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ce en e mats h in â€" â€"â€"~~ Two days later she began work â€"with Tom Holby‘s company. Holby described the part she was to play, heat® director, obeying his commands in a kind of stupor. * aty easy to make a brilliant answer to a ~ zgestion. _ She felt that helped it little when she added: "Just as much obliged.> Good night!" . : People make love unconsciously "At times and in the truest courtships never a word is spoken. Two souls travel mystic gardens together â€"and the exchange of . sptinbied: thought. the exchange of a syllabled thought. ~‘Mem was so woced by Holby. She gets m job in a film laboratory, but loses it. She meets a Mrs. Sturgs from her home town, who talks of the evils of the movies and says the stars are forced to sell coming to visit her. Mem is worried about her finances. f ing her "the prettizt girl in America" and writes a lstter of protest to his wife and daughter. â€" Mem‘s fame bfi- to spread, . and Claymore, the director, takes â€"an unusual inâ€" tor>st in hber. He is infatuated with Mem but tries to be aloof and professional to hide the fact from the company. ° 2e T Remember Steddon comes West to avoid revealing the result of anâ€" unfortunate love affair to her father. c ap Tok ecle The Rev. Dr. Steddon, a clergyman of kind hurtbnt*amvuflnd!hnmmfi of the evil of the world to the ‘"movies" ‘ constantly inveighs against them. Mem, her lover Elwooed Farnaby having died in an acciâ€" dent, at the advice: of Drmkk.m her bad cough as an excuseâ€"to get to A and from there writee home that she has met and married "Mr. Woodville," a wholly imaginary person. Later she ~writes again to say that her "husband" has died inâ€" the desert. ‘ She takes a job as a domestic to avoid being a burden on her parents. A fall prevents her becoming a mother. â€" In Arizona she had met . 4 f yy She sees a casting director, Arthur Tirrey, and abruptly offers herself to him in return for a job in the movies,. He tells her the talk â€"about *"paying the price" is all rot. Meanwhile the attention â€" of Mr. Bermond, These. divorces of ~convemence marked the newâ€"fashioned way of accomplishing oldâ€"fashioned â€"righteâ€" ousness. ~He wanted to make her "an honest woman." Tom Holby, a leading man in a motion picture company, and through him gets the opportunity to play a part in a desert drama. With â€"the â€"companty is â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Robina Teele, a Star, fond of Holby and Leva Lemaire, an extra womsn, _ Afer her accident, Mem bzcomes friendly with M m and Clsymore become more and more intercsted in each other. Out riding one day, CV vms~»_ mekes â€" pkysicalâ€" advances to her, While they are parking & holdâ€"up man apâ€" proacaes and demands their money. Claymore, brooding deeply in his earnest soul, felt that he owed Mem some atonement. He meant it nobly, but it sounded crude when he checked the car in front of her little home and took her hand and said:o â€" â€"â€" Arizona, and takes an little son, jery. â€" Insp "If ~you will â€"let â€"me marry you, I‘ll see that my wifeâ€" divorces me." 22 Mem‘s father reads a publicity story eallâ€" scribed the part she was to play,) â€" Then Mem was calw. She People make love unconscio thrust into the tempest. It was like mes and in the truest courtships| driving through a slightly rarefied ver a word is spoken. Two souls| cataract. She hardly reached the pilâ€" avel mystic gardens together â€"and| lar at the edge of the porch, clutched me toâ€"deep understandings without| it for a moment, caught a quick 6 exchange of a syllabled thought. â€"breath, .andâ€"Alungâ€"down=â€"theâ€"steps. Mem was so woced by Holby. And that was that. All this preparaâ€" Ne > t Nt tion for one minute of action! The orders had gonhe forth to rush| ~She was taken to a warm room and "No, thanks! a film Iaboratory. | Lu interest It was as uninâ€" great of Paim â€" + in gift take oft Springs, r bright U g;!EE?HUGHS E "To keep people from walking into the propeller and getting chopped to mincemeat," said Kendrick. The fire hose, aimed up in the air, added its volume. The wind machine set up its mad clatter. The water and the lightning filled it with shatâ€" tering fire. Each bit of scenery through which she was to flash had been made ready the> day â€"before. â€"Perforated â€" rain pipes were reinforced by men who would play a fire hose or two upon the hapless actress. The gale was to be provided by an airplane propeller mounted on a truck. f * Aiter an hour preparation the arm was ready for the battle. the Holby picture to a conclusion. Big ~nightâ€"storm scenes had. been scheduled for the final takes, and on the final morning the first scenes were begun promptly at nine. â€" Kendrick promised to let the company go at Mem inspected the settings she "Why do they build that fence around the wind machine *" she