Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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162 Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section SMITH £3 TYPEWRITER SENSATION! Free Trial — Use as You Pay Send Me Only $2.00 a Month Until the Low Total Price of $34.15 is Paid, and the Machine is Yours. This is absolutely the most generous typewriter offer ever made. Do not rent a machine when you can pay $2.00 a month and own one* Think of it — Buying a $100.00 Typewriter for $34.15. Cash price, $32.30. Never before has anything like this been attempted. Standard Visible Perfect machines, Standard Size, Keyboard of Standard Universal arrangement, 42 keys writing 84 characters— universally used in teaching the touch system. _ The entire line of writing completely visible at all times, has the Decimal tabulator, the two-color ribbon, with automatic reverse, the back spacer, ball bearing carriage action, in fact every late style feature and modern operating convenience. Comes to you with everything complete, tools, cover, operating book and instructions, ribbon, practice paper— nothing extra to buy. You cannot imagine the perfection of this beautiful typewriter until you have seen It* I have a thousand of these perfect late style Model No. 4 typewriters at this bargain price, and each purchaser fortunate enough to secure one of these beautiful machines must try It out in home or office before deciding to buy. I will send it to youF. O. B. Chicago for five days' free trial. It will sell itself, but if you are not satisfied that this is the greatest typewriter bargain you ever saw, you can return it at my expense. You won't want to return it after you try it— you cannot equal this wonderful value anywhere. You Take No RiskPut In Your Order Now When the typewriter arrives deposit with the express agent $6.15 and take the machine for five days' trial. If you are convinced that it is the best typewriter you ever saw keep it and send me $2.00 a month until my bargain priceof $34.15 is paid. If you don't want it, return it to the express agent, receive your $6.15 and return the machine to me. I will pay the return express charges. This machine is guaranteed just as if you paid $100.00 for it. It is standard. Thousands and thousands of people own and use these typewriters and think them the best ever manufactured. The supply at this price is very limited, the price will probably be raised when my next advertisement appears, so don't delay. Fill in the coupon today— mall to me the typewriter will be shipped promptly. There is no red tape. I employ no solicitorsno collectors— no chattel mortgage. It is simply understood that I retain title to the machine until the full $34.15 is paid. You cannot lose. It is the greatest typewriteropportunity you will ever have. Do not send me one cent. Get this coupon In the mails today— sure. HARRY A. SMITH, S51-231 N. Fifth Ave., Chicago • •••••■•••••••••■I Tear Out— Mall Today.................. H. A. SMITH, Room 851-231 N. Fifth Ave., Chicago. III. Ship me your Model No. 4 typewriter F. O. B. Chicago, as described in this advertisement. I will pay you the $28.00 balance of the SPECIAL $34.15 purchase price, at the rate of 52.00 per month. The title to remain in you until fully paid for. It is understood that I have five days in which to examine and try the typewriter. If I choose not tc keep it I will carefully repack it and return it to the express agent. It is understood that you give the standard guarantee. Name Eleven Girls Waiting for the Train ! {Continued from page 42) granted my pictures and letter, and I mean to do my best to justify the decision. Evelyn Jones, Washington. D. C. — I was not finally chosen, nevertheless I rejoice at the good fortune of my competitors. Kathryn Louise Reynolds. Montgomery, Ala. — But we cannot all win, can we? Phyllis E. Curl. Boston, Mass. — I never was quite so happy as when your letter! reached me last evening. It is altogether! splendid, and I cannot yet quite realize that I have this wonderful opportunity before me. Mildred A. Lee. Kansas City. Mo. — I am the happiest girl in the world. I thank the judges for the decision rendered] in my favor. I trust they will not be dis-1 appointed in their selection, for I will do everything in my power to prove efficient. Ruth M. Bradley. Caldwell. Idaho.— Accept my hearty (though humble) con-j gratulations upon the successful way the \ contest ended. I admire all of the winners. Meredith Fuller. Chicago. Illinois. — I do hope the girls who got such a splendid place in the film world by winning in this contest will have success. Margery Castagmino. Memphis, Tenn. — j I am sorry I didn't win. as I had set my heart on picture work, but I heartily wish success to the winners. Marie Haynes. Chicago. 111. — I experienced the most bitter disappointment of my life when I learned I was not one of] the winning eleven in "Beauty and Brains" Contest. But I am only the more determined to prove that my success is to be made in the silent drama. Eleanor Calvert. Kansas City, Mo. — I am not to be daunted by failure through the recent Contest, as I have taken up photoplaying in a small local concern and am more enthusiastic every day. "To the stars through difficultv." Even' advertisement In THOTOPLAr MAGAZINE Is guaranteed.