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BILLINGS GAZETTE Sunday, February 27, 1927. Page Three SIDE LIGHTS OF TH1 Rock Image of Chief Arrowhead, Ute Chief, Stands as" Sentinel and' FINDS II PUIS lOBECOIH GETS SCHOOLING THRDUGHSNAKES EDICT CLOSES GOD'S REIGN showing films In which a mammoth flower ball descends, slowly opens and reveals Josephine, who instantly begins her "Charleston." Stanf ordStudent Makes Money Raising Reptiles. Stanford University, Feb. 26. (JP) The feeling of an actor in a successful play is similar to that of a man working for a successful business enterprise, says Walter Huston, who plays the title role in "The Barker," a New York play of tent-show life.

"A good part is not all to be desired by an actor." he asserts. "The show also should be good. I would rather be good in a success than great in a failure. Too many Six-foot diamond back rattlesnakes are Linda Watkins, starring at 17, de-toured the rocky road to stellar heights, but claims to cherish a small disappointm in consequence. She declares she spent only three weeks looking for a job after completing a course at the Theater Guild Dramatic school.

She got the leading role in "The Devil in the Cheese" because, as she explains it, she was the proper type. "I thought I'd have to start as a (I LUC ISS CHADM OF- Banker's Appeal to His Customers Leads to High Position. Lebanon, Feb. 26. OF; A farmer sat on the steps of a bank here several years ago.

His clothing was noticeable for its lack of eleeance. He wore no collar and tie; a dilapidated straw hat was perched precariously on his head and his cotton socks hung over his shoe tops. "That bank won't be open for two hours," a passer-by remarked. "All right, brother, I can wait," the farmer replied. "Whom do you want to see?" "Percy Johnston." "Why?" "Well." the farmer drawled, "He's jest so derned common." The same Percy Johnston now is president of the Chemical National bank of New York City.

IBs WALTER HUSTON Alaskan Idol in Museum After Two Centuries of Worship. Madison, Feb. 26. (JP) Sprawled across the floor of Wisconsin's state museum, the giant idol Ktasswa, for more than two centuries a venerated deity of five Indian tribes, lies in unworshipped ease. The lights in Kiasswa's eyes have burned out, and the great wooden-lipped mouth of the image no longer belches ceremonial smoke.

For 200 years and more Klasswa stood in the community house of the five tribes of southern Alaska and British Columbia. Formed of crudely carved stone hatches, painted in barbaric colors and flanked by two stone bowls, it stared back inscrutably from its slotted eyes at reverent warriors at its feet, and its lips were always wreathed in smoke. It was the center of ceremonials called "potlatches" at which emissaries of the five tribes met periodically to frame their laws. When the laws were made, the bowls beside the stone monster were filled brimful with wine, and carried to each tribe. If the laws borne with them were approved, the tribal chiefs drank from the vessels and emptied them.

If the bowls returned unviolated, their un-Imblbed contents symbolized protest gainst the laws and heralded war. failures are likely to hurt the reputation of an actor, regardless of the merit of his performance." Two other successes in which Huston LmdaWatklns "Desire Under the Elms' played were and "Kongo." maid, or something," she says. "I'd like to get a part as maid right now. In a stock company. On the read.

I think it's only fair." A film "prop" livery stable looks just a cause of fear and dread to most people but not to Leonard Keeler, Stanford junior. For him they provide a substantial meal ticket, as he is earning his way through medical school raising them and selling their venom to a large commercial laboratory. What began as a hobby and then developed into a source of revenue for financing his education' is, however, only incidental to his main purpose. His greatest interest in the quick tempered reptiles is scientific. Keeler is trying to develop a serum to be used as an antitoxin for rattlesnake bites.

