Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1936 — Page 9

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Toby Ryan, 19, works behind the Jewelry counter of a Urge Manhattan department store, Bhe poses for a photograph to be used in a store advertisement and Marty Hiatt, the photographer, tells her she has a "camera face." Toby goes to dinner with Bill Brandt, who works In an advertising agency. A few days later Toby loses her Job, due to the scheming of Jealous Maurlne Ball, also employed In the Jewelry department. Toby's efforts to find another Job are fruitless. Then she meets Marty Hiatt and he send* her to Ben Blake, who runs a model agency. Blake tells her she must have photograph* In order to register as a model and arranges for Hiatt to take them. She spends anxious days waiting to hear from the tgency. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI THE girl at the other end of the wire must have thought the onnectlon was broken. She said again, “Miss Ryan? This is the Models’ League—” “Yes.” With an effort Toby controlled her voice. “I tried to get you earlier,” the other girl went on, "but you were out. Mr. Blake wants to see you tomorrow morning. He said the photographs you posed for the other day are very good. Can you come to the office about 10:30 tomorrow morning?” “Yes,” said Toby. “I’ll be there.” She put down the telephone, swung around gaily. The rooming house keeper, who usually found errands in the hall when any one was at the telephone, apparently was busy arranging letters on a tray. “Oh, Mrs. Moeller!” Toby cried. “It’s true, it’s really true—!” “What’s true?” “I’m going to be a model.” Toby executed a giddy dance step. “A model!” Mrs. Moeller’s voice froze in righteous horror. “You’re going to be one of them shameless hussies that take off all their clothes —!” “Oh, no, Mrs. Moeller. You don't understand. I'm going to be a photographic model, like the girls whose pictures you see in advertisements. You know. You’ve seen hundreds of them in newspapers and magazines. Advertising soap and perfume and cigarets and washing machines almost everything you can think of.” a a a “XTOU’RE sure,” the woman said JL skeptically, “it ain’t the other kind? Because this is a respectable house and it’s going to stay respectable. I wouldn’t have one of them creatures under my roof. I wouldn’t —!” “Os course I’m sure,” Toby told her. “It’s one of the nicest jobs a girl can have and I’m terribly lucky to get it. I didn’t dare hope I would—not really! Oh, but I've got a dozen things to do—!” She hurried up the stairs to her own room. Suddenly Toby was a bundle of energy. She forgot that she had been on her feet all day, that she had not eaten. First of all, she drew warm water and washed her hair, lathering and rinsing it over and over. Then she dried it. brushing the unruly curls until they gleamed and lay in place like a cap of burnished gold. She got out the dress she had worn that day, sponged and pressed it and tacked in a fresh collar and cuffs. It was a task that might have waited until morning but Toby was too excited to sit still. At 15 minutes after 10 o’clock next morning Toby Ryan entered the office of the Models’ League. The girl at the desk recognized her and smiled. “You’re

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Miss Ryan, aren’t you,” she said. “I remember you were here the other day.” “Yes,” Toby nodded. “Someone called and said Mr. Blake wanted to see me.” “He does. You’re a little early, though.” The girl glanced at an appointment schedule. “You'll have to wait a little while—” Toby said, “That’s all right,” and crossed the room and sat down. a a a THE outer door opened almost immediately and a girl entered. She was taller than Toby, slender and very pretty. She wore a gray fur coat and small gray hat and she was carrying a rather bat-tered-looking suitcase. The girl at the desk said, “Oh, Harriet, I’m sorry; I tried to get you but you’d gone before I called Van Brent's changed the time for that appointment. He wants you at 11:30 instead of 11. I called as soon as I got word—” The girl addressed as Harriet nodded. “I started early,” she said. “Had a couple of errands on my way. Half an hour dosen’t make much difference, though—l guess I might as well wait here.” She put down the suitcase, sat down in a chair near Toby's. Then she took a vanity case from her purse, opened it and studied her face critically in the mirror. The face seemed to Toby to be quite flawless. It was heartshaped, with brown eyes set wide apart beneath slenderly arched brows. The nose was small, the forehead broad and smooth. The chin was perfection itself. Where the gray hat lifted, at a jaunty angle, auburn hair, waving softly, was visible. Apparently the girl had used no /nake-up except a crimson lipstick. a a a SHE put aside the vanity case and turned toward Toby. After a moment's inspection she asked, “Are you new here?” Toby nodded. “So new,” she admitted, “that I havpn i, really begun to work. Mr. Blake sent for me—” “Well, if he sent for you, you don’t have to worry. He must think you’re good. And, believe me, Ben Blake knows!” “I hope 111 be all right,” Toby began nervously. “Os course you will. Studios are glad to see beginners—those that really photograph well. They're always looking for new faces, you know.” Toby didn't. But she was interested in this girl who seemed to have such a fund of information. “Have you done this sort of work very long?” she asked. “About two years. Before that I worked in an office, and then I modeled clothes in a department store. I didn’t like the store much —and anyhow' this pays a lot better. By the way, my name’s Harriet Holm. What’s yours?” “Toby Ryan.” a a a THE other nodded approvingly. "That’s a cute name,” she said. “Easy to remember, too. Did you make it up?” “No,” Toby told her. “It’s my real name. Lots of people think it’s queer. My mother hoped I’d be a boy. She was going to name me for my grandfather and when I turned out to be a girl—well, she called me ‘Toby,’ anyhow’.’” Harriet said. “Well, I like it. And a name people remember can do a lot for a girl.” Suddenly she pointed to the screen across the room on which clippings—all of them showing photographs from magazines and newspapers—had been fastened. “See that girl over

