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16 ° NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930. Teffollqwood Stor o/‘ NEA SERVICE /nc.'zfi ERNEST LYNN COPYRIGHT 1930 BEGIN HERE TODAY | Dan Rorimer, a scenario writer in Hollywood, is in love with Anne | Winter, who, beginning as an ex- | tra, has progressed rapidly and is now under contract to one of the largest studios. Anne lives with two ‘other girls, Mona Morrison, a gay little red head, and Eva Harley, a quiet girl who at times is very bit- “ter and who has had a tragic love .experience. Eva and Mona are ex- tras, but Mona works only occasion Iy and Eva very rarely, and this is another reason for her despondency. Paul Collier, who writes a daily niovie column for a string of news- papers, shares Dan’s apartment with him. Dan is under contract at Con- tinental Pictures, but after a reor- ganization and a quarrel with an ¢ ecutive, he leaves. As a free “he is not successful at fi broods a good deal ovr thinks is his lack of real ability Every step upward t takes seems to Dan to r that much farther from him has managed to get a contract her liking after turning down first offer. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVI Paul Collier had said, * vited to lunch at Ma How do you do it, my boy? I'm vited because I occasionally write a piece about Maris which doesn't do her-any harm, but you'r ked just because you're You. special request. % Rorimer looked ‘Collier was firm. H taking charge now. You're away from that typewriter stand? It'll do you good; you I a change of scenery and a gal like Maris to whisper nothings at you. 1 told come. So her mother he wi ove her She to a u're Mari doubt you Maris lived with pretty little house in' Beverly Hills. There was a pa-| tio, through which they passed to | reach the door, where a frisky cat| patrolled the rim of a fountain, with _alert eyes on the goldfish swimming tantalizingly ~ out of reach. Mrs. Farrell was vouthful looking. She ‘briefly, explaining that <aten an early and light luncheon and was going shopping. Leaving. she admonished her daughter not tp forget a three o'clock appoint- ment at the photographer's, paused 4t the' door, endeavoring to recall other instructions “And try to be quiet, Maris." Mrs. Farrell turned to Paul and Dan with a smile blending apology and pride in Maris. “Mother speak- | ing again,” she said. And she added; “These Hollywood moth- “ers. But Maris is such a bard-working person, and she sim- -ply won't rest.” “We'll see that she does, Mrs Farrell” Paul Collier promised “We won't even let her talk.” And Maris’ mother laughed. “I see you don't know Maris as well as I do" Luncheon- was served by a quiet- footed maid. There w pleasant things said about Mrs. Farrell, and Dan gathered that the spectacu- larly blond Maris was very proud ot her. Mrs. Farrell, he learned, was a widow, and Maris her only child, and Maris informed him that che had been on the stage since childhood. “Under mother's Maris told Dan saw that pretty Anne Winter, yvesterday stand she has signed a contract Grand United.” Anne was now working tin Collins' picture at mated. Dan we in charming and | stayed only she had watchful eyes.” presently T friend of vours, I under- at in Mar- Amalga- | he | had Dan nodded. “That's true.” “sald, and Maris told him she —seen Anne rehearsing. “She has a lovel and sweet and nice to It's really very pretty: I You knew that she was -have a couple of songs in Collins’ picture " Dan said he did “He manages to about Trer,” Collier _Dan smiled and spoke Maris. “Anne taking vou know. She'll your compliment.”” “And you may be sure that Maris means it,” Collier told him. “Maris | is one of the few who are not jeal- ous, and she really speaks he mind. Don't you, Maris? “Listen to t ma cried. “Isn't jaughed merrily teeth. “Paul likes ly all screen people he doesn't re such a half-hea “Sure, I'm reaching over her, and Mar regardless - voice, 80 lnw | unsten to. envy h going to Martin | keep posted observed, and again to is vocal lessons, | be glad to get Maris She perfect near to believe wre catty Paul > hands ed D! believed Paul or not, she really meant what | she said about Anne Winter. “She has a lot of talent, really, and Martin Collins likes her very | much; he told me so. This picture | she's in now—it's a comedy of some sort from the stage, isn't it?" Collier said it was and told her | the name. “They're changing the | name, anyw; a farce com- . and they're adding to the love interest by packing some song numbers