The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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At the Coffee Stall. TEN past three. They keep you up late at this work, don't they?" The boy spoke wearily, brushing his hair off his forehead and sniffing the cool air of the morning. He was very young and quite extraordinarily handsome, with deep-set, lazy grey eyes and a perfect profile. A*t the moment he was weary, and his naturally husky voice had an attractive catch in it. The girl who stood beside him looked up and laughed. They were standing drinking coffee from a stall near the studio at which bold had been at work since noon. Being a super in films was not an altogether lucrative profession, and both youngsters were on the verge of being shabby, although their clothes bore witness to the valiant efforts that had been expended upon them to preserve their youth. The girl was by far the more cheerful of the two, although she had worked the same houis as the boy. She was a little wisp of a creature, barely five feet high, with a face that many people would have called hardly pretty. Her nose was perhaps just a little too retrousse,