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•THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
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falls in love with Hinton and Mr. Opp, wise in his generation, releases the girl from her engagement.
John Mathews returns to Cove Junction and at a meeting of the stockholders declares that the coal lands have been found to be unproductive of profit, but offers a plan to sell out to a rival corporation. All the stockholders, except Mr. Opp, agree to sell. Mr. Opp declares the whole transaction to be dishonorable, preconceived by Mathews to trick the rival company into buying a worthless proposition. He, however, is voted down and the sale is consummated.
Then and there Cove Junction's boom begins to wane. Hinton, having married Guinevere, makes a proposal to buy "The Opp Eagle" and retain Mr. Opp as an employee. Seeing his last hopes vanishing, Mr. Opp sells out on the day the townsfolk have set for a banquet to do honor to the man who has done so much to advance the prosperity of Cove Junction. Mr. Opp finds himself the hero of an occasion that brings to his heart the manna of adulation and praise for which he is so hungry. He is then and there nominated for the office of Mayor and the story ends with Mr. Opp happy in the homage of his fellow citizens with a life of devotion for the brain-sick Kippy his irrevocable portion.
CACTUS SICK.
p A C T U S ^ PETE, Harry Carey's wellknown and highly educated horse, has almost made himself sick recently on sugar. Carey has been training him to fall down dead when a revolver is fired at him, when he does it he gets sugar.
"Yes, you can have '"The Bugle'" said Mr. Opp.
MARCIA MOORE DOES HER BIT.
At the moment of Mr. Opp's triumph came an interruption.
jyjANY of the
actors and actresses at Universal City are contributing i n some way to the Red Cross, or to some other organization for the benefit of the boys i n khaki. Several o f the screen stars are working early in the morning and late at night in their gardens, many of the girls are taking First Aid courses, while almost all of them invested in Liberty Bonds. Little Marcia Moore, one of the ingenues at the picture city, was disconsolate because she could not think of any thing to do, either for the country at large or for the boys in khaki.
She brooded over it for a long time, and finally hit upon the idea of persuading her friends and acquaintances at the picture city to contribute to a "tobacco fund" for the soldiers. Many of the actors have listened to her plea, and promised for every cigarette that they smoke to give the price of one to her for the boys in khaki. Some of them have sworn off altogether, and having calculated what that saves them, have turned the money over to the fund. Some have reduced their consumption of cigarettes by half. There are very few who have resisted the pleading of the little actress, who begs so prettily for "smokes" for the boys going to the trenches.
Kippy was Opp's greatest care.
■pHIRTEEN was the forbidding number given Vester Pegg, one of the cowpunchers of Harry Carey's Western company, when he appeared to register for the selective draft, at the station at Universal City. Pegg hesitated a moment when he saw this number, but finally took it "After all, I guess numbers haven't anything to do with your chances at the front," he said.