Moving Picture News (1911) . or rather, water, for thescene is laid over the briny fugitives soon repair to a semi-sub-merged, friendly house. There, fromthe chimney top, they hold the fort. Un-able to make any headway. DesperateDesmond conceives and executes a dia-bolical plan. He puts a bomb in a box,lights the fuse and sends it by the waterroute on its errand of destruction. Luck does not relish being cursed,and smiles upon the lovers. The, faucetis open and the sink running over. Thebox with its smoking burden tries tonavigate under the sink, but the fallingwater holds it ther
Moving Picture News (1911) . or rather, water, for thescene is laid over the briny fugitives soon repair to a semi-sub-merged, friendly house. There, fromthe chimney top, they hold the fort. Un-able to make any headway. DesperateDesmond conceives and executes a dia-bolical plan. He puts a bomb in a box,lights the fuse and sends it by the waterroute on its errand of destruction. Luck does not relish being cursed,and smiles upon the lovers. The, faucetis open and the sink running over. Thebox with its smoking burden tries tonavigate under the sink, but the fallingwater holds it there, and renders thebomb harmless. Claude captures thebomb, relights it, and, thus armed, turnsthe tables on his pursuers. With hisbeloved Rosamond, he leaves the enemystranded and boards the ship to freedomand happiness. Desperate Desmond, de-feated and crestfallen, swims back to theship, but the anchor is as far as he cango—curse the luck! When Writing Advertisers Please Men-tion Moving Picture News THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS. ALL RECORDSSMASHED TOSMITHEREENS At the present writing (Tuesday,October 31st) the offices of theLaemmle Film Service are doinga business far beyond all compar-ison with any previous record. Ihavent seen such a sudden land-slide toward Independence in anymonth for a year. About sixweeks ago there was a slight lullin the gaining of recruits but assoon as exhibitors began to notethe glorious improvement in thequality of Independent films, theybegan to come into the Independ-ent fold in droves and flocks. DIGEST THIS: Last week in my Chicago office Igave three diiTerent demonstra-tions of Independent films (allbrands) to three crowds of exhib-itors who were NOT using Inde-pendent films. They were simplythunderstruck! The} admittedopenly they had no idea the Inde-pendent manufacturers were turn-ing out any such features as Ishowed them. Not a man in thelot had a single word of criticismto utter. It was an absolute cinchto win some of these exhibitorsthen and t
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