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 adding powder to her make-up and arranging her hair before a dressing-table with a mirror backed up against the set, now approached Ambrose.

Well, how do you think you like pictures? she inquired.

It's all so new to me, he replied. I'm not used to it yet. When do they take pictures?

On first Thursdays and the twenty-ninth of February. You'll never get used to it. No one ever does. I've been made up and worked up emotionally now for four days. By the time they photograph this scene I'll be old enough to play a witch in Macbeth.

The set was now filling rapidly with extra people and the leading actors had been summoned from their dressing-rooms. Philip pointed out an old gentleman in evening-dress with a broad red satin ribbon across his white shirt-front.

That's Karl Wenig, the famous German actor who used to work for UFA. L.L.B. got tired of reading his notices, comparing him to disadvantage with the American hams. So they engaged him at a tremendous salary and now they're trying to kill him with the fans.

How can they do that?

Easy. He's playing the villain of this piece. Of course he'll be magnificent. On the stage he'd run