New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
@ JOHNSON FEATURES INC. l92

| ana went TlSlL OH dS II Sue uluu ' expect an answer. "They must know that there's hardly a chance that they'll succeed. And surely Stella must have known it, after all her years of trylrg. Roy says she's been knocking around the studios for ever so long"
 Robbie shrugged her shoulders, q suppose she was like mo, Lot | tie" she said slowly. q suppose she kept hoping that some miracle would happen that would give her a good part, sooner or later.''
 Lottie gave her quick, sharp glance. "Is that what you're hop ing for?" she wanted to know, and Robbie solemnly answ cred that It | was.
 "Of course. your, awrully pretty. Prettier than ] was' Lottie said frankly. But I wouldn't bank too much on my looks :i ] were you. I've seen many q beauty flop out here The towns tu.l of beauties
 Robbie said that she knew 1t was. But your husband gave ne nice little part while ago. she went on. And Gus MacCloud has promised me another 'ne if ever he gets a picture to make"
 "Oh, Gus" Lottie Schultz cried, as if Gus didn't matter. " wouldn't put too much faith in his prom ises, either. Gus is always get ting enthusiastic over people, and then forgetting that they're alive"
 Robbie knew, herself, that that was true enough. Hadn't he dropped Stella when he was tired of her? Hadn't he dropped Mcr- ica, and then picked Ter up again Wasn't his own wife divorCirg h,m probably because he had dropped her, too, in a way? A he.fiirt. That's what he was, when it came right down 10 the urro'nantic truth,
 T mustn't take him too scri- ously," she told herself as she watched the road spin out ahead of them like broad creamy rib bon. He may care lot for me, as he says he does, and then again he may not. I'll have to forge ahead all by myself, I suppose, without anybodys help"
 It's a mysterious thing but d woman can go on caring for q man no matter how many easily things she may hear about him No matter how many beastly things she may actually know about him. That is, if she edlly is in love with him or lmagines herself in love with him.
 So it was with Bobbie Ransom. She might not and did not. put much trust in Gus MacCloud, partly because of the things she. herself, had found put about h,m. She never was sure of him. Yet the very thought of him could throat grow tight and her whole body ache with the longing 10 see him. She was not happy, for TO woman is happy when she is mad ly infatuated with d man, as she was.
 She was thinking about him when Lottie Schultz spoke again.
 But I'm a great one to scold about girls who try 10 break into pictures" she said with a little laugh. T was just as movie mad as any girl who ever lived, once upon a time. l lived on peanut butter and soda crackers in a hall bedroom on Selma street for months, so that I could buy silk stockings and smart clothes to put up q good front. But anyway. l came 10 my senses finally. l was all packed up to go home when l met Roy. After that, wild horses couldn't have dragged me away from Hollywood.
 Wild horses couldn't draw mo away. But it isn't because of any man," Robbie answered her. I'm still anxious and eager to get into pictures-I mean 10 get somewhere in them. But Stellas dying has taken some of my enthusiasm away. I'll probably get it all hack-but right now I'm glad to hide away up at your house and teach Jolly her first reader york"
 Little Jolly was sitting under q dark green pine-tree on the grassy slope when they drove up 10 the house. A big police dog lay be- side her, and she leaned against II as she cut out paper dolls.
 Hello there, little Joily!" Bob bic hailed her the minute she got out of the car. She went over to her and dropped down on the grass beside her. She had made up her mind to make this adorable looking elfin creature like her right from the start
 But the ador2ble-looking elfin creature evidently had other plans. She ran her tongue out at Bob bic and made quite horrible face.
 Robbie pretended to take no mo- tice of this.
 T said Hello Jolly" she said with all the sweetness she could command.
 But there was no answering