Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for April, 1930 I23 "What you want is this, only better." He sketched rapidly on the back of a menu. Mr. Zoop goggled at a rough series of jagged masses that sloped perilously toward one another. "Aha!" he chortled. "Crazy houses lurching over a crooked street, hey? What you got there is modernistic stuff, Baker, and it's a wonder them stiffs of experts didn't think of it." MR. BAKER, having noticed the date of Dore's work, hid a grin and registered modesty. "You certainly catch on quick," he beamed. " The motif will be bulking shadows. We can focus light on just a door, or the gleam of a knife, or a corpse's face, and leave all the rest sort of a crouching outline against a sinister sky. "Mysterious twilight all the time, see? Smoke pots drifting a veil across every episode. "Why, I can knock off a dozen more ideas if you'll let me show the scenic artist what I want. And how about a color sequence, with a moon dripping blood?" "How much does it cost?" asked the practical Abe. "Thirty per cent of what you've appropriated, including — ah — a raise for me." "You're appointed scenic supervisor," declared Abe, waving a toothpick in lieu of a wand. "Three hundred weekly, commencing immediate — 'Calcutta' is over a week late starting production. And remember, you got no boss, only me. Adams is the same like mud to you, y'understand?" "Thanks. That's not hard to take," said the satisfied Pete. "Well, I got to buzz off," announced the president, recalling Momma. "See you tomorrow, Baker, and between me'n you, you got an idea that'll put over a lot of hooey pictures. Maybe you're a genius, but keep your hair trimmed and soup off your vest, and nobody will suspicion it." Mr. Baker leaned back, watched his employer scuttle out of the restaurant, and then ordered enough French pastry to ruin ten complexions. Plunging into the firsc dentist's delight, he became aware that the perfume of orris root was competing with his bombc Napoleon, and glanced up to see a slim girl with a helmet of pale gold hair inspecting him through large and melting grey eyes. "I simply have to talk to you," she declared. "It must be some other fellow," said Pete hastily. "Still, if—" The girl calmly took the chair vacated by Mr. Zoop. "My name is Carolyn Gale," she said simply, "and I want to get into the "/"~\H, yeah?" queried Mr. Baker, somewhat ^-^flustered by the direct approach. "And why do you think I can help?" "I've seen you out at Stupefaction," said Miss Gale. "I've been hanging around the gates for a month, but nobody's noticed me. Tonight I saw you in the art room at the Library, but you left before I could get up nerve enough to speak to you. So I followed you here, and now I'm sure you're somebody very important because wasn't that Mr. Zoop you were with?" Pete began to expand under her worshipping gaze. "Sure," he said indulgently. "That was Abe. So you want to crash the pictures, eh? Well, maybe I can use you in a bit." Miss Gale's fulsome lips quivered and her hands flew into the supplicating clasp approved by all amateur dramatic societies. "If you only will!" she throbbed. "All I need is a chance, a — " "Wait," begged the new scenic shark. "You can't expect to ease into a part just because I let you come on the lot. Besides, you're only beautiful and not particularly intriguing. However, you've got a nice voice. Can you moan?" "I — I guess so." "Well, I'm starting an Indian opus tomorrow," said Mr. Baker, who knew the story on short notice, can have Hair that is Lovely and Alluring Beauty Shampoo in 10 minutes Quickly, Easily, at a few cents cost — you can have a Real "Beauty Shampoo" that will give Your Hair a Loveliness, quite unobtainable by Ordinary Washing. 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