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y7 G A COMPLETE 5H EVEPY SATU DDAY 7 FICTION section t 1' - 3j . THREE SECTIONS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922. SECTION TWO. PUNCH AND JULIE By FRANK CONDON .Illustrated by WILL B. JOHNSTONE An Action and Love Story of the Movies With More Than One Punch r i " CHARACTERS IN THE STORY. " r ' O STEVE DRYDEN, who relates the tale and figures in every scene. HUGH FOLEY, the rising star of the Cines-Torino films, who doesn't get enough pep into his film fights. JULIE HOWARD, who plays opposite Foley and who is supposed to bear an equally tender relation to his real life. OLD MAN PELTMAN, owner of Cines-Torino. SIDNEY HOPPER, a stage villain who has the loser's end of the fight that developed the proper percentage of pep. -. JIMMY DEAN, boss property man of Cines-Torino. . MRS. STEVE DRYDEN, who believes in early hours, and is the inno cent cause of an important development. " MAYBE you folks sitting out there In the 22-ocnt Beats, including tax, have noticed the recent and vast Im provement In Hugh Foley's scenes. No doubt you have observed that Hughle no longer softens his punches In bis vigorous persona! warfare with the villain of the piece, and that whn he now bumps one of our foremost heavies on the beezer, it is an honest-to-heavens wallop of the J. Dempsey or sudden-death variety, and you can see the villain's nose retire visibly Into his skull. Bruised frontal bones, along with miscellaneous wounds and contusions, are now common in the studio of the Cines-Torino Company out Los An geles way, and the first of these new and genuine battle scenes may be found in our latest five-reel triumph, "Lord Jones," which has just been re leased to a waiting world, and which, If I do say It myself, .who should not, is one of the zippiest things I bavo ever done. It is a personal triumph for Hugh Foley, and will figure in his new contract, because the exhibitors oro clawing at each other in their des perate efforts to book it first. Until the "Lord Jones" picture camo through, there had always been one bad spot in every Foley release, and nobody realized it more clearly than Steve Dryden,- which are the words on my semi-detached bungalow. Many a painful conversation have I held with old man Feltman, who loafs about the lot a great deal, and Is per mitted to, by virtue of the fact that ho owns the Clncs-Torlno. Tho general and Justifiable com- plaint hud ibecn that in his fight scenes Hugh Foley pulled his punches. Ills -fights, said the crltlC3 and the public, were fake brawls and devoid of sincerity. Instead of knocking the loathsome villain for a couple of goals, Hughle .hit him softly and tenderly pretending a vast amount of violence but deluding nobody. Least of all did these bogus battles deceive the lynx eyeil gentry that walk in and sit down after piling their two bits to the cashier. Kvery movie goer. In America car ries a mental ax. Woo betide the director who says, "Look at the ship-r- wreck," and then reveals something photographed In a bathtub. Wo received a g-eat many letters from .these ultlmato consumers com plaining of Ilughle's fighting style. 1 begged Hughle to warm up and do v battle,but it was useless. Tho pro prietor of tho Cines-Torino intimated, without concealing his Irritation, that tf I couldn't make Hugh Foley flslit with a certain amount of needful ferocity, he would probably find a di rector who could. All 111 all, I was rather low in mind over It. Tho reason for this woe was Hugh Foley. He is the sort of human being you would expect a man named Hugh Foley to be: handsome, cheerful, soft hearted, likes children, and as strong as the cable they use in a tug of war. I can't manage him and neither can any one else, because he simply grins at harsh words and pats a person on the back, or else picks a person up bodily andflops him Into a corner without regard for feelings or dignity. Hughle and I gft:w up in South Chicago. I rapidly became a very sour nclor, and discovered it before any great harm was done; but Hughle mounted onward to stardom and the movies. Later, and as he grew more famous, he insisted with tho bull lieadcdness of his race upon having me for his director, .and while I am . S FINALLY SIDNEY DROPPED UNDER THE REMAINS OF A TABLE.