We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
GIRLS
'ARE IN A "TOUG SPOT"
Should a girl, young, pretty, hungry for life and the good things of life, jog along in an "unadventurous" rut or lose herself on the broader paths? Read this fascinating opinion
In "Skyscraper Souls/' the picture based on Faith Baldwin's famous novel, "Skyscraper/' Lynn (Maureen O'Sullivan) says: "If I have to pay for it later, I'll pay for it— but I'm going to enjoy myself now!" Read Faith Baldwin's views on this
B y B A
FOR some time I have been looking forward with great interest to the picture "Skyscraper Souls," which has been adapted by Elmer Harris from my novel, "Skyscraper." The picture, as produced, does not adhere strictly to the original story but makes, to my mind, a more satisfactory and exciting drama than if it had. Thanks to splendid photography, the brilliant direction of Mr. Selwyn, the clever dialogue and adaptation of Mr. Harris and the fine performances by a noteworthy cast, I am awfully proud to have my name connected with it.
Basically, of course, the story is the same ; and the one very pertinent question which arises in the book and which is strikingly brought out in the picture is, I think, of general interest. It is the age-old question of whether a girl, young, pretty, hungry for life, and the good things of life, shall jog along in the safe, narrow and not very — to her mind — adventurous rut, or shall step aside, detour, if you will, and lose herself on the broader paths that have so easy a beginning and so difficult an end. For lose herself she must.
Nowadays, girls are in what is commonly known as a tough spot. Most of them have to choose between marrying a man whose job is most uncertain, and getting along on what he may earn. Unless they keep on working, too, which is equally uncertain ; or, perhaps, taking the Other
FAITH L D W I N
Route. For there are still some men with money left in the world, although not many of them appear to be "marrying" men.
Lynn, in "Skyscraper Souls" had that choice. She was young, she was gay-hearted, she was fed up with just "getting along." She was also in love with a young man whose prospects were not much better than her own, who was selfish as youth is always selfish, demanding and jealous. And when she met a man, older, experienced, who could offer what she pleased to consider "everything in the world," she was, quite normally, and being human, very much tempted. She herself says, in the screen play, "I want to do things, see things! If I have to pay for it later, I'll pay for it — but I'm going to enjoy myself now." And then she says, "We only live once and when I die I want to be able to say, 'Well, I didn't miss much !' "
That's one way of looking at it. Another way is to look at it as did Sarah in the story, who replies, "I'm afraid, my dear, you'll be missing a great deal."
LET'S take a girl like Lynn, any girl, an every-day girl, and look at the problem from her angle. Suppose she says to herself, given the same situation, "Why shouldn't I do as I please; I'll be hurting no one but myself?" It doesn't much matter whether what she is considering is a marriage for (Continued 011 page 89)
47