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OUT on the lot where plays are made In picture form with light and shade, The golden gateway to our nation Sends forth a royal invitation To those whose steps would be waylaid To where the photoplay parade Furls forth its banners, decked with braid. The coast — the land of cinemation — Out on the lot!
"And how mnch is this actor paid?" "In what productions has she played?" "I hear he's good at aviation!" "How old is Ann?" .... with agitation They gossip movies, young yet graved, Out on the lot!
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The brilliant authors of this page
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By HoAvard Dietz
Confess that they are movie fans.
If now and then they seem to rage
And curse a lot
In verse (a lot) Attribute this bad taste to badness. Don't look for method in their madness.
Ignore satiric
Bits of lyric Provided that the metre scans.
We go to pictures now and then To get the wherewith for our pen We listen with attentive ear
It is remarkable, not that tlie percentage of movie-goers in this when you consider that, after all. the very worst thing country" picture and have to watch "Natures unspoiled
For instance — only yesterday,
While we were in some hippodrome, We heard a witty female say:
"This picture's rotten — let's go home." (We've got to print remarks like these Or else our stuff will never please.)
Another time we heard a voice
Exclaim: "O, look at Alice Joyce!"
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To what the people say around usThe things that oftentimes we hear Combine to puzzle and astound us
(We ask you, can a bard resist
To put such comments in his list?) And so it goes (as "it" will go) We've laid before you detailed plans
Of all the wares we seek to show.
Peruse them carefully and know
That though we criticize severely We love the photodrama dearly —
And, as we've said — we're movie fans.
■And when we sit us down to write
We say "What have we heard tonight." And so we put a little joke in Which some one at our left has spoken
Who knows — perhaps your bright remark
Delivered in theatric dark
Right on these pages may appear?
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