Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1925)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 117 "That's because I love you and shall — always. And don't forget you promised me that answer as soon as this production of ours was shown." "I know I did. Sunday night. Or shall we say Monday?" "I don't care which, so long as you say 'yes,' " he laughed. "Don't let's talk about it any more, now. Only I couldn't help seeing, tonight, how desperately fond of you Tony Hull is, and if it isn't to be me — why — I hope it's him. That may not be good English, but it expresses what I feel." Jane made no reply to that. She sat in silence as they drove through the lovely Westchester country, dark and dripping now with the tears of a wet October day. Dear old Ben, how fine he had been all through, risking everything without a murmur for the sake of Tony's success, and hers. Well, he would not lose, on that account; she felt sure, from what she had seen in the projection room, that the picture was going to be a huge success. CHAPTER XXXVI N the morning of Saturday, October sixth, O 'Tony Hull came into the office Hardy had taken on Forty-second Street, accompanied by a man carrying a large satchel. "Here she is," he laughed, as his companion placed the bag on a chair. "All ready to show. That's all, Pritchard. Wait for me in the car. Well, Ben — what's the news? " He spoke with a tense quickness which indicated utterly wornout nerves. Hardy glanced up with a frown. "I guess there's been a leak somewhere, Tony," he said. "Aleak? What do you mean? " "Why — Davidson's showing tomorrow night, too." "No!" Tony staggered, clutched the edge of the desk. "It's in all the papers. Haven't you seen them?" "No. Too busy this morning." Tony clutched the sheet that Ben held out to him. A news item said that the Davidson Company's new million dollar production, "Elaine," was to be given its initial showing at the Plaza on Sunday night, October seventh. In the same column appeared a notice of the opening of Tony Hull's production of the same name. "Doesn't that look as though somebody had given away our plans? " Ben asked. "I don't think so. If Davidson had supposed that we were opening Sunday, he'd have set his showing for Saturday, in order to be first in the field. What he believes is that he has stolen a march on us — that he's a full week ahead. Or did, last night, when these notices went out to the papers. By this time, I guess, he's throwing seventeen different kinds of fits." "You don't seem particularly worried." "I'm not. Rather pleased, in fact. Two rival productions with the same story, opening the same night! Talk about your publicity! And of course it invites comparison at once. We'll welcome that. I don't know what sort of a scenario Sammy Glotzmann fixed up for Lew, but I'm ready to back mine against it. any time. And Jane Dare against Irene Shirley. They're not in the same class. No matter how much money Davidson has spent on his production, it won't look any more costly than ours. Knowing Hallett, who directed it, as I do, I expect a lot of theatrical effects, but not much story. Neither he nor Glotzmann is suited to handle a subject of this sort. They'll miss all the beauty, the poetry in it and waste their time on spectacular scenery and clap-trap. The public's been fed up on that sort of thing. We've made our characters real human beings, living a passionate romance, not just lay figures moving through a pageant. No — I'm not a bit sorry we're opening the same night — so long as he isn't ahead of us. Although I'll admit it's going to be a bit hard on the critics." He sank into a chair, exhausted by the effort of speaking. "Look here, old man," Ben said anxiously. "What's wrong? You seem all in." 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