to fit herself for the role of a switchboard operator in her latest First National picture, (1927′s) Orchids and Ermine, produced by John McCormick, Colleen Moore took instruction in the art of telephony at the Southern California Bell Telephone company operators’ school, where Miss May Converse acted as tutor. Miss Moore is here being instructed in the intricacies of ‘plugging in’ and plugging out’