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All-Around Anita
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until Miss King had made a valiant battle and risked her own life! Some spark of manhood must have remained in the Mex ican leader, for he called his nun away, and left the brave girl alone. She managed to l>iiul up the wounded arm, but fainted before the family came home.
And 1 think the bravest thing 1 ever knew a girl to do — since the feat called for no mere spurt of spirit but for steady courage, a dauntless will — was the tl
did last summer — driving across the country alone in an automobile. Accosted bj Indians in Nevada, by tramps in the snowsheds of the Rockies, single-handed destroying a timber-wolf which attacked her on the edge of the big American desert, and most of all being at the mercy of the desert heat, of strange roads, of the storms of the Middle West and the dangers of the mountains.
"About writing, now?" one asks.
"Oh, 1 have the news sense," said Miss King. "I'm sure of that. And I love general assignments. Hut when the women's clubs began to tight, and my newspaper put me on that. 1 simply couldn't ised to the temperature. No. I'd rather run my car off the edge of a precipice" — a "feature" actually accomplished by her in her late picture for the Lasky Company — "than to try to report a meeting of a
women's club where die women are quarreling."
"Well, how about school teaching?" "No money, mj dear. And while I loved the children, there's something about Friday afternoon piece-speaking thai
on m\ nerves. Besides, there are moments w hen nothing does Johnny any good ex< ept spanking, and confidentially I can't bear the thought ^>i a lug husky woman like myself picking on an infant. I leavi for someone else."
"And driving an air-ship ?"
"Glorious I Glorious! But if you will look about you. you will notice a terrible dearth of air-ship lines. It seems not at all like a steady occupation, and a steady occupation 1 must have."
'The latest accomplishment of Miss King. and the one showing an entirely differenl angle of her nature, is the formulating of a plan for the protection of girls who have dreams of becoming motion picture actresses. This she accomplished in consultation with Judge Thomas White, of the "Women's Court, in Los Angeles, and Police Chief Snively, and in furtherance of the plan Miss King has been appointed a City Mother, and each motion picture plant will also have its woman officer, who will look into the qualifications, the lives and actions of all girls applying for work.
Once Upon a Time
■"THERE were no moving pictures then, •*■ Commotion tales of love and sin :
Xo Keystone capers nor film newspapers To lure us from the traffic's din.
There were no boards of censors then To tell us what was wrong and what was right ; To muffle kisses or stay the hisses When the erstwhile villain, just before the last act, stepped in front of the Peruna ad. on the curtain and, in the voice of a sympathetic undertaker, announced: "On behalf of the management and the entire company. I thank you. and remem-bah — East Lynne, tomorrow night."
Ai.. Cohn.