into it. It ought to be pretty good “Anyway Winter “You ou Song of t Mz said ns to be pretty good.” ht to have n her in | ars,’ the picture Hur- \de,” Paul said. “Dan and I| he preview other night at | United has a song a and the gal's no fooli sel ley saw Grand and a Anne sat out in the bout a forthcom- h Mar was her pic- featured player, and bout it e She deal, with moking, and was di- looked at “Quarter to “If you expect to ointment at three, had better duck. C - you down? Maris said no, she would ve her own car, and at the aul lingered to ask her if she had 1de ar to attend the ture premiere the following week. Why, no,” Maris said hen how about going Paul p ch and ently stood said gements with | rd What it 1s it2" i A week from Friday night, at the Cart ) i | like to very much On their way back to town Paul | d to Dan that he ask Annel to the openir already put in t And he said, Maris. Like her?" “Very nice,” Dun said mechan-| ically, and was silent again, think- | ing. Paul glanced at him quickly | and w worried. He had hoped | luncheon with Maris Farrell | would take Dan'’s mind off the things that were bothering Wm, but he could not help noticing that | Rorimer was unusually quiet dur-| ing their visit | Dan had finished his screen story. It had been rejected by two studios and was now at a third, and he was already at work on an- other idea, having lost faith com- pletely in the first A queer duck, Collier thought sensitive as the very devil and ob- | stinate as a mule. Collier had said, to him last night: “You expect too | lamed much Hollywood. Just ke they don't leap your story no sign that you're not good. 1f the studios could recog-| nize a winner every time one came their way they wouldn't be human You were touchy enough when ys re werking at Continental: now that you're on your own, you're even worse."” He had iectured Dan stiffly: had hoped to provoke him thto an ar- bid for “Nice st Fgument—anything to lift the mood | had settled about him like a cloak Dan that black But s0." And don't only said, I suppose Paul tried again. “Why vou let me go over and talk to Martin Collins, if you don't want to do i Because,” of your busine And he smiled, to take the sting it of his words, but Paul knew he meant exactly what he had He tried not to be hurt about | d, “All right my boy you know best.” Rorir was a here said Dan said, “it's none th said He And .00k lins know besides, Colli bit contrite tin Col- on the loose. And, doesn’t run that place over there: he can’t do every- thing he'd like to do. If they want e to go to work over at Amalga- ited they'll tell me so, because Collins told them about me when he | went over And anyway, I'm rot so su I'd go, with noth- ing mor Collins' say-so t comr to them.” He was flop, he told Collier. “Just a flop. Continental signed without ing a thing about | ex that 1'd written a few | ories and they happened to want | to a pic out of one of | em | You're crazy il said. “Just s I'm hat than me as a ne ne ept was. head right ‘I'm saner th Trouble with me nental didn't so I told th fl S L b like my AUNT HET ) BY ROBERT QUILL; A2 “Emmie would results if she knowe about child psychol more about teacl younguns how to their noses.” Copyright, 1930, Publishers — | better le an’ 1e1 to BY CLAUDE CALLAN 1 One boy called Betty up three times last night. I could tell it was the same boy because Betty made it plain every time that he was the only fellow she cared for Copyright, 1 Purlishers Synd —_— ( cept his argument that unless he was able to sell a screen story as a free lance he was not good enough to be signed to a contract, at Analgnmated or any other s dio. ou're man And Paul said again crazy. I don’'t argue with that's lost his reason.” Paul was clear-sighted and wise enough to know that Rorimer had other things on his mind that he w saying nothing about, and Anne Winter was one of them. ing to put himself - in Da place, he reasoned that it would be rather disheartening to be in love with a girl whose progress was not matched by his own. Anne was going ahead fast now; unless the unexpected happened she would be gettin some pretty important roles very soon. And Anne had started from scratch. Some day she might even be a star; it depended now on the “breaks” she got and how the public liked her. a Dan as they drove Paul remembered the day had show him the letter Young, directing him an ob. Sitting beside to tow t Dan from to look named Anne Winter, and be nice to her. And he remembered how Dan had fumed—until he met Well, Dan had been nice to her, all right —too nice, perhaps, if be- ing nice was responsible for Dan's present frame of mind. In Collier's philosophy no girl was worth all t trouble. They were on vard now. “Your said, motioning toward velt Yep," Dan said “How about that idea of mine? Are you going to call up Anne and ask her to the opening?” “I'm thinking about it.”” Paul said, “Just out of curiosity, how long has it been since you've seen her? I used to keep pretty g8y up Hollywood Boule- old home,” Paul the Roose- close track of you, but since you've | chained yourself to that typewriter o’ yours . 