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The Flapper [* = reconstructed title]
1* Imagine a town where they didn't even have a saloon to close - - and there you have
ORANGE SPRINGS
2* A church social was a sporting event. Girls who hobnobbed at the
soda fountain were talked about.
3* Now you can sympathize with a certain girl living there.
Genevieve King -
Miss Olive Thomas
4* You would hardly
call the little
Kings roughnecks.
5*
BILL E. FORBES
About to enter the world of romance and a northern military
academy
6 Genevieve's father, Senator King - a very stern man in the eyes of his oppressed
children.
7 The housekeeper, Miss Elmira Buttons,
an old school disciplinarian.
8 "Miss Paddles'
school would be just the place for her."
9 Now you can appreciate the amazing changes when Genevieve found herself a few weeks later, at a boarding school near
New York.
10 Limbs of Satan from
old family trees.
11
The
ONCE OVER.
12 Hortense, a moth among the butterlies, taken into the school by the charitable principal.
13 Across the way -- a school for budding Pershings.
14 When it came to tooting his own horn, Bill E. Forbes made Sousa's band sound like a sick canary.
15 "Then the sailors
got fresh and I mopped up the ground with 'em."
16 HERO
WORSHIP.
17 "The cops kept
me from knocking 'em all cold."
18 "Gee! I bet he
could'a licked the cops!"
19 "I betcha!"
20 Boarding school studies are so
dull --
21 But one study they all enjoyed -- the natural history of the
human male.
22 Their favorite specimen passed the school daily -- a mysterious and romantic figure --
Richard Channing
23 They just knew he was
notorious, or very gay, or
perhaps an English lord - this made it so romantic.
24 "He looks
delightfully wild and dangerous!"
25 "Perhaps he's a
professional gambler!"
26 "Or an actor!"
27 "He might
even be a wife-beater!"
28 "The idea! My
heart tells me he hasn't any wife to beat --- yet!"
29 "To meet Bill E. Forbes again thus! -- Oh joy! -- Oh bliss! -- Oh romance!"
30 "Girls, isn't that
Forbes man a wonderful athlete?"
31 "He's wounded!"
32 "Call the ambulance.
I've busted a couple o' my legs."
33 "Oh Bill, is there
anything I can do for you?"
34 "You might hold
my head."
35 "Aw gee! He
ain't no hero!"
36 "Ski? -- huh! I'll
teach you to ski -"
37 [animated title] WHEE
38 "-- I wrote these
winter sports!"
39 "You don't happen
to know our Mystery Man, do you?"
40 "Don't you think
he looks like a Greek god?"
41 "He looks like
a fried egg to me."
42 "He rides like
an old woman."
43 "I suppose you
are an expert!"
44 "Sure! Ever since
I was six years old I've been an EXPERT!"
45 "Wouldn't it be
great to play hookey and go riding some day?"
46 "Yeh - wouldn't it
---- how about tomorrow?"
47 "You seem to
be having a busy day."
48 The call-down was worth
it - for the girls now called her Ginger.
49 "Get him! Just
watchin' the atmosphere float by and sayin' nothin'."
50 "Yesterday he
brushed his teeth ---- three times!"
51 "-- and washed
behind his ears!"
52 "Sumpin' terrible's
wrong with him."
53 "Isn't this
romantic!"
54 It wasn't a darn bit romantic to BIll E. Forbes. He never had handled a horse before.
55 "Did you notice a
gentleman driving away in a sleigh?"
56 "No, but I
saw a kid chasing one."
57 "At present I am
a guest at Miss Paddles' school."
58 "I pass there
every day - nice lot of youngsters."
59 "We're nothing of
the kind. They
force us to act like
silly youngsters,
but --"
60 "- can you imagine
a woman of my age having to wear a Peter Thompson?"
61 "How old are you?"
62 "Oh - h - h,
about twenty."
63 "We're giving a dance
at the Country Club tonight. Can you go?"
64 "Yes -- I'll go."
65 "What time
shall I call?"
66 "Don't call. I'll
meet you there - at ten."
67 "You wouldn't dare -"
68 "A woman dares
anything for the man she loves."
69 "To think she's
leading a double life! Isn't it wonderful!"
70 Poor Bill E. Forbes had the cornet blues.
71 "Goodness gracious!
Another of my lovers!"
72 HEART TROUBLE!
73 "Poor Richard!
How he loves
me!"
74
Ten o'clock
Ginger's chauffeur sometimes delivered groceries to the
school in this limousine.
