The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-24
After Ten Years
A CHANGE IN EVENTS
BY MARION RUBlNcAM

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The next morning at breakfast Mil
lie announced: I'm going to find a
job"
'Wnere?" Mrs. Parke asked with
great interest.
Mile lost her positive manner, but
not her cheerfulness.
'.Oh, Just you wait. The movies,
perhaps"
Mrs. Parke looked dubious The
janitress' daughter. decked out with
allthe' gaudiest of Miles first ward
robe, had been haunting the motion
picture employment agencies for
months, and Mrs. Parke knew it.
"And she can't find a part, and she's
really very pretty" the mother said.
Meaning that I'm not" Millie pout-
ed. Once in awhile Mrs. Parke was
exceedingly frank and impersonal
about both her children. In these mo-
ments Miles shallowness came in for
criticism, as wei las the rather shrink
| ing attitude toward life that was one
of Pattys characteristics.
| But in such moments. too, Mrs.
I Parke recognized that Miles flip
| pancy was a defense and a cover for
something sensitive underneath, some
thing that had been hurt, and that
| her short temper and nagging were
the result OF overstrained nerves.
When Patty was hurt, she shrank
away and was quiet-Millie ragged, OF
wept. or scolded
You need not be pretty" Mile
took up the conversation again. The
movies aren't so interested in pretty
people any more. Dorothy told ms
that. and she knows for she works ir
them They want types-and every
one is a type. So everyone has al
equal chance"
That seemed to settle it. Mrs
Parke was sure after that explanation
that Mile would find position.
1T takes a little pull. that's all,
Mile said airily. And I've got tina
| Dorothy is going to introduce me-.
So she put on her best dress ant
coat and went off.
That's true, of course" Mrs. Park
observed to Patty. You had to hav'
: pull to get your place"
1t appeared that Millie had to leav'
photos of herself at every studio sh
, visited-and they were legion. Thes
} pictures were filed under some rougl
!. head such as Comic" ugly" ovid
5 Mouth "Raby Blonde" "Seriou
t Minded or any such general classif
Y cation as occurred to the seventh as
! sistant director when he got around t
8 looking over photographs of applicant:
AS this might be once a month Q
less, and as such filing as was don
usually fell int othe hands of som
very bored and superior office DO!
those who left pictures stood yer
small chance of being sent for to pla
! star roles.
When Mile learned she was
Il leave pictures. which were filed a.
|. which stayed there as a calling car
O might, she went promptly to the mos
: expensive photographer and had he
', self photographed The man kne'
I his work very well, which was why h
4 could charge $50 a dozen and up-an
q he made some excellent pictures {
Mile. By the time he had moistene
+ her tightly marcelled hair into sol
n waves, swathed her in tulle and pie e
, her in a Jacobean chair in a gracefl
: position, such as she would never TAX
: he made a picture that was Lowell
q oven if it wasn't Mile. Mile chez
4 fully ordered three dozen. The Co
: les that Cora and Maude and the re:
J. received created a huge sensation
n Wissakeagan
' But of those left at movie office