Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1930 — Page 13

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RE GIN HERE TODAY Through • letter tb*t he receive* from efnend In New York. DAN RORI--IUR. Hollrwood scenario writer end former New York newspaper men. meets ANNK WINTER, who ha* come from Tulsa. Okla . to trr to get extra work In the movies. . . Dan finds her charming and takes a deep interest in her. She learns from him that he works at Continental Pictures. She has worked only one day as an extra herself, but a few days after their meeting she gets extra work at ' Grand Dotted t Her flr.t day there she meets a girl named MONA MORRISON, and Immediately likes her. Mona la living with EVA HARLEY, and Anne lives alone, and Mona suggests that the three occupy a bungalow that the and Era hare seen. ... They do this. Dan learns from Mona that GARRY SLOAN, the famous director. actually hag noticed Anne, and she may be alTen a •'bit." Dan. not liking Sloan, although he has never actually met him. la a bit apprehensive. Anne seems so ambitious that he imagines he msv be making a nuisance of himself, and he does not call on her for some time. Then one day he sees Haflev on the Continental lot. _ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TEN R| ORIMER had entered the restaurant with Martin Collins, the director, and Jim Donnelly; but at sight of Eva Harley sitting alone at a comer table, he excused himself and hurried to her. • Mind if I join you?" he asked, and Eva, looking up, said: "'Not a bit; glad to have you.’’ She was in make-up; her cheeks bright red, lip 6 carmine, dark blue eyes intensified and enlarged by purple shadows. “Technicolor?” Dan asked, taking a chair. ••Yes.” He followed her swift downward glance at her costume. Her coat covered bare, white arms and shoulders, and a low-cut, tight-waisted gown of another era. “I’m supposed to be a 'Floradora’ girl.” Eva explained briefly. "I parked the bat.” “I see.” Dan, looking about the restaurant, noticed other girls similarly arrayed; but these wore their old-fashioned hats wtihout trace of self-consciousness, or, as at one table he saw, they made a merry Joke of it. "How long have you been at Continental?” Dan asked, and Eva unsimilingly informed him that she was just there for the day. He thought, pityingly: “And tomorrow spent in the hope that the next day, or the next, may bring another job. In the name of heaven, how does she stand it”’ "How are Anne and Mona?” he asked casually, and Eva said they both were fine. “Keeping busy?" “Not just at present." Mona, she elaborated, had worked one day since Dan had seen her last, and Anne had been relieved of further duties in “Married in May” nearly a week ago. “How did she make out?” he asked. “Anne? All right. Anne would.” She added with some emphasis. He said, “Just why did you say that, Eva?” and she told him it was the way she felt about Anne. “You can see it in her—a blind man could.” Eva added, bitterly: “She's not an ordinary ham ’ike the rest of us; she's a real actress; if she gets any breaks at all she’ll make .a few of these alleged stars look sick.” bub “VTOU really think so?” he asked I —a little too eagerly, he •bought—and at Eva's nod he produced his cigarets and said, “but you're not fair to yourself, or to Mona.” “Oh, yes, I am.” She paused while Rorimer held a light to her cigaret. “Mona,” she said, ‘is one sweet kid; but she doesn't know what it's all about. She'll have to be awfully lucky if she ever gets anything better than extra work.”

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“She's a mighty pretty girl,” Dan said. “I thought she was pretty clever.” Evas brief smile came and went. “What of it?” she challenged. “There’s thousands just as pretty a.id Just as clever. Mona's just a chorus girl In Hollywood; but,” she added, enthusiasm coming into her voice and kindling her eyes, “if wishing could do it for her Mona would be a star. You wouldn’t And it hard to remember that girl in your prayers if you knew her the way I do." Her swift ardor surprised Rorimer. left him a little embarrassed “I’m sure you’re right” he murmured to All in the silence. Eva, blowing an ash from her cigaret and turning her gaze toward the sun-Alled window, remarked that if it had not been for Mona Morrison she would have left Hollywood long ago. . “But Mona.” she said, “makes you feel a little ashamed of the thought of giving up.” “And you mean to say,” Dan demanded, “that it's Mona's cheerfulness and optimism that are holding you here?” His tone carried skepticism, and Eva, though she met his eyes calmly enough, -.olored more deeply beneath her makeup, and Rorimer remarked that her hand trembled as it closed on her water glass. And her reply came with a shade of deAance and a touch of bitterness. "That's not all,” she admitted, “but It’s one reason. “Another, if you care to know it, is that 'lona’s just a kid and she needs somebody around who knows what’s good for her and what isn't. You don’t see any of these would-be sheiks hanging around her, do you?” she demanded, and Dan said he hadn't. “And you won’t as long as Mona's willing to listen to me.” Rorimer thought that Eva Har-

