Talk:The Girl from Hollywood (Munsey's Magazine 1922)/Chapter 8
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(Chapters I to VII, published in Munsey's, June 1922.)
In the foothills of southern California mountains are the Rancho del Ganado, owned by Colonel Pennington, a Virginian of wealth and good family, and a smaller ranch on which Mrs. Evans, a widow, lives with her daughter Grace and her son Guy. Custer Pennington, the colonel's son, is engaged to Grace Evans, but the girl feels that she has dramatic talent, and before settling down to married life in the country she is determined to make a bid for fame as a motion picture actress.
There is also a boy and girl engagement between Eva Pennington, Custer's sister, and Guy Evans. In his eagerness to get money that will enable him to marry, young Evans has become involved in the schemes of Slick Allen, a discharged hand of the Ganado ranch, who is selling whisky stolen from a government warehouse.
Another neighbor of the Penningtons is Mrs. Burke, whose daughter, known professionally as Gaza de Lure, is in Los Angeles, playing small parts in film dramas. A clever and beautiful girl, Gaza attracts the attention of Wilson Crumb, an actor-director of some prominence, who treacherously tricks her into the morphine habit.