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Explains anatomy of reproductive organs, impotence, laws of Sex Life, mistakes to avoid, diseases, pregnancy, etc. Contains 9 startling sections: 1-bcience of Eugenics, 2Love, 3-Marriago, 4 Childbirth, 6Family Life, 6-Sexual Science, 7-Diseases and Disorders, H Health mul Hygiene. 9-Story of Life. In all, 10-1 chapters. 77 illustrations. 512 pages. Examine at our risk. Mailed in a plain wrapper. Send No Money Write for your copy today. Don't send a cent. Pay postman only $1.98, plus postage on arrival. Monev refunded if not tisfactory. FRANKLIN PUB. CO. DerJ^^30^^0C^L^Iar1*^t^^hJca^JI^ George O'Brien, Cavalier Continued from page 23 DEAFNESS IS MISERY Multitudes of persons with defective hearing and Head Noisesenjoy conversarion,go to TheatreandChurch becausethey useLeonard Invisible Antiseptic Ear Drums. Tiny Megaphones fitting in the Ear enrirely^ out of sight. No wires, batteriesor headpiece. They are Unseen Comforts and inexpensive. Write for booklet and swornstatement of the inventor who was himself deaf. A. 0. Leonard, inc.. Suite 18?, 70 5th Ave., Mew York OR DRUG HABIT Cured Forever or No Pay. Full treatment sent on trial. Can be given secretly in privacy of home. Guaranteed to banish 1 forever all desire for whiskey, gin, wine, home brew, moonshine, opium, morphine, •heroin, paregoric, and laudanum. Costs $2.00 if cures, nothing if fails. Save him from Poison. STANDARD LABORATORIES Sta. N-31 BALTIMORE. MD. all of us big-hearted bums. Sock 'im, Georgie! We've got our money on you. O'Brien doesn't look like a movie actor. He looks like a prize-fighter. And he wanted to be a prize-fighter once, but his folks wouldn't let him. They couldn't very well object to his becoming a movie star, and now the joke's on them. He's been fighting practically ever .since. However, George has shown them he can put it over without the aid of the gloves. In Sunrise he shows an artist's soul. Here's a fighter who's as sensitive as a primadonna. Director Murnau had his choice of all the leading men in Hollywood and he chose William Fox's white-hope. George justified the choice by a brilliant performance without a trace of Tunney technique. Now that he's proved he can do it, I hope he goes back to fighting. For George may be a movie star to his mother but he is just a fightin' fool to me. I don't think of him as an actor who slaps on makeup and goes through scenes at a director's bidding. He packs a pre-historic wallop that makes us all cave-sisters under the skin. Don't get the idea that he's one of these strong, silent men. Wait till you hear him in Movietone. And you will soon, for he is going to be the first of the Fox stars to speak out. Just to tide you over until then, I'll let you in on that voice. It's one of those Irish voices — rich, and soft, with a bit of a brogue. Something like John McCormack's in his best records. That voice has been in the family for generations. George is Dan O'Brien's boy — the San Francisco O'Briens. Dan was chief of police in the city of the golden gate, and it looked as if George might follow in his footsteps. The folks wanted him to be a doctor, and George had his heart set on the prize-ring; so he became a movie star! George says: "Dad thought every man in any walk of life should know how to protect himself. And he said to me: 'Son, there are two things you must always remember: that you are a gentleman, and not to be afraid to fight if you have to.' " And I understand George has a good memory. He seems to be able to protect himself pretty well, and that he is a gentleman clear through nobody will deny — even if he does have a trainer instead of a valet, and spends most of his spare time in a pool room or with dumb-bells. While he was in New York making a picture and, later, vacationing, he certainly concentrated on that pool room. Yes — the swimming pool room in his hotel. And he swings a mean dumb-bell. He tumbles out of bed at six o'clock a good many mornings to box with his trainer, too. No — George hasn't forgotten. He admits he knows a lot more about developing muscles than defining them. He was sent to college to study medicine, but he soon discovered the track and the gridiron, and did practically all of his studying there. As the time for anatomy examination drew near, George was rapidly becoming a star athlete. Fortunately for him, the war came along about the same time; and he joined the submarine division of the Pacific Fleet. There he had a chance to fight all he wanted to. By the end of the war, George was light-heavy-weight champ of the Pacific! Dan O'Brien said that was all right, but a little more college education wouldn't do any harm, either. So back George went to Santa Clara College. Summer vacation found him at a rodeo in northern California, where he met Tom Mix. The famous screen cowboy liked the Irish boy with the broad grin and broad shoulders, and told him he could use a lad like him to carry a camera around. George took the job — and that was the last that college ever saw of him. Before long he was playing athletic bits in westerns, and occasionally doubling for some player. His muscles again — George admits it — won him is big chance. Director John Ford had been watching him, and as he wanted an extraordinarily athletic young man for the part of the pony express rider in The Iron Horse, he offered it to the O'Brien boy, who looked like just about the strongest set of muscles in Hollywood. The rest, as Anthony said to Cleopatra as he entered her tent that evening, is history. " Life for George became just one fight after another — on the screen. That was all right with him, too. After his success in The Iron Horse, he was given the lead in The Fighting Heart, which called for a scrap with Victor McLaglen, Canadian Army champ, and with Jack Herrick, who was Jack Dempsey's sparring partner. In The Roughnec\ there were fights, too; but the big stunt in that film was a sixty-foot drop from the deck of a ship. George likes to tell about that. "The captain of the 'Emma Alexander' didn't know we were going to do this jump, and all I had was the word of the director that I'd be picked up by a motor launch, ordered to be sent out from San Diego. No platfrom was built, no preparations of any kind were made; and the motor launch was not in sight; but the captain was coming, so — I jumped. When I saw the captain again, he roared at me: 'I knew that Dan O'Brien had a son — but I didn't know his son was a darned fool!' " George probably wouldn't tell you about it, but I know he once saved the life of a leading lady who couldn't swim. He spends most of his evenings in Tom Mix's gymnasium instead of at parties; and he's a handball fiend and a basketball star. Apparently the only form of sport in which he does not indulge is flying; and I expect he is taking that up right now. While he was in New York he attended a luncheon of the A. M. P. A. — short for Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, or hard-boiled press-agents. They are the boys who make a living extolling the virtues of stars and their pictures; so it isn't strange that they view a star with slightly skeptical eyes. To get by this bunch, an actor has to be super-human. Every week some star or director is guest of honor. George got by. They liked him. And a story got around that put him over even better. Seems he was scheduled to make a personal appearance in New Jersey where many are called but few will go. At the last moment George regretted the kind intentions that had prompted him to promise to 'appear' — it was the same night as the Dempsey-Tunney fight! He could have called it off, and he wanted to, because he is a friend of Dempsey's, and prize-fighting is a minor passion with him. But he kept his word to the theatre manager and went to Jersey instead. To anyone who knows movies, and movie actors, and per