The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-11-22
CLAWS By Rita we;mnn

Published by Special Arrangements with The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate,
Incorporated
Copyright 1895: By RITA WEIMAN
GIN TWO PARTS-PART TWO)
Everything! Gone up in smoke, all
cur plans" Suiting action to word she
sent q long curving spiral from puck
cred lips. Love birds of the screen
can't even build their own nest"
What do you mean-all our plans?"
Cant quit being a pair of pie-faced
hypocrites: Can't have babies. Can't get
married."
1.-THE hell We can't! Who says SOP"
The morality clause in our contracts,
boy"
'How can morality interfere with get
ting married??"
We're not, you see, and the whole
world thinks we are. So If we admit
that all these years we've been fooling
our public we make ourselves and the
industry look like plugged nickels. And
where do we land as a result? I hate
to tell you, but use your Imagination
Who gave you all this?"
"Graystone-this afternoon. I phoned
him to drop in because I had a secret
I didn't want to let loose in his office.
"a AC SaAAiC, ~ I'LL y Dec, dlU i III
afraid he conquered"
wal a minute-wait a minute"
Raymond said dizzily. Don't tell me
you'd let an outsider dictate our private
lives"
That's where we've been Just a little
cuckoo. Seems We haven't any private
lives" Nan crushed out the cigaret,
lighted another, and laughed CURLY.
You can't even make an honest wom-
an of me, sweetheart, without an army
of ferrets after us with their noses to
the ground"
Raymond's jaw shot out.
please"
"Just what I said at the start. Just
what I. told benign old Emil. But he
knows better. So do you. So do I. The
minute he left I went to my room and
stretched out and tried to be calm and
figure some way to beat the thing. 1t
can't be done. We don't belong to our-
selves any more or to each other. We
belong to a lot of people who never
saw us except as shadows on the screen.
Our shadows. boy, have more rights
than we have"
you say so! Graystone says so. Well,
I don't"
Nan waited for him to go on. She
waited a full 10 minutes, pacing the ter
race.
eve can drop out of the picture and
pictures" Raymond suggested at last
"If it comes to a showdown let our con-
tract go to blazes. We have plenty of
money We can travel-have a good
timo."
"Then what? We can't keep going in
definitely. Join the navy and see the
world! The world won't take the rest
of u lives to see. Besides, we can't
stop work at our age"
eve can go back to Broadway"
Happy thought! It was mine. too
when I talked to Emil. He simply
pointed out that we wouldn't have a
chance On Broadway after making
laughing stocks of ourselves in Holly
wood"
At this point the butler appeared
with cocktails. Martins dry and potent
Neither Of them ate much dinner. The
long. cool dining room was omniously
quiet. Only one subject was uppermost
and that could not be discussed before
the servants. But Raymond did a lot
of thinking.
It was later. on the way to Hubert's,
that he made the announcement
Tomorrow we stick to our original
plan to fly to Las Vegas"
mo. SAID mail. NO. we uO IUG.
"Whv?" asked Raymond sharply.
because it would be insane. Because
we can't lust chuck everything to prove
u independence"
"Everything?" Raymond inquired. ITS
anything more important than what
we expected to do?"
"Your future-and your loving me-
cts because I love you so much
that I'm ready to send the whole works
to"
you'd blame me if I let you," she
interrupted. fumbling with a black
chiffon handkerchief that seemed tt
swallow I'm the small face as in a har-
EN- veil. you'd blame me for helping