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The Fruits of Science IT was understood that Miss Bradford was likely to go far — for which reason she was generally attached to a stout chain. Chain or no chain, the scientific atmosphere suited Betty. It was light work and compatible, generally, with peanuts or bananas or a head of lettuce at the end of it. With her science, Betty developed a distinct aesthetic appreciation. Her greatest pleasure was to tear the accumulated works of Harold Bell Wright into small bits as they were passed into her cage, volume by volume. Betty became, in short, a bluestocking. Lest you feel perhaps that Betty's highbrow attitude smacked of pedantry, that she was an academic prig, let me assure you that it was no pose with her. Heart and soul she felt as she felt. Her education was as much part of her as Joe Martin's was part of him. So they met; Joe Martin the movie actor, and Betty Bradford, the highbrow scientist. They met in the enchanted atmosphere of Hollywood whither Betty had come for a visit. They met, and as you have probably assumed from the title of this article, they loved. Joe loved as only a movie actor can love (adv't) and Betty loved with the analytical precision of a scientist. Joe was big, he was strong, he would be a perfect father for her children. He had a fine mind. He appealed to her physically. Discounting a few scientific terms and the argot of the celluloid industry, they spoke the same language. But, to descend into the vernacular, much as she loved Joe, the movies were to Betty an ever-increasing pain in the neck. To highbrow Betty the entire output of the silver screen was verminous. Worried by her increasing animosity toward the movies, Betty considered it with the same cool, analytical precision. She examined herself carefully for prejudices, for lack of understanding, for assuming a false pose, for — well, you've seen a monkey examine itself. The farther she went into the subject the more she convinced herself that the movies were no medium of expression for so fine an orang-outang as her Joe. The climax came when she was requested to attend a special presentation of "Chang." After a reel and a half of "Chang" she walked out on it. They brought her back and started the film where she had left off. Again she walked out on it. Again they recaptured her and started the film. For the third time she walked out on it wearing, in her agitation, Mr. Robert E. Sherwood's derby. The remarks of her scientific colleagues on her extraordinary discrimination cleared away her last vestige of doubt. She was right. The movies were terrible. Joe Martin was told that Betty Bradford could never marry a movie actor. It was hard for Joe to understand all Betty's scientific reasons and proofs for and of the unworthiness of the then silent drama. All Joe knew was that he had made and was making thousands of people happy, and until Betty came, it was all he cared. But thousands of human beings are not one chimpanzee, particularly the chimpanzee of one's heart. Followed days of morose brooding, days on which Joe would not work or even bite the press agents which were thrown into his cage in the hope of distracting him. Protracted discussion with Petty was of no avail. He knew he could no more join Betty in psychological experimentation than she could support him on the movie lot. Neither of them was fitted for the work of the other by training, predisposition, proclivity or propensity. "A zebra," says Professor Emil-Fiilop von Schmuck, "is a kind of an ass, but he cannot pull an icewagon" {Liber der Komisch-Aspecl des Wild 84