Gender Readings. Top Ten. Ренц Т.Г - 24 стр.

       “Dame,” he said. “Name’s Carol McCall. Say, why haven’t I been
told about her before? That’s what I call a girl. What a looker she is!”
       “Oh, really?” she said. “That’s funny. I never heard of anyone
that thought that. I’ve heard people say she was sort of nice-looking, if
she wouldn’t make up so much. But I never heard of anyone that
thought she was pretty.”
       “Pretty is right,” he said. “What a couple of eyes she’s got on her!”
       “Really?” she said. “I never noticed them particularly. But I
haven’t seen her for a long time — sometimes people change, or
something.”
       “She says she used to go to school with you,” he said.
       “Well, we went to the same school,” she said. “I simply hap-
pened to go to public school because it happened to be right near us,
and Mother hated to have me crossing streets. But she was three or
four classes ahead of me. She’s ages older than I am.”
       “She’s three or four classes ahead of them all,” he said. “Dance!
Can she step! ‘Burn your clothes, baby,’ I kept telling her. I must
have been fried pretty.”
       “I was out dancing myself, last night,” she said. “Wally Dillon
and I. He’s just been pestering me to go out with him. He’s the most
wonderful dancer. Goodness! I didn’t get home until I don’t know
what time. I must look just simply a wreck. Don’t I?”
       “You look all right,” he said.
       “Wally’s crazy,” she said. “The things he says! For some crazy
reason or other, he’s got it into his head that I’ve got beautiful eyes,
and, well, he just kept talking about them till I didn’t know where to
look, I was so embarrassed. I got so red, I thought everybody in the
place would be looking at me. I got just as red as a brick. Beautiful eyes!
Isn’t he crazy?”
       “He’s all right,” he said. “Say, this little McCall girl, she’s had
all kinds of offers to go into moving pictures. ‘Why don’t you go ahead
and go?’ I told her. But she says she doesn’t feel like it.”
       “There was a man up at the lake, two summers ago,” she said.
“He was a director or something with one of the big moving-picture
people — oh, he had all kinds of influence! — and he used to keep
insisting and insisting that I ought to be in the movies. Said I ought to
be doing sort of Garbo parts. I used to just laugh at him. Imagine!”
       “She’s had about a million offers,” he said. “I told her to go
ahead and go. She keeps getting these offers all the time.”

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