Success, he believes, is now only a matter of months. Scientists in India had developed a satisfactory serum for use in cobra bite cases, and in South America serums were in use that had reduced the death rate 60 per cent from poison snake bites. No serum, however, had been discovered for use against the rattler. To perfect this serum, Keeler began to build up an immunity in the blood of horses. Injections would be given an animal, starting with .005 gram and gradually working over an eight months period up to .5.

When the immunity was reached six quarts were removed and the serum filtered from the blood plasma. From this a preparation is being made for the market. As a diversion, Keeler sometimes gives nature talks over the radio and has one of his pets rattle so his audience may recognize the danger signal if they should encounter a snake in the open. Los Angeles, although the center of motion picture production, seldom appears on the screen as itself. But Pershing square, the city jail and other scenes of the city are vised without disguise in "See You in Jail." Different cities have different trademarks in the films.

San Francisco's ferry building was used in "Frisco Sally Levy." New York has the Woolworth building, Paris the Eiffel tower, and Iondon the houses of parliament. as good as the real thing to a horse in distress. A scene in "The Sunset Derby," fitted with an old-fashioned livery siatile, called for a race horse to led past a gasoline filling station at which the ani Johnston worked his way through high school and when he was graduated at 16, he went to work with the Marion National bank at $10 a week. Because he was "jest so derned common," thereby enjoying a wide personal contact with folk, he was recognized within a few years as the best posted man on the affairs of farmers the district. At the age of 2fi, Johnston went to Washington arid, despite his youth, succeeded in obtaining appointment as a bank cxamiiHr.

His work gaintd recognition when he was made chairman of all hank examiners in states, south of the mal was supposed to shy. Agitated bv pistol shot, the horse went through Hideous acts of worship, offensive to rlvilized folk, were performed at the potlatches, and finally the government prohibited the gatherings. The ever the part several times and each time made a beeline for the property stable. Someone had to close the stable door to make the horse run down the street, as the script demanded. burning flame which wreathed the mouth In smoke and Illumined the eyes flickered and died.

mfm Felled unwillingly at federal command the idol lay in the tribal house. Old Chief Wakiass, for more than a century the wise man of the councils, was placed Janet Gaynor is a "9 o'clock girl in a 3 o'clock town." This film actress rings her own curfew almost every night at 9 o'clock. "It's not a fad, it's plain business," she says "I get a good salary to look my best, act my best and to continue to improve my best. I cannot afford to cheat myself, so I go to bed at 9 o'clock, and it pays big Ohio river and east of the Mississippi. Then, at the age of 3m.

he was selected as one of the four national bank examiners. Two years later, the Citizens-Union National bank of Louisville, induced him to become a vice president. New York discovered him in the fall of 1917, and Johnston was called to assume duties with the York bank of which he now is president. "Many people make friends." he says. "I try to keep in touch with them." at its side to guard it.

There It was found by an agent of a Chicago manufacturer, Invading the northern wilds in the name of commerce. Richard Wall ing. screen a.etor, gave personal service to the first fan requesting his photograph. The letter came from Chicago. Wall ing, formerly an assistant "still" cameraman, went to the camera department, pulled on his old rubber apron, printed a picture, dropped it into an envelope and stamped.

addressed and mailed it. His biggest thrill, Walling says, was He took it back to his employer J. L. Kraft, who presented it to the University of Wisconsin historical society. After Doris Dumas, who Janet Gayriorv two years permanent disposition will be made of it.

appears in film comedies, says she has an Director William De Mille wants to blaze a new trail in motion picture photography. He plans to make "The Little Adventuress" entirely on panchromatic film. Much color photography has been used in the movies, but usually on brilliant exterior scenes. The novelty of the camera program for "The Little Adventuress" is that most of its sets will be interiors. Chief Wakiass, whose wrinkled cheeks attest to a measure of truth in his boast authenticated family family tree identify that he Is now 107, still sits in ing her as a great grandniece of Alex London theater audiences, as a rule, have no difficulty in understanding the English of American actors, but when English actors try to speak like Americans the reverse is often the case.

