Aunt Jane's Nieces out West

quaintance, Mr. Otis Werner, in the office of the hotel and dragged t

the door of their apartment and escorted his companion in. "

r usually placid features, while Patsy was giggling hysterically. Mr. Wer

ncle John. "Is-is

trol a fresh convulsion of laughter. "Only-this is the same

a manager; I'm merely what is called in our p

" asserted Patsy. "So what hav

to frighten you in that way, but my excuse lies in our subservience to the demands of our ar

was Beth who asked this and there

est character," he replied warmly

but the subjects of your pictures, I have observed, are far from artistic. Such

one of my greatest triumphs-and I've been making pictures for years. Aside from its realism, its emotional natu

very attentive. As Uncle John asked his visitor to be seate

he picture," said Patsy Doyle. "W

ve to live purer and nobler lives. All of our plots are conceived with far more thought than you may suppose. Underlying many of our romances and tragedies are moral injunctions which are involuntarily absorbed by the observers, yet of so

more graciously. "Personally, I care little for your pictures; but I can understand how t

fferent to the charm of motion pictures

t to see them from pure curiosity. But, afterward, the subjects presented in the pictures bored me. The

n interest. The only financial failures among the host of motion picture theatres, so far as I have observed, are those that have attempted to run travel

pleaded Patsy. "What lesson can t

ist on proper materials and mechanical efficiency in the erection of all classes of buildings. These inspectors, however, cannot tear the old buildings down to see if they are safe, and paint and plaster cover a multitude of sins of unscrupulous builders. Usually the landlord or owner knows well the condition of his property and in many cases refuses to put it into such shap

hell. Next day the foreman shows him that the crack has spread and extended along the wall in an alarming manner but still the owner will not act. The workmen counsel together seriously. They dare not desert their jobs, for they must have money to live. They send a petition to the owner, who becomes angry and swears he won't be driven to a useless expense by his own employees. In the next scene the manufacturer's daughter

ladies came walking up the street and were dragged out of danger by the foreman of the shop-in other words, by myself. The owner's daughter, bewildered by the confusio

ful!" excl

has been working and accumulating only for this beloved child-the child whose life he has sacrificed by his miserly refusal to protect his workmen. His grief is so intense that

cital had strongly impre

was visib

ies or other buildings that might prove unsafe. It would make my life miserable if

tsy, "that your story is unne

f human nature I have aimed at. Those indifferent rich men are very hard to move an

idering this novel aspect of the

en and where we shall be

released n

oes tha

theatres. When a picture is ready, we send copies to all our agencies and set a day when they may release it, or give it to their c

hat very

o-night be shipped, all complete and ready

theatre in Hollywood o

at the Globe Theatre in

Hollywood, for t

nly see it," ann

me time on the subject of motion pictures, and

industry of making pictures is so extensi

"It must be a great expense jus

ing over some of the pictures I've seen recently and I can't imagine a moral, however intangible or illusive, in connection with