Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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You seem to me a smart little girlie : smart as you're pretty, and that's going some ! " 'Yet I'm not smart or pretty enough to have landed a job at Hollywood so far," Jolette sighed. "Back to the movies again! Well, listen, my dear, we'll have this out. You know my wife hasn't come home yet. She got as far as New York all right, but there she stopped with the man she calls her assistant director, tho he does all the work really, to interview an English actor who's done one picture in the East, you know that British baronet star, Sir Jimmy Belden, and they've got old boy Bruger, the president of Perfection, to engage him as leading man in the picture. Irma — my wife — thinks she's going to direct. She is staying on in Xew York, and she hasn't sent the continuity yet. Everything's being held up!" "Oh!" said Jolette. There seemed to be nothing else to say. "That chap, Sir James Belden, is in New York, too, of course. Irma probably -is writing him in a better and bigger part. Oh, I'm not jealous, Baby Face! You're on the wrong track, if you think that. I only wish she'd give me a real, honest-togoodness excuse to divorce her, and free myself. But Irma's European, you know, Italian, took her writing name of Rimaldi from her native town ; and even a baronet means something in her young life. She loves titles. She kootoos to this feller. Anyhow, there they are in Xew York, and Irma'll show up when she darn well pleases, not before ! It may be this week, or it may be next. She's almighty independent since her last two books made such wild hits in the movies, and she likes to show she's somebody in the game. I bet she's impressing this Belden guy. But there's one thing anyhow, Irma's being out of. the way now can work to your advantage. 'Can work,' are the words I use. Understand?" "X-not quite," said Jolette, afraid that she did understand only too well. "You mean — you can engage me for a small part before she comes back." "Well, maybe I'll dot the 'i's' and cross the 't's,' yet, baby! If I'm to be Johnnyon-the-job for you, what do I get for my trouble?" He was staring straight at the pretty face that flushed and paled under its unnecessary film of powder. Jolette took a sip of champagne, for an excuse to look down into her glass instead of into those eyes which repelled her. There was something peculiarly repulsive in the man's manner tonight, something almost unnatural, she thought. He had never been attractive — far from it ! She'd had to force herself to be "nice" to him, and "keep on his good side" since their first meeting, but he had never seemed so crude as this. The sudden change in his manner puzzled as much as it troubled her, because it was unlike him. Had the brandy gone to his head, accustomed to it as he was ? There was a strained look on his face, and a queer wildness in his eyes, as if he were suffering and unnerved. "1-1*11 be ever so grateful to you, Mr. Downing, for anything you do for me," the girl stammered. Chapter II T~)owning gave a throaty chuckle. He put up his hand and pulled at his collar, as if he couldn't endure its tightness. "Gratitude's not enough — not near enough," he warned her. "If you want me to be sweet to you, you've got to be sweet to me." "Wasn't I sweet to come out here with you tonight?"' "That depends ! So far, so good. But what's the next dish on the menu? Say, listen, pretty little girl — prettiest little girl I've come across in a coon's age! I have the power to advise Vaughan to engage you — stick you into some kind of part in the play of Irma's Venetian book. Xot very big, maybe, to begin with, but big enough to give you some good close-ups, and a chance to be noticed if you can make good. The bucks can begin to flow in from the day you're engaged, no matter how much later you start work ; say a hundred a week. I'll make a point of that. You can have an advance. And of course your pay envelope won't be the half of the layout for you. The rest, on the side, will be my lookout " "Oh, but all I ivant is a chance to work, and a hundred dollars a week would seem a fortune to me after what I've gone thru out here this last month !" Jolette broke in. "I'm no gold digger !" "Well, I'll bet there are several thousands of other girls in Hollywood that feel just that same way," said Downing. "Only I dont happen to be interested in them. I am in you ! But I wont lift my hand for a cheater, no matter how pretty she may be. I cant promise to make you leading lady. Irma'll have a lot to say about that ; and she's just as big a cat as Britten, besides being twice as temperamental, with her Italian blood. Best I can do for you in the Perfection studio is to get you a small part. But you'll soon gain experience that way. And later, when I see how you and I rub along together, I dont say I wont make you a star somewhere or other on my own. I can afford to do it. The rest's up to you. Xow I guess you see my point." The girl did see it. There could be no more evasions and prevarications. There was no hope, even, that the Japanese would come in, and give her time to decide what to do. Dinner was over. They had had their coffee. Ito had been told that he needn't return unless his master rang. Not that those instructions had been necessary, to keep him out. The utter blankness of his face, the deadness of his slanting eyes had told, as no changing expressions could have told exactly how well this thorolytrained servant understood the situation. A year ago Jolette had been much like any other "small town" girl, except that she had been prettier and more intelligent than most of her kind. She had been praised so much for her beauty, and told she "ought to go into the movies," that she'd begun to think everyone must be right. She had been 'alone in the world, except for a stepfather unlikely to remain true to her mother's memory long. To get rid of her, he had been willing to advance the thousand dollars her mother had left to be Jolette's inheritance on her twenty-first birthday ; and if the girl hadn't been over self-confident at first, in Xew York, her money might have lasted longer than it had. Strain and struggle and disappointment had rubbed off the peach-bloom of her sweetness, and the natural frankness of her nature. The "cat" which is in every woman had come to the surface in Jolette. She had learned to use her claws ; learned to calculate chances, to count the cost of things ; to take all she could from a man and give as little as possible in return. But 118 Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.