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The Children's Hour |
The Ubiquitous A=B=Cs |
You'd think screen people |
would be too busy to hand out the j
usual fond-father tales about their |
bright boys at home, but they are I
as bad as the next one. This is the |
tale offered by a screen star who |
has a baby boy at home, just learn I
ing some of the wicked ways of | the household.
Father claims he asked for a |
second helping of cake at lunch I
one day and spelled the word, in §
order to get past the baby's notice. |
"I'll have some c-a-k-e," he I spelled cautiously.
Baby Boy glanced up wisely 1 and waved his spoon in the air.
"I'll have some of those a-b-cs, 1 too," he remarked.
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What Did the Cat Ask?
Screen mother — Don't ask so 1
many questions, Bobby. Curios 1 ity once killed a cat.
Studio son (after moment of I
thought) — What was it the cat I wanted to know?
VITAGRAPH
Charles Kent, over at the Vitagraph, has never allowed his youthful spirits to evaporate. The studio children beg him daily for stories.
TRIANGLE-FINE ARTS
Children never will be able to understand why grownups have such a craze for soap and water. But Dorothy Gish, in "Children of the Feud," has views of her own concerning wash-ups.
WILLIAM FOX
When little Jane Lee has a birthday party, she invites all the children she can find. You can count the candles for yourself and see how old Jane is.
Not in Her List
Lena Baskette and Elizabeth Janes, both busy child actresses and busy little schoolgirls, too, were confiding their schoolroom triumphs to their director, Marshall Stedman, the other day.
"I got 100 in deportment to-day, " said Lena proudly.
"What did you get?" he asked Elizabeth.
Elizabeth gazed at him artlessly.
"Oh, I don't take that," she explained patiently.