THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930,
THE HOLLYWOOD
STORY-By Ernest Lynn.
CHAPTER XIV.
Paul Colller's fingers tell away from the typewriter keys. He swung around, rested one arm on the back of his chair, planted the other elbow on his little desk, braced his cheek with his fist.
"You what?" he said. Rorimer, sank heavily, into an easy chair. He grinned. "I tore up my contract to-day. You know: my ontract with Continental," he added with sarcastic explicitness, enjoying the mild senation his an- nouncement had created. Elab- orately he unbuttoned his shirt at the throat and loosened his tie and waited for the surprised Collier's questions.
Adamson tell me to get out and stay out."
Paul Collier nodded in sympathy. e put an arm on Rorimer's shoul- der ard steered him back to the liv ing room, and he said, falling un- gracefully into a chair, that he
could understand, of course, but wasn't it a little unwise to throw away a salary such as 'Continental was paying Rorimer, just because of inability to get along with a bum
f an executive?
Dan, his eyes glinting wrathfully, demanded of Collier what he would do under the same circumstances. "I suppose you'd smile and like it, eh? You would like so much" "Say," Collier interrupted, "if I Collier, unmoving stared at him for Bome moments in silence.ever landed one of those fancy sce "What's the matter?" he said presnario-writing jobs, I'd take out an ently. "Did the heat go to your accident policy on it. That's just head?"
"I tore it up right under Adam- son's nose," Dan told him calmly.
"What for?"
how nice I'd treat it." Rorimer, he added, didn't know when he was well off. "I could put up with an awful lot, Danny, my boy, just as long as the old dough was there on
day."
"Because I'm sick of Adamson and I'm sick of Continental. They pay,
don't want ideas; they want yes Dan retorted, his eyes taking in "I have a life-size picture of you,” men and office politicians."
Paul got up from where he sat the other's lanky, powerful frame and applied a match to his pipe. in significant appraisal. "You'd be "You're a funny guy," he said. planting your fist in the middle of
And Adamson's nose." "What did Adamson do? Dan admitted that Adamson had aurprised him by not throwing him out.
"I invited him to fire me, and tore up my copy of the contract to show him I wasn't fooling; but Adamson's so damn suspicious of everybody that he probably thought I was trying to put a fast one over on him. In fact, I'm sure of it by the way he acted."
"What did he say?"
Collier
Collier grinned. He clasped his hands in back of his sleek black head and, leaning back indolently his chair, observed that in Adamson's nose was a big enough target. "I don't want to see you lose out. Dan," he said. "That crazy southern temper of yours will get you in trouble yet. What will you [do-no foolin-if Adamson decides
to take you up?
Rorimer replied that he hadn't asted, and Rorimer shrugged. He given the matter much thought. said, "Oh, he told me that as long "I'm not worried. Martin Collins as he held Continental's copy of is a friend of mine. He told me the contract I might find it a bit that if I ever thought I'd like to difficult to leave to make other con- make a connexion at Amalgamat- ed, to let him know, and he'd sec nexions."
what he could do for me."
He lighted a cigarette and added that that was Adamson for you. "Why, you old razor blade, you; "He's such a colossal bluff himself you're too blamed stiff-necked to that he thought I was bluffing, ask Collins or anybody else to do And a bluff scares him silly; something for you," Paul accused him, and there was affection in his learned that."
tone and in his smiling, gaze.
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"And suppose he hadn't been
A young German found on South- bluffed," Collier said. "I suppose you would have waltzed right over smoked in silence, his mind dwell- end sea front at three o'clock in to Parliament or M-G-M or some ing on more pleasant thoughts. the morning is alleged to have told, place and told them that their new Colller turned back to, his typewriter a policeman that he was a criminal" scenario writer was ready to take and wrote steadily for 10 or 15 assistant to the German police and off his coat and go to work-huh?" minutes, after which he leaned back that he was in England with a Dr. with heavy finality and announced Schafer, searching for an abscond- that he wanted another nightcap. ing bank clerk. Dr. Schafer, ac- hia turn, son," he said, cording to the youth, had exactly."It's your Dan laughed. "Not
papers and was known at Leman. But I'd rather free innce than work and Dan went out to the kitchen,
Collier turned оп the radio, street Police Station, London. In- for. Continental."'
