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-BILL ROLLING'S
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Photograph by C. Heighton Monroe.
C[ The queen of "The Queen of Diamonds" — Evelyn Brent with a million' dollar profile.
COUPLE of weeks ago my flivver, which I'm becoming convinced is the one Henry used for his early experimental work, went into a state of coma in a little town out on Long Island — too far out to make walking home alluring. So I pushed the remains up to the local tinsmith's and, since I only see five or six movies a week on the average, I dropped into the town's only cinema palace for diversion. The audience sat through the news reel, the "comedy" and the feature in that thick, showme silence which seems to be part of the furnishings of small town theatres. The piano clanged, the projector rattled and clicked; but when the film was finished, a stir of expectancy ran through the house. People eased themselves in their seats and whispered, and there were even a few preliminary hand'daps.
I didn't know what it was all about, nor was I enlightened when the first few feet of an old serial flashed on the dilapidated screen. After the first reel, I would n't have missed the rest of it for a farm — not that the serial was very good, but because of the reac tions of the cash customers. They stamped their feet, shouted, whistled and applauded. It was apparent that they were having the time of their
lives. When the , . ,
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two reels had been pulses leap with the fear that some scena
run, they filed out, rio writer may forget the code.
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C[ Serials put a punch in movie-going, as George O'Hara and Harry T. Morey demonstrate.
smiling and talk' ing, satisfied with the world and ready to take up the grind of daily life for another week.
I hadn't thought much about serials before that, but, driving back home in my rejuvenated oilcan, I decided I'd have to look into this species of the film family. So I called up a couple of the most industrious canners of this type of entertainment, and now I'm so filled up with villainy that I go around muttering, "S'death, he must be stopped at any cost!" whenever I chase a trolley-car.
The first opus I caught was "The Scarlet Strea\". This is a new Universal chapter play — ■ which is a high-toned disguise for serial — but that's as far as the disguise goes, for the picture itself is like most of its brethren that have gone before. It has for a plot the efforts of a gang of crooks to steal the plans for a marvelous invention, a "death ray" which is so powerful that the inventor hopes to see it bring about universal peace. Of course the inventor has a daughter, and equally of course she falls in love with the stalwart young news
Guard" is quic\ on ampion of virtue.
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