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SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 23, 1928 HERE'S ONE GIFT'LL BE REEL NOVELTY 26 (Puzzles on page 25) HOW MANY MISTAKES? Cody Will Find Out When He Opens It On Christmas Day By ROSALIND SHAFFER. Hollywood, Dec. 22. One novel Christmas gift is that of Mabel Normand for her husband. Lew Cody.

Cody htM left for music hall appearances in England and France and his Christmas will be spent away from Mabel, who decided that she would not accompany him on the foreign tour, as they first planned. The gift Mabel bestowed on Lew is a midget motion picture which she acted and directed. With the help of George Nobel, cameraman at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who was in on the secret, Mabel made her picture and got it otf with a big seal, "Do not open until Christmas." so that it will reach Lew in I 1. Only half the wire for picture on wall is shown. 2.

There are no ures on clock. 3. Chain on lamp should not hang from shade. 4. Top block on pile could not balance in position shown.

5. "Express" is misspelled on the cart. 6. There is one square wheel on the elephant. 7.

Ribbon on the large package doesn't go all the way around. how to get to their homes without using an Alpenstock and a com pass and a thermometer to keep y'' Find the Boys. i' Above (I. to Mabel Normand, Lew Cody and Alyce Mills, givers and receivers of Christmas gifts. Vilma Banky (left) has her troubles while Milton Sills (right) feels quite elated.

down their temperature when they find they have taken the wrong curve and are six miles away. Mrs. Gleason sprung her new stationery on envying friends when she issued invitations to her circle inviting them to a luncheon to meet Dorothy Parker, writer and poetess, here from New York, Bebe Daniels' new picture, "What a Night," bears the dedication "to the newspapers of America, fearless, progressive and independent except when they disagree with us." Canes Are Out. The latest gag is that of the knockkneed maid whose knees sounded like the galloping of cavalry in the microphone. Actors carrying canes are also out of order for the tap is said to register loudly.

This is going to be tough on the English boys romping about the Paramount lot. Heavy lines are around boys faces. I 1 time for the big day. She will not tell what is in the film and nobody but the cameraman knows. It is bound to be something original and it won't lack interest.

A Home Her Gift. The Christmas gift for Alyce Mills, bride of William 11. Davey, was a brand new home given by her husband. Alyce got her Christmas present prior to Dec. 25 because of the fact that the couple sailed for Honolulu to spend the holidays on a honeymoon in those sunlit climes.

Fashionable Hollywood has taken to the hills for choice dential accommodations. Beverly Hills is full of winding roads through the i-mounttinous estates of the stars and Hollywood, too, has miles of road running above the city through- the hills to the north. Film folk claim two advantages for these homes little traffic and few neighbors and one can give a party without the folks next door calling out the riot squad. Some of these hillside homes are as hard to find as a flea in a chow d.ig's fur. One clever lady, Lucille Webster Gleason, has solved the problem for her friends by having a quaint little map printed at the top of her stationery with sketches of land marks and finally of her home at the end of the road.

ITer husband, Jimmie Gleason of Is Zat So" fame, helped draw the pi1 tires. The idea is so clever that many film folk are hastening to solve the problem of telling their friends PUZZLERS "Yess, var' nice, but you haf spoke altogether this wrong conversation for such a place," she said indignantly. In the story Littlefield is her father, a Hungarian welcom Lucien Littlefield has been get ing his immigrant daugnter in ting a lot of tutoring from Vilma lK ew York, at Ellis Island. TWO BIRDS. GLOVE TIRE KNIFE NOTES SHOVEL TEETH LINNET and ORIOLE.

GIRL'S NAME. OILCAN minus can equals OIL, plus HOD plus EAR minus who objects strenuously to having her pulchritudinous legs shrouded in all sorts of fancy costumes, plays the perichole and meets the difficulty about her legs being in hoop skirts by having the hem in the front of her dress run up to a slightly above the knees. It looks quite fetching. Norman Kerry had a close encounter with a lunatic recently. His door bell was rung by a ragged Ziegfeld, owner of musical rights to the stage production of "Show Boat," refused to sell them to Universal to be used for sound for any price.

The result is that the sound HOLE equals OIDAR, plus PEN minus ROPE equals accompaniment of the picture will canny now say garian in his role in "Childs Fifth Avenue." Lucien thought he was going good and so did the director when he got rid of a lad of loose consonants into the microphone. Al Santell, the director, was enthusiastic and Littlefield was glowing with pride and soothing his inflated tonsils after the explosion. Looking to Vilma for applause, Littlefield was startled to see her sinking with a discouraged and belligerent look into her chair. be entirely original and different fellow who told Kerry's butler that IDAN, plus ACE minus CANE equals IDA. RIDDLES music.

