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Screen land
Gay Girls, Play Girls — Girls About Very Private Lives. Oh, Yes
"Girls about Town" is a Paramount Picture, story by Zoe Akins, screen-play prepared by Raymond Griffith and Brian Marlow. Directed by George Cukor with the following cast:
Wanda Howard Kay Francis
Jim Baker Joel McCrea
Marie Bailey Lilyan Tashman
Benjamin Thomas Eugene Pallete
Jerry Chase Allan Dinehart
Mrs. Thomas Lucile Webster Gleason
Alex Howard Anderson Lawler
Two girls with but a single thought: men! To Marie, men meant money. To Wanda, men meant one man — Jim. But Jim was elusive — very.
time away, and nobody will get hurt."
She settled into his arms and whispered : "Oh, my dear !"
"Happy?" Jim asked.
"Superbly."
"Did I come just in time?"
"Another day would have been too late," she said.
"Before us lies a beautiful future — " "Is it very beautiful ?" There was a note of hysteria in her voice.
"How I love you," he whispered, trying to outdo her.
"And I love you." "And I love you."
But she could keep up the game no longer, and bursting into tears, she ran to her cabin. And when Marie came down later, she found Wanda lying on the bed, crying softly.
"What's the joke?" she asked? "I want to laugh, too."
"The joke's on me," Wanda sobbed.
"What's the matter. Do you think you're in love?"
"Yes."
"I see. And he doesn't love you."
"The idea hasn't even occurred to him. One doesn't fall in love with my sort of girl."
"Do you think I'd better keep an eye on you? Feel desperate ?"
"Yes — no. I'd just start swimming — that's what I'd do — and keep going."
"I was curious about last night," Jim told her in the morning. That sudden squall just blew our pretty game right out to sea."
"What was your guess?"
"I thought you might have been hurt — because — well, all that we talked of wasn't true."
Wanda laughed — a sad little laugh. "Those tears were part of the game," she said.
"I see."
At first Marie was not serious about that emerald ring. Then she decided she was going to get it — no matter what Wanda said. See that melting gaze Marie is giving Mr. Thomas!
"Did I do it well?" "Swell."
"And did you find it amusing?" "Quite."
"Thanks. That's all I wanted to know." Wanda drew off her. robe and leaped into the water — with Jim after her. "May I come along?" "It's anybody's ocean."
Wanda was swimming in a daze. "I'd just start swimming," the words came back to her.
"Wanda !" It was Jim's voice. "You've gone far enough."
"I'd just start swimming," a voice inside of her spoke. Then she seemed to grow very weak, and she was glad when she could rest against something. It was Jim — and she heard Jim's comforting voice.
"You poor kid. Just rest against me."