Here are a Few of the Laughing, Crying Baby Boys and Girls
Among Hundreds Entered in Last Week's Contest at Rialto
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. . Actress
By JEANNE JOHNSON.
I had confidence my second day
at the studio, but how I .wondered
what I was going to do.
I found out that the most ardu
ous thing about acting before the
camera is not acting at all.
It's the waiting that wears one
out. I w.aited for the director to
arrive at the scenes in which I was
to appear until 3 o'clock in ithe
afternoon, though of course we 'ad
journed for luncheon
At $ Mr. Browning told me what
I was to do. ..( j
"You're to- be Mi'si" Pean's
friend," he said, referring to Pris
cilia Dean, who was starring in the
, picture. "Now here' the contin
uity; look it over." And 'this is
s what I read: t
"121 Med. C. U. of . Dean and
friend. V
"122 L. S. friend watches ' Dean
disappearing into boudoir; registers
: ' suspicion, ' -
"123 L. S. , friend following
Dean." , .
It was all Greek to me. I must
have looked what I felt, for Mr.
Tyler, the assistant director, came
over and asked if there was any
thing he could Help me with.
"Why, yes," I told him . grate
, '' fully. "Will you explain ! what I
have to do?" He did. It seems that
Med. C. U. meant "mediujn close
up'-' and L. S. was "long shot."
( Mr. Tyler coached, me a bit and
before I knew it I was on the set
and at work. I was horribly nerv
ous inside, but assured that my, ex
terior did not give me away.. In
deed it didn't seem so difficult, now
that I was really "working."
' Disillusionment came. I had been
"used on the "boards" at high school
to walking about to my heart's con
tent, even to improvise "business of
,Xht scene." But here acting ' evi
dently was a matter of "lines" and
the cinema to which I refer mpst em
phatically were not spoken words
but the technical restrictions' of the
action. In other words, both Miss
Dean and myself were obliged to re
main always in focus ol the camera
and deviation of even a tootfrom'the
"side lines" pointed out by Mr.
Browning, it was told me. would
ruin the scene. I confess that the
imminency of this faux pas un
nerved me to the extent of stum
bling but I guess this misdemeanor
being "in character," was over
looked. Indeed, I felt complimented
(or was I already becoming con
ceited in my newsphere?) for most
' scenes, according to my experience,
' are repeatedly rehearsed and some
times retaken by the camera before
the director announces himself sat
isfied. ,
I will pass over the details of my
debut a a real "picture actress," for
extradom, I assure you, is no war
rant for that designation, and tell
you what happened afterward.
Upon being told by the director
! that I was not to bemused further
except in the extent of retakes, I re
paired with great unction to ' the
Universal City cafeteria, where I
mingled with filmdom's elite with a
, full sense of my newly acquired im
poqtance as a member of the "col
,v. ony." . . -
I'Bits" No Longer Allure Me.
I think I left you at lunch time.
I neglected to invite you along.
. Well, you must forgive me, for be
fore me there was a wonderful vista
of opportunities. But the sun of
success, which was just approachinig
its apogee for 'me, has ofuickly
changed its course for the casting
director has just "looked me over"
, and found me wanting.
At least so it seems to me. for
when I asked him if he thought I
could' fill any of the roles for which
he was hiring, he said, quite bluntly
; indeed: .
"Haven't done anything yet, have
you?"
"Oh. I had a 'bit with Mr. Brown
ing," I replied.
i "Then you had better continue do
ing 'bits' until one of the directors
himself picks you for a part in his
production. I don't doubt that you
are likely enough material but ''you
need a little more, er, well, season
ing. "Seasoning?" I said to him a
weak attempt, so he must have
thought at a pun. "Do you mean
pep, dramatic genius, or what?"
"Experience!" Misting Casting Di
rector was very laconic. "Bring me
your photograph," he continued as
he moved away toward his office,
"and your address and phone num
ber for my files."
Well, after that I just sort of took
to hanging 'round the casting di
rector's office. Playing extra seemed
far beneath me- I had hitched my
histrionic wagon to the moon and
. nothing less would content me. I
saw on the silver sheet of my imag
ination another Nazimova and a sec
ond Dorothy Phillips, maybe a coun
terpart of the popular Priscilla Dean
who knows? And the picture was
Myself.
But they were disappointments. I
' suppose hundreds of girls before me
went through my present experience
' and hundreds more will after me.
My career of the last few days
. seemed to have assured me of a start
.' jn my chosen profession, for by this
time, you must have noticed, I had
" firmly decided that my .future lay in
motion pictures, and that Venus. my
i regnant constellation, had destined
me for a cinema star.
There is an old joke that the three
best ways to spread news rapidly is
by telegraph, telephone and telling
a woman, but the war has shown
that women can keep secrets even
t better than men. Perhaps the
American woman who had in her
possession the most vital secrets
was Miss O'Neill of the British and
allied . transport service at New
York. She knew in advance the
dates of sailing of every transport,
the number of men on board, and
what route the transpors would
follow. That information given to
German agents in America might
have prolonged the war for another
year or so, but needless to say it'
never got past Miss O'Neill.
A record of service that probably
has few equal is that of Miss Har
riet P. Houghton, who has been in
the employ of a iynn, Mass., bank
f or 50 years. - :
Mrs. Annie Gate, the first woman
r in Canada to be .elected a city alder
- man has now been chosen pro
" mayor of Calfiary for the next three
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Babies over 600 laughing, cooing,
dimpled, adorable bits of humanity
participated in the Rialto theater
baby contest held all last week.
