Its units, completing their turn with somersaults, again stood in line, bowing and smirking their acknowledgments for imagined applause.
The girl, a moment later, was turning hand-springs.

Merton had never known that actors were so versatile.

It was an astounding profession, he thought, remembering his own registration card that he had filled out at the Holden office.

His age, height, weight, hair, eyes, and his chest and waist measures; these had been specified, and then he had been obliged to write the short "No" after ride, drive, swim, dance--to write "No" after "Ride ?" even in the artistically photographed presence of Buck Benson on horseback! Yet in spite of these disabilities he was now a successful actor at an enormous salary.

Baird was already saying that he would soon have a contract for him to sign at a still larger figure.