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for February 1936 79 pictures?" she said. "You're interested — you work for heem. Are they as they were once ?" The girl was a thin little thing. All eyes. A muscle began to twitch, nervously, in the slender column of her throat. "They're not as good as when you were with Mr. Kildare," she told Karen, "but they'll always be splendid, as far as I'm concerned." Karen studied the nervous, small face. She smiled. It was the smile — though she didn't know it — that had helped make her famous. "You're loyal to Meester Kildare, aren't you?" she said. "Well, so am I. Often do I weesh I were back on thees lot." The girl at the switchboard said, hurriedly, "I rang Mr. Kildare. He'll be wondering what's happened to you." So Karen went along the corridor and into the private office. Monte Feinberg was bellowing, as she entered : "I tell you, you got to think up a flock of new gags !" Tom Kildare sighed and answered, "There's nothing new under the sun. Not in pictures." Karen, standing in the doorway, stared down at Tom. He glanced up and rose swiftly to his feet. "Except Karen," he amended, "she's new." "She's better than that !" exploded the manager. "But you won't be better, not much longer — " Tom interrupted with a shrug. "It's on the laps of the gods," he said. He folded his hands in a comic prayer — "Send a break to Tom," he murmured, "make it a different kind of a break. Anything different. So that the hungry fans will get a bellyful of excitement — " * * * It was just a moment from that afternoon— as motion picture moments are measured — that the talkies were born. They sprung, full-armored as did a mythical goddess, from the heads of the powersthat-be. A number of people were worried, but not Tom. To him the talkies were a direct answer to prayer. "I've got the world by the tail, now," he confided to his manager. "Ninety-nine per cent of my competitors are trained to the celluloid and nothing else, but I've had stage experience. This voice stuff is going to change — throw a monkey-wrench in the works. They'll have to bring in actors — legitimate actors — and teach 'em the tricks of the screen. They'll have to teach the old movie guard to read and memorize and enunciate. They won't have to teach me — I know the whole bag of screen tricks, and I was an actor before the movies were thought of." Monte Feinberg was wildly excited. "I'm going to give big dinner," he said, "for the entire staff. This here is the stuff, Tom." Tom agreed, "It's the stuff, all right." He asked, "Will you invite Karen to your party ?" Monte Feinberg turned serious. "I'm sorry for Karen," he said, and he was being rarely honest. "That day she came to us — you know! — to get a job, I said she had no conversation and you told me it didn't count as long as she could make signs. Well, it counts, now." Tom answered, "You're darn tootin', it does." He was thinking, "I'll have to take the kid on and blow her to a flock of private elocution lessons." It gave him a warm throb of emotion to realize that he could still teach Karen something. Suddenly, and for the first time, he was conscious of the fact that he and Karen had been meeting, of late, with a gulf — the gulf of her ability to stand alone — between • Watch for BINNIE BARNES in her next Universal Picture: "HER EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR" f00 *r***Ju$ TO • How do they do it, those beautiful stars of stage and screen? What magic summons up for them their lustrous hair? Hollywood knows the secret — you can learn it, too. Hairdressers were first to discover this remarkable beauty aid — then it took Hollywood by storm . . . now it is yours — any woman's — right in her own home. The Soapless Oil Treatment. That's what makes hair gleam with life ... in the new and modern way ! Toiletry counters Admiracion Shampoo Treatment has practically revolutionized hair care methods. It does things the finest soaps cannot possibly do. Because it is a treatment! Don't think of it as just a wash. It cleans amazingly, yes, with one warm water rinse, leaves your hair soft and fragrant. But also — because it is an oil treatment — it imparts rich highlights you never dreamed of. Use Admiracion once and see your hair take on those star-bright glints! U. S. and Canada Admiracion Labobatokies, Inc. Harrison. N. J. • Enclosed find 10c for generous trial bottle of Admiracion: Olive Oil ( ) . or Pine ^S-^F-Srs Tar ( ) . 20c for both. Offer expires March 31st. ~. Name, Address —S2 © 1936 Admiracion Laboratories, Inc.