Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

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114 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE Nan leaned over and whispered in his ear, causing him to exclaim in a contrite voice: "Oh, for the Well, I was a brute. You go right on knitting, Nan. We'll go thru life knitting together, and there will be no more cause for diplomacy." NAN S DIPLOMACY HAD AT LAST CONQUERED Cg3 CJ3 CRJ Borrowing Houses IN" order to give diversity of scene to the motion pictures, it is the aim of the producers to use exterior scenes not more than once every three or four months, and most companies have a man called a "pathfinder," whose duty it is to borrow yards and housefronts for the pictures. In cities where pictures are made it is no uncommon thing for the housewife answering a ring at the bell to be met with an inquiry if she is willing to lend her house to the picture makers. Most persons are willing and many evince a real interest in the pictured presentation of their homes, one Philadelphia physician, not long ago, having given a theater party of twenty-five, in order to see his house in one of the productions. Country estates offer a tempting field, and here the owners are usually more than willing to loan their lawns or pergolas, tho now and then a snag is encountered. Last summer permission was granted to a company to make photographs in a famous estate, but unfortunately there were two families of the same name side by side; and the company, mistaking the one for the other, was beset by an irate owner and a most active bulldog, all of which was followed by a suit for trespass.