asked but it was not until half past seven that the day‘s work was done. 7 At fine they went to the first of the sets. The Californian night was black and cold. The night in. the story was one of tempest and: battle. Tom Holby. must run an automobile into a ditch and make a desperate war against four brutes who were inâ€" structed to put up a good fight. Kendrick: His heart sickened. She would be sliced to shreds.. THECT KR ES C Tom Holby had been photographed in a climb up the wet sides of a ravyâ€" ime, and was half frozen in his soaked elothes, but he stayed to watch Mem through this scene. s R scene was prepared. She was supâ€" posed to. have run a long distance beâ€" she must enter it wet. _ .. _ _ went forward again, head down, into the wild storm. . ~_During herâ€" absence a~â€"telephone pole ‘and a tree ~had been brought down by the storm and photographed as they fell.It was her business now to clamberâ€"across the pole and push through the branches of the tree, and so fight her way out of the picture. The wind machine had been shifted several times. â€" The wind man in his confusion forgot to notice that the property men had forgotten, in their confusion, to set up the fence before now and everybody was numb with cold, drenched with the promiscuous rain, and a little irresponsible. Their working day was already fifteen hours old and it would last atâ€"least five ricane, stumbled and fell across the telephone pole, thrust aside the wires, again, â€"drove â€"into â€"the wreck â€"of â€"the fallen tree. The branches whipped her wet flesh cruelly. The lightning just ahead of her blistered her vision li‘:ie the whiteâ€"hot ijirons driven into the eyes of Shakespeare‘s Prince Clarâ€" ence:â€"Theâ€"wind.â€"blew.â€"her breath back into her lungs. © If she had not gained a little support from one stout bough ofâ€" the tree she â€" cbuldâ€"neverâ€" have reached the margin of the picture. Kendrick‘s . heartâ€" was. .l.d' lâ€"with trinumph=as=heâ€"=saw her>~pass out >of the camera range. He called, "Cut!" and theâ€"camera men were jubilant as each of them shouted "O. K. for me!" ed with the maniac hurâ€" Then Kendrick heard screams. of forward and saw the blinded litle figâ€" ure of Mem still pressing on straight into the blur of the airplane propeller. His heart sickened. She would be sliced to shreds. She could not hear the yelled warnings in the noise of the machine. ex x of light.. The witnesses were paraâ€" lyzed by the horror of the moment. dforeed â€"2=â€"&hARStlyâ€"A@AU@R, â€"~â€"â€"»â€"â€" s mem â€"And yet, when Tom Holby, after they had left the lot, asked her to ride with him for a bit of air, told her he adored her and. that she was‘ deference and meekness and pleaded for a â€"little kindnessâ€"her heart froze in her. â€"She â€"couldâ€"not â€"even â€"accept a proffered beatitude. ~‘Tom Holby broke from a nightâ€" mare that outran the immediate beauty of the girl walking forward to a hideous fate. He ran and dived for her like a football tackler, hooked his left arm about her knees and flung her. backward, thrusting his head beneath her, so that when she struck, her shoulders were upon his breast, herâ€"drenched hair fell across his face like seaweed. They were still revolving when the wind machine man, leaping from the post where he had stood expecting her fate and his own eternal remorse, ran to lift her from the ground. Others helped â€"up Tom Holby. ‘Mem screamed with fear for him. She had not yet realized her own escape. She was all pity for Tom Holby, and anxiety. & "It‘s nothing," he said. Then he staggered â€"with dread . of. .what.Mem would â€"have â€"looked â€"likeâ€"now if he had waited an instant longer or missed his aim at her knees. tience to begin a new picture at once, and to be very busy with life and love, beauty and delight. She looked at him and thoughtâ€" and said:â€" . _ "Too many people love you, Tomâ€" my. You belong to the publi¢, and really loving little me." & 3 She opened her eyes in a chaos of fiying propeller blades were glistenâ€" ing in the light of the sun arc. â€"â€" Kendrick sighed, "That came near being a portrait of you walking out of this world." â€"Tom Holbytm not speak, but. he reached out and, seizing Mem‘s hand, wrung it with an eloquence beyond words. He seemed to be squeezing her heart with clinging hands. "Oh, but I.â€"could!I do!" he cried. f "Damn g‘_npnblie! I don‘t care for and 1 love it. Just now the only love T can feel is acted love." when his head struck a rock in the gushing blood. _ : He drew her from the vortex of the propelier, which was subsiding that has missed its pounce. g _The next day. the. company gathâ€" ered to seeâ€"the rushes of the night stuff. gm He had knocked himself unconscious The operator shut of his engine She was consumed with an impaâ€" He came to his senses at once and "Then let‘s have aâ€" rehearsal," â€"he Thursday, October 8, 1929