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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIII
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But we turn over the cardboard, for the deeper meaning of this hieroglyphic.

Our gardens can, as of old, run the solemn range from those of Babylon to those of the Resurrection.
If there is one sceptic left as to the hieroglyphic significance of the photoplay, let him now be discomfited by page fifty-nine, Standard Dictionary.

The last letter in this list is a lasso: [Illustration].

The equivalent of the lasso in the Roman alphabet is the letter T.The crude and facetious would be apt to suggest that the equivalent of the lasso in the photoplay is the word trouble, possibly for the hero, but probably for the villain.

We turn to the other side of the symbol.


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