Show The Telegrams Telegram's New Serial Serial- TRA TRA GIRL V tI I f By S STELLA G. G S. S PERkY PERRY 1 It TOd 1 Begin Today y i EXTRAS The plain little restaurant a very good one was across ss the street sect from front the studios in Culver City Act rs and actresses lunching there maintained an airas air ds as as they a ate ae e some be because ause they thought themselves Illustrious illustrious illus Illus- and knew that touris s came to look at them others in In the hope that the tourists might mistake th them m for the il illustrious 11 ones Here and there a mechanic or electrician observed the play with cynical und understanding or read the baseball news as he ate glad to be away from the shop lor for a minute Directors producing staff editors and office of flee workers talked busily and ate rapidly giving evidence of smart and anci bustling importance Most of them would waste hours in ini i idle le conversation or In lolling when tl they ey got back to their heir posts But this appearance of ot activity w was s their part o of the he game right now f Publicity department heads and telephone operators P F o s and others who were really under pressure r relaxed n noV at this one brief free time tim In their day V- V 1 The actors men and girls exchanged ex ex- changed self conscious greetings vis vis- itin ting from table to table and offered cordial comments to the proprietor of the restaurant who beamed on all impartially with ith a professional heart incas Iness beneath which the le discerning could see a bi bitterly ter y amused pity I VANCE MURDOCH Their famel The fame that these young people thought so much about Continued on Page Pace J I i EXTRA GIRL r By Stella G. G S. S Perry e Continued from Pare Pan One Om had had striven n for tor with such agony He had seen it rise and shine and set upon too loo man many flood and ebb never to flood again over and over he had seen it Now they were so mighty in a few years years nothing His own children taxis fans all did not even know th the names of the great ones he had served a few years ago when the restaurant had opened So let them enjoy their little little day poor youngsters Dominick beamed admi admiration admiration ration eager service affectionate respect re re- thought they wanted want ed Let them have it while it-while while It lasted At t the table near the cigar stand Vance Murdock gracefully e lifted his million million dollar dollar profile at the angle familiar to all as he puffed at a aIon along along Ion long There were those who found the million dollar dollar profile a trifle weak and cloying en even on the screen seen without the charity of ot makeup it looked f feminine and petulant Just now Murdock was ill at ease he always felt restless when John GarVey was with him not only bec beg because be be- c cause g e Garvey was the hardest boiled publicity man extant and saw through all the tricks but especially because had gone sone to school with himin him himin himin in Paterson N J. J to J. to the school back backof of the silk mill where Murdock s 's s dad I was foreman foreman and and knew just how to place Vance Murdocks Murdock's exquisite temperamental sensitiveness Murdock would never have passed his examination there if Gervey Garvey hadn't slipped contraband information informs tion to him which now made it difficult cult to hold the pose of off savant and sophIsticate because hed he'd read Elinor Glyn thoroughly and Havelock Ellis superficially and cas easy summaries of ot the eastern philosophies without any knowledge at all of what la lay behind them HIGHBROWS Garvey did not try to make Murdock Murdock Mur Mur- dock uncomfortable He took it all allas allas as it came Now he was finishing and on coffee on cottec-on m a hot day t too and too and beginning to finger the seasoned sea searn zoned old lId pipe to lo follow The others at his table were Walt Gibney a director a taciturn fellow which was a great reat relief relict to to many Hal Howard a fairly good funnyman funny funnyman man and Tom Canby a novelist who had recently sprung to the front and Was yas still sW dazed b by having haying received from the picture people more money than then he had ever believed believe d there was in the world They were talking about sex in literature literature lit and In the drama When they were not talking shop or scandal the people of this world were usually discussing discussing dis cussing sex in something These were highbrows so now it was sex in lit literature You have come to it it Canby said Seems to be the only thing they want nowadays Lord Lordi A few years ago aeo when the pendulum first began beean to swing that thai way it was enough to say something red once in a while Now you'd think there wasn't anything else In the world but sex All the theother theother theother other functions of humans arc are extinct How come Js Is it all this Freud business business busi busi- ness or the war or what I dont don't mind putting a little mire mike in my work if they want it but rd a man with a good nose d doesn't like to wal low tow Are they oversexed v. v this genera ion A t REGULAR HUMAN GIRL But after atter all aU Vance Murdock drawled crawled making his as a's very British md tad speaking loud enough to be heard it nearby tables assuming that the occupants