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“I pretended to be an exhibitor with a string of picture show shops in Indiana”

“That was a nice touch,” Bell said adly

“Not really,” Rubenoff replied with a modest smile “I control houses in Detroit, Toledo, Battle Creek, and Indianapolis”

“So you think she passes muster?”

“There are poseurs in this line who like to say that anyone canpicture That is not true, as Mr Thoreat expense Similarly, not just anyone can distribute movies Mademoiselle Viorets knows her business Most important, she knows the future of the business”

“You didn’t fall for her, Uncle Andy, did you?”

“It is ina beautiful wo her”

“How did Irina learn so much about the future of the business?”

“Apparently she made one-reelers in Russia Much as your bride does when she is not shooting her Picture World newsreels for the ghastly Whiteway”

“But how did a Russianpicture director learn about distribution and exhibition?”

Rubenoff s Isaac Always to the core” Then he turned very serious, and Isaac Bell was re as an irant and appeared to be on the road to another “It seems to me that Irina Viorets learned about distribution and exhibition by listening carefully to someone who has manipulated a modern corporation to control the entire chain of production andfrom top to bottom”

“Like who?”

“Andrew Carnegie pretty ration”

“Assu lady did not sit on the old philanthropist’s knee, who else? Any Germans?”

“Germans? Krupp has pretty ration”