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on a little bugle, gave a powerful sweep of the paddle and was on his way. He goes up the Hudson to Albany, then -via the Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Chicago, through the drain age canal to the Illinois river, then down the Mississippi to New Orleans and by inland lagoons to Galveston. Then he expects to paddle down the coast of Mexico and Central America to Panama, through the canal and up the Pacific Coast to Frisco. "By nature I'm a hobo," says Sul livan. "I'm going to have one grand little time." STORY IS FIRST DIRECTOR LAST, SAYS THIS MAN. David V. Wall. The Story is the first essential for a good picture play! Good actors" are second in im portance; the camera man, third, and the director, fourth. So says David V. Wall, director of the western Powers picture players. Only once in a great while do you find a director in theJ'movie" busi ness who puts himself last in the list" of necessaries which go to make up a good picture. ' " Although so modest, Mr. Wall is very capable, however. He works like a Trojan. He puts his mind on the play in hand. And he declares Imagination is the secret of the success of any stage director, whether it be in producing a play for the legitimate stage or the screen. David V. Wall lives out in Holly-' wood, California, a beautiful resi dence suburb of Los Angeles. He owns his own pretty bungalow and he finds time to enjoy living as well as work. Mr. Wall was an actor for 25 years before he became a picture play directoi." His last engagement was the title role in "Our New Minis ter." His favorite part is the charac ter part of the cranky, old man. Many of the picture plays he pro duces are comedy! o o DIARY OF FATHER TIME In Roman Catholic days in Eng land, and even occasionally in rural parishes of America, it used: to be a custom to place in the center of a hive of bees a small piece of the sacred wafer surreptitiously carried away from the communion. It was called the "little God Almighty," and was supposed to insure the bees from all harm and to increase their power of honeymaking. According to Virgil, Jupiter en dowed the bee with Its marvelous intelligence, because, when as an in fant, he lay concealed from his fath er's search in the Cretan cave, bees fed him with honey. The Cretans themselves came to his aid, dancing' around the babe and rattling brazen cymbals to drown the cries that might have betrayed him. To tMs latter legend is traced the still ex tant custom of pursuing swarms of bees with the clangor of keys on pans and kettles in order to induce them to settle down.