Gigolo by Edna Ferber Chapter 4 Page 62

nervousness and deference and admiration. The Young Thing who was to play the ing�nue part said shyly: “Oh, Miss Fuller, may I tell you how happy I am to be playing with you? You’ve been my ideal, etc.”

And now Harrietta Fuller, in black velvet, was the least important person on the lot. No one was rude to her. Everyone was most kind, in fact. Kind! To Harrietta Fuller! She found that her face felt stiff and expressionless after long hours of waiting, waiting, and an elderly woman who was playing a minor part showed her how to overcome this by stretching her face, feature for feature, as a dancer goes through limbering exercises in the wings. The woman had been a trouper in the old days of one-night stands. Just before she stepped in front of the camera you saw her drawing down her face grotesquely,