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there,” she said “—the one on the magazine cover?” Toby saw the one she meant. It was a reproduction of a color photograph, showing a dark-haired girl in a yellow dress, holding a huge crimson flower. “That’s Betty Gay,” Harriet confided. She signed a movie contract the other day.” “You mean she’s going to be in the movies?” “She’s leaving next week for Hollywood,” the other said. “That’s what I call getting a break. Betty deserved it, though. She’s a peach. We’ve worked together on lots of jobs. All the studios have been crazy about Betty since color photography came in. Thats what she’s going to do in Hollywood—make color movies.” a a a QHE went on, “Lots of girls who are in the movies now get their start as commercial models. There's Kay Francis and Madge Evans and Judith Allen. Yes, and Jean Muir —and Betty Furness—” Toby’s eyes were wide with excitement. “Really?” she said. “Were they models once?” “Certainly. Some of them have been in this office lots of times.” The voice of the girl at the desk interrupted. “Miss Ryan,” she said, “Mr. Blake will see you now.” “Oh—thank you.” Toby entered the swinging gate and went down the corridor. Blake saw her in the doorway and smiled. “Good morning,” he said. “Come in and sit down.” Toby said, “Good morning,” and took the chair facing him. “Well,” Blake began, “I suppose you’d like to see those pictures?” “Yes, I would.” He opened a drawer of the desk, sorted through some photographs and took out several “Here they are,” he said. “What do you think of them?” Toby could scarcely believe her eyes. Surely this girl with the glowing smile and sparkling eyes was not herself. She had never looked like that—never. And yet it was she! a a a Mr. Blake !” “Okay, aren’t they?” He pointed to a full-length “pose in which Toby appeared to be leaning against a rustic gate. Her head was thrown back, her hair bathed In golden light, her face radiant. “Nice shot,” Blake commented. “I think we’re going to turn you into a smile girl.” “A smile girl?” Toby repeated. Blake nodded. “Girls who can smile,” he said. “ —I mean naturally, attractively and with animation—make more than any one else in this business. They’re the advertisers’ pets. Nothing sells automobiles and soap and cosmetics and kitchen stoves like a pretty girl’s smile. If you make good as a smile girl, you’ll make money—and so will we.” Toby smiled then. “I hope I can,” she said. I hope so, too. How’d you like to start working today?” “I’d love to.” tt a a GOOD. Crown and French are making some commercial shots this evening and I’m going to send you over, along with half a dozen others You’ll find you’re liable to work nights as much as days in this business We have no hours—and all hours. Remember, no matter where you are, you must always keep in touch with this office. Leave word where we can reach you, or else call in. That’s important. Now if you’ll go out and asir Sally—she’s the girl at the desk ohe’s tell you about this assignment tonight—where you’re to go, what to wear and all that.” Toby saw that she had been dismissed. She went back to the outer office and said to the girl at the desk, “Mr. Blake told me I’m to work tonight. He said you would tell me about it ” The other nodded. Turning through some cards on her desk, she said, “Yes. It’s Crown and French's studio. They're in the—building. Be there at 7:30 and you’ll need“onlv one dress. A •white evening dress. It doesn’t need to be elaborate. Slippers and light hose, of course ” She looked up then, read the other girl’s expression. “Oh,” she said, “haven't you a white evening dress?” “No, I haven’t.” Toby hadn’t an evening dress that was white or black or any color.” (To Be Continued)

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CHILDREN WILL GET PRESENTS Sunnyside Sanatorium children patients having birthdays in March are to receive gifts from the Childrens Sunshine Club of Sunnysida at a party Saturday afternoon. Marion County Recreation group is -to present a puppet show. “Ichabod Crane”; an act. “The Fire Eaters.” and music by the Cowboys* band. Ice cream and cake shaped as shamrocks are to be served. Hostesses are to be Mesdames Hodge Worsham. D. C. Jolly, Frank Bird and Otis Carmichael. Meeting of Club Fixed Members of the newly-organized club for young unmarried men and women at the Riviera Club are to have tables reserved for them at the Saturday night dance. The club is to have its next meeting at 6:30 Sunday, when a supper, entertainment and business meeting are scheduled. The first social event sponsored by the group is to be the Easter dance. April 12. No name has been selected for the organization, but one is to be chosen soon. Acting officers named at an organization meeting recently include Richard Bridges as chairman, and Miss Lee Lacy, secretary. James Makin is club president. Committees selected are Misses Gretchen Huetter, Dorothy Schilling, Mary Beatrice Whiteman, and Paul Pike and L. E. Sweeney, social reception, and Wilbur Nagley, Ted Weakley and Charles Zalac, publicity. Miss Alice Emerson is visiting in New r York.

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