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‘»ilTurk ofKRBBUPoetry is poetry, and if a foot or two is lame far be it from any normal person to make little of the sentiment contained in a gem. There follow a sentiment and an expression of an opinion all done up in rolling meter. It was addressed to this department by “C. S. B.,” an indomitable and pugnacious friend of all moving pictures. The sentiment and his opinion of the critics of moving pictures are both easy to discover, and, while all of it is not composed of roses, it is run so that the moving-picture industry may not be disturbed by the “carping of paid scribblers.” Any moving-picture producer who reads this will know that he has one friend that agrees .with him whenever any of his productions are attacked.The gem, uncut, follows:Moving Picture ODE TO A CRITIC.You sit in a chair and take up a pen And grin a self-satisfied grin, And you sneer and you smile at the icork of good men,And call every weakness a sin.You look at a movie and prattle of art.Talk of “close-ups and *'fade-outs'* an d thingsWhile your highest vocation isdriving a cart Or vending the paper shoestrings.For a salary of not more than ten bucks a week You pan a good film to the shelf. If I icas a darh of a critic,I'd make some good picturesMYSELF.* * *The Dorsey Expedition Travelogue pictures hie themselves away from the Studebaker Theater to-day to make way for “Prohibition,” a story without a sermon attached, which tells of a man who could “take a drink or leave it alone,” and who chose to take it. He left to his son an inherited appetite. And the author, to make plain the psychological parts of us, has symbolized them in the characters of the Angel of Prohibition, Mephistopheles and Intelligence. These characters appear and disappear on the screen as the minds of the drink-enslaved men sway under the impulses of good and evil. The picture will be held at theStudebaker for an indefinite run.• * •The Alfred Hamburger Theatrical Enterprises have closed negotiations with the Paramount Company for a complete service of first run photoplays at the Ziegfeld Theater, beginning July 1. The program is made up of pictures produced by the Famous Players, JesseL. Lasky and the Bosworth-Moroscophotoplays.i'isProper Thing Now Is to Peel Off Soiled SkinThose who abhor sticky, greasy, shiny, streaked complexions should religiously avoid creams, powders and rouges during the heated days. There’s no need for them, anyway, since the virtues of mercolized‘wax have.become known. No amount of perspiration will produce any evidence that you’ve been using the wax. As it is applied at bedtime and washed off in the morning, the complexion never looks like a make-up. Mer-colized wax gradually takes off a bad complexion, instead of adding anything to make it worse. It has none of the disadvantages of cosmetics and accomplishes much more in keeping the complexion beautifully white, satiny and youthful. Just get an ounce of it at your druggist’s and see what a few days’ treatment will do. Use like cold cream.Another effective mnmner treatment—heat tending to cause wrinkles and flabbiness—is a skin-tightener made by dissolving 1 oz. powdered saxollte in pt. witch hazel Its use (as a face bath) leaves no trace.—Advertisement.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Jun 23, 1915
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