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The "Gold Digger" and the Wife m m..m. 43.'

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living, lives?of w i r a Q ~ b a u c h e r y .' . ' > '.' . c . . . . . . ,, ". . ~ - - - ' . - - -. - - "'. ,;" .

- . " - ., In mote than one· case licentiousness' and< hlcesthave 'been the-only ,rungs iIi the. lad- .';. ders on w h i c h t h e y ~ h a v e 'climbedto·fame . "

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: Unfaithful and cniellyinillffefenttothe ' : " " .worship of the youth o ~ the 'land, they have , . ,-

. ' . led or are leadingsl lch lives as ' f u a y , a n y : ~". '• .'. day,. precipitate. yet another· natiov.-Wide·. .

. s c a ~ d a land again shatter the ideals,' the _." dreams, t h e ' · · c a s t l e s ~the faith 'of 'our ,ooys' •"

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,.-:' I t is for these reasons that the SINS OF •. '. ' HOLLYWOOD are given to the public ' ... · :-That a great mediunl.'91 n a t i ( ) n ~ l e x p r e s< :.

...simi may ·be purified . takEm froJ!l thehands . :of those. who have misuseq it-..:-that : : ~ h e - "childish faith of'our: } j ~ y sarid girls' may ' ~ - :

, .again be' made sacred!

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- . ' . Fully eighty per ,cent of those. engaged in " ..

- ' : motion pictures are 'high-grade citizens .- self-respectingamj r e spec t ed . ' . '

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In foolish f ~ a r ~of injuring the industry,"Hollywood has permitted les,s than.one per

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Thefacts- reported in these stoPies havelong; been all open book to the' organized'

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producers . N o . ~ : · n e e dto ' tell them ' they ,knew! . . ' . ' .

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They knew of the horde of creatures ofeasy morals who hovered about the indus-. . .try and set the standard of price 'decided ."what good, clean women would have to pay,-have ' to give in order to succeed .

They knew of, the macqueraux of thescum that constituted the camp followersof their great stars. They knew of thew ~ n t o n n e s sof their leading women .

They'knew about the yachting parties .'the wild orgies, at road houses and privatehoines:-'

. They knew about Vernon arid its wild..-life Tia Juana and its mad; drunkenrevels . . '

, They knew about the "kept"womeri .and the "kept" ,men . . . ; . '. ,,;:

.' They 'knew 'about the promfnent peppleamong them who were liVing iIi' illicit' r e l a ~

tionship ,There was a time at one studio' when

every star, male and 'female, was carryingon an open liason The producer could nothelp knowing it.

Eight months before the crash that culminated in the Arbuckle cataclysm theyknew the kind of parties Roscoe was giving

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: '. . •. > 'An;y p u b l i c a t i d h i h a t · ~ t t ~ 1 n pt ( ) ! ~ ~ ~ a l· ..• ' .. t h e : r ~ f a lconditiofls""to:cleart,se t h B , f ~ s : t e r i i '' ;'... ','sores 'was'ql1ickly p : O l : m c e d ; ~ u p o n 5 " a :.'" ". ""'ehemy . of·· thE{ '.i n d l l $ t : r y ~ t : A . ' · " s u b s i d

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..........;. . I t ~ w a s t h elapses · a I i d l a x i ~ i ~ s , o Itne;pto-/.·;·.·.. .ducer . tha t ~ p r e c i p ita te(ftthe'censQrsh!p/agii, , : ·c· . '

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: . . , . C s c r e ~ e r i ; J n t 6 t h e d ~ m g e r o u s; n p t i o n o f ~ c e i i s· . i ' .'

:' ..... ship: : . 3 ] ~ o s t f a t a n y · i m p e l d l I t r i g · : t : \ :..saered ,: ..;>. . ' . ·principlesof.derrrocr:l;cY;·:fr,ee.dom : o f . ' ~ I i ~ e . c h c< : \"

, · .and.freedom of 'the. iressH·<';:::>;<j.· ';:,.:.'< . ' e . '

'.. '. ....=,. ; T h ~ Y ' h a , , ~'made "boxollce" c a p i i ~ t o f ~.' .·.everything;" Nothing. h a ~ . : -n e e n ' ; ' , t o o ~ : \ 7 i l e :;'7· . ; . , . 1" · t · · · · · ' < , , ; " ; . ' " ;" exp 01 '" ' ' : ,..;.:. . , <.,.J ,> , : < : .•

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Nothing was sacred nothing was'· p e r ~ '' . ~ -:

sonal if i t had publicity possibilities , ' : _-, In. the Daniels ,case they' exploited the,

,courts :and made them a laughing stOGK , ' ; " .::

At this moment Taylor's tragic death i ~ '.

being exploited in connection with his last·production .

. I f the screen is to be "cleaned-up/, thesores must be cut open the puss and corruption removed This always hurts! But

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DRING the throbbing, feverish y e a : ~ softhe World War all roads led to F r a n c ~o r - ,

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The-conglomerate, nondescript mass of beings ofevery hue and type iha t swept over the battlefields'was no more complex in i ts ,composi tion, no more a ,mixture g'f oiL and water, than were the high-andthe low, the vile, the, vain and the viciciU,s , thattnadeup the mob' whkh swarmed into Hollywood to d ipits fingers into thep$:ltof gold that was bt':ingpotlred

from the movie crucible . . ; ' , , ',,,. ,H . , JNo mining c - a n i p . e v ~ r ' e q ~ a l l e di t . N 6 m ~ d J t i r i d ,,;'"

wild and woolly hordertow'!1 eiier attracJed"spcmanymen and women' of s ~ ohigh a station h i l i f ~'Of.!?O:

vilely sunk as did Hollywood. " . , .None of the country's historic bonanza' towns

ever beheld, one half the real money that Moviedombathed in. ' ..

The, Hollywood of those days will go down inhistory a s the Rainbow Age of the mountebank and,the m u m m e r . ' '-

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The circus, the DlJcle Tom show, the medicine,show, the 'carnivals,the physical culture fakes, thepony shows, the wild .west outfits, the concert hall!>,',the dives, the honk,-a-tonks-and in many-case:s .. the:, ~

bawdy houses all contributed their quota to , lhe 'studios of Hollywood., .,,' , ", With them came-men and women -w-ho'had'

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i st s, composers , dancers , whose names are indelibly' ,written in the list of the world's great artists. . .

When the shower· of 'gold fell. this lat ter groupheld its wi t s - i n the ' main. .Here and there on e 'dropped into the mir.e of licentiousness and incest .. But th i s was rare. . ~ .

The great actor of the spoken drama rarely got

very far in the movie's. He 'refused to fit into thescheme as laid out by those who held the cptirsest.rings . : ~ .

I t was the upstarts, the poor uncouth, ill-bred"roughnecks," many of whom are to-day famous . 'stars, and who n ~ v e rknew there was so nlUchmoney iIi the ' world, who made the Sins of Hollywood the glaring, ted sirts they are t u ~ d a y ..-

. After the. first few weeks of plenty; ·of full feed- ' .ing, the daysOf penury and vagabondage faded intothe dim vistas of the ··Pilst. Then came indulgencein the common, ordinary vices o f the average being.And still th.e money' l asted ahd 'even increased. 13henrhe appetites 'became jaded and. each trIed to out - .. : '"

dissipate the other. • . . . . , ..

Strip poker parties of both. sexes, wild drinking.

debauches and lewdness, motor cars in designs a n d , · .colors that screamed· and shrieked-'-dogs an,d catsas aids to stimula te the imagination. The odors ofthe Tenderloin and the lobster palaces. Poor, futile. . , . ' . .

mImIcry. . . . " . ', Then one' day a cer ta in wel l-known' arid' mU<;hly

a'dored heart-breaking star of the so-called "manly"type t ~ u g h tt hem something 'new. And this is how .' .

i t came about: . . ".This s t a r ~ w h oshall be called Wal t e r - had tried. . .

out something. In his mad endeavo r to provide forhimself a th rill not written down in the Movie Vicealogue, Walter sought out several habitues of the

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, in; LaHrel C a n y o n · a n d . : h 1 f , 1 : i f i d ; . ; a . ~ 1 E : w : ' . : s ~ l e c':"r;\:.ti::':i;;rt o come arid cIljoys'ometl1ilii h e : ~ J r M ~ r l y : ~ r t e J i ( f e ( r ~ " '. ~ ; ; c · t

Margaret ' and Mac, Vilkerit ariel" J a y , F i ; 3 . 1 1 k . ~ n q" , ~ ' '< .:.. ..: - ~ . ~ . - . - ~ ' -- - . '

Lcmi,se; Mary and Jatk'and'Jtiallita=--aU goodfel.:.l o w s " a n d ~friends of Walter. .' ~ ..... '.· . , O h ~ ' Y ~ s ,there was a Chinaman 'there w i t h h i s ' > : > , C C ' ~l a y o u t ~ p i p e s a n d l i t t 1 epellets of o p i u m : , ' ; - : . ~ " , . . . . : c < ; ; >

, Hut,first th ey must try "a shot in the a · r m : ~ " " l \ 1 Y ! Y ' ; : · ;

How-they enjoy_eo. that "shot in t h e a r f I 1 . " I t ~ t l f F i 1 T e d' J ; " c " : : . ';.: '." (::the b'l;:tseactor ·folk as they ,had 'notbeen::thriUed: ~ <;:. '->'=since Clara KimbaJI Young auetioned pffherJeddY.: \ t ~ ;< : L ~ ) _ c

'.b e ; } i s ; ~ e m . o v i r i g ! l i e n i. right b t ; f d ~ e a l 1 J h ' ~ c r a w ~ ; e ': ~ . ; . ' . ; t : ' : ; } : ~cO-:'<,d, ".Smffii1g,co eain e'" through.;;a ' I I ttl e>tu b'e;one ~ e 1 1 d : ' ( "' :.c: ~ ':i;';;..'~ o fwhich' hurig.insidi ".avial of ." s n o w ~ ' ~ : w ; i S '£ r t o . i f i ~ i ' , , " , 7 ',::,r, . - ; ~ ; , t '

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made otherheings of them. , I t was thoroughly aworth:-while party, his guests told Walter, and he 'was pleased very pleased, indeed, if , ne had. succeeded in bringing a few thr il ls into the,ir uneventfull ives-lives, too, made up of many thrills, but Httleelse. " , : '

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But the crow!1ing event was w h ~ nt , h ~Chinamanente red and ·gave each of them a t:>,ipe aI1:d a pelletof opium.

Walter had fitted up cosy lounges for them to lie ,in. Soft, clinging curtains hung about them, pinkshaded lamps shed a soft glow, and the Chinamanworked fast andsoft-footedly ..

Luckily , the night was long it was Saturday.None of them had to appear for work on Sunqay.So all t h e i e s t o f the night ari&'fa"t'3nto the ' next "day did they loll there upon the sof t cushions arid '.

dream and well, there are things" that cannot beprinted everi£or truth's sake. ,

One by one' they staggered homeward; vowingto return any · time and partake :of handsomeWalter's hospitaJity.

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And they did. For that was but the beginning.

,Today the Chinaman has increased his output ofpipes and pellets. He has two assist.ants and heholds himself in readiness to answer a:summons ata moment's .notice to appear a t ' somebody' s homeand help to make the night short 'and the dreamslong. ' . "

Today ' the dope peddlar is a c o ~ r t 1 o n 'sightaround the streets of Hollywood. And once, not so

long ago, the Federal officers called upon HandsomeWalter and talked things over with him., They,wanted to know if he was the go-between " the manwho acted as middleman for the actors and theped-

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.Bu t the dope users are increasing; dope peddlClrs. ~ " - - .

. . prevall: . ' . . "; , ~ . ; : ' , .•. .There is . a handsome home, closed· t e U 1 P · 9 1 ~ < ~ t i l y , .'.; -s:t

on a ' certain fashionable street in Los Angeles , ; .....where if you could enter you would find the finest . .

equipped dope outfit in America.

