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Show HE'S IN THE MOVIES j While Representative Albert John son of Washington, and former Washington Wash-ington newspaper man, is not a movie actor, you are quite likely to see him mixed up with a lot of suitcases, trunks, canes, etc., in a comedy rols along with the other national hero, whose funny hat, walk, cane and mus tache are now better known than tha prayer book. Representative Johnson was in California recently, stopping at Los Angeles. He traveled part way by steamer, and like all ocean voyagers loaded himself to the limit with shawls, blankets, steamer trunks, gladstone bags, suitcases, thermos bottles, cameras, canes, field glasses and other various and lumbersome-impedimenta. lumbersome-impedimenta. He was carrying all of these, and was utterly hidden from view under this load of baggage and plunder as he walked with an effort to maintain ms cuufiicoaiuuai down the gangplank. He might have "got away with it" bad not a drunken sailor dived from a seeming terrific height, landing amidships in the bulwarks of baggage being toted by Brother Johnson. The congressman thereupon fell down kerthump, the baggage, shawls, rugs and other truck got between his legs and over his head and under his chest. Johnson emitted sundry words of explosive character and Dep.an collecting his junk. By the time he had it all together the drunken sailor was performing other remarkable antics on the dock. Johnson immediately recognized the jag as that great moving picture hero whose fame seems to be based on his ability to fall off a building and land on his head. And not until then did Johnson realize that his own fall had been ground into the film by the moving picture operator. I . |
