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I'd tell him that for every dollar he put in he'd take out ten, in addition to furthering the artistic glory of the most beautiful genius on the dramatic horizon. I'd show him how he couldn't lose." "But you just said " "Oh, I know, but we can't put on the screen everything we say in the projection-room. And it is a fact that there is big money in the movies."

But if you use him for your future well, I have a little scheme that might bounce you up to the sky in a hurry. You could have your millionaire and your fame as well." "What's the little scheme, Ferri darling?" "I'll tell you later. We've got to go to the projection-room and see your new film run off. It's assembled, cut, subtitled, ready for the market. Come along."

She took great pains not to let any of it stain her skin. She showed him a comic scene with a skeletonic man on a comic bicycle. Dyckman roared when the other comedian lubricated the cyclist's joints with an oil-can. Kedzie showed him the projection-room and told the operator to run off a bit of a scene in which she was revealed to no disadvantage.

She would have been excited enough if she had known that the pictures in which she played a small part were being run off in the projection-room at the studio for Mr. Ferriday's benefit. Everybody was afraid of him. The heads of the firm were hoping that he would approve the reels and not order them thrown out. They were convinced that they would have to break with him before he broke them. Mr.

There was the thrill of sitting in the projection-room and watching herself scamper across the scene, or flirt or weep, look pretty or gorgeous, sad or gay. One's own portrait is always a terribly fascinating thing, for it is always the inaccurate portrait of a stranger curiously akin to one and curiously alien. But to see one's portrait move and breathe and feel is magic unbelievable.

That kind of fake stuff won't make 'Saint Elba' the greatest picture ever released, and every picture turned out from these studios has got to be just that. I wish you could have heard, Rosie, in the projection-room, quiet like a pin after I came out with it." "Fifty thousand dollars, Roody?" "Yes. 'Fifty thousand dollars, begins Sol with me, too.

Pelz took me down to the projection-room to see its first showing, and I give you my word I said to him and Sol didn't I, Roody? 'That picture is a fortune. And never in my life did I fail to pick a winner did I, Roody? I got a knack for it. Mr. Feist, have you seen 'The Lure of Silk'?" "Sorry to say I have not." "If you think that is a riot, Mrs.