Here come the· players-mostly stars and near 's ta r s - to revel in . Poppyland; here are held highrevels or such was the case only a few monthsago .. and here are the wildes t of wild parties staged.

Not so long ago Dottie Pitchfork fQught a duelwith a former Follies girl with fist and vases;though it is claimed that hair'pulling ~ o n s t i t u t e d

and really ended t hea rgu ,men t . · . . . :: , ' . ' . : . ' ~ .

Butthey are interesting p ' a ~ t ; i : e stor all ' th#.;Theymustoe interesti-ng;'for there h ~ v e · b e e l ias riliny asa hundred guests ',at these " ~ f f ~ i r s , "not . a l l 6 f t h e m 'dope fiends,. but many of them: an;. . . : ' . - ' -

Most of' theI ti ·are easy to pick. Qut. Their'nervousness' betrays them. ' The - twitching' o f ~ h e i r

mouths, . the "snuffles," the listless air of many ofthem. .. " . .' .

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A rafher new and somewhat unusual dope latelyemployed is that o! bromidia; a drug which taken inteaspoonsful drives' the user to continuous sleepi

. n e s s ~swelling of the limbs and a lassitude that . .. ' .brings.great surcease. . "

There"are b u t a 'few of these, h o w e v e r ~more: of . . ; • .them preferring cocaine, a "shot in the arm," andan occasional drag at the pipe." . ." .

Take for instance a certain younga c t o r ; ' ~ o n

ofone of the country's foremost exponents ..of thespoken drama. His face is yellow. as saiiron. ' .He isa pipe smoker'. Twice his father haif had him com-m-

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Scandinavian name. "Las t year i t cost her a . t l i o 1 . 1 s ~

arid dollars a month for:: her dope supply: ,She'uses, cocaine and heroin, goes to sleep on the set, slipsover to her dressing room, takes ' a few "sni ffs"a ll dreturns full of ginger,only to fade away in a shorttime again. " ..

A once noted song write r, now a movie scribbler"spends the gre ater par t of his income for drugs, .

An actor who has had a, long and successful '

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much in the public print of late, is still another." ,, . - -

The' l is t is intenri inable-almost inexhaustable .. These indulgences care not always confined to fhe ' ' . ,

privacy of th e home, either. In cer ta in more or)ess . '

public resorts one may upon occasion find'· wen. known movie people partaking of ether cocktails orother c o n c o c t i o n s ~ p e r f u m edripped on sugar, forinstance. Anything and everything incthe nature ofwhat the jazz mad world knows as a "kick."

Walter, they say, still persists in giving an occasional party, though his wife has . long sincelearned of his condition. But Walter has s tam ina.

, . ,He is still the handsome young devil· he always was.He gets ,away with it. . '

And even whiskey still has a thrill fo r him. Hedearly loves to go Qut - to some other towri, ofcourse -and fight -a couple of. policemen, tear out

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they ever attended one of Walter 's p a I i i e s . - , · ' ~ T h . e y

, wer:e new: at the game, but t hey wan ted to be' ("go,on.::: fellows."", They, "hi f the :pipe," they "took a sho f i t (' t h e ~ a r m , "-they snuffed cocaine, just as the others"

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The other; driven to' d e s p e r a t i o ~hecause' of the" insistent demand of her nerves calhrig for'Jhe drugs;

", is now an, o rd inary s t tee t 'wa lker : "Herp l ; l c e · o f ~ : " .

'. "business' i s a shabby roomlni{house in the' undeI"';'world ,district .of Los Atlgeles; her "beat" is Main .and Los Angeles sJreet s; 'Qccasional ly: when she , :can lure. a sailo): o r a s t ranget to .. ~ r r o . o mshe 'g'ets ,.. '

' ,from him w h a t e v ~ rnioney s h ~can arid theJ,1, as soar-fe, r

as she can t id herself of, her 'companion; she rushes, ,frantically down to " John " and buys anpther " s h o t . ! ~

I t is all she lives for, that "51,1ot.'" And s h e ~prays - ~ :

nightly tha t she ""ill not live;yerx)ol1g. , ; ' ' > , . ' " ' :_ - - . ' • . ' . _ . ' . - ' - ; - .0 , - - . . '. _ - . ~ ~ . ' ' ~ . ' " ; -: - , .

"There ~ r e 'otheicases, q£ course: 'For it i s the " , ,:,young and inexperiend!d who ;suffer most. It , ' i s ' .. " "they who are ' driven to despair, and there are manyin HollYWood.today. " . : , "- ._ " .. - -, ~ . "':"" "; , c_ / ' - . , " ' . , .,.;., ~ . ' IF - . " , - , _

The Federal officers are trying to stamp;out#i ,e: " ~ ? : , '~ c ' : i ' :

plague, but somehow the .. dope users n f a ~ a g e t o · " o D -, , :".tain enough tq ' k ~ e pthem happy. I t_ thas , m a ~ e..~ : 'wrecks 0f several o n c ~g o o d - m ~ m ~One ,oLthem,':.m . . ' , : ", i

" his' efforts to :15reak off ..t h ~' h a b i . t ; . d l a ~gone inJo tl).e , ' ; __ ' . . ,. "

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wood. Noioo t -wea ry Magdalenes' ' p a t r o l ;. O ' o f : •

the night. , ~

Hollywood looks- with con tempt upon th e hun'" , _. e r ~ d r i v e n s i s . t e r h o o dthat haunts the s t r ~ e t sand, bawd:fhouses. 'Here the m e r ~ h a n d i z i - i l gof-sex 'hasbeen made a fine art its devotees a re a rt is ts . 0 The ,unskilled worker is a pariah unwelcome.:, . . .,'

' T h e , old, Barbary. Coast . theoid'TertderloiIi "" Armour Avenue, a t their-height, are not Hollywood.There is no restricted dis t r ic t -no "other side of therailroad-track. " : " - - . , ~ " -, ~

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Wherefore, the "joy- .. parlors" and the " ' ' ' l ~ v e

nests" Of Hol lywood are not ~ l l i n ~ H o l l y w o o d ; ,T h e '"artists:' pay a litHe more for what they get t h an , "

· anyone e lse-go where they will and are welcomed.', Eoulfingers reach far out .from the city info th e

.' g r e ~ nhills <l;nd valleys. The, reek or t i ty vice mingles _ ., . with the scentedai i of t h ~o p ~ e nplaces Hollywood:,' ','

overlooks no b e t s . ' ..•,- ,

A thousand roads lead to canyon c a b i n , ' s e q u e ~ t -.· ered cot,tage: or'moqntai:n ,shfack. Tliere-are easy- "

· routes to a scofe of hidden ,bays 'and'inlets where'wait lavishly furnished yachts ' and, h o u ~ e - b o a t s : - '

From San Diego foDel .Monte , from t h e ~ b e a c hto·the d e s ~ r tHollywooddr"ips i ts 'ooze.:c " ' ; , ; . ' . i. - .

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The;pr ivate dens or J;e:treats, is it,""":"'where theidols o rau r boys and girls disport andindulge their ..v i ~ e sspan a hundredthiles- in any direction.

o1t is in these snug bowers that the "doJIlestidty",the fan magazines so lovingly and sO l y i n g l y ~ p r a t t l e

of ,is revealed in its t rue form. Here the veneer assumed for box office purposes vanishes ' . , ' ' " , ' - ' <

, The language.of the gutter resumes .its ' place' as .the mother tongue" .a .spade is a spaCle, or evert aharder name passion. is mad passiOJi ~ a n dcnothing ,less. " . . ' '--:" "" ' , : . - ". _ . . -.

. No frowning "Madam" . calls .a halt to 'maintain .'

a show of order. Hollywood has eliminated .the"madam:' and the graft ing policeman. They belong ' .to the crude 'days.' . , . ..LHollywood knows no curb but satiation and ex- .

h a u s t i o n . ,

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. Half a dozen miles north. of the Ri<fge Route on,what is known as. the inland highway; between Los .•

A I r g e l ~ s,. an&Satl .Fraricisco' "Iiesa small lake t h a t '. nestles'betweert t"4e foothills a,nd the- highway. On ,its shores ate scat te"redclumps of brush and a few -'blinds lor duck hunters .. In the stories 'we read of Sodom ~ n dPompeIi . "

there is nothing about duck blinds. Hollywood is: <creative requires' no precedent. '

Hollywood has found a new use fo r ' duckblinds - ,.. On the far side of the lake and about two, hund-

red ,yard s ftom ,the water 's edge s tands a 'fr:ime . c , .house. I t is painted (I " dark shade of green. ~

The ' house and the acres that lie back. o f it, arethe property of· two nationally famous, film p r o d u c ~

ers, and: a Los"Angelesbu-siness man who runs w i t h 'the film crowd. . , ." ' ~ . ' ,

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To the passing motorist the green house is but a . . . : "

speck on the landscape. The general aspect is orieof serenity and peace. . The scene is 't ru ly pastora l. "The spot exudes an air oJ rural innocence. .. . ' Hollywood. knows the value of "atmosphere."That is part of Hollywood's business. In studioparlance " a t m o s p h e r ~ "and camouflage go hand inhand. .

' D u r i n g " t h e " ~ u m m e rmonth s the hiJls are hot"andfew visitors come to the green house. But as' thedays grow . ~ o o l ~ ran.d.Qi::toq.er dr.awi'neC!'r,: signs oflife appear. J 'he,dutk seasoti'is approaching.Automobiles wind over the road back of the" lake a·tidunload"their cargoes . Everytl iingis ,i rta"& reatly.foj ....hunter and huntress . . By the. first of Ottobet:"<ill , . '. is in shape for the season's sport. . " . " .' . ~ . , . ~ . .

The green house duck hunter t r a v e l ~ 'lilfe ~ theMexican army. His women, go with'h im. The-laws'of Cal ifornia are the 'same for men or WOmen. who' .. ,h ~ n tducks. You must carry a hunting'license . .

. The law says nothing about a marriage license.So the little green house complies with the law.Also the law says nothing about chaperones forhouse parties of married people-who do not happento be married t 6 each other. Again the green housecomplies with the l a w . , .

.More than one noted screen beauty has spent ..

.the week end in the greenhouse. More than one _

famed portrayer of swet t innocence has "hunted"on these shores. I t is not every passing motoristthat carries fieldg[asses and the naked eye does

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not carry across -the lake,Jar enough to recognizefaces - '-, ,

From Friday to Sunday n igh t throu.gh October,,November and' December, ,the" greenhouse walks''with kings and queens o f shadowland:" I t seei them c'at play , in" what the naturalist wOl,1ld call theirnat ive habit , untraullueleq' as i t Were by the artificial'conventions of society or, the demands· of business.- ,

, I t sees them shorn of their gloss and thei r :, g l a m o u r . " , , · ,, Not long since a certain beauty who 'Y<:i.sonce,

, the wife of a widely advertised male vamp, a hunt- '' ing went on tIle far shore of this lake. This lady - ,has achieved' much fame. She first won her' wayinto the heart of a' noted producer. by "hangingcrepe"-on the "lamp" of a rival who was,at t ha t l ime " ;

basking .in the,sunshine of his favor and, the public "",'smile. 'Carm.en stuff comes natural-to her. ' Although she and the producer in question are not the-pals they once ~ w e r e ;their names are more o'r' lessinterwoven, and they are still very good''£rierids.

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corted to one of th e blinds. I t was not quite l ightas yet and her escort, a noted screen celebrity, hadto help her. The blind is const ructed in fronf of arow boat moored to the shore.

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I t g r ~ wa bit lighter but the , cold" wind ::grewcolder. The sport began to lag. Pret ty sapo shedropped her gun, and snuggled closer to him andtook a few more drinks. He continued peering'into 'the, distance, in search of passing birds. , '.'

