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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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