Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-05-13

Lest Jnere De any mlsapprenenslOn III is
well to state right here that Naomi had
not been disappointed in Mr.. Clicks love,
at least not this time. Not for six or
seven times back. Herman was her man
ager, her publicity director, and various
and sundry things like that, but he had
long since ceased to figure in her emo
tional adventures. He printed her por-
trait On the cover of Silversheet once a
year and several of her photographs every
month on the inside pages, managed and
distributed her two or three n pro-
auctions, posed with her for an occa-
sional group picture OF of the really
happy families Of Hollywood. but aside
from that their lives were a couple of
parallel lines that never did What paral-
lei lines don't do. even at breakfast.
So that lets Herman out. Herman was
bald, anyway, which a him practical
ly q total loss On a moonlight night with
IN orchestra playing in the distance.
1t isn't really material who 1T was that
had reduced Naomi to tears, tempera-
ment and tantrums, but In order not to
leave any loose ends lying about in this
narrative 1t can be stated here that Her
bert K. Noble, the millionaire extra,
caused all the trouble by rushing Naomi
off her feet for three consecutive Glyn
weeks and then shifting without e~xplana-
ton to Allis Armand, recently Sennetter
from Missouri and now playing fapper
wives with Monte Blue, Lewis Stone and
all the other safe and sane husbands of
the screen. There isn't any way to &C
count for the behavior of Herb Noble
unless, perhaps, n carefully compares
the ankles of Naomi and Allis. Allis has
two Of the above mentioned assets, either
one of which would have been powerful
enough medicine to restore the eyesight
of Samson after Delilah gave him the Ina
Claire devitalizer; while Naomi could
stand alongside of IN old-fashioned on
cert grand piano and you would think it
had five legs. S.,
The essential thing to this story is
that Naomi's romance went sour, SO to
speak. n she had gone to bed with an
attack of some kind of an 'osis" that
only a New York specialist could diagnose
and which was a lot more expensive to
cure than just plain consumption or
smallpox.
Herman surrounded her with every at
tention that money could buy. This may
sound as If he we're foolish, but maybe
not so. 1t isn't every man who has a wife
whose galloping photographs gross
around a half a million apiece. You can
afford hand picked oats for a Derby WIN
ner.
She had two nurses, q night one who
was appropriately brunette, and a day
one who was unobtrusively bronze. This
latter had been named by her parents
Stella ODea, and she was a nice capable
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to do much work in front of a mirror.
For that reason she wore her hair
straight back under her cap n adver-
tised her ears, and everything. She had
a nice clean look, but there was no ro-
mantle mystery about her. People loaded
hard jobs on her and never asked If she
could handle 'em. They knew she
In the sickroom Stella was q balloon
tire among nurses. Everything smoothed
out before her. Even Naomi Stanley
liked her, and goodness, and likewise
Hollywood, knows it is difficult for any
woman to please Naomi.
Stella ODea looked like the kind of a
girl that men forget. But she could do
tricks with rumpled pillows, no water
bottles, and nonbeverage rubbing alco-
hol that, had she been there, would have
been a great comfort to Job when he got
through with his initiation into the An
cient and Honorable Order OF Poison Oak
and Ivy.
No matter how unreasonable her pa
tient might be, and Naomi Stanley could
be lust as unreasonable as q Siberian
wildcat Just before lunch, Stella could
always soothe her.
Naomi wasn't SO sick but what she re-
quired was to be amused, n what do
you suppose she wanted in the way Of en-
tertainment? The answer is easy If you
know what baseball players do on their
days off, or how miners who live in the
vicinity of Newcastle spend their holt
days.
You have guessed 1t. Naomi Stanley
had q motion picture projection machine
installed in her bedroom with a sheet at
a convenient angle so that she could
look at 1t without craning her neck, n
then ran all the best photoplays that had
come out during the last year. When she
had seen the entire list of her W pic
lures she had to use some others not
quite SO good. Her choice Of stars to fill
second place in her popularity contest
lit unexpectedly upon Ernest Hamilton.
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