GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June, 1919 



vertisiug for honey thru the movies and in 

 the newspapers. Thru the latter I have 

 gotten page after page of writeups. In the 

 former, dozens of pictures have been shown 

 of me, and I have been "doctored" and 

 ' ' doctored ' ' so much that tlie title seems to 

 be clinging to me; but really I am just plain 

 ' ' Mr. ' ' and nothing more. Even tlie movies 

 have got into the chronic habit of calling me 

 1 1 j)j._ J J They have had me featured before 

 21,000,000 people illustrating the bee-sting 

 cure for rheumatism and making me say 

 that bee-stings are an "absolute cure.'' 

 Don 't you believe it. I never said it. Some 

 of the real doctors will be pulling my ears — 

 in fact, they have already done so in spite 

 of the protests that I did not say so. 



The movie people asked me how much I 

 would charge to give them a series of my 

 ' ' stunts. ' ' I told them I would charge them 

 absolutely nothing if they would let me fea- 

 ture honey. This was agreed to; but instead 

 they featured my bee-sting cure, made it 

 big and strong, while my honey — why, you 

 can 't see it on the screen with a telescope. 

 I complained to the movie people that I ob- 

 jected to having the handle ' ' Dr. ' ' stuck 

 before my name, and that I wanted honey 

 featured. ' ' All right, ' ' they said. ' ' What 

 would you suggest?" 



' ' We will go out to Eagle Eock in Grif- 

 fin Park, Los Angeles, ' ' I said, ' ' where 

 there are some 40 or 50 colonies in that big 

 rock that can be seen for miles around. 



Get your machine ready and photograph me 

 taking wild bees and honey out of one of 

 these holes in the rock. ' ' 



' ' Capital ! ' ' they said. 



To make a long story short, they got me 

 up in the air about a thousand feet high on 



A characteristic bee range of mountain sage in 



California. The apiary is shown over at the left 



about halfway up the picture. 



that rock. They could not get me up there 

 again for all the advertising in the world. 



It was understood that I was to work 

 barehanded and bareheaded, reach into the 

 hole, and pull the honey out. They set up 

 the camera and went to reeling off the film 

 to the tune of a thousand feet. 



' ' That 's dandy, ' ' they said. ' ' You have 



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The Kditor of Gleanings a lliuu^and feet up in the air ready to take wild bees out of Eagle Rock in Griffin 

 Park, Los Angeles. The picture was taken just before thei fun began. The man in the backgi-ound was 

 one of the Pathe movie men who came up to assist. While the editor did not break his neck, he did lose 

 the top of his head, as will be seen from the picture. The co^mtry below represents a part of Hollywood. 

 The editor says you could not get him up on the rock again for love nor money. He was daubed with 

 honey as well as stung. Easy to talk about afterwards, but no fun during the act, while the movie camera 



below was reeling off the picture. 



