Edgar Rice Burroughs

Name: The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922) — Chapter 5
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

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“The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922) — Chapter 5”, published in 1922, is a work by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It explores elements such as Gaza de Lure, Crumb and Vista del.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ Two years ago she came to Hollywood from a little town in the Middle West—that is, two years before you looked in upon her at the bungalow on the Vista del Paso. She was fired by high purpose then. Her child’s heart, burning with lofty ambition, had set its desire upon a noble goal. The broken bodies of a thousand other children dotted the road to the same goal, but she did not see them, or seeing, did not understand.
Stronger, perhaps, than her desire for fame was an unselfish ambition that centered about the mother whom she had left behind. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ Here at last, she thought, she had found a real gentleman whom she could trust implicitly; and once again her ambition lifted its drooping head.
She thought of what another girl had once told her—an older girl, who had been in pictures for several years.
“They are not all bad, dear,” her friend had said. “There are good and bad in the picture game, just as there are in any sort of business. It’s been your rotten luck to run up against a lot of the bad ones.”
The first picture finished, Crumb had cast her for a more important part in another, and she had made good in both. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ Opening it, he revealed a white powder, the minute crystals of which glistened beneath the light from the electric bulbs.
“It looks just like snow,” she said.
“Sure!” he replied, with a faint smile. “It is snow. Look, I’ll show you how to take it.”
He divided the powder into halves, took one in the palm of his hand, and snuffed it into his nostrils.
“There!” he exclaimed. “That’s the way—it will make you feel like a new woman.”
“But what is it?” she asked. “Won’t it hurt me?”
“It’ll make you feel bully. Try it.” ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ The Japanese schoolboy, who knows you, closes the door behind you and then tiptoes silently from the room.
Across from you, on a divan, a woman is lying, her face buried among pillows. When you cough, she raises her face toward you, and you see that it is very beautiful, even though the eyes are a bit wide and staring and the expression somewhat haggard. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ His partners could command a more or less steady supply of morphine, and cocaine from Mexico, while Allen undertook to keep up their stock of opium, and to arrange a market for their drugs in Los Angeles.
If Crumb could handle it all, Allen agreed to furnish morphine at fifty dollars an ounce—Gaza to do the actual peddling. The girl agreed on one condition—that half the profits should be hers. After that she had been able to send home more money than ever before, and at the same time to have all the morphine she wanted at a low price. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ From one, a woman, she learned how to use morphine, dissolving the white powder in the bowl of a spoon by passing a lighted match beneath, and then drawing the liquid through a tiny piece of cotton into a hypodermic syringe and injecting it beneath the skin. Once she had experienced the sensation of well-being it induced, she fell an easy victim to this more potent drug.
One evening Crumb brought home with him a stranger whom he had known in San Francisco—a man whom he introduced as Allen. From that evening the fortunes of Gaza de Lure improved. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ The trouble with you is you ain’t enough of a good fellow. You got to be a good fellow to get on in pictures. Just step out with me some night, an’ I promise you you’ll get a job!”
The suddenly widening childish eyes meant nothing to the shallow mind of the callow little shrimp, whose brain pan would doubtless have burst under the pressure of a single noble thought. ”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922… (1922)

“ Her eyes and her mind were on the little white powder that the man held in his hand.
Crumb laughed.
“Quit your kidding,” he said. “You know perfectly well that I can’t marry you yet. I have a wife in San Francisco.” ”

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