Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

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Canada Foreign Magazine $2.00 $2.40 $3.00 Classic 2.00 2.40 3.00 Both 3.50 4.10 5.50 Date Name Address As a special inducement to our readers to buy Motion Picture Magazine and Motion Picture Classic direct by mail, we have for two years been including a set of eighty players’ portraits with a year’s subscription. During two years so many changes have taken place among the players that this set had become old and out of date. Accordingly, we have discontinued our offer of eighty portraits, and have g substituted a new, larger, finer and more attractive set of portraits of the | twenty-four leading players. S The entire set are done in sepia by rotogravure, in accordance with our | special instructions, and are as high-grade as this process of printing, which is g famous for its artistic results, can produce. " You will like these pictures. You will enjoy framing them to decorate [ your room or den. You will be proud in their possession. ■ You may have a complete set with a year’s subscription to either the | Motion Picture Magazine or Motion Picture Classic. I It will cost you forty cents less to buy your magazine by the year direct, g than monthly at your dealer’s. In addition, you wdll obtain a set of these g attractive pictures. | Why not write today to reserve a set for you? Be sure to use the j M. P. PUBLISHING CO. 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Gentlemen : Also please send me at once a set of the twenty-four players’ portraits. Enclosed find $ in payment. g v . t, ■ MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE . „„„ B Kindly enter my subscription to the MOTION PICTLTRE CLASSIC year. = I MOTION PICTURE The Fear Woman {Continued from page 55) the knowing smile that lurked on men’s lips when she met their eyes. From place to place she went, cities, country towns, summer resorts, the bloodhound of scandal on her trail, until at last at Palm Beach she shook off the pursuer. And here once again Helen Winthrop’s beauty and charm demanded their toll of homage. Every trousered being in the big hotel felt a quickening in the cardiac region at sight of the slim, patrician beauty of her, the shadow and shine of dusky hair and eyes like “midnight and starshine,” as Percy Pendleton, the only son of his mother, (and she a widow), told her the first time he walked the i beach with her. ! Percy was fat and twenty, and seri ! ously smitten. The absurdity of his full | moon face with its immobile features and | general underdone dumpling appearance, | in contrast with the rhapsodies of his con ' versation, amused Helen. But Mrs. Pendleton, a perfect fortysix, glittering with jewels, so that one got the impression on looking at her, that by pressing the right button on her she could be turned off, watched the peril of her darling in the toils of the dark siren with alarm, which gradually changed to empurpled rage, as Percy began to exhibit symptoms of independence. On the evening on which he told her that he intended giving a dinner in honor of Miss Winthrop, his remarks embroidered with ! strange oaths, and dark hints anent a future daughter-in-law, Mrs. Pendleton sat down and penned two letters, one to her New York lawyer, and another to a gentleman whose profession was the ferreting out of dark secrets in people’s pasts. And so it came about that altho Percy got his way with the dinner, which was served in the great ballroom of the hotel in a blaze of glory, there were present on that occasion two guests uninvited by . him, and seated at an obscure table to one side of the flower-bedecked board, where Helen reigned in the triumph of a blue and silver Paquin gown, Percy bursting with callow pride at her side. One of these guests, a tall, clean-cut young fellow with a stubborn jaw and sombre eyes, sat silent, staring at the beautiful guest of honor thruout the meal; the other showed distinct nervousness, which increased to the point of panic as the time drew near for toasts and speech-making. ' With the filling of the wine-glasses Mrs. Pendleton rose, tinkling with precious stones, anticipating her son’s impatience. There was a baleful smile on her thin lips, but her voice was syrupy. “There are no friends who can speak so truly and emphatically of our — virtues . as an old one,” she began, “and so I know that Miss Winthrop’s new admirers will ! be delighted to hear tlrat I have been able i to find an old friend who will speak to ' us of her tonight, a Mr. Sidney Scarr of ‘ Shannon, South Carolina.” The nervous stranger, crimson, apo-i {Continued on page 82) (Eighty)