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therefore Certain Popular MenA bout-Town of Hollywood Say "Good-Morning Judge" in Speeders Court.
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most popular young men -about -Hollywood greeting, more or less cordially, one Police Judge Joseph F. Chambers, sultan of the Los Angeles speeders' court. The responses made by Judge Chambers are equally terse and even less cordial. In fact, his remarks are confined to sentences y . . sentences like "Thirty days!"
Wherefore, if perchance you wend your way to any one of several Hollywood studios and ask for
a certain film star, the answer is very likely to be "On location."
True. But wait till you hear which location.
It seems rather crude to call it a jail. Let us rather say that our friends are taking a course — -an intensive course— in the new school of Histrionic Repression, the faculty of which is distinguished from the staffs of less arresting institutions by khaki-hued uniforms and highpowered motorcycles.
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.s teachers of acting, Judge Chambers and his aides are masterly. They believe that restraint is the first essential of genius ; and they are going to teach their proteges restraint if it takes every sentence in stock to do it. That is why several big pictures are being held up for a few days, while various screen celebrities listen to lectures on "How Not to Play on the Foot Throttle Without Notes," or "The Importance of Pedal Repression."
The spirit of democracy prevails in this new seminary of the arts. Film stars whose salary aggregates thousands of dollars a year bunk side by side with the great unwashed. There has been no foolish extravagances in decorating the dormitory. In fact, its lines might be called severely chaste. Windows are scarce, in order that the students may not catch cold and also, it may be, to remove from the novices the worldly temptations that so distract from introspection.
Cots take the place of luxurybreeding feather beds, and often
come in tiers, so that the occupants may not lack company. The dormitories are playfully called tanks, adding to the picturesque charm of the place.
Meals, too, are laudably simple. Beans, coffee and a thick hunk of bread form a favorite menu for breakfast, while for lunch and evening dinner the bill-of-fare is attractively alternated by bread, coffee and beans.
hysical exercise follows the early rising practiced by the students. Many an embryo Fairbanks is developing his muscles under an expert system of callousthenics (okeh) , with a mop, pail and broom as the principal instruments. And no invidious discriminations are made. A beautiful actress who scorched the asphalt on her way to the studio has just as fine a chance of expanding her personality with a scrub brush on the seminary floor as has the tawdriest shoplifter.
To attack the garden weed, to slink intrepidly along the trail of the slug and to stop at nothing, not even the fearsome and odorous barns and stables, is the daily experience of these dramatic students. They have become crack knife-men in the commissary department, peeling a potating unerringly at three paces.
Edythe Sterling, of the California film colony, was one of those to receive the benefits of this extraordinary institution. Edythe became eligible by running her ( Continued on page 9£ )
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