New Britain herald., 1927-02-04
@ JOHNSON FEATURES INC. l92t

and make their husbands shirts from a bolt of pongee? Namby- pam by women who let their families use them for door-mats and scrubbing brushes.
 And yet, of course, Andy wouldn't treat his wife as If she were a doormat. He was too much of a man for that, Robbie knew. What Andy would do would be to completely spoil his woman-roll her in cotton, wool and feed her with a gold spoon. Andy would practically Kill his wife with kindness.
 Andy, how can you say such a thing to me?" Robbie asked him, and the look she gave him was blghting. How can you talk to me about such fool things as church bazaars and china painting when have a real career mapped out for myself?"
 You mean the movies?" He gave her a sidewise look from his eyes, that seemed to measure. her.
 She nodded her corn -colored head.
 That's not a career to be com pared with being married" said Andy in that quiet sure way of his. Suppose you do go ahead and make big success of it. You say you have a good start"
 'I have a wonderful start. Every body says so," Robbie told him ex- citedly. T haven't been in Holly wood more than three weeks, and Roy Schultz has given me little bit of my own in a picture. He had q screen test made of me, tool'
 Naturally Andy had heard of Roy Schultz. Robbie had been dragging him to the movies for years, and pointing out the names of big direc- tors and players. Oh, yes, Andy knew in 8 minute who Roy Schultz was, and his eyes narrowed with jealousy.
 "Is he married man, or bache- ?" he asked abruptly, and Bobby laughed.
 Married to a woman he's wild about, you silly gob!" she cried. "But-he has an assistant director, a bachelor, who thinks pretty we'll Of your Bobby. if you must know" She made eyes at Andy as she said 1t, but he was too busy glowering at the sunlit wall to see her.
 His names Angus MacCloud. Isn't that nice name?' She repeat oI har ., certain mourful joy to say it.
 Then all at once she leaned close to Andy, and her fingers frightened on his. "Oh, I want to go back to Hollywood-I'm just plain terrible awful homesick for it. but hate to go away from home, too."
 She did, too. Home seemed so peaceful, so quiet, so heavenly now that her father was going to break up housekeeping. And yet when she closed her eyes and thought of the white walls of the Magnifica Studios rising against the sunny blue sky, she felt that she must go back to them again.
 oil. uOll L hIO" "1lol Ndil to dol" she walled, as many an- other woman has walled before her. We are an uncertain tickle lot, we women-changeable as the wind.
 T do know then!" Andy said. and pulled her up close to him with a quick violent movement of his arms. T do know! You're a normal natur- al woman, old enough to be married and that's what you want to do. You'll never be happy or satisfied until you do it. Until you sweep all these wild ideas out of your head."
 She pushed him away from her. T never could marry you, Andy. I feel just like a sister toward you she told him, struggling to keep him at arms length. T found that out, in Hollywood.'
 That's interesting" Andy re- marked in an I-should- worry sort of way.
 You see, I met a man that T. didn't feel sisterly toward she ex plained to him, and though her words were all twisted, her meaning was as clear as glass to Andy. T found out that there is a man in the