New Britain herald., 1927-02-09
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 pect to be movie struck" However she is. She tries to borrow money from her father, widower, and from her Aunt Gertrude, to take her to Hollywood, where she hopes 10 get into pictures. The both refuse to lend her a cent for such a wild | goose chase" So does Andrew Jer- rold, who's in love with her. Finally she borrows $500 from the Widow Parkins, who is to marry her father. and goes to Hollywood. There she finds a room at Mrs. Mangan's, and meets an extra girl named Stella Delroy. Through Stella she lands d small part in a picture at the Magaifica Studios, where Roy Schultz, fla nous director, and his wife, take an | interest in her. Gus MacCloud, the assistant director, falls in love with her and she with him. He promises l her all the help he can. Monica Mont, a player at Magnifica, advises her to play up to him, and then
 
 Robbie goes home when her aunt suddenly dies, and Der father | decides to break up their home. and marry the Widow Parkins. Andy Jerrold begs Robbie to marry | him, but she goes back 10 Holly wood. Her father sends her a 1 brooch set with old diamonds that had belonged to Aunt Gertrude. and Robbie makes up her mind to sell them when her money gives 1 out.
 She finds that during her ab- sence Monica has been given a good part in new movie, and has bought some new clothes and rented flat, on the strength of it. Mrs. Mangan says she has been running around with Gus. too, but he seems to be more in love with | Robbie than ever.
 Stella Delroy is so badly burned in studio fire that she goes back to her old trade of manicuring in a beauty shop.
 Robbie begins to think she will have to go back to her school teaching when she suddenly gets a call from Roy Schultz to do a swimming stunt in a picture.
 On the set, Robbie hears some extra girls talking about Gus. They mention the fact that his wife is divorcing him back east, and when Robbie sees him playing around with Monica, she makes up her mind not to waste any more time on him. even though she is in love with him. She decides to tell him so that night when he comes to take her to supper.
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 CHAPTER xxx
 Where do you want to go to eat?" Gus asked her. as she stood there with one foot on the step of the cream -colored roadster. It was shaking and trembling, great monster that it was, as if it were eager to be off.
 Robbie gave her head little shake. "Oh, don't know" she an- swered, trying to make her voice hard and cold. T want to talk to you tonight, Gus. Let's go to one of those places where you sit side by side on stools. We can talk so much more easily in a place like that"
 He gave a short puzzled laugh.
 What's the matter with you" Baby? You've been queer all day." he said easily, and pulled her down beside him. He slammed the door and they started down through the lamp-lit dusk of the street."
 At Sunset boulevard he turned west, and started up toward the hills, purplish brown and mysteri- ous at that time of day. Lights were patterned against them, show. ing where the narrow roads wound to their tops.
 Robbie knew where he was talk ing her. She knew that he was taking her up to his own house, but she did not utter a word of protest.
 Sitting there, with her shoulder against his shoulder, she grew calm and weak with the tingling weakness that always flowed over her when she was close to him. After all, she thought, she could tell him what she was going to tell him, up there in the quiet of his own house just as well as she could in a noisy restaurant.
 There were no lights in the win dows, as the cream -colored road ster swung up the steep driveway and stopped at the door.
 But on the other side of the house, the windows of the Schultz houses showed like rectangles of gold against the soft starry dark ness. From them came the sound of music, and a childs voice laugh ing.
 There was happiness for you, said Robbie to herself, and yet Gus maintained that picture people couldn't marry and be happy.
 "The Japs are gone. guess. ] told them I wouldn't be home for dinner" Gus whispered as he un- locked the door of the dark silent house.
 They went In, and he switched on the lights in the living room with its great arched window that overlooked the town spread out below like q spangled veil.
 Run upstairs and taK2 off your hat" he went on carelessly. "Il go on out into the kitchen and see what ] can rustic up in the way of food"
 He rustled up quite of lot of It. A china bowl of cold chicken salad with nayonnaise piled on the top of 1t, 9 glass pitcher of iced coffee, poppy-seed rolls and a Lady Baltimore cake.
 They ate it, sitting at the tiffin