This was evident on the first night of the American bootlegging drama "Twelve Miles Out," in which the English actors andre Dumas, the the assembly hall of the five tribes, a silent sentry guarding a vanished god. le does not know the great Kiawassa is gone. His sightless eyes save him RiCHARQ WAIUNO when he first saw his name in electric lights over a theater. French novelist. Miss Dumas began her that.

self-supporting career Lyn Hardihg and Ion Swinley tried to whip well groomed English into when she induced her father1 to provide her with a gasoline sta- Treasures Apology WILLIAM Of MILLE I tion outside of Mem From 'Honest Abe Paramount studios are going to clothe their extra girls in costumes from the studio wardrobe. With the company's gowns being worn, it will be easier to dictate styles and colors. So little Minnie Smith from 'way back east who goes to Hollywood to break into the films may find herself filling Pola Negri's shoes, Bebei Daniels' frock or Clara Bow's eve- Josephine Baker, American dancer, phis, Tenn. She ran helps the "Charleston" novices in the ij it for more than a winter sport resorts of the Swiss Alps Universal plans to make five air pictures during the coming season. One will be a special production, "The American Eagle." Thei other four will feature Al Wilson, stunt aviator.

year, won a beauty trail, now has been widened into an automobile highway known as the Fall River road. This highway skirts the base of the wondrous rock image of old Chief Arrowhead. It was over this trail that the Utes at one time hurried to the rocky profile of their chieftain hero when driven to a last stand by warring Arapahoes for possession of the disputed hunting grounds. But the widened trail today cannot adequately care for the ever increasing motoring throngs. The national park service at AVashing-ton is confronted with the problem of blasting away the base of the rock image to make a road of sufficient width for cars to pass one another without precipitating the Indian luck charm to oblivion in the canyon below.

Already sentiment Is crystallizing against damage to or removal of the rock image. Fall River road at one point reaches an elevation of 11,797 feet above sea level, marking the highest continuous stretch of scenic highway in the world. Denver, Feb. 26. (IP) Arrowhead, Ute war chief, "sits brooding today in stony silence high in Rocky Mountain National park, because civilization's advance has all but erased the Indian from Colorado's horizon.

Arrowhead is a rock image symbolizing Indian magic. In other days the chieftain's warriors fashioned arrowheads from his sides in the likeness of his stone image. They were good luck weapons of victory, legendary guidance of wisdom coming from the Great Spirit after Chief Arrowhead had departed for the happy hunting grounds of the Utes. Instead of his tribesmen, other thousands today greet the spirit of Arrowhead, but they are vacationing Americans who carry away fragmentary bits of charmed stone lying on the ground. The vacationists are shuttled back and forth from Estes Park village to Grand Lake across the Continental divide on the Rockies.

This former winding path used by the Utes, later known as Ridge Olympia, Wash. 26. (IP) Seventy-five years ago Abranam Lincoln accused a 9-year-old boy of stealing eggs. For a even if she is not present In person. Hotel contest and started Doris Uumas managers of Gstaad, Switzerland, are ning cloak.

for Hollywood. week the false charges rankled In the heart of Jonathan Starts Goodwin Crouch. Then he was called to the office of the struggling lawyer who was later to become The Great Em-ancipator, to receive an apology. Now Crouch, who lives here, and at 84 Is hale and hearty, cherishes the Incident In his hnrt. Me considers he is the only person living to whom "Honest Abe" made a personal jtnoloirv VHyJ tS; BEHIND THE SCREEN DAY jJ By GILBERT PICKARD, "still" without ruining a A still in movie parlance is a photo- appear In a AND RUNS Hfr? rr dozen or more shots by his "inability to hold it." ii l' mm tax i ti lis C.CROUCn it happened in 1S6? Crouch had gone with his father to Springfield, to sell farm products.

