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Merton of the Movies

CHAPTER XI
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How will you use him?
He could never do Buckeye stuff." "Sure not.

But ain't I told you?
In this new piece Jack is stage struck and gets a job as valet to a ham that's just about Parmalee's type, and we show Parmalee acting in the screen, but all straight stuff, you understand.

Unless he's a wise guy he'll go all through the piece and never get on that it's funny.

See, his part's dead straight and serious in a regular drama, and the less he thinks he's funny the bigger scream he'll be.

He's got to be Harold Parmalee acting right out, all over the set, as serious as the lumbago--get what I mean ?" "I got you," said the girl, "and you'll get him to-morrow morning.


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