Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1919)

11 tending the education of Hyacinth, the brown bear who is the latest acquisition to the Fairbanks menagerie, and the lady, who is called Hi for short, certainly needs her morals corrected. Some unprincipled wretch introduced Hyacinth to the joys of the little brown jug, and the result was a little brown jag, with Hyacinth careening bibulously over the lot and sportively chasing every camera man and director to cover — and this with prohibition in the offing, too ! So Doug has put Hi on the milk diet, and she takes to it kindly, even enthusiastically. She is also becoming a fast boxer, under Doug's tutelage, and can climb a church steeple almost as fast as he can. -3 WANDA HAWLEY, the bewitching little Paramount star who is now making a picture of Civil War times called "Secret Service," spends every leisure moment at the piano, for she does not intend to lose the skill which her supple fingers acquired long before she ever thought of entering pictures. Before Wanda went into the movies, her life ambition was to become a musician, and with this purpose in mind she went to New York to study music, both vocal and instrumental. She accompanied for Albert Spaulding and was preparing to appear in a concert, when her voice failed her on account of laryngitis. She found success awaiting her in motion pictures, but she has never forgotten her first love — music — and spends from three to five hours a day, when possible, at her grand piano, with Friend Husband, Burton Hawley, as an interested audience. Wanda Hawley has never forgotten her first love — music. When she finally became proficient in the Sioux tongue, largely through the efforts of her friend, Chief Robert Crazy Thunder, she found that she had been carefully taught a choice collection of strong swear words, with a sprinkling of picturesque epithets that would have caused a scalping bee if all the tribe had not been in on the joke. Anne has been loaned by Lasky to play opposite William Hart in his latest feature, "Square-deal Sanderson. ' ' w "HEN William Farnum isn't doing heroics on the screen, he is out fishing, for that is his favorite recreation. Lately the company went to Florida for several locations, and Bill was in his glory. He returns now with a tale of having caught all sorts of finny things, from man-eating sharks to tropical flying fish. Sounds like a fish story, doesn't it? But, then, Bill has the pictures to prove it, and so -? WE know a lot of stars who like birds — usually grilled and on toast; but George Larkin, the Serial King of the Astra company, playing opposite Ruth Roland, likes 'em alive and flying around. Out in Glendale, Calif., where he and Olive Kirkby, his bride of a year, have a cunning little bungalow and are as happy as the two proverbial love birds, George has built an aviary larger than his own house, and it is stocked with many rare and beautifully colored songsters, for birds are George's hobby, and he knows every one by name — and fore, they know him. s planted numerous shrubs and trees closure and has seen to it that every test a bird could want to set up housei is at the disposal of his winged friends, itain in the center furnishes a bathing for the birds, and they are so tame lmost anyone can handle them and pet e bully of the aviary is a large silver int, whose splendor almost excuses his ighty, naughty behavior, and who has t disgraced himself by killing a baby ary and badly hurting the father canary d tried to defend his youngster. The bold, bad pheasant is now exiled to an aviary of his own, and for all his value is thought much less of, by George and Olive, than the valiant little yellow bird, who is being nursed back to health "as if takingly instruct the puzzled girl in another Anm UttU wag ^ ^ wUu gM he was a child or something useful, " sentence for her to repeat to someone else. in a company of Sioux Indians. says Olive.