Ever Since Eve (Warner Bros.) (1937)

FREE! By special arrangement with Cosmopolitan Productions, Warner Bros. are making available — at NO COST — the =~ fictionization “EVER SINCE EVE,” to newspapers in ci= ties where there is no Hearst paper. It comprises 24 chapa ters, approximately 34,000 words. Here is the first chap leased by Warner Bros. on which was lettered: > te the tiny switchboard, officiated as office boy de-luxe and served as mailing clerk, had opened his mouth, preparatory to oistening a postage stamp, when the vision of loveliness stepped into the outer office. William saw her and he stood immobile for a moment, mouth still open, his “squirrel teeth” glistening like _ piano keys. The girl approached. Wiliam managed to get his mouth closed, and to gulp a couple times. “Yes, Miss?” he managed to “I eame about the position you advertised.” ise aor “Oh!” -__-‘William said it as though he eouldn’t believe that such a beauoS ‘tiful girl could ever want to work. _ “Has the position been taken?” i You will have to see Mr. Pipp.” _ _ The girl wanted to say, “PipPip — hop to it!” Instead, she said, quite meekly, “If you _ please.” “Just a minute.” William disappeared through a door back of his desk that open ed to the general office. He step _ ped to the ever open door of ‘Twelve © young man ter. Show it to the Managing Editor of your local paper. (Reprinted pes Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, June 14, 1937) Story Tells Of Trials — Of Working Girl — _Novelized by Lewis Allen Browne from original story by ene Baker and Margaret Lee. Screen play by Lawrence Riley Earl Baldwin. A Cosmopolitan: Production soon to be re CHAPTER I. The girl who stepped out of the elevator to the fifth floor of the State Building in San Francisco, was a vision of young loveliness. Even the hard-boiled elevator youth leaned out to Stare at her a moment, before closing the door and taking the other passengers on their upward trip. This vision of loveliness glanced at a slip of paper in her hand and went down the corridor until she came to a door THE CALIFORNIA PEACE AND PURITY LEAGUE . “This,’’ she murmured, ‘‘is a job just made for me, I hope — I hope — I hope.’’ Although she had expressed it a pe bit tly, it was very much like a little prayer. Manager Pipp’s office—kept open to enable him to see that none of the employees was loafing. “Young lady outside for that job, Mr. Pipp,” William announced. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Mr. Pipp sighed heavily. “Does she look intelligent?” he asked. “Intelligent? Say, she looks wonderful! She’s got everything!” Mr. Pipp frowned. “I know — the sort who put in one hour at the typewriter and the rest of the day at pocket mirror and compact. Oh well, I’ll see her.” William ushered the girl in to Mr. Pipp who gave her one glance and decided that William certainly knew a pretty girl when he saw one.. He said, “Close the door,” to William and “Sit Down, please” to the girl. “This position calls for a woman of experience,” Mr. Pipp informed her. “T am experienced in general secretarial work, including stenography and filing.” Mr. Pipp was more convinced * than ever that this sort of girl would think more of keeping prettied up than of getting out correspondence. NEWSPAPER AND By The Theatre:— Announcements on the screen, lobby, programs and house organs. _ Distribute reprints of first installment supplied by newspaper. Uuderline advertising copy on the picture — advance and current. Spot announcement on theatre program. Distribute newsstand donde supplied by newspaper to all dealers. The same Fictionization accepted by 16 Hearst Newspapers and 20 Independent Dailies This new serial should start in advance of the opening of the picture, and run thru the engagement. Mimeographed copies of the story, and photographs — sent on request to theatre managers or Managing Editors. Write or wire, giving name of newspaper and date of first installment to: Editor, Campaign Plan, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., 321 West 44th Street, New York OT Ae “BEGIN READING ‘EVER SINCE EVE’—NEW SERIAL STARTING TODAY RATHER YOUNG “You are rather young,” he observed, “what is your name?” “Margery Morrison.” Mr. Pipp managed to smile. “Quite alliterative. Er—by that, I mean—” “Yes sir. means.” “Where did you last work and why did you leave?” “At the Kendall Agency. I left because we couldn’t agree as to my duties.” “Ah! Then you have well defined ideas as to just what you should do. I am afraid—” “T eouldn’t agree to mix cocktail parties and dancing and night-club revelry with Mr. Kendall, along with my secretarial work.” “Oh. Well, I am sorry, Miss Morrison, but we—uh—we had in mind—” THE BIG BOSS Margery Morrison never learned what Mr. Pipp had in mind, as the office door opened at this point and a tall, dignified appearing man, in his fifties, stepped in. “I beg your pardon, Pipp,” he said, when he saw Margery. And when he saw her he took another look. “Quite all right, Mr. Mason,” Pipp said, standing up at once, his voice and manner denoting marked deference to the intruder, “this young lady called about the position, but I