were straining their ears cars a little Is there anything else but bui love love and and art Yeah A damn sight Garvey said No Canby Th They're not oversexed On the contrary They're undersexed That's how come Dont get you Hal Howard said Thank God Im I'm just a clown Coarse but clean Oh Alt All this crowd and their ha hab its Masculine athletics for lor ladies and one piece one piece bathing suits and girls made up to look like boys with boys with boys' boys figures even e And boys softened up ready t to Ion fondle dIe without deep feeling the way the girls do Undersexed I Itell Itell Itell tell you That's why they need all this red hot cayenne Used to be be the faintest suggestion of romantic love even was stirring Young people were normal easily i moved by suggestion didn't require i nudity to show em they had sex They had to be protected might e easily b be excited too far by what they read I sensitive imaginations sense of romance romance ro mance in them Now they have to have strong drink intellectual and i spiritual so to speak to get any re rc reaction action at all They're petted and I everything till they're blunted Normal Nor 1 mal young people built like regular human beings can get gd more kick out of Lorna Doone than these c kids get et out of the Lives Dives the I they love to read about It dont don't hurt I them the they need the prodding But 1 there are arc a lot of others still left leCt in the world though Not all like that 1 by K long shot By Jove Look There At the door Right theres there's i one it would be dangerous to feed raw stuff tu to I Ismall A small girl stood in the doorway i for a minute hesitantly as if trying I to make up her mind to enter I She decided against it Went Went down I the street to a drug store counter for fora 1 a cheap sandwich instead Who's she Hal Howard asked One regular human girL Came just a at that moment to illustrate my lecture One of those Im I'm talking about Made Mad like a woman meant to be a mother Not a teaser That's the kind decent literatures literature's written for The kind that the other would Injure Responsive Sensitive to actual life Sufficiently you sexed you mean Vance drawled I 1 didn't mean to put it just that tha way way not specifically I mean one o of the last museum specimens in Holly Ive I've been talking about Who is she Howard asked again Do you know her Slightly An extra girl I happened to talk to A kid from rom Louisiana Was in your last picture Vance Did you see her No o No o said Vance Murdock Not No yet yet ACADIAN CADIAN BEAUTY There was honeysuckle along th the with aquatic hyacinths in bloom banks and its fragrance filled th thair theair the air and the waters of Bayou were ere brocaded purple and green greenwood wood studios of the genus girl Kind Kim Odile Vaure and her friend Laure Le Lc Blanc stood on the vine hung hung wooden bridge that led from the viI vil lage lale to the low wide gray convent conven under the gray moss of the oaks Dragonflies bright as jewels gilt glit over water hyacinths in the ruddiness of late afternoon and a mocking bird was singing in crescen do from a plaintive pianissimo to an ecstatic forte The water hyacinths rising like minarets of fairy mosques from their fleshy round green leaves toned and shaded from palest mauve to purpling pus pur pling pUng blue The waters were azure with the reflected sky An artist would have seen all this blue brightness of ot the day culminated in Odile Vaures Vaure's sapphire eyes eres Even among Acadian girls who have lave a reputation for prettiness Odile was an outstanding beauty Her hair fine and soft in a short floating cloud oak oak bark bark brown and dark was like the sheer heavy storm mists that hang on Fuji mountain in ina a Japanese print Her lashes were crayon black but had that same soft ot veiling mistiness Her skin of almost transparent whiteness bore no color but the ten der infantile pink of or her lips As John Garvey was to notice later on her figure was girlish not boyish as was the fashion Its adolescent slenderness was suggestive of ot woman woman- hood lood Laure Lure the devoted was always admiring admiring ad miring Odile but had been too well schooled against vanities in that convent convent con vent over the bridge to talk about it Laure jaure herself was dark and round and rosy as as' as a cherry a chubby little Cajun with a simple heart It was anxious anxious' now A WICKED HEART I I can see no reason for tor doing what you arc are doing doing- doing dolne she was insisting to Odile They spoke French In the soft slurred patois of the southwest par par- I can can see no reason for confessing cong con it to Sister Marie Marle You will be a little fool tool to do it 1 tell ell you that If you OU feel you must confess confess and and after all you have done nothing nothing at all alII What have you to confess about but about but If you feel that hat you OU must must must-ch ch well confess well-confess confess then hen to your our confessor Sister Marie Marie- Clementine thinks you arc the best girl in the thc parish the best pupil she ever had Just Just remember how she taught aught you all those recitations and songs songs songs-as as busy as she was and was and trained rained you for our class play right there here on that very platform under the he oaks My cousin