Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

<rc^^&™ The Cross-Eyed Jinx (Continued from paac 92) Western made on the old ranch back of Universal. Do you know, it made me so mad to be called a rotten actor — so far as the screen was concerned — that I made up my mind then and there I'd show 'em what acting was! I'd be a screen hero or nothing ! "I stayed right with the 'U.' I did extras at three to five dollars a day and finally I was rewarded by being asked to play opposite Dot Farley. You remember her stunt pictures, dont you? In one of those pictures 1 was dragged by a horse with one of my feet tied in the stirrup. I was forced to hang upsidedown while being dragged thru the underbrush, and my shirt was drawn over my shoulders, so my back was covered with briars and thistles which it took months to remove — they festered, too. I received internal injuries, too. but paid no attention to them, until I registered for the draft and the doctors said I would have to be operated upon in order to enter any camp. "I had five operations and was on the flat of my hack for three months — and when I got out, the armistice had been sisrned, so " "You were all cut up and no place to go ! ' "\es. but it made me mad to read in a certain journal that some one had knocked tne men in pictures for being slackers and refusing to go to war. I wanted to go! My dad wanted me to go! But I had to take all my scars in a cot instead of knowing the glory of the trenches. That's the way they talk about us when we're too helpless to defend ourselves. I may not be a warrior, but believe me, I'm slashed up like a mince pie," he concluded, wrath fully. "Is there anything you just hate?" we prodded. "Yes. I hate to be idle. I'd rather be a huckster than lay off work. Lots of people have asked why I dont free-lance in Los Angeles instead of playing in stock in Santa Barbara, but I cant see tiling of playing a picture. a< some leading men do, and then lying idle for three or four weeks until some other woman star Vams upon you." your ca-e! You sure So love to cash pay-checks, Mr. Forrest. Is there anything else that gets on your nerves besides idle momenl "I'll tell you. I'd hate to have any say that they'd like to kiss mc. a leading man not I that I just wanted to kiss. You know the type. Oh. he wa the sweetest thing. I hope I'll never be like that. I just hope I'll have one friend left on earth who will tell me and put me out of mv mi if I get so that anybody feels like ki~ me. Not for the biggest screen reputation ever designed do I want to ay backbone." And the ex-peddler of matches ripped a sulphur stick into flame, lighted another ciearet and shook hands all around as he said "bye-bye." COVETOUS 'What's in a nam "Millions— if it is Charlie Chaplin." DISILLUSIONED Manages— The star has married her eat Presidf.n-t— Then she'll have to hire a new one A husband doesn't make an ideal press agent Every piece in the Sampler is a first choice In the Sampler are none of those kinds that invariably find their way to the bottom of the box and are chosen last. The assortment in the Sampler is the result of a most unusual process of selection. Every piece is a proved favorite, for we pack in the Sampler sweets selected from our ten best-liked packages — famous since 1842. When you give the Sampler you know that it will be enjoyed from the first piece to the last. "The Things Worth Having — How We May Obtain Them" ier Liberal anil Unitarian Literature senl fr.<> upon request. Address Mrs. L. 0. Packard Ni i dham, ! I i,l..,.ant work. h;..l f.,r fraa Edgar 0. Al 3 McLeneBldg. hnndraAi or worn* in arm it ■org. even up i" caablor Cloan, ":," ■ pai I on can loam by mail. . "HOW In BoComo n HankiT." by , Prcs. American School ol Banking Columbus. O. Own Your Own Stocks in a Year BEGIN TO-DAY Invest wisely. Obtain Growing Income. Buy only high-grade stocks paying substantial dividends. First payment 20% of purchase price. Balance in equal monthly payments during year. Write lo-<hiy for Booklet "M.P."' m Francis & Co. Investment Securities Cor. Broadway and Wall St., New York City B