Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC 1 **What docs it say in the Scriptures," Margaret m u rm n r e d, "what does it s a y — about 1 o V i u g — your enemies?" mountain rudenesses, which told her more plainlj' than anytliing else of his utter recklessness. "No, M'liss ! I was wrong — I kaint ever — be — a — gentleman " Then, in a tumbled flood of words, it was all out. The major had been kind, wonderful kind. He had treated him like kinfolk and told him he should have his chance for all the book learning he wanted. He had seemed to — to like him, somehow. Oh, and it was a grand place where he lived — fifteen rooms, each one bigger than the cabin, and black servants, and horses — they were moughty nice, the horses. Then there had been the folks next door — Dean, their name was, a terrible fancy man and woman, and two boys his age, and — and Chad's face grew scarlet in the firelight, and she saw that his u.inds were trembling. "They was a girl, too — her name was Margaret," he stumbled. "She had awful pretty hair, light and sort of soft and the color of sunshine at high noon — a real lady she was, but. she — she was pov/erful pleasant to me, and made me forget I wasn't anything but a mountain critter. We — went riding in the park — once or twice. Then they found out" — his voice brooded — "about me being a nobody, having no pappy that I knowed on. They'd thought I was some blood kin of the major — an' when they found I wasn't, they told me" — he choked, fought wrathfully with unmanly tears — "they done told me not to come to they house no more — not to speak to — to ^largaret " Melissa had dr?. wn away from him. She did not want him to feel the shaking of her meager body. Her voice was dry and expressionless. "So your major friend sent you away?" "No !" Chad said, violently. "No ! He didn't know I was coming, but I couldn't stay an' be a burden — be looked down on. It hurt me — in here!" He struck his chest cruelly, violently, like a bitter man; then, like a disappointed boy, he began to sob, his forehead resting on Melissa's shoulder for comforting. "Oh, M'liss! I'll never find the white towers — and the many mansions. I wish I was dead ! I wish I'd never been bom !" Melissa patted the rough head pitifully. "Dont fret, boy," she whispered; "dont fret." But her brain was already busy {Continued on page 72) THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME Fictionized from the scenario based upon the late John Fox, Jr.'s, novel. Produced by Goldwyn, starring Jack Pickford. Directed by Wallace Worsley. The cast: Chad Jack Pickford Margaret. . Clara Horton Melissa Pauline Starke Dan Dean J. Park Jones Harry Dean Clark Marshall Mrs. Dean Edythe Chapman Major Buford James NeiU General R. D. McLean Schoolmaster Dwight Crittenden Cousin Lucy Aileen Manning (Thirty-two)