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Vf aS 1 I The St, Louis Post-Dispatch Daily Magazine aily Magazine I'AGK ol) CRASHING the GATES to DAILY STORY FOR CHILDREN By 'Mary Graham Bonner MOVIE FAME fk A A. 1 fAPTHUP 50HEPS POCHE CHAPTER TWEXTY-EIGHT HERE was a moment of dead stillness. Across the plaza a Moor, shawls, argued violently with an Armenian who made living in the same pursuit. A gull shrieked raucously. The dauer of the laughing voices at the.

A Change of Name, Nationality or 5ur-roundings Has Worked Wonders for Some of the Ladies Who Have Besieged Hollywood. Slowly Helen arose. She faced Larry. She held out her hand. "Ccod-by," she said.

That as all. She didn't look at Joyce, dropped her eyes from miserable expression of Larry's face. Then she was gone. Larry tat down. He faced Joyce.

out that the Duncan Sisters had recognized her as had others. Mr. Considine denied that he did not know her. "I knew Miss Wilson, of course, he said, "and I brought her here for tests. If they aro satisfactory we will use her in pictures.

If not, I can release her at any time." Again "Bubbles" Wilson changed her name and this time evohtd into "Mary Nolan." The Feature Productions Co. Pig Thoughts THE other pigs in the old barn-vard ail began to talk and squeal ind grunt, and all decided that, they must always live up to the fine example the old pig was setting for them. Peggy and John, who had come to the barnyard through the Little Hlack Clock's magic, had never heard pigs make so much noise. 'We'll always appreciate good cool mud." said one of the pig. "That must be something alwajs loved by pigs delicious mud." The others all thought this was a good iuea.

"And we can use our good, strong snouts for digging In thu ground tor food that may le otherwise been overlooked," said another pig. "Wo will not harm others." said still another pig. "We will be good-natured, gentle and quiet and we wi'l iiot cau3c any trouble. will be satisfied nlth an ugly old bit of the barnyard and an usly old pen. "Bu above all.

tve will show how good our appetites "always ar and how much we think of our own stomachs." All the pigs stood around the old baruyard and talked of the kinds of food they would always enjoy moM and how- they would love to have their backs scratched. In fact, they decided, then and there, all of the things for which pigs would be famous in afttr years. And, as Peggy said to John on their way home, pigs had remained the same all through the years. The Little Ulack Clock told them he had had other plans for them for the next evening, but now said he wanted to take them back to hear some more of the pig talking, because he felt they Bhould be fair to the pigs. And Peggy and John were delighted to go back and see them.

Ve only one hand in switching off or on electric lights. Keep th other hand free from any possible metallic contact. -xber'! may be." he ventured. 'an explanation for tnls. I cant imagine one." You found it vulgar?" she queried.

"I find it incredible," he said. "I it so dreadful God knows." blazed, man would have to you to let you" "u't away with a thing like tk.it'.'" she finished. I don't mind your humiliating ie but, in Uod's name, why humiliate Helen, deliberately?" Wasn't there deliberate humiliation for me in what 6he did last right?" Joyce countered. An impulse of the moment," he Ugan. Flie cut him short, "It ir.ay have been the impulse of a moment, but it wasn't carried cut for several weeks.

She had to think over that impulse on er tray across the ocean, on her vay down here from Paris." Rut revensre" "How do voul know it was re- she asked. What else was it?" Oh. he was learning things about ii.v and about himself. Women v'ho were not "nice" could nevertheless be infinitely desirable, and in ways that were not A man could love aye, adore where reason told him that here was something contemptible. Suppose," she made reply, "that I' you find out for yourself the issivtr to that question." 1IXT VALDEMAGARA joined them then, and further questioning was impossible.

And after luncheon, they drove Rcaurie. something flinty, unyielding, in her attitude, forbade Us referring to the scene at the Zc' T'asque. Ti.e telephone was ringing as tr entered the villa, and the but-i-r was struggling with the Larry took the receiver. He handed it to Joyce. "Some one wants you," he said.

Jo; co ent to the telephone. Mrs. Tracy?" "Ve'." 'This Is Frank Burton, Mrs. Much obliged." That was all. The receiver at the er of the line clicked.

Well. A yon nearby tables was a deafening lie halted. "When did you do this?" she asked. "Before we sailed," he answered. "Why?" she asked.

