The Bozeman courier., October 01, 1926, Page PAGE FIFTEEN, Image 15

About The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954

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cessantly in dull little pools. Here,
was the morgue, with its pale
barred windows, and here were rows
one was ever seen entering or leav
[ jng. Back farther from the water
of sinister, dull red houses that no
were railroad yards and stockyards
P.land the spot (mark it now with an
X) where Grace Axelrod lived—
Gracie who backed into local pub
licity a short year since as''our movie
This is the story of her
screen career, and of a picture the
memory of which, alas, will never be
shown again in this world.
Grade's neighbors were fat Italians and
cheerless Pole» and Swedes, who con
ducted themselves as though they were
conversant with the Nordic theory. Her
| father may or may not have been a Swede.
I He did not speak the language certainly,
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and his deplorable personal appearance
(cannot with Justice be ascribed to any na
Uonality. He was the sole owner of a
tumble-down shanty where fried chicken of
(dubious antecedents might be washed down
by cold beer, any time between ten o'clock
at night and eight o'clock in the morn
| ing. (Trade fried the chicken with such
| brown art that complaints were unknown,
( berg was covered with sooty snow, and
mere zero weather was considered a relief
from the true cold ; citizens were glad
to get home at night and there was little
inducement to linger late around the
streets. But dances were given in the best
hotel and even Grade had heard tales
about the gaiety of the dwellers on the
( upper river bank. She had seen them,
For seven months a year New Heidel
too, arrive iu dosed automobiles and come
shouting into the shanty at small hours,
( behaving as if it were a daring thing
to do.
Grade was pretty, bnt too full blown for
a girl of twenty. Her flaxen hair was a
( glorious smooth color, and would have
j been beautiful H she had not snarled It
j and brushed It out over her er ra until
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the shape of her bead wag entirely dis
torted. Her skin was radiantly pale, her
large blue eyes were faintly Inclined
to bulge. Her teeth were small and white.
There was a warm, moist look about her,
as if she had materialized out of hot milk
vapor—and perhaps she had, for no one bad
ever seen or heard of her mother. Her
whole appearance was as voluptuous as
that of a burlesque show prima donna—
that was the way Grade felt about It,
anyhow, and if Mr. Zelgfeld (of whom she
had never heard) had wired her to join
his show, she would have been only faintly
surprised. She quietly expected great
things to happen to her, and no doubt
that's one of the reasons why they did.
Now on Grade's side of the river Christ
mas eve was celebrated with no more
display than the Dante centennial. But
on the high bank where the snow lay
along the fashionable
Just been unwound from a monster bolt
of cotton batting, every model home set
out a
It was
her father always walked a few blocks in
the ley cold. They compared each tree
avenue as if it had
tree adorned with electric bulbs,
a gorgeous sight, and Gracie and
to the last one, and were scornful aad
superior toward the trees that had no
stars on top.
Tonight was the fifth time that Grade
could remember having taken this walk,
and as she bustled about after the excur
sion and filled the shack with greasy,
pleasant smelling smoke, »he discussed it
thoroughly with her vague parent.
Honest," she complained, "if people
ain't going to have better trees than them,
I don't see why they want to get out on
a cold night like this for.. There was
only one place that didn't look like some
body was dead in it.
The place to which she referred was a
great white house adorned with stone
animal heads and Greek friezes which to
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night had suspended proudly from it»
arched portecochere a huge electric sign
which wished the passerby a merry Christ
mas. \
"Who lives there, daddy?" »he asked
abruptly.
"B'longs to the feller that owns the
Blue Ribbon," elucidated Mr. Axelrod. "I
guess he must be worth a good lot of
money."
"Who says so?" demanded Grade.
"O, some people told me," her father
answered vaguely. He was propped up
back of the stove, his bat shading his
eyes as be read the evening ink sheet.
Just at the moment the paper was open
over bis knees at a full page advertise
ment: the Blue Ribbon department store
wished every one a happy New Year,
and hoped they would attend the sale of
white goods immediately after the holi
days.
Mr. Axelrod read the composition to his
daughter. He always read her everything
in the big type. They liked to hear each
other's voices, and as Grade was too busy
with chicken and her father with the read
ing to pay much attention to the content, it
was a successful arrangement. To Mr.
Axelrod reading in itself was enough and
he would have enjoyed a Chinese news
paper Just as much had the hieroglyphics
aroused a» familiar and soothing a sensa
tion.
"He's a swell looking fella, too," Grade
remarked after a moment. "Every time 1
go in there I see him walking np and
down the store. B'lleve me, I'd Just as
soon marry a man like that. Then yon
could just walk in the store and say gimme
this br gimme that and you wouldn't have
to pay nothing for 'em."
