Screenland (Nov 1925–Apr 1926)

SGREENLAND 93 tion episode that required Poynter to embrace Lola, and Paul suffered while it was being shot. . As soon as Belcher announced, "Well call it a day," Paul was only too glad to slip away, change into street clothes and turn his back on the studio. Never before had the world that it stood for seemed so full of intrigue and heartlessness and lies. It was in that mood that he called on Lola that night and the girl was quick to resent it. "What are you crabbing about?" she demanded when she caught the drift of his thoughts. "I had to tell Sam Belcher some thing, didn't I? — I thought it was a pretty good lie myself!" "Then you made up the story out of whole cloth? You told one lie after another?" (OiDohres del Rio, Edmund Careives new "find" in "Joanna." "Right you are, kid. One good lie deserves another," laughed Lola. "That's the way life is." "I wish you had let me do as I asked you," said Paul. "It would have been better if I had simply gone back home and quit the movies. That would have saved you from telling falsehoods." Lola laughed outright. She lit a cigarette and blew smoke at him while she talked. "Buddy, you're crazy," she said. "You have brought into life a lot of notions that don't belong anywhere outside of a Sunday School class." Paul flushed and started to interrupt but she put up a hand to stay him. "I know, I know! You're going to tell me that lying w dishonorable. You're going to tell me that a gentleman can't lie and that he can't hide behind another person's lies. All right, we'll let it go at that. Those are your principles — and you've got a right to them; that is the way you were brought up." "Yes," said Paul. "I was taught that a lie is dishonorable." "All right, kid, I was taught different. I was taught that it is a rotten yellow thing to snitch. There are times when it's yellow to tell the truth — when a white man has just got to lie. . . . You've got your principles and I've got mine. Which of us is right?" 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