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operating table getting rid of a baby. Now she wanted to go to a party and
spree on bathtub hootch. In her twenty-five years, she had put out for at
least a thousand men. If it were possible to sleep her way to stardom, she
would manage it. Only she wouldn't.
She pouted, nickel-size red dots on her china doll cheeks. Her full lower
lip was out. Semnacher looked about the lobby of the St Francis. Mr
Arbuckle was expected, he'd been told, but had not yet arrived. He was
overdue. The agent suspected the Labor Day party was off. Virgie, who'd
painted herself to impress the big shots, was going to be disappointed.
She'd celebrate by going out and giving somebody gonorrhea. Probably get
knocked up and be back at the Wakefield Sanatorium. She was getting to be
a regular client of the best known - if not the best, to judge by the look
of Virgie - abortionist in San Francisco.
'Let's skedaddle to a speak,' she said. 'This is the dregs.'
She turned to stomp off, just in time to collide with a bellhop's cart.
Semnacher heard his client go 'oof' as a brass-cornered trunk sunk into
her abdomen. He didn't reach her in time to keep her on her feet. Blood
spotted her dress over the crotch. She clamped her teeth in pain. The hop
goggled, trying to apologise. There was no need, it wasn't his fault.
Semnacher told the kid to go get a doctor.
A week later, Virginia Rappщ was dead. Dr Melville Rumwell, her attending
physician, listed cause of death as complications from a ruptured bladder,
notably peritonitis. He omitted to report the true cause was most likely a
botched abortion which he had himself performed.

Garbo is The Temptress (1926).

In a minor panic over the smoke-trails of scandal that escaped after the
mysterious, and little-reported, death of director William Desmond
Taylor in 1922, Zukor again entreated Pettijohn to approach his old
friend. Will H. Hays had other concerns and definitively refused the
renewed offer. Besieged by the successive breaking waves of the Teapot
Dome Affair, President Harding was asked if he could point to anyone in
his cabinet whose reputation was spotless. Wearily, he singled out his
Postmaster. Hays was not as pure as the press believed; he had accepted
a $75,000 'gift' and a $185,000 'loan' from oilman Harry Sinclair, the
architect of Teapot Dome, as a reward for chairing the Republican
National Committee that had secured the nomination for Harding.
Nevertheless Hays emerged as the 'clean man' of the Administration; he
can be credited with persuading Harding to serve out his term quietly,
and regulating his colleagues by serving as Hatchet Man in the
Anti-Trust Drive of '23. In 1924, Hays became Vice-President, serving
under the almost silent Calvin Coolidge for four years; in his every
spare moment, he conspired to put himself in the White House. He barely
had time to go to the movies, much less consider going to Hollywood to
take up a dead-end sinecure.
Catriona Kaye, Libido in America: A Social History of Hollywood (1953)

Garbo in Love (1927).