New Britain herald., 1929-10-28

 thirty if she's minute-she's been around these lots ten years-fvs heard" spoke the third.
 "And here we sit like outcasts--" "Cast-outs, you mean"
 "Did you see the way he singlsd hsr out of all of us? didn't see any dia- monds in her teeth or any radium |. her eyes"
 "lf you ask me, the girls got noth- ng-positively nothing! Straw color hair like her don't register. her nose is to small and her eyes are, we'll negative, if you know what mean"
 I've heard that said about her be- fore. I've worked with her. Say, with one cross before the camera, both Of us, I showed her up. All my friends said so. She's got no screen per sonality."
 "They say she can wsrble."
 ''If she can-and she don't look it-- why does she have to s',g whols opera for him in there before he finds it out?"
 "Say-maybe it's a necking parry" "Go on! Not Creux' He wouldn't hold Anita Paige's hand, that crab. Two seen girls try to baDyvamp him thas'd make her look like Sophie Tucker. Not that hard-to-get beezark."
 "No-he's got the cleanest rep in the racket. He's notoriousl"
 "Say, baby, got few looks. my self. And Eve found 'en, all pretty much on the up-and-up that way"
 "Sure That fresh stuff goes good in the chump magazines, I've|been in- suited by lot of directors-whe they didn't hiYe me-and that's the only in. suits l get. What good-looking ex- tra in Hollywood needs rost these days isn't a bulldog of chaperon- it's good agent or a friend that can get her past doors going in, not com ing out"
 "Ych-like this door, right here"
 "You bet. She ai1't fighting to get out"
 "No--we're fighting 10 get h."
 Fighting nothing--waiting."
 "WeN, I'm mad enough to fight. And in another minute I'll be too mad to wait. I'll just ge: up snd lea%e 'em flat"
 Put on the brakes. s:ster. Ton ain't goin' nowheres.
 "But we can't sit here from now on forever. What is the parking law in ,, this zone?'
 You stay till you get . ticket"
 "If you're lucky" "Or the air"
 "lf you ain't lucky"
 The door opened.
 Creux, the immaculate, the unap proachable, the impsccable, was hold ing one of Nancy's hands in both q his.
 He was looking down into her in genuous eyes, earnestly, emotionally intensely.
 She was returning the glance, up ward, earnestly, emotionally, in tensely.
 No one had ever seen Creux wit such an expression before.
 Nancy had never found one such a she now displayed before. ,x The archness, the phoney coynes! ,. the affected diffidence-all wipe # away.
 V, She carried no "ticket" CT :, gagement slip. She had net aske what her bit would pay, or when r' hearsals started, or what she was IF wear. or-anything pertaining to "Th Singing Teacher" ,o The door closed on its strong sprin ,a behind them. Past the waiting line of girls the Q stroled. concentrated, preoccupied n. ons another ss against the who ,a world. Across the long terra cot ,+ corridor they continued-and out.
 The cast-out jumped up with or
 accord.
 As they dribbled through the out in portal they saw Creux, in his snapr D, roadster. with Nancy euddied besi. or him, starting off ba "Of all the-whlt the-how the ,r, 1 never was so-" e. "Never even gave us a rumble eu never said one Wordr' ,ie "Baby, that was archaic-a sile ,e- moving picture!" E