Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1923)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section Beefsteak and Onions [ CONTINUED FROM PACK 47 ] He walked away, filled with strange emotions, holding up his baggy pants and wondering how the lordly creature, who despised even the proud leading men, could stoop to treat him kindly. "I must have made a hit with her," he muttered. "Gee! What a woman she is. Suffering snakes! What a pip" Whereupon, without any preliminaries whatever, Homer Giffen proceeded to fall desperately in love with the Balkan siren, who had come from Europe to dent her name upon the fair face of American Art. Being gifted with ordinary intelligence, Fanny Fay discovered this catastrophe within two days. She encountered Homer making his way ecstatically out of the Posdrovna set, walking upon unseen bubbles. "Say," said Fanny, a blunt girl. "What's the big idea?" "Finish it," said Homer. "What are you talking about?" " How come you to be hanging around this Posdrovna woman?" "Oh," Homer grunted. "That's it? We got to the point where I have my conduct edited, hey? I got to ask somebody which set I can hang around, huh? There ought to be a laugh in that somewhere." FOR the first time, Fanny stared at Homer without kindness in her eyes. She was both angry and fearful. She had seen men slip their moorings before. There was no further conversation about Posdrovna — in fact little conversation about anything. The big chill had set in and as the days moved majestically by, Fanny understood. She and her sweetheart were splitting wide asunder. Their little candle had been blown out by a foreign breath. The house on Sunset became a sad dream of past days. Everyone in the studio was presently aware of the incomprehensible thing that had happened. A haughty Balkan actress, sneering at the Fairfame Corporation and all its moguls and stars, had smiled benignly upon Homer Giffen, who had never been to school and certainly was not the figure of a Great Lover. 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