Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

Crossroads of Conversation Could the telephone directory in the hands of each subscriber be revised from hour to hour, there would be no need for the information operator. But even during its printing and binding, thousands of changes take place in the telephone community. New subscribers are added to the list. Old ones move their places of business or of residence. Though their names are not listed on the directory, these subscribers must be connected by the highways of speech with all others in the community. To supplement the printed page, there must be guides at the crossroads of conversation. Such are the information operators, selected for their task because of quickness and accuracy, courtesy and intelligence. At their desks, connected with the switchboards in central offices, they relieve the regular operators from answering thousands of questions about telephone numbers that would otherwise impede the rendering of service. If they are unnecessarily asked for numbers already in the directory, service is retarded. "Information" stands for the most complete utilization of telephone facilities. "BELL SYSTEM" American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Better Service Youth-Ami Skin Peel A New Scientific Discovery which painlessly and harmlessly replaces the old skir^withancw and removes all Surface Blemishes, Pimples, Blackheads, Discoloration^, Sunburns, Eczema, Acne, Birthmarks, etc. Anon-acid, invisible liquid. Produces a healthy new skin, beautiful as a baby's. Results astounding. Booklet "The Magic of a New Skin" free in plain sealed envelope. Youth-Ami Laboratories. Dept-KB , 30 E. 2fUh St.. New York BECOME A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER EARNING J35TO SISS A WEEK Three to six months' course. Motion Picture. Commercial, Portraiture. Practical Instruction. Modern Equipment. Aslt for Catalog No. 18. N. Y. INSTITUTE of PHOTOGRAPHY NEW YORK CHICAGO BROOKLYN 141 W. 36th St. 630 So. Wabash Ave. SOS State St. Keep your skin soft with softened, perfumed water Fastidious women have Ions realized that to keep the skin soft and sweet and dainty as nature intended it must be bathed in only softest water. Bathasweet gives water a limpid, silky softness that tells you by its very feel how good it is for the skin. Imparts a delicate perfume, too — the height of luxury. If you are not now using it a lovely treat is in store for you. Get Bathasweet at your drug or department store, 25c, 50c, or $1.00. Or send us 10c for miniature can. .. THE C. S. WELCH CO. Dept. A. B., New York City Glenn Hunter — On and Off (Continued from page 36) a change — a private secretary, a chauffeur, and an able-bodied man to hold his pants. But I was glad of it. Glenn knows what it is to be poor and to rise in life. So it was with Guy Plumrher in "West of the Water Tower." And that is one reason, when I visited him at the studio, that he was putting so much feeling into the part of Guy. In the story Guy was at the bottom ; he rose ; he became somebody. And so had Glenn. One day Glenn told me a little story that made me hopeful. When first he left his small native village and came to New York to be an actor, it was the town joke. "Goin'-to New York to be an actor." — it was simply too funny for anything. An Actor? Ha-Ha ! When he walked down the street they made fun of him, made cat-calls, squealed from behind windows, taunted him, mocked him. It was funny, they said — Glenn Hunter that everybody knew thinkin' he could be an actor in New York. Then they squealed at him again. It was the same way with Guy in Junction City in "West of the Water Tower." The town "came down" on him. Time passed, in Glenn's case . . . he had the real spark — and now when he goes back with his car and chauffeur he is the most welcome person in town. Some of the persons who used to give the cat-calls are now proud to shake hands with him. It is by reason of these things that I think Glenn Hunter is such an admirable selection. He has run the gamut ; he knows what it is to be down and he knows what it is to be up. I know of no one on the American stage so fitted for the part. Glenn has the goods. FLORIDA By Margaret Mayfield Florida in February ! Where roses bloom And lilies raise White cups skyward, Where violets peep Purple-eyed behind their leaves; And yellow oranges Hang like golden fruit Upon the shining-leafed trees ; Where motors unroll Grey ribbons in the hard sand, A road that nature fashioned ; Where Spain laid her iron heel Upon the tropic soil And left a medieval fortress, Eternal memorial of her pride; Where Spanish moss Beards the trees in grey ; Where azaleas burst into pink stars, Against a white porch ; Where palmettos wave their fans In the soft breeze This is Florida in February! (Seventy-six)