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Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West

CHAPTER V
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We actors are mere details of an artistic conception.

We have now been in Hollywood for five months, yet few people who casually notice us at the hotel or on the streets have any idea that we act for the 'movies.' Sometimes we appear publicly in the streets, in characteristic costume, and proceed to enact our play where all may observe us; but there are so many picture companies in this neighborhood that we are no longer looked upon as a novelty and the people passing by pay little attention to us." "Were you in that picture of the falling wall ?" asked Beth.
"No.

We were rehearsing for 'Samson and Delilah.' But sometimes we are called upon to do curious things.

One night, not long ago, a big residence burned down in the foothills back of our hotel.

At the first alarm of fire one of the directors wakened us and we jumped into our clothes and were whisked in an automobile to the scene of the conflagration.


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