Last Days
Could she feel the walls closing in? Beth fled to San Diego on December 8th, 1946. Dorothy French, who found her asleep when she was closing her theater for the night. The girl took Beth to her home in Pacific Beach, where she lived with her mother. She stayed on, irritating Dorothy's mother by not looking for work and sleeping late. One night people pounded on the door. The family didn't answer at Beth's behest. A few days later, on January 9th, she beat it back to Los Angeles, getting a ride from a traveling salesman, Robert "Red" Manley, she'd been seeing in San Diego. She met him when he spoke to her from his car while she was standing on a street corner. He dropped her off at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown at seven pm. She claimed she was meeting her sister there and they would go up to Berkeley together. Beth hung around the bar for hours. Agitated, she made a number of phone calls. She left on foot, around 10pm, observed by the doorman, walking down Olive, and into Los Angeles history.
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