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MUTT AND JEFF

THE FACT THAT WE BELONG TO THE U.S. NAVY SHOULD NOT BLIND US TO THE FACT THAT JAPANHAS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF HAVIES IN THE WORLD!

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

David Takes A Swim

The popularity of the average movie. For, two: months' he had thought and star lasts six years, Rocording to au planned and schemed and conferred thentic statistics. David Neff was

as go with his publicity staff. At the end ing into his eleventh year as the idol of that time, he was faced with an ap- of millions. He was regarded in and palling fact. All that could happen to about the studios. of Hollywood as David Neff to keep him, in the public something of a phenomenon.

eye had happened. He had been a hero so long there was nothing new left to say about him. His supply of gags was exhausted, and this being the case his popularity was also exhausted.

But to-day, sitting in an orange wicker chair beneath an orange and black umbrella at the edge of his pri- vate white-tiled swimming pool, David, brooded upon his status quo in the David sighed and threw his hearts of the movie-going public and smoked cigarette into the swimming like was unhappy and afraid.

pool. It. hissed and went out,

half

the

You never would have guessed this David was going out. He stood up and to look into David's handsome eyes, for thrust his hands into his pocket. Then David. first and always, was an actor, an amusing thought struck him. This One of his earliest accomplishments pool, his own private pool, was had been the ability to control his ex- largest of all the private pools in Hollywood. It was unique in that no pression so that none could guess his

one had ever swam in it, David hat- true feelings.

ed-swimming. He couldn't swim. But David knew that the popularity of a the pool was necessary to his back- movie hero, one, that is, who depends ground as a star. It had helped him upon his good looks and charming immeasurably, for fan magazine writ- manner and husky voice and romantic. ers had told how David visited the pool eyes, is measured in direct proportion every morning before breakfast. He to the amount of publicity that can be gave it a long, piercing look, and went

back to the house. released concerning his activities.

When David first got into pictures. A nice story. Good publicity. Every- he had no worries, for he was young one was amused. The pool became a

By Karl Grayson

with the eagerness and freshness of legend. And now David thought: "I'll youth about him, and the public was

After all these years satisfied with just David. Then when take a swim.

own make!"

his popularity as a winsome young I'll be the first to swim in my actor was threatened, he married pool. What a story it would glamorous Julia Teaman, and

the

public continued to spend their nickles He thought of his career.. It was his and dimes to see the man who had life. Without it, without being ... the won glamorous Julia.

idol of millions, he would slowly dry

After awhile the public got used to and blow away. He couldn't stand it David being married to glamorous Ju- to become a has-been, And that's lia, so he divorced her and married

Fran Redlich, and the masses spent what he was headed for. He had been their nickles and dimes to see the man in the racket too long for a glamour who could cast aside so lightly one boy. glamour girl and marry another.

During the next three years, David divorced and married twice more, and the public was satisfied. Four mar- riages, however, is about the limit a public will be interested in to the ex- tent of buying theatre tickets.

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So presently David smiled a crooked edge of the smile and stepped to the pool and dived.

David's butler saw the body of his master lying at the bottom of the pool and stood, hořskáéd, just as David had David knew this, so he warned his planned. The polke came both doctors publicity man not to make a noise came and reporters came. Best of all, about his last and final divorce. In-" reporters. stead, he established an actor's reliefAR REU organisation, donating huge sums of o. That evening and the next day and money, and his publicity staff made a the next the papers ran the best story big hullabaloo about it, and the public they'd had in weeks. And the public fought to see the man who was so hu- man and kind and understanding

When the racket about the relief or ganisation died down, David arranged to have himself sent a great many threatening letters, and was attacked and beaten. The papers were full of this, and the public bought tickets to Bet on the screen the man who was so important that others would send him: threatening letters.

During «dopted a ch

and figured sin

four years

red a radio denoune

sighed. The public sighed because they couldn't pay their nickles and dimento::see, on the screen the man

who was getting so much publicity again.

(Released by The Associated News- papers.)

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