This was worth thinking about ap
parently, for Mr. Axelrod discontinued
his reading, and looked Grade over ap
praisingly.
In the long In terval between the comple
tion of the evening's preparation and the
appearance of the first customer they spec
ulated upon the advantages of being mar
ried to a man who owned a store like
the Blue Ribbon. No wonder Grade wa»
as surprised and disconcerted as if she
had been caught breaking his huge plate
when Mr. Bine Ribbon himself had walked
into the shack, demanding, in a loud and
supercilious voice, chicken that wa» all
white meat.
I say that this respectable gentleman
walked in, bnt perhaps this is an under
statement, for what he literally did was to
reel in. And Grade recognized the man
she had »een walking np and down the
Blue Ribbon's gorgeons aisles.
He was an officious little man, fat ia
spot» and not unlike one of those bottom
heavy dolls which refuse to lie down. To
night the illusion was increased, for he
swayed faintly with no partiality as to
direction, as though if some one removed
the weights from his great round abdo
men he would keel permanently over and
never again stand on his own initiative.
There was a small cranium, a large Jaw,
and two »uperhuman ears—a comic val
entine of a man with a pig's head. Bnt
he was affable, and tonight he was ob
sessed with the idea of himself not as
a comic valentine bnt as a person of
importance.
He announced that be was celebrating,
and asked at large if it were possible that
Grade and her father did not know him.
"1 should say," answered Gracie re
assuringly, "why, you own the Bine Rib
bon. I always notice you aronnd every
time I go in there."
If Grade had made this speech in full
possession of the facts in the case, it would
hav* indicated an extraordinary subtlety
and tact. For Hr. hi hart Pomeroy
own the city's biggest end best depart
ment store. Bnt from eight in the morn
ing until six at night he owned the
departments of which be was in charge
—notion», perfumes, hosiery, gloves, um
brellas, dress goods, and men's wear. Grade
had flattered not only him but his position
in life. He beamed. For a moment be
stopped bobbing aronnd and focused un
blinking eyes on Grade.
"Not exactly,
his teetering,
ran it. H
and 1 got the brains." Mr.
he managed, resuming
I don't exactly own it.
lue Ribbon's got the money
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rose to a sort of confidential about and
Oracle was Impressed In spite of her dls
I appointment.
"Jon, any relation to him?
curiously.
"Not exactly relation," explained Mr.
Pomeroy, "but close-—very, very close."
Implied that they were la all but com
Pifte Physical Juxtaposition.
Can yon ;ust go and say, "This looks
pretty good to me. 1 guess I'll take it.'
and ,.] ralk right out of the store with
anything you want?
She was now engrossed by the man him
«elf- Her father was also listening Intently.
Not exactly," admitted Mr. Pomeroy, "I
can t exactly take things, but I can get 'em
for about twenty or twenty-five dollars
less than the people who don't have the
Influence and don't work there.
"O, I see," Gracie enthusiastically hand
ed a platter of chicken to her Important
customer, "I suppose that's why them
girls work in there. I'd like to try It
for a while myself. I'd get what I wanted
cheap and then quit."
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Mr. Pomeroy's head waggled and his
cheeks blew out, and he busied himself
with his food.
"O, no, yon wouldn't," he managed to
say. "You wouldn't quit. You Just say
you'd quit." He waved a greasy drumstick
in Grade's face.
"How do you know I wouldn't quit, I'd
Uke to know?" cried Grade Indignantly.
"If 1 say I'm gonna quit, I'm gonna
quit. I guess I can quit if want to quit."
She became animated by the thought
quitting. She wanted passionately to quit,
and doubtless would have done so immed
iately had there been anything to quit,
Mr. Pomeroy, on his part, was incredulous
toward the idea. It was inconceivable
and beyond reason to him that Grade
should quit.
"You Just come down and see," he In
sisted. "Come down tomarow and I'll give
you a Job. Just between you and me—
our candidate's gonna win the grand pop
of
ularity contest. Mr. Blue Ribbon says
to me 'Albert, old man, you pick out
the girl and I'll make her the grand pub
licity queen'."
Now one of the news items which Grade's
father had habitually read aloud of late
bore always the headline, "Our City's
Queen." The reading matter which follow
ed explained bow the Blue Ribbon, our
largest department »tore, together with
the New Heidelberg Tribune, our city's
foremost paper, and the Tick-tock Jew
elry emporium and a dozen other business
establishments were going to
lucky women the opportunity
every girl has always- longed. She would
be selected from the whole city of New
Heidelberg, would "lead" all the affairs
which centered around the winter carni
val and, last and best of all, would win
a chance to distinquish herself in the
movies.
f ive some
or which
Who's your girl and how do you know
she's- gonna win?" Gracie demanded.
