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\u201cPossibly one thing.\u201d \u201cOne thing. One person, do you mean?\u201d She shrugged once more, deliberate, then bit into the grape, a burst of cool sweetness. \u201cI see. But is this person more important than Cecil B. DeMille?\u201d Rita looked up sharply, and Charles smiled. \u201cYes, him. Director General of the Lasky Feature Play Company.<\/p>\n

You might recall he was once one of my actors. Right now he\u2019s in California preparing to make a motion picture I think uniquely suited to your talents, a four-reel feature to be called The Unafraid. I\u2019ve already mentioned your name for the lead. A brave young heiress who unwittingly falls in love with two noble brothers, one good, one evil.\u201d He leaned forward, dropping his voice back into that dramatic whisper.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho will prevail?\u201d Who, indeed. JUST OVER A year ago, Rita had found herself one of the most popular leading ladies on Broadway, drowning in accolades and fawning fans, and she was cold and alone and exhausted. Frohman\u2019s Kismet had propelled her to a level of fame she had never imagined. She played Marsinah, a beggar\u2019s daughter in a fantastical Far Eastern realm, a girl swathed in diaphanous scarves and sequins, in love with a prince in disguise.<\/p>\n

It was a typical story, yes, certainly one that had been told before in more ways than could be tallied, but the dialogue was crisp and modern and the actors dedicated. It ran at the Knickerbocker Theater forever and a day, it seemed\u2014although in truth, it was six months \u2014with every show sold out, even the matinees. Her dressing room brimmed with flowers; love notes from men she\u2019d never met sat in stacks on her cosmetics table; love notes from women she\u2019d never met sat alongside them.<\/p>\n

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