The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 31 Dora Rodrigues Returns for Army Shoes clothes? low are you, Mr. Pepper?" "For goodness' sakes, I thought you were almost to California by this time. And where did you get these I have never seen you in anything except the regulation army khaki uniform." "Well, you know I have to be a girl some of the time, or I would forget how," said Uora Rodrigues, for it was the. "And the reason I am here is that I want to get some new shoesarmy shoes, you know. I have worn mine out and have worn out part of my feet, too. They will have to be made specially for me, because there are none of Uncle Sam's soldiers with No. 3 feet. But I don't want to stop working, and I do want to do all that I can for Uncle Sam. I have to have shoes; only one shoemaker can make them. He is in New York." Fred Church and Eileen Sedgwick^ in ^'Jungle Treachery Fred is sent on a survey into the jungle where Eileen lives with a hermit father. Fred is wanted against hostile natives, and between them and the wild animals he has plenty of excitement— all of which is passed on to the fans in good measure. "Well, what have you in mind to do now, and do you expect to travel the same way as heretofore?" "I am going right back to take up the work again. I would appreciate a lift sometimes — the towns out West are much further apart." "You might take a few samples of the conservation jelly that we saw in the Animated Weekly the other night, and show the women along the way how to assist Mr. Hoover in his food propaganda." "No," said Dora, thoughtfully. "I don't think Mr. Hoover needs nearly as much help as Mr. Baker. He is a very clever man and he has the country started already toward the object he had announced. I have noticed that particularly in my travels. He won't have any difficulty in his propaganda. I will start with Springfield, Ohio, and travel from there to Marion, Lima, Toledo, Detroit, and so on, until I reach Universal City, California. "By the way," added Dora, as she fished in an intensely feminine little handbag for her powder preparatory for going, "I have collected a whole lot of souvenirs along the way. This bag, for instance, was presented to me in Chicago by the Big Three Trunk Company, and I got this watch from the manager of the Cameraphone Theatre in Pittsburgh, and more candy than I could ever have carried away with me. In Cincinnati Captain Kissinger, a Spanish War veteran, took me out to the barracks where the soldiers are being drilled now, and gave me his color bar pin, which I understand only veterans of the Spanish War are permitted to wear. It is a badge of foreign service. He pinned it on my coat himself, and I have never taken it off until I took the uniform off. Then there was a lovely old grand army man iri Youngstown, Pa., who gave me his grand army badge, made out of a piece of aBunker Hill cannon. Would you like to see it?" And again she fished into the bag. but this time she was not so successful. "My, but I miss the pockets in that uniform so much, I can hardly wait until I wear it again. "You know I had a very odd experience in Turtle Creek. That certainly is a bad place in Pennsylvania. Three men in a machine stopped me on the way to Wilkinsburg, Pa., which is the next little town, and they asked me a whole lot of questions, most of them rather impertinent. I wasn't doing anything to disturb the peace, and I resented their questioning. They wanted to take me in the car, but I wouldn't let them, and I finally called a policeman. Then they drove off. When I got into the town the con stable stopped me and told me that I was wanted over in Indiana, and it finally developed that a girl had been kidnapped over there, and the last time she was seen she was dressed as a boy scout in uniform. I certainly felt very much flattered to be mistaken for this kidnapped young person, and the policeman felt very cheap when I told him who I was." LYONS AND MORAN TO APPEAR IN LONGER NESTOR COMEDIES. £DDIE LYONS and Lee Moran, stars of Universal Nestor comedies, shortly will appear in two-reel pictures. "The boys," as they are called at Universal City, have proved so popular in one-reelers and the clamor of the movie fans to present them in longer subjects has been so great that it was decided recently to produce the Lyons-Moran comedies in 2,000-feet lengths. Alternate directors, Roy Clements and Burton George, will produce the longer Nestors, one of them being engaged in actually staging a comedy while the other is giving his personal supervision to the trimming of his latest picture and doing the preliminary work on his next. The first of the new Lyons-Moran series entitled "On the Owl," is being made by Director Clements. Much of the action occurs in a Pullman car and some situations are evolved that will tickle the risibilities — whatever those are— of the grouchiest theatregoer.