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Catch Lines From “The Dark Star”
A Paramount-Artcraft Special Picture with Marion Davies
Taken From the Novel by Robert Chambers
For Use of Exhibitors on Slides, Advertisements and Other Forms
of Exploitation
A Cosmopolitan Production Presented by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
A DARK star, speeding unseen through space, ruled at the birth of those destined to be flung into strange byways — into deeps and deserts.
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I-Ie had tired of her sufficiently to prove unfaithful to his marriage vows at every opportunity.
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Dully she was aware that she was leaving familiar and beloved things — childhood, girlhood, father and mother, Brookhollow — all were vanishing in flying dust behind her.
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“Good evening, Eddie,” she said, and struck him a staggering blow in the face with her white gloved hand.
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“You dirty dog!” she said unsteadily. “You’ll marry this girl before I’ve divorced you, will you?”
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He took her by the waist and, tilting back her head, kissed her soft, warm lips.
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“What the hell’s the matter with you? Is it that little skirt you was buzzing?”
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I bet you I marry that little girl in two weeks.
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The next moment he had passed his arm around her and was half leading, half carrying her through a short hallway into a big, brilliantly lighted studio.
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I might as well tell you now that what you have been stupid enough to do tonight is going to cost you your life.
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“Who the devil’s in there?” he called, flashing his electric pocket lamp . . . Full in the glare, her face as white as the light itself, stood a woman.
HE groped in his breast pocket for the automatic pistol, freed it, tried to fire it. But the weapon and the unnerved hand that held it fell on the carpet.
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I’m employed — as you are. I’m working
for the — the Turkish embassy.
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I must think of mother and father — I must keep my disgrace from touching them.
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He was seized in the powerful grasp of two men and jerked into the dark corridor.
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Could I have given him enough to kill him?
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He snatched a sheet from the bed, tore it into strips, walked over to Neeland, and deftly tied him hand and foot and gagged him.
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Now, Karl, shoot him dead if he stirs!
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Cabin and bridge are directly above us, and there will remain not a splinter as large as a pin. I know ! I know my bombs !
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“Now, do you believe that I can shoot?” she said, smiling.
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Get away from that door, you blighter, or I’ll mash your beak in !
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The business I follow is a — a rotten game. We lay for Americans from the Embassy and from the Consulates. If necessary, we dope ’em and take their papers.
You have brought the Yellow Devil into Europe, M’sieu’ Nilan. Where he rests there is war.
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That worm! . . . Shall we, as you say in America, start something?
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