The Heart Of Hollywood Really Touched At Last Unaffected Grief and Anxiety Slim Movieland W lien New a of Critical llli.. - of (irand Old Man of Mov ie* Keaclies Film Outer ISy KOKHKST WlilTK ( Copyrifht, l$J4. By fhi Advance) Los Angeles, Feb. 2D. ? A bold real estate subdivider recent ly advertised the discovery of the heart of Hollywood. Fortu nately for him his claim w.u, physical and geographical. The tlollywood of tb.L' movies the shaiowland of make-believe, the p!a:e of quick changes and u'wd <.?! >ii i j a>ls. lias lin.il its orful life oil the surface. Of its men a. id women who have ha J their adventures, their loves and t.ieir tragedies, they were as at coi-s playing their parts. The} held the stage for a white, and then they passed, and their finai fade-out was simply the end of the play. Lights, and th< y were forgotten. Vh ere Is one actor ? the only on** of them all ? whos?- fait* has stirred Hcllywood below the surface ? -who ha * found the heart of Hollywood.1 He is Theodore Roberts, reported as[ wmlim a probably losing fight with death In Pittsburgh, where lie was stricken on a tour undertaken to prove his faith, his loyalty and hhrj usefulness to the world of the mov- j let. It Is but the triteness of truth to' cull Theodore Roberts the "grand old man of the movies." He played , the part, to the life. It is doubtful If then* ever was en actor of the si-1 lei.t drama so well loved on and off the screcn. He worked his way pa tiently and even doggedly to a high plt.ee as an actor for the movies, ami as a screen figure he is probably bet- | tei h iown and loved than any actor i wl o ever posed before a Krlndini;' caauru. And for all that, he was! never a star. If Theodore Roberta passes, .there 1 will be real grief In Hollywood, The motion picture colony will be stirred to new depths, fts Jieart will really lu.ve been touched. For lie is more than a mere fluure in shadowlani. H * has been a real friend, kind and tlMe, to all who have had contact with him In his full year's in motion picture production, and lie is the one I flg iro who can be said to have been I absolutely free of the Jealousy an 1 i fahe pride so characteristic of the | pro Tesslon. Theodore Roberts was an actor? ? j a trouper ? long before he came Into the movies, and that means much in | movie land. The troupers, who have battl 'd their way up through advers- 1 lty aid hard knocks common to the lot of actors who devote their lives to the profession in a spirit hard to understand, have not only made the greatest success in the new art. but are uniformly distinguished from their fallows by their friendly spirit of aid, their tolerance and their charity. Win n Theodore RobortH came to i? ' the? movies. his sphere of usefulness [? seemed sadly limited. Old men ng parts, at the time, were scarcely more than "bits," and to feature an IM actor in such parts wan beyond the ^ wildest thought of any producer or J= director. He was a utility man in IS the studio and nothing more. Pro Jg duct ion In those days was more of a. p haphazard affair than it 1h tod?y, j IS and actors In make-up were e'.tt-n [? held Idle on the "lota" for days r= while waiting a call. 1 1! Roberta, witty, good natr.ed and j Qj always Interested, made a peculiar t place for himself at the studio. Ho I! was the official referee of checker j [1 games. He was the thl* d man at t he | r= table where the mo.it Interesting . game was in progress and the incas- Q ure of his Interest vas the unllght r ed and vigorously rnewd cigar stub js he held In his nu uth. I [J One day, so tl f story goes, Rob- r erts suddenly culed from his chair J; at a checker g*<ne to his part on th" fl set, forgot to discard the cigar stub T in his mouth, and In thought of the = game he hf d left, rolled It In his (j mouth whPr* taking part In a scene. [ Discovering his oversight, he tossed ? the offending stub away with true I vigor In tne course of action before ' the campi a, with visions of a repri mand ano a re-take of the scene on the following day, but the director, viewing t le "rushes," found that his "old nan" had registered In a now way, !? rid thereafter Theodore Rob erts did riost of hi* acting before the screen with a cigar In action. Roberts ^as a friend, and a gool foil for Wallace Reld. and hfid Reld . heeded his advteo, kindly and unof fenslve. the pair would have gone on to greater success on the screen, for they were cast together In most of Reld'n pictures. All told. Roberts has probably 3 fCclgarul Chocolate Snaps, Vanilla Snails, l.f!iion Jnmlilr*, Zu / u, Animal*. Macaroon Snap-, Oyslerelten, (!hw?p Ticl Bit*, t'nceda Biscuit, Per pkj*. 