Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1922)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 93 " Nor on the stage? " "No, sir." " No experience at all, eh? " "Well — no, sir." "But, good God, when I undertook to pay you a hundred and fifty dollars a week, I did suppose that you" ... he kicked angrily at a tread. "So I've got to take time every day for two months teaching you the things I'm paying you to know." Her head dropped downward. She couldn't lift it. "Just stop and think what this means. You're selling for a high price something you haven't got. You're getting money under false pretences. Can we wonder that outsiders say we picture men are a pack of fools? . . . Well, what're we going to do about it?" She was crying now, but got out huskily the words — "I don't know." "What did de Brissac hire you for, anyway? Just as a type? He has gone clean off his head. . . . Oh, well, go and get some lunch and come ready to learn something. Crying isn't going to help us a bit. I'll just have to see if I can get anything at all out of you. If I can't, it'll make a lovely picture." HPHAT was how the gulf between them first *■ opened up. From day to day it widened. And as her sense of failure deepened, it seized on her immature faculties like a paralysis. There were scenes on that set, as the days and weeks went by, that she could live through only because her spirit was benumbed. It became, in a defensive, instinctive way, calloused. She worked on, because she had to work on. She couldn't speak at home of her failure, couldn't let them see, as she now confusedly saw, the day drawing swiftly nearer on which her salary would stop. They'd never offer her another job here. Even though she was learning a little, doing her best every day, doggedly fighting it out, she couldn't please Mr. Mortimer. She was the wrong kind for him. And she could never go back to Earthwide. They'd hardly forgive her for jumping her contract.and leaving a lawyer to tie up the loose ends. She was afraid to meet any of them, even on the street. It would have helped if she could have had some little information of the progress on the other picture. De Brissac had promised to make her, and she still deeply believed in him. But no one spoke of it. She watched feverishly the notes and announcements of pictures in the newspapers and eagerly bought and read the picture magazines. But there was never a word. She couldn't understand it. The fantastic thought came that they might have suppressed it as a punishment to her. In such moments she quite forgot all it had cost. And she hardly dared speak about it to Henry. She even began, as fantastically, to fear that they might some day release the picture just to exhibit her little self to the whole world for the impostor she was. Henry, for that matter, needed cheering nearly as much as she. The San Francisco men delayed endlessly. He was beginning to dream of raising the capital in New York. There, after all, was the real money. And she blindly encouraged him. 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