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Updated: June 24, 2025
So here she was, inviting the party to share her box at the theatre; and here was T-S explaining that it couldn't be done, he had got to see his French revolution pictures took, dey had five tousand men hired to make a mob. I noted that Mrs. Stebbins received the "advertising" figures on the production!
Carpenter was just scolding me for that," said Mary. "I've an idea if you pay him a salary, he'll feed it to the poor." "If I pay it," said T-S, "it's his, and he can feed it to de dicky-birds if he vants to. Vot you say, Mr. Carpenter?"
"Tell me about it," said Carpenter; and I was grateful for his tone of interest. "Well, I don't know how much you know about picture making " "You had better explain everything." "Well, Mr. T-S has built a large set, representing a street scene in Paris over a century ago. He has hired a thousand men " "Two tousand!" broke in T-S. "In the advertisements?" I suggested, with a smile.
T-S. You don't want a contract with me." "I don't?" "If I were to sign it, it would not be a week before you would be sorry, and would be asking me to release you." "Vy is dat, Mr. Carpenter?" "Because I am going to do things which will make me quite useless to you in a business way." "Dat can't be true, Mr. Carpenter!" "It is true, and you will realize it soon.
The upshot of it was that the great lady consented to forget her box at the theatre, and run out to the studios to see the mob scenes for the "The Tale of Two Cities." T-S hadn't quite finished his dinner, but he waved his hand and said it was nuttin', he vouldn't keep Mrs. Stebbins vaitin'. He beckoned the waiter, and signed his magic name on the check, with a five-dollar bill on top for a tip.
At the end of a minute, he returned, saying, "I unloaded them and threw them out of the back window." And even as he spoke, the silence of the night outside was shattered by the scream of that siren, which served to warn people out of the way when T-S was moving his companies about "on location." I went up to Carpenter.
"Then women are permitted to have hearts?" "Shoost so, Mr. Carpenter! Ha, ha, ha! Ve business fellers my Gawd, if you knew vot business is, you'd vunder we got hearts enough to keep our blood movin'." "Business," said Carpenter, still pondering. "Then it's business " "Yes, business " put in T-S. "Dat's it!" And he lowered his voice, and looked round once more.
"Cut out dis friend stuff!" cried T-S, irritably. "He may be yours he ain't mine!" I strolled up. "Hello, T-S!" I said. "Oh, Billy! Hello!" "So you've denied him three times!" "Vot you mean?" "Three times and the cock hasn't crowed yet! That man's a prophet for sure, T-S!" The magnate pretended not to understand, but the deep flush on his features gave him away. "How dy'do, Mr. Westerly," I said.
It was a meal which would have been spurned by any of the "studio bums" of T-S's mob-scenes; but now T-S was going to be a good sport, and sit on a splintery plank and eat it! Nor was that all. As we pushed our way into the place, Carpenter turned to the magnate, and without a trace of embarrassment, said: "You understand, Mr. T-S, I have no money. But we must pay " "Oh, sure!" said T-S, quickly.
The far-off, wondering look came again to his face. "The world is organized!" he said, to himself. "There is a mob of masters! What can I do to save the people?" T-S was unchanged in his cheerful good-nature. "You give dem a tousand dollars and you help a lot. Nobody can do it all." But Carpenter was not satisfied; he shook his head, sadly.
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