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THE GIRL WHO EMOTED UNDER THE STARS Continued ignorance. She smiled. “I was calling him ‘darling,’ of course.” I was embarrassed. I had to pick up a bag of spilled marbles. So I told her she was the best actress in the world. This time, she laughed. “Someday I will be. That’s my goal. Broadway, Hollywood, maybe even London.” She patted my hand, “I think you’re stage struck. You want to act, too?” I shook my head. I said I wanted to write those kinds of plays the Dubinskys did. Like, wow, that curtain line when the faithful servant popped in with two guns to hold dirty villains off from harming the heroine and shouting “Stand back, you devils, or PH blow you to hell with your boots on.” She wasn’t laughing at me, but smiling with me. “Just set your mind to it and you’ll write those plays.” Thus ended my first adventure in Wonderland. She was soon gone from such small-time trouping and the A-erdome was torn down after the summer of 1915 because movies had become super and exhibitors found ways to promise “20 degrees cooler inside” during hot summer evenings. And I went on to newspaper reporting, College and finally motion picture Publicity. “The Letter” — Early Talkie In 1929, we screened “The Letter” at the Paramount Studio in Hollywood. The picture was one of Paramount’s first talkies made at the Astoria Studios on Long Island, which was close to stage stars whom the Company needed to attract for the screen. Jeanne Eagels, not far removed from becoming an immortal in “Rain,” was magnificent. Preparing to write copy for the Los Angeles opening of the film, I read for the first time the biography on Miss Eagels. Suddenly, I was with it again. Amelia Jeanne Eagles (she altered the name later) had joined the Dubinsky Brothers at fifteen in Kansas City, married Morris at sixteen and spent six years in touring stock with them at a maximum salary of $25 a week until she had set out to truly make her girlhood dream come true.^ “Jealöusy” Paramount had signed Miss Eagels for three pictures and my friend, Continued on Page 24 INTERESTED IN MEXICO? MEXICO’S WEST COAST and RAJA CALIFORNIA Map an d Directory For 50 ^ You r Copy Send Almo Company TO P. 0. Box 65982 Los Angeles, Calif. 90065 21