He knew I was lonesome, and he was kind enough to ask me to go dancing or to the theatre. "Tom and I rather drifted into going around with one another. I suppose I was one of the few people in Hollywood who did not know that Tom and Zasu were having trouble - had been having it for the past five years. It was natural, being lonesome when I first arrived, that I should look up my old friends. When I was a child, Tom and I had played in a picture together. You see, I've known Tom and Zasu for years. "Strangely enough, the true' story of Tom is almost as disillusioning as the real tales about my broker and producer friends. Delighted with this sudden, lucky turn of events, the writers rushed Tom and me into a newspaper engagement we have been denying ever since. IT wasn't until Tom Gallery and I started going places together, however, that they could find a name for one of my mysterious romances. The gossip-writers particularly like 'the elderly, producer admirer' and made quite a rumor of him ! Everyone is always so ready to believe that a fman 'who has long been separated from his wife' (that removed any tinge of scandal) might be contemplating matrimony with someone years younger. I really think this story was a masterpiece. "What a laugh we had over that! My mother was rather angry at first - but in time, particularly with the newspaper advent of my 'elderly admirer, the movie executive,' even she began to see the humor of the thing. The point of the story was a subtly-worded hint that Ramon would probably cut out the broker in my affections. Considering that I didn't know any young brokers, it was interesting to learn that I was deeply in love with this particular one, whom I had known from childhood, it seemed. 'Chiseler,' he snarled, and I read about the YOUNG BROKER in New York for the first time. "One day he marched on the set, pretending great jealousy, and thrust a newspaper under my nose. Ramon and I used to have a grand time kidding about our romance. It was a very nice, neat little story, the implication being that Ramon's interest tipped a little to the personal, as well as the professional. Paper where MADGE EVANS was the FAVORITE leading lady of RAMON NOVARRO.
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