The Washington times., 1927-03-22
The Hollywood Girl BY Beatrice Burton

Instead, her dark-lashed eyes
were on the moonlit sky.
Andy" she said hustily. "you
see those stars up there? Well,
they aren't stars to me. They look
like electric light to me-electric
lights out In front Of some moving
picture show somewhere. And
they spell my name the way it
will be spelled some day--in cleo
trio lights. .Bobbie Ransom, the
Queen of the Screen"
Andy grunted. You talk" he
remarked. as If you had brain
three ounces lighter than
feather. What chance have you
to break into the movies? Suppose
you did go out to Hollywood
you'd be only one girl in a whole
town full of pretty girls, and
besides that you're almost twenty
three years old. Most of these
movie stars are young kids Of
sixteen or So"
Don't make me Taught" Bobbie
cut in, furiously. She was get.
ting angry now. II know Just
how old all of the screen stars
are, right to the days! So don't
try to tell me something / know
better than you do. And besides,
you just told me you knew. I'd
make good in pictures If ever
got a chance at them. You've
forgotten that!'
What's the Use?
Andy was silent for q moment.
Then he stood up, stretched him
self with his hands in the pockets
Of his white flannel trousers, and
spoke:
Come on, let's cut out all this
scrapping and go down to ELS
worth's for a soda. What's the
use Of fussing about something
you don't really want to do. I'll
bet II you had chance to break
into the movies, you'd back out
at the last minute. You'd get
cold feet, sure as fate"
"You think SOP" asked Bobbie,
following him down the front
steps. She climbed into his
FUSED" car, and they started off
toward Ellsworth's and two
chocolate ice cream sodas.
On the way they passed Locust
Street school. With its drawn yell
low shades and locked doors it
looked stark and forbidding in the
moonlight. Not at all the way 1t
would look In another month
when an army Of little girls and
boys would come marching back
to 1t from their summer vacation.
And / suppose I'll be there,
too, ready to teach the first
reader room again." thought
Bobbie.
1t seems silly to think that
five hundred measly little dollars
can keep me from doing the thing
want to do, doesn't it?" she
asked aloud Of the man beside
her.
Vain Regrets
when I think of all the money
I've made the last two years, and
the way I've let IT slip through
my fingers!" she went on with a
sigh. ''if only I had 1t now in
stead of having spent it for silk
undertakings and cut-steel buckles
for my slippers, and French
powder and perfume, and such
~ OhPCAy, L WOuLuH nave 10 ASK
you for money-and get turned
down"
Andy's jaw was still set grimly.
That's the way / look at it,
he agreed, ''if you'd really been
as wild to try your luck in the
movies, it seems to me you'd
have been saving your money all
this time-getting ready for it.
You don't really want to do any
thing but stay home here and
get married to me-"
Bobbie stared at him, her dark
eyes wider than usual with sheer
a1nazement.
II wonder If you really think
that" she said quietly.
The moonlight caught a CLEAN
in the ring that she wore on the
third finger of her left hand. 1t
was small diamond ring that
Andy had given her two years be.
fore. She had always insisted
that it was not an engagement
ring, and Andy had always in.
sisted that it was.
II suppose I could sell it, and
1t would probably bring me a
couple Of hundred dollars" she