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ley was dangerously close to tears. There was a Aerceness in her last sentence, a sort of ragged-edge quality that he fc.t might border on hysteria; and he welcomed the arrival of the waitress with their luncheon. But he knew an increased respect for Eva Harley; and if he had entertained any doubts concerning her suitability as a living companion for Anne Winter they now were gone. He thought: “There's story somewhere down deep in Eva. and it's not very pleasant. It's tearing her heart out.” B M B PRESENTLY he reminded the tall, blond girl sitting across the table from him that, though she had given her reasons for thinking that Mona's chances for Hollywood fame were small, she had not, after all, said anything about her own case. He knew that he would be interested now in anything she said about herself. “You don’t mind, do you?” he asked. Eva shrugged. “Why should I?” “Because,” Dan said, “you gave me the impression when I met you of being very quiet and self-eAacing and—do you mind if I speak frankly?—and a little mysterious.” He smiled. “I felt that you didn’t like me—and * hat's an uncomfortable sort of feeling to have.” Eva looked at him, looked him straight in the eyes until Dan felt awkwaf and and ill at ease; and he concluded then that Eva Harley would be the wrong person to lie to. “Because,” he theught, “those eyes of hers would And it out.” She said presently, “ Vou’re all right, Dan Rorimrr, and I do like you.” “I’m very glad, ’ Dan said. “I like you, Eva. He thought, watching her: “What a heartbreaking smile!” “I’ll tell you about myself,” Eva said. “You've heard everybody has heard—of what happened to some of the stars when pictures started to talk. There’s Barrett, for Instance—the great Barrett; he's through and he doesn’t know it. But all Hollywood knows it.” And she

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mentioned others he had heard of. But there were hundreds of other cases, no less tragic by reason of their obscurity, that the world never would hear about. She said, “I've got a voice like a night club hostess; it's about as pleasant and musical as scraping your sing-: nail along a window pane.” Rorimer laughted. “That’s foolish talk, Eva,” he said, but she told him; “You ought to hear how it records.” Before the mad rush for talking pictures, she went on, she had found fairly steady employment. “I had some pretty decent bits, too. But now—well, if you’re pretty enough and small enough, if you can sing a little and do a tap-dance routine without falling on your face, there’s jobs to be had in the revues. . . . That's not my style.” Her laugh

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was short and mirthless. “I'm out of luck, that's aU,” she concluded. “But you're working today,” Rorimer pointed out. “Yes. Today ... a bit of scenery." A shaft of sunlight threw an irregular shadowed triangle on her throat had caught and held the yellow gold in her hair, so that Rorimer's eyes smarted at its brightness. Eva, he thought, in her decollette costume of early-century vintage, and her exaggerated make-up, was like a study in disillusionment as she blew smoke across her shoulder from the side of her painted mouth. She was like those full-blown and fading creatures he had seen so often on the screen as scarlet women of rough, western dance halls; women, he reflected, whose sins sentimental directors generally washed away in a great regenerating love, er who expiated their purple pasts

when they plugged the bad man and thus saved the heroine for a nobler passion. • MB HIC sat studying her for a while, iMid presently Eva turned toward him again, extinguishing her cigaret, and informed him that today’s was the first motion picture employment she had had in almost a month. Dan thought: “How can they live?” His mind ran back to Paul Collier’s speech that night about the extras of Hollywood. Collier had said something about their “hanging on and hoping that, by the grace of God or something, lightning would strike them somehow.” And Collier had said something about the glamour of Hollywood and its irresistible fascination. . . . Dan was thinking of Collier and what the latter had called “The HolIywood Story,” as he asked:

“Eva. how do they manage to get along, anyway?" He hoped, he told her. that she wouldn't regard the question as personal. “It’s my newspaper curiosity, I suppose; I haven't outgrown it. But it—Eva, it makes a man wonder.” (To Be Continued)

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