Billy Rose, famous author of "Me and My Shadow," "Follow the Swallow," "Rainbow Round My Shoulder" and other successes, is writing the music, which will include "Magnolia," the theme waltz; "Shoes Take Me Back," a spiritual, and "I'll Never Love Any One Like I Love You." 1. When any hand doubles up it becomes a fist. 2. Kid gloves, of course. 3.

They flare up when you strike them. Tine Stamping Grown KONNECTUMS Milton Sills feels quite elated over his recent romantic accomplishment. He has learned to stand up in a gondola and pilot it with a MONTGOMERY MULFORD. A Wolf. Boston artist, who reproduced the p4 surrender in a painting, has his work incorporated in the stamp design.

The scene reveals Capt. Clark taking the command of the fort from the British Col. Hamilton. SIR RAO CONTESTS A $60,000 CLAIM Bombay, India, Dec. 22.

Sir Tukoji Rao, former maharajah of Indore, will contest the $60,000 suit for damages of Discovery of a Baltimore postmaster's stamp of 184G issue is reported. The catalog price of this Baltimore find is $7,000. It came to light in the collection of an English bishop who died recently. Before the United States began issuing its own postage in 1847 several postmasters issued stamps for local use. The Italian stamps commemorating Emmanuel Philibert have he was an ex-service man and wanted to speak to Kerry.

Kerry caught the word ex-service man and came to the door. After an impassioned plea for all actors to assist all ex-service men, this particular "ex-service man" demanded a $10,000 check from Kerry to buy a lot with. When Kerry retorted that he, too, was an ex-service man, the fellow was not pacified. He pulled a gun on Kerry, who politely invited him in and asked him to sit down while he got his check book. The Saw-telle police arrived before the maniac became suspicious of Kerry's delay.

The Montmartre is a popular cafe that has a sidewalk audience all its own. Wednesday noons the crowds gather before the entrance. It has become such a gathering spot that wise guys have begun to take advantage of it. Recently a young man drove up with a small truck in which were loaded several pet monkeys in cages. Two gorgeous angora kittens prowled on the roof of the truck, also for sale.

The past week saw a man with a beautiful borzoi standing on the walk outside the cafe with a "for sale" sign hanging about the dog's neck. The sidewalk audiences are characteristic of Hollywood. Any gent will draw a crowd on its sidewalk. The crowds have been known to wait until 2 a. m.

to see movie stars leaving their party. Inquiries are being received concerning the r.ew Molly Pitcher sur a Hindu woman who charges that the former ruler lured her and her daughter to his residence and held them prisoners for eleven years. The woman de- charge on our current two cent red issue. "Who is Molly Pitcher?" they ask. "And what is the significance of the stamp?" The year 1928 marked the 150th anniversary of the battle of Monmouth (177S).

Molly took part in that revolutionary engagement when her husband, who was a gunner, was killed. Watching the battle from a distant window in the town, she saw her husband fall. She ran out to fire his cannon and helped to turn the tide of battle for the hard-pressed Ameri James Gleason and Lucille Webster Gleason long what you call it, and sing reached this country. Six postages comprise this set, ranging from twenty centesi-mi to twenty lire. The 1.25 lire shows Philibert (or Fili-berto) in armor mounted on his charger.

These stamps are surface printed on white wov without falling out. All this appears in celluloid in "The Comedy of Life," his new picture for First National. clares that Sir Rao despoiled Sir Tukoji h.er home. Jus-Rao tices have ruled that it would be manly for the former ruler to appear in defense of the suit. The former maharajah is living near Paris with his wife, the former Nancy Ann Miller.

TWO CROAKS COMING Washington, D. Dec. 22. Exotic -shoes made of frogskin are coming into vogue in Paris and will soon be the rage in America, according to the Department of Commerce. Italian Filiberto stamp watermarked with paper and crowns.

cans. Molly Pitcher might almost be called an American Joan of Arc. Many students of history do not regard the surcharge on our stamps as adequate recognition of Molly Pitcher's heroism. Our country has reproduced portraits of three women on its postage: Martha Washington, Queen Isabella (Columbus issues of 1S93) and Pocohontas, the Indian maiden who saved Capt. John Smith.

They believe Molly Pitcher deserves a place among these. The Modernistic Touch. The production of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is being sumptuously done. Brabin, the director, is surrounding this story of a half imaginary land with some very effective moderntstic scenery and effects that blend enchanting-ly with the Spanish colonial life depicted in Thornton Wilder's noveL Lily Damita, the French actress FAMILIES FOR FRANCE. Paris, France, Dec.

22. France has appealed to her army to marry early and combat the declining birth rate. The government confers honors on fathers of large families. Commemorative stamps for the 150th anniversary of Fort Sack-ville, at Vineennes, are to be printed by the United States next February. Frederick C.

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