New Britain herald., 1927-02-07

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 Robbie Ransom, a demure little blond school teacher of 22, is any thing but the flip sort of girl you'd d 1 expect to be movie mad" However, she is. For years she has dreamed of goinf to Hollywood to break into pictures.
 The only drawback to her ambi- tion is lack of money. for she spends all she makes. Both her widowed father and aunt who brought her up refuse to lend her cent to go on such a wild goose | chase" Finally she borrows $50S from the Widow Parkins, who is | to marry her father; and she sets ! out for Hollywood with a full purse and a high heart.
 ! At Mrs. Mangan's boarding house she meets Stella Delroy. an extra in 1! the movies. Through her Robbie ! gets two or three days work at the l Magnifica Studios, where Roy [ Schultz, famous director. gives | her special part in a picture. The assistant director,' Gus MacCloud, 1 falls in love with her and Robbie | finds herself thinking about him most of the time. He tells her he 1 can help her go to the top of finn dom, as he himself goes upward. | Monica Mont, another extra girl who ! comes to live at Mrs. Mangan's, tells ! nL yA 4o1 hi i,,, orin ell | Monica hints that she has had a love affair with Gus. and that he still ! thinks lot of her. Robbie secs for | herself that he is selfish egotistic and Tickle in his affections. but nevertheless she remainst deeply in fatuated with him.
 She goes home fos her aunt's l funeral, and her father announces his intention of selling their home and marrying the Widow Parhins. Andy pleads with Robbie to marry him, but she insists upon returning to Hollywood, sure that she is started upon q great career. She finds Monica triumphant with a comediennes part in Roy Schultz 5 new picture. On the strength of her new job, she has bought a trunkful of new clothes, but she pays nothing toward the rent of the room she shares with Robbie. Monica is a born gold-diggcr. Mrs. Mangan tells Robbie that she has been seeing a good deal of Gus MacCloud but on a day when Robbie leaves the hospital where she has been visiting Stella Del roy. who has been burned in a studio fire, she meets Gus and goes for drive with him. He tells her he loves her but will never marry anyone.
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 CHAPTER NXV
 On Monday morning of the l.ext week Roy Schultz began work on his new comedy called You Should Worry"
 And on Monday morning bright and early. Monica yawned, stretchc herself, and finally got out or bed to dress for her part in it-the part of a comical scul- lcry maid.
 This is my big chance, darling est. So pray for me" she said 10 Robbie as she put on her funny red wig and patched blue apron before the mirror in their room.
 "Of course, I will" Robbie an- swered drowsily from the pillow where she lay, still rosy and dreamy-eyed from her nights sleep.
 Thanks, honey-bunch." Monica was all sweetness and syrup these days It was "Lovey this'' and "Dearie that" every time she spoke to Robbie.
 She pretended great friendliness, as q girl often will when she is mortally jealous of another girl. She was like tiger kitten with her claws hidden But Robbie was not fooled by her. She knew that Monica had claws, and that she would certainly use them when the time came! M
 With narrowed eyes she stood al the window of the bedroom an( watched Monica climb into her ca, and drive away.
 In a few minutes she'll see my Gus" she said to herself. She'll probably have lunch with him tbi, noon, and say nasty things about me whenever she gets a chance"
 She knew that Monica was not above that sort of cattiness, and she disliked her tor it.
 But at the same time she ad- mired Monica, too. She admired her because she knew how to get things for herself - how to graft and fight, and bite and claw her way to the top.
 And Robbie didn't She knew that, compared to Monica, she had TO sharpness and no worldly wis dom. She didn't know how to ask for what she wanted in this world and then insist upon getting it.
 She didn't know how to talk |