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WHO PAYS THE BILLS FOR

IMPERIAL FILM???

After lunch they got down to business, with Bell acting his part as a Dagget, Staples & Hitchcock insurance executive anxious to invest in theTarses, he opened with Marion’s fierce defense “Without pictures that talk, the screen shrinks draedy, comedy, and farce to pantomime”

“But the screen is de the rich edies, comedies, and farces in pantomime that men on the street can afford”

“Clyde has invented a way to do it ords and music instead of pantomime,” said Isaac Bell

Irina nodded “I heard that your insurance fir Pictures ued when Mr Griffith telephoned”

“Where did you hear that?”

“Fro it to in New Jersey”

“Then you heard thatsuperior pictures with the saraphy and finish as the French”

Irina Viorets reached across the table and placed a pretty hand on Bell’s arm “I promise you, Mr Bell, Imperial will out-French the French — let me show you,” she said, and took hi that left Bell with no doubt that Irina Viorets was in co concern

She showed him the laboratories and machine, repair, and carpentry shops that Griffith had raved about He saw printing and perforating instruments in the darkrooms, properties and wardrobe rooms of costumes for hundreds of soldiers, police, and cowboys, and rows of flats in the scenic department painted black and white On the fourth floor was a soundproof recording room, like Edison’s, the walls padded, the floor corked tile, with an array of acoustic horns to capture sound

She took hi, atoward the sun could be made to look like New York, or London, or medieval Paris

Next to the building was a life net Ordinarily held by fire house, this one was per at the building’s parapet a hundred feet off the ground “Just outside of cae”

Bell quoted Clyde Lynds: “Providing thrills dear to the heart of the exhibitor”