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Show MARC MAC DERMOTT : GOES BEARD HUNTING , Whiskers and wad' There have j j 'been times vrben whiskers have suf- j I fered from word wars, the papers do j say, but a conservative thinker would hardly expect the war to Interfere I with the price of whiskers. Yet that is Marc MacDormott's sad experience. , Fastidious artist that he is, he want- i ed just such a shade of hair for his beard in the Kleine-Edlson feature, fr "The Catspaw," in which he and Mir- A m iam Nesbitt are to be featured. Ho v--aP had finished about half the plcturo kSl when he found that all his stock of . '1 that particular shade of "crepe" hair f was gone. He used a new "beard" J even' day. He was surprised to be J ? told at the usual store that the wau $ 5j had stopped the importation, of that i j kind of hair. He rushed anxiously ' . from place to place, all over New York City, with the same result no whiskers. His whole day came to M naught and It was not until Boston m had been searched that the shade was '1 found. It was particularly important 9, as MacDermott plays a dual role and, fl of course, had to preserve tho finely jl drawn likeness and difference in him- Jl self and his double. The whole thea- M trlcal profession is suffering consid- W erably from the lack of such hair, he f learned. w |