The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
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quite uhoerSIauo Az" -
cts simple" she explained. I've
been reading these two magazines let
by the travellers, and they tell now. All
YOU have to do is to go to Caniorhia
and get a job in q studio, and II you
have the talent you get to be star.
AS he turned in his chair and looked
up at her his face seemed longer thah
usual and the crinkles in it were more
pronounced. She had the magazines
in her hands and was thumbing the
pages. Her eyes were dancing ana
her face was flushed. Helen was a
spoiled child, but then he had psoiied
her. - 49,. r
don't care for you. I really do, an
awful lot. But / can't be tied down
here any longer. I must go out into
the world. I've just got to be picture
star. In one year Ill come paSh 10
you, whether I succeed or fail. Can
something seemed to burst in Fred's
brain. and his throat felt parched. ana
his eyes filled. He turned to his desk
! and frowned at the five nuggets, ,s
"Of course you can. was all ne sac.
The next day he took his nuggets
to the assayer and obtained signify
more than enough to send his wife to
California.
time to time" he promised. But, Oh
course YOU probably won't need 1t
with your job and everything.
So Helen Adams went to Cahfornia
| to be a movie star, and her husband
watched her go with much the same
| feeling he would have experienced II
| he had seen her lowered into a grave
| on the hill.
! A wear passed, with few changes in
Rocky RiveRS A few more shacks had
been thrown together, and at the south
end of town a new excavation was pc
! ing made, and the movie shows were
/ every night instead of twice week.
| One day the auto bus which recent
ly had replaced the stage coach
stopped at the little hut at Adams's
place and. a young lady stepped out.
| Her black hair was done up in the
latest style and her black eyes were
! dancing.
| A young man appeared in the door
| way, of the hut and she |spied him.
| His red hair reflected the sunlight ana
his rather full face was respondent
with smiles and freckles.
"Fred. called the girl. can that
be you. Fred?"
she went to him and threw her
But you're not so thin. Fredi" she
cried presently, standingAback and sur
veying him. MY being away has
agreed with you"
They entered the shack and had din
ner, which he prepared on the oil
stove, and then began a talk-fest that
lasted well into the night.
81 made good from the start. They
found out that my mother had been a
great actress on the stage, and they
set out to make me great in the films.
1 wanted to surprise you. SO in my let
tiers 1 simply said I had a studio job.
} But I have had wonderful success
: simply wonderful! I wonder II you
have seen any OF my pictures? Prob
} tably they have not appeared here yet.
The very best one-the one that gave
me my start to fame-was The Lure
, of Luna oh, they gave me wonder
: full parts to play! they seemed created
just for me. Others were Star Of the
: Morning and Across the Desert
Rocky river is much the same"
she ratified on, "only it looks like they
, were putting up a big building south
/ of US. There's large excavation
: there"
| He reached into drawer of his
desk and brought out a roll OF blue
These are the plans" he said. Its
going to be our house. the place where
, we will spend our vacations"
, Her eyes were round with astonish-
, ment and bewilderment-
But explain, explain, she insisted.
, This is magnificent home. This old
house must be full of nuggets. Did
! you strike it rich while was away? ?"
He lifted her from his knee on
which she had been sitting to chair
and went into the other room. When
he returned there were two old maya
zines in his hand and a queer twinkle
in his eyes.
These brought you success" he
said, turning the papers. land they
also brought me success. 1 used my
last nugget to pay your way to Cali
fornia. When the bus disappeared
with you 1 came back to this little
hut discouraged, not caring what hap
pened.
with the intention of tearing them
to pieces 1 picked up these magazines.
but something in one of them attract
ed my attention. and 1 read. That
very night 1 wrote a motion picture
scenario. I sold it. and then I sold
another, and soon had sold manytof
them"
He lighted his pipe and puffed on it
slowly, his eyes still twinkling.
Among my pictures he went on.
were Star of the Morning and
Across the Desert But my very best
the one that got me recognition
was The Lure of Luna"
4 Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)