who teaches in inhere there here says that Sister Marie Marie-Clemen- tine ine prayed not to be too proud when you did so well that day Yes she did And now Odile if it you go to toler her ler and tell ten her about this imagine how low you will trouble the good heart of Sister Mari Marie Marie-Clementine That would be a worse sin maybe than the he other Anyway I think so to have her It will be m my penance know v enow how wicked I 1 am sighed little Odile with eyes full tun of tears Sister Marie-Clementine Marie will suffer with me she willingly she is isso so saintly And she will vill help me get over my wickedness At least she will help me me try to get over it it But you OU have done nothing Odile You talk like you'd done done I I dont don't know enow what I have a wicked heart I have thought hought sinfully Since I learned that he ic is married I have had a wicked heart icart Stay here and pray for me Laure And Odile walked with the courage of her race like a little soldier up toward oward the cloistered porch of at the convent Laure had a sense of humor that would not be gainsaid After watching watch ing ine ng her friend s advance to th the stake for fora a few moments with admiring sighs she suddenly dimpled and began began be be- began gan to giggle By the time the noble martyr to conscience reached the convent door Laure was laughing hard But the matter that lay upon her heart was no joke to the culprit A MARRIED MAN N Sister Clementine Marie when she came to her looked at Odiles Odile's troubled eyes with quick anxiety Eh Eb what have you then my child Has las something happened Is your father ill ill or or r the little brothers Oh no They're all right Dear Sister may I speak to you all alone where no one will interrupt But certainly Come here Let Letus Letus Letus us sit on the bench under the bi big oak They sat against the tree with the he broad trunk between them and the he garden So We are concealed Now tell me me Oh Sister Clementine Marie you will vill be so disappointed in me mel mcl That ThatIs Is s the hardest part of all And that thatis is why I have to tell ten you ou Yes my dear girl I am a wicked wicked girl She began to cry cry ry But that is 15 Impossible What have you done I am sure it is not so soad bad ad bad as all that Sister Marie Clementine smiled gently Ah when they got out from under the protecting wings of the chool school problems came The world touched them so quickly these poor children But generally generall they were not so self-inspecting self as this little Odile who had always taken life far faroo too loo oo seriously even as a tiny Uny thing The rhe sisters had tried to keep her from rom too loo 00 much introspection An baby little baby little more than a baby aby We Wo all have our temptations dear r lam am sure ure it is not so bad What then Do not be afraid to tell me I will lf I can Come now I did not expect to have you go co utterly spotless through the thc world orld you know Dont Don't be afraid Odile whispered I am In love love love- terribly But that Js all all then she sighed In n relief Is it that good young Jean Hebert from up by Lafayette No Sister I have have forgotten forgotten Jean This other is so so- so soshe she paused So Ohl Oh Let me sa say it right out I 1 love him terribly so that I dream of him all day and night And he is married Madonna save us usi The good sister blanched Yes It is awfuL I didn't know he was married at first when it began be be- gan It was his wonderful smile 1 I fell in fn love with that And if you could see how good and brave he Is 1 I did not know how how badly badly I cared I-cared cared until I 1 found out that he is 18 married Then Then oh oh I did try I did Anyway Any way he is Js angry with his wife wite they do not live together now I SHALL NEVER FORGET HIM Nevertheless he had no right He is a D scoundrel Oh no He isn't Of course he couldn't know anything about about about-about abou m my feelings He wilt will never know 1 love him So much the better better then You mus must forget him We will pray I will wil help you I know I shall never forget him Never I 1 cant Odile wrung her hands I IThe The sister was wise and old and too understanding to insist Let time alone for that It was not as bad as it jt might be If the man knew nothing of this poor lambs lamb's infatuation and they could be kept apart time would soon make this young thing thIne forget Some day they would smile about it together It grows worse all nil the time Odile lamented I 1 try to keep away not away not to lo see him but when I get a chance to see him him I I just cant can't kee keep away I have to go to see sec him And every time makes it worse than ever If Ie this were so so the man would soon see how Odile felt the sister thought and then the real danger would begin begin be be- gin That she must prevent firmly and now You must never speak to him again she said severely Promise me mc Odile Speak to him How could I Of course I have never spoken to him sister How could I 11 What What do you say You see him often and have never spoken to o him Who is this man Where do you meet him Meet him Oh Oh I thought I had told you ou I see him in the pictures pictures- on n the screen Ive I've never seen him really He Heis is Vance Murdock the Murdock-the the motion picture star |