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ive my regards to Broadway!
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By Delight Evans
Q Louise Brooks Starts over again.
C[ Her first film will be "The American Venus."
:ep right up, folks. Right this way. The movie I parade is going by and you don't want to miss a thing. Bigger and better than ever, friends. Step smart!
See that little lady going by now? Yes, that one — she doesn't look to the right or the left, but straight ahead. Holds her head high, doesn't she? That shiny head with the black bob. Keep your eye on her; pretty soon she may be doing something to (£ If Louise looks surprise you. Oh, yes — there behind her, she'll are plenty of other girls in this °,n^tf Ieasant parade — big girls and little ones; thin girls and — the other kind. There's that girl with the golden hair and blue eyes; she used to hurry through the supper dishes to get to the picture house in time to see the first show; and now she's in 'em herself, by gosh! And that tall, dark one who was a school-teacher once; look at her. And the girl just behind her used to measure out ribbon across a counter. Today she's speeding over ribbons of road in a Rolls-Royce. All nice girls, every
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(£ She is slim and boyish, with a sort of Peter Pan smile.
C[ Ford Sterling, the old master, learning a few tric\s from her.
one of them. But I want you to keep your eye on that little girl with the black bobbed hair. There's a twinkle in her eyes as she skips along. She'll outdistance the others if they don't watch out. Because — well, she's from Broadway. She has to keep going fast in this movie parade or she might get homesick. One of the smartest girls who ever left Mr. Ziegfeld's select seminary for young ladies — they sure liked her there. But now she's commuting to Long Island City, and they say she likes it fine and they like her even better.
Maybe, unless you belong to Broadway too, you never heard of her. Name's Louise Brooks. When Uncle George came back from his trip to New York last time, he told you all about the shows he had seen and you asked him about the Follies and he said, with a far-away look, "They were great. And say, there was a girl in that show — can't remember her name — gosh, what was it now? — well, anyway, she's little, with (Continued on page 74)
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