Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

THE Rreatcst bank is the Bank of England, in I.oiidnn; tlic oldest college is University College, Oxford, founded in 1050; the largest library, the National, in Paris, containing nearly 3,000,000 volumes. The largest theatre is the I'aris Opera House, covering three acres; the largest bronze statue, that of Peter the Great, in Petrograd. weighing 1,100 tons. The largest college is in Cairo, with over 10,000 students and 310 teachers. NOR can we recall whether Photoplay or any other journal ever published Vice-President Marshall's famous war joke. Anyhow it is good enough to publish again. "It never occurred to me till we entered this terrible war, and the draft boards began to work," said Mr. Mar shall, "that this country had many men with flat feet and great executive ability.'' A CHEMIST was boastin<; in the company of his friends of his wcll-assorud stock in trade. "There isn't a drug missinu," he said: "not even of the most uncommon sort." "Come now," said a bystander, by way of a joke, "I'm sure you don't keei> spirits of contradiction, as well stocked as you are." "Why not?" said the chemist, not in the Ic.ist embarrassed. "You shall see for yourself." So saying, he left the room and returned, leading his wife by the hand. — Tit-Bits. are suffering from ain fag and ennui," announced the specialist. "You must have a change. Get into some business in which you take more interest." "I would like to," replied the patient, "but the law won't let me." "What do you mean by that?" asked the doctor. "I'm a pawnbroker." —Uudge.) fairly, who ay ices uarnily, who lives liberally, who dies modestly, whose playfellows are mankind.— .\cw York H'orld. VY/E are sorry we cannot credit the publication " which first published the following illustration of an Irish bull, nor can we explain just why it is funny, but here it is: "If you were passing through the Emerald Isle, and saw six cows lying down in a meadow, and one of them was standing, that would be an Irish bull." 'T'HE only two countries in which the mile is * of ecjual length are Britain and America. "YOU i brail DR. PAUL CARNOT, a noted Trench physician, has proposed an international marriage bureau as n means of finding husbands for the 2,000,000 Prcnch women who were left without mates due to the war. 'J'lIE first watches ever made I were about as big as soup plates, and as handy to carry in one's pocket. ICmperor Charles V ownrd one of these c.irly chronnnielerA. but he probably did not lofc it aronml a great deal for it weighed twenty seven pounds. One of the prize time-pieces of the early watch iiiaking period was made for .Sult.in .Abdiil .McdJid by an English firm. It was five inches in diameter, chimed the hours and quarters and was made of twenty-two cnial gold. \/ir.N'A is probably llie only pliice in the world * « he re nccur are shod. The geese are made to walk firs! thrniigh t.nr .ind afterwards Ihrouph sand. K.Trli goose is thii.s pruvidcd with a durable pair nf boots, and is enabled 10 make the li>ng journey to the gooic f.nir at Warsaw without pelting r.ore feel or renuiritig the scrx-ices of a rhiropodi<t. WHAT is a good sport in (he English sense' .\ man who wins honestly, who loses cheerfully, who hopes incrra«inslv, who bcMows Huielly. who receives naturally, who differs Hitch This Interview To Your Favorite Vampire WAS interviewing Hortense Hocstuff, the virtuous vampire of the screen. "I dare say you have had a romantic past," I ventured. "Romantic?" she parried. And then she laughed in a sweet contralto. "Hardly. I was bom in Hiclcsville, Ohio, and took the commercial course in the Jones County Business College. My old gent was a horse doctor. Then I took some lessons in acting by mail, six dollars for ten lessons and a diploma, and went out to the co-ist where I got a job in the Lily White Laundry. We used to do the work for the Sandlot Film Corporation, and I had to go out and give 'em the razoo to collect every Saturday night. I made 'cm come through, too, and one day Mike Rosen, the man who owned the company, said that it would be cheaper to give me a job than to pay for the laundry. 'Anybody that can get money outta me is an artist,' .said Mike, and that's how it all happened. No, I don't smoke, but you might fetch me in a ham sandwich the next time v'ou come around." I turned m the interview to the Editor and that's why I'm out here in Dr. Gnutt's private sanitarium. — The Reporter. Higgins, overjoyed, went to the Ikss's office ne.xt morning and recounted the rare and wonderful thing which had befallen him. The boss felicitated him heartily, and the next day Higgins was sent for. He hurried to the office again, to find the entire firm assembled there. A handsome silver cup stood on the mantel, and this trophy, in an eloquent speech, the boss presented to him in recognition of the triple blessing which he liad bestowed upon his country. Higgins took the cup in his hand, bowed respectfully and said: "Excuse me, sir, but is this cup mine now. or do I have to I win it three years in succession?"— Boston Clobe. "TTHE languages and dialects * into wliich the Bible is translated now number 4So. The British and Foreign Bible Society's issues of conies of the Scriptores now reach the huge total of 7.899. s6i. A CIVIL War veteran, who served in the medical corps, insists that the first operation for api>endicitis was performed just after the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. .\ young Erench Canadian, member of a Michigan regiment, was shot through the lower abdomen. His intestines were uninjured, but his appendix protruded from the wound. The ignorant soldier snipped it olT with a pair of scissors before the surgeons could prevent him from doing so. The man was. of course, expected to die at once. But he recovered within a few short days. The incident was forgotten, and it was not till 1885 that a Denver surgeon performed the first operation to remox-c an apiH-ndix. Then it became popular. ONE of the largest land deals ever consummated in Nebraska was that of Mrs. Mary W. Rea, who recently took title to 4,400 acres of rich land at a cost of $500,000. GIRL: "So you wear y.^ir i i nicht t.^ keep your hands soft?" Youth: "Ye<i," Girl: ".And do you sleep with vour hat on'" —Til Pits. "tUiy dear, did you hear that J.nek and Mabel 1" are having trouble in regard to the validity of their marriage'" "Oh! Hnw terrible!" "N'es. it appears that the mini..ter hadn't paid his dues to the Union." — I.iff. WILL IRWIN, in an address on birth control, told a story of a chap mined ILggiiis. who pot home one iiiHht (o learn that his wife had given birth to triplets — three healthy, bouncing boys. NE R \' O U S Passenger (in aerial taxi, about 5,000 feet up) ; W w what are you li-laughing at. Driver? Driver: I'm just laughing at thc^ superintendent, .M>out this time he'll be searching for me all over the lunatic asvlum. —Liff. WHY did the Scotch adopt the thistle as their national emblem? One explanation is to the ctTcct that a Scotch queen of ancient times, after watching her valiant triops conquer an inv-ading force, sat down to rest herself. She got up immediately for she -had sat down on a tliistle. Intcad of cursing the offending weed, she plucked it. and stuck it in her hrlmct as an emblem of her victory. This ail consecrated the thistle for subsequent generations. .\nothcr story states that the thistle won its prestige by saving Staine's Castle, .\berdeen.sliire, frorii bring sacked by the Danes i» the year loio. The Danes had crept by night uii to the castle walls when one of the attacking soldiers gave a sliatfi cry of pain. He stepped on a thistle. The castle watchmen were arriii«ed. and the guard was summoned, and the Danes were driven off. (Condttded on page gof 72