All the while (this is the great point) the actors must shake and quiver in imitation of the queer trembling and quivering always seen in the moving pictures; and their movements must be very rapid.
Soon the missing couple should appear, coming in hurriedly and by gestures telling of an encounter with the Indians.
Their clothes should be pierced with arrows, and the Puritan’s hat must be bristling with them.
All this will be very laughable if the acting is good, and absurd little by-plays introduced; but the whole thing will be spoiled unless the constant quivering and shaking is kept up by all of the actors.
The picture can be “flashed off” the screen by simply turning out the light, and others may be shown giving various incidents in Puritan life or the early history of our country.
CHAPTER IX
A VALENTINE ENTERTAINMENT WITH ORIGINAL VALENTINES
THE fun of the Valentine party begins with the invitations, which are in the shape of a heart. The message on the outside ([Fig. 103]) leads to the opening of the invitation ([Fig. 104]), and on the inside are found the time and place where the frolic is to take place and the names of those who are to give the party.