Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advkrtising Section What Motion Pictures Mean to Me (Continued) TIRED, TIRED, TIRED, that is I. Evenings wlien liubby toasts liis feet by the fire and has his nose in a newspaper, I ask him for the price of the movies and away I go to find rest. I am never disappointed, Through the excitement and thrills that follow I forget my cares, my body relaxes and I am rested. In comparing my troubles with the troubles of the people on the screen and seeing how they are conquering and make good, I find comfort. I take courage again and new hope is kindled within me. I go home a dift'crent woman than when I went to the movies.* Marguerite Hurst, Wray, Colorado. Pictures are Friends to the "Lonely Sisterhood." Third Prize THE shepherd of the plains is held to be the symbol of utter loneliness. Until the moving pictures appeared, I considered myself his rival. My husband, an employee of a great corporation, is likely to be transferred with out warning. I grew up among friends and relatives who filled my days with sociability. Then I married, and went a thousand miles away to a big city. No one ever rang my telephone. Only the postman ever whistled up the tube. How I rushed to get that mail from home ! Wliat voluminous answers I wrote, about nothing! I walked miles that winter, on sunny days; when it stormed, more letters, or I took the long ride down town to the reading room at the dingy public library, or wandered in the shops. Once we ventured to church, for back home that was the way strangers got acquainted, but the chill smugness of the congregation froze our enthusiasm; we did not go back. Spring came, and in the park near our apartment, I made friends with the young mothers, airing their babies. But the first of that long series of messages sent us to Arizona, and I began all over. Do you wonder I became a "movie fan" when 1 discovered the first little theater? Think what it meant to me ! Nowadays, when we land in a strange place, we hunt for the moving picture directory, and there are our own friends. Mary's smile is as sweet in Davenport as Austin; Fatty just as funny. This little letter cannot express what a desolate void these genial folk have filled in my life, as well as thousands of other members of the Lonely Sisterhood. Grace Vandeventer Dyke, 685 Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. He Became an Outcast, the Pictures Reclaimed Him. Third Prize FROM a far eastern part of Canada I came, some years ago, to this port of the Far West. My objective point was the Klondike, but I never gained it. Here I settled and went to work in a shingle mill Motion pictures then were young, so was I. Gambling was an open sport in this "neck of the woods," also was the free-and-easy dance hall. My home training had been strict, this condition of moral looseness was new to me, I proved susceptible, I fell and fell far. Once a week, regular as daylight, came a loving and scripture-filled letter from lOI \J .^ Teach Them To Say Hires' HIRES is good for all ages — at all times. Every one of the sixteen Hires ingredients is a product of Nature from the woods and fields, collected from all parts of the world. Nothing goes into Hires but the pure healthful juices of roots, barks, herbs, berries — and pure cane sugar. The quality of Hires is maintained in spite of tremendously increased cost of ingredients. Yet you pay no more for Hires the genuine than you do for an artificial imitation. But be sure you say "Hires" to get Hires. At fountains, or in bottles, at your dealers. Keep a case at home and always have Hires on ice as first aid to parched palates. THE CHARLES E. HIRES COMPANY, Philadelphia Hires Hires contains juices of 16 roots, barks, herbs and berries When you write to advertisers please ment;on PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.