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The Mayor's Lair ETiRKi) with a daredevil spirit of adventure that led me, erstwhile, into the lairs of such men as Harry K. Thaw and Cecil l)e Mille, 1 spent the better part of a morning tracking the Mayor of Los Angeles to his desk. Wearing a cheerful front which I had kept ill a clean paper bag in my pocket, I proceeded to (|uiz His Honor about the key-distributing business. "We don't give out a key every time one of the film magnates returns here," he continued, "if we did, we should meet every train. This office has other duties, you know," he reminded me, "besides distributing keys. Some of the Hollywood pressagents seem to forget the fact. "it is not easy for us to determine who is of sufficient standing in the motion picture business to rate a key," the Mayor pursued, furrowing his civic brow. "We are apt to be the victims of unscrupulous publicity men, of whom there are plenty in this city. I rarely go to the movies and haven't the least idea who is who in the business. Celebrities come and go so rapidly that one can't keep pace with them. 1 liave several times been badly abused by people who take advantage of my ignor ance and pretend someone of no importance is really a figure on the screen. Present-' ing keys to the city is a liighly delicate matter. I was roundly censured on one occasion by many factions in the city for J^ l)resenting a key to Aimee MacPherson. 'M That was before her little trouble, of course, but she had many enemies. Compromising Composites "'T'o save myself from niisrepresentalion by press agents 1 often merely present the key to the city in a figurative way, witliout actually handing anything over. 'Jhis also jjievents iniblicily hounds from ])ublishing trick photographs, vvhicii is a thing they often do. 1 don't mean tiiat tliey show me presenting a key when I didn't, but they sht)w me in positions 1 really didn't occupy. In connection with some female screen celebrities this is apt to be distressing. "The key is merely a concrete expression of welcome. It doesn't unlock anything, either doors or laws. As I present it, 1 ask the arriving personage to accept it as a key to the hearts and homes of Los Angeles. It has no other significance. "Wiiom have I given keys to among the film people? Well, practically all of them, 1 imagine. I don't know their names most of the time. We don't di.scrimiiiate in the matter of nationality. No deserving case is refused." "Why not present a real key to this noble edifice, the City Hall?" I suggested briglitly. "It would be so practical." His Honor coughed. "We have such a key," he .said, a trifle confu.sed, "but the only person we present it to is myself. One has to be careful." Isn't Love Wonderful? i^Coiitiiiiu'd "Oh, it isn't that I lost interest in my own work," Joby replied, "1 just became more interested in Dick's. 1 don't know of any one who has ever come up any faster than Dick. You know, wiien we first met, he was just doing little bits over at Lasky's. But I knew from the first that he was going to be big. I knew tliat any one with as much personality as Dick had was bound to get ahead. Coming Home on Wings "I'll never forget the day he came and told me he was to have the lead in 'Wings.' 1 think that was the re<l-letter day of our lives. It meant everything to us. It meant we could get married, because Dick is prouder than a couple of Lucifers, and he wouldn't have wanted to marry if he hadn't been in a position to earn as much as I did. Of course, even now, Dick doesn't make as much money as I do, but this work he is doing at a smaller .salary is just like an investment that will ))ay dividends in a coui)le of years." "Is it true you nearly sacrificed a big job at a salary of $1500 a week to run down and see Dick when he was making 'Wings' ill Texas?" I pried on relentlessly. "Sure," laughed Joby. "Why not ? I hadn't seen him in a coui)le of months. As it was, after taking that long trip down there, I only got to spend a half day with him. The darn old studio wired for mc to be back and ready to start work in acouple of days." ■^'ou got the idea that for a nickel she would have thrown over the dirty old job from f'i.iyc Ai) and stayed down in Texas. But she didn't. With much reluctance she came home — to her own work. Dick of All Trades "'T'liK wonderful tiling about Dick's future," v\ent on Joby before 1 could get my breath, "is that he isn't limited to one particular kind of role. He is as good in a couple of comedies he has made with ICsther Ralston and Clara Bow as he was 111 the dramatic scenes of 'Wings.' I've cut out all of Dick's clippings from the New ^'ork i)apers." "Hey !" I cut in, "I know all about howwell Dick is getting along. What about yourself? What have you been doing?" "Oh, I don't know." said Jobyiia carelessly. "I work most of the time in '<|uickies' and I've done a couple of pictures for De Mille's studio and a few things like that," registering about as much interest in her own atTairs as most people do about someone else's. "Dick is .going to be costarred in a picture with Nancy Carroll. There is goin.g to be a pre-view of his picture. Want to go with us?" I said, ".Sure. But when is something of yours going to he pre-viewed?" "I don't know" she answered, "I've been so busy getting the house finished anil entertaining Dick's family I haven't had an awful lot of time to look them up." I made one final, weak effort to learn something about her. "I haven't any particular plans for right away" she admitted. "You see, Dick is going to be on location in Mexico and I'm going down tiiere with him." 86