',' Up over the edge' of a hill some distance backfimp, the house a man witlI field glasses'gazed int ( ~ n t l y .As the woman cuddled 'closer he fixed hisg a ~ emore intently. For weeks he had been watch-ing.,the place u n k n o ~ nto i ts owners. _ ,

- Of course, hehad .no idea of the prominence ofthose he spied 'upon or he might have hesifated.There is n-df m t ich' sp ice in the life o f ranchbahds.When t ~ i l e s Cof siral1ge' c:arryings on , ~ a m e~ o : a t i n gover the hills early in thes.eason, the 'man with thefield glasses bethought hifi?cself of 1!--' good' use forthem. More than once his vigil haq ,been rewarded. 'But this time he was puzzled. He could not tellwhat was coming. ' ,He did not klJovy' a, new thrillwhen he saw one. He was not an "artist." ' , ' ,' . " His eyes remained riveted on the' scene.:before ,.

him. Soon. the woman's male companion droppedhis gun, rested h ~ sarm on the side ot the boat, sliddown into the bottom with his legs sprawled overone of the seats and appeared to have fallen a s l eep .. The b'eauty yawned, took another drink and satdown on the same'seat. For a long time t he watche ron the hill could detec t no sign of life. Clouds, cameup and hid, the sun. . Their was no stir in the gree,nhouse. T h e , o t h e r o ~ c u p a n t s ,if there were any, wereevidently fast a s l e e p . , " ", A flock of birds made a sweep over the edge ofthe lake and settled. Another bunch came andjoined the first. Sun' and skY remained obscured.

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The pair iIi the .boat were still inert. The wa tche r'on the hill grew more puzzled than ever. What hadhappened? ' ' , '

He stepped down and started to circle to thelower -re'aches of the ridge over toward, a pass' i n acanyon that led to the house. Cautiously 1Ae .drewnearer until he was on the rim o f a high bluffdirectly overlooking tpe blind. " ~ - ' ; , " -

On this blut{, a , hole had been "dug in to the.ground and crawling toward it he' slldotit of sightuntil he was' entirely covered. From ' this ,vantagepoint he cotild,'wiJ:h the aid of the glasses, see allthat transpired; ",

More ducks' came. Na shots were fired. Themystery deepened. A slight ripple dallced aWilYfrom the side of the boat as i t slowly tacked. The:ripples grew larger and came more often. ,',The boatrocked more violently. The watcher.: " . l i f tedhisglasses and gazed again. This tim.e he a id not remove themf:rOnihis eyes. . T h e g l a s s e ~-remainedfixed or r a t h ~ r t r a r i s f i x e d .The watcher was oblivious to a11; else but what was going on in ' the row'boat on the water's edge: , ,<

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Suddenly the' boat rocked more violently thanever. I t seemed to behaving a spasm. 'Thewatcherjumped to the edge of the hole. He could stand itno. longer. ~

He waved his hands aloft. ' ""The dirty dogs," he cried out aloud as he walked

into the open.', There was a flurry of wings as thestartled ducks took to the air. The boat gave a '

final lurch like a ship in a gale. , .,The watcher ' on the hill had recognized the

beauty he knew the face. Had seen her in picturesa thousand tiriles! "

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HERE ;surely must .be some- way of gettinginto thee movies' without stooping . below-one's own· level." . " . ~- .

S O - t h ' o u g h t J a n e E v ~ n s ,~ h ohad been in<E1olly:'"

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making. any irilpression .on casting d i r ~ d : 6 r ~ h : i f h e r t h a i l . t oinvoKejn'sinl1:lting. .. . . ' . ~ - ~-: - ., - - , ' ; . --' " . '-'- - ' . ~InvItations. ....-... < '0 . - - -0 " ' Y ' i ' . .

Surely the h i g h - d a ~ s' s t ~ r s-were .not · § C i : ~ 6 : l r s e . -

These men who talked so openly were just.J1:le,rlfIraff. I t could not possibly be otherwlse-X,Tl1e.newspapers sa id such nice things about the. grea t 'actors and actresses .. .

. Soon opportunity came to Jane to mingle in thesocial whirl of the niuchtalked of celebrities. Shehad left her. telephone number at all the studios.One day she was'telephoned to by some mysterious,person. She was told it was a business call. She

. wertt to the studio designated an<;l found a youngman pawing over some photographs in a wire bas- .keL She not iCed 'that a pftture of herself; that she

had left hopefully, lay segregated from the others.She entered without being seen and was almosttaken off her feet when she heard the young man 'say: "I am rustling up some new ones ' for the 'Boss' par ty ton igh t! ' - "

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"Ah, this is Miss' _ ?"i ' I am," -said- Jane, "you t e l ~ p h o n e d f 0 rme,." ' .

.- "Do you -ride and do you -swim," he asked witha . peculiar glance towards another man tha:C.-satplaying with another p h o t o g r ~ p h a n d v y f : i owas i.ust ,t hen ruining it u tte rly by p o k i - n g ~ a: h o h ~in it with a . . ---

paper knife. - -- -"I do a little of each.""Al l r ight ," said the young man. "Wait."The youth went into an inner office and threw

the p ic tu re on a desk by which sat a very handsomeman, well known as a screen favorite. He wasplaying with a, dog and drinking a cocKtail:- .-;;

"Not bad," he said, and sized up the picture.I'll take a look." -" .

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fully. He came back and sai_din a very c o o l ~ - a n d

deliberate way : . - - . ' - _ -"She'is a new one on me . . She'll do."The yoting-man came back and wasaH attention .

and politeness."Mr. , well, the boss, says that he will be c . --

pleased to have you meet some of the members ofthe company at his house tonight," he said, "and -he

wants you to be there promptly at midnight." .He wrote an address and a telephone number

and gave it to Jane and showed her the. way out. '"Midnight?" asked Jane of herself., ."How' o d d . ' ~.But the,nit occurred to her that perhaps th e g reat

men· worked - late and she thought nothing_. moreabout it. She made tip her minato take the opportunity and t o l d no chance to ' meet the great andnear-great go-by. .

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. . She sp.eIit the "ejenitig-a:( her .'.ap;rrtment ; ~ a n d ,aftet having., written ·an . optimistiC/letter ~ to h.er 'motlier, she .. dressed in het "best arid 'soonlooked .very char-ming. ' . ." . ",:-'. ' '. .Promptly at midnight she' arrived at the' a d ! i i e s s '

given. I t was one of the largest houses in tl1e,..City ..·and stood buried among magnificent trees in ',themindle of a park-like garden.· She approached the . .

entrance. But the house was dark, but for a.small ', ..,light in the hall. She thought at first that she wasat the wrong house, but rang the bell. At lengththe, door was opened by the young man she had'meb at the office and he asked her in.- .

"You are on time," he laughed. ' :That 'senough.I', know n o w ~t4 atl.y ou haven't been "long jJ;l the·

.• movies. N ob,odygiyes'a whc;iop for.appointm¢rtts O r · < .

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. The young 'm'!n; 'asked:'.het to: take ' a ~ s e a t .,.'Whether she removed. lrer wraps ot. not 'did-: pot "seem to bother him. He sat down . " ~ n d _lighted a ' ..cigarette, threw the match· on the floor " a n d s ~ o k e d .. .He r emarked suddenly tha t his n a m e . c w < g ; M ~ c k . . ;....•.

-ae·made a move now and then as iLhe would' sit ~ ' . :

dovvn close.by Jane, but he looked towards the'door c, "

and refrained from doing so. . . '.. Jane saw a light-button and deliberately turned

on the lights." ,"Go as far.as you like," said the young man w ith

a:raucotis ' laugh. "Most 0 ' · them don't want nolights." ."":'. . , . . ""

,.J ane pretended not to. hear h im . . . . " ? . : . "

' ' ' I s th at you, .Mack?" suddenly came a drawlingvoice f rom ups ta irs : . :::: ..

"Yes,·sir," r e p l i ~ dMack, all attention. "Ldidn' tknow you was in." -.

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"Give her a dr ink or two till I get d own/ ' said. '.the voice. I 'm hav.ing a row with Clat:a." ' '. "Who ·is Clara ?'i,asked Jane, and'ro!,e to her feet. ;, "Nobody," replied Mack. "1 th ink she is his ,',wife.' T h a f s c n o t h i n g . " · · - ~

: Jane, frightened,' got ready, to leave- when sheheard a yolley of laughter outside and four h6is ter- < 'ous persons"came rushing in . · . ~ > " , .- ''.' ' Jane n o w ~ c o u l dsee that they were undei'tlie influence of drink. They made a rush for the decan-ters and the sideboard. '. ,They all seemed to know where everythingewas 'in the house and helped themselves liberallY!>,Then . ,

"one of the men n()ticed J arie and said to M a c k . ~, .."Mack, who have we here ?"

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" . ",Great .GIid,'''.st)..appe'dorie of the ~ o m e n ,"Is, he: ,throu'gh :with Clara; already?'" . " . _

"Of course," laughed the other woman, "Clara I

has lasted longer than any of them. Gee, what doyou expect?" , ."Where is his Nibs? asked one of the men·:"Upstaits, scrapping," s a i d M a c ~ . ~"B-fit he's

told me to tell y o u - " .. ' . . '.' . . . ' ."That 's enough," (;:ried one o f the women .. -, "Get

the cards and the lubricants and we dont' cafe if he '..

never comes down."

lane found herself swept on to a'c'hair 'at, thecard table and soon' a poker gamt; was)n fullprog".::ress. She was giv,en an aflotrn:ent of chips aI!d had.":no idea whethe r they represented money or pot, a t " ,

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. Tbe 'game- prdgressed. Jane knew 'eV0tigl\;pf ,,poker tb"keep up her play. Soon one of the wOthenlost. all her chips . . Jane thought she wouldnbwlearn what the stakes represented . . She had' heardof games where thousands of dollars changed handsin a:few minutes . -

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cards'" and ~•. continued _ to: play, , 'after . ligh.ting a·. . . . . . . . - ' - " - : . - ' . . " , . / _ . , ~ - ' . . . " - ' - ' , ' " " ~ - . -

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. The other w ~ n 1 a n:w'a'st h e ~ e x t ;o n ~tJ 1tse·.<itii.'"and she calmly r e m o v ~ dher skirt and flung- 'It:away. . " .

Jane had never heard 'of the' . p ~ p u l a rg i l , f T I e ~ , o f ,-"strip poker," and consequently coriducj.ed t ha t her· ..

companions were losing their minds as well as theirchips al)d clotJ1es. . . ' ' .. _ . . . . - "r .

She' 'felt a 'sinkingfeeling as, she suddenly saw, her last chips gone: ,She noticed that they all

star 'eqat ' her, the. men especially.. . - .

. ; 'Payybur loss," laughed one 'of the men . . " S t ~ i p"off something." " . , ' ' . ' _ ~ ." '

Shecsaid she did no t understand. They exIHail)e.d·to her that thegaine consisted of a system otJ.md,ressing and that the losers had to strip ' off somegarment each time he or she lost t h e i r . l a ~ tchips.-,. Jane kicked off one of her s lippers an9:smiled.

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player has removedl f ~ f 6 r e , "

l aughed one o£.the men. '"Now' be ct' good sport and pay yoqrbe t s . · N o .waists·or 'skirfs ~ o rshoes." " ' '.. ,

~ [ , t 'c;.Sl1e b : ~ e a m e ' £ e a r f u l l yindignant. ,She arose and ' ,. said, s ~ et40ught it was time to leave." "She ' is crawfishing," cried one of the women. ~

"Make her pay, Al." ,The man who answered the name of "AI" put 'his , '" '

cigar more firmly into the· corner o f his big flabby'mouth and arose. He took ho ldo fhe r : and un- "-liooked the back of her dress. - . - ,

" ' ; ' T lk others roared and , ~ h eoiher irtan w a t l t e d t ~", ~ k Q Q w . i £ : : h ~ : - ~ i l t l ~ e d a n y_ h ~ l p . ? 0 :~ « : ' :. y ~ c :::'._ ". -' J a ~ eDegan to cry.: , S h e t r i ~ d · :to fear away £ i ~ m

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the -man . . -He sunk _his ditty fingernails into her 'white'fuII atm." , ' ,

Just the.n the "boss" was heard coming down. " "He reached the s c e n ~a t t h e p o h r table with in-:; :"

_ . - .credible haste . .