was about to explain that we—er—had in mind an older and more experienced woman.” Mr. Horace Mason, president of the California Peace and Purity League, looked at Margery again. “Nonsense, Pipp,” Mason said, ‘it is a matter of ability, mental ability, not—er—physical maturity.” He gave Margery a smile. “My secretary is leaving at the end of the week. Suppose you come in tomorrow and let her acquaint you with the duties of the position.” “Yes, sir. What—” PLEASED WITH SALARY Horace Mason was ahead of her there. He told her what the salary would be. It was rather better than Margery had hoped to secure. Her smile of delight was not lost on Mr. Mason. “Tomorrow, at nine, then Miss Morrison,” Mason said, after he had a brief talk with her. As Margery came into the outer office, William Diggs dropped I know what it THEATRE a volume of “The History of Peace” that he was wrapping and fairly slid across the floor to open the door -for her, asking at the same time, “Did you land it, Miss?” “Yes,” Margery added a queer litle laugh. William thought she was laughing with happiness at her luck. In reality Margery thought she was laughing at his popeyes and squirrel teeth. Meanwhile, Manager Pipp was trying to explain to President Mason why he had been on the verge of refusing to give the girl the job. LOOKS INTELLIGENT “You see, Mr. Mason,” he said earnestly, “I have hired a great many girls for office work and I have found that the extremely attractive types are well aware of their attractiveness and waste valuable hours each day in primping.” “Primping?” “Yes sir, using lipstick and rouge and powder or fixing their hair or fussing with their nails.” “IT am a fairly good judge of intelligence, myself, Pipp,” Mr. Mason replied, with considerable cold dignity. “One cannot censure a girl because she is — er— attractive.” He had been about to say “beautiful” but changed his mind. “This young lady is mentally bright. There isn’t a doubt of it. I especially noted her keen eyes and her well formed forehead, also her good judgment in dress.” “Yes sir,” Pipp “yessed,” meekly enough. “She was garbed with intelligence, becomingly, but nothing ultra modern or rakish or fluffy about it.” “You are right, of course, Mr. Mason.” Mason nodded as though it went without saying that he could never be anything else than quite right about everything, and then took up the matter of business he had had on his mind. MARGERY FEELS GAY Margery Morrison pranced gaily down the corridor to the elevator. After all, it hadn’t been as bad as she feared. When she had refused to go places with her former employer, Mr. Kendall, and had quit before he could tell her she was through, she had unhappy visions of being weeks looking for another suitable position. But here she had landed a By The Newspaper:— Advance announcements in news columns run in the paper. Banners or Posters on the newspaper delivery trucks, Supply theatre with sam for distribution to theatre patrons. nice position, she assured herself, on her second day of job-hunting. Margery did a little window shopping until she realized that she was hungry. Then she got a few things at a delicatessen shop and went to the little apartment occupied by herself and her loyal girl friend, Susie Rogers. — PREPARES MEAL Margery made up some sandwiches, brewed some tea, got into restful slippers and kimono, and proceeded to regale herself, gastronomically from the viands and mentally from a current magazine. By the time that Susie got home from her office job Margery had their dinner well under way and was stretched out on the divan, finishing another magazine story. “H’ya, Marge!” Susie said as she tossed her hat on a chair. “Hi, Sue.” Margery didn’t look up because she was at an exciting passage in the story. Susie misunderstood and ran over to her. “Lissen, Honey, don’t let it get you down. You’ll land something—” “I have—a swell position, just made for me, Sue.” Margery proceeded to tell her about it. “Peace and Purity League? Now tie that one! Gee, that’s swell, Marge. No fresh idiots with exploring hands and unholy yearnings in an outfit like that. What luck!” Margery agreed and they had dinner with much happy chatter and high hopes. WHAT MR. PIPP THOUGHT At the same time Mr. Pipp, manager of the California Peace and Purity League, was at home telling his wife the details of how it happened that one Margery Morrison was hired to be President Horace Mason’s secretary. “The oleaginous old hypocrite,” Mr. Pipp spluttered, “saying that he especially noted her keen eyes and well-formed forehead. You bet he did, and her ecupid-bow lips and dimpled cheeks and her neat ankles and her pretty legs and swell figure, I wouldn’t trust old Mason as far as I could throw the Ferry Building!” Has the clever and deserving Margery secured just the sort of a job she wants, or is Mr. Pipp right in his judgment of why Mason was so quick to hire her? (End of First Chapter) CO-OPERATION and in display advertising to be ple copies of newspaper, carrying first installment Spot announcements on newspaper radio program. Newspaper might be induced to underli and playdate. ne each chapter, with theatre name