Evening star., 1936-08-02
THE STORY so FAR

THE STORY SO FAR
~ /oU wouldn't have chance against
those smart pretty women he plays
with. You'd just be country nobody
just Gale Thornton's wife - and he'd be
ashamed of you. And you d break your heart" D."
In the months to come. Lois Graham had
cause to remember the words of Leslie Janson,
who had begged her in vain to marry him.
Lois had left her home in little New Eng
land town and gone to Hollywood as the wife
of her childhood sweetheart, Gale Thornton,
filmland's newest star.
This marriage was blow to Gales associ-
ates, particularly to Herman Rand, the di-
rector who had discovered him and given him
his first chance, and to Gales fellow-star,
Janet Courteney.
Janet was piqued because the marriage had
ruined the carefully built up story that she
and Gale were boy and girl sweethearts. And,
anyway, marriage is considered bad publicity
for handsome young film actors.
Accepting the inevitable with fair grace,
. Janet posed as the sweet, understanding
friend of the bride, and undertook to intro
duce Lois and Hollywood to each other. Lois
soon found that it is far easier to be a star
than to be the wife of one. Leslie Janson had
been right! She did not know how to dress
or talk or play the game in the sophisticated
Hollywood manner.
1t was magazine article, limiting at a
former understanding" between Gale and
Janet, that opened Janets eyes to the young
wife's tragic situation. She told the heart
broken Lois that there was no truth in the
article, and that she must pull herself to-
gether and fight Hollywood with its own
weapons. She swept Lois off to famous
beauty salon and celebrated dressmaker.
This is Gale Thornton's wife," she told
them. "And that's what you've got to make
her look like"
PART III
-HE announcer, his crush hat at the con-
ventional angle, made the announce
ments with the customary air of pre-
senting wonders and miracles to gasp
ing universe.
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I've got
the prize packet. Here's Gale himself and
what's whole lot more, I've got his wife.
wish you could all see her. She's lovely.
guess we know why he keeps her out of pic
lures. No one would look at him" The crowd
swaying against the police Gordon Uttered
ecstatically. The announcer took Lois by the
hand. Come on, Lois, don't let him get away
with it. Say word to everyone"
Gale stood back from her - it was almost
as though he were surrendering her to those
unseen, hungry multitudes. She was more
than lovely. She was not only more expen-
sively dressed than the women who had pre-
ceded her, but she was dressed with an in
spired appreciation of her quality. Perhaps
Madame Natzke, whose self-evaluation had
been so staggering, had not overestimated her
services. Another Madame So-and-So - Gale
had forgotten the name. but she had affected
weeks salary like an earthquake = had
taught Lois to walk with different assurance
to that which had carried her across her native
fields. She could dance, she could outride,
outswim, outplay, out-Hollywood the most
vivid and vital of them all. As Janet said,
"She had the stuff. We just dug it out You
ought to be proud of her.
Gale was proud. Lois was wonderful. She
had thrown off her aWkwardness and SIM