Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section " Say, just in case you still want a report on that missing film. I've got it." '■ Vou mean you've accounted for, or located all of it?" " Ves." "I would like to see it." "Sure. Any time you come out. It I am not here, it is at the 'lab.' They will show you." "Thanks." A CALL came from Professor Middleton. Smith listened to it and then said : "Rather not discuss it on the phone. I've got an errand that will take me a couple of hours. Will you be in your office then? Fine. I'll be over." From his office he went to the office of a concern that had an agency for the distribution of .American camera film. " What can I do for you, Captain? " It was the head of the concern himself. Smith smiled. "You can forget this little matter immediately it is finished." "I have found it wise to have a convenient memory . . . that has lapses, you know!" " Now we understand each other. You keep a record of all your sales and the time limit of the usability of film issued?" "Yes." "Good. Did you sell any film within the last few months to this party?" The man took the notation. "I'll call my stenographer . . ." "Don't do that! I'd hate to see a good girl go wrong for the sake of a little bunch of money . . . and, I've a notion she could sell her information that I asked for this data at quite a bit!" "I understand. I'll attend to it myself." He was gone a little whUc'and came back to tell Smith they had no record of any such transaction. "You understand. Captain," he added, "we are not the only place where such film could be purchased. Just a moment and I'll give you the addresses of other possible sources." In a moment he was back with a memorandum containing these firms' addresses. "By the way," he said, "if you don't find what you want at any of those places, I suggest you try the foreign agencies." "That's a good idea. Thanks." It was at this last address he found what he sought. ■\yriDDLETON was plainly gratified. He ■^"•'•sat gloating over the prints. "My first American case," he said. Smith sat down. "That means palm prints! In other words my murderer was a comparatively calm and collected person, who deliberately attempted to conceal his finger-prints!" "It does." "That means, also, that all of those divergent clues have no direct bearing on the murder!" "Apparently." "It is not probable that West would protect himself with gloves, and then make those footprints afterwards. There is this, however, he might have had on gloves, which he did not think to remove! But what would he be doing inside the camera?" "Of course, you understand, I have no palm prints of the cameraman . . . Serge, you called him, or of the assistant camerman. This print might belong to either of them." "That's a fact. I'll remedy that my next trip!" "In the meantime . . ." "Keep this under your hat. I'm going to try out a 'hunch' of mine, and if it leaks it's no good!" From Professor Middleton's, Smith went out to the studio, and walked into an argument between Izzie and Abie. "I tell you, Abie, it ain't no use! You should to take a look vonce! Five hundred off t 'em , and t'ey just stand and look like noddings ! 119 H S TH E .>TAR.S OF OLLYWOOD NOW WEAR NEW HOSIERY which they have found enhances Shapeliness of ankle and leg to a marked degree "Hetty Compson^s • J_ First Nalional Star favorite /s this Allen-A chiffon, with Picot Top and Panel Heel $1.95 the pair SCREEN Stars have now found what they consider the perfect hosiery. It seems to make the ankle slenderer. The leg more graceful . The usual harsh line of the knee softer. Virtually every star of note insists upon this new-type hosiery in her wardrobe. Very likely, it is the exact kind you have long wanted. 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