The return of _Abe Potash_ and _Mawruss Perlmutter_ to London is not an event to be regarded indifferently. The light-hearted pair have evidently been through some anxious times. _Rosie Potash_ can never have been a very easy woman to live with. She has not improved. And now that she has infected _Ruth Perlmutter_ with her morbid jealousies the alert and as yet unbroken _Mawruss_ begins to know something of what his long-suffering, not to say occasionally abject, partner, _Abe_, has had to endure these many years. It was bad enough in the dress business. But now they have gone into films it is indefinitely worse. Every reasonable person must know that you can't produce really moving pictures without an immense amount of late office hours, dining and supping out and that sort of thing, a fact which the _Rosies_ and _Ruths_ of this world can't be expected to appreciate. So that it would be as well, think the ingenuous _entrepreneurs_, if _The Fatal Murder_ were, so far as the ladies' parts are concerned, cast from members of the two households. Besides, what an excellent way of keeping the money in the family. However _The Fatal Murder_ is a dud; _Rosie_ and _Ruth_ are not the right shape; and film acting, with the necessary pep, is not a thing you can just acquire by wishing so. What is wanted, says the voluble young hustler in the firm, who alone seems to know anything of the business, is real actresses as distinguished from members of the directors' families, and above all a good vampire. A vampire is the very immoral and under-dressed type of woman that wrecks hearts and homes, and without which no film with a high moral purpose is conceivable. You must have shadows to throw up the light. And on this principle all the uplift and moral instruction of that potent instrument of grace, the cinematograph, is based--a fact which will not have escaped the notice of cinema-goers. When _Rita Sismondi_ appears in an evil Futurist black-and-white gown by Viola you can tell at once she is the goods. But naturally _Abe's_ first thought is, "What will _Rosie_ say?" His second, shared by _Mawruss_: "Hang _Rosie_! We shall both like this lady." Finances are not flourishing, but the crooked manager of the very unbusinesslike bank that is financing the P. and P. Film Co. harbours designs on the virtue of _Rita_, who has this commodity in a measure unusual with film vampires (or usual, I forget which), and is just a slightly adventurous prude out for a good time. He accordingly advances more money for _The Guilty Dollar_ on condition that _Rita_ be engaged, and yet more money on condition that she be not fired by any machinations of jealous wives.