3 Dan said it weeks. “She's pretty ights some, too." I, give the girl a break and taks her out. You can't expect her to work all the ti % Dan thought: 11 quit bother- ing her. I won't even call her up. If she wants to see me she can call me.” Anne busy; work- telephoned him that eve- CHAPTER XXVII “Are you still in Hollywood, Dan?" At the sound ¢° Anne's familiar laugh over the telephone his black mood dissolved at once. You bet 1 am,” he replied cheer- fully Anne said “I'm glad. 1 thought tly you had gone back to York without even saying Where have you veen Dan explained. “And I vou've been busy, too. want to bother you." “Bother me!” “Well”—he laughed—"you know how it is. Those eight o'clock and nine o'clock wdio calls of yours. And 1 never knew when to go home." It developed that Anne had called merely to inquire about him “And Mona and Eva have been wondering about you, t0o.” “I was just about to call Anne. How about going to opening with me? Paul's tal Maris Farrell.” “I'd love to, Dar “It's a date, then rell, by the way, things about you today I were out there to lunch.” “Oh, you were?" “Yeah. Paul with_him seen you rehearsing.” repeated “Not » New goodby know I didn't you, the Maris F id some nice dragged me out what bad, ¢ Maris had s0 1 all | her. | was two or three | Paul and|was going to made ently. quite a hit with her, appar- Both times I've seen her now, she's had something nice to say about you. Personally, 1 think she has good judgment.” He said nothing about seeing her before the opening, and when she had said goodby he turned back to his typewriter, sat before it with folded arms and smoked and frowned. Paul had gone out for the evening: he and Johnny Ria- dle had a date somewhere. But even in the quiet and solitude of Paul's absence it was difficult to write, In the ensuing week he finished the story he was working on, but | he re-read it with a feeling of dis- appointment, an apprehension of | failure. His first onc had come back to him with its third rejection. Korimer was ready to tear it up in | disgust, and he would have if Col- [lier had not intervened. “Give it here,” Paul said {took it and tucked it aw | drawer. And he counseled Dan “let it age a bit.” “Its still a swell idea, my boy, and three rejections don’'t change the opinion of my favorite movie critic and columnist.’ “It's all wet,” Dan said. “Listen who's talking! The guy who got after me for tearing up the Great American Novel! I [thought you Lad got used to rejec- tions in New York.” And he insisted that Dan let the ript li= for a month or two ght, and then read it again and he in a to ure extra girl | " Dan scoffed. with this difference nes and moving pictu: different markets, my boy. | Magazines generally know just | what they want; the movies never | know; the idea that gets Micked in- | to the ash barrel today is a super- | production tomorrow." Dan took his new manuscript to the Amalgamated scenario depart- | ment the next morning and left it | there. And he spent the afternoon | playing golf with Johnny Riddle, who had been after him for a week to get out and play. Johnny gossiped along talking jokingly catingly about his newest fair. “I hung on for three weeks, and then she announced her engage- ment, But she’s still a client. She ipposed, for a while, to be ed to Dick Grace, the stunt but that was just a press stor: And he told Dan that he had not been dding badly at all with public- ity for Anne Winter, “I landed pictures of her in a number of the fan magazines, and |one of them took on a story Just a breeze, this Riddle guy; a breeze.” | After their game they drove back ito the apartment to wait for Paul | Collier, and Paul was late arriv- ing. When he did come in he had a queer look, and he sank at once into a chair and said “The funniest durn pened this afternoon.” He reached for a clgaret. I was walking along the Boule- vard, see? and I ran into Eva Har- ley. I had just come out of Hen- and