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"Well, the folks from all the stores that's
in on the thing each choose their own
girl. Mr. Blue Ribbon be says to me, 'Al
bert, the Jane that represents this »tore
wins the whole contest.' Everybody can't
win. can they?"
Mr. Pomeroy was growing eloquent. He
would probably have talked about himself
through the waning night, but Grade's in
terest was aroused In another direction.
Aw, can it!" she interrupted, "I bet I'd
quit, anyhow, whether you or Mr. Blue
Ribbon wanted me to or not. I'd Just
quit and show you I'd quit."
Mr. Pomeroy had finished his chicken,
and an automobile horn was blowing fur
iously outside the shanty demanding Gra
de's attention, so be spoke one parting
line.
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"Yen come In tomorrow and see. Miss—
Miss Quit." he remarked oracularly, and
reeled out into the cold Just as be had
reeled in—with all the motion above the
knees.
And that was how' it happened that on
Christmas night Grade retired early and
left Mr. Axelrod to shift for himself. She
slept as determinedly as she usually fried
chicken and for about the same length
of time. She was drinking coffee when
she beard the first trolley pass a block
below her hr use, and putting on a coat
of some indeterminate for that in damp
weather smelt like a live animal she minced
over the ice and crusted snow to the trolley
stop. The street she came along was
steeply down hill, and if she bad been an
exuberant person she might have taken a
little skip and slid all the way. But she
didn't—she always walked sideways to
keep from falling.
The car was tilled with steamy heat
and melted snow, and workingmen putting
their ways to far parts of the city. Grade
reached the Blue Ribbon at the opening
hour, and after wandering among a*des
and elevators located Mr. Albert Pomeroy.
He was more pompous and less verbose
than when she had seen him before—but
he remembered her perfectly and for the
best part of an hour he initiated her,
with severe finger shakings, Into the art
of being a saleslady.
Before Grade had time to consider the
question of quitting a momentous occa
sion arose that drove the thought out of
her bead. She bad been a participant
in the activities of the store for less than
a week when a general massmeeting of
all the employes was held in the restroom
after hours. Mr. Pomeroy, standing on
a bench, acted as general chairman.
"We are gathered here," he announced
from his rostrum, "for the purpose of
discussing the subject of selecting the
Blue Ribbon's representative in the pop
ularity contest now being held under the
auspices of Mr. Blue Ribbon, one of the
town's leading business men, and several
other of the town's leading business men."
He paused here, and took a long breath
as one slightly dizzy.
"We must choose our queen—with hon
esty," ho went on, and then added sur
prisingly, "which is always the best pol
icy. Everybody ••nows that we have here
in this store the most beautiful ladies that
can be found in this store, and we must
choose the best one among them all to
represent us. You have until this time
tomorrow to decide who you will vote for.
1 want to thank you on behalf of my
self and Mr. Ribbon for your attention
.and-" He had prepared a strong fin
ish for his speech, but it was considerably
marred by the fact that Just at this mom
jent a stray thought of the haberdashery
department flashed into bis mind.
"In clothing, I wish to say-' He paus
ed. "In clothing, I wish-" Then he gave
up and ended somewhat tamely with,
"And that's the way it is."
As Gracie went out through the employes
entrance behind the tittering file of fe
males she saw Mr. Pomeroy on the corner
under the white arc light. She walked
quickly over, and spoke to him.
"Honest," she said, "that was a great
speech you made. I don't see how some
people can all of a sodden just make
up a speech."
She smiled and disappeared into the win
ter lights and the furry crowds and hur
ried toward her atreet car. Unwittingly
she had made up a good speech herself.
Mr. Pomeroy, though impervious both to
ridicule and insult, was a sensitive man
to compliments.
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The next afternoon in the Blue Ribbon
restroom, Oracle was somehow being her
alded as a leading candidate for the honor
of representing the store. She was sur
prised —and in the same breath she was
not surprised. She never doubted that
she would win, although she was a new
comer and there were five girls compet
ing against her. Two of the five were
prettier than Grade, and the other three
were not even pretty at all. But the ballot
found a spirit of irritable perversity
in possession. The pretty women were
Jealous of each other and voted for the
ugly ones. The ugly ones were Jealous
of the pretty ones and voted for the new
comer, Grade—and ugly ones were in the
majority. No one was envious of Grade,
for no one knew her. And no one believed
that she could possibly win the contest—
but »he did.
(Copyright 1926: by P. Scott Fitzgerald)
(To be concluded In next issue)
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