The baby show was held under
the auspices of the Rialto theater
and the Brandeis stores. Two prizes
were awarded each day to the most
popular baby one to a boy and one
to' a girl.
Babies from one to six months
old held sway on Monday. On Tues
day the largest number of babies
of any day durtgg the entire week
was present. Tney were from six
months to One year old. Wednes
day babies from on to two years
and Thursday from to to three years
of age vied for applause. Three to
four-year-old children entered the
contest Friday. '
It was difficult to tell whether
the audience or the babies enjoyed
the show most. Had Mary Pick
ford, darling of thousands of movie
fans, and showing in "Daddy Long
Legs" at the Rialto last week, been
present in person to see baby, with
a single twist of his mouth, throw
the entire audience into laughter and
bursts of applause, she might have
felt a pang of jealousy. For baby
swayed the audience as no movie
star could.
Nor was it the most beautiful
baby, or the most richly dressed,
that drew the most prize-winning
applause. One tiny infant spied a
small rocking chair on the stage,
squirmed from its mother's arms,
crawled into the chair and rocked
happily ignoring the breathless au
dience completely. It received suf
ficient applause to win a prize.
On one day the audience proved
itself very fickle by choosing Edgar
Milton Hylen and overlooking
Edgar's twin sister. But sister
didn't mind, and was just as amiable
after her twin brother received his
prize as before.
Dorothy Byers, tiny daughter of
Sergt. H. H. Byers, 1620 Pinkney
stret, overseas eight months with
the 61st infantry, won the girls' prize
on one day. Her soldier-father was
Geography All Changed In
Europe and Must Now
Be Relearned.
The geography of Europe will
have to be unlearned and relearned
now that the articles of peace have
been signed. How. many people
hive known what Lithuania is,
where it is, who the Lithuanians
are, and what their, history has
been? Not many, and yet Lithuania
has had a dramatic, if a rather un
chronicled. record.
Lithuania is the northernmost
barrier, between Russia and Ger
many, a strategic position, which, if
it is independent, shuts the gatebe
tween East Prussia and Russia, and
if it is overwhelmed, opens the gate.
Lithuania is north of Poland with
a sea coast line of 100 miles on the
Baltic sea.
Lithuania has retained its national
characteristics in spite of hundreds
of years of attempted de-nationalization
by Germans, Poles, and Rus
sians successively.' Edicts 'against
its language, its religion, its customs,
political repression and economic
tyranny, have all failed to keep down
the little racial nation of 7,000,000
people.
Lithuania's people are niether
Teutonic or Slavic, but are a separ
ate branch of the Indo-European
race, with a language closely resem
bling the ancient Sanscrit. In ap
pearance,. Lithuanians are large and
powerful, with fair hair and blue
eyes. They are an industrious,
tenacious people, with a high appre
ciation of culture, a rare capacity
for work, both manual and mental.
Swedish Concert.
A grand concert and entertainment
will be given by the Swedish Sing
ing Society Norden at the Swedish
auditorium Sixteenth and Chicago
streets Thursday evening, June 5.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Niles, O., has voted to admit women
to active membership.
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present to congratulate her.
Mothers generally accompanied
their babies to the stage, but on one
occasion several fathers marched
bravely up. They were greeted with
salvos of applause. On this oc
casion the applause for two baby
boys was so near the same that two
prizes had to be awarded.
The babies from the South Side
won prizes, and four from the vi
cinity of Pinkney street, in the north
part of the city, were picked as
prize winners by the audience, show-!
ing that vicinity had nothing to do
with popularity.
Yesterday all prize winning babies
assembled to compete for the grand
prize.
Frederick F. Pechac, jr., 2 years '
and 11 months old, was chosen 'es-
terday for first grand prize from
the group of'll prize winning babies
present. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs, F. F. Pechac, 5012 North
Twenty-eighth street.
Special Registration
for Women Voters:
An opportunity will be given to the women
voters of Omaha to register in the vicinity of their
homes on Tuesday, June 3, 1919, from 9 A. M. to
7 P. M. at the school houses having jurisdiction
. over children in that vicinity. This special regis
tration is to accommodate women so they will not
have to come to the Court House to register. When
a woman is once registered to vote, she will not
have to register again until she changes her resi
dence or in case of change of name by marriage or
otherwise.
v The Central Schools adjacent to the High School in
Omaha and on the Suth Side, will not be used. Go to the
High School instead. In addition to the High School reg
istrations will be taken in the Fire Hall, Dundee, and in the
Election Commissioner's office at the Court House. The of
fice of the Election Commissioner is open every business,
day of the year for the purpose of registering voters and re
. vising registrations.
In order to register, women must be citizens. Foreign
born women must be naturalized either through their own
naturalization papers, those of their father taken out be
fore the daughter is 21 years of age, or naturalized by hus
band. First papers are not sufficient to vote on in Ne
braska since the recent Constitutional Amendment.
There will be a special registration in the South Side
City Hall on June 7th to accommodate new voters on the
South Side and for revision of old registrations.
A special County Bond Election is to be held on June
4 24th throughout the County. The last day of registration
for all voters before this election is on Friday, June 13th,
at 9 P. M. The Election Commissioner's office will be open
evenings for registration on June 11th, 12th and 13th.
HARLEY G. MOORHEAD, Election Commissioner.
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