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June Mathis, has a pet parrot, which boasts of three names is among the missing. The writer of the screen version of Metro’s —The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ had as the constant companion of her leisure moments, the loquacious bird until a few mornings ago it took fright at a sudden noise and fluttered over Hollywond housetops and away. Anybody finding a parrot that answers to the names of “Metro, Polly or Laura’’ that is a stranger to profanity and bears a yellow mark on its green back, is asked to return it to Miss Mathis.

June Mathis, who heads the screen writing staff at the new Metro Studios, Hollywood, recently rejected a manuscript submitted to her by a budding Pennsylvania writer. She accompanied the returned motion picture story with the following note: “Your plot would be splendid If it weren’t for prohibition. Your villain is drunk every time he attempts any of his dirty work. I cannot imagine any man robbing a bank under the influence or wrecking a train while intoxicated by near beer, or abducting the ingenue as a result of looking on the grape juice while it was purple. “The jag, on the screen and off, is very much out of the fashion these days. Try to motivate your stories with something that has a real kick, but contains no alcohol. “P. S. —I might also add that Percy is not a good name for your hero. He fights with his bare hands; usually when they’re named Percy they don’t soil ’em that way.”

June Mathis, heart of the Metro scenario department and her secretary, Florence Heim were most amused hy the actions and unties of the crowd of actors on the setting where Viola Dana, in Not Married,” was escaping from a hotel fire actors were guests at the hotel aid, dressed in pajamas, nighties or kimonos, rushed madly back and forth as tlie smoke poured nut of the building. “What propounced Miss Mathis, is the diference between a motion picture studio and an insane asylum?” “Well.” said her secretary, “you can go out of a studio and not in. You can go into an insane asylum and not out.” “Right.” said Miss Mathis.