The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 45 Alice Howell of L-Ko Makes a Tackle HAT IS IT? Ty Cobb sliding to base by his famous hook slide; or is it Tom Shevlin making a tackle behind the line? No, neither. You're all wrong. It's a woman, and such a woman! The vision sailing through the air is none other than the one and only, original and incomparable Alice Howell. Alice of the L-Ko. This snap was not taken for a moving picture. It is printed only to show the admiring public that Miss Howell's art is not of the make-believe kind. It is genuine, every bit of it, as one can plainly see by looking at the accompanying picture. This shows Miss Howell in a game of baseball in which she recently engaged at Los Angeles. And it was baseball until Alice's instinct for comedy overcome her better self and then the game degenerated into something quite new and original. It can't be called football, because in football one at least has the common decency (often enforced by the referee) to wait until one's opponent has time to arise and brace Alice Hovjell game. And makes a tackle which breaks up the don't overlook the fact that this is some photograph. himself for the attack from his foe. But whatever it was, the whole affair had dire consequences. The game was being watched by many Universalites out at Universal City and the tackle broke up the whole game. The innocent victim of Miss Howell's ferocity said that he refused to continue the game, as his nei-ves were badly shaken, and besides he wasn't used to such rough treatment. Moral: Don't try to L-Ko outside of the picture or people will think you are rough. "THE L-KO"— A SONG. {Tune of Tipperary.) As up the street I went one day to a picture show, On the sign there was written, "This is the L-KO;" As all the people crowded there to see that picture show, And as I started walking by, some one said, "Stop in here." CHORUS. There's a pretty place Ihey call the L-KO, It's a pretty place to go; There's a pretty place they call the L-KO, Where the prettiest pictures show, So good-bye to my studios, For I'm going there. For there's a pretty, pretty place they call the L-KO, And you'll find me there. SECOND VERSE. As to that picture show I went to see "The Broken Coin" Which featured Francis Ford, and Grace Cunard. And all the people crowded there to see that picture, too, And also King Mitchel and Mr. Rouleaux. CHORUS. There's a pretty place thev call the L-KO, It's a pretty place to go. There's a pretty place they call the L-KO, Where "The Broken Coin" was on the go. So good-bye to my studios, For I'm going there. For there's a pretty, pretty place they call the L-KO, And youll find me there. ANIMATED FILMS GREAT CATASTROPHE AT JERSEY CITY {Continued from page 15.) storm of shot and shell and the fire which followed and released more of the deadly merchandise intended for the use of the Allies in Europe. Lower New York, the islands in the bay, including Liberty Island, the shores of New Jersey adjacent, and the towns further back from the Harbor, all got a taste of what war would be like. The sky rained deadly projectiles for three hours driven upward by tons on tons of lyddite, dynamite and Dunnite, the most powerful explosive known to military science. The escapes of individuals from this aimless bombardment read like the least tamed of the older variety of moving »^icture dramas, and have Old Man Coincidence and Mrs. Improbability on the bottom rope gasping for breath. A loss cf thousands of lives under the circumstance Would not have been surprising. The latest news confines the death loss within a hundred. Property damage is estimated anywhere from $20,000,000 to $50,000,000. The loss in plate glass windows in Jersey City and lov/er Manhattan is estimated at a million alone — so colossal was the concussion from the two principal explosions. None of the authorities seem to think there is any tincture of blame to be placed at the door of bomb experts or enemies of the allies. The explosion was caused by a fire which started on a barge loaded with explosives which was tied up along the National Storage Co.'s Pier. The catastrophe was a pure accident. The barge should not have been where it was, and some one will have to answer for its presence. SWORD FISH NEWEST TERROR. 'J'HE bathers on the New Jersey coast have a new danger to look out for. It is on this coast that recently five bathers were killed by a school of sharks that has infested the waters about New York. But now -here is an added danger because a four hundred pound sword fish was caught. Up to now the bathers have felt safe until the dorsal fin of a shark hove in sight, but now this guarantee no longar holds good. This new monster is even more dangerous than the shark, as there is no avenue of escape open once it attacks. TIMOTHY DOBBS. THAT'S ME.' {Continued from Page 12.) in the heads of the girls. Timothy is deserted, hurt and humiliated. Mary, alone, remains true. No longer is the soda fountain patronized. Timothy can stand it no longer and impulsively tells Millie that he, too, is to become a movie actor. When he sees that she is skeptical, he hastens to inform her that he has had an offer. Millie, electrified, rushes forth to . spread the news, and an hour later the di'ug store is again crowded and Timothy the idol of the town. The boys, disgruntled, go in and tell him that they do not believe him or that he is going. Timothy is taken off his guard, but when he sees the fair girls gazing at Jiim, he says impressively he is leaA^ng for California Saturday. The first episode doses with Timothy disappearing on the observation platform of the departing train.