He looked at Jane who was wiping:! tea i -andtried to look c a l m . ' , , -: Mack tried to intervene and 'e:x:p.lain.- The,pig, _'l iandsomehost took him by the neck arid flung him' ,IP-tb a coiner. ' H e picked Jane up' bodily arid carried

her to a n¢arby s o f a : , ' . ' . . ~ ' ' . ,,.' ' " there ' l l be ,n o rough s t u f f ~wh}le 1 ',am 'here .. ,' .This , is one of,iny.homes,"· h e ~ s a i d w i t h a p p a"chivalry. ) 'N ixon that.".c ' . > "

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--But Jane did ilOt see how her, supposed. cham- . '. , ..pion winked to' the men and how they exchan 'ged . . "

glances. , .The big man walked over and sat down by Jane . ' ,"Look here," he s a i d ~consolingly, "nobody is

going to get neither_ me nor any of my homes inh a d : ~. I am going to be your friend." . .

At last, thought· Jane, she had met oneo£ screen- ,land's nob-lemen, although he. w ~ s.ratl1-errough inmanner. Bt:tt he seemed to nave a hear ras big. , :as his'body. , ' . , ,-. .- ' '., "" . . . . ,-" " ~ ' ,. " " ~ , . ' , ' •. ' ." "1.t was p a ~ t ' t J d i '~ l ~ c k : a J 1 i J ~ ~ e~ a i d s ~ p 1 e t h i ~ g. ' , . 'about departing.. ' ;: . ~ ' . ,",' -: " . ; ' .

"Don' t spoil' t h ~ ' 1 ) a r t y : ''pleaded the host.' { ' T h e r ~ '. ~ , ' , : "

ain't nobody here'·yet. I expect·<! ralt of ladie.s .and, . . .gentlemen. The ' bunch seldom'gets neie ',before 'two;" . . ' .

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began to , fill up. ,.- The most remarkable etiquett,e, . ''seemed . to prevaiL \Vhether -a man preceedeq awoman through an 'open door" or i f h ~conversed..gibly with his cigar or cigarette in his mouth, mattered .ncit ·at all. Everybody called each other- bytheir (irst name and, all 'of them smile<;l i n a peculiar. . ,

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would maintaIh 'a,n ordinary family for aweeKwer. e ' ; . ,emptied almost in one swallow. . .concoctions \¥ere ' ; : >

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Painted" on each one was a number.' " , " , 'At the same time Mack, his assistant, ~ p ~ s s e d ' ,

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" a number on i t to each of their backs. 'No t know'"

, ing what was coming, Jane permitted him to giveher one. She thought it was a new game. It w a s -

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the 'host .• Tne' gir lswe!e t c i l d ~ t o g ; l t h e r i na carnerand turn t h e i r ~ b a c k s ~ t o t h em , e n - I e a v i n g t h e i r n u m ~,bel'S exposed to view." >, ' , . , ' - " . ,

"The new one is 18," ,said Mackin ' a low 'tone .as "he approached the ' table . . the: ,host : , s J . i , P I ; ~ . dthaI" . --, c ' , •

. ,number into the table draweI'. ,,,,c" " ~ ' ' . ~ ""Awrit lesgo," cried' the host. '. Mack spun the .

wheel that lay on the table. ' , . '

",Number 6," yelled the host. A dozen men. . grabbed' for it. The victor turned about and madea rush for the girl marked "6." Maudlin shoutsand suggestive grimaces greeted them. Mackhanded the girl twenty dollars as the pair walkedto another part of the house. They were seen no

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of any kind, one man after another drew his giiLThe girl took her money and each pair in turnvallished. " '

pur ing ' the sale' of the "paddles," as }anelearn'tid "the wooden disks were called, she had overheard

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-enough to let ' her ' k n o w ~~ h a ti t meant. One of·the women eyentold her of a "paddle" party she .had a tt ended and what a "fine" time everybody had. , -and money'besides. . c , .

Jane found i t easy' to slip up sta,irs and find ·hercoat. I t was four o'clock. She passed out of thehouse' unnoticed; 'walked and ' ian, until she- wa,s· a .dozen ,blQcks: away . . ,It was -broad daylight wIlen·.she reached home. . '

..',,Her ahsence' was not remarked unfit' the room

w.as.aJmost emptied . . Then Mack noticed she was ,'gone;- FIe hunted everywhere. He went back andtold the host.

"Why in hell didn't you watch her,". he growledat Mack, as he slipped Jane's number oUt of, the.drawer and on to the table and re-placed)t withanother. .

. - .In this way the host drew a girl. -Mack d r e w t ~ e ·.

blank that represented Jane. . ' " " ' ~ 'The big room was. empty now but from every ',..

part · of the house came suppressed laughter. , Thelights went out. .

Thus ehded the-function.' I t was regarded as a '

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Thus she was able to p u r c ~ h a s ethe -baubles and'_dresses wl)ich appealed to her as the g r ~ a t e s tpos- _sessions a girl could acquire.

But Letty was young then-only fifteen. She isolder now and wiser much wiser. The Past hasa baleful look to h e r - a saddened, chastened look. Aforbidding Memory haunts her, taunts her. And ', this is the story: "__ Growing into, a fairly pretty girl who knew _how

" to wear clothes, a win"some expression, an- innocent,face, with a simulated poise that was always on tap,Letty heard of the movies. "She had played -in a .theater where pictures were shown, The lure of the

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silent drama called to her in such .determined tones 'that she forsook her violin in'the land 'ofmanywives .and hastened to ' Hollywood.' - . . . - - ... '.

. Letty, found that the job of ~ ' e x t r : i - g i r l " . b r i n

little remuneration .unless ..:::- well, Letty _didn't 'kriow the-ropes-then. ' I t was an: assistant directorwho first thaught. her the th ingsshewa ' r i t ed , to

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ful a r t ~ s t sat: teci-ching young girls many t h i ~ g s ~maIJY tricks ·of the movie profession. .

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' ,By "the time the assistant director had shownLetty ,how' she could be successful as an actress;

. she was granted an opportunit y t o give her educa.tion a test. The assistant had found a blonde wholooked particularly good to him, anyway. He wasfinished with L e t t y . ' . '

As a bathing girl, Letty got her i ir s t p a r t: Thedirector of comedies mcrelywanted to see if she'could screen in. a bathing ' cosfume, he sain; ,He"looked her over" in the privacy -of ' h i s office. T n ~ .

bathing. suit was p ' a r t i c u l a r l y d a r i n g - : ~ - v e n.

movies: Th,e director :appr€Jved 6f her form . andin comedies he was o n ' l ~of the big directors. Thatwas Letty's c u ~ . S h eis ' a bright girl, is Letty.

Some' girls. would have s ta rt ed r ight in to vampthe great director-who, incidentally, is part ownerof t he s tudio where he directs. Not so, Letty. Lettyhad been schooled-by an assistant director. She,had learned all about the fine art of "yessing." ,Vamping is old. . " ..

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patted, hini 'pn, the cheek she leaned against him " < '

when she conversed with him; she tantalized h i m ~.' _ ,and walked away. ' Letty had learned a -great deal ,more than some of tb.e other g i r l s ~ t h e yhad not allbeen schooled by an assistant director.

'Soon the great direc tor was seen out with Lettyat a few of the r.oadhouses at Venice, Playa del Rey, .Beverly Glen; ~ Letty and the great d ir ec tor of tenexchanged, knowing glances on the lot.

:, . And 'y.rith t he ' passing of each day Letty keptgrowing wiser: She was wise enough not to tax thegreat direcfOt't09' much. She needed clothes andother t h i I ! g ~ - < ..,The:re was a certainshoe'"mercha,ntin

Los Angeles. ,',He liked movie girls." Lettx··saw to.', ' .it t ha t she ,yas the R a r t j c t i l a r ~ o v i : e .girlhe:Jiked;_ Letty was nice to herc,dir-ector> 'and 'pice_ t ~ the _ - ., shoe merchan t -bu t each ' had'" his >place<"iii :-her , .s ~ h e m efor the future. The former, was:: tQ be 'her -:t " ~ ~ _,', .'steppjng stone. The latter·supplied. the w h e r e w i t h a l - : " ' ~.c " : .

, to keep her dressed for the part untiL " ' ' . ~ n ;op.e ': - , " "day his wife went to a department store- and g o t .

the wrong b i l l - i t amounted to over Five hun'dred.Letty had to be more careful after t h a t - bu fno t lessambitious. ' . .

There was heralded throughout Hollywood oneday, the news that a wond'erful director was comingto "town a master builder.

Letty read the news with avidity. She beganto plan . . She had sense enough to know that ,as" a: 'comedienne she never would arrive. No girl everamounted to anything in comedies. They were,good enough to r u b off th e rough spots, :but that .was all. She must have a chance at drama. Shehad tried innumerable 'times when the gre,at com-. - . -. ~

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' . " S() she decided'to use her wit . and her physicalc h a r m . ' "

Patiently she, waited tIll lone evening the op- 'portunity came when she coull! meet the Great One- :- the wonderful : directqr of master p i c t u r e ~. . Theintroducfion was simple"and brief. 'To Letty it wasan event upon which she dete rmined to capitalize. .

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But Letty was patient as ever. She bided her goodtime:' There was but another step. The Great Oneneeded a girl to play the role of a woman memberof a gang of thieves. With the aid of a bookingagent, she succeeded in sel ling herself her services~ to the Great One for his big masterpiece . a pie- _ture that has been called the equal of anything Griffith ever produced. ' -etty's work made an impression. She ,knewhow to be ha rd - t o play the embit te red woman .She was wise but it had cos t something and thehardness in the p ict ure was not all acting. ' . .. . By, degrees she began to appear atpJaces the

Great One f requented- jus t as if by accident. Bythe same slow process she practised the wiles shehad learned from, her two teachers. the assistantdirector and tne great director-and' soon she 'beganto see progress. Slowly, but none the less surely,she broke down the Great One's reserve, 'and t h e n -

Step by step. she builded the foundation for. hersuccess. She intrigued the Great One , without "shame she permitted him to come to her in the g re atsilences of the whisper-ing night; - and in the pinkt in ted hou rs of the dawn she bade him begone lestsomeone· learn of their illicit love. ..

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Later she told him many things and he-believed ..her . . She . had i lot realized all her ' ambitions yet.She needed him.

At a cafe in New York he agreed to provide thefunds f@r her own company her tr iumph was complete . . She had her publicity man call in all herbathing girl pictures of the earlier days. The publisher. of a motion picture trade paper agr eed to get

. a r e l e ~ s efor her pictures . I t cost her 'only a smileto secure this service without pay. The publisherand the Gre,aL.one· were friends of l ong s tanding .The publisher had .helped 'make the Great. One greatand it had paid w ~ e l l . ' , ' . . . ".- . ~ -

. Mystery surrounded the formation of the.company-Le t ty paid-all the bills af the studio ,hername appeared on the pay checks. ' H o l l y w o o d ~ s u s ' : '

pected but did not know. The Great One was in.-volved in law suits over his big picture and hisname must not appear. The Great One chose an airof mystery-wel l and good. Hollywood was'usedto myster ies-none of which were really mysteriesto Hollywood at all.

But Letty had- started something-she had succeeded in making a slave of the Great One. Shehad won him from his relatives, his friends and hisbackers. She had made of him a servant who an.swered: her every whim he lived only for her.

I t was strange, too . For here was a brilliantman . a man with a reputation for big things ascholar, a gentleman, a connoisseur yet he was averitable groveling slave to Letty, an uneducated,unrefined, mongrel type of middle western gir"1.