"You're- "wy wife," he said as though that covered everything. "But you you didn't care for nie then." She hated the stumbling way she spoke. "What did that have to do with it?" he demanded. She digested this slowly. "You mean." she finally faltered, "that from the very start of our marriage, you planned" "If a man," he smiled, and the smile was not pleasant, "deliberately makes a fool of himself, he might as well go the whole way, don't you think?" THE words, the intonation, the smile that was a sneer, struck through the armor of her pride and wounded her.

Impulsively she started to rise, to hand him the documents which made her good God, how rich did they make her? and then she sank back on the the chaise longue. Something remote in her brain cells struggled to be articulate. Some warning dimly comprehended made her change her mind. "How much is all this?" she asked. He shrugged.

"I'm not certain. It depends, you know, on market conditions. Sometimes it's more than others. On the average, though, there's about three million there. Mostly in American and International Rubber Consolidated.

That's where the was first made, so that's where I let it remain." "All the eggs in one basket?" she commented. "It's a very strong basket," he said. "Jt doesn't seem sensible to me," she said. Unaccountably his temper was awakened by the remark. "Perhaps you'd like to change your investment," he said.

"Perhaps I would," she agreed. "Is I don't know much about thesf things, but is the price high now "Higher than it's ever been," he said. "A good time to sell them, isn't it?" she "Some people do look a gift horse in tiie mouth, don't they?" His' voice was polite but his words and expression were not. Nevertheless, she imperturbably went on. "How.

could I sell them? What are they? Eonds?" "There's a million in bonds, and a million and a half, par value, in stock. It's worth two million at the present maiket "I want to sell the whole business." she interrupted. "Instantly." (Continued tomorrow. (Copyright. 1931.) Party Suggestion ETTER TAG" is an amusing game.

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The next person must add a letter and so on around the circle, each player trying rot to end the word. As he adds a letter, however, he must have a word in mind that can be made by adding the prper letters. If a player gets stuck, he Can "challenge the preceding player lor the word he had in mind. If he is unable to give a word he loses his turn in the next game. Banana Fritters Three bananas, one tablespoon sugar, one egg, one tablespoon orange juice, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one tablespoon melted butter.

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Drop into deep, boiling fat and cook until brown. Drain on paper, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve at once. Roiled rice put through a sieve is a pleasing thickener for bisques and cream soups and adds greatly to the nutriment. or two ajjo. Eileen, was "marked and branded" as a rough-ridin girl of the Westerns.

Producers could see her in no other light. When they thought of Eileen they thought of ponies and stage coaches and "school marms" and the like. And she wanted to do something better. So, Eileen disappeared dropped from view entirely. No one seemed to know what had become of her.

She appeared in no more Western pictures. Her name was erased from the casting lists. Then came Gretel Yoltz. She arrived one day at the studio of the Gotham Productions in a stunning outfit of clothes, employing a beautiful smile and a dialect which seemed to be a mixture of German, Russian, French and Danish. "Beautiful!" the casting director exclaimed.

"Just the type for that role in 'The River replied a director. Gretel Yoltz got the part and when that was finished she was hustled into another picture which Elmer- Clifton was directing for Tiffany StahL Her long experience while "Eileen Sedgwick" enabled her to do surprisingly good work A failure at Jean Williams a success as Sonia Karlov. and unquestionably she was a "find." She was playing the kind of role3 she wanted. But Eileen was too widely known. Too many persons arrfved and addressed her as "Eileen." So her bubble burst.

But she's had her fling. One of the most outstanding examples of success won by pure pluck and courage is that of Anita Tomares. a New York girl born at Murray Hill on Long Island and educated at the Washington Irving High School in New York City. Anita was the kind of a blonde any gentleman would prefer and when she came West with her mother she had made up her mind she would stay to the last ditch or until the cows came home before conceding that she was licked. She was ready for a tussle.

ON the train West she met Harry K. Thaw, who was bringing Susan Hughes, a brunette, to get her a job in some studio. Thaw promptly volunteered to take the contract with the Feature Producing wing, too, and thus be able to offer the picture producers a pretty blonde and a brunette. Miss Pomares was rechristened "Anita Rivers" for picture purposes. Widely publicized as Thaw proteges, the two girls were taken from studio to studio but nowhere were they received.

Casting directors refused interviews. "Not interested," they said. After a day or two of this, Anita Pomares sat down by the' side of her mother and in substance, said: "Mother, dear, we're getting in wrong. Or rather, we're not getting in at all. The only part of a studio I've seen is the outside.

