Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1925)

Photop •vG Section ,ou ready to go? Or are you determined tc wreck her life as well as your own, to say noth ing of Sylvia Thome's? You've made the child an outcast — driven her out of HoUyvii wiped her right off the screen. Why not act like a man for once in your life, and do w hat you can to bring her back again?" Sydney Harmon sat silent for many minutCb unable to face the scorn in Mrs. Allison's eyes When he at last lifted his head, his e.xpresvion held a new determination. "I'll go back," he said. "It will take me half an hour to pack my things. I hope voi won't mind waiting." Marion Allison, sitting in the lobby of th< hotel while Mr. Harmon prepared for then journey, went over in her mind the steps to b( taken before Sylvia could once more look the world in the face. First, of course, would come the reconciha tion, if one could be effected, between Sydne> and his wife. If he returned home in his pres ent contrite spirit, confessed his wrongdomg frankly, threw himself on Isobel's mercv Marion felt little doubt that he would be for given. An infinitely more difficult task would then confront her — the reinstating of Sylvia as a decent woman in the eyes of the public. It was a task before which even Mrs. Allison quailed With the publicity which a great picture corporation had at its command to back her, the thing might be accomplished, but Sylvia was now a nobody. Her affairs were no longer "news." Who cared whether her reputation was cleared or not, besides a few friends? There would have to be a campaign, certainl.v, costing huge sums of money, such a campaign as only a picture company of the first magnitude could carry out. Marion knew the screen world thoroughly — knew how exceedingly difficult it would be to induce any member of it to risk a fortune to re-estabhsh Sylvia as a star. No matter how strong her case might appear, there was always a chance that the public, fickle as April showers, might refuse to accept her again — might think that her defense was just some publicity trick, concocted by clever press-agents to delude them. Mrs. Allison was still debating this phase of Sylvia's case in her mind when Sydney Harmon appeared, followed by a porter. "I'm ready, if you are," he said, as Marion CHAPTER XXVII C YLVIA and Steve spent all the afternoon and '-'early evening preparing the statement she had decided to give to tlie newspapers. Mr. Hollins was enthusiastic o\er the idea and lent what help he could in whipping the story into shape. But when it was finally completed and they had driven in to Los Angeles, sought out the city editor of one of the newspapers, a great disappointment awaited them. The editor in question, remembering Sylvia's name, received her at once, but when he had glanced through the pages of her statement he shook his head. "I'm sorry. Miss Thoi can't publish this." "You — you can't publish it?" Sylvia 137 ' he said, "but w< mered. "Why not? "Well, for one thing, because it isn't news." "But— you published the other side of the story — the side that wasn't true— two months ago." "I know — I know. And we would ha\e been glad to print your side too, at that tune. You were a public character then— a person everybody knew about — was thinking of — because of your choice as the International's latest star. But now, you ha%'e been — please don't mind my putting it baldly— forgotten. The public's interest in your affairs has gone. If Mrs. Harmon were to bring a divorce suit— or you were to sue her— sue Mr. Harmon— for defamation of character, or something of the sort — we should print the testimony, of course. The subject would then become news. 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