I am told that some comedians, like 'Bunny' and Sterling Mace, were failures on the stage, yet in motion pictures they are great favorites.

On the other hand, some famous stage actors can do nothing in motion pictures." On their arrival at Santa Monica Mr.Merrick invited the party to be his guests at luncheon, which was served in a cosy restaurant overlooking the ocean.

And then, although at this season it was bleak winter back East, all but Uncle John and Aunt Jane took a bath in the surf of the blue Pacific, mingling with hundreds of other bathers who were enjoying the sport.
Mrs.Montrose and Uncle John sat on the sands to watch the merry scene, while the young people swam and splashed about, and they seemed--as Miss Patsy slyly observed--to "get on very well together." "And that is very creditable to your aunt," she observed to Maud Stanton, who was beside her in the water, "for Uncle John is rather shy in the society of ladies and they find him hard to entertain." "He seems like a dear old gentleman," said Maud.
"He is, indeed, the dearest in all the world.

And, if he likes your Aunt Jane, that is evidence that she is all right, too; for Uncle John's intuition never fails him in the selection of friends.

He--" "Dear me!" cried Maud; "there's someone in trouble, I'm sure." She was looking out across the waves, which were fairly high to-day, and Patsy saw her lean forward and strike out to sea with strokes of remarkable swiftness.