Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

400 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 9. in the Ocean, and sum more of them went in swimming in a big pool what they got in a bldg. there but i and the Missus didnt go, becaus what is the use becaus we got a regular bathe tub in our room at the hotel and this is only Fri any way an Sat nite is the time for bathes. We kum back from Venice in the p. m. and after supper we went for a walk a round Los Angeles what is quite a town being moren 3 times as large as Squedunk with tall bldgs and every thing. Well next a. m. Jack we got a tele fone from this hear Don Meaney what used to live in our town and what is now one of the bosses out to this hear Universal City what you hearn so much a bout. Don he in vited i and the Missus to kum out and see him so we took a st. kar and went out and Don he met us at the corner by the bank and took us in his auto mobile out to this hear Universal City, its a grate place Jack and things is going on all over, i and the Missus seen this hear Francis Ford what is making the broken Koin and Warren Kerrigan and a lot more other actors and actresses what was all working in moshun pitchurs. After Don had showed us the Universal zoo he took us to lunch and then he interduced i and the Missus to Hen McRae what is the boss of the hole of Universal City and to Ford Beebe what is publicity mgr., and a mighty fine feller and to H. B. Caulfield what is bus. mgr., and to C. B. Haenkel what is editor of the cenario dept. and a lot of other good skouts. Well Jack after weed said howdy do to all of them Don he took us in his auto mobile down to the Reliance Majestic studios and there he left us. i and the Missus went in and met this hear Spec Woods and a feller named E. C. Bidwell he showed us all over the place and . we seen em make a lot of moshun pitchurs. 1 of them was 1 what had this hear Fay Tincher in and we met Ed Dillon and Georgie Stone what is a littel boy actor and just be fore we left i was interduced to this hear Dave Griffith what you hearn so much a bout. All of em was awful nice to us and we was glad we went. Then Jack after weed had a ride on sum more st. kars we come to this hear Selig Zoo what we had kum so far to see. i cant be gin to tell you what a grate place this hear Kurnel Selig has got Jack becaus it is wunderful. Out in front is sum big white gates and in the middel of the gates is sum elefants big as life, i dont mean no real elefants Jack but sum elefants made out of stone and theres pam trees all a round and it looks might purty Jack. This hear Herb Hoagland gave i and the Missus some tikets Jack so as Ave could get in for 0 and we gave the tikets to the man at the door and went in. off to 1 side is a pen and in side the pen is 2 girafs and they is even biggern what Ring ling bros cirkus has got Jack. Then you walk up a walk and kum to a big low bldg and all a round on the in side of this bldg is animal cages and in the cages is lions and tiggers and lepards and other animals and gee Jack they is just hundreds of them. All over in side the grounds is nice grass growing all a round and flour beds and every thing and Jack it looks just like a big park in sted of being a working place. Well Kathlyn Williams was there and she shook hands with every body and then she took a baby tigger in her arms and then she had her pitchur taken in moshun pitchurs for this hear 7 Suffern sisters what is the pitchur being made on our trip. And after that Jack i and the Missus walked a round and kum to a place where director Geo. Nicholls was making a moshun pitchur called a man with the Iron hart and we watched him make it, only the man didn't have no' iron hart at all. Next to that place director Daly was making a pitchur called neath Calvary's shadow and this hear Fritzi Brunett was the leading woman and i and the Missus was interduced to her. Tom Persons what is the boss of the hole place was there and he was awful nice to every body and i and the Missus met Martha Mattox what is the old made in the Bloom Center pitchurs, and Marion Warner and Vivien Reed and Frank Wing, who is a grate feller, and Cora Drew what is a famous character woman. Then this hear Littel Olga what is a animal tamer she performed with her animals in a big cage and sum elefants did some cirkus stuff and there was some trained ponies and etc. And then Jack as though that wasnt enough the Selig co. gave us all a bankwit on the lawn and it was awful good and then they took us all over to a big dance place and there we met all the big Selig stars, Kathlyn Williams and Bessie Eyeton and every body and then every body danced. As i or the Missus neither one danced we left kinda erly and met Don Meaney and his Missus, who is a awful nice lady and we went out to the home of Vilet McMillan who is a Universal actress and we had a nother dinner at her house and mr Folgers, this hear mr Folger in reel life is Miss McMillan's husband and after a dinner we all got in a auto mobile and went out to the beech and to Nat Goodwins kafay what is a grate big saloon and dance hall rite on the edge of the Ocean. There was hundreds of people there and we had sumthing to drink and then we went to a nother kafay called Baron Longs and there Jack i and the Missus seen this hear Chas. Chaplin, the famous funny feller o the Essanay cO., and he looks just as komical off the stage as he does in the pitchurs. Ford Sterling and sum other keyStone actors was there too and we seen em all. Next a. m. Jack i and the Missus got up erly of the animal -quarters at the Selig plant.