCKS PREY ON HIGHLY PAID FILMDOM STARS Drunk With New Riches Movie People Are Easy Marks for Swindlers Some How How- However However ever Build Large Estates By fly I I IBy Special Sped Correspondent of o The Thi I Copyright 1123 1923 LOS Aug Auf Mary lB-Mary K I Miles Minter according to her hel mother banked bonked a check chock for all her own and Inside ln ld of ot C tow few f w weeks week received ft I tha that sho ho had overdrawn her hor account Mary sas sa s the tho th check WM was tor for onlY I and aho ho h and her hor mother mothel scorn unable to agree on any lob lob- sub lect sect jeet these the a days and day and that she lr slap slap- slapped lap pd pad ped ot of o it Into good hOl reLl rai estate As A for tor or the tho th rest It aho al own ts employed to good purposes ot of former bright brightstar The quarrel o the tho star of ot the th and her man man- mant managing managing man t I aging mother o o or otei r money has raised r the question o of what whal fl I becomes of ot tho the money received by bythe bythe bytho the highly paid m men n and women ot oi the tho motion picture world orld That Thai otI I they thOy are highly paid Is now more morG ot of a fact than over ever vor The Tho Th era ora ot of a afew few shining statS stars at enormoUs sal sal- salaries sal arles al-arles aries has way to one ot of a alarce largo large number of ot moro more or loss less mod mod- modest modest est stars star with fat fM PLY pay nav envelopes I I WANT flIGht 1 Thompson hompson Buchanan casting to fei days daya ago aio for tor ono one on of his own I plays looked up from his desk deak with witha a puzzled expression after a morn morn- I Ing i ng in painful oto questions and answers with a a reg regiment of o young girls of tho movies flapper per type and said I pledge you ou my ray word ord that I e that not a a single ono one of thorn thom knows knowl there is a n figure below a tIlous- tIlous thousand and 1 I or this was the th minimum sal sal- sala al a 3 y demanded by the tho 1 comparative Ily ly unrenowned ladles ladies for ft II rela rota- relatively lively unimportant role oie But what becomes of o the thc money when they I get It IL An unkind wit has dub dub s dub bed certain of tho the ladle ladies of ot the tho movies the tho th beautiful and find dumb I thoI and then stretched It a 0 bit to In- In Include dud in-dud dude clude the th males malos But before botor tho wit said It many others othere had acted I on the th promise to their Infinite and selfish satisfaction The Th prize I sucker lists lilts of the tho smartest oi 01 the tho boys boy peddling pretty stock certificate in and round Los Lo Angels Angeles read like Ilk a ft blue bool book of ot the tho movIes movies ies los It is not exaggeration to say that with a ft a few tew exceptions virtual virtual- virtually virtually virtually ly every Individual who has drawn big pay from th the tho movies has enough of these certificates to pa- pa paper paper pa paper per ft a room MILLIONS LOST You can sell seU ell anything at the tho studios has ba been a byword of crooked promoters promoter and It is not spoken Idly despite blue laws law and other safeguards Many of ot the movie people p drunk with new riches have havo fallen follon for millions of dollars for tor take fake stocks and the way of it is sUIl stilt a mystery We now nov know by her testimony that before beCore Mary Miles M Minter came camo into pos possession pos pos- possession session of the tho hundred thousand or sixty thousand dollar check cheek she never had the tho pleasure of ot having b a dollar which she hc could call coll her town own Nevertheless and notwithstanding th- th standing her name nam has ho graced moro more than one sound Bound tucker sucker list and she sho is in knon to have hav been canvass canvass- canvassed canvassed ed ad several UrnS Umes Whether or not she sho was ever sold old Is I a n secret ot of the tho promoters Now Mary who has earned arned a fortune wants to know what her mother did with It it Tito Tho mother is a II shrewd business woman but Marys Mary's account of ot the th condition ot of the th family strong tronc box r l es the tho question as to whether or not Mrs Shelby has baa been sold old any beau beautifully I engraved stock certificates The wave of speculation peculation may be attributed In some nomo measure to the 1 gusher oil fields which stand land with with- withIn within within in sight of ot the city and brings brines back backa a touch of ot the old bonanza days day of I California The Th lure lur Is I said aid to be j irresistible to the to th beautiful and dumb andI I In an attempt to chick cheek this l a lid speculation largo large advertisements are aro printed dally daily in the th newspapers I which set forth In the tho simplest primer st Ic warnings against spec spec- pec and fake Cako promoters But ButI I they still sell gold cold bricks brick in Jersey City and that's that bA VES itIE CASH CASIL Just by way of ot contrast and asan as asan asan an example of what might have been with many like her there Is Ruth Roland star of oC the serialS rial or ortho orthe ortho the tho black and anti blue drama as a It Is i sometimes called for a ft number ot of years Ruth in a n modest way has hIlS otI i I commanded a ft handsome salary calary She Sho nursed no dreams dream of sudden udden wealth I She Sho wisely put her hr money into the I purchase of real estate seeking and I oc accepting the th best advice ad vice Today she lic Is I rated many times time a ft million million- alro airs She Bh could buy and sell ell most mOlt mo 0 tM tiLe flashy stars itara who have rawn enormous salaries alaric and who now are In a 1 fair fall way w y to quit the tho game c m stone borke |