New Britain herald., 1922-05-25
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should not resent being made love 10 by a man with rouge on cheeks and lips and eye-lashes beaded with mas caro.
 If the feeling that she had cast her lines in strange places was quick to wear off, in those three days of work with the Summerlad company, the fun of it wasn't Lucinda threw herself into the detail of every hour with tremendous zest, and liked it all as she seldom had liked anything before,
 There was another side to the busi- ness, of course. One heard dark hints of the uglier side, one even caught glimpses Of it-as in the in- stance of Nelly Marquis. But aware ness Of 1t had no perceptible effect upon the spirits of those with whom Lucinda found herself associated for the time being. Some Of the younger members Of the acting division seemed to take life thought serious ly-"life" meaning, as a rule, them selves-but the more experienced went about their work with jests eNtT oll llitt1 llHS, l Ht toiiiIiloll dl- titude summed up to this that mak- ing pictures was all a huge lark and (strictly between those engaged in it a darped good joke on the people who paid the bills.
 AS for the part she was supposed to play in this picture of Summer lads. Lucinda never managed to se- cure an ineligible exposition of its relation to the plot. Both Summerlad and Jacques seemed strangely vague in their own minds concerning it, and Alice Drake frankly confessed she hadn't read the script and hadn't the faintest notion what the picture was about.
 To the best of her observation her role was that of an involuntary vamp. Not vampire: vamp. A vamp no longer means of necessity a vampire, scarlet-mouthed seduc- tress of strong mems souls. A vamp may be far more socially possible person than that
 As an involuntary vamp, Miss Lee was to meet MT. summerlad under romantic circumstances and inno- gently wean him from strict fidelity to tn charms of his betrothed Cor it may have been his wife), Miss Drake.
 The said romantic circumstances were sufficiently thrilling. Miss Lee was run away with by her horse while taking an early morning can- ter in the mountains conveniently adjacent to her family's suburban villa. MT. Summerlad, similarly en- gagged, happened along at the right time to observe her peril. pursue and snatch her bodily from her sad dle to his arms at the very instant when her mount was plunging head long over a precipice. After which he escorted her to her home and on the way the two indulged in normal and expected love making.
 Lucinda and Summerlad were photographed time and again. in dis tance shots, medium shots, and close ups, riding side by side, dismounting to rest in a sweet sylvan glade by the side of the stream, and finally in each others arms, with Miss Drake riding up to surprise them as they kissed.
 Because such scenes are com monplace of picture making, Lucinda had not been prepared for the fact that she was to be kissed by Sum- merlad whereas she had been flirt- ing with him dangerously for the best part of three days. Now, sud- denly, toward the close of the third, she was instructed to permit his en- brace. submit to his kiss and kiss him in response.
 She made no demur, for that would have seemed silly, but did her best to ape the matter of- course manner of all hands, and went through with it with all the stoicism when the camera wasn't trained on her, that was compatible with the emotions she must show when it was.
 But her heart was humping furi- ously when she felt Summerlad's arms for the first time enfold her; and when, murmuring the terms of endearment appropriate to both the parts the man was playing, he put his lips to hers, she knew, both de- spite and because of the tumult of her senses that she was lost. Control of the situation between them passed In that instant from her hands to his.
 Released at length, she looked round, dazed and breathless, to find that, during the business of the kiss, a party of uninvited onlookers had been added to their professional audi ence
 A motor-car had slipped up on the group and stopped, and one of it's two passengers had alighted and drawn near to watch.
 This was Bellamy
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 Momentarily stunned eyes saw the face of Belamy only as a swimming blur of flesh color shaded by a smile of hateful mockery, her wits handi- capped by panicky conviction that it was all up now with Linda Lee.
 In another minute or two, every body present must learn, by night fall the studios would be agog over the news that Linda Lee was no less q parsonage than Mrs. Bellamy Druce.
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