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'• Have you ever had a fit ?" was the final question put to a ballot m an by one of the Medical Boards recently. " Yes, once," was the reply. "When?" "When I got this blooming notice," said the recruit, holding up his telegram announcing that he had been drawn. Mary Pickford, the idol of tho fiiGtuiie • oreen, threatens. k> become' a 'public riuisarifce—technically only, of course. In doing her outdoor picture stunts she is drawing even larger crowds than flock to the theatres. When it was recently loarned that she was abo.ut t.c pvoducs, an exterior scenes for a new picture, the /■pads leading, to the place that had been selected became so. congested with motor-cars th.at a. special for.ae of pojic.* had to, be engaged to, handle the. spectators, w,h.o hajd un}nl;en,tion T ally sp.o,iled a good deal of film, by getting withiii t,h.e camera linea-