New Britain herald., 1927-02-01
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has dreamed of breaking into pic trres just as her dead mother once dreamed of going upon the concer stage.
 The only drawback to Robbie. ambition to become a -actres. is lack of money. For no matter what she earns it slips through hel fingers because of her extrava gance. Her widowed father ant her maiden Aunt Gertrude refuse to lend her a cent to go on "sucf wild goose chase" So does Andy Jerrold, who's in love with her anG wants her to stay at home and marry him.
 She finally borrows $500 from ing to marry her father, and leaves for Hollywood with a fat purse and a high heart.
 She finds room in the boarding house of the eccentric Mrs. Man. gan, who allows her young wom- an roomers to cook some of their meals in her kitchen. One of the girls is Stella Delroy, whose real name is Stella Riggs. She is an ex- tra girl in the movies and through her Robbie lands a two-day job at the Magnifica Studios. She falls down a flight of steps at the very feet of the director, Roy Schultz, who gives her an extra bit as bal let dancer in a picture called The Dryad in the Dale" starring Joan Joyce.
 An assistant director. Angus MacCloud, begins to pay her lit tie attention, but one of the extra girls, Monica Mont, warns Robbie against him. She says he'll pick her up and then throw her down" so Robbie decides to be wary of him. One afternoon MacCloud takes Robbie for drive up into the Holly wood hills and tries to make love to her. When she rebuffs him, he sul- l lenly starts the car and takes her down to Paulais' restaurant where | she Is to meet Monica for supper, and drives off without word. After 45 minutes of waiting, Monica shows up with the news that she's just | been turned out of her boarding house for not paying her rent. Monica is a gold digger and never pays for anything if she doesn't have to, including her 'borrowed' | automobile While the two girls are waiting for table, MacCloud comes in, with girl.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV l Above. the heads of the people around her, Botbie caught glimpse of close cropped sandy head and a pair of broad shoulders -MacCloud.
 With him was a small slender woman whose fur coat collar al- most met the brim of her pink hat, so that nothing of her face showed but flash of heaven-blue eyes. Who's the girl with him" Bob- bic asked Monica in a half whisper.
 Joan Joyce, of course! Are you blind?" Monica snapped in her i'm pudent way. T saw. Gus Mac Cloud is stepping pretty high these days Rushing around with starl'
 Her knowing eyes followed the pair as they walked over to the candy counter. So did all the eyes of everybody else in sight. Like lightning the whisper went around that the famous Joan Joyce was there, buying chocolates in the front of the restaurant.
 Woman standing near Robbie turned their heads to take in the pale pink hat, the befurred blue coat, and the jeweled hands of the star. Men craned their necks trying to see the most beautiful face in the films"
 T don't think she's so wonder ful. She looks as old as the hills" said one woman in the crowd to her husband, and Robbie could have hugged her.
 It came to her, in a flash, that she hated Joan Joyce. Only that morning she had .. thought her the loveliest-looking thing she had ever seen. But now she stood look ing at her with the eyes of an enemy. She could see nothing at tractive about her. Nothing.
 I'm jealous" She said 1t to herself, knowing 1t was the truth. I'm jealous because that hateful little blue-eyed woman is standing there with a man that I sent away an hour ago."
 She wondered now why she had sent him away-why she hadn't let him make love to her, up there on the darkening hill-tops above Hol- lywood. Such is the power of jealousy,
 Still I'm glad in q way that I few minutes later when she and Monica were sitting at a table. sip ping vegetable soup.
 Robbie didn't want hers. She wasn't hungry. She wasn't inter- ested in the bright crowded res taurant--and the music hurt her eardrums.
 "If there's anything want to do it's to go home, and be by my self to think things over," she said to herself.
 Ii was impossible 10 think things over with Monica there. Monica talked all the time--about herself.
 You see, it's this way with me" said Monica, I've made mp my mind to get to the top in this movie game-and I don't care what I have to do to get there-I'm going to do it."
 She huttered an oyster cracker, popped it into her mouth and went on hrisklv:
 You know how many girls suc- ceed as movie actresses: One in 10 thousand; That isn't guess work. That's tho truth. Well, I'm going to he the one in ten