Tomorrow morning I go out alone! Not as Anita Rivers, because that name has become too widely known in connection with Mr. Thaw, but as an unknown. It's time for me to act." The blonde put on her most becoming dress, spent a little longer time with her makeup and emerged quite a lovely creation. At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio the casting director took one look and asked her to be seated. Presently she was taken before the studio executives.

Before she realized it, she was standing before a camera undergoing a screen test. Inside of a couple of days she had signed a contract and was given the leading role opposite William Haines in "Telling the World." Her contract called for $400 a week for the first year. $600 a week for the second. $1000 a week for the third and $1S00 a week for the fourth and fifth years. Who was this girl? Tou all know her now Anita Page, the charming blonde seen in so many M-G-M productions.

The "Anita Rivers' name was entirely shelved, the Thaw connection forgotten. There is the case of Gina Malo. "ze g-r-reat dancer from la belle France" who came from Paris to replace Lily Damlta in the New York stage production of "Sons Guns" last year. Gina was a sensation. Back in Hollywood, girls In the Albertina Rasch ballet saw pictures of the itensational Gina.

Something about her looked mi JfV mused. Helen hadn't waited iiai been convinced that strangely familiar. They'd seen her somewhere. "Well, by-cracky!" one finally exclaimed, "if that isn't Janet Flynn of Cincinnati. I'll never take another bow.

Look girls!" MISS RASCH. herself took a peek and confirmed "the detection. Janet Flynn Irish, had started her training five years previously under Miss Rasch in New Y'ork and later was chosen to appear in various theatrical productions. When Miss Rasch took a troupe of dancers to Paris, a year or two ago, Janet appeared in specialty numbers and stayed in France to play In "Burlesque" and "The New Moon." There she acquired, through considerable work, a Parisian accent and this was what she brought along when she returned to New York to take Miss Damita's place in "Sons Guns." The name "Gina Malo" was created in her own mind. At the fashionable Hollywood Plaza Hotel there appeared three or four years ago a ravishlngly beautiful blonde who had come direct from Germany to work in motion pictures.

She was registered as Imogene Robertson and had a contract with the Feature Productions Company, a subsidiary of United Artists. Her contract called for a starting salary of $400 a week. Everyone stopped to stare at the almost distracting loveliness of this young woman. Her costumes were subdued but in correct style. Her jewels were expensive but not glaring.

"I have been playing in German productions," she said in a well modulated voicea "Mr. John M. Consldine, head of the Feature Products Company, saw some of my work and seemed to like it. He offered me a contract to come out here." a STRANGELY, there was not the slightest trace of German accent in her words. Her English was pure, well chosen and correctly spoken.

Surely, everyone thought she must have had a splendid instructor. She must be talented. The Duncan sisters were preparing to make their celebrated stage play "Topsy and Eva" into a film. Imogene Robertson was cast for a role but for some untold reason, suddenly was withdrawn. No reason could be advanced.

She was cast for a role in another produc tion and again suddenly withdrawn. "What is there about Miss Robertson that keeps her from work?" the screen colony inquired. "We're anxious to see her act." A newspaper reporter acting on a tip solved the mystery. Calling Miss Robertson on the phone, he flung the question directly at her: "Aren't you Imogene Wilson, the ex-Follies girl who was beaten up by Frank Tlnney, the comedian, in New Y'ork, and whose name appeared in the Tinney divorce suit?" went the telephone receiver. The conversation was ended.

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v-cn simply because he wished proti-f his former fiancee from Helen knew that bis wife, and there- Joyce had fcny ability at a a situation correctly 2 Anita Pag a change mf name saved her from being an unknown. HOIXYWOOD, April 2J. HOLLYWOOD is awaiting the return of Sonia Karl v. a little Dresden china blonde who has been appearing in the Earl Carroll shows the past season. Sonia is expected to sign a long-term contract with one of the major picture comjanies and thereby add another chapter to an odd but glamorous career.

Sonia is pretty pretty like a painting by an old master. Her eyes are blue a deep, deep blue. Her mouth is a cupid's bow enhanced by teeth which are white as porcelain. A heavy shock of yellow hair bobbed in most aggravating style helps make her a distinctive type. The girl with her beauty, had no trouble in making the Follies a few years ago where she danced "in the line," and drew much attention.

In 192-7 she headed for Hollywood. Six long, weary "months she joined in the line-plunging at the studio gates. Jean Williams she was then. And as "Jean Williams," was registered on the casting lists of every studio on the coast. Registered, and that was all.

