Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1936 — Page 12

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BFGIN HF.RE TODAT Linda Bourne, 20 year* old, pretty. I* left almnit penniles* by the audden death •f her father. Peter Gardiner, newspaper reporter, helps her set a Job writing society news. Linda is In love with Dix Carter, but he goes abroad to study singing. When Peter asks her to marry him she agrees, but postpones the wedding. Honey Harmon, film star, comes to Newtown, making a “personal appearance” tour. Peter goes to Interview her and sells her a scenario written by Linda. Honey offers Peter a Job in Hollywood, but he refuses. Later, however, when Linda is offer?,' a Job there she accepts. Peter says. “I guess that means you don't want to marry me.” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY s CHAPTER ELEVEN T>ETE had his answer from Linda •*- when he looked into her eyes, lowered before his steady Raze, but not before he had seen them mist with tears. Then, for the first time, he understood that Linda loved him, but not with all her heart. Linda had Riven him her affection. but not even a small measure of the love that he had for her. At that moment he was not sorry to see her ro. He wanted her to be away where he would not have to see her and have the consciousness always with him that he could not have all of her, and he could not release her from what he had. He drove her to the railroad station and the train that would take her away, and they found few words to say to each other. Linda wanted to tell him things that she found herself too inarticulate to put into words. Pete knew what she wanted to say, and he didn't want to hear it. She was going away and taking all his happiness with her, but neither of them could find a way to make it graceful. Silence was their only means. Pete stood with her for a moment at the steps of the car. His dark eyes looked long into her gray ones ♦hat met his steadily, and the lines deepened around his mouth. it it a darling,’ he said. VJ "Write me about how wonderful Hollywood is. and I'll send you sour-grape letters.” She put her arms around him. and pressed her head to his shoulder. “Good-by, Pete, dop’t ever forget me. I’ll always think of you, and I'll write you the minute I arrive.” Forget her? Pete asked himself if it was possible when, that night and many other nights, trying to lorget her, he sat and labored over the play he was to call "Remembrance.” And Linda, speeding west, thought of Pete and missed him and knew that she was going to miss him. But Linda lacked the quality that makes it possible for other girls to put people away in cozy pigeon holes where they can be brought out again when time and circumstance are ready for them. Once before Linda had faced something that was important to her, and put it behind for all time. There had been Dix, and now there was Pete. She had not been fair to him. Selfishly she had taken his love, because she needed it and because she had cared for him, but never the way that he deserved. Thinking of him with her eyes closed, she thought how many women would give Pete the kind of love he offered, and she felt a little sorry for herself that she couldn’t feel that way. Well, it was ended now. She had been selfish too long. She would not try to hold him any longer with vague promises of the future. She, Linda Bourne, was on her way to a career in a place where anything could happen, and she must be free and leave him free for what might come. tt tt a HOLLYWOOD! Linda closed her eyes and tried to picture its fabulous appearance. She had a moment of longing for Newton, the dusty, ink-sweet smell of the Blade office, rising from its shadows, when she arrived at Los Angeles on that late March afternoon, alone and a little frightened, and went direct to a fashionable hotel she had heard of. She dressed in a simple evening gown, dined in lonely splendor in the main dining room, lingering over her coffee. She felt so alive, so young and so lonesome. If only she knew one person! The letter from the Commonwealth Century FLUSH OUT 15 MILES OF KIDNEY TUBES Medical authorities agree that your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. If you have trouble with bladder irregularity and irritation, the 15 miles of kidney tubes may need flushing out. This danger signal may be the beginning of nagging backache, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pnffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. If kidneys don’t empty 3 pints a day and so get rid of more than 3 pounds of waste, poisonous matter may develop, causing serious trouble. Don't wait. Ask your druggist for DOAN'S PILLS, which have been used successfully by millions of people for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help to flush out the 15 miles of kidney tubes. Get DOAN’S PILLS at your druggist. — Advertisement.

