Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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DVENTURE ByD ave F orrest g Helen Fairweather. She was in a bathing suit and Mr. Christie recognized her possibilities. Helen Fairweather had often heard her father, a Des Moines minister, mention the parable of the light and the bushel, but now she knows the new version of the saying, and it is that you can't hide your beauty in a bathing suit. Not that Helen was even thinking of hiding anything. She was doing what any other normal Iowa girl would do if she was transplanted in California for a vacation — swim' ming in the Pacific, lying lazily in the sun on the warm sand, and paying no attention whatever to what the wild waves were saying. Then, presto! Forgotten were the sand and waves and sun, for opportunity had arrived, all due to Helen's bathing suit, chance, and Al Christie. This is the way it happened. Back at the studio Jack Duffy and his director contemplated the beautiful spring day and agreed that there never SO