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Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

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"Well, we might do the same thing," proposed Patsy, who was loath to

abandon her plan.

"You might, if you have the capital," assented Mrs. Montrose. "The

Continental is an immense corporation, and I am told it has more than a

million dollars invested."

"Two millions," said A. Jones.

The girls were silent a while, seriously considering this startling

assertion. They had, between them, considerable money, but they realized

they could not enter a field that required such an enormous investment as

film making.

"I suppose," said Beth regretfully, "we shall have to give up

making films."

"Then where are we to get the proper pictures for our theatre?"

demanded Patsy.

"It is quite evident we _can't_ get them," said Louise. "Therefore we may

be obliged to abandon the theatre proposition."

Another silence, still more grave. Uncle John was discreet enough to say

nothing. The Stantons and Mrs. Montrose felt it was not their affair.

Arthur Weldon was slyly enjoying the chagrin visible upon the faces of

Mr. Merrick's three pretty nieces.

As for A. Jones, he was industriously figuring upon the back of an

envelope with a stubby bit of pencil.

CHAPTER XIII

A FOOLISH BOY

It was the youthful Sangoan who first broke the silence. Glancing at the

figures he had made he said:

"It is estimated that if twenty picture theatres use any one film--copies

of it, of course--that film will pay for its cost of making. Therefore,

if you build twenty children's theatres, instead of the one or two you

originally proposed, you would be able to manufacture your own films and

they would be no expense to you."

They gazed at him in bewilderment.

"That is all simple enough!" laughed Arthur. "Twenty picture theatres at

twenty thousand dollars each--a low estimate, my dears, for such as you

require--would mean an investment of four hundred thousand dollars. A

film factory, with several producing companies to keep it busy, and all

the necessary paraphernalia of costumes and properties, would mean a

million or so more.

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