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Simply send name for generous -10 day free trial offer of my secret home treatment. W, H. WARREN. 440 Gray Bldg. Kansas City, Mo. The little double darted to window-sill. The cameras ground. On the very edge of the sill the Jackie substitute faltered. His face blanched with fear ; his bodywas aquiver with terror. He couldn't make it. The cameras stopped ; parleying ensued. They tried it again, several times. The parleying became tinged with asperity. Finally the tiny lad ran to the sill and hurled himself from it. He had been told to keep his eyes open. When he jumped he shut them. His jump was short. Actor Saves Child Extra orrest, with a superhuman effort, leaned far from his saddle, and saved the lad from death on the cobbles, by clutching his hair, thus breaking the fall. I do not know whether they tried it again. I did not have the heart to ask. But I do know that all the time the little lad was steeling himself for the leap which meant life or death, his mother strutted nonchalantly about the lot, apparently oblivious to the potential tragedy impending. How the jump was made in the picture has been thoroughly explained — a dummy and a trick shot. In fact a dummy dressed in a sailor suit such as Otto wore was conspicuous on the lot for days thereafter. But I prefer to believe a trusted friend who saw the scene I have described. I once discussed cinema casualties with a studio official. "Accidents happen in motion-picture making even as they do in any other industry," was an excuse offered. But in other industries the owners of plants and factories do not deliberately go out of their way and invite disasters. Woods Full of Extras kN industrial accident may cost the life of a trained and trusted employee or maim a valued, loyal worker so as to unfit him for his job. And such men are all too few. Even the most hidebound, calloused members of the class termed "capitalistic" by the radical element will tell you that. But as for actors and extras — "Why the woods are full of them !" Anyone in the motion-picture industry from an office-boy to Will H. Hayes will tell you that. This taking chances with human lives is one day going to cost the cinema industry dearly, I predict. The quest of a thrill to the beat of the drums of jeopardy will end in disaster so great as to awaken national, if not universal, indignation. But for the present there are many who jest at, if they do not ignore, the wages of realism in the canning of thrills. Whispers from Broadway T is said that Raymond Hitchcock is going to star next season in The Old Soak" on tour, though it's hard to believe it ; that the stage door man at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where the Follies is playing, never forgets a masculine face ; that the Shuberts have insured their production of The Passing Show against the withdrawal of any members of their beauty chorus on account of marriage ; that the success of Rain has influenced the production of a new play entitled "Red Light Annie, in which Mary Ryan will appear ; that Fay Bainter, the wife of Commander Reginald Venable, recently became the mother of a boy. Cohan and Brown in Verbal Tilt had an advertisement of the play inserted in the dailies which read: "Heywood's mad and I'm glad, For I can never please him; A Cohan run has just begun, And that is sure to tease him." The next day Broun offered his column in the World to the producer to review the play. Cohan took advantage of the offer and wrote a characteristic article in which he kept referring to the critic as "dear old fellow," "dear old chap," "dear old Hey," "old top," and other expressions so familiar to Shaftesbury Avenue, London. eorge M. Cohan did not like Heywood Broun's criticism of his new production, Two Fellows and a Girl, and eggy Joyce has been appearing in Earl Carroll's Vanities for more than a month and to date the press agent has not announced her engagement to either an American millionaire or a foreign nobleman.