Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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Little did he realize that though a continent divided him from his lovely lady, a gay correspondence and a great moment in his life was to be be AT First He felt a little shy, but finally . came to the conclusion that a cat can look at a queen and became natural and easy in his manner. Their correspondence increased and their friendship grew. His dark eyes sparkled with pleasure as he wrote to her of his music, youthful hopes and ambitions. He read with delight that her books and work filled her with similar yearnings. Somehow he felt that, great star though she was, she was also a lonely person. Later he realized from her letters that it must be because that capable brain of hers spun thoughts and ideas way above the average person's interest. He was thrilled when she wrote that she was glad to have a friend who would talk with her, taking her for what she was, a very human person, and not the lady of the screen before whom everyone was artificial. IT Seemed strange to him that this girl of royalty (he knew her mother was the Austrian Countess Zanardi-Landi), brought up in the staid society of London, should so capably strike out for herself. He admired the fact that she had made her home in her adopted country, not as a princess in exile, but as a woman who worked at the best job of all — that of giving pleasure to other people. On the strength of their developing friendship she wrote in her last letter and asked him to meet a friend of her's v/ho was arriving in New York. To please, as a favor to her, see that the girl was entertained. She gave a brief description and thought he would recognize her from that. So, fulfilling her request, Abram went to the station. Perhaps it was because he wanted an especially good report to go back to her through her friend, that he had dressed with particular care. He looked exceedingly handsome in his dark overcoat and from under the brim of his hat his quiet eyes speculated. As the train pulled in, Abram went to the designated Pullman car and waited patiently for the passengers to emerge. People filed by him, porters were busily hurrying about, and still he saw no young lady who answered the brief description given. The platform of the station was beginning to look empty and he wondered if he had missed her. Perhaps she had not come after all. Then his gaze suddenly beheld a lovely creature of five feet five inches, with beautiful green-blue eyes, step on the platform and stand poised a moment, in natural hesitation. He gasped, for before him stood the princess of the stage and screen of two continents, Elissa Landi. Jt Was a tense moment and it wasn't until a spontaneous "Hello" was exchanged that his spell was broken. A little while later, Abram was shifting her baggage about to please 60 her in a suite in a big hotel. She was laughing at him as he juggled with a large wardrobe trunk. "Really, Abram, you look too absurd. — Do you know I simply cannot call you 'Abram' it's just too much for me." "My nickname is Bubby, take your choice," he answered giving a final tug at the trunk. "Bubby? Oh, how lovely!" She laughed and pointed an impudent finger at him. "Bubby, of all things to call a longlegged, dignified young man — but I love it, Bubby it shall be henceforth." And so it was. That night he was immaculate in tails when he called for her in plenty of time for leisurely dining before the opening of a new play. And it was at dinner they agreed to have a rollicking good time during the ten days of Elissa's vacation. "Let's pretend," she said, "That we are irresponsible youngsters. Let's have the spirit of — fun for a day. Yes, that's it, fun for a day will be our motto. Let's forget about work for a few days. You see, I do so little in the way of amusement when I am home, people sometime think it is because I am snooty or something. It's not that I am high-hat, or inclined to live a hermit-like existence, but when I'm working, I have only time for that." "I know how you feel," Bubby said with warmth, thinking of the long, hard hours he puts in at the piano, oblivious to all except his work. At Supper after the theatre, they sat k in a small, funny out of the way restaurant, whose pianist looked a little the worse for wear, and who during intermission was having a cigarette. "You play something for me, will you Bubby, play something of your own?" she asked. "We're here to have fun, you don't want — " "Yes, I do," she said emphatically taking him by the arm and leading him to the piano. The piano gained, she sat him down and drew up a chair alongside of him. Making faces at her, he picked out a tune with one finger. She had to smile. Then he burst into his own modern interpretation of a Spanish air, while Elissa listened and admired. They went to see other performances, they went many places to dine. They danced together by the hour. Bubby, with music in every fiber of his body guided her about ecstatically, v/hile she, who for three years had studied for the Russian Ballet, floated in his arms with joy. Seated across the table from her at dinner, the charm of Elissa held him spellbound as the charm of Venice, where she was born, that city of islands, soft music and romance. And perhaps to him, the green of her eyes seemed to take their color from the green of the sea that floods the canaled streets of her birthplace. And, perhaps, over an afternoon cup of tea in her suite, with Bubby at her side, this cool, aloof lady's heart was touched by the stories of his humble beginning, his ambitions and hopes. She listened quietly and sympathetically as HOLLYWOOD