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MUTT AND JEFF
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Quinlan's Quickie
When Sam Firbush, talent scout for He thought of Essie and the letters ...The letters Herman Ruberstein Pictures, Inc., she had written him. first saw. Slim Jameson he knew he glowed with praise for his pictures. had found a type that could make. Essie and he had made an agreement money for any movie studio. Slim was to be always honest with each other. tall and angular and goodnatured and On April 10 Slim's contract expired,. talled with a slow drawl. He lived in and on this day he made it a point to the isolated town of Bryant, Falls, be absent from 'the 'studio so Sam Fir- couldn't make him resign. Idaho, worked in the local hardware bush
Quinlan's ature and composed songs in his spare Instead, he dropped in at time. One of his bits had caught on, Quickie studio and introduced himself had had a fair sale. So Sam Firbush; to Jake Quinlan. acting on a hunch; dropped up to "Suppose," he said, "we throw in We'll make a Quickie. I'll Bryant Falls one day, took one look together?
new song, at Slim and made him an offer. play the lead role, write a
sing it myself. We'll clean up, on Now, the most that Slim knew about account of the overhead will be one- motion pictures was what he had tenth of what Rubenstein spends." learned watching second-run features - Jake Quinlan chewed his cigar. He in Ed Bemis' combination
was smart and shrewd and suspicious. House, dance hall and bowling alley. It looked like a trick. Rubenstein Usually golden haired Essie Burton would hit the ceiling if he knew what sat beside him. After the show they, this kid was up to.
Still, what a would visit Stanley's ice cream em- chance to clean up! And what if it porium, look happily into each others did ruin Slim as a star? It was quick, eyes over a couple of chocolate sundaes easy money. and talk of the day when Slim would save enough money to buy and stock n ranch up north in Sundown Valley,
Cinema
Slim's mind was on the ranch when Sam Firbush made his offer. He talk- ed the matter over with Essie, and
What's the deal?" he said. "I'll take 76 percent of the Slim said.
net,"
"Like hell you will" Jake Quinlan exploded. "Listen-" But Slim was on his way out. Jake went after him,
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
. So Slim went to Sam Firbush. The
as
Slim
Essie agreed that it looked like a argued with him, Legged him. quick and easy way to acquire the ne- was adamant. At length Jake yielded cessary funds.
Though she'd miss After all, 25 percent a Slim Jame- typical him terribly, he'd better go to Holly- son picture, produced with wood.
Quinlan economy, would be equal to Hollywood with ten ordinary Quickies. Slim's name wonders of the would sell it. outside. world amazed, but did not
So Slim got a lawyer and drew up please him. He signed a contract that: papers and the next week he made a Sam prepared, and made a pictureQuickie. It was all done on the quiet. acting and talking exactly the Even. Sam: Firbush didn't suspect. director told him to, which wasn't hard. Sam didn't suspect until the publicity because the more natural he appeared" was released. Then Sam and Herman the better the-director liked it.
went wild. But it didn't do any good. It took two months to complete the The job was done. picture and Slim was paid a total of Jake Quinlan's Quickie of Slim $1000. It looked like big money to Jameson made a fortune. In a month's him, and it was big money, except for time Slim had enough money to buy the fact that it cost big money to live his ranch and half the panhandle of in Hollywood the way Herman Idaho if he wanted to. Jake Quinlan Rubenstein thought he should live. begged him to make another, and Sam It didn't surprise the officials of and Herman begged him to sign with Rubenstein pictures when reports in- them. Slim only smiled. He never dicated that Slim's picture was box told them that he knew how they'd office. They knew they had a natural, taken advantage of him. Why spoil a and they went about the business of perfectly good friendship. capitalizing on it.
But he told Essie on the day they The first step was to prevent Slim moved into their new ranch. "And, by from being apprised of his own suç gosh, Essie, if I hadn't figured you cass. This was easy. They showed
were honest in telling me my first him no fan mail and kept him so busy pictures were swell, I never would he goarcely had time to read the pa- have made that deal with. Jake Quin- pers: They gave him enough praise lan."
to inflate his ogo, but not enough to Essie smiled and dissed him. Why, nourish anything as dangerous as ashe thought, should she tell him that superiority complex. They paid him she had never seen one of his pictures $150 weekly, but they saw to it he because she was afraid it would hurt spent nearly all of it. They weren't her too much to see him kissing taking any chances of letting
him other gir!!
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acquire enough to purchase his ranch (Copyright, 1988, By The Associated in Sundown Valley and so walk out on Newspapers.) them.
Slim made another picture and it,
was more successful than the
first.
But nobody told him so. Gradually it occurred to him that the
handsome,
salary he was receiving wasn't doing him much good. At this rate
he'd
never have enough saved to buy the ranch. Something, he decided, had to be done
Now Slim was smart. He was much smarter than Sami or Herman gave him credit for. · He had a way of kooping his eyes and ears open and his month shut. He learned things. He brooded over the things he learned.
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