The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-09
CHAPTER ELEVEN
iva HARLEY smiled. She said

IVA HARLEY smiled. She said
T. she wondered herself.
mo one,' she said, can answer
that question, I'm afraid. I've done
different things; worked in depart
ment stores, clerking in busy sea-
sons, and modelling. -. Last Christ
mas got check from my brother
told him never to send me any
money-but I used it."
It was her own experience, she
said, that just when you reached
the point Of giving up in despair,
something happened that held you
on; you either got job or pros
poets suddenly frightened or some
one was able to argue you out OF
your dependency. Some one like
Mona" she supplemented.
Rorimer, she though, would be
surprised to learn how cheaply a
girl could live when she had to.
mona and I were paying only $50
a month for our experimentation the
two of us. We didn't like it, OF
course, and we were glad to get out;
but it was cheap.
And there are cheaper one, too.
It's something to be thankful Tor
that rents aren't high. The bunga-
low costs each one of us only few
more dollars than we were paying
beforehand we live like human be-
ings now. Anne Winter" she added,
lis a peach. She's-regular.
Sometimes you drop into a Hol-
lywood bakery shop or grocery store
and ask how many calls they get
from girls for yesterdays rolls.
Some girls can eat on less than
you spend for tips; they get their
own breakfast and go without
lunch, or buy milk shake; and
they depend lot on dinner inyi-
tations.
Have you met many of them?"
Eva asked, and Rorimer shook his
head.
"Well, if you had you would have
learned that some of them are a
little hard-boiled about the matter
of dates. Ask them to go out in the
evening, and you'll find yourself
buying a meal. 1 don't blame
| them"
Nor r." said Rorimer softly.
He said: But who buys the meals
for the menu" and he smiled. They
have to live, too
1--WE said, ''There's more than one
T. great lover of the screen today,
who used to get his breakfast by
stealing milk off Hollywood porches.
And some of them can tell you
what alleys are for"
"Alleys?" Dan repeated blankly.
Sure. Alleys are places to run up
when you beat it out of a restaurant
without paying your meal check.
That's something they found out
when they we're extras. Did you
know that?"
Rorimer confessed that he did not.
81 had heard stories, of course, but I
took them for press agent yarns"
"Well, the true ones are the hard
est to believe" she said, and Dan
agreed that that must be so.
A moment later Eva gathered her
coat about her and pushed back her
chair and announced that she must
be leaving.
Back to my art she said with
an unjoyous laugh. why don't you
come over soon? I know Anne would
like to see you.
Thanks; I will" He felt like
telling her that, since Anne had
been unemployed for nearly week,
she might herself have informed
him and invited him to call.
But that was rather a young"
way Of looking at it, he reflected as
he pulled Eva's chair back for her;
there was no particular reason for
thinking that Anne should turn to
him; there were other men in
Hollywood.
A voice hailed him as they neared
the door, and Paul Collier stood ur
at nearby table, reckoning.
Just the man I'm looking for.
he said. Dan, I want you to mce
Miss Louise Watkins" and he in
clined toward the young woma
who sat at his table.
Miss Watkins" he explained a
Rorimer shook hands with her, 81:
high-powered writer for some
our better fan magazines. We were
talking about you, Dan"
Il thought felt uncomfortable,
Dan laughed. and he presented
them both 70 Eva Harley.
Were just finishing dessert,
Collier said, and he urged them to.
sit down, but Eva said, mo,
thanks; I'm afraid TIL have to get
back, but Dan can stay. See you
again, Dan, hope" she urged, and
hurried away.
Rorimed dropped into the chair
that Collier pulled out for him.
Collier informed him that he had
come over to watch them put the
finishing touches On Grim Holt
day. and Louise Watkins wanted
to know if he minded if she, too,
looked on.
She was an agreeable sort; rath r
plain and with a queer, twisted
smile that was strangely like a
pout. Dan thought he had seen her
somewhere before, and he told her
so.
81 was over here last week. she
informed him, interviewing Fred
erick Atwood. We had lunch to-
gether."
did he tell you," Collier asked,
chow it felt to be a police report
err" and Miss Watkins told him not
to be sarcastic. because she thought
Atwood was Every nice"
"All the women go for him." Col
lier said. THE mans got it,"
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CHE and Collier. Dan learned,
/ - both had passes to admit them
to the sound stages, and some time
later the three of them we're watch
ing Collins directing the retaking
of one of the final sequences of
Grim Holiday
Dan found chairs for them, with
which they managed to straddle the
heavy wires that lay all about.
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