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Hollywood — First "Days on the Jrfovie Lot
to batter one another with seven dollars' worth of good-will. Von Sternberg picked up the megaphone.
11 Music ! "
Jo found herself standing near Betty Compson's double. An interchanged smile opened easy conversation. Supers, or ' extras, ' as they are called, and doubles need not fear the World ; they live in the Bohemian democracy of Chance : a few pounds can engender no such suspicion of motive as can many hundreds a week.
"Have you two talked with Miss Compson? " she asked my wife. " She's a dandy to work for, I tell you. As kind as could be. When I heard I was to work for her I just jumped for joy. Not like some of these stars, she isn't. Why, some of them are terrors. They seem to want to cut a girl's heart out for fun.
" Mind you, I'm not so badly fixed myself. Of course, being a double you don't get much chance to act, but if you look at things straight, how many of us extras has ever a chance to get to be a star ? Mighty few, believe me ! So when I took up this business I said to myself: ' If a girl can't be a star she's going to have a mighty bad time trying to get jobs at seven dollars a day and nothing else.' I studied hairdressing and beauty work. And now I'm on regular employment instead of hanging on to a telephone from the casting bureau hoping for a ring some day."
A few minutes later she was in conversation with a Japanese camera-man, come from Tokio to study the art of Von Sternberg. He was examining, with the excited awe so characteristic of his race, the contents of Miss Compson 's make-up box, and with his handkerchief he measured the exact length of her long false eyelashes.
" Cut ! " boomed Von Sternberg.
The electrician's whistle shrilled loudly, and at the signal all the blazing lights, the sun-arcs, the Kleigs and scoops
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