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By Betsy J. Green
How about this for a winning combination – an angry gypsy, a kindly hunchback, babies switched at birth, and a guy named Marmaduke Smythe? Then throw in a flaming meteorite that contains a diamond bigger than anything Elizabeth Taylor ever owned, and you’ve got high-class entertainment. Yes, indeedy! How could you go wrong?
“The Diamond From the Sky,” a 30-part serial movie produced by our very own “Flying A” movie studio in 1915 was a winner, and the only thing that went wrong was that no one saved any copies of the movie. Oops!
Betsy’s Way Back When book — 1919 — is now available in local bookstores and at Amazon.com. This is the sixth book in her series of the history of Santa Barbara, one year at a time. Learn more at .
