Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1919)

Celebrities umiiijiimiiiimiimiiiiiiiimiiiihuiiiimiiiiuiiiii tiiiiiiiiiNUiiimiiiJMiimiiiiiiimuiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiuiiuu by stealing his food and annoying him generally. In an animal comedy, called "Monkey Stuff," in which Joe took the lead, he had to smoke a cigar, and he got away with it, but was green-eyed for an hour afterward. When he went into his cage that night, he begged another lighted cigar from a studio carpenter, who gave it to him, observing that Joe had "got the habit." But Joe had something different from a habit — he had an idea. He puffed ecstatically for a moment, during which time Skipper chattered and cursed, seeing that Joe had something which he hadn't, and at last he snatched the lighted weed and started in on it. Those watching, say that Joe observed him with saturnine joy, and, by pretending to take the cigar away, bluffed Skipper into smoking all of it. What resulted was, of course, inevitable. The robber monkey curled up in a ball of misery and alternately suffered from mal de mere and attacks of cramps. Since then, he has not molested Joe's belongings, and peace reigns in the house of Martin. ZASU PITTS, she of the ginger-snap name, was asked to enter a car in the Ascot races held recently in Los Angeles. Her "entry" was a Ford of Colonial vintage and temperamental qualities. Outside of refusing to start at all, then going backwards for fifty yards, running into a fence and blowing out a tire, it got along famously. Everything would have been lovely, says Zasu, only she forgot her nail file with which she repairs the car's innards; then, too, some joker filled the gasoline tank with Bevo. LILA LEE confesses that she doesn't play much golf — just kind of "walks around the green," she says. But when the Famous Players of the Lasky corporation gave an invitational tournament, she became enough of a golf fan to present some beautiful cups t o the winners. Lila's hobby is mo Ml^ Joe Martin, voicing the sentiment that "it's nice to get up in the morning, but its nicer to lie in bed." "lie is more human than some people," says "Curly" Stecker, his trainer, and Joe doesn't always rely on the brains of others to think for him. Chester Conlclin as he looks when away from Slapstick Comedies. toring, and — she admits it — she likes to speed. The other day she was stopped on Hollywood Boulevard by a motor cop, but she turned her sweetest "Cuddles" smile full upon him, and he murmured some advice about going slower in the future, and she promised him an autographed picture. Even cops, it appears, are human, but then we are not all Lila Lees. npOM MIX is an inveterate speedster, and entered a car A in the Ascot races. Did he win? We'll say he did. He won a twenty-five mile race, finishing with the rest of the bunch half a mile behind. Tom's speed is not confined to the screen, say we. While we're on the subject of Tom Mix, we might remark that among his numerons fan letters, he received one the other day from a young admirer in a boys' school. The epistle was to this effect: "Dere Tom Mix, "I have wrote you many times befor but the teecher always gets them becaz of my bad spelling wich is poor, but if this gets out will you send me a pitcher becaz i like you very much in pitchers and i hope to be a acter sometime miself. plese send yor pitcher to genrul delivry and i will sneke (Continued an page. 37)