Universal Weekly (1917-1934)

18 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY Dora Rodrigues in uniform. jURRAH for Dora Rodriguez! — Universal Dora, the girl who is traveling from New York to Universal City recruiting forty thousand men. Before she closed her triumphal engagement in Pittsburgh, in which she was assisted by the recruiting officers, an army and navy regiment, and the boy scouts, she had recruited her one thousand men. If sixty-nine other ladies as proficient as Dora had done the ^ame thing. President Wilson would not have been forced to send out his call for seventy thousand volunteers as he did. While in Pittsburgh, Miss Rodriguez recruited 52 men. The Pittsburgh Dispatch gave her all the space that any national public character could desire, featured her recruiting on its bulletin board, and gave her the freedom of the city to use as she saw fit in her work. J. B. Buchanan, the Universal cameraman in that territory, followed her about with his camera and got an elegant picture of her in the wonderful parade which marked her supreme effort in Pittsburgh. The negative was sent to New York and the print rushed back to her to use in her further recruiting along with the pictures of the army and navy which she carries, and on which she gives a very interesting lecture in connection with her appearances. Universal Dora Has^Recruited 1000 Men While in Pittsburgh, Miss . Rodriguez met Ben Wilson, the star of "The Voice on the Wire" serial, who was making a whirlwind tour of the "Smoky City," and is jumping across the country much faster than Miss Rodriguez, to return to his work in another Universal serial. She states m a letter to Mr. Laemmle that she was very much pleased to make Mr. Wilson's acquaintance, and that he in turn added to her popularity by referring to her in every one of the speeches he made in the Pittsburgh moving picture theatres. Miss Rodriguez is starting out bravely for her second thousand men, and with the experience behind her, and with the enthusiasm of the first thousand, she feels that that will be a very simple matter. The first objective of her march is Cincinnati, which she claims as her home town in America. She has wired on to her home for a new suit of clothes to be made for her, her present suit showing evidences of the wear and tear of the courageous journey that she is making. The new suit will be an exact replica of the United States service uniform, will be of the same material, color, cut and weight, although it will probably be the smallest service uniform ever made, for Dora stands just five feet in her socks. Yes, sir, she wears socks, too, and she is having a pair of army shoes made in 2% A. Her route has already taken her from Newcastle, Pa., where she stayed two days to Beaver Falls, Pa., where she set up her recruiting tent in the Nixon Theatre, and aroused tremendous interest and enthusiasm. This week she is in Youngstown, Ohio, and next week will find her in Cleveland. A tremendous reception is being prepared for her, of course, in Cincinnati, where she has numberless friends, and where a sort of an "old home" week will await her. A COMEDIAN AND HIS MOTHER. [ILTON SIMS, who plays opposite Gale Henry, Universal Joker comedienne, rushed back to his set a few days ago all smiles. "What's happened?" asked Miss Henry, "did you get your salary raised ?" "No, but I just talked to my mother on the telephone — it is the first time I have heard her voice in over two years. She has just arrived from New York and called me up at once. Thank goodness she did not come out here and see me in this make-up for "Kitchenella," or I know she would have gone right back to New York.