Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

The Squirrel Cage A.Gnutt THK word "hono\ moon" is (krivi'd frcnu the ancient Teutons, and means drinkinir for tliirtv days after marriage of mctluKlin, mead, or Iiydromel, a kind of wine made from lioney. 1\ the inidernroinid vaults of the new United States assav office, th^ cornerstone of whicli was laid recentlv in New York, can he stored more than Jjo.noo. 000,000 in Rold. Thcv are said to be the largest and finest in the world. I'ive of the eight stores of the liuildinqr will in li'catcd beneath the surface of the earth. AUK the window cleaners wise in striking tor a weekly wa^e of thirtv-six <liillars? If ihiv are not careful collese presidents will be ttvinK to take their jobs away from them. IMPEDI'I) by the high cost of evcrvthing. an inveterate collector has begun to make collection of motion picture captions. Wlir.N his friends secured for him a commission in the army thev expected him to ili\iliip into a military eenins.. ("■'.cat was their chagrin, then, when, in the thick of his first great battle, a runner, having dashed ui> and asked him how long he could hold his position, he did not repiv: ••Till lull freezes over!" Hut merely, '•.\s long as may be necessarx I" There was nothing for his friends to do after that but to advise him to resign and engage in trade. STRIKK fever is spreading. Six horses walked out in the fo<trtli race at Saratoga yesterday. — N'ariety. IT'S a shame to gurgle a giggle at one of the world's richest men, but there's difficulty in repressing a twitch at the corners of the mouth when one reads that Mr. Kord's iustlv celebrated son "had." according to his father. "nianv olTers" to enter the war. I--athcr adds. seriously: "Ue is a great relief to me." Well, f.-.ther has been in more wavs than one a big liille comic relief to the tired business man. "lywoTIIKR GOOSE" is popi'larlv supposed iVl to be an imaginary person, but she was a real woman. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Foster and she w,as born in :6(>^. In i6q.i she married Isaac Goose and became a member of the Old South Church of Ho.ston. She died at the ripe old age of qj. Her songs were originally sung to her grandchildren, and were fit't i>ublished bv her son-in-law, Thomas hleet. The ••Mary" that had a little lamb was Mary Elizabeth .Sawyer, also a Massachusetts girl. The incident described in the poem really happened and was put into verse by a voung .student named Rawlston. who died soon after, ignorant of the immortality of his simple poetry. HERE is competition for the Kaiser. Tacts and figures relating to an enormous cheese Kceiitlv made in a Wisconsin city support the claim of its manufacturers that it is the largest of its kind in the world. Weighing .ii.q64 lbs., the cheese is H ft. high and 10 ft. in diameter. It is valued at $16,000. Twelve thousand cows, giazcd on 1.800 dairy farms, furnished the .157.000 lbs. of milk tised in its making. A GROUP of lahoicrs were diligently employed in the arduous task of cleaning out n sewer. Two voung men were standing near, llic taller of whom remarked: "Oh, hoy! If I onlv^had a million dollars! Tliere'd be no more worry for" yours truly." "Nell," said one of the laborers. "I'd like to have a million, too." "What would you do with it?" asked the yi'ung man jocosely. "I'd buv a IK'W handle for this pick." AN ;id from the "per>onar' column of the London Times: Old Crock. — Will a few generous souls celebrate Peace bv .\SSISTING disabled M.\JOK, joined up in 1914 at 4^; as a private soldier, to purchase a piano street organ. Outdoor life ordered; genuine appeal. Gave up L.i;oo a year to jiiin the ranks. No iiension, no income, bad health ; friends killed: still cheerful and smiling. — I!ox (! 6g7, The Times. Talk about courage. Here is the real old clicero. never-say-die stuff. THE housing problem is America, as is indicated fiom the London I'uncli: "Concerning the statement is to be supplied with a house awaiting his trial, might it puriishment to make him find not confined to by the following that the Kaiser in London while not be sufficient it himself?" FKEDERICK V. COVILLE, the botanist, is aulhority for the claim that a huckleberry plant (the wild box huckleberry type) on a timbered hill in I'errv County, Pennsylvania, which covers ei.ght acres of ground, is over a thousand years old. "/^KE,,\T!" commented Pershing when the V_J students of Cambridge. V.ngland, cheered as he received an honorary degree. It's a world's record for a commencement address. N.