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Now there was a hands0m..e yO!1ng chap, - anactor o fa c lass -who frequented the lo t , The youngson of a famous theatrical father. f-k looked goodto· Letty, did Waldo. ,He _was, clean-cut, husky,clever grid ,a good dresser. " 'Bet te r looking by .far , 'than her G re at One-'-a-nd younge r.W4y, he 1}.adnogray hairs at all. c - - " 0 .

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really in love or at least~ h e

thought i t ~w3J.S Jove. ,Anyway, Waldo a p p e a l ~ dto'ner in a d.ifferent way than did the Great One. - S l : i e ~

began to cultivate Waldo, the young one. And -. -_Waldo,appeared to like Letty. Perhaps he was- fl at tered, fo r Letty was now a star; the newspaperclippings said so. For the Great One m a i n t ~ i n e c lafine staff of press agents for the express. ptirpose of' ,

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- each other's- company. He was a lways.by her ,side- - .at the studio. ,- Indeed, -it soon b e c a m ~ 'nO,ised about, ~

- t h a t the young 'couple-'were engaged, and neitherone of them tQok the tr.<i.l;lble to deny 'it. Even thepress agents failed to c a p i t a l i z ~upon: the choice bit -,

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haven 't th e slightest idea what you have 'hearq." . ," I t isn't true, is it, Letty? You:are.not going

~ omarry h im-and leave me are you,.Letty, dear?""Aw, what's the matter with you again?" burst .

'lUt the gir l . ' "You always manage, to ' think. up -',omething to razz me about. What ' s eating you,inyhow? Haven' t I got a right to"do as I dainI1

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Great One drop his head in hi's hands as h ~ e t t l e d '.

back in his thai r. The Great One was very, v e r y ' , ..t i r ed . '

.Letty's· picture was finished and released. I t

was regarded as a good one. The Great One wasg iven li tt le time to rest.

In order to hold the girl,. he supervised anotherpidure and his assistant completed it. This pictUre, of course, starred Letty. I t w<!-s not such awonderful 'picture-mediocre, in fact. But, the p1ib- ,l icitybroughtabo"uf by the success of tpe master- .piece made ol·Letty:'a, well kiwiwn actress . • I t madeher " f a m o u s : " A l l d ~ h e rnameJcar r ied th 'esecond . .", 'photoplay pasLtire booking'off}ces and into the pro':'j e ~ t i o nrooms 6f the theaters 'throughout,'-the ·land.

By this time Letty w a s ) l a t i r i t i n g t h ~GrceatQneopenly. She turned from him, head upl if ted; eyesstraight ahead. But she had succeeded only toowell in her efforts to drive the Great One tram' her.Indeed, she had broken his hea rt., He took to his bed and for many weeks laythere; paying no attention to anyone. Apparentlyhe did not want t o get well. '

BHore his 'death the company which he hadformed jo r the' purpose of starring Letty went intothe: ftiscard. But Letty was "made." The death 'ofl{er benefactor brought about the solution of herp r o b l e m ~ aproblem she had been trying"to solvefor several months . That problem was How to Become a Star for One of the Biggest Companies inthe Business. - ; ' .

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Today Letty.is listei:l _among the Stars. Eve ry,day she climbs highe'r. Ber position appears t 6b e

"secure. I;Ier escapades seem to be confined to. play- "ing'" a quiet game with those who can do. her themost good;

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the thou.sands 13er year. For he is One O I the great-est in hls l i n e : " , ' .J ' _ •

. ." But i t waS 'riot alwa:ys thu's; Tiine was when.he - . -was a plugger' .•aworker in anotlfer.line-of endeavor - ' .

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. Happily married:was ' this come5iian whonr-:weshall call Parry. He stayed at home ~ h ( j s e-days and - _enjoyed the society of his loving- wife and ha,ppy < ' . ~

little child his daughter. ~ ' , -- Throughthe years of struggling fo ra livelihood,

fighting off the spectre of debt which followed inthe wake of the birth of their baby, the wife waseyer at his side cheering him, praising him, helpinghim to mai<e a.sQccess.in life. That was her j o b -she was a helpmate. . . .

Then ' he became a mot ion p ic tu re actor.At first he was only ordinary and commonplace.

. But his trained newspaper sense showed him that ·many comedians- who were funny were overlooking :'some important features ideas which make foi-fun . c ' .

on the screen. "Gags," the, comedians call them. -So Parry began to t r you t new stunts "gags."

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His employers saw that he "1].ad something" andthey permitted him to spend- all ~ h e ' m ( j n e yhe required to properly "put over" his stunts.

And soon he became known as a r e a l comed ian.Iot because of his·acting, for he is· not an actor .. butfor the reason that his "gags" were novel and: new.

Soon his head became s light ly enlarged he wasbecoming famous . . B is le tters to his"wije, who stillremained in New York, became more _and more in- ' ...f requent< ' . . . ; . . . .

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a habit with her. She had employed": it· for many • .

years for just the purpose of decoying- iuen ' to do ',. '.her bidding. She was clever, none can gainSay that. -

It was no trick at all for hertoingnit iateherseWin the good graces of the comedian.-' And at' o n ~ e '.she became his ~ leading woman: She was· a come __dienne. She admitted· i t to Parry and-he-believedit.

In time he bough t her a handsome fight blue ca .- a limousine. Parry was' her slave. ,He visited h ~ i

apartments. Virtually he lived there day· ,andnight. A paid chauffeur drove her ' to the studio.Parry drove a nondescript cu. Of course, they didnot arrive a t the studio together . . That would .b.etoo crude. . . ' -.

Back in New York a little woman' began to eather heart out. The cry of mate for In,ate went but

across the continent, but Parr y hea rd ·i t not. Histiny daughter, now a beautiful young girl, sent tearful messages to her daddy, but Parry ignored those ..a p p e a l s . _ _

Came then time for action. ,The wife had been- . - . . .

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being gradualy cut down. The l i t t l e d a u g h ~ e r , J o o ,

now old enough to see that her mother was terribly c ,

worried and, sad, wondered. She tried vainly to, cheer her saddened mothe r- to tell her that "Daddy" would come home some day -o r perhaps send 'for t hem-and they would all be happy together

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-no word came from the comedian. ' True a small'

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So she packed up .'and 0 with' herdaughfer, they'.:came to Hollywood. Vainly did she try to get onthe "lot" where her ' comedian' husband' wasem · - ,

played. The gate keeper had his'instructionsf o r ,

she had wired that she was coming. Yes" she hadtelegraphed Parry but he did not meet her at the,t r a i r i ~The ,little daughter mingled her tears withthose of her mother that night in the g loomy hotel ,

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not at hOll).e. Then it began to dawn u{:>on-the.wife

of the comedian that he was deliberately: turningher down---c-flauting 'her love. . , <

The wife learned of a noted att6rney;-::-a lawyer, "who knew all. the movie folks,' for they were his , .clients many of them. To this attorney she went.

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The gruff, old lawer's heart was touched at the 'pathos of it all. ' He knew the kind of a ~ m a nParrywas-o f his philandering, of his- infatuation for ~ h i s

leading woman. . , , , , 'o he sent for Parry. Parry came at the lawyer'sbidding. Many oUhe film workers do. They knowwhat he knows. They are afraid not to _ans,werwhen he beckons; • " : ~ " ~ ,. - . .

Parry came a,ild met his loving wife and histearful daughter a t the gruff, but kind hearted law-yer's office. " " , ' . . '

. Joyfully did the little girl bounce to the side ofher "Daddy." ,, , "Daddy! Oh, iny Daddy!" she cried, throwing

her arms about the comedian's neck.-;: :. -

Roughly the comedia.n loosed the tiny arms t.hatencircled his neck. Then he turned to his w i f e ~

the wife he had promised to love and cherish thewife who had helped him when he needed h e 1 p i n o ~ t ;

The woman s tood aghast at his actions. <It was in-credible! .. - •. '

"Stil l nagging, I$ee," he said, sneeringly. ~ " S t i n

hounding me! Wen, what do you ~ a n t ? "'.' ~ c

. The wife fell upon her knees before the comedian, begged him for the sake of the, 1:?aby to makea home for them ' to love t h e m ~ t olive with them.. . - . -

But he turned away from her whistling., "Let's get i t over with," he said to the lawyer.

"What does this woman want?" · ".' "She wants and we intend to ge t - a l l that is

coming to her':"""in money," answered the attorney."She wants your love and your kindness ' she wantsa father for her daughter . she wants a home.: Butthis she sees now she cahnot have: She wants hap- ,p i n e s s ~ a n dyou are denying her that. So she must , '

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have.moneY-to properly bring up your daughter-=--and heers."·. ' . - ;< , . _ ' . _ .- .

" "Well, how 'much ?"asked thecomenian. " I 'm ,not .a m i H i o t 1 a i r e ~y@u knew. "'.I t · costs me' a Jo t of·money to live here , , ' . " - . -.

"We know your salary never fear. We'll-'getwhat she wants - in our own way-unless ' you see·"

fit to be fair right now." .The comedian did not see fit to be fair. But be- ".fore he left the a ttorney' s office he had paid-pa id inhard coin-and he is still paying. And he will contil}ue to pay- fo r the cO.!1tract is iron bound andc ~ r t a i n. • That is the kind o f contracts the lawyer.draws-because he knows some of the movie folksfor what" they, are: :' ." " . . " .

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hearts beat dully, yetqccasionally;. --o/ith ,-a fa-ster . ~

. beating of hope-for" some .. day, maybe, • "D9-ddy"will see the error of his ways,and come hethe' ' S O n i ~"

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For Lucy -a s she shall be cal led-now h a s ' t h ~- ' ,upper hand. She is what is termed in Hollywood,

"a gold digger." She has extracted every dimtfshe.can from the comedian her rent, her car, her jew-els, her clothes, her pleasures. .

But even to the man who has brought her allthese she oftentimes is not at home.

And why?. . Because- _oftentimes other men are there men·she has lured; men who are.fond of her charms; men

who do not l e a v ~her apa rtment s until d a y b r e a k ~and .later. _ . " .

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' . And Parry pays the billsa.s'she flits incand out o f -. t.he Tenderloin's m a z e s ~ H e rf ; : t ~ ' e 'isfanlil:iar. in' every,;, . '," .'lmte1lobby on Btoadwa)« She:has"matiY'Jelephone, : , 'cal ls-many midnights'-!-Rl>ers. ' ' ; . ' .. ' .. " .. ' ' . ' ~ ' , . •

Parry pays for t h e s ~ . j ~ t 1 - r t t s .'to," the ' sa rne ' c i ty" ,.""•. "where a: little '. f a : t h e r l e s ' s ' ~ g i d - ' : s i t s : Can'd· waifs'.\1vith'· •• 'her face' pressedagail1sf:fhe"pane .,waifs 'alQne-fQr .', .'., 'her "Daddy" who never comes. , . . , . " " . ) " 3 " , : , . , ~..,.: .,.,

Every d a y P ~ t r y .falks.to Luc{ f r O h r t ) ) § ~ h r l." ...'gdes ' . - i (h(( fails t ( j - y . e a c J i h e r h e c o I h e s h 6 t l l ~~ .

.'. She ,dfsappeai.¢d)or<i,w6'days on her l a s f C t r r p ~ a i i d.;, : ; ~, t h e Y ~ . h a ~ ; t ( ; l : " g e t : F , C 1 6 c t 9 r : f o rParry. His assista.rtt 'x i :.. andhls::': 'Yes Men" were sorry for him so they t r i e u ' ' ' ' .

~ . , " : ' t d ~ f r : ; : u r t ~ o J y f n g " e x c u s e s ,but they knew where s h e · o • -

' C , . ~ ' ;",:'cw<!s'a"rfd-.under their breaths they ~ u r s e dher . . ' . - ",,:, .'-', - j < - ' ~ - - . - - ~ ' \. -. • - - . - - " . - - . ~ , - ~ . - _ . > ~... --':.. '"c ' " , ' Y. · ' · ,FlIrally she wrote and saId she was notcomuig " , f ': ·";- '"bacKthe going was too good in New,York.HSo.<, .. . . . . . . aftei' i couple of weeks. of inness,' d u r - i n g ; w h i c b ,'.' '.

