Photo-Play Journal (December 1917)

PHOTO-PLAY JOURNAL FOR DECEMBER. 1917. PAGE 53 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim “Merry Christmas” (Continued from page 12) miiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiia From Mary Miles Minter Let the blithesome spirit of the kiddies be contagious—let grown-up kiddies be blithesome too. Thus must it be a Merry Christmas in spite of all. From Beatriz MichelEna From ’way out here on the edge of the world, at Boulder Creek, I send my message of Christ- mas wishes to all my friends who have helped me with their faith and loyalty. May your Yuletide be the happiest you have ever spent, and may little 1918 bring you many wonderful gifts, is my sincere wish. From Florence McLaughlin Merry Christmas—and may next Christmas bring us to a cessation of hostilities, and a realization of the deeper, inner significance of the words “Brotherhood, and the equality of man.” From Francis X. Bushman To all the friends who have been so loyal and faithful, through the eventful old year of 1917, I send my heartiest wishes for a Merry Christ- mas. And to those of my enemies, wherever they may be, who have said, or thought ill of me, I can only say, in all sincerity—Merry Christmas. Illllllllllllllllillllllllllll Antonio Moreno (Continued from page 39) illNlllllllllllllllllllllllllll]llllllllllllllllllllllll[llllllllllll]llllllllllllll[llllllllllllllllllllllll[lll[lllllllllll||l]!ll|||l|||||ll!l|ll|[|![[|lli| Land on your feet, like a cat does. If somebody else has the job you want, take the job you can get until the other one comes your way. “Life is the big director after all. The things that happened last year, or this year, as only ‘scenes’ in the big produc- tion that all of us are working on all the time, whether there is a camera shooting at us or not. Each of us is playing a moving picture of life, our own life. The thing is not to worry over tomorrow. Get busy on today. We are too close to the scene anyway to see the final results. “Hard luck? We all have it. But it fades away when it sees a man with his sleeves rolled up ready to fight it out. “How did I happen to go into pictures? By way of the theatre. I’ve tried my ’prentice hand at almost everything. Somehow the theatre seemed my niche when I came to it. After that, since the stage is but a training school for the screen these days, I had the offer to do a picture. And then another—and another. “Letters began to pour into the com- pany with which I worked, begging that I be cast always as the lover in their stories. So now they have accepted me as a most sentimental young man. I get hundreds of letters a week asking me whom I am in love with.” “The answer,” the Interviewer inter- polated, “is what?” “As Mr. Dooley says, ‘I’m in love with my day’s work,’ ” Antonio Moreno re- plied. “I agree with this Irish philosopher that the ‘Day’s work’ is what robs many a charming Juliet of her he-e-ro!” I! Ill OUTWITTED (Continued from page 28) iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii why he was duped, and to his consterna- tion he was confronted by Nan, the un- veiled. “Was—was it you that brought me to this?” he demanded in great surprise and chagrin. “Yes, you’re outwitted—I have paid you back for what you did to me,” she re- plied triumphantly. “The only way I could hurt you was through your pocket- book, and I have succeeded.” Lawson was a completely defeated man for the nonce. Meanwhile young Bond had drunk him- self to the verge of delirium tremens. In his crazed brain was a terrible hatred for Lawson, whom he blamed for all his troubles. Inevitably the impulse to kill gained the upper hand of the young un- fortunate, and he went to Lawson’s house armed with a heavily loaded revolver bent on getting revenge at any hazard. He had previously written his father a letter, in which he announced his intention of doing murder. The elder Bond promptly rushed to the Lawson house to prevent the impending tragedy. Just as young Bond confronted Lawson in his own library, his father rushed into the room. “You are about to kill your own father,” the latter exclaimed as he en- tered, his hand raised in warning. “What!” exclaimed the other two. “Lawson is your right father, son,” the man repeated with firm emphasis. Then he explained that Lawson’s jealousy and cruelty had driven his wife from his house and that in desperation she had communi- cated to his care the son born several months after her enforced abandonment of her husband. “The only kiss you ever gave that wife was on her dead lips,” he concluded, fac- ing Lawson and shaking his finger at him accusingly. Lawson was quite unprepared for this exposure and he sank into a chair speech- less. The strain was also too much for young Bond, whose shattered nerves broke and he had to be carried to a room in a delirious condition. His one cry was for Nan, and Lawson, now repentant at last, went out and found the girl, doing his utmost to make amends. When Nan arrived at the young man’s bedside, he cried gladly. “We are saved, we are saved,” he mur- mured joyously. 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