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Such Is the Path of Dolly Hanna, with Mary Duncan as Her Guide
By DOROTHY DONNELL
DOLLY HANNA thought that the girl was Joe Brown's sweetie. The barber next door who came into the Ideal Lunch for his meals thought the new waitress was a swell-looking dame and wanted to make a date with her.
The boss of the lunch room thought she must be a bandit-queen after she had rushed out of the restaurant, leaving a quarter tip untouched behmd her; so he called in the detectives.
Mary Duncan, Fox star, thought it was the greatest fun she had had since she came to Hollywood.
What Joe Brown thought isn't recorded. Perhaps he didn't think.
Clarkson's Ideal Lunch is an eating place in downtown Los Angeles, where at noon merchants gather to eat th Merchants' Lunch, 40 cents. It has a sign in the window now, "Waitress Wanted." This is because Dolly Hanna, the best coffee slinger of them all, has gone into the movies.
"Aw go on" says Dolly. "I wasn't s' much as a waitress. A real good one can carry four cups of cawtee on her wrist. I c'n only carry three. But I was pretty fair at selling. You know — when there's anything in the kitchen that the boss don't think will keep till tomorrer, the girls have to push it with the customers. Suggest it when they ask,' What's good tonight Dolly.' 'Say, I could get rid of anything."
It all began when Murnau decided to make a picture called "Our Daily Bread" with much of the action staged in a restaurant.
To her who waits as well as to him, all things come. To Dorothy Hanna at the top — mcrchandizer of mocha at the Ideal Lunch in Los Angeles, came a job as technical director of a picture in which Mary Duncan and Joe Brown at the right are engaged
None of the Fox technical staff would admit ever having served coffee and sinkers over a lunch counter, so it was decided to call in a real waitress to get the local color right; and Joe Brown, who played a gunman in "Me, Gangster" without looking out of place, and Mary Duncan, the star, started out to locate her.
Now, let Dolly tell it:
"It was getting kinda late when they come into the rest'runt, an ' I led them to a booth an, turned off the light in it. I thought they was lookin' for a place to spoon. He says to me, 'What's your name?' and I says 'Dolly' — because most of the customers call us girls by our first names. 'Well, Dolly, my name's {Continued on page jy)
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