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character. Betty saves a stranger from death, holds him in her arms, and adores him of course. But what has that to do with me? Mr. Leonard is an artist. He understands."
The reporter shook his head. To his way of thinking this was quite a business. Most people, married, had only slight chances to stray; but in the studios, these actors spent their days making love to other people's husbands or wives.
"Dear," Bob said, two days later. "I don't believe you need to cling to Graves in the auction scene. You have the artistry to convey this with a glance." He flushed up to his burnished hair — Bob, who asked so little of her, who never pressed. Surely he believed in the character who came alive under the hot arcs. She put the matter from her mind and became totally immersed in preparations for the new picture, a comedy, The Delicious Little Devil.
One day Olive phoned. Had Mae read the papers ? Rudy di Valentina was in serious trouble in New York. Mae hadn't seen Rudy in some time. When she and Bob had been in New York, he'd been touring with Joan Sawyer in John Colt's show The Masked Model. Everyone thought Rudy was doing well and for a while he had been. After Bonnie Glass married scene designer Ben Ali Haggin, Rudy had gone on dancing successfully with Joan Sawyer in vaudeville and at the Woodmansten Inn. But the Colt show was a fiasco. It folded in Ogden, Utah. Rudy scraped together enough money to get to San Francisco, where he taught in second-rate dance academies and tried to hold the women at bay. The first great blow fell in San Francisco— he tried to enlist for the Italian Army now that America had declared war, and was rejected. It was the second rejection of his life; he'd been turned down as a youngster for the Italian Naval Academy because his chest expansion lacked one inch.
Norman Kerry, who'd played in a couple of films, urged Rudy to come down to Hollywood and Frank Carter smuggled him onto The Passing Show train. But Rudy's entry into moviedom was not auspicious. He got extra work in a picture
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