we walked along together, passing the time of day and talking bout nothing in particular; and we were passing by the Montmar- tre when who should come busting cut but this chump Frank Maury. You remember him, Dan. Dan nodded. “He had some dizzy me on his arm, and when he saw me he turned on the old smile— vou know, big stuff!" Paul contemptuously. “And then he saw Harley and, boy, the smile ht on his and he got \s A beet and kept rizht on that are two the fair- and depre- love af thing hap- face “Tint th not all ed to look at Eva I faint. She was | white ac a ghost. She had to hold on to my arm like the very devil to keep from falling. I was scared for When T turn- thou, Maris told me she had|a minute “What ny Riddle reld up a do yon began hand uppose—'" John- POLLY AND HER PALS too. | just | she | Dan | “Wait,” he pened, Paul? . Collier “tnhaled deeply and said, “Well, 1 held on to her and asked her if she was sick, and I tried to steer her into a drug store to get something. But she said no, she was all right—just a sudden feel- ing of faintness. She said she got them once ih a while, but I think | she was lying. I got a cab and | tcok her home. Mona was there and I turned Eva over to her, but | Eva made me promise not to tell | her what happened. Can you tie | tha he finished. Dan got up {rom his chair. That's a funny one,” he said thoughtfully. And he went over to the and looked out and said, half to himself: “I wondecr it that doesn’t explain scmething a."” ank Maury!" Paul said. . Things work out fun- sometimes, don't they?” “Who was the girl with Maury?" Johnny Riddle asked, and Paul said he didn't know “I didn't have a chance to get a zood look at her. Things happened too fast. I couldn't tell you if I knew her or not.” Maury, I hear, is pretty sweet on some Los Angeles girl. I cant {remember her name, but her old man is supposed to have a lot of rioney. Didn't he say something?” | Johnny asked. And Paul shook his head. “Not |a word, I'm telling you.” He got jup and began to take oft his shirt. | “I'll be ready in a minute," ne said, and he went to his room. Johnny looked over toward Dan, who had not left the window, and he caught his eye. “Two and two always make four, Dan,” he said, and Dan shook his head as if the thing were too baffling for him. The telephone rang were waiting for Collier. Dan was | nalf expecting it, and he hastened |to answer it “Rorimer speaking.” | “This is Anne,” | vousness in her voice | booth. Are you alone?” % but it's all right,” he as- sured her. | Dan) said. at hap- ny “I'm in a have you talked with Paul? Will you tell me what hap- |pened? Mona told me that Paul rought Eva home and—" How is Eva now?" Dan cut in quietly she all right?” “Oh, I don’t know. I'm worried about her. Mona says she's been crying ever since she got home."” “Poor ki |and he gave Anne an account' of | what had happened. He spoke in a | low, calm voice that was meant to | reassure her, and when he had fin- ihed Je said, “Paul is here now, if vou'd like to talk to him.” But Anne told him that was not necessary. “I—I think I under- | | stand fhank you, Dan, very | mauch | “IE there's Anne—" “I know, ing. “Won't Eva say anything about | anything I can do, | Dan, but there's noth- | “Not a word." She added that | Eva was in bed and that she stub- | | bornly refused to see a doctor, so | they hadn't called one. | | “I hardly knew what to do. T've| | never seen Eva like that before. | |She was almost hysterical, but I | think she's calmer now. But Eva| | broods so: sometimes I get uneasy | just thinking about her.” | 1t was like Anne to be loyal and | censiderate, Dan thought as he left |the telephone; there were few girls looking | getting along in Hollywood as well |struck by lightning within a |as she was who would have chosen to continue the arrangement she | ling more than an extra herself. | {He knew that Anune paid more | than her share of the rent, because Mona had told him so. He went out to dinner with John- | ny and Paul, and they continued | for a while to talk about Eva Harley and Frank Maury. But presently the topic was dropped nd Paul began to fell Riddle| |about the screen story that Dan had turned in that morning at Amalgamated, and he cheerfully predicted its acceptance. Dan did not take the trouble to ue with him, although he had while they | a hint of ner-| Dan said to himself, | |05t nothing of the pessimism tnat had dwelt with him for several weeks past. He and Johnny were tired after their golf game, and Johnny left them not long afterward. Back in | the apartmens once more, Paul sat down to his typewriter to hammer out his column and Dan picked up a book with a feeling of relef that, his own manuscript finished, there was no need of his working this evening. But he yawned over his book latter a while, so he went to bed, and Paul suortly followed: and yast midnight the insistent ringing of the telephone brought him sit- |ting up in bed with a jerk. He| Leard Paul stir in the but he called out: “I'll get it,” and switched on the lights. 