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MITTENTHAL
LENA VIOLA BROWN.
Miss Brown Likes Feathers
T ENA VIOLA BROWN, with the Mittenthal Studio at Yonkers, is an athletic girl and would rather spend her time skating, hunting or riding than in the shops. So she delegates this job to anyone she can hire, coax or bribe to do it.
' ' I wish we could wear feathers, ' ' she snapped disconsolately one day, after several hours spent in trying to decide which of three gowns to choose. "Now, if we could only have been provided with a nice coat of feathers, you know — black or blue or white, as we might choose — how grand it would be ! Just brush down our feathers and be able to go anywhere in any kind of weather. Wouldn't that be grand?"
"It would," agreed her father, who is a great chum of Miss Brown's and who likes to be with her every spare moment. "Sure it would. But what on earth would you do, Lena, in the molting season? Wouldn't it sound rather odd if all the screen people were to call up the director on busy mornings and say, 'Sorry, but I won't be able to be clown this morning; I'm molting'?"
"Dad," said Miss Brown, "as a father you are a great success, but as a sympathizer you are not worth tuppence. And just for that, I'll take all three of the dresses."
The Funniest Part of It Was that He Paid the Bill
TTELENE ROSSON, of the American Company, keeps a comedy scrapbook of the funny things that happen around the studio.
"What's the funniest thing that has happened to you this week, Bill?" she asked a friend the other day.
The friend paused meditatively.
"Funniest thing I heard of this week was about the collector who tried to collect a bill from me yesterday," he said.
"What was funny about that?" she inquired.
"Why, he collected it," said her friend, in surprise.
AMERICAN
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The top of the morning to you," says Rosson, of the American.
Helene
OLLIE KIRBY.
"Oof! Look Out for 'Ootsie!' "
TF YOU drop in to pay a friendly call on Miss Ollie Kirby,
leading lady for Kalem, look out for her pet. He's all over the place, and the conversation will run something like this:
"Why, hello, there! Come in. Oh, don't sit down in that chair! You'll sit on Ootsie. There, now, you scared him out! Haven't seen you for a long — Look out there! Gracious! You nearly stepped on Ootsie! Have you seen me in 'Stingeree' yet? I think it's the best thing I've — Oh, please don't lean against that cushion! You'll mash Ootsie."
You feel sure you are seeing things. You rub your eyes and blink stupidly and wonder if you have vertigo.
"Has it a regular name besides what you call it?" you ask timidly, eying it and wondering if there really is such an animal.
"It's a horned toad, silly," says Miss Kirby. "It's my mascot, and it never leaves my dressing-room."
And Ootsie blinks solemnly at you. He knows you are afraid of him.