Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-10
Hou became
4 Mouie Star
is Told to
TNEZ KLUMPH
What Has Already Happened


Dorothy Lave, q small fotcn girl,
an bilious TO become a screen star,
tisitS the studios ichile on trip to
NeD York. She meets laurence
French, a press agent, icho becomes
interested in her aud secures for her
an important part playing opposite
John Sendrd, q famous screen star.
WhHe on location At Cape Cod.
Sendrd asks her to marry him. she
refuses him and returns to NeD York,
reoli.irg that she loves Laurence
French. Dorothy meets Eikhorr, q
big producer, tcho engages her for an
important role. She goes 20 dinner
,cith laurence French.
"C EE, but It's wonderful to see you
~ again, Dodo,'' Lawrence ex.
claimed, staring down at me as II there
hadn't been anybody else in the world.
For n moment l forgot other people,
too; then I realized that tho corridor
was full of people, and that most Of
those around us were looking at Law
renee and me and smiling.
mo more wonderful than It is to see
you," I told him. 81 saw you this
morning. though, with Sylvia"
"Oh, on the way to the train" He
laughed, rs he took my arm and turned
toward the door. 'She was so excited
that she needed guardian-lucky thing
I was on hand to look after her. met
John Seward in the railway station, and
we had breakfast together And II he's
right about you-and l don't see any
reason to doubt his judgment-Miss
Dorothy Lane is going to be one Of the
biggest stars on the screen within
year"
You can imagine how that made mt
feel; hearing such news as that, and
being with Lawrence, too, seemed al
most too much.
We took taxi and drove through
the downtown section of the city and
then across Brooklyn Bridge TO the hotel
where we were to dine. And all the
way We passed people on foot and in
the crowded street cars who looked so
tired and uncomfortable and unhappy
that I wondered why they cared to go
on living. was so radiantly happy
myself that couldn't help wishing hap
piness was like money, aud could be
distributed among people in the same
way.
And seeing those crowds made me un-
derstand, too, why Pcrsis felt that, even
if she could get a job as a stenographer,
she wouldn't want to 60 back to that
way of earning her living. You work
awfully hard in motion pictures. but
there's a fascination about it that gets
you, even when you We had just the least
taste of il.
We we're to dine on the roof of the
hotel. Lawrence had told me. and when
stepped out of the elevator | knew
why he had selected that particular
place.
The roof was fixed like the deck Of n
ship. There were life rreserrcrs lashed
to the posts at the sides, and every
thing was so spick and span and in
teresting. One part was raised few
steps higher than the rest, and there
was dance floor there and an orchestra
and oh. such wonderful music as they
were playing when We came in
We sat down oN the main floor, right
at the edge-sud far below was the Won
dcrul hnrbor, all gol den in the sunset
light. ! could see the Statue of Lib
erty and the army post over on Gov.
ernor's Island, and all the swarm of
small boats that filled the harbor. And
there was one great liner moving slowly
along on its way out to sea- Won
dcred If l would ever go abroad.
haven't the faintcst idea Of what
We had for dinner; I know that the
food was wonderful, but was 70 happy
and excited that I could hardly eat. 7
didn't want to do much but just sit
and look at Lawrence and hear him
talk.
lie was awGully happy, too--any one
could see that. But after that moment
when we mot we both felt rather en-
barrasscd: We didn't talk about any
thing that was at all personal, and we
tried to talk steadily. because silence