“We’ve only three more minutes here. It’s time now to get the passengers back into the plane.”
Jane led the way outside. Over in front of the commissary Sue, Alice and Grace were watching the proceedings enviously.
“My roommates are all anxious to meet you,” Jane said, “and they’ll be glad to give you any assistance possible.”
“I’m going to need it,” smiled the film star.
The girls were almost overwhelmed when Jane brought Miss Barrett to meet them, but they found her so natural and interested in their work that they were soon conversing with her freely.
The last Jane saw of them as the Coast to Coast roared away, they were taking Miss Barrett into the stewardess headquarters.
When Jane returned on Wednesday, the film company was in the midst of active shooting. Two of the big tri-motored transports had been chartered for use and were landing and taking off for special shots of the field while camera crews on the ground photographed them.
At dinner that night, the girls told Jane how they had been drafted as extras for a crowd scene in the hangar.
“It was thrilling,” said Alice. “Just think, actually in the movies.”
“We even got paid just for standing around. I’d almost have been willing to pay them,” put in Grace.