Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1927 — Page 18

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BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON, efficient private secretary in the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company, shares an apartment with her ■ frivolous aunt, FLORA CARTWRIGHT. Flora chides Vera for her long skirts, braided hair, spectacles, low-heel shoes and business-like manner. When the promotion in the company she expects is given to ROSEMARY FITCH, Vera wonders if her aunt’s chiding could hold an explanation for this disappointment. Her promotion as assistant to JERRY MACKLYN, the new advertising manager, crowds this disappointment from her mind. Jerry proposes as an advertising scheme to transform Vera, with the aid of Peach Bloom cosmetics, into a beauty and to photograph her in each stage of the transformation. Vera indignantly refuses, but when she sees and falls instantly in love with a man whom she hears called SCHUYLER, she reconsiders and tells Jerry she will undergo the experiment. Jerry and KITTY PROCTOR, a professional demonstrator, decide to make Vera over. PETER DARROW, Flora’s latest love, angers Vera by ignoring her and she resolves to bring him to her feet. At the end of three weeks Vera and Jerry go to Flora’s apartment and find her and Peter there. They are dazzled with Vera’s beauty and Peter is smitten. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VIII LORA CARTWRIGHT closed the door of Vera Cameron’s u__J bedroom upon herself and spoke In a grimly determined voice to her niece, whom she had surprised in the act of contemplating her brand new beauty in the mirror of her dressing table. "I want to know exactly what this means. You leave this apartment Just three weeks ago an oldfashioned, spinsterish young woman and you come back tonight a stunning beauty, dressed like a Fifth Avenue Easter parade and with an adoring male in tow. “I've come for the story and I’m going to get it if I have to sit on your chest and pull the words out of those fascinating lips of yours.” “All right, Aunt Flora,” Vee-Vee smiled in spite of her weariness, “I should have invited you in for bedtime confidences but I thought you’d be engrossed with young Peter for an hour or two more and I wanted to get to bed early. I’m dead.” “You don’t look it,” Flora retorted, with a slight edge to her voice. “And I may as well confess that young Peter and I have quarreled—over you. I sent him away, and told him not to come back. I’ve been trying to get rid of him for three weeks and I don’t want you to think for a minute that I’m jealous—” “Oh, Aunt Flora, I’m sorry! He did act like a perfect idiot, kissing my hand good night and all that rot. But he adores you, Aunt Flora. "Listen, dear, we’ll prepare for bed together. You bring your creams and things in here and I’ll do my face and hands at the same time.” “I’ll use yours,” Flora retorted, beginning to open the fascinating containers with avid fingers. “They must be magic. All right. Out with the whole story.” She drew up a chair beside Vera’s and began to smear her face with the scented Peach Bloom Cleansing Cream. Vera, her own fingers flying over her face, told her aunt the whole story from beginning to end, bearing as patiently as she could Flora’s almost constant exclamations and questions. “And how does it feel to be a beauty suddenly, as if a fairy had waved a wand over you?” Flora probed, her blue eyes a trifle cold and hard. “I can’t realize yet,” Vee-Vee confessed in a frightened voice. “Down underneath fm still a timid girl that has never even had a passionate kiss in all her life. I’m scared to death, Aunt Flora. Please don’t become suspicions and critical of me. “I need help—.need your help more than I ever needed anything in- all my life. I suppose you’ve guessed that I didn’t consent to help Jerry in this advertising stunt for the pure love of business. You know how shy I am, what a crucifixion it's going to be to see my pictures

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in the magazines as “The Peach Bloom Girl’—” “Os course I guessed all that, and I confess I’m eaten up with curiosity. But you don’t have to tell me unless you want to, darling. I’ll help you. Os course I will! Don’t mind me, honey. “I suppose I feel like an old stage star who finds herself supplanted by a younger and lovelier actress. But I’ll be a good sport. Kiss me, Vee-Vee!” Vera flung her arms about her aunt, kissed her on her coldcreamed cheek, then burst into a flood of tears. “Aunt Flora,” Vee-Vee said, “I want to tell you about it, you mustn’t laugh. I’ve made an absolute fool of myself. I know it, and I can’t help it to save my life. "I’m going right on making a fool of myself until—Aunt Flora, did you ever fall in love at sight with a man you had not been introduced to, a man who paid no attention whatever to you, did not even speak to you, a man you only saw once?” Flora Cartwright laughed shakily. “It almost invariably happened to me just like that,” she confessed. “And it still does. Why, my dear, didn’t I ever tell you how I landed Jack Preston? I’d gone down to the Penn station to see a friend of mine off for California, and I was just leaving the train when I saw Jack settling his bags in a stateroom. ”It struck me like a flash of lightning—love, I mean—and I didn’t stop a minute to consider. I marched right back to my friend—luckily it was a woman—told her I was going to California with her, though I didn’t have evni a stitch of clothes with me except the things I had on. “Had to wire to Chicago for some things—well, I won’t bore you with the whole story, ''but by the time we’d reached San Francisco, Jacx Preston and I were engaged, and we were married as soon as we could get a license. “And Jack was one of the nicest husbands I ever had. If he hadn’t been so unreasonable about alimony I’d .marry him again, the darling. Now —tell nm!” “I wish I’d had the nerve to follow Schuyler,” Vee-Vee murmured, her lovely face dreamy-eyed and wistful. “What name did you say?" Flora asked sharply. “Schuyler?” “That’s —just a name I made up to call him by,” Vee-Vee lied. “I once knew a man named Schuyler,” Flora told her. "And if I ever see him again—but go on, dear.” “There’s almost nothing to tell,” Vee-Vee flushed. “I was going down in the elevator when this man got on, and I simply fell in'love with him. “He was the most thrillingly handsome man I’ve ever seen in my life, but that wasn’t all—his eyes were sad and wistful, as if he’s known a great sorrow—” “He has excellent technique," Flora laughed. “And then—?” “I overheard him tell the man he was with that he was going to Lake Minnetonka for the last half