1t was Anne again. She said, in a voice that was half frantic with fear: “Oh, Dan, we're in trouble. | It's Eva. Can you coms right| | p——————— i[ Flashes of Life ] next room, | “I'll be right over,” he said. (To Be Continued) s e ) By the Associated Press. New York—Something like Dee- er-done-ay Cost and Mo-reece Bel- lont is the way they pronounce their | names. Paris—Mme. Dieudonne chic blonde, the former Princess | Marie Vatchnadze, whose father was once Russian commander at Tiflis and who has been a concert singer and movie actress, speaks eight languages. including English. Mme. Maurice Bellonte is a blonde Irish girl who met her husband when he | was a mechanic at Croydon, Her | name was Doris Stafford. | New York—The French aviators |are guests at a hotel owned by | Arthur Brisbane. St. Paul—A new wrinkle in non- stop flights is planned by Dale Jackson for spring. He will try to fly to the capital of every one of | the 48 states without landing. | | Edmonton, Alberta—There's half | |a dozen inches of snow in some sec- | | tions of Alverta i New York—It has been so warm that pictures of Fordham's first | | fcotball practice look like those of a | {musical comedy rehearsal. The | boys are shown kicking in some- | thing that looks like rompers. | Port Jervis, Y. —Ripe apples and apple blossoms have been noted | or the same tree. The cause pre- | sumably is a warm spell after undue chilliness last month. Washington—Which is the great- | est state for hunting of wild game? Official figures ars that New York Coste, led last year with 677,137 licenses | out of 6,425,000 in the country. Penhsylvania was second with New York—Society has a new amusement known as “Go,” or Japanese checkers. Eric Pedley | learned it from a JapaucSe butler | at Santa Monica, Calif., and taught it to the international polo squad. | Then it spread Berlin — Wilhelm Hohenzollern's | realty in Germany is valued at $6.- 500,00. In his name is the real es- | tate of 16 branches of the former royal house, including 49 persons. Lightning Strikes Three | Structures at Sharon Sharon, Sept. 3—An animal hos- | pital at Sheffield Farms Dairy, a home and another barn, were all few minutes during an electrical storm at 11:30 o'clock last night. aid {had made when she had been noth- | three blazes were reported out of control and men went through this hill town in automobiles rousing the | men and asking their aid in ting | the flames. The home of Elbert Chapman on the Amenia road was struck and it was ‘said several nearby buildings were endangered. The barn owned by Raymond Euvard on the Sharon mountain was hit a few minutes la- ter. The third structure was the| hospital barn at the Sheffeld Farms. Damage done was estimated »lli 0,000, | USE HE ATTAGHMENT WRIT HOLDS UP FLIGHT Montreal to Groydon Hop Meets With New Difficulties Montreal, Sept. 3 (P—A writ of attachment stood today as a barrier to the proposed flight of Captain Errol Boyd from Montreal to Croy- don, England, in the transatlantic | plane Columbia. The attachment was obtained VJ!’\ Roger Q. Williams, New York avi- ator, who charges that Charles A. Levine, owner of the Columbia, owes him §$301 for flying the plane here from New York. The suit 1s directed against the Columbia Air- lines, Inc., and Levine, John O'Brien, backer of Boyd's flight, said they were willing to post bonds if necessary to release the plane. He saic none of the persons associated with the proposed Boyd | flight were responsible in the mat- ter as the plane had been loaned by Levine who now is in Europe. Another plane belonging to Levine at the St. Hubert airport where the Columbia is housed also was attach- ed. 2 The Croydon flight was originally scheduled to start Monday but was delayed by adverse weather. Then the legal entanglement arose. Boyd announced that Lieutenant Harry Connor had been added to the crew as navigator. Connor, Boyd and Williams made a nonstop flight from New York to Bermuda this summer in the Columbia. 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