"They're around somewhere," explained Miss Shay, when the other
members of the company, with whom they had spent so many happy and
exciting days, had offered their greetings. "Are you in such a
hurry to see them?" she asked of Blake.

"Oh, not in such an _awful_ hurry," he answered with a laugh, as
Birdie Lee came out of a dressing room, smiling rosily at him.

"I guess not!" laughed Miss Shay.

Soon the interval between the scenes of the drama then being
"filmed," or photographed, came to an end. The actors and
actresses took their places in a "ball room," that was built on
one section of the studio floor.

"Ready!" called the manager to the camera operator, and as the
music of an unseen orchestra played, so that the dancing might be
in perfect time, the camera began clicking and the action of the
play, which included an exciting episode in the midst of the
dance, went on. It was a gay scene, for the ladies and gentlemen
were dressed in the "height of fashion."

It was necessary to have every detail faithfully reproduced, for
the eye of the moving picture camera is more searching, and
far-seeing, than any human eye, and records every defect, no
matter how small. And when it is recalled that the picture thrown
on the screen is magnified many hundred times, a small defect, as
can readily be understood, becomes a very large one.