Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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SUPREME SHIRT CO. 278-PM Fifth Ave., New York City Advertising Section Robert Landis after one dinner-party, was youth so enthroned. Judith was not lonely. She knew several girls whom she had met when they were making pictures in New York. And quite as naturally as would have been the case in Westchester or on Long Island or in Connecticut, she migrated to a group of her own kind. One night a week she and three other girls, all stars, got together with a French teacher. There was one group called the Roughnecks. They tumbled into bed in the early hours of most mornings with heavy breaths. They squandered all they earned and went into debt for the sake of this riotous living. Their bootleggers were buying the bonds and the real estate. And Judith knew that their names would have waned in brilliance by the following >ear and that they would be glad to play any part any director offered them the year after that. There was scandal. Of course. Sometimes it became more unpleasant than the flirtatious husband or unfaithful wife variety. There was the case of Patrick McGuire. He played kindly Irish patriarchs on the screen. He had his own company and had made a fortune with the sentimental brand of film entertainment that he offered for sale. A realty company that had been interested in developing a track of land several miles beyond Beverly Hills got him to state that he was going to locate his studios there. They mentioned this in their advertising. It served their propaganda that this locale would become a second Hollywood. Prices soared. And working people took their savings and invested, believing that years of providence had led them now to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For the use of his name in this connection, Patrick McGuire was given a number of acres of this land. And when the prices rose high enough, he sold out thru an agent and made several thousand dollars. He had never had any intention of locating his studios there. It was less than nothing to him that families had sunk their little fortunes in a worthless investment because of the false impression he had permitted to be made. It was nothing to him that the poor grew poorer when he made a sum of money he did not need. He bought public utility bonds with his profit and went back to his studios to play another kind old Irishman. When Judith heard this story at one of the dinner-parties, it made her ill. Was life always so much less than it appeared? Were people always to be bought if you named their particular price? Was it just that one man would do for only a thousand dollars what another man would not be tempted to do for less than ten thousand ? She wondered. And because she had been disillusioned, because one man had proved so much less than she had believed he would be, she was inclined to accept the things the cynics said. However, in spite of her surface cynicism, Judith did wish to bring something worth while out of what she felt to be the chaos of her marriage. She knew that she did not feel the same towards Harvey as she had felt as short a time as four months ago. Sometimes when she was resting on the chaise longue in her dressing-room, visions of what life might have been with Harvey at her side passed before her closed eyes. Sometimes there were young and hopeful visions of what their life together might still be. And on other times, vagrant visions of another kind of life with Robert Landis obliterated the thought of Harvey. Then Judith would jump up and busy herself with her secretary or return to the "set and watch the others at work. There were the days when she was convinced that Harvey was unfit for marriage because he could never be true to one woman, no matter how much he loved her. And she felt that she was the last wife in the world for a man with these tendencies. It was not enough for Judith that she was loved the most. She could not bear the thought of sharing him. There were other days when she was not willing to dismiss the problem this simply. She was old-fashioned about marriage. Divorce had been a scarlet word to her mother, a word of sacrilege. And Judith felt something of this. Despite her fame she had not traveled very far from some of the things she had been taught as a little girl. Judith knew one thing. She could live without Harvey. She had proved that to her satisfaction. And having lived with him thru some experiences she knew that nothing was impossible. It would be easier by far to put Harvey out of her life entirely than to suffer further indignities and humiliations at his hands. But if there was any slight hope of making things different, then she wanted to give both of them that chance. Actually, this matter absorbed her. One day when she was motoring with Robert Landis, he noticed that she was quiet. "Look here," he said to her, "I dont want this very serious and troubled young woman to kill the gay girl who drove with me thru the snowy country one day not so long ago. And that's what appears to be happening.'' For just one swift second Judith had been tempted to talk to him frankly. It seemed to her that things might straighten out if she could talk about them to someone and thus give them a reality. Now thoughts went scampering thru her head like frightened mice. "I have found out that right isn't right and wrong isn't wrong," she said wistfully, "and I'm trying to straighten out somemental tangles. "I suppose you discovered that you couldn't be sure about anything in this world years ago. I'm just discovering it. That's all." She wondered what she had been thinking of. Of course, she couldn't talk to Robert Landis about Harvey. Why, he was the very person with whom any confidences would have been possible. Why was that? Judith shrank from answering that question. He had turned to her with a tender and curious smile that day. He had patted her hand gently. It was almost as if he understood. But how could he, thought Judith. She never admitted that Harvey's infidelities were better known to others than to herself. Chapter XVIII Judith often wondered what decision she would have arrived at if Harvey had not sent the letter which came the day after her drive with Robert Landis. It was a free day from the studios. And Judith took an hour before her appointment at the hair-dressers to go thru some papers that she had never unpacked. Among them were letters and love notes from Harvey. There was the card that he had enclosed with his first corsage of gardenias. "Will you take dinner with me tomorrow night?" Judith read the words that had filled her with an ecstasy. She tried to laugh at the tears streaming (Continued on page 93) Every advertisement in MOTION' PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.