He -strayed from his father's wagon to explore a barn. As he emerged, Lincoln drove up in a light buggy, called the boy to him and quickly searched his clothing, explaining someone had been taking his eggs. A week later, word came to the Crouch farm Lincoln wanted to see Johnny at his office. Johnny went, and the lawyer, offering him his hand, said, "I am sorry I accused you of stealing eggs. I want you to forgive me." la MARCH 2-3-4-5 WHAT graph that does not move.

It probably derives its name from the admonition of "hold still!" which the photographer shouts at his subjects, who as movie stars, know they must keep moving while In a scene. A "still" usually is made after a certain impressive sequence has been filmed, and when finished, is used for lobby displays. It is used also to guide the artists drawing posters for the picture, to record the type of set used, and numerous other things. Making "stills" is one of the most difficult accomplishments In the production of motion pictures. Film stars who shy at no exacting piece of acting, cordially dislike making them and consider this type of posing the hardest work they do.

One M-G-M star said recently, "I would rather go through the most difficult scene In the script a hundred times than pose for what appears to be a very simple picture. Trying to invest each still with its necessary action is as insupportable as fieezing in midair." If you don't believe it, try holding a difficult pose for three or four minutes. Another phase of the still photographer's troubles is getting a director to J. M. Are'lo, a "wild man" in "The Thilipplne Village" at the Jamestown (Va.) Exposition 20 years ago, now is supervising architect for the l'hilippine government.

St. Luke's Guild 0LT(DL0 lig Ute i St. Luke's guild held its regular meeting Wednesday at the guild hall. Flans were made for joining with St. Margaret's guild In the study of the Bible during Lent.

Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs. K. F. McKechnie and Mrs. G.

A. Clark. Where? The Yates Bid OPPOSITE LIBRARY 2n IS 133 OH, 5 1 5 an Popcorn Festival Look again, dear reader, the handsome gentleman in the picture is not John Gilbert. 'Tis none other than Harry Langdon, called by his P. A.

(technical for press agent) the "moonfaced comedian of the screen." Alma Bennett is the fair lady and the scene is one from "Long Pants," his new comedy special. The same P. A. tells us that Harry in his efforts to make "bigger and better" comedies is using technicolor in some of the sequences of the film. mm The Leading Department Stores Are Putting on a Style Show Every Night, and Live Models, Too.

Special Police to Hold Back the Men Folk COME A RUNNIN' LEAVE THE DISHES IN THE SINK! PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES fey I AND Bull Fi ght T1 mm i In competition with hundreds of Russian scenario writers. Miss Lucita Squier of Washington, D. a relative of Gen. George O. Squier, former chief of the United States signal service, won first prize from the State Cinema Trust for the best film on Tartar life in Russia.

To obtain first-hand information for her film, entitled "Mullah's Third Wife," Miss Squier spent nearly a year among Tartar settlements. She will remain in Russia another year to write further scenarios. AT THE Don asSi In sending an "Abie's Irish Rose" company to Kngland, Anne Nichols, the author-producer, will test the opinion of B1 London critics that the play would fail i therft. I Prizes for the Most Unique Bobbed Hair or Marcel Special Orchestra Open House Carnival Games Free Vaudeville and Entertainment! "The American critics said the same thing," Miss Nichol's office commented. The comedy will be produced in London, according to contract, by Herbert Clayton in the latter part of April.

It is estimated that in its five years "Abie" has been seen by nearly 10,000,000 persons in America, the gross receipts being It is reported that "Howdy, a new comedy by Miss Nichols, is a success In Chicago after failing to make a hit in its six weeks in New York. TAVERN Thursday Night Both features are entirely new it's the biggest feature night we've offered you in a long, time. Don't Miss the Fun And of course you'll enjoy Dancing to the music of Harris Callanan and the Tavern Orchestra! Doors Open, 7 p. m. Admission, 25c Each Admission Ticket Entitles Holder to Share in $20 Cash Prize Each Night, and $100 the Last Night! SSI DESIRABLE SPOT.

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