.was under the doctor's care; the"dOctor knew:;-what.· ..... "he needed and didn't dare tell. h inI" P a r 1 : y : W e I l t "

work with· a.ne:\\, ~ l ~ < l . t l i ; n g ,woman. '.:: .c:.;' : : . - ' : 5 . : : , : ...•.. ,::'.

His' friends'and;faithflllassi$taiit"v,erehappy', ..••. ;,:','

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..' '.through with hJS para.site. 'Bll.t' the'yClid n o L k n Q w =,Lucy. . When she·' tireti of New york'sh.e1c:fme: . . '..back, smiled at Parry anA t!ie nex t ' n r o f r i r ~ g t h - e•., new leading woman: was . fired . . . ,Luc}ciesumed .' .• :, her place as sole occupant o f t h e · h a r ~ m : : ' - " ' ; . " ' ,=...' : ( ' ; ,. " That evening she 'recounted. to a, group.?! la.ugh ....·... ' :ing a'nd screaming studio pals .. the wonderfuL t ime, ' ,

, . she had in New York. . She tofdof all' the' men .she. :' ~. - h a , d . met,a'nd set the bunc.h roaringwith,:glee again " .· a n d : a g a i n . a s s h e re-told her ' adventures. .. . . . " . "', '.... ' ",

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ger." . Parry's money'is good---,-but i t is nqt ~ n b u g h .

She wants more-a lways more. And tnen-Parrymay be a great comedy star but he is not .mucn f o r ' ' "looks. She wants more and more and more. And "that is her way of getting it . Soon Lucy will be 'r ich- for in proportion as their men grew poorer,the "go ld d igge r" grows richer.

And back in N ew York with her little facepres;sed a g a i ? s t t ~ epane a little girl waits andwatches ' alone she waits for her "Daddy" who,never comes. . . . ; ~ .

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And a l o n ~woman dreams oJ- the days when-shewas the hefpmate. ~·th:e happ}{wife of a poorriewspaper a r t i s t - and : inhe r hearf,J:;utses the hour mo- ,tion pictures came into being;' - . o ~ · " ~ < - - = - . ' . .' .. ~ ~ . _ - . , ' > - . -

But some t ime-some day - there maY-i'c6me a ' ~ ",familiar s t ep -and with. a great joy, thafwi l l fill· ,their tender hearts to overflowing, they will' dash - - 0 ,

down the stairs and fall into the a rms ' of theirHDaddy"-if he sees the light in t ime--, intime.

But, of. course, that will ' only be when Lucygets ready. .

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aV E 'brings strange contrasts-: i t ,up'setstraditions and turns precedent all topsy:":turvy. But what is love?

o Long years ago when motion pictures werestruggling along in baby clothes there was a manwhose total histrionic experience had been confjned

to carrying a spear on the speaking stage. ' .He w:asa "super." , - - ' .

I t was D. W. Griffith who gave liim his firstchance in the piCtures-and he still carried the spearwell. That, in fact, was about all he ever could -do "successfully. - - , ' .

But it did not keep htm from becoming a makerof pictures' of many popular p i c t u r e s . , .

. ,But right at ' first i t was a struggle: .Somehowhe m ~ U 1 a g e dto break away from a job- induced half'a dozen others to p ~ tin ' theirwages along with hisand take a chance on making a comedy.

Finally, they sold their finished production andrealized a profit. With this money they made an- 'other picture' and by degrees the spear-carrier became the sole owner of, th€ company the othersworked for him. '_

Such is the law of humans. The man with the ,

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. Now , there :was a g i r l - a comedienne whos ta rt ed Qutwi th Jack. She was his leading womanthrough aIr the vicissitudes which accompanied the _first experiments in pictures. I t was Molly whocheered Jack up when things went wrong, who kept ,

all the players in good spirits.And so i t came about that Jack learned in hiscrude way to care for her. . So did many another.But froRl the beginning it seemed, tha t , Molly'saffection leaned more toward Jack than any otherof her pals in "the good old days" when custard piesand stuffed bricks were cQined into golden ducats.'. - Tim,e went on' and g r ~ d u a l l y ~the :othe.r. s ~ i t o r s

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particularly good to Jack. ' . ' - - ~ .

, With some of his n o w ' e a s i l y e a r ~ e dI l19r iey-he . ,fitted.-bp a handsome apartment. " To this lovel iest ' , < ,

Molly came often. No, they were not married.I t seemed fair enough to Molly, she who had

been reared to look lightly upon moral conditions.She could see the point. As a married woman shewould not be so popular in pictures. , ~

And·so they drifted along for a year two years- : and then , -, One day, there · came on the "lot" an attractive

brunHfe. Straightway the girl shall we call herMae?-and- Molly became' friends, then, pals. I twas Mae who proposed that they be good· friends.At first Molly demurred, ' then she agreed. ' I t was a 'diplomatic move., There was a good deal of talkgoing on around the "lot." She wanted ' to stopthat talk. So she frolicked with Mae. .

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. " : r : s h ~ ; s o o : r d 6 b ~ c o m e astar? Was she not e a r n i n g a - ·" ' : wonderful ly bIg salary? . . . ' ,. ' ~ . ,:. " B u t Jack began to get young ideas. True, in h i s ' ~

, . - way he loved Molly; he does yet. But· T e m p t a ' ; : ''" tiOl1 tossed her curls and beckoned him'to -come.irITf"'" .., .

-. play along the H ighways of I i r l ' m o f a H t - Y - C ~ T e m.' .•..

tiOl1, gu ised as a shapely,maidwi!4alhiring,lipsand::" •firm, rounded b o s o m c a n e d : . t o : h ~ i n ~ a , h d,to',,;: .take heed. . , ' , ..., ' , . --::, ..... : , . : c - - . ; " ' "

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Once she was cal le louLof town f,or,e( ; c 6 t i - p ~ e:of :"days. ' . She returned one day a h e a d o f h e r ~ p ! a

schedule.- A friend whispered a word to'her;"'She-" .' "," . Was dumbfounded. Certainly . if could .n0tlJe t r , u e ; ' '.

Her Jack would not do such' a:thi:ng. ' : _ " . ~ >, '.. 'q 'he friend offered p rooLAU sheneecled to do, . . '.....,. ,she was told, was to q u i ~ t r y g o .to a : x e r t a i n a p a

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s l e e p i n g ~ M a e .But she reckoned w i t h o u t ~ l i e rad- "versary. Mae was the stronger, the more e a t ~ l i k e.of the two. With a bound she was up and fightingher former chum.· Grasping her head, Mae thrustMolly's head against :the wall. Time and again,'slle battered i t against the wooden casing of thewindow, lacerating the scalp, tearing long gashes in.her cneek. ' '

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. a'rd, sneaked out.and dowilthe elevatos ~ a n d'fled. ' ; . : , ~ "

Molly fell un.consciQus;her- head bleed ing , her. 'DJeath coming' i r i ~ g a s p ' s... ,.Mae, 'wai t ing only to seethe havoc she had :wrought,.:too hurriecfl}(dressed, and went to a hoteLfor the night: " ' ,:c,

Molly, with b e a t i n g ~ ' h e a dand . too weak fromloss of blood to go downstairs,. called in her physi-.::. ' .Clan. '.

The next morning, Jack quaking with fear, calledup the apartment. She was deathly ill, he wastold. No he could not see her. The dQctor said shewas too ill. Well, then, was there anything hecould do. ", . He' was told t o go to Hell! , ' .

, That scared him all the more, j u s t as. Molly

and her friend expected i t would. So he called up'the doctor. Yes, Molly was in b"<id shape " the endin grave d o u b t ~ o n l yhope for the b e s t . . ,

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let him see her. Every day he was told she wasgetting worse: ." . . . ,. Then about a week after the event fu l n ight , one ., .of the Los Angeles papers caine out with a seven "column scream headline "MOLLY DYING.". .. Jack was, petrified with f ~ a r . Be called in his

man Fr iday-a t that timelia cadaverous y o ~ n gmanwith a reputat ion as a clever fixer. . '

Friday got busy . . The first thing to do was toqu ie t the papers. By the pulling of a fewadvertising strings, the 'newspaper stuff began- to ,abate.The journal that ran the seven column head in itsf i r ~ tedition on the first page buried the story'in thecetlter of the second edition under the smallest head ..

i t could find type for: - , ' "<'"

Of course, the editor had been convincedJhat he / ',.was in error, that the lady was really getting better .'a l ready-was mending rapidly. , . ' ,: .

Jack had a very busy fortnight following the bat-. tIe. Between keeping the p'apers, under 6)htrol andtrying to find out just how i l l Molly was; he didn't '. 0

have much time to make comedies. Every request ~

that he see Molly was denied. She was too ill, far,too ill to see him or anyone else. . : ' ,, Yet, somehow 01 ' other the papers had allowed .

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summons to call at t he apa rtment s of Molly. Her ...,"head was still swathed in bandages; f'She was pale "and thin. The doctor said she might no tge t well . ,

Jack was offered an ultimatum. Theul t imatumwasthis : He must immediately build a new studi!? _a"vay from -his "lot." He must employ one of the .'finest directors obtainable. He must buy a first- 'class, story a comedy-drama, something to whichMolly aspired .. Then he must star her, advertise '

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There was another alternative : ' The doctor said', she might die. Mae would be held for murder,-,

Jack would be an accessory. The whole sordidaffair would be aired. Jack would be ruined. 'Thetproducer faced either r u in -o r the necessity

of spending a fortune upon the woman he said heloved- i f she lived. - .

Now, as a matter of cold, sordid fact, Mollywas not ill-=-she ~ a snot suffer ing from her injuries- s h e had been cured. But doctors are odd persons; ,

and this one Was her friend. ' , ,", "

Nearly two years w e r e ~ s p e n t6n the production in 'which Molly was starred. Of c'ourse; the' new,studio was built;, many a first-class direct()i wentdown to defeat before the p i c t u r ~'was completed.

~ But she received everything she demanded andwhat she demanded was a plenty.

The picture was not released' for still' anothery e a ~ . But it was a good one. I t made the star

, famous and rich. Jack made a lot of money in themeantime, and he needed it . Molly took heavy toll.

Finally, when her big picture was cut, titled andreleased, she found that she must go to New York.There she remctined untiL her name was spreadabbutthe land as a' great staL , . .

Daily there caine' to her frantic telegrams begg ing, p lead ing with her to come back - t o her, Jack., He needed her now more than ever, he said. ' Andhe wanted so to be forgiven-and they would s tar t 'all' dver again .

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'price,' my good wimmien, I meant cash, spondul ix ,mazuma, golden ducats." "'"

. "What DO you mean," cried both in a breath." I mea-ii, children, that ·Adolfo has put a cash

value on what he's go t . . . He accommodates theladies at so much per accommodate or· well, youcan nave his services b y the week,· month, or hout.It 's all acco rd ing to how you feeL" .- . r:::-

"Right now?" cried Mrs. Prominent Citizen andMrs. Usurer, in chorus. .. , - .. ~ . - c .

"Now, girls, don't get excited, don't he foolish.'Right now'," mimickeq the big woman. "Rightnow, he's· a great star. -The mammas and th edaughters a l lover this dry nation fight like cavewomen Ja get good seats whenever and whereverhis· -:love making appears on the screen. . Hedoes· not have to live the old way any more. He'sjust -like. the successful bucket shop operator •in the high finance class-probably contributes to .the funrl to clean-up t ~ ~ .bucket shops or thelounge l izards- take your pick."

"All right. Tell us the. whole story, teacher,"said Mrs. Prominent Citizen.

