Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

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46 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE. THE TOWNSFOLK NEVER FORGOT THAT NIGHT. the spectators being absolutely driven away by the excruciating spectacle of Bumptious kissing Miss Miffle heartily on the lips, and then tumbling headlong over one of the players, who was giving vent to all kinds of antics. From this night Bumptious gave up all theatrical aspirations, but he didn't give up Miss Miffle, and that lady see ing no chance of getting another beau, surrendered herself to the erstwhile Borneo. Dick Larkyn in his usual humorous vein pleaded to be allowed to be best man, tho, said he, "the best man should surely be the bridegroom ;" whereat Miss Miffle tapped him with her fan, calling him a "naught}', naughty man." "The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind • and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary impressions from them. Pleasure and inspiration first; analysis, afterward. Beecher. ■Henry Ward 'Immortal art ! the rounded sky Bends o'er the cradle where thy children lie, Their home is earth, their herald every tongue."— Holmes.