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Full Title	Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 2, Saturday, January 8, 1916.
Contributor	Thacher, Lloyd.
Date Added	25 June 2019
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 m ,,,,,tg.g,g,-.. . 3%..’ , w-gt"- . 1,250,000 copiics EACHQWEEK CHICAGO. ILL., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1916. [Copyright 1916 by W. D. Enyre Co.) CHAPTER I. VEN under the ghast- (‘I945 ingvpicture she was beautiful. Seated on a richly upholstered sofa, dressed in a gorge- ous evening gown, she did not need the jewels on her hands and at her throat to bring the focus of all eyes upon her. And Helen Hayden's smile was calcu- lated to disarm the most jealous of pro< tessional rivals. That smile was now shining for the benefit of the perplexed L The Press; ' Or, AgTente& Gem By Lloyd Thacher 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 Hayden's throat," the director was say- ing to them. “Well, that gem is sup- posed to be worth a fortune." The superintendent oi’ the plant, standing back oi the camera with a friend. spoke in a whisper. "And it is worth a fortune, too," he said. “And," continued the director, “you are all supposed to be interested in it." It was easy enough for the “supers" to act this part of the picture. for they. as well as all the rest ot the world, had read and heard oi! the fabulous sum which the noted actress had paid for 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 of his rope. You intend to get that jewel and sell it. Not one of the rest of you people has any suspicions that Grant is any- thing hut all right. But you've got to show your interest in the Jewel, and yet SINGLE COPIES 5 CENT-S. see Grant so that you'll remember that he was there at this moment of the story. Now, see it you all can't forget everything except your interest in the thing which you're seeing for the first me,” The “set" was a handsomely-furnish ed room in a mansion where a ball was supposedly being given by Miss Hay- den's mother‘. .The fact that Just be- yond the camera's vision the exterior of a prison cell was visible, ready to re ceive the villain in another picture that was to be taken, was not supposed to affect the participants in this scene. And it did not. They" were thinking, rather, most of them, whether they would get ihru with the ball scenes 3"“ ;‘-::-..-.2.-4:, ‘.:",':‘=.:P:n1vv-P:Eut!b":‘A M