5c appeared in more feature screen plays than any actor who ever faced .the camera, and really mud*- a part !?>r lums? It. In the las! h w i n ? tl II - Hons lie has been a featured actor, and it was in the cards that h?? should be a star, particularly after his wonderful characterization of "Moses" in the production of a Bib lical prologue to a play. Hut the slump came to the movies., Roberts was a r?yularly salaried : man? a high-salaried man. Such ac-' tors were requested to aid the com-] pany by utilizing their earning pow- j er wljerever they could. Roberts did ! not hesitate. He went into vaude ville and left Hollywood for a tour, j He has not come hack, and the heart' of Hollywood Is really reached, and ? Its hopes are all for the recovery of j the actor who ha* a million friends' ? and not an enemy. MKIU 'HANTS HKAIt I 'A I'LL (Continued From Page One) thread that runs through all com merce, that is distribution. It is doing this from the far end ; of distribution, at the retail counter: where we find a finished l>roduct, aj finished price, and a flushed service,' the point of contact with the entire j public with the scheme of commerce,; and working back, step by step, un til the manufacturer's process is reached; then through the process of conservation back to the original, raw material, showing each o f the steps in the movement of present j day commodities." Showing the great interest dls-! piiiyed by the industries in the new Division the Chief said that the dl-. vison has brought together retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers and many fundamental principles under lying the whole pri/cess of distribu tion have been agreed upon. "At the present time," Mr. Puull 1 said, "industries representing 37 ! billion dollars worth of products are accepting and have asked for service from the Domestic Commerce Divl- . slon. If the Division is successful in affording them facilities for in- j creasing the efficiency of distribution by only one per cent, the purchasing power of the people will have, bee'* I i increased by more than three Kin dred and seventy million dollp.s an i nually." The speaker then trrjed the de [ velopment of American Industry | from colonial day?; to the present time. "In these days the cost of pro duction was h^li," he said, "but I there were problems of distribution. 1 As the country developed and was settled and transportation systems | began to spread over the continent. I the manufacturer was compelled to ? turn all his attention to pru-duction. leaving the problem of distribution { in the hands of manufacturer's representatives., wholesalers and retailers. | At mis point the manufacture! i lost connection with the consuming ' capacity of markets. "His Job was to produce at the ' lowest possible unit of cost. Pre sently be came to believe that the lowest possible unit of cost was in production. Having lost contact wiili the consuming market, ho felt that as long as the wholesaler , would buy. that long must he buy ? raw materials and the wholesales , would buy as long as the retailer ' might buy. * i "Hut presently we as manufac Wiihr tl) .LlllJ fait that nnr j salesmen are not taking the nofmal : volume of 'orders. Then we begin ' to appreciate the fact that we have ! built a dam" across our' channel of distribution, so that our goods will | not flow out; and certainly we are not going to operate long if there is no place to put our goods. The 'result is- that we lay otf help and 1 close down our plants, we take a pause until the surplus can be ab sorbed and that pause is longer than It would be if we had a better pur chasing capacity." "It seems to us that the best ser vice that we can render to com merce will br* in assisting to meas ure the current consuming capacity j of markets, so that the manufac turers may be budgeted to maintain! a