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MARION DAVIES as "Dawn Glory," the chambermaid who became a celebrity.
THEY pour into New York by the thousands, girls like Loretta. Girls as young, as eager, and as lovely. And they bring their dreams with them, dreams that look softly from their eyes and ache in their throats and throb in their voices when they speak. Dreams that are sometimes so fragile they shatter into tiny pieces and hearts break with them. Dreams that once in a thousand times are strong enough to endure and soar to reality.
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The human and amusing story of an average girl who became a celebrity — through no fault of her own!
Fiction ized by
Elizabeth Benneche Petersen
really thought of that better "someone" as Bingo. Never, even when his arms held .her close in romantic fantasy and his lips sought hers, had he seemed a real person. He was one of those glamorous celebrities who lived in the world of newspaper type and blurred press photographs. Even as she dreamed of seeing him walk the street some day as an ordinary man, she couldn't really conceive of him walking at all.
New York people had all seemed like that once, but now she saw the residents of the big hotel were like the transient guests who had come and gone at the Commercial House. Some of them were surly and unresponsive and some of them were warm and friendly like Betty, the other chambermaid on the floor who had become her confidant— and some were always ready with a wise-crack like the two men in Room 1762.
IORETTA was always hovering ■> around 1762 because she had discovered that Click Wiley and Ed Olsen, who shared the suite, were desperately hard up ; and ever since the afternoon she had