"Yes, please, teacher," implored Mrs. Usurer."Time was," began the big woman, "when our heto

was not as prosperous as he is today. He wasn'tve ry prominent' (nodding toward Mrs. Prominent.Cit.) And he did not have any money to loan outat high rates of interest. (N odding toward. Mrs.Usurer). So he had to do the bes t hecould .- Now,it happened that the boy had brains in his feet -as

well as his head. Also he had no scruples. No scruples, a-tall. Adolfo was what they call a danCingf901. 'The· 'dancing' part was okay, but they werewrong on the 'fooL' Very, very wrong ... "With his little old dress su i t - tha t was. his

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• guys - the oil guys - the munition guys all . thatbunch, ,came there to play. And more often "thannot mamma had to come alone b e c a u ~ epapa had tostay home and nurse little War Baby. And' th ismade mamma a very lonesome and a very miserablewoman.

"So that every night at the ultra ultra HotelMisery'land and the also u ltr a u lt ra Hotel Wantington there were sundry women, 'not too good look"'-_i.ng, not too fair of fo!"m, nor t o o young, who sat by .

the side lines and enviously eyed the ' young gids 'who had no difficulty in secur ing par tners. Wh a t ,good were their diamonds.:'and_t4-eir gola emhroid-. :ered dresses and their ' l i m c i \ l s i n e s ~'n everyQling:when they couldn't get the]TI a dancing partner. <. Sothere was gloom, deep impenetrable gloom anddis-:appointment among the mammas of-the War Babies'.

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eye surveyed the field. . He saw what he saw. Thediamonds did not blind him. In the dazzling lighthe only opened his eyes all the wider. He lookedover the young ones and he looked over the oldones. For the time be ing - a t least until a f t e r ~thecarnllaign was over he determined to turn his backon the' flappers. They would have to w a i t . -

•"He pulled no 'boners. ' He was a bright

youngman. He danced the old girls dizzy. ·Hestarted out by dancing with the young ones andflirting with the old ones over his partners shoulders.

" No, he was not bold. This was work that ,calledfor a certain kind of finesse. No matter "how much.

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he needed them; he must ho ld 't igh t un til th ey came·after-him. . . . . . . . .

"Y (J11 see, Adolfo had once r ~ a dthe story ofPot ipher's wife and how she .chased J i t t 1 ~Joseph, a nice'_Jewish-boy with black eyesand:pret ty hiir, a l lover ..

her husband's preserves just because Jose-ph ha!ldled,'the proposition right. c Heinade her come after h i m ~.

<Them Jews,h;;t\(e ahvays b,een good bus ines s J:rien,' " .-he said to -himself. :. Wherefore, he planned. his·.· . , _campaign ' along Jbs'ephian . lines. He m a d e . , - t h e m....come after him. . ' . . '

~ "', "W:eU,- h e ~ d a n c e dand he danced and i t wasn ' t ·l.ong"hefore he had the rivals for his attentions glar-ing at one ano ther ' and say ing l it tl e spi te fu l things _.,about and often right to each o ther . . The Y O U 1 J g ~.'.girls laughed and sneered and the oldgids -ctied'-":':".,in the privacy of their rooms whenever theY-·didn't, .get their ·full share of dances 'with him.,' And, be- , .lieve me, the boy could.<iance. He made ,every .dowager think she had i t on Mrs. Vefnon Castle.My, but he was the ,Popufar 1;:>oy.· _ -:.= , . ; ; : ' ' - ". . . . . "There i s no Use inprolonKirig t h i ( s toi ) f too·':. ..

m,uch,' children. Adolfo w ~ sgoing great . . F:urids\:

were- getting very, very low, whe'ri the contest came" . .to a . c l i ~ i x . ,T h ~ ,r i v ~ l r yfor his faovrs narrowed-dowilto just two contestants: One was. t h e 'wife gf. a very .. r ich ' Easterner. She had come toPasadena a . t h o n t h ~ ( j rtW'9before with he ryonng / ,daughter: They ~ ()ccupieIl a lavishly appoinfeaJ: :.apartment near the Miseryland. The other was the '.more or less well known wife of a gay blade whosepeople had amassed millions in the packing .game. ",

Wherever people eat her husband's family- : d r ~ w s '.revenue. . . c ' · . _ co:· c.' _ .... ,. "For some time, he played. them both. On. one occasion he rode home with t he . pair ' iri- a · ·

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">Fi:nally the lady from the East forged, to the ,front and took possession of Adolfo. He lived well,had plenty of money and prospered. The apart-ment was cosy and comfortable and there Was al-ways room for him. This lasted' until the womanwho ran, the apartment house decided things weregetting !l- little bold.' The lady was asked to move.Which she did and , Adolfo went along. ~ But thetime' came fox ' , g b ~ i i ghome ' a n d . ~ - h e rJ1usban<;l!s in,sistence. ~ o u l dbe ov:er<:ome no Jonge!". ' She depar ted ~

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making a good living. , 'He nnally began £0: driftover to Los Angeles. ,He enlaJ;:g'ed his t e r r i t o r y ~

He became a fouro'C!Qck tea hound 'a t the principaldowntown 40tel': He walked about the'lobby: withhis hat off. Was thoroughly 'at home. ' The fouro'clock teas were pat ronized by a group o f womenwhose husbands bored them and a few young girlswho··didn't care. He found many patrons here 'and basked in the sunshine of success andpkn ty.

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bad cl1eck f rom Adolfo went over to the hotel; where' ,,:" . ~

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He founa himand 'demanded payment in:tio 'Un

certain terms: Dblfy asked hini to wait., 'But - theflorist followed him into the tea room' ana there. - - - -our hero whispered a word. or two ' t o a sportive'looking matron ang', came back smiling with the .money to make good the check. ". .- .

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, "Then DoIfy met a m o y " i e g ~ r l ;She was jus t o nthe edge of stardom, just going- over the top. Shehelped him. Then she married him., That was hisentry into p i ~ t u r e s ;He had, done a few bits but wascomparatiyely unknown.

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.met the right, people. He ' had ' talent. _Brains, in, both head and feet, 'His opportunity came and .he- tOQk advantage' of: it. He could act:- Had, been',acting all" his life. ~That 's how he lived. ' B is les- 'sons in love--.making stood him in good stead. All"he ~ h a dto do was be natural. _

"When he finally hit the high mark he didn'tneed the movie girl any more. She was a l i ~ b i l i t y

, now, not an asset. So he canned her. Her career i s ' ,~

about ended. His is just beginning. ,"He draws a fat salary,. His love-making'is ,,in

art. He learned,it i n a great school and was paidwhile learning. He's a big.star. 'Nice girls ,andnasty ones are all in the same boat. , They alU?ve .Dolfy's waY-of loving:" ' , : , , " ,', ' ' :. '

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" ' F o r a ' week the; three uniforme'dmen had been'd r u n k , g l o r i o u ~ l y ; p i c k l e d .They were. on a,'threeweeks' -leaveandJthis: was to be their last- day i n

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"Well, if t h e r e - ' a . ~ i r i ' ta.flock·d' chiG'kensJ" sp.ok;etipone of the s t a g g e r i r i ~ r e : I 1 r e s e f 1 t a t i v ~ s.of Unc}.e<Sam.. "Where'n hell you: goin' ?" he. asked the trib: ' --:. . . .

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"Watchin' the sad sea waves," said pretty littleBabette, tossing her curls. "Who wants l ' know?". "Le's all go together-s ix IiI' pals," suggested

O'Mara, one of the airmen, and a prominent figurein the life of Hollywood's wild set. "Le's all gotogether an' shee th ' shad waves wavin';" . - -"Where ,d'ya get that pal stuff?" wondered one of

the girls. . "Who said so?" , . . ."You all get funny wi' me an' my pals an' I ' ll

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p e a n u t s . . , _ab.ette,thqugp., was a bit overjoyous. She lifted!ler skirts a little too high for strict decorum and she, shimmied aowntl ie broad walk, but Venice is used.o

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'girls: "What tn ' hell )'ou wanta go an' spoil per-fe' tly good party with a damn weddin ' for?" ; ,_:'Ai-n't spoilin 'no party. Make i ~ fine..pai"ty,": said

O'Ma-ra. -"Damn it, Ie's i l l get married." ' : . . , : . ~

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m' wife sore whenever I go out and get married,"sa id one of the other students .

"Me, too," spoke ~ h ethird. ,' ' ' I gotta get me a wife t 'day, somehow," insisted

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at nightfall the three girls accompanied the studentsto the South ern Pacific st ati on whe re the boys entrained for a point in Texas where their trainingschool was located. . ~

The, bride and her two friends returned to their, homes,none of them remembering the details ,of dieparty. ' But they all insisted that i t certainly-was avery enjoyable affair i t gave them a new thrill . '.. . . .. -

Sobered, 'O:Mara explained to .his .friends thenecessity for 'his marriage t o a ,girl he haa n e v e r .

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was given three weeks' leave. He had fo bring t h e ' .license back with him. .He brought it. ' . "

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_of t h ~first to return to Hollywood. He had a iea- ' :s m J . ~ h ewanted to see what his new wile'really' looked like; he .wanted also to be certain whetheror nut he was married. He found that he was ,securely,'. Then came the inevitable. I t was but a few shortmonths till Babette was in court applying for a ~ , '

di\;orce. Her new husband beat her, 'cursed her, .-- .. -:

hated her, she said. To his friends and hers she ' jmade vile charges against hitri:.: She obtained adivorce and alimony:

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O'Mara is one of the most l:!rilliant Y 0 ~ n g 'men iIithe motion picture industry' . .:-He has held 's.everalsplendid pos it ions at the b i g g e ~ t s t u d i o sin Hollywood. He is popular at parties and very much in .

demand amonga." certain set.. _ . - . .Babette is receiving regular. money now, the firstshe ~ y e rreceiyed:- Being an ' ' 'extra' ' doesn't pay . .well, ,or regutady. -Alimony is much easier. Thecourt 'collects t h a t . ' . ' '. .

Ami this is bnly one' of a dozen similar cases.Take Jim Brown, for ins tance. Jim met . achanh- ' .

ing young married woman a t a movie party onenight. Her husband, a young and coming director,was dancing quite frequently with his leadi,ng wom-an, and the 'young wife, piqued, flirted, with JimBrown.

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, Argosies, from all the seven seas caravans ', from every 'cl ime-bring their contributions of am-bitious toilers' to the movie mill. '

A vivid, living mirage of everything ' the humanheart desires lures alike the innocent blue-eyed girl,the sophisticated damsel, the flower ana the fioth'of "mankind, into the yawning mou'th of the aby s s - t h e etragic realm of Moviedom , "'

Showers of gold, luxury realizeclbeyond the wildest dreams, a life resplendent with jewels, gownsthat bewilder the eye, ravishjng silks and s'atins,sables and ermine, fortune; fame and s h ~ m e ! , ' ,

Pugilists become ,actors, song writers, become di.;. , ,rectors, physicians. become character men, bartenders and button-hole makers become producers,artists models and modistes' manikins become stars- i n some cases almost over night ' and police courtlawYers .become arbiters of the public taste!

I t is a strange world , Moviedom. A strange a n d '

a tragic wor ld - a wheel on which men and women "are pitilessly broken in ' body and soul. ,There issomething about the pictures which seems to ,make .men and ' women ,less human, more ' animal-like.

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edge. ' . ", The winning of another }nan) wife or anotner

woman's husband was' a s,ort of friendly con.test:; .Ag - ~ t l i ein which many:played a hand . -The inc iden tof.theleading woman who took away the h u s b a n d ~

a prominent actor and direc tor of the wife who haddiscovered her and selected ,her for ,the posi t ion, isbut one example o f this kind. " . ~ ' " ' ~ " , c-

At a danceuanother leading woman openly boasted, "that she was going to win a certain assistant director,, then present;away from his wife and child: ,She did.,, 'The- p a i r , a r ~ i 1 o wiil'Atistralii!-. The wife is workingin a Los Angeles' 9f!ice':--,sllpportihg herseltand.t l1e. ~ .

