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Show I, BRITISH!!, f MIMIS OIHLY LDGKS. . AROUSES CURIOSITY "Too Much Johnson" Gave Star Good Reason for Action Bryant "Washburn, the screen comedy com-edy star, is such a good-lokolng chap and withal so jovial and pleasant man- r nered that girls who act as "extras" ' in his pictures usually develop quite tender feelings toward him before the ' film is completed. During the screen ing of "Too Much Johnson." the Washburn picture which Is now playing play-ing at the Alhambra theatre, the genial ge-nial star created ' grave consternation W J among his girlish admirers one moni- ifflv Ing when ho walked into the studio WJ! ready for -work. One of them impul- Mm slvely approached him and exclaimed: thi "Why, Mr. Washburn, what lias be- Um come of all your beautiful curly hair? Ill Surely you haven't cut off those ador- gf able curls?" Whi , Bryant smilingly pulled off a wig, Hjl disclosing his own hair underneath, Wj and his questioner breathed a sigli of Mffi relief. Sl&n " It was all in the interest of pic- tlKli ' turc-making. According to tho story jffif! hQ star is accused of tampering with Mi the affections of a fllratlous French I Mi -woman. Her fire-eater husband la on lllf his trail and has vowed vengeance on I if a black.-haircd, curly-locked gentle-j Is man. So Mr. Washburn prudently cov-l A llfl : era up ills natui-al hirsute adornments, I s "Too Much Johnson," which was writ-I writ-I jf ton by the actor-playwright. William f r Gillette, Is, said to abound In humor- 4 (Jl ous incidents. Lois Wilson Is again 5 jjl Mr. Washburn's leading woman. Tho j jl picture was directed by Donald Crisp J II and is a Paramount-Artcraft. |