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74 Yes, Mr. DeMille fleeting darkly on an act of Congress that removed the tariff on gloves, virtually killing his business. Flickers, said Friend, were developing some real muscle. His companions looked up wearily. Moving pictures were a fad, and who wanted to waste time on a fad? "Fad!" cried Friend, "Look at that Italian picture, Ciberia. The Astor is charging $1 a head and they're turning 'em away." The air around the table began to improve. Friend pressed on, Was it not true that Adolph Zukor bought Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt, and organized his own company, Famous Players, to produce movies of important stage plays? "And see what he's done with The Prisoner of Zenda" Bern- hardt, Hackett, Frohman-magic names on the Rialto! The four left the hotel and entered a nickelodeon down the street. Twenty minutes later they came out. Friend wore a complacent smile; he observed his friends in a close circle, silent, nostrils dilating as if they sensed a boom. "All those people jammed in there," Lasky murmured. "If they'll buy something like that..." The others nodded. "If we can't do better we ought to go back to selling gloves," said DeMille, giving Goldfish a friendly pat. The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company came into exist- ence on paper. They would capitalize at $20,000 if that sum could be dredged up. Cecil went to his brother Bill. He asked for $5,000, one- fourth interest in the firm! Bill fixed on his brother a look of mortal disappointment. "Think of the family pride," said Bill, pointing out that the DeMille roots were deep in the legitimate theater and "you're going to use it in some scheme to drag nickels from little children." Not only was ancestral honor in jeopardy, but young Cecil was asking for money from a DeMille to hasten its destruction! "I've bailed you out of every one of your other schemes,'