Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

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Between you and I I HOPE it would come WHO shall I call It'3 just AS I said How MANY are there I WOULD like to go The FIRST TWO lessons He sat AMONG the three The wind blows COLD You will FIND ONLY one 2 evening ascertain hospitable abdomen mayoralty amenable acclimate profound beneficiary culinary or calendAr recEIve or EeprEIve or donkEYS or factorlES or Would you write — or Between you and ME or I WISH it would come or WHOM shall I call or It's just LIKE I said or How MUCH are there or I SHOULD like to go or The TWO FIRST lessons or He sat BETWEEN the three or The wind blows COLDLY or You will ONLY FIND one How do you say — EV-en-ing or EVE-ning AS-cer-tain or as-CER-tain HOS-pi-ta-ble or hos-PIT-able AB-do-men or ab-DO-men MAY-or-al-ty or may-OR-al-ty A-ME-na-ble or a-MEN-able AC-cli-mate or ac-CLI-mate TRO-found or pro-FOUND beri-e-fl-shEE-aryor ben-e-FISH-ary CUL-i-na-ry or CU-li-na'-ry 3 . Do you spell it calendEr repEtition or repltition recIEve sepArate or sepErate reprlEve aCoModate or aCCoMModate donklES trafflCing or trafflCKing factorYS aCSeSible or aCCeSSible New Invention Improves Your English In 15 Minutes a day Mr. Cody has specialized in English for the past twenty years. His wonderful self-correcting device is simple, fascinating, time-saving, and Incomparably efficient. You oan write the answer to 50 questions in 15 minutes, and correct your work in 5 minutes more. You waste no time in going over the things you already know. Your efforts are automatically concentrated on the mistakes you are in the habit of making, and through constantly being1 shown the right way, you soon acquire the correct habit in place ofthe incorrect habit. Thereis no tedious copying. There is no heart-breaking drudgery. Dope (Continued from page 63) many as in other walks of life, according to Dr. Garleton Shnon, chief foe of the drug traffic in this country. But a few. Their wealth and generosity make them a favorite prey of unscrupulous drug peddlers who would damn a soul to hell and back again for the sake of a few dollars. Is Will Hays to be the Miracle Man to stamp out this traffic in human hearts?" "I'd crush it as I would a viper!" cried Hays, when informed of Reid's perilous condition and asked if he would take steps to counteract the drug traffic in filmdom. A good man and a true one attempted to be a Miracle Man, once not long ago. His name was William Desmond Taylor and he paid for his philanthropy with his life. An assassin shot him down in cold blood /because he tried to save one. of screenland's loveliest daughters from the soul-searing habit of drugs. What is a human life, when a profitable traffic is endangered? FREE Book on English Every time you talk, every time you write, you show what you are. Your English reveals you as nothing else can. 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Please send me at once your Free Book and Write Masterly English." Name . Address City velyn Nesbit Thaw, famous dancer and wife of Harry K. Thaw, knows the agony that comes to the users of narcotics. "I can realize how Wallace Reid has suffered, going through the dope hell," she said. "It was in film circles that I first fell. It cost me $100,000 in cash alone to be a drug fiend. It cost me my friends and my self-respect. It nearly cost me my son. My mother threatened to take my boy away from me, if I did not quit. "I couldn't stand for that. So I stopped. I've not touched the stuff for eight months, and I never will again. But, God, I suffered!" But the peddlers, who'incite and feed the need for their hideous panaceas, do not suffer. They ride in luxurious limousines. Their wives blaze with diamonds. 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