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Merton of the Movies

CHAPTER XII
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"Say, Howard, it's a wonderful business, isn't it?
We start with poor old Robinson Crusoe and his goats and parrot and man Friday, and after dropping Friday's sister who would really be the Countess of Kleig, we wind up with a steam-yacht and a comic butler and call it Island Love.

Who said the art of the motion picture is in its infancy?
In this case it'll be plumb senile.

Well, go ahead with the boys and dope out your hogwash.

Gosh! Sometimes I think I wouldn't stay in the business if it wasn't for the money.

And remember, don't you let a single solitary sailor on that yacht have a wronged sister that can blame it on the heavy, or you'll never have Parmalee playing the lead." Again Merton Gill debated bringing himself to the notice of these gentlemen.


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