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LATEST-HIT" Camp Uble Made of White Maple finish. Very Beautiful This is a real instrument and retails at least $6.00. Free Instructions— Pick, etc. Pay postman $2.98 plus postage all the more comical. Never mind, Herr Stiller, after you've been here as long as the rest of us have, you'll understand that it isn't quite the right thing to call a gentleman a "gink", or a lady a "dame", and even though it's a sort of mean trick to have so much fun at your expense, we're for you and hope your first picture is a humdinger. * if * Oh, well, you have to admit that the women know their stuff! No sirree, nobody can argue that point with us feminine sex. All of which is deducted from a little happening on the John Gilbert set, where he and Robert Cautiero were duelling their lives away in "Bardelys, The Magnificent" . I give you my word that it was no easy duel and that both Gilbert and Cautiero were not bleeding "prop" blood when it was all over. Then imagine, right out of a clear sky, hearing a voice pipe up — "Hugh! That wasn't so good! Let me show you how." If Jack Gilbert hadn't been able to see the blonde vision who spoke those cruel words, this might have been a sadder, short' er tale. But to be challenged, right on his own set, by a feminine Marion Davies, was too good to be true. Once again they took up the swords — this time Marion and Jack. Once again everybody was breathless. And you folks who are reading this — if you think I'm going to commit myself and say that Marion won, or if you think I'm going to commit myself and say that Jack was the victor — not on your life! As far as I'm concerned it was an absolute draw. As far r.s I know anything about it, it was six of one and half a dozen of the other. But — I'd have to admit that Marion wasn't dressed to do her very best on such an occasion, and although Jack is a very fine dueller, you know, well, I can't just say, but, anyway — we women aren't so bad, either! * * * Tim Holt has bought a horse, and sure as the grass grows round the stump, it be longs to Tim, from the tip of that pinto' tail to the whiskers on the good old fellow' chin! And if you think Tim didn't swea honest blood and almost break a six-year-ol back to earn that hundred dollars to pa for the nifty little animal, just listen to hi story. In the first place, the pony caugb Tim's inherited eye of knowing a good hors when he sees one while he watched ther make some scenes for " The Vanishin American" and saw the piece of horse-fles in action. "Such a beauty," thought youn Tim. "I'll have to have my dad buy hir for me." So Tim went to Dad, and Da told him that the only way Tim could g€ enough money together to buy that pon would be to earn it himself! Well, that' six months ago, and since then Tim ha been weeding so many weeds from the gai dens of Ernest Torrence and Florence V. dor, and picking so many snails from thei lawns that he figured it was about time th hundred dollars was in the bank. Da called the bank, and sure enough, they tol him that if Tim would go to the teller' window, he'd be able to get his hard-earne money without any trouble. They gave hii five brand new twenty-dollar bills, but th man who gave him the money told him he' better go over to another man with th money, and when Tim finally found himsel at the door going out of the bank, all h had in his hand was a piece of paper. Th man called it a "draft", but it didn't loo so good to Mr. Holt, Jr., and back he weni saying, he'd decided he'd rather have th ready cash! O' course, there's nothing lik being careful, and after you've worked s gol-derned hard for six months there's n use taking unnecessary chances! To mak a long story short, the pinto is now roomin very elegantly in the Jack Holt stables, an most any time of day you happen to pa; the place, you can see a small boy standin in front of one particular stall, and you ca hear a sure voice, with ownership ringin right through it, say: "Good old horst Good old horse!" Chatter from Hollywood— Continued from page 75 A comedy of errors, grammatical, technical and temperamental preceded the displacement of Maurice Stiller, lately from Sweden, as director of the Cosmopolitan Production, "The Temptress". Stiller was not well enough acquainted with the English language to make himself understood and his methods worked like a nutmeg grater on the temper of Antonio Moreno who was being featured with Greta Garbo. The Swedish director wanted Tony to pad his shoulders, draw in his waistline and pad his feet to fit number ten shoes. "You will not do; your feet are too small," he told Tony. Since that time all the directors at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio have been looking at Moreno's feet as he passed them on the lot, and Stiller's now famous phrase rings in his ears wherever he goes. Stiller almost broke up an hour's work on the set by telling a hundred extras to "explode", meaning "applaud". He will be given another picture, being doubly protected by the fact that Greta Garbo, already considered a find, is under personal contract to him. A GOOD many letters of criticism have been received because of the re-filming of several old successes like "Stella Maris" and "The Sea Wolf. I wonder what these people would think of the fact that every Japanese motion picture producing company of any size has on its program each year the story of "Th Forty-Seven Ronins". This classic in Japanese literature is c never-failing interest to the fans there, an instead of making a second release of th film, the companies re-take it every yea; according to Tom D. Cochrane, gener; representative of Famous Players in th Orient. Tom Cochrane tells me that in Japa American motion pictures are shown wit! out written titles, their place being taken b announcers who are formed into such strong union that they have prevented th translation of the titles into Japanese. In the Philippines, the titles are both i Spanish and English on the same form, h says. In China, they are in English, as th clientele of the few -•"•^"J titers thei is purely EngL-™.st Lubitsc, In Japan Gloria Swanson's "Madam Sans Gene" was known as "Napoleon' Cochrane says, because the Japanese peopl held him as an historical idol. Harol Lloyd's "The Freshman" was re-titled "Th 'Boob". Jacqueline Logan and her husband Bo Gillespie deserted Hollywood for a trip t see the Kentucky Derby in Louisville th: month. While in the Ea«t they will see th shows in New York and visit Jacquie relatives. On the eve of their departure Jacquie an