Judge — June 14, 1924 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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“Good heavens! Pretty badly smashed up, aren't you? THE SILVER LINING “Yes, the chap who was trying to sell me the car.” Raising Cain T= Bigger and Brazener Film Produc- ig Company had reached an impasse. For some reason, “Lucretiz mbs” had failed to score a box-of triumph, despite the fact that the twin title réles had been played by the heavily insured members of Myrtle ifique, Shape- liest Siren of the Silver Screen. Also, “Husbands for Hire” had only grossed an amount equaling the national debt of Austria. “T got. it » Great. Director, sr long cogitat “The public is s falling for them old-time gags. Look what ‘Jack and Jill’ done when we done it under the name of ‘The Fall of Woman.’ We should give ‘em maybe Cain and Abel, There’s money in them Bible pitche “TL believe “Abel—able. tising joki chuckled the director. ly that’s an adver T am quick at thinking up “But no,” disagreed the producer, “Abel is shopworn these days. It's Cain You gotta make A inor character and Cain should he the hero.” “A villun for a hero! gasped the “Tt ain't being done. You couldn't fill a row.” “Sure, that’s ea re interested director. Reform him—put iii Sonic Heart ‘hicersst—and! give: it a office title, like maybe ‘Cain’s. And put some good feller writing it,” So the scenario re: First Re Twe Abel's of grain, C from heaven cons exults Abel, Heavy cloud casts utter ‘kness over scene for an instant and, when it lifts, C closed standing over Abel's life with a rock in his hand. Plenty evidence. Flo, an. orphan child, blond (part written in for Beat Belle), appears. She falls over Ab form in a torrent of tears. rs with offerings, n’s of flesh, Fire grain, “Aa!” snec in is dis- Anybody with you?” ke, Only: Go—L Could Never Wed a Rowdy!" rial scene. Cain self- # to testify in own be- revealing that weakling brother, Bert, was in : denon: the:night of the-murd sentenced to die, while villainous district attorney leers at Flo hungrily. Bert, at last becoming A Man, admits to Flo that it was he who gamed away the Liberty Bonds, to of shback news Mother—I hope you behaved yourself at grandma's, dear. Molly—Oh, yes, mother; we just sat and talked over old times. 24 XUM him Flo. hims mate a Da Fo toler: chure going attor and : sudde Kille Silen By t Ab the scene jeerin abou throu chute disco prop Bert awi ing in Boy! mudi Flow comicbooks.com