\IL brushes are nailed to the wall above the washstands in a London club. "'Vou don't mean to say," a visitor said, '"that the mcmhirs steal tlie nail brushes, and vou have to nail them down?" ■•No." said the porter. ••Not that, sir. ' Many of our members now have only one arm. We nail our nail brushes to the wall so they can use them." / T HE editor of this profound page goes on record as a strong advocate of the plan whereby voung ladies attending church in the evening can register their names in the church vestibules, so that young men who are in the habit of lingering around the cluirch door can see at once whether or not their best girl is present, and thus set a troubled brain at rest. WHEN thev hauled me to court in a manner so rude. I confessed, for my candor com pelled it: There was no use denying that I was nuile stewed, for I found an old cork, and I snielled it. — Judge. PERH.M'S the late .\ndrew Carnegie himself was not aware that the idea of libraries with which his name is associated did not originate with him but with a wealthy Chinese merchant of the fifth eenlury. one Houci-T'ze. He donated libraries throughout China and Turkestan, stipulating that his portrait should be hung back of the librarian's desk. ONE marriage at least has been made in heaven. But what if the radio phones had jammed after Lieutenant (5. H. Uurgess, his bride, the wedding party and the minister, tii the j^everal jdanes, had soared to 1000 feet above Slieepshead P.av Speedway ? It would have been dreadful to come down to earth before the honeymoon had even started. C.\PT.\IN fJOYCOTT was the agent of an estate in Ireland, and the tenants, dissatisfied with his management asked the landlord to remove him. This he declined to do. and thereupon the tenants and their frrends refused Id Hoik for Boycott, and that's how the word started. PKOHiniTION has fairly taken some people's breath away. — Pittsburgh Giicelte-Tiiiics. C.\PT. .\L W.VDDF.I.I, relates a weird perience he encountered "over there." was during mess and the orderly officer, gla down the long table, demanded if there were complaints about the food. Private Jones rose slowly and extended cup : "Taste this, sir," he said. The officer took a sip, hesifated a niumenl said scathin.gly: "\'ery excellent soup. I call it." "Yes sir," agreed Jones, ••but the corporal it's tea. and the cook served it as coffee. iust now I found a toothbrush in it, sir." — Angeles Times. It ring any hi. ami ^ayand L.is THE Transfiguration" by Raidiacl is called tlu' first and grandest picture in the world. It was originally painted bv order '>f Cardinal Ciulio de Medici (afterwards Clement \'II) .\rchbishop of Narbonne. for that cathedral. It now hangs in the Vatican. A newspaper out West refused to publish the Ten Commandments for fear its readers would think tliem too personal and :stop the paper. IN 1669 Soliman Agu, ambassador from the Sultan, ilaliomet I\', arrived in Paris, and established the custom of drinking cotTee there. lUit a Greek, named Paso, had already opened ••1 coffee house in London in ib^2. THE recently-issued volume. "The Philos ophy of Hertrand Russell." contains tlufollowing: "Teacher: 'Now, boys, Shem, Ham, an 1 Japheth were Noahs sons: who was the father of .Shem, Ham, and Japheth?" "No answer. "Teacher: •P.oys, you know Mr. Smith, tl: • carpenter, opposite: has he any '" arpenier. oiiiiosiie; iias ne any sons: "Roys: '(), yes, sir; there's Bill and Bin." "Teacher: •And who is the father of l!i and Ben Smith?' P.ovs: •Why. Mr. Smith, to be sure.' Well, then, once more: Shem, "Teacher: leacner: \>eii, men. once more; .-siiem. Ham, and Japheth were Noah's sons: who was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth?" ".\ long jiau^e: at last a boy, indignant at what he thought the attempted trick, cried cuit : ■It couldn't have been Mr. Smith!'" THE history of Holland is largely filled with stories of her fight against the Zuyder Zee. Now Holland is beginning an offensive on the ocean that has so often spelt disaster, bv starting to drain off its water at Medembiik. To appreciate what the Dutch Government -jiropose to do, says a writer in The Christi.m .Science Monitor, is to get the large-scale map, about which so much has been heard in recent years, and study the matter; note how the Dutch engineer projioscs to throw a great dam across the neck of the bottle between the island of Weiringen and Piaam, on the opposite coast of Friesland; how, once the sea is excluded, he proposes to .undertake the great work of draining the huge area thus cut off; how he will do it "polder" by "polder." making a dyke around a stretch of land and then pumiiing all the water from behind it: how in doing this he must make provision for rivers and streams to find their way to the sea; must take into account the contour of the country, now lyiiv.; some twelve feet or more under water; and must so cast his work that the farmer, tlubuilder, the joiner, and the market* gardener may follow close upon the heels of the receding waters. MRS. ANN POL'DER. of Baltimore. Md., who died in the fall of 1917. «as the olilest .\merican woman on authentic record. She \\:i born in 1807.