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Co Slat* had received so many interesting letters from Mr. Stovvell, who was a "great big kid," they all tell me, very goodhearted, frank and unspoiled — and it's been almost impossible for Miss Leighton to believe that he really wont return to claim his trinkets and pets. Colleen Moore has been suddenly elevated to sjiecial honors, and is doing an eight-reel feature, the biggest thing ever handed out to that bright little gossoon. I met her shopping for a chic wardrobe, and judging by the wrinkle on her pretty face, she's very much puzzled about her "trousseau." Miss Moore was out on location at the celebrated San Juan Capisf ano Mission, half-way between Los Angeles and .San Diego, and sent lots of snapshots to her studio friends from that interesting resort. San Juan was pretty well destroyed by an earthquake in 1812, and only part of the mission has been restored, altho the beautiful and quaint old cloister garden still offers splendid "shots" for the camera. At San Francisco, I saw a preview of the first Australian film offered in our markets, and many were the Los Angeles brokers and producers who had run up to see it. The story is a dialect poem by C. J. Dennis, considered the greatest writer of dialect poems in any language today. The theme rif "The .Sentimental Bloke" is simple, but it is .sympathetic, allows of much legitimate comedy and gives charming glimpses of Australian scenery. A flash-back of scenes from "Romeo and Juliet," with subtitles in verse supposedly recited by "The Bloke," is one of the funniest things in this comedy. I overheard a conversation between two iTien later. The one with a wealthy voice and a rotund personality was saying, "I am afraid of it ; we're not strong for dialect stuff in the LT. S. A., because we're not apt to understand it." The other replied, "I dont see that at all, for in each case the action follows the subtitle in dialect so closely that a man must be an ignoramus not to catch the drift of the verse." The first answered, "You're talking from the standpoint of critic and newspaper man — Lm talking for Lizzie and .Sallie, et al., who cant even read ordinary English." Then both laughed as the newspaper inan recited dramatically, " 'Ow I ongkored for 'at coot, 'at barmy goat named Romeo !' " Wilfred Lucas directed the photoplay, so it's with a good deal of interest that we viewed it, at all events. A party of Indian princesses and princes visited the Lasky studio, and while it's not unusual to have foreign visitors, these excited attention because the ladies were of such high caste that they were distinguished by having diamonds inset in their noses, one on either side. I'^vidently they dont have gumshoe men in India to disturb the peace of mind of the young ladies. A queer sight presents itself at Sixth and Hill streets, former home of the First Methodist Church, and a good Shadowland "TTAe ^iiCagazine of ^M^agazines" Vou have just come in from your clay's work. Vou :ire mentally exhausted. Life is deadly in its monotony, and you flop down in a chair and gaze stupidly at the blank wall of your existence before you. Your hand gropes idly for the cigarcts or pipe (or knitting). It touches a magazine. Half-despairingly, you pick it up with the faint hope that your mind will be distracted for a moment. In the arch of Hght coming from j-our reading lamp, you stare at the name — Sh.xdowland. You repeat it slowl}-, again and again, in a sort of lialf-whispcr. Slowly vague thoughts begin to form in your mind. Half-developed visions, pictures from the inside world of tlie mind's eye, creep into your memory. You set sail for the Land of Romance, that misty Land of Long Ago. Shadowland — Again you say it and shadow pictures appear before you. You remember the long evenings before the firelight when you were a child. Y^ou sat on grandfather's knee and gazed fearfully over his shoulder to where the long, grotesque shadows towered from fluor to ceiling. You remember when a boy, coming home late at night from some fellow-playmate's house, across the empty lots which looked so threatening and full of mysterious shadows. How frightened you were, yimr only compaiiion being >-our shadov.' running alongside of you and causing strange thuughts and terror to trouble your mind. You remember the great discovery that two shadows could be one. That moonlight night when, holding her in your arms, you saw the single shadow on the grass. You sigh with regret — for Shadowland is Memory. * * * You turn the pages of the magazine and, like the immortal Alice, j-ou begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop. Regret leaves you. Y'our mind becomes stimulated, for Romance is with you still, but in another form. Your pulse quickens at the sight of so much Beauty — ^>'Our sense of humor is touched by the wit of the writers, and your mind appreciates the cleverness of the articles. You become more and more absorbed. Fatigue vanishes; the world and its troubles are again worth while, and you are content — for Slfidoii'land is Life! Fcbruarv Shadowland v:\\\ be a magazine de luxe. It will treat vividly of the best in art, the stage, screen, music, literature and kindred arts. It will have the best stories, articles and interviews that can be obtained. Its beauty and its charm will gladden the heart of everj' member of the family. SHADOWLAND 175 DuFFiELD St., Brooklyn, N. Y. J (One hundred)