75 "You ought to
be arrested - luring a sixteen- year-old girl out at night!"
76 "My fan!"
77 "That's what you
get for being
nice to a kid of
that sap-headed,
pin-feathered
age."
78 So Ginger decides to end it all and teach him a terrible
lesson.
79
"Everything stealable is stolen."
80 "We must keep
it quiet or the school will be disgraced."
81 "I will settle
all the losses."
82 If life offered so many adventures, why die?
83 In a New York
hotel. ----
To fugitives, every stranger looks like a bloodhound.
84 "I saw that Channing
guy in the lobby. He might know of the school job."
85 "You're right. That
King kid, Ginger, will be going home on her vacation tomorrow. We'll make her the goat."
86 Alone in the wicked city.
87 Ginger had read of a girl meeting a prince by doing this.
88 "Hello, Peaches-and-
Cream, whither bound?"
89 HOMEWARD
BOUND.
90
THE
MYSTERIOUS APPOINTMENT.
91 "We were eloping.
We only stole the stuff for an adventure."
92 "Sure, didn't Old
Girl Paddles tell you the stuff had been returned?"
93 "Mr. Channing
is stopping here too."
94 "Why not dine
with us and stay overnight?"
95 Back home at Orange Springs Bill E. Forbes made up his
mind to stand in with
the family.
96 Ginger's first experience in "stepping
out."
97 "How disappointing!
I thought New York cafes were filled with wild women and those terrible Wall Street gamblers."
98 Oh sweet revenge --
to be seen by Channing in this gay night life.
99 "Does Miss Paddles
know you're out?"
100 "You talk as if
I were still at that 'sap-headed, pin-feathered' age."
101 "Do you live
in New York?"
102 "Orange Springs!
Why, a crowd of us leave tomorrow to join a yachting party there. Better take the same train."
103 "I'm afraid
that wild kid is getting into trouble."
104 "He treats me
like a child."
105 "Of course. That
kind of man likes only women of experience."
106 "Well, I'm getting
it as fast as I
can."
107
Can you imagine!
It was ten o'clock before she even
went to bed.
108 "We're leaving
and we want you to take care of these."
109 "Take them to
Orange Springs - and hide them."
110 "We'll come and
get them as soon as we can."
111 "And if you
squeal -"
112
Great gobs
of adventure.
113 A complete outfit for a "woman of experience" ---- she might borrow it and vamp Channing.
114 Hortense's love letters, an education in themselves, suggested a new idea - she would go home
with a manufactured
"past."
115 "You are to mail
one every day."
116 Orange Springs wasn't expecting
THIS
117 "William -- I'm not
the inncoent little
girl you used to
know."
118 "It is better
that you never see me again."
119 "Well, Buttons
deah! Here I
am."
120 "Howdy, Cushie,
old top! How's everyone in the little old town?"
121 "Ta - ta."
122 "I have a
confession to make -- I'm leading a double life."
123 "- in New York
- in notorious company - 'til all hours in the morning."
124 "Why, it was only
a few days ago -- she was just a little flower."
125 "And her father
out of town! Isn't this terrible!"
126 "Is it too late?"
127 "Too late!"
128 "Tell me
his name."
129 His name! This was a new angle!
130 "No -- I shall
die with the secret locked in my heart."
131 "I shall probably
become a dope fiend, - to forget."
132 Having succeeded beyond her wildest hopes, she decides to get rid of the vampire outfit.
133 Then home came father.
134 "One of these letters
is arriving every day. I am keeping them from her."
135 "You have no
idea who the man is?"
136 "I will kill
every suspect!"
137 "You knew your
old Daddy would forgive you."
138 "But it's all a
joke, Daddy -"
139 "Aren't things
bad enough without lying?"
140 You misjudge Bill. He isn't running away. He is beating the Senator to a suspect.
141 "You big stiff,
you'll have to answer to me for your crime!"
142 "Don't lie! Who
was in on this with you?"
143 "This is the
handwriting of Tom Morran, alias The Eel."
144 "Sorry, Senator,
we'll have to hold her until she tells where her pals are hiding."
145 HER "PALS."
146 "Safe? We couldn't
be safer in the middle of the Sahara Desert."
147 [animated title] They walked right in, and turned around, and --
148 "You didn't
fool me."
149 [mock newsreel title] ORANGE SPRINGS -
Social welfare workers horrified over soft drink dissipation at Miami Beach Club * * *
SELZNICK
NEWS
150 "Have a couple
more."
Finis
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