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Don Quixote Battles with the Windmill
1DOSSIBLY no scene in the Triangle picture version of "Don Quixote" brings such a hearty spasm of genuine mirth A to the audience as the famous battle of Don Quixote with the windmills, while Rosinante, his valiant steed, waits patiently for her master's victory. They had a long search for Rosinante. Every time they discovered a horse whose framework came up to plans and specifications, De Wolf Hopper, who has devoted a lot of work and thought to being a personable Don Quixote in the picture, indignantly refused to submit his weight to any such fragile moorings. So they compromised. They gradually fed up Rosinante and trained down Don Quixote, until a medium was established.
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A Long Stretch
Breathlessly they watched the hero of the political problem play as he scanned the tape from the ticker.
"What is that machine he is pulling the strip of paper out of?"
"Oh, the actual business deals take place in New York, and the market quotations must come from there."
"And you mean he gets all those prices on that from New York?"
"Sure."
"Well, you needn't try to make me believe that machine holds tape enough to reach from here to New York. ' '
Plenty of Color
Dilly — Did Gray go among the slums in search of "local color" for his scenario?
Dally — Yes ; and he
returned with a black eye victor
and a red nose. Mary Butler, Glen White and Paul Panzer, in "The Heart of a Mermaid."
A Dime for a Nap
A stout woman and her three children were holding up the line at the box office.
"I can't help it, ma'am," the cashier was saying. "You'll have to pay ten cents for each of the children, or you can't go in."
"Now, wouldn't that make you mad?" said the stout woman, turning to the woman next to her. "This thing wants me to pay ten cents for each of the children to see the show,
and they go to sleep just as soon as they get inside. ' '
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Somebody Broke Off the Arms
The Venus de Milo was shown in a picture.
Miss Hibrow — Isn't that beautiful?
Miss Lobroiv — Yes; but they must have a very careless domestic around.