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Updated: June 21, 2025
Now I am perfectly willing to travel as fast as any one, if necessity demands it, but to tear through a region as beautiful as Venetia at sixty miles an hour, with the incomparable landscape whirling past in a confused blur, like a motion-picture film which is being run too fast because the operator is in a hurry to get home, seems to me as unintelligent as it is unnecessary.
The supposititious comments of the two placed upon the motion-picture industry the black guilt of having degraded a sterling artist to the level of a peep-show mountebank.
Morton, that I admire your daughter's generosity very much. Good morning." He and Grace bade their hosts good-by and took their leave. "She's a lovely girl," Grace remarked, as they drove to their hotel. "I like her immensely." "Then you aren't jealous of me any more, because I so suddenly became a motion-picture 'fan'?" "Richard!" she laughed. "Don't be silly.
The horses, fancying perhaps that this was a motion-picture scene, dozed behind their rock-and-brush shelters and switched apathetically at buzzing flies and whining bullets alike. Their masters crouched behind their bowlders and watched catlike for some open demonstration, and fired when they had the slightest reason to believe that they would hit something besides scenery.
"Doubtless if we could so control our sight as to admit the vibrations of light slowly enough we would see this apparently smooth motion as a series of leaps just as we do when the motion-picture operator slows down his machine sufficiently to show us walking in a series of stumbles.
The major-general commandant and a group of officers from headquarters took up posts on the turf of the parkway beside the curb. A sergeant of marines, in khaki, came running across the parade-ground, set up a motion-picture camera, and began to crank. Another sergeant was snapping "stills" as the column came to a halt and faced about toward the group of officers.
To see Lenore Honiwell throw back her head, close her eyes, and heave one of those terrific motion-picture sighs always made the camera man snort; yet Luck, who before had considered her scarcely worth a civil bow when he met her, had actually coaxed her away from a director who really admired her style of acting.
Working for ten dollars a week, she began to compare her state with that of a girl of her own age earning a hundred times as much, and gradually the idea began to possess her that she could become a motion-picture star herself. "At first she admired Miss Morton immensely and never missed an opportunity to see the pictures in which she appeared.
It is a roomy bungalow designed for the convenience of visitors from Arkansas and Oklahoma, and exhibits some of their products. It suggests the Alamo, and bears the Lone Star pierced through its raised cornice. Within is a patio, reached by broad entrances from the verandas at front and rear. A motion-picture hall, a ballroom, offices and rest rooms occupy the greater part of the building.
As everyone knows, the motion-picture drama has been a tawdry thing for the most part either a rehash of old stage plays, novels, and short stories, or else mediocre "originalities" that epitomized banality. Young Mr. Fairbanks dissented from the established custom from the very start. "It's all wrong," he declared. "We've got to stand on our own feet. Develop your own dramatists!"
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