steady flow of material through j the process of manufacture, which impresses us as being more econom ical than an interrupted operation ; on the basis of volume. Our vol-! ume always will be only as much as' the market can consume. "We canncrt budget our produc tion until wo know more of the cur rent consuming capacity of markets. We must approach the proposition from a different angle than that of the salesman. A salesman is an enthusiast, he Is out to sell, he is out to urge purchases. We must know something of the fundamentals of market requirements and of commo dity requirements. It means the ob taining of the maximum information aftout the consuming capacity of our! own markets, and that In turn rr.~ j lates to- foreign -markets. Wf can j not hope to maintain a for^lgu .mar ket as a dumping gro-^id for sur- 1 ^ hen Time Is I'recious Give La A Ring. l Tke | Apothecary Shop X Phone -100 plus, and until we can measure the present consuming capacity off against the current production we art* not going to Know what wo have in surplus with which to maintain markets established abroad." The speaker brought out the fact that more than three-fifths of the population lives east of the Missippi, while about three fifth* of our agri cultural production occurs west of that river. Knowledge of this fact, lit? said, could make us realize that the dollar passed ever the retail' trmde counter pays not only for the] commodity itself but for a consld-' ?rable amount of transportation ser-' vice. DON'T YOU LOVE IT J '.Vhat ? That brand-new flavor. That trip!*- strength flavor. Th*t cool, rrfrwhlnt flavor ol Fleer ? Checker berry Chewing Gum. Say ? Check-c beck -Checker berry! I I Mail Orders Solicited Hosiery To Matclt. THE MISS MITAOR The above cut shows a very exclusive Spring Style In all Air dale Suede, made on the new medium toe with medium Span- ? isli Heels. YOt* ARE INVITED TO CALL AND SEE THEM. OWENS SHOE COMPANY Elizabeth City's First Flower Shop RYAN FLORAL CO. INC. . 8 South Itoad Street QU AL\TY~F LOWERS ? QUALITY SERVICE 'Phone J 12, Daytime ? Night 'Phone 421 Capital Stock $250,000 Member Federal Reserve -j HERTFORD COL.CMRIA KUZARETH CITY J t>r. A. L. Pendleton, Pres. 3eo. R. Little, Cashier. ?' jurncjr P. Hood, Vice- Pres. It. C. Abbott, Vice- Pres. J CAROLINA BANKING & TRUST COMPANY THE BEST PLACE TO BUY FURNITURE Both in Quality and Price ' ' Let Us Save You Money | Quinn Furniture Co. TO MY FELLOW CITIZENS OF . ' 9 ' ' 1 . ELIZABETH CITY 1 am appealing l<> you to help make our town the hex! in Eastern Carolina. The only ?vav that we ean <l<> this* is hy attracting more enterprises and a larger number of resident*, hut several things must he done before that can become a reality. Anionic oth er tilings, we must have more good roads, a ileeper harhor, an extended water front and the Dismal Swamp Canal opened. * The only agency of bringing in any industries and saving the ones we now have is the Chamber of Commerce. If this organization had done nothing else except save to the city mi enterprise doing a half million dollar business jht year, it would merit the support of every man in the city. But at the same time it saved $25,000 to the fisher men who spend this ?25,000 with the wholesale and retail merchants of this town. In addition, the Post Office of Elizabeth City was kept in first class hy that saving. You ask me why a minister should he interested in the progress of his city? 1 reply, that every thing that help my home town lieips my church. Any thing, therefore, that helps Elizabeth City, helps the commission men, the doc tor, !!?!? dentists. :!ir druggists, the wholesalers, the retailers, the mill men, the manu facturers, the real estate men, the insurance, men, the lawyers, the preachers, the hank ers, the blacksmiths and the mechanics. I am appealing, therefore, to you as citizens of this city to join the Chamber oi Commerce and help build the "fairer city" in all this land. SAMUEL H. TEMPLEMAN, Campaign Director. I ? THE SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY ? Carolina Potato Exchange Carolina Banking & Trust Co. The First & Citizens National Bank A. F. Toxey & Co. I il Ddl? Oil] HI [?][?](?][?! 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