Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

fguirrel Cage AGNUTT D[I) voii know tluit every Swedish inovie .lircctor sj)i-nks al least one foreign language? ( Jencrally it is Sw edisli. AVOCNCi nuin should kiss a s'rl on either the left or the ritjht check." says a writer on hvnienc in a weekly paper. Whereupon Mr. J'uiu'li remarks that, 'as the oiition of either cheek i« yiven. many young men will no doubt hesitate helween the two. CIII'KR itp. In Budapest drunkenness is "under certain circumstances" ))unislial)le by death. "C.\Y, Harry, we've got to figure ••^ out some way to get hack that oil stock we've been selling." "What's the idea?" "I just got a telegram saying the darned property really has oil on it." — L «■/<?. DO you dream at night? Then you're all right. .\nd here's sotiiething else for our directors to worry about. For criminals do not dream. They are essentially men of action whose minds never wander from purposes to morals, and consc<|uently their sleep is undisturbed by any nightmares. A bunch of investigators got busy on this and established it as a fact. Their recor<ls show tliat of one hunilred and Iwcnty-five criminals under observation not one was disturlxd in any way in his slumbers. And you always thought they «ere haunted at night by their crimes. THE former infantry major, now in civics, sauntered into the barber sliop. ICight barbers snapped out of restful postures and stood stifily by their chairs. The major hesitated, feeling there was something he .should ilo about it. Then it all came to him in a flash. "As you were!" he bellowed. — American Legion Weekly OXr. fnxls it harder and harder to live within one's income these days, but suppose one had to live '.villioiit it! YOU fellows who are being rushed * by the girls this year, just suppose you lived in New Guinea. Every year is. Leap Year there! The men consider it below their ilignity to notice women at all, nuich less make overtures of marriage, ronscqucntly the proposing is left to the women. And, yes, there's a siring lied to it. When n New Guinea woman falls in love with a man she sends a piece of siring to his sister, or to anothe lady relative, who tells llie favorc I man that the particular woman is in love with him. Xo courting follows, however, for such a pursuit is con'idereil a waste of time. If the man thinks he would like to wed the lady he meets her alone ami thry decide whether to marry or drop the idea. pOS.SIIlI.Y it w.ts in New Guinea that the * '■lory originateil aboul I lie unromantic young fellow who was anked whether, after he bail taken a ymnig lady hoim from the ihealei-. he li;id kissed her. "No!" he replied. "I figured I had ■lone about enough for Iter for one cveuing." VT/ IIKN" the proicctcil trans-. Vustrali.ni line *• fiom flodnadatta to I'ort Darwin is computed the Iravrlrr on it will be coiifronteil with what will be, probably, the dreaviesl railway ji;urnev in the world. The greater part of the route lies through a ilesert region, practically devoid of life, and utterly uninteresting. At present, however, the unenviable distinction rests with that portion of the Southern Pacific Railwav which runs through Arizona and Southern California. Here, for a distance of nearly i.ooo miles, the traveller sees naught save w There's something ahout'you. old thing, that stirs me strangely. — Courttsy London Sketch .-ilkali desert, whose evcr-shilting sanil dunes fornieil, in the oM nre-railroad days, the only graves of many Innn'reds of poor wretches who sought to reach falifornia hv_ what w.i» tlien known as the ".Southern Trad." "Cl'PPOSrNG t give you your supni i . ' --.iid 1^ the tireil-lonking woman, "what w ill ymi do to earn it?" "Madam," said the wanderer. "I'd give you lie .ipportiniity ov seeing a ni:in go t'roo a wliole meal w ithout ' fnvlin' fault w ill a -ingle t'ing." The wiimaii thought a moment, and then told him to come in, nn<l she'd lav the table. _ — Loudon Ofi'iion. U-L. Monte Carlo is in full swing now. Money is passing over tlie tables at the rate of a billion and a half a month. Sl'NKF-R Abaji Biscy, a Hindoo scientist, has invented a crook-proof ouija Ihiard. It is made of steel and constructed so that those working it cannot see what it writes. He does not say whether it is foolI'roof. WHILE thousands of persons are taking the ouija board .piite -eriously — it does do funny tlur ts. • I'lesn't ' it? — still its manufact.irers assure us that it was only intendi-1 as a toy. and the name — there's nothing mysterious about that cither. It's just the Trench oui and the (jerman ja, meaning "yes, yes." IT is surprising ■ how many uscf ;! things come into general use sitnji'y on account of some slip. HI itt.-.i;pai>er, for instance, was the re; t iif a workman's spoiling of a l>.;i. 'i into which he had forgotten to any sizing material. Nobel ■li-i ered dynamite by a slip, and the bayonet was the result of a soldnr s suggestion that, as the powder w.is done, they should lix their long knives into the barrels of their ritle~ and charge. But one of the funniest .iccidenta' discoveries relate? to bottled beer. In the reign of Queen Mary a certaiti llean of St. Paul's and Mastir i Westminster School had to tly t i ■ Continent for his life. He was ai c • by the silvery Thames al^ thi • the warning reached him. Some ; later he not only returned to l.i:^land, but to the very spot for the \-cry same purpose, with rod and line. (Jrowing thirsty, he rcmemhci ! that he had left "a bottle of hi < the hollow of a neighboring tree v. n he had suddenly taken night years before. The bottle was : but when he removed the c.nk :! went olT with a bang. I SEE that the old liglit-hous* where we used to picnic on the shore has been destroyed by ,1 storm." Mr. Biggs observed, looking up from his ]>aper. _ , „ "Well. 1 m not surpi;iscd. Mrs Biggs resiiondcd as she picked un hi • sewing. "I always said it won' 1 Kcallv. I can't understand lu'". Government is of such poor judcr..^ ■ as to build light-houses in such c\ l>osed places as thev do."— The Honu Sector. Y(TL"\'E probably heard that lin. pulled by some punster, " h' questioned as' to his ancestry, t' • iiseJ to have some Scotch in him. .\lso t! ■ about the chap who was said to be of ^ rxuaction because he coubl extract so Scotch from — . But Sir Thomas Mackcniu ( .nnmissioncr of New Zealand, tell a new The New Zealand forces — a part of the fan ■ •us \nzac9 — contained quite a large number natives and one of the dusky warriors waited o . Sir Thomas, claiming that he was a .Scotsitiar • Why do you claim to be a .^^cot ?" asked Si Thomas. "Well," replied the Maori, "rvc Scoltis! blood in my veins. >jv grandfather .tie a Scote'. Prcgbvtcria'n minister.' 94