FIGHTING FOR HAPPINESS.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 957, 14 November 1918, Page 6

FIGHTING FOR HAPPINESS.

When you get into a frame of mind that makes life seem one tiresome duty after another, with no pleasure in it; wheal ill-health seems to take all the joys out of life and you worry over things that are really not worth worrying about, then your nervous system is becoming exhausted and you are approaching neurasthenia. Your happiness is worth fighting for and red blood is your best ally. It is a hopeless task to try to restore your health while your blood is deficient in quantity or quality. For building up the blood there is one remedy that has been a household word for a generation—Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They tone up the entire system, help make the blood rich and red, strengthen the nerves, increase the appetite, put colour in the cheeks and lips and drive away that unnatural feeling. Further information on the tonic treatment of "Diseases of the Nervous System" is contained in a useful hooklet which will be sent free to any applicant by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Box 845, Gr.P.O., Wellington. Your own chemist or storekeeper sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be mailed, post paid, on receipt of price, 3s per box, six boxes 16s 6d.

- Signor Enrica Caruso has sung before larger audiences, but not more appreci ative audiences than the one which listened to his "Pagliacci" at "the filming of his first Artcraft photoplay, "My Cousin." Several thousand persons gathered at the Manhattan Opera House stage entrance early tfchat morning and waited in the sun for several hours in order to catch a glimpse of the great tenor when ha alighted from his car at eleven o'clock. Three hundred "extra" persons arrived in gowns that bore no less than Fifth Avenue trade marks, and many of these "extra" persons arrived in their bwn cars and taxies and accompanied by their maids. It was not really a mob of "extras" of the usual type, but a bevy of beautiful girls and women, who felt glad to be filmed in the -Caruso' picture and who did not feel unfamiliar with their surroundings.

They arose and applauded the tenor when he entered, and although Edward -Jose, the director, told them to be very quiet, they forgot thei instructions many times and burst into wild applause. Caruso sang three times for them while the cameras could be heard clicking during the pauses, but no •other noise broke the silence until the last note died on his lips, and with one accord the "extras" rose, and shouts •of "bravo" filled the theatre. After the work was over Caruso received his friends on the stage. He said he felt too warm to eat anything but fruit, so his faithful secretary produced bags of bananas, peaches and pears, and the great tenor sat on a stage prop and ■chatted with his friends while he peeled the fruit with a cruel-looking knife that was used in the opera.

The 143 rd American Field Artillery, •of which Mary Pickford is honorary colonel, enacted the ensemble military .scenes, including a courtmartial, conducted exactly according to regulations, in "Our Mary's" newest Arteraft photo-play, "Johanna Enlists."

They put big Bill Hart in a dress suit recently at the studio wliere lie is now engaged 'on his latest Arteraft picture and thereby rendered him as uncomfortable as a man can be under ordinary conditions. "It makes me downright unhappy," confided the Western ■cowboy star to one o£ his associates, "to be riggeid out in one of these boiled shirt outfits. The collar binds like a bridle bit on a mustang, and I feel as awkward as a Cayuse in harness for the first time. Of course, if art demands that I wear the thing, I'm game, but give me a soft shirt, a pair of overalls ■and chaps and I'm contented as a Comanche with a bottle of snake-bite." Bill looks well enough in his rig, but lie i& manifestly uncomfortable. To make some slight concession to his Western temperament, he wore his -Stetson sombrero when he wasn't working and the combination was decidedly incongruous.

Thomas H. Ince, producer for Paramount and Arteraft, and accounted one of the shrewdest and best-informed of •film men, discussed recently the relation of pictures to the war. Said Mr. Ince: "Since my production recently -of "The Claws of the Hun" with •Charles Ray; "The Kaiser's Shadow' with Dorothy Balton, and my announcement that I was to produce "The False Faces" with Henry B. Walthal, and "Vive La France!" starring Miss Dalton, it has been suggested that there was a danger of the pro-.-ducer overlooking "the war stuff, t/jistfc the people would grow tired of it. Now I am quite willing to concede that they will grow weary of material that is the wrong sort. They do not c&reto see the exclusion of anything else. The war may serve either as a background for a charming live story, or some unusual phase or incident that forms the nucleus for the plot.

"For example, take my own pic"iures: 4£ Th.© Claws of "t ho Hun, was intended to inspire in parents who might be willing to let other parents sons go to fight, but tried to hold back thear own, the true, spirit of patriotism, service and sacrifice. "The- Kaiser s Shadow" sought to expose the Hun espionage systems in America) and theretoy spread an American propaganda that would oppose and offset the insidious German propganda so largely exploited in America in the early days of the struggle. "The False Faces" also -deals largely with spy work in America, while "Vive La France" is a tribute to the French women, to their bravery, indomitable will and splendid spirit of -sacrifice.

"I believe these axe the kinds of pictures the public wants to-day——so far as war pictures are /concerned. Also, they like the comedies and comedy -dramas, the uplifting, cheerful, breezy pictures. Simple patriotism and the spirit of victory; the love of country -and bravery in the false of the foe

these are the elements that appeal ill war times. It's the simple lif© for us —and we've got to keep our pictures within reasonable limits, without becoming maudlin, inconsequential, or obsurd. There is no neel to limit invention, ingenuity or even literary skill. But let us keep our heads and our hearts and our hands clean." * ■» *■ Fred Niblo will make his first screen appearance supporting his wife, Enid Bennett, in her next Paramount picture, "Coals on Fire."

It will take a good few long long ginger-beers to slake the dust of Egypt and Palestine which the Dinkums have swallowed. Though the war is now over they are not likely to forget the desert which they ate with their bullybeef for breakfast, dinner, and tea. Discussing this subject, "jNT.W.H.B." writes to "The Kia Ora Coo-ee" : "I should like to say a few words about Dust. A .Light Horseman, after the war, should have the word Dust written on his heart. Dust is part of his life; daily he rides through it and very often he eats, sleeps, and lives in it, and finally, if he goes 'West,' he is buried in it. You can't blame anybody for Dust, worse luck. Last winter, during the rains, the dust turned into mud. This was a change, even if it were for the worse. Our horses and limbers were bogged in the beastly stuff and there was mud on everything; but, there was generally enough rain to wash it off again. With a few fine days, that mud soon changed back to its original form, and we now wait the next "winter for it to revert back to mud. En passant, I should mention that the Jordan Valley species of Dust is the most villainous I have ever tasted. Combined with the good earth are the .finely powdered bones of the prophets and portions of the walls of Jericho, mixed in suitable proportions."