New Britain herald., 1927-02-10
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Robbie Ransom, demure little flip type of girl who usually is movie struck However, she is. For years she has been dreaming of going to Hollywood to break into pictures. But she never can get to- gcther enough money, for she is cXtravagant and her family will not lend her any. Neither will Andrew Jerrold, who wants her to stay at home and marry him.
 Finally she borrows $500 from tho weil-to-do Widow parkins, who is to marry her father; and she goes to Hollywood with a high heart and | full purse.
 At Mrs. Mangan's boarding house she meets Stella Delroy. an extra in the movies Through her she gets several days work at the Magnifica Studios. where Roy Schultz. q fla nous director, land Lottie, his wife, take much interest in her. Gus MacCloud, the assistant director,
 
 him. Monica Mont, another player at Magnifica, who comes to live at Mrs. Mangan's advises Robbie to play up to him for the help he can give her. Then, when Robbie takes her advice, she becomes jealouS.<
 Robbie goes home when her Aunt Gertrude. who brought her lip, dies He, father says he is going to marry the Widow parkins, and Andy Jerrold begs Robbie to marry him. But she refuses and goes back to Hollywood-and Gus. Her father sends her some old dia- monds that had belonged to Aunt Gertrude, and she makes up her mind to seel them when her money gives out. Finally she does sell one of them.
 During her absence, Monica has been given a good part in a Roy Schultz picture, and on the strength of it has moved into new flat. But she has no money to lend poor Stella, who's been badly burned in a studio fire. Stella goes back to her old job in a beauty shop.
 Robbie gets a days work at Mag n;ficia, where she hears that Gus and Monica are supposed to be in love with each other. and that Gus has been married and his wife is divorcing him. She tells Gus she won't see him again, and he sulks about it. and starts running around with Monica again. He fails 10 ask Robbie to a Christmas dinner party at his house. and she eats her dinner at lunch counter with Stella. Andy sends her a lovely bracelet for a gift. and she won ders how much money it would bring, should she have to sell it. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XXXI
 On the Monday morning after Christmas Robbie had q call from the Curio Comedy Studios to come and be bathing beauty in one of their uproarious pictures.
 You can thank me for that Stella told her when she went down to breakfast with the news. Now. aren't you glad that I made you have some pictures taken in your bathing suit to send around to the studios?"
 Bobbie's suit was modest affair. It was high in the neck to protect her from sunhurn and it was made of scarlet wool
 She took it along with her when she started out that morning for Culver City and the studio of Curio Comedies. She took along pair of red rubber sandals. too. and a little red cap that tied under her chin.
 Now the Curio bathing beauties are famous all over the world for the loyeliness ftheir bodies and the scantiness of their bathing suits.
 There were twenty or thirty of ing room where Robbie was sent to dress. Some of them were plump. and some were slender but everyone was pretty and as grace full as a willow tree waving in the wind.
 Their suits were nothing at all like any bathing suits that Robbie had ever seen before. To begin with, they were made of silk el,s- tic. Not one of them had much more than a yard of material in it. And all of them were cmbroid- cred with flowers or stars or zig gagged lightnings
 "TheF1l never let you wear that thing" q gray-eyed Irish beauty said carelcasly to Robbie. as sha her get into the red wool suit. Then she turned her back on her, and began to powder her flesh that w1s as pale and lustrors as -co!ored satin.
 Robbie doubted that she " oulG be to wear the red suit, her self. But she wont on pulling tin red cap down over her sunshiny hair. and facing up the red sandals round ankles that were as slim