The Archive · 1924

Playing the Game

"For a time I thought the whole!

ide of my face had been blown off," Miss Brownell said, "The explosion deafened me, the pain was intense, Dut my one thought was not to ruin the picture. Thinking that my teeth must have been knocked out, and realizing what a sight it would be, put my hand to my face to hide Colin Campbell, who was directing, shouted, "Take your hand down, you're spoiling the picture!" Then the gun man exclaimed. "My God, I've shot Berry!" and Colin called out to the camera man, "Cut!"

"The poor chap who shot really felt worse about it than T did," continued Miss Brownell, for although I was afraid to look at my face for fear that I should see that one eye was gone, when I realized that it was only a bad powder burn T was too thankful for words. Of course it was frightfully painful and Thad to have daily treatments from specialists for four months. Damages? O, there was never any question of that. I figured that when I went into the cinema bu:

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