Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1923)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section "I'm the best male actor in America. You're the finest woman actress. Think that over. Figure out what we can do together, both in the same picture, you the star and me the support!" He beamed. His eyes glistened with honest zeal. "You fonny man," Rosa said again. "Wait till I have my eye fixed. Then tell me. Look at my figure. I'm a pretty good looking guy." There was a pause, while Homer paced to and fro in meditation. "About us getting married," he resumed, "I suppose we oughtn't be in any hurry." "No, I should say so," agreed Rosa readily. "Theenk of Sharlie Zandaire — she have a lit." This was unquestionably true. Charley would have had, at the very least, four fits. Fairfame Pictures, in their voluminous advertising, had been at great trouble to indicate the youth, beauty, virility, lire, passion and virginity of Rosa Posdrovna. She had come, chorused the advertising, practically fresh from the convent, with bits of veil still clinging. She was innocent of the vile ways of man. a delicate, but, as D. H. Lawrence would put it in his mild way, a passional lily, plucked in her purity from the damask field. Further, she was of noble blood, which accounted in Hollywood for her peculiar ability to make tempestuous love on the screen. Rosa's pictures, as you probably know, are the sort that make a man go home and stare at his wife accusingly. Hollywood knows nothing of foreign nobles, except that they refuse ice-water and seem careless about their finger-nails. Thus did Homer Giffen and Rosa Posdrovna idle away the changing hours in the stately mansion found for her by Charley Zander. Golden hours they were for Homer. He talked of love and marriage and of how he was to become another Valentino, side by side with the beautiful Rosa. They would make their masterpieces for Fairfame and send them out to a delighted world. There would be no more Red Bird comedies to disgrace a true artist. The days of slapstick were ended for Homer Giffen. He would scale the artistic heights, but always reverently a step behind the lovely Rosa. She would eternally be the queen. "And I will love you always," he swore. "We will have a beautiful home and all the money we need." Rosa listened smilingly, her beautiful eyes hidden behind half-shut lids. Homer madevery fair love, when warmed up. When she shut her eyes entirely, there was magic in hi< voice, a soothing quality that pleased her. True, Homer used occasional subtitles, which he remembered from Jimmy Wilmot's pictures, but many a love-sick youth does the same. "You can kiss me, Homaire," Rosa sonictimes said. On such occasions, Homer « ould carefully put out his cigarette, tighten his cravat, take a long breath and step forward. But we draw the veil. We fade out. Who are we, to be staring at such a kiss — a kiss from the Balkans, with no censor to snip a single foot. AS time slipped along, and the weeks mounted, Fanny Fay viewed the changes and grieved steadily. Two observed that Fanny was far from prospering. One of them was Mother Quinn and the other was Charley Zander, the G. M. He sent a pink memorandum to Fanny's dressing room and the comedienne called at his office. "Say," he said, leaning back and clasping his fingers behind his head. "What's the matter with you?" "All right," retorted Fanny calmly. "Now I'll ask one, seeing we're doing conundrums. What is the matter with me?" "I was looking at you the other day. You're shrinking. Say, kid. You're getting thin." "Not so thin," she answered. "On a sunny day, I still east a shadow." 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