Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

I 1 1 K V S 1 V K R S A I. WEEKL V 17 THE SCENES \EMMLE he scenes to see how moving 'ou have the biggest treat of your aty, the wonder city of the world, located just You simply must arrange to visit Universal City, next March! We won't take "no" for an answer. Arrange your business affairs so that you can come to our city in March, for the formal opening will take place on the 15th of that month. If it is impossible to come then, come as soon thereafter as you can. But come! Seeing behind the scenes won't spoil your pleasure in pictures. On the contrary, it will make you a more enthusiastic fan than ever. It will give you a keener insight into picture-making. You will take a personal interest that you cannot possibly take now. It will give you something to talk about for the next four hundred and sixty-six years. A trip to Europe would not supply you with half the interesting material for conversation that a few days at Universal City will do. It's the only city in the wide world in which every man, woman, child, Indian, cowboy, rattlesnake, elephant, dog, cat, parrot, orangoutang, camel, tiger, horse, cow, monkey and jackass is giving every sunshiny hour to the making of moving pictures for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. We've made arrangements to show you every courtesy and guide you through Universal City. We've made every arrangement to take you right behind the scenes and show you the secrets of the most interesting business in the world. The uniformed guides who will take you through will be required to have two qualifications : — First, a thorough knowledge of the business, so they can answer all your questions. Second, a disposition that will make you glad you met them, instead of making you want to choke them for surliness. Now go home and tell your family you're going to take them all out to Universal City in March ! Fix a definite time. If you don't, you'll keep putting it off and putting it off until it's all off. Then fix your business in such a way that you can go away and leave it for a while. Give old Mr. Dull Care a swift kick and Come behind the scenes! MOVIES ARE MADE! FIRST CHILD BORN IN UNIVERSAL CITY. VVuxtry ! Wuxtry ! Universal City is all excitement, for in the early hours of December 21 a baby boy was born within its limits, the first child of either sex to have its name inscribed on the birth register of the infant city. The first child born in the Plymouth Rock colony after the landing of the Pilgrims has taken rank among the world's famous first borns, and even has found a place in a famous painting of the first Thanksgiving dinner in New England. His coming, however, was not celebrated with any such demonstration as that which greeted little Carl Bernie Oelze when old Doc Stork came flapping his wings over the glass studios and white mission buildings of Universal City. When word was passed around that Charles Oelze, commander of cavalry, had become the proud father of a child, Universal City determined to "do him proud". Allan Curtis and his German band of forty Teutonic pieces gathered outside the Oelze cottage, together with Head Cavalryman Ooelze's "boys" from the barracks. At exactly 1 :20 a. m. of December 21, Dr. Mace came out on the porch of the Oelze cottage and raised his hand. "It's a boy", he said. And then pandemonium broke loose. Curtis' German band struck up "He's a Devil in His Own Home Town", "Rocka-Bye, Baby", "Bye, Baby Bunting", "Oh, You Kid", "All Aboard for Blanket Bay", and "Somebody's Coming To Our House". The noise of the "orchestra" aroused the animals in the zoo to a high pitch of excitement, and soon from all parts of Universal City there arose a chorus of lion roars, elephant trumpetings and other fearsome sounds from the sea lions and Simian cages. The inhabitants of peaceful Lankershim, several miles away, were awakened by the uproar in the zoo, the pistol shots of the celebrating cowboys and the blare of the band and came over in a body to tender their congratulations to Papa Oelze. Oelze finally came out on his front porch and enjoined quiet. He was compelled to make a speech. This is what he said : "I am the proud father of the first child born in Universal City. The kid weiphs eight and a half pounds and hasn't cried yet. He is a wonder, and Dr. Mace assures that he will be riding a horse in a few weeks. I have informally christened him Carl Bernie in honor of the president of the Universal and our local 'mayor'. Now boys, I gotta go inside". Mrs. Oelze, before her marriage, was a nurse in Universal Hospital. According to latest reports she is doing nicely.