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Rh patterns varied with stalactities and stalagmites of spun or blown glass; delicate and dainty tracings in parts and heavier fantastic shapes in others. Glass being brittle and easily breakable, it was not practicable to have it blown in a factory in such intricately delicate patterns and shipped from a distance. Therefore, a family of glass-blowers was installed in a specially constructed building and worked for three months blowing the glass for this setting.

When one sits in a comfortable theatre and sees the beautiful story of "The Thief of Bagdad" so smoothly and beautifully unfolded there is nothing to suggest the work and worry and heartache and unceasing effort that made it possible.

Still as it accomplishes Mr. Fairbanks' ambition to attain an artistic success close enough to the hearts of the people to make it also a wonderful dramatic entertainment, it is easy enough to forget the difficulties that beset the accomplishment, for here, indeed, we feel "the end justifies the means."