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of June and then later in the summer up to Maine for the hottest weather. “And Aunt Flora, I knew then that I’d go to Lake Minnetonka if it took the last cent I had in the world.” “Then you went back and told Jerry Macklyn you’d accept his odious offer to make a beauty out of you for advertising purposes. It’s all crystal clear now, darling, and I’ll do every thing I can to help you. “By die way does Jerry Macklyn know the story of the handsome stranger?” “Certainly not!” Vera was indignant. “Do you think I’d go around telling just anybody what a fool I am?” “I wouldn’t say that Jerry Macklyn is just—anybody,” Flora smiled and her blue eyes took on that dreamy softness that Vera knew so well. “Os course,” she recovered herself briskly, “you realize that Pygmilion has fallen in love with his Galatea?” “That’s silly!” Vee-Vee retorted, but a flush dyed the cream satin of her cheeks. “Remmeber—he knew me when!” “All the more reason why he’d fall for you now. He made you, didn’t he?” “For advertising purposes,” VeeVee reminded her. “Are you sure you don’t want Jerry Macklyn?” Flora asked softly. “Dead sure. I know the man I want—and it is not Jerry Macklyn!” “Then, dear, shall we strike a bargain?” Flora asked with insinuating sweetness. “You can have Peter Darrow to practice on if you’ll promise to play a strictly business game with Jerry Macklyn. “And I’ll teach you everything I know about the art of attracting a man and bringing him to the point

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of popping the question. Is it a bargain?” “You mean you want Jerry Macklyn yourself?” Vee-Vee stepped back and regarded her aunt with blazing green eyes. “That puts it crudely, but fairly accurately,” Flora retorted coolly. “Aunt Flora, I’m—l’m not going to have you playing with Jerry Macklyn, deliberately leading him on to propose to you, then breaking his heart!” “Who said anything about breaking his heart?” Flora laughed, but there was a tremble in her voice. “My day is nearly aone, Vee-Vee. Yours is just beginning. You’ll be marrying and leaving me any day now, though heaven knows I never dreamed before tonight that I’d have to worry about that! “And I may as well confess that you made me so desperate tonight that I’d have married poor Peter if I hadn’t already lost him to you.

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And I have no intention of spending a lonely old age. If I can get Jerry Macklyn I shall certainly do it, and I’ll have an excellent chance when you’ve gone off to Minnetonka to hook your own fish.” "I think we're both perfectly disgusting, Aunt Flora!” Vee-Vee flushed scarlet vith shame and anger. “You’ll find, my dear Vee-Vee, that the sex game has no Maquis of Queensbury rules. It’s every woman for herself. I’m being magnanimous. “I’m offering to teach you all the tricks so that you can land the man you want. All I’m asking you in exchange is that you keep hands off of Jerry Macklyn and give me a chance. “He’s certainly old enough to take care of himself, and I have no intention of abducting him. You can’t accuse me of being crude, darling.” Vee-Vee stood for a long minute, trying to steady the chaos of her mind. Every instinct of orderliness and decency shrieked at her

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to abandon the whole scheme, to seek refuge in the safety and placidity of her old existence. But the clamorous, warring instincts reminded her that she had not been happy, real happy, in her life, and warned her to make the most of this heaven-sent miracle before youth slipped away from her, taking her riew beaut;' with it. Vera Cameron squared her shoulders and lifted her chin defiantly. “It’s a bargain, Aunt Flora. I’ll play fair. And so must you.” “Good!” Flora smiled. “I’ll phont, Jerry in the morning ana ask him to have Sunday night supper with us. You can’t begin your course in the charm school a minute too soon, if you’re going to be ready for your Schuyler in three weeks. I wish you luck, darling.”

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“Thanks, Aunt Flora,” Vee-Vee answered rather stiffly. “And won’t you wish me luck?” Flora suggested sweetly. “I’ll be darned if I do!” Vee-Vee

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snapped, and had no idea why was so angry. (To Be Continued) The next time Peter sends flower* to Flora's apartment they Ore for Vee-Vee. Flora bsrlns to get Jealous of her niece.