"You mean you'd rather starve," stood before the open window, soft- quiries proved this was incorrect, Collier snorted, and Rorimer amil-ly humming, hands thrust in his and the youth (Franz Kuschinitzy ed and quietly said that he knew pockets, staring absently at the 17 of Ancoma) was remanded at night sky. The room behind him Southend charged with failing to something about that, too.
Paul was silent for a moment, was spacious and comfortable in register as an alien. It was stated and then he abruptly announced the soft light of well-chosen lamps. that the prisoner now said he land- at Jarrow-on-Tyne and had that he was going to mix a night-Open book shelves ranged the walled
been looking round. He a baby since cap. He departed for the kitchen, at one end. There was
roomy chairs spoke English and French, as well and Rorimer could hear him at grand piano. And
that a man could sprawl and rest as his own language. the refrigerator.
mer
Collier's voice called presently in.
Dan returned presently with the from the kitchen to ask Dan what had been the immediate cause of glasses, and Collier, taking his, the row with Adamson, and Reri-held it up and looked through it strolled out there with his toward the light. He said. "I for hands in his pockets and said there got to tell you; I saw a friend of would never be a chance of doing yours today: Mona Morrison. I anything original as long as Adam-spent most of the morning over at son was in authority. "His idea of United Artists, and I was shagging heavy brain work is to change a along Formosa Avenue when I ran good title like 'Grim Holiday to into her. I took her to lunch. She told me she had just finished up Passion's Price."
"He does everything left-handed, at one of these studios along Pov- He
forget which one." wants a story, say, for erty Row. I Olga Johnson, or Atwood. No sug-He smiled. "Mona's a great little gestions; just write something, kid, isn't she? And she's certainly And when you write it he says, keen about Anne Winter." 'Don't make me read it; tell it to me."
....
Dan said, "Arine Winter's getting ja screen test."
"Yeah? That's 'break, all right, Where's all this?"
Dan swore explosively. "And you try to tell it to him--and be fore you're fairly started he stops you and says it won't do; it's not
"Grand United," Dan told him, the type of story for Johnson at and Collier said he certainly hoped all. And you say, 'But this is not she landed something. "Td like" er Johnson; it's for Atwood, and to write a piece about her in my Adamson leans back in that big column; it's been a long time since chair of his and looks out the win-I've run into a good old-fashioned dow and says, "Well, write it over human interest story about an ex- for Johnson, or for Esther Crane. tra girl coming through. How did We've got a story for Atwood."
it happen?"
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Rorimer stopped, and he took the
Dan related what Anne had told glass that Collier offered him and hat evening, and when he had fin- drank from it. He was not ex-ished Paul Collier said, "Harvey gerating one bit, he insisted. Rell and Hurley, eh? Hurley's a That's straight. That's just the great scout. So's Bell, for that kind of stuff Adamson pulls. To matter; only, Harvey's a day I blew up. The other day they hardboiled. He has to be, or he handed me a Saturday Evening-ouldn't be a casting director. How Post story that they'd bought theid Anne happen to get under his rights to, and wanted me to adapt kin? It isn't done often." it. Adamson was in a great big
"He called her up," Rorimer.
hurry......He's always in a hur-aid. "They liked her in that pic- ry... ..And after sweating over ure she was in. I understand that it and getting the script in shape: Sloan the Great had a few nice I learn to-day that he has passed words for her."
the same story out to two other
men on the staff.
"Oh!... Well, here's luck to er-and lots of It."
"Same here," Rorimer. sald uietly, and Paul smiled. "You ke Anne pretty well, don't you?" "Yep." Dan said shortly, and he moved over to the radio and si- enced it.
"Can you imagine the big stuff? Just imagine! Instead of letting a couple of us collaborate on it and get the benefit of each other's ideas, he passes it around as if it was a contest or something! That's his idea of economy. They can't
Paul, grinning broadly, said, buy me a new typewriter to replace You've no idea how eloquent that the old coffee mill I have to work unded. Well, I don't blame you; on, but they can waste the time of he's a swell girl. Remember," he three men making fairly important aid, "how crazy you were about money, in duplicated effort. I'd ooking her up when you got that like nothing better than to have letter from Ziggy Young? What
would you do if Ziggy ever told her bout that telegram you sent him? You know; the one hoping he'd get murdered in a speakeasy"
"You would bring that up!" Rorimer said. "I'm going to bed."
"Wait a minute. I almost for- rot. You mentioned Garry Sloan a minute ago, and I meant to tell you."
(To be Continued.)
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