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1929 in filmSee also: 1928 in film, other events of 1929, 1930 in film, list of 'years in film'.
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When we wish to judge of a man's character by his
workaday pen, not his best.html">best small text traced laboriously with the
which is, after all, nothing.html">nothing but a right reading of the externals of
of getting sitters who persist in assuming a set look to resume their
which they are greatly interested. If I can only beguile them into
their natural expression; sure of seeing all the little precious every-
quite unawares. The long maundering stories about nothing, the
by the faintest suspicion of anything like general interest, which I
the features of formal sitters by the method just described, would fill
the other hand, if I have suffered under the tediousness of the many, I
experience of the few. To some of my sitters I have been indebted for
lightened my heart, to some for narratives of strange adventure which
amuse my fireside circle for many years past, and which are now, I
audience than any that I have yet addressed.
Singularly enough, almost all the best stories that I have heard from
which a story was volunteered to me; and, although I have often.
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