Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for March, 1930 Girl Fodder [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 70 ] people "found" Chickie's pocketbook. The first was a lonely, middle-aged gentleman who lived at the .Vmbassador. He extracted five ten dollar bills from his wallet and asked the maid who was cleaning his room if she thought she could find a red pocketbook for him. The second was a free lance bootlegger who needed a girl who needed a job. The third was Herbie Klein. Herbie is the only one who counts because he worked the fastest. Herbie called himself a publicist, which is highbrow for press agent. His most important client, Monica Moon, was slipping with her public. For days he had been tapping his brain for an idea which would turn the newspaper spotlight on Monica. npHEN he caught the story about Chickie on *■ the drama page of the Sunday paper. He called up Monica. "Say Monica, I gotta swell idea. Some little extra jane lost her pocketbook with fifty berries in it." "Well, what of it?" she asked, without enthusiasm. "Now listen, here's the gag. You're gonna find the pocketbook — see. Doll yourself up in something sweet and simple. I'll get a cameraman to shoot a scene of you returning the money to the little broad and yours truly will shoot a story about it. Celebrated film star returns lost pockclhook to unfortunate girl. I'll lather the story with good human interest stuff and mention that your next picture will be 'Chains of Love' and if it don't make the front page, with pietures, then Herbie Klein's just a good cloak-and-suit salesman gone wrong." For once Herbie's brain wave clicked in a big way. Monica got a lot of swell publicity out of it. Herbie got a little bonus from Monica in the form of a trick cocktail shaker. Chickie got her picture in the paper. In fact, everybody seemed to get something out of it except the young Columbus who had discovered Chickie. All he got was the "busy" signal when he tried to reach her on the phone. From the landlady's rather garbled account of what had happened, however, he gathered that Chet Gordon, the director, had topped Herbie's inspiration by giving Chickie a little part in Monica's new picture. After a week of wire pulling, Dick secured a pass which admitted him to the sound stage where Monica Moon was working. Dick had to wait for a chance to speak to Chickie. Gordon was rehearsing a scene with her. Monica was stretched out on a chaise longue off set, an open book in her hand, but Dick noticed that she was not reading. She was watching Chickie. Her expression was that which sometimes creeps into the face of a woman of thirty when she is watching a girl of eighteen. Dick waved to her across the set and she beckoned to him. Monica might upstage social lions or stage stars, but never a newspaper man. After the usual Helios and How-are-yous and How's-the-picture-coming, Dick said: "r^UTE kid," indicating Chickie. *— ' Monica shrugged. "If you like the type." 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