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had told her to report as soon after the fifteenth as posible. It was a cold, impersonal letter. Linda Bourne was not a celebrated star. She was a little ex-reporter, coming to a s2')o-a-week job. Very unimportant in Hollywood. There was no one to meet and entertain her. She bought a book and took it to her room. Her first night in California was not to be an auspicious one. It might have been a melancholy one had there not been a telegram from Pete. Linda fell on it with a whoop of joy and read and reread its seemingly silly words. "DON’T BE LONELY STOP THINKING OF YOU BESIEGED BY ANXIOUS DIRECTORS STOP CONNOLLY FIRED TODAY WON SWEEPSTAKE MONDAY WIFE BOUGHT COW AND SEQUIN DRESS WHATEVER THAT IS STOP HARPERS HAVE FIRST SPRING VIOLETS STOP ASK PRODUCERS WHY COOPER VENELL PLAYING GANGSTER PARTS IS POET STOP READING MYRON'S LIFE OF KEATS MAKE SWELL MOVIE STOP CAN’T HELP LOVING YOU NO STOP PETE.” it tt a HARPER’S. Newtown’s only florist, had the first spring violets! Last year Pete had brought them wet, dark, fragrant to Linda, and told her they were like her eyes. And Connolly, the Blade’s irresponsible night watchman, had been fired. But he had won a Sweepstakes fund. How sweet of Pete to tell her that. A long letter couldn’t have been more like him. She smiled at the telegram as though it had been Pete himself, an* she didn’t know how tender her smile was. Or how binding a bond that is born of tenderness. Tenderness is a tendril that twists around the heart and grows there as part of it, clinging, shaped to the contour of it forever, even when its core of passion has flamed and burned its center out. No, Linda had experienced tenderness and had its precious essence given to her, but she didn’t know what it was all about. Dressing in her simple knitted frock the next morning, she slipped the telegram into her handbag. “Moral support, as usual,” she said, snapping its clasp. There was only one. way to get out to Commonwealth City, the hills

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over which the Commonwealth Century studios and sets were splashed. Linda rode in a taxi, with quaking knees and a dignified speech of introduction rehearsing itself automatically on her dry lips. But she didn’t get a chance to try her speech that day. She didn't get past the gateman. She had no pass, no words that would substitute. There was only one way to get in, even if she were a Garbo, and that was with a pass. St that whole day, •*- Linda tried to find some way to get into the Commonwealth lot that had engaged her at a tremendous (to her) salary. She was worried that they would be annoyed because she was wasting valuable time and salary. Linda had a lot to learn. She tried to reach Honey Harmon by telephone. "Miss Harmon’s number is private. We can not give out that information.” After four days of wasted effort, Linda wired Pete for advice. “SEE MOVIE EDITOR OF LOCAL PAPER,” he wired. Linda did that, and found herself in a small office on the Commonwealth lot with a telephone, a Persian carpet, a. desk she could have slept on but didn’t even though she had little else to do. Apparently Commonwealth forgot why they had brought her to Hollywood. No one could tell her what to do. No one had anything for her to do. "Bleak Spring,” which was to be called “Take a Letter,” wouldn’t be in production for two or three months, Linda read newspapers, wrote long letters home to Pete, Wilda and her other friends, and read all the old scripts she could lay her hands on. Then came the day of a writers’ conference. All the writers on the lot were called. Linda welcomed the change from her lonely, useless routine. She loved the shouting, the excitement, the arguments. Not that she had any idea what it was all about until Pytak, the Russian director, tore his hair and shouted

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in her face shaking a fist at them all: “Not one ting duss he doo! Dis Venell he dreamsss! De box offiss is not goot! And you blame Pytak! Gif me . ..” Linda didn’t know why she said it, but she found herself on her feet. "But Cooper Venell isn’t a gangster type. He’s a poet! There’s a new life of Keats that was just written for him. It’s by James Myron. Venell. in spite of his size, has the face of a dreamer of poetry. Can’t you see it?” Linda was aghast at her own temerity. The others were also aghast, but not for the same reason. It suddenly occurred to them that Venell was a miscast. If Hollywood was incredible to Linda, Linda was incredible to Hollywood. From that moment, she became an Important Person! (To Be Continued) CIVIL SERVICE UPHELD BY POSTAL WORKERS Council Opposed to Temporary Hiring Outside Roster. The executive board of the Allied Postal Council today stood unanimously opposed to temporary employment of postal workers unless hired from the civil service rosier. The vote was taken at a meeting Saturday. More than 330 members of the council attended. Guy Strickler, Indianapolis council chairman, presided. Rheumatic Happy; Stops Pain Quick So many sufferers have found such quick relief from the torturing pain of neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, lumbago and rheumatism through Nurito, that it is now sold at your drug store. This prescription which speedily relieves muscular aches and pains, was developed by an eminent specialist, and is now available to the general public everywhere. Nurito is harmless contains no opiates or narcotics. If you want to feel again the joy of relief from pain, and avoid needless agony that prevents sound sleep, ask your druggist now for Nurito, under this iron-clad guarantee. If the very first three doses of Nurito do not relieve even the most intense pain your money will be instantly refunded. Try it today.

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loss for April were the transportation equipment industries. .3 per cent; lumber. 2.4 per cent; textiles. 4.5 per cent; leather. 1.2 per cent; tobacco, 5 per cent, and paper and printing, 1.3 per cent. Employment increased 2.4 peT cent in 1100 nou-manufacturing businesses, but pay rolls went down .4 per cent. Retail trade employment gained 4.2 per cent and was well above anv April since 1931. The Easter season gave an impetus to cleaning and dyeing establishments, which showed an average employment increase of 8.1 per cent.

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