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Full Title	Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 2, January 8, 1916.
Contributor	Thacher, Lloyd.
Date Added	22 December 2015
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1916-01-08
Publisher	Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	A movie detective; or, The press-agented gem / by Lloyd Thacher. Press-agented gem
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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OCR CHICAGO. lLL.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8. 1916. -: Or, it) e SINGLE coPIEs3cEN'r-s ‘ac.u.:a'ws-no‘ .' ‘ Qtive The Press-Agente%dl‘i Gem ‘fright 1916 by W. D. Boyce Co.] CHAI‘TEi't I, VEN under the ghast- ly light oi the mov- ing-picturo studio she was beautiful. Seated on a richly upholstered sofa. dressed in a gorge- ous cvening gown, she did not need the jewels on her hands and at her throat to bring the focus of all eyes upon her. And ilelcn Hayden's smile was calcu- lated to disarm the most Jealous of pro< lcsslonal rivals. That smile was now shining tor the henetit of the perplexed , V , director, who was trying to remain calm while he attempted to make several "ex- tra" men and women understand just what they should do in the scene of which a picture was about to be taken. “You see that wonderful gem at Miss Ilayden‘s throat," the director was say- ing to them. "Well. that gem is sup- posed to bo worth a tortune.i' The superintendent of the plant. standing luck of the camera with a friend, spoke in n whisper. "And it is worth a fortune, too,” he said. "And," continued the director, "you are all supposed to be interested in it." x b By ‘Lloyd Thacher . It was easy enough for the “supers" to act this part of the picture, for they, as well as all the rest 0! the world, had read and heard of the fabulous sum which the noted actress had paid (or the gleaming thing now glistening against the snowy white of her throat. "And you, Grant," the director went on, "are a broken-down society man who has come to the end or his rope. You intend to get that Jewel and sell it. Not one ot the rest of you people has any suspicions that Grant is any- thing but all right. But you've got to show your interest. in the Jewel. and yet i K see Grant so that you'll remember that he was there at this moment at the story. Now, see it you all can't forget everything except your interest in the thing which you're seeing for the tit-st time." The "set" was .1 handsomely-furnish. ed room in a mansion where a hall was supposedly being given by Miss Ila)’- den's mother. The fact that just be- yond the camera's vision the exterior of a prison cell was visible. ready to re< ccive the villain in another picture that was to be taken, was not supposed to street the’ participants in this scene. And it did not. They‘ were thinking, rather, most ot them, whether they would get thru with the ball scenes