Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

Fool's Gold (Continued from page 69) at most four weeks. We never overwork our girls. You would need to be on the set only three or four hours a day. I know positively that you are equal to any depth of emotion. I'm ready to sign you up this minute for $150 a week." He picked up some forms of contracts from a desk drawer, while my heart stood still. "But I must tell you one other thing — this is entirely nude work." To say I almost fainted sounds like a MidVictorian novel, but truly, I had a frightful attack of "ingrowing hysterics." A picture, two to four weeks in the making, working only "in the nude!" Oh, Eden, Eden, thy name is Hollywood. Then he continued: "Now, dear, I don't want you to do anything you would be ashamed of but remember, it's all in the mind. As you think, so are you. Come now — sign this contract— " She Almost Signs nearly did. Yes, I know I shock you, dear old diary, but the spell of the moment, or his garbled philosophy, or my dire need — some spell was upon me, for I had the pen dipped in ink, ready to sign my name, when something seized me. But I stopped and said hurriedly. "I'll come back this afternoon, and tell you what I decide." He did not try to force me. He saw me to the door and said, "I'll expect you back. Remember, this is released only in South America. We are doing these pictures continually. Work a few weeks at this salary now and then, and you will have some money to buy clothes and a little car. And before you know it, you won't be doing extra work for $5 a night on the Fox lot." All this sounded reassuring and plausible, and extremely matter of fact. I walked out of the studio in a daze and right to the home of an actor I know. He and his wife have been in the picture business as many years as the industry has been going. 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