Her name was merely one among thousands. It didn't mean a thing. Then came "the big idea" picked up through a bit of careful observation. An east-bound limited train carried her from Hollywood one night headed for Minneapolis. She had a scheme.

She was determined to carry it out. It looked good. A few weeks later it became noised about in Hollywood that a beautiful Russian screen actress born of the aristocracy, a relative of former Czar Nicholas, was en-route to the film capital. She spoke little English, the reports said, but she was such a dainty, exquisite little thing that everybody took extra pains to help her out in her traveling dilemmas. Americans were simply amazed by her charm.

Cecil B. DeMille heard about the attractive blonde and invited her to his studio. From her he learned that she was Sonia Karlov, thu daughter of a Russian father, a Norwegian mother and born in Denmark. De Mille granted her a screen test and promptly offered to sign her to a contract. "It will not be big.

at first." De Mille said, kindly. "But it will be a start and as you learn more about American ways and Amen-can pictures, your earnings will increase." Just then the door to the office opened and in walked Lina Bas-quette, former premier danseuse of the Ziegfeld Follies. Tne two gins looked at each other. "Jean!" cried Miss Basquette. "What are you doing here?" Mr.

DeMille pricked up his ears. "Jean?" he queried. "Why, yes'." continued Lina. "Jean used to dance in the Follies when I was there. She's a wonderful girl.

Has she danced for you yet?" A LITTLE lower in her chair sank "Sonia Karlov." The tears started flowing. "I wanted so much to get a chance in pictures." she said, in pure English. "I saw the Russian actresses doing so well I thought, maybe, if I The screen tests had shown Mr. De Mille that the kid "had something," and he let her go on in her bit. Soon, however, the bubble burst and Jean Williams was on the way back to New York and presently dancing in the girl shows.

However, she has recalled the old maxim. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." and "Sonia Karlov" is returning. With six or seven thousand girls trying to crash the studio gates, motion picture producers hardly can be expected to remember them all by sight- In these throngs may be found almost exact counterparts of Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, Ruth Chatterton. Clara Bow; Joan Crawford and all the other stars. In fact, almost every star has, and uses, a double.

Scant attention is paid them. Eileen Sedgwick, known once as "Queen of the Serials," took advantage of this situation a year ff' -r- hid eono to Burton md con- Cina Malo in Cincinnati they call her Janet Flynn. the screen world to take a place in the galaxy of stars. TIIE great difficulty with girls who endeavor to crash th' gates in Hollywood is that they find excuses for giving up Just about the time the girls with initiative are developing their one "big idea." Jean Williams evolved into "Sonia KarloV' and took her big chance instead of creeping back to New York defeated. Janet Flynii evolved into "Gina Malo" and had her fling as a Parisian dancer before going back to Ohio.

Anita Pomares refused to be beaten when casting directors closed th; door in her face. Now, as Anita Page, she is one of the mom adored actresses In all the film capital. Kileen Sedgwick smiles in glee as she looks back at "Gretel Yoltz." If they hoodwinked the producers, the producers liked it and they tell with smiles of satisfaction about these energetic youngsters who took a chance. They admire them for it. ADVERTISEMENT LUCKY I FOR YOU! "How will you have Ca.JJ.-l tin m.

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through petty jealousy. How oar-- he think thct of her? no-v i hc think that his kisses h-re they were be- irl.t haps. in this very nio-H pluming himself that hi- nas jealous of his fw--theart. repressed a desire to scream Ur to tell him that she had "-d avowal to save him from ssaoHa! ruin, and for no other on earth. It would lessen in himself.

IT "as to learn, within a minutes, that, so far as concerned, he had He knocked on the room, grimacing to noted that the door not chummily ajar as ustom. she called. the room and stood an ''as i o-. been in lh her. i oar.

I ioo v- e' faa: is -is in 1 '-r if a able from my lawyers he said. tvrcmcly conscious of negligee. She knew i 'no least-provocative a hi best when she re-i li aise longue. Stuffy, ''an; she'd make him j-e could. f.V -h rs a lawyer need other Aren't you able to look hoar own lesai affairs?" she lie said.

"But er treat themselves, you s. these are the law- 1 estate. I'm not an Leave it to Bel-' MacLane. Here's some- you." a sheaf of im-documents. look like papers in a sep-' she said.

And then the jeer. ake you they're copies ''I that the origina-ls have ei' for you in the Cen-1 "rthfastcrn owner of I have." red as stiffly as he had Jhe room, and started looked after hinu i she called. r. "Th, -1 a- or 'Un NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Calm nr.