The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players

ys spring from, I

ere he was sitting on a rock, fanning himself with his hat, while the dozens of knights, squires and bowmen were puffi

s at the same time. This chap here, Alec Sands, has a peculiar old aunt in the city who is anxious to buy just such a quiet retreat as this place, where she

ntly it mattered little to him that the air was quite chilly, for his duties kept h

art of the old ruin intact when we're through with this series of sta

re like this, sir, just to get a picture o

lic demands the best there is, and money must flow like water in order to keep

the courage to ask, his curiosity

to end. They'll see my company starting out in a string of motor cars for this place; watch them getting rigged out in their spic-and-span suits of mail, and old-time stuff; feast their eyes on just such wonderful feats as you have seen pulled off beside these massive walls; and step by step, be taken into our

s though on dress parade. If countless thousands of people were going to gaze upon his person throughout the

who also wore the khaki, and consequently any fellow who sported such a uniform was of some value in his eyes. Then again, in his hard labors, the comin

nversation while his people were resting, and maki

spoke, at which he took several puffs and then nervously threw it away again, "it represents only one

ventured Monkey Stallings, at which the red-faced

in Egypt to the pyramids, explored Spain and the heart of India, traveled across Japan, gone into China, camped in Central American jungles, wandered into the heart of Africa hunting big game, toured away up in Alaska as well as traveled all through the

ething very unusual to offer the fickle public in the way of adventure and novel effects. Why, the mere fact of this manager learning about the deserted castle in the lonesome valley, and fetching such an army of players al

was still grinding lustily away, seeking to get a good picture of the actors in one

llow a mere Stallings to crowd him out. When, presently, the grinding ceased, with the operator hurrying across to report his success to the bustling stage director, Billy grinned in conscious tr

a goodnatured, red-faced bank cashier, but Hugh realized that he must have an a

ly turned over from time to time. Doubtless this was his plan of campaign. Hugh would have given something for the privilege of examining the same, but la

director for instructions connected with motion pictures were taken. So Hugh pull

he was over there where the man in a business suit seemed to be bathing the limb of a super who had suffered more or less severe

limb. By his eager remarks he would also arouse considerable interest on the part of the company's physician, who probably always

e principle that give one an inch and he will want an ell--"I wonder now if he'd

laughed harshly

how silly it would look to see a bunch of Boy Scouts dressed in khaki clothes helping those old-ti

er Billy, loth to give up his ambitious plan to have a leading place in the exposit

nce, "but then you must remember that was intended to show the players resting up between acts,

for the opening of the next scene. This might possibly represent the triumphant entry of the assailants into the castle of the enemy, whic

that group should carry out their parts. Hugh wondered how many turns it would take before that exacting manager felt like calling it a satisfa

operator with his instrument, as well as the scouts gathered near by. Billy, too, had made the same discovery, for he was smiling

g to show for their labors. Even if that eccentric relative of Alec's lost the chance to obtain a quiet retreat "far from the madding cro

rry out the battle scene true to the original, as they understood it. Why, even the rude bridge that had been thrown across the moat had been fashioned be

cts of the army of supers nearly drove him distracted. By degrees he managed to whip his force

up the ladders? I bet you now we'd show them how to break through, no matter what the men on the walls tried to put on us. But shucks! that'd be too big luck; and besides, it could hardly be fair for us boys