' ,girl . They he'ver hear Irom'i lie ,llusbapd"'a.r(d ! a t h ~ l " .. ." Only a few months hefore; t h i ~ : 'then,-ha,ppy fam- ,ily, had enjoyed a wonderful Christmas a ' f ineoigtree, gifts for the girl, games and good-food, friendsdropping in all day. Whenever the wife passes thathouse- the place of her last happy memories, thetears start. But the leading woman wanted thatman. She got him. Movie conditions close,' tin-restained contact. helped her. , ; ''But a .recent case, a very recent case, involving , <

a certain prominent woman ~ t a rand a"marri.ed man, ",once admired byaHwho knew him'as a model hllsband- fa ther, of two childr.en, is receiving more ,than passing n o t i ~ e .I t h a s shocked even shockless· "M9viedom.- . , 'c ,

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-There c a m ~to Hollyirooda few years ago a man

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l i d t y and h.is· wife took a modest apartment. ' Atniglit Befty came'home and helped:-helped with thebaby with the dishes. With the exception of going, to an occasional prize fight, his only pleasure' was,running out to see the few intimate friends

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He struggled on. He was good looking; 'a type.He had s tr ength and physical appeaL Before long.he was much in demand -hadwo ik almost all thetime. He was living clean. N o scandal attacheditself to his name.

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. She had already won, herway to stardom when Hef ty, :a r r ived .Aided ' andabetted b y . h e r g i ~ l i s happear<,tuce, h'er. good looks,. hecinsinuat ing mailner, her: e ~ s ym o r a I - s ~ .and ac a p ~ b l e ' m o t h e t 'who handl,ed ,her ,affairs',':she was: living in easy opUlence 'on a saJa:t:y t ha t i afdr it o fourfigures: -, . .. ' .

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. made much capital. of her "innocent" youth. , Accordin g to the press notices she was still i n her te.ens.

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. for. his _dare-deviF eXploits;· More than:once'he ha,d ' . ,risked his neekafter hours spent in V ! s ' s o c i e t y. ' ,For a while theavia tor forgothis 'wife in Texas tobe with V ..' They had a merry, merry timewhile it la,sted. Then the aviator' was killed. .

At the time Hefty arrived on the scene V had,.not yet selected a successor to the aviator. Tlierewere, ~ h a tmight be called a few casuals who filledin . the lapse a .wild party or two but nothing inthe way of a prolonged l i ason . - - ,

Where or how they met is of little cpnsequence., •Somehow or, otlIer they manage tq meet: in the , . , ,- "movies. Their J ~ . r s ' tmeetings, were bu t frien<ily' , : >'visits. Then V ~ . saw·to ' i t that Hefty shqtild see"':: ' ,:;more of her. Hefty ' y v a ~ ,wiDing. B ~ f o r e ~ ' I Q n gh e ' ,"wanted to be with her often ""oftener thanh:e would

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I t required cunning with a wife and- baby bu tsomehow they managed it . I t is more s imple- inpictures. There is night work long trips 'on loca-tion. . Numerous excuses and opportunities thatexist in no other walk of life. C

In time Hefty's friends a n d h ~had made (,I. lot of " " .them-began. to .notice things'· to open their eyes.HeffY' and V " .' .were g r o w i n g c a r e l e s s w e n ~ t a_ , 'ing no pains to a\Toia a scandaL CThe studiosbeg,;mto talk. ' - .' . " . " . • . ' .

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lady concerned about what their friends had to sayor what they-thought. Hefty remained" away fr9mhome more o ften now-made few if any e x c u s ~ ~ " a n d

saw'his wife 'and home only when" he could- not be

' w i t h V , : · _ '- . - 'v ~ n t s w e r e f : i s td r a ~ i n gto a head." The affiii ' "was, now a "inatter of common gossip." At last the ,wife hearQ_the whole story learned all the detaUs, ' ..

;. M o s t ~QL them Hefty" himself told her. The tel l ing, ,"w ~ scold 'and brutaL".. "

Two'or- three days before the ant ic ipated arr ivalof their second child, he came home and informed

,his" wife he was going to leave. He did leave. Entreaty proved unavailing. She pleaded and'implored- b u t Hefty went. The unborn babe had no il:1-

fltience I " ~Then friends abandoned Hefty and came to the

wife's aid. They promised to help her. ' This gaveher courage. She was told to threaten. They: . :showed her the only way to reach the victims o f , .

movie viceitis. - She followed their advice. Shewould expose them ruin their careers, their moneymaki"ng,pClwers.This appeal succeeds in Hollywood ~

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truth was not so ,easily suppressed- in ~ t h 6 s e · : , d a y ' s .'There was no phalanx of press agents in the armies 'of the ancients. There were no million dollar ad-"vertising appropriations to help s til l the journalisticconscience. No sixteen page displays such. as ' ra,n

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o ,ward and with-all due so lemni ty performed a marriage 'ceremony' for the dQgs.

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applauded heart ily and the comedian was called a - 'genius. Which fact pleased him immensely. Butthe "best" was yet to come.

The dogs were unleashed. There before the as-sembled and unblushing young girls and their maleescorts was enacted an unspeakable scene. _ E v e i l ' ~

trUth cannot jus ti fy the publication of such, details:,. Another recent _party was tha tg iven by Count·

- - - - - - ' " ;c."" a "prince" of a , fellow, at his palatial 'mansion. Nearly two hundred guests were pres-. ent. A jazz orchestra furn ished sensuous music.- The guesfs, women and men, disrobed. Then ao nude dance 'was s taged which lasted unt il morning .

SOIile of the -guests were outraged. , They de--,< patted. Others· remained ,arid took part ih, the orgy .which did not stop with mere dancing fot , some ofthem - , , . - . ; ' . ' . ' .' -. .-. - ~ - .

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better. ' : . . ' . . , . . . , . . . . .A type of "Citizen" well known in 'certaiii q u a r ~ ,: .

t e r s ~ h a n d s o m e i :young, w,ell proportioned' men who' '

work as "extras" in, thep i ~ t u r e s ,

is the paid escort. " ";.or "kept m a n . " . . " , '. : c . . . ':,,'

Deplorable as i t may seem these beings ,have"found p a t r o n s ~ sfar north as the exclusive pre- .cinets ' of DelMonte . Montecito, P a s a d ~ n a ,SanDiego, are· familiar to them. Women of a certain'sort used to have the telephone number 'of the,.:" .establishment where these men held forth and many:

. calls came to them eyer)" day and- night,'" Payf o ~ : :

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. . of the ' great -producer. There was an outer and.' and inner office. In the outer office nobody paid

the s ligh test a tten tion to her, so she walked intot l ieinner room. Half of the walls were unpainted. Ona l arge near- leather sofa lay a man, s n o r i ~ g < l t i s t i l y

with a newspaper over his face. His funny derby.hat was threatening to fall off. . ~

At the desk sat a frizzy stenographer. She was·sucking an orange with much smacking and nowand then" took a bite, peel and all. With the other"·free hand she typed a little spasmodically. She had· her l i ~ b scross,ed with great abandon and worerolled-:upstockings with wild l ace curt ain effects.

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body the first week," laughed the girl, and took another bite of the orange. " I do n't w ant to wakeh i m . " , . .. . ' ~ . - :

He was small, dark haired, with a bul le t head alld.a low, receding brow. - He looked -very boyish. His .t rousers were much too long for him. He was bowlegged and wore a silk shirt with huge monogramson both sleeves.. He had a large nose arid smallratty eyes arid dangling from his ear hung-a p a i r - ~ o f '

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Suddenly the telephone rang. The man sat ~ p -' ' ' : '

and rubbed his eyes, mumbled something of-an .anathema in a language- that Atlanta did no t und¢r- ' .

stand and he walked to. the desk and answered thetelephone. He did not seem'.to s e ~ ;h e r · ~. . -" ,C-_, >.-

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"Golly, go twit ," he snapped. "Who knows the"difference betwein an African -elephant and' a Amer

, i c a n e lephanC"I dqn't. Nobody doeS.· Vat-thehell?" " ' _ ' ' . , , - :- lIe ~ l a m m e ' d ' u pthe ' receiver and t h e n " ~ a whis

stenographer through the door. " ~

"For why don't you answer the telephone," he, -·.snapped-. - "Va tT pay you for, here?", He turned and was going to lie down when he

, "saw Atlanta. ", She wore some very pretty stockings that day

and very trim slippers."V ell," he said, looking at her ankles. "Vat do

you want?" Then he put on his hat."Are you Mr. Junius?" began the g i r l . . ."No, I 'm Kristopher Columbus," he sJUiled.

"Who do you think I am?""I, have a letter of introduction to you from Mr."

Riddle, the theatre-man of Denver," she said, presenting the let te r. He evidently could not read it. ,', '

_ "Are you vun of his chickens and he ,wants to',' get rid of you, eh?" he smirked . ,

Atlanta was so suddenlv taken "off her feet" that" ~

she did not get time to get fully indignant: The".l i t t leman's ey:es gleamed with merriment.over h is' o w n cheap witticism and his ears stood out like the

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, wings on a. blplime. " . ' .. He shook his bullet head and the little . "derby"

,hat, · o f the "fried egg" type, fairly danced on his'head. Then he saw how the girl's lower lip quiv-- ', ered, and he decided to try another ' tack.

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Then he shouted out to the s tenographer:"It 's time for your lunch, eh?" ,Although i twas in the middle of the afternoon,

tIte girl sa id "yes , si r, " with a wink and left ,cIcising. "-the door ,behind ,her. Atlanta heard a snap lock go- ,

shut. ' . ""V ell," he smiled, and pushed his chair close up :to where the girl sat. "Speak your piece.'" ,

Determined to succeed and to tolerate his idiosyncrasies, Atlanta began:. " I want to get into the motion pic tures and will

work very, very h.ard." . ' ., "You have a nice figure," said J unius,-and)ooked ,

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" I have had some, dramatic 'experience," she .stuttered. "- . ~

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"You are camouflaging, and vhy?" . . ' , ."In high schooL p lays and in ' " ,I 0/" , '

"'you have swell ~ n k l e s a n dpretty knees, Lthink ""he continued. "Vat do you veigh live::,',

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h . ".a c ance ."It 's up to you," replied Junius. "You are a:.

high kicker, yes?" He held his hat high a1;>ove h i s ,head, invitingly. , " . ' '" . ,

"Can you ,do anything for me ?". she asked,' ignor-" '. ,

ing his ' personal remarks and atteinpting-to : o y e r - 'look his leering glances. ' ' - -" I told :you i t vas uI> to you personally," said the,man, insistently. "Do you -live with your, mother.or have you a apartment. ' I f you live with your ~

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mother-well , there's nothing doing ". Atlanta could stand. i t no 1 0 ' n g e r ~She arose,

t remblrngand disgusted. " ,

, "You shouldn't be so .particular," he laughed."Anybody that 's been Riddle's chicken. :J knowSoland his wife' and family. Are you the girl hebought them squ irr el fu rs tor, eh? He vas tellingm e . " · ' · · " , -

"I I don't accept presents from men and I don'tknow Mr. Riddle," s ~ a p p e dAtlanta. " ~ ym ~ _ t h e r

does.'" . ."Ah," smirKed Junius, "the old lady is gayer than'

t he daught er, eh? "This r emark- abou t her mother proved the last

. straw. "Wi th super-human effort she kept out-

wardly cool' as she walked towards the door., ' -Either ignoring her state of mind or too calloused·

to underst and that he had hurt every sensibility inthe girl, Junius :;sked, with an attempt to tightenher coat around her: ,:

"How you look in a bathing suit, yes?" ,Atlanta snatched her hatpin from her hat and ,

held it manacingly towards him. He t urned· pal e

and opened the door. The boy was outside. '"Show th is one out, Teddy," said Junius. "She

is a flivver! Look out, she has a hatpin.""Scarcely knowing what she was .doing Atlanta

found herself on the sidewalk and as she passed thewindow of Junius' office he looked alit and shookhis finger at her. ", "I'tl qveeryQu aU over town," he said, "YOll "

, you are a lemon!" , •Of course, the girl did not know till later that he

was a member of a producers association, and that ' ':

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