The
Moving Picture Girls
at Oak Farm

OR

Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays

BY

LAURA LEE HOPE

AUTHOR OF "THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS," "THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SNOWBOUND," "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.

CLEVELAND NEW YORK

Made in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1914, by GROSSET & DUNLAP

Press of THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO. Cleveland

CHAPTER I

FILMING A SMASH

"All aboard for Oak Farm!"

"Are we all here; nobody missing?"

"What a relief to get out of the hot city, with summer coming on!"

"Yes, I'm so glad we can go!"

These were only a few of the expressions that came from a motley assemblage of persons as they stood in a train shed in Hoboken, one June morning. Motley indeed was the gathering, and more than one traveler paused to give a second look at the little group. Perhaps a brief list of them may not be out of place.

There were four pretty girls, two of the innocent type that can so easily forget their own good looks; two not so ingenuous, fully aware that they had certain charms, and anxious that they be given full credit for them.

Then there was a man, with rather long black hair, upon which perched, rather than fitted, a tall silk hat that had lost its first sheen. If ever "actor" was written in a man's make-up it was in the case of this personage. Beside him stood, attired much the same, but in garments that fitted him better, another who was obviously of the theater, as were the two girls who were so aware of their own good looks.

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