New Britain herald., 1925-05-29
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| mafflCS DICK ifeEOTS, ~ hlruBBllns young lawyer, Her Idea of mar riage is fun and fine clothes but no work or children
 She refuses to cook or keep house, and hires Ranghlld Swanson to do 1t for her, although Dick says they cant afford maid, And she swamps Dick with debts for her clothes and n new automobile,
 Gloria becomes infatuated with an out f-work actor, Stanley Wayburn. She sees him constantly. Finally Wayburn is offered a job in New York as leading man for Russian actress, Sonya Chotek. He needs money, Gloria lends him s200 of Dicks money, which she gets from his secretary, Miss Briggs, She tells Miss Briggs she needs the money for the house.
 Dick is i'll with pneumonia and al- most dies. When he recovers Dr. John Seymour sends him away for a long rest, Gloria refuses to go along. because Dicks mother, whom she hates, is going.
 As soon as they leave town, Gloria sets out for New York. She goes straight 10 Wayburn, But he spurns her, telling her that he has just mar ried Sonya Chotek. Then Gloria goes 10 Kit Cameron, friend of hers who is a chorus girl to ask her Ito help her out. But Kits manager refuses to give Gloria a place in the lchorus.
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 For A week Gloria dragged herself Iup and down Broadway hunting for a job.
 She went from one manager to an- other just as fast as she could so.
 She started with Bob Lingard, whose show, "Frills," was breaking all records on Broadway. And she ended with the manager of a cheap burlesque show on Fourteenth street.
 It was the manager of the bur lesque show who told her what was wrong with her. Now listen, kid," he said to her, showing his brown derby hat back on his head. You're pretty but you ain't got nothin'! Some's tall and lean, some's short and fat--but they gotta have somethin'. You can't be just a cake O ice and get away with it in the show business!"
 Gloria went away puzzled. What did the man mean that she was a cake of ice Perhaps he meant that she wasn't a type, like Kit Cameron that she looked like any other pretty girl.
 So she tried to look different" She brushed all the wave out of her hair, and plucked here eyebrows, until they were only a thin black lime.
 But no one had a job for her Her money was all gone. She sold her rings and her wrist-watch.
 Every morning she would start out, with a prayer in her heart. And every night she would drag herself back to her hotel room tired and dirty and discouraged, sick at heart.
 They said that Broadway was paved with broken hearts! Well, hers was one of them, Gloria told herself bitterly as the days went by
 Why couldn't she land job, she wondered.
 Wasn't she really as pretty ss Dick had always said she was? Was he the only man in the world who could see her beauty?
 To all these theatrical men was she just one more stage-struck girl?
 It began to look that way to Gloria.
 She wondered If she dared so back 10 Dick, who loved her. Oh, what a fool she had been ever to leave him,
 But would he take her back? Oh! Would he?
 She sat one night at her window looking down into the brown twilight of West Eleventh street She rubbed her face and neck with cold cream, to remove the grime of New York from her soft white skin. She polished her nails.
 Tears filled her eyes and ran down her cheeks, making little furrows in the cold cream on them. The sobs that she had been choking back for days, burst from her. suddenly. + "Oh, what am l going to do? What am I going to do?" she walled over and over. Despair covered her like a cloak of darkness
 It was at that moment that the telephone rang.
 Gloria sat up and looked at It, curiously.
 Who could be calling her ?-stan Wayburn? Kit Cameron ?-Probably only the hotel manager, to ask her why she didn't pay her bill. It was overdue.
 Hello" she said wearily.
 A mans deep voice answered her. Bob Lingard speaking" he said briefly.
 Bob Lingard! The producer of . "Frills" Gloria's heart gave . wild leap.
 She had left here telephone mum her with Lingard a week ago. But 'she had never expected 10 hear from him again. And now-this.
 He wanted her to go out to dinner with him. to talk business, he said
 TO talk business. That means a iob." Gloria laughed to herself, as she left the telephone. She danced around the room for very lightnes, Of heart.
 She smiled joyously into her mir. TOT as she dressed.
 Listen and don't say much . .. that's the way to make hit with 8 man" she knew. And she'd make g hit with Lingard that night If sh, s never opened her mouth!
 Gloria rubbed the tiniest bit o' rouge on her cheeks and dusted hei