The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-05-15
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band,
HARRY. the film studio OF the famous
screen star.
ALMA DALEY, Fanny explains that
Harry hopes 10 form q moving pic.
rure company in California. on the
trip 10 the studio in Ninth avenue.
Lucinda muses. over the break with
her husband,
BELLAMY. Wealth. youth. beauty,
had failed to bring happiness 10 their
Fifth avenue home after five years
OF married life Heavy drinking and
an Unsuitable appetite for promiscu-
Gus filtration had been the means by
which he destroyed her early love for
him, and now
RICHARD DAUBENEY, her old sweet.
heart, had returned TO New York.
The trip 10 the studio would give her
chance to forget
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Stage as the layman understands
that term, there was none. but the floor
space as a whole was rather elaborate
ly cluttered with what Lucinda was 10
learn were technically known as sets
in various stages OF demolition: a set
being anything set up TO be photograph
ed, from single side" or flat" with
& simple window or door OF an angle
formed Of two such sides Joined TO
show the corner Of room, up TO the
solid and pretentious piece Of construc.
ton which occupied fully one.half Of
fhs. Lee M Do
at the Rltz.Carlton
At the far end Of the room a sub.
stantial set represented a iving.room
a good part of 1t was masked from
Lucinda's view by 4 number OF mas.
slve but portable metal screens or
stands arranged in Two conyerging
ranks, at whose apex stood 4 heavy
tripd supporting q small black box To
these stands lines of insulated cable
wandered ever the floor from every
quarter Of the room.
An atmosphere OF apathy peryaded
the place, as If nothing Of moment was
happening or expected 10 happen. An
effect 10 which considerable contribu.
tion was made by the lugubrious strains
OF Z threepiece orchestra, piano, violin
and cello, stationed 10 one side Of the
living room set.
This trio intrigued Lucinda's inter.
est Its presence seemed unaccount.
able, but not more so than its rendi.
ton Of plaintive melodies, tunes which
one more familiar with the cant Of the
theater would unhesitatingly have clas.
sified as sob stuff"
Guided by Mr.. Lane, the exotics gin.
gerly picked their way across the coils
OF electric cable that ran in snaky CON
fusion all over the floor like exposed
viscera of the cinema, and Lucinda
presently found herself on the side
lines Of the living room. between II and
the logged orchestra. and well out Of
range OF the camera.
She could now see three people on
the set, two men with a girl whom
thanks TO the wide circulation Of the
lady's photographs, she had no diff
Guilty in identifying as Alma Daley her.
self--a propossessing young person
with bobbed hair boldly featured
face, comely in the flesh rather than
pretty and q slight little body which
she used with q rather fetching effect
OF youthful gaucherie.
OF ;hese one was tall and dark, with
thick shock of wavy black hair. .
wide and mobile mouth. ana great, mel.
ancholy eyes His well tailored morning
coat displayed 10 admiration a splendid
torso The other was a smaller, in.
deed an undersized man, who wore a
braided smoking jacket but no paint
on his pinched weatherworn face Of
an actor
King Laughlin" Mr.. Cups secre.
tary informed Lucinda-"man in the
smoking jacket. he always wears one
when he's working-sreatest emotional
director IN the business. nobody can
touch him. Why, alongside him, Grif.
tlth's joke in q back number OF
Judge. You wouldn't guess what he
sets; thirtytiye hundred"
That's almost thousand q week.
isn't IT."
Thousand a week" In accents OF
some compassion he corrected Three
thousand five hundred every weeks
what King Laughlin drags down in the
little old pay envelope But that's Mr..
Culp all over; expenses no object when
he's making an Alma Daley picture.
nothlngs too good
I'm sure D." Lucinda agreed
vaguely
out or the corner Of an eye the di.
rector had become aware OF a new au.
dience and one worthy OF his metile.
Dropping the easy, semiconfidentlal
manner Mr. King Laughlin snatched
Il silk hat and stick from the other :
unreslsting hands
"Rlght'O, Tommy" he said IN the ma.
sal voice VI the English midlands Just
", make sure III walk through lt with
alma He turned grsciously TO the
woman; Now, Alma. dear d"
Miss Daley. herself not unconscious
or fashionable gallery, shrugged
slightly to signify that she didn't mind
OF sir. Laughlin thought It really
worth while. and made a leisurely exit
from the set. At the same time Mr.
Lsughlin walked off by door ap
proximately opposite, and the youne
iDsn IN the morning coat strolled down
50 the front OF the set and settled him
self TO observe and absorb the impend
I1ns lesson
air. Laushlin then re.entered In char
,scter ss u degage gentleman with al
uneasy CONSCIENCE. indicating this las
by stsslthily opening and peering rounC
the edge of the door before coming 81
and closing II with caution, and hi
Ssntility by holding hat and stick II
one hand and carelessly trailing thc fer
rule Of the stick behind him. Relieve,
Ito find the room untenanted. he move,
up to the table, placed the hat on !
crown-down. propped the stick egains