New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
e JOHNSON FEATURES INC. 1926


 When the other bathing beautiey vert swaying and jostling and dancing down to the stage where they lclongcd. she went along with thCln.
 The director was a little dark nan, whose lair was graying upon the temples. He chewed constant ly upon cigar that he never lit and behind his horn trimmed glasses his eyes were sharp and black and piercing.
 He scowled when he saw Robbie.
 The scowl was for the suit-not for her. She was utterly lovely from head to feet. Slender, but beautifully and softly curved in spite of her slenderness.
 The other bathing beauties, sure of themselves, marched boldly for ward into the glare of the lights on the set, But she hung back, knowing that the director was star ing at her with a disappearing eye and pretending not to know it.
 Come here, Miss K" he called 10 her, and she walked slowly up to him. No woOd-n -nymph, surprised by mortal man, could have been more wide-eyed with fear than she was. She thought that he was go- ing to send her away because she wasn't flauntingly beautiful like the others.
 "Whcrc'd you get that suit, Miss X?" with q kind of sheer.
 Later on, she found out that he often sneered to cover his own bashfulness. She learned other things about him, too-that he once had been q writer of fiction for mag azines, that his name was Sig mund Tyne, and that nobody could unless it was the great Ziegfeld himself.
 This suit got it back home,' she faltered.
 Tyne nodded with single jerk of his small dark head.
 Looks it," he said. Looks as if it was made by loving hands at home. Go and tell the wardrobe woman to fix you up-and shake leg to get back here. I'm in q hurry"
 In ten minutes Robbie was back on the set. her golden blondncss set off by a black silk suit cmbroid- cred with flaming red poppies from hem to shoulder. She was, she told herself, ashamed 10 be seen in so scant a garment But she was game. Anything for fame and for tune.
 Oak" snapped Tyne when he saw her. Later on she learned that that was his way of saying 70. K"
 He waved his hand for her to go on the set, which was a bath-house at a summer resort.
 All the other bathing beauties were grouped about a very tall thin man who had little eyes and lit tie chin, offset by an enormous nose and an Adams apple the size of q golf ball.
 "Lanll Nordstrom." Robbie nx- claimed silently when she saw him. She had been watching his antics on the screen for ten years.
 The bathing beauties were mak- ing eXtravagant love to him, and he was pretending to beat them off. They shrielled with laughter. and it was real laughter. And Robbie found herself with them, and a warm feeling of happiness seemed 10 gush Up within her and flood her hear.
 It was good to laugh like this, as she hadn't laughed in weeks and weeks and weeks, as she thought she never would have laughed again. Not for any special reason.
 Life had been so deadly serious, lately. It is no laughing matter to be in love as Robbie had been and still was-with Angus Mac Cloud.
 For three days Robbie was bathing beauty at the Curio Studio.
 For three days she gossiped and giggled with tho other bathing beau ties, as if she hadn't a thing on her mind.
 It was very plain that the others really did have little on their minds. Sometimes Robbie doubted that they had any minds at all but beautiful bodies GOV cred with beautiful ivory flesh and beautiful bathing suits the size of q pocket handkerchief.
 eve won't need you tomorrow" Sam, the rcad-headed assistant di- rector, told them all on the ovc- hing of the third day, and Robbie went away from the studio feeling as down-hearted as a child lcavin. n birthday party. She had enjoyed her three days of nonsense at the curio Studios.
 She went back 10 Mrs Mangan's. S2l richer than she had been on morning.
 "Ill make this money last as long ls I can" she made up her mind as she walked. along Hollywood