TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
THE AMOURS OF THE EXOTIC ADVENTURESS -
Mata Hari
aduated from the moment
* KAREN BROWN
by arangement milk
Chapter II.
the famous Mata Hari perform an; ezulic dance.
Afterwards, Shubin leaves to decode the messages, but Rosanoff asks a chauffeur to point out Mata Hari's car.
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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
Adriana lit her a fresh cigarette. She did not leave through the door behind the screen but through an ante-room in which she opened an- other door that led to the Indies" ] dressing-room. No one was there The following programme will but the maid. Mata Hari nodded be broadcast to-day from the Hong to her, then regarded herself with Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. intense, searching earnestness in ajon a wavelength of 855 metres full-length mirror. She then cross- (845 KC's) :— ed the hall to the bar.
5-8 p.m.-European Programme Rosanoff was sitting at the bar, of Columbia Records, disconsolate, when he
saw her. 5-5.18 p.m.com She was incomparably graceful, In-Siegfried Idyll (Wagner), WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR} The attendant then indicated that just how to place her foot so that 5.18-5.32 p.m.-Hawaiian Music.
comparably practised. She knew
Brun Walter and Symphony Alexander Rosanoff, an aviator the gaming-rooms and the bar lay the plaint golden stuff like a limber The Farmer's Dream,
Orchestra (LX70-80), in the Russian secret service, de- across the hall. livers a packet of confidential papers
As soon as Rosanoff had gone, thigh.
golden skin clung smooth about a Dreamy Nights in Honolulu, to the Russian Embassy in Paris however, the servant transferred his challenge to. the dress to cover her, Kawaihuu,
Her every movement was a
Frank Ferera (9744). and persuades Colonel Shubin, rank me to a card, and, leaving the an unselfconscious reminder of the Honolulu Hawalian Silver String ing Attache, to take him to see deak, chose a door which was partly beautiful unveiled in the dance, the
Quartet (5481). concealed by a wooden screen,
5.92-6.10 p.m.-A Concert. more stirring to the senses in that 'Cello Solo- opened Into u small, bare office. Two people stood there, Mata Hari,
the dress did actually hide it.
Tarantelle (Popper), Adriana, the owner of the place. even noticing him, and it was then leaning against a desk, smoking, and from Rosanoff, apparently without She took a chair two places away
W. H. Squire (12371). Piano Solo-
Etude in C Sharp Minor (Chopin), Adriana was short, gray-haired. that he discovered that he had not Vocal Duet- with frozen gray eyes and a little observed her face.
Harriet Cohen (DI632). gray goatee. The Fran
At the dance
The Sweetest Flower That Blows silently he had been too dazzled and too far placed the card before him and went
(Peterson & Hawley). away. away.
Now, her profile
Marigold (Dowdon & Besly), was to-
Dora Labbette and Hubert ward him. The light melted over Rosanoft," he read. it and into the skin, and he found Violin Salo
Eisdell (DE157). that the longer he watched it the
Bourree in B Minor (Bach), Mata Hari wore a jewel-encrust-it.
more he was powerless not to watchj
Tijuca Saudades Do Brazil
(Milhaud), It was not that the face was ed collar about her neck from which In a lower voice, the driver add- her dress fell away. Sometimes she beautiful face without warmth, ac-
so lovely. You could admire ed, "I can take you, Monsieur. This moved and lazily shrugged the pen knowledge its perfection and forget a
is a taxi."
dent golden width of one sleeve into it. To Rosanoff, who had had only place on one shoulder.
But hers was one of those Song- The other faces which have the power off the vaguest plan beyond inquiring, was hidden and both sleeves hugged drawing the eye, similar to flowing this seemed an omen. A fatalist, her arms to the wrists. Sometimes like so many Russians, he abandon-she leaned forward, the width slid scarcely perceptible mobility.
water, with the suggestion of ed himself to coincidence. Leaving off the shoulder.
Her glistening the details to the chauffeur, he back. was bare to the waist.
Some men had inevitably gather-. began to enjoy in perspective the low, the dress shone like a burnish- them, Rosanoff recognized the old ed about her at the har. Among zest of the pursuit. Shortly after, ed armour.
Her eyes were half-Marquis de Signae, tottering Mata Hari came out accompanied closed against the smoke. by several men
Adriana, in uniform
legs as thin aв broomsticks. appraised her
He stepped directly into her car.
envied him, for the old man like the Then charms professionally, said, You rest knew Mata Hari. his driver leaned back to tell him look very well to-night, my dear."
She insisted that he had heard her say, "The
To which she replied without
that he drink a toast to her in Pavilion, where Madame goes fre- emotion, "All the same, I am sure
champagne. quently." Rosanoff was delighted, I was followed. Do you know that for it had occurred to him that a Dubois came to see me dance?" private residence
"He's watching you?" Mata Hari's own house might present many dith-! "Ever since the submarine job.
Now there I'm afraid
the
Mon pointed to coloured car and said:
"That is Madame Mata Hari's."
or
and
who
I'd lock into Carlotta."
Re-!
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on
"But I'm not allowed champagne," the old man demurred. "It's bad for my heart.”
"One little sip, papa!" "But it's bad for my-" "That's where my lips
been."
Song-
Joseph Szigeti (D1633). Waltzes from Vienna-Love and
War (Carter & Strauss),
Dennis Noble and Chorus. Waltzes from Vienna-For We Love
You Still (Carter & Strauss),
Marie Burke (Soprano) (DB620). Banjo Solo
Progressions (Fillis)...Len Fillis. Instrumental Trio-
Anita (Pollack & Clara),
Len Fillis, AL Bowley and Sid Bright (5698). 6.10-6.41 p.m.-Band & Orches- trai Selections. The Two Imps (Alford), Dancer of Seville (Grunow),
Sir Dan Godfrey conducting the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra (9505).
The Thistle
(Myddleton arr. Winterbottom),
Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guarda (9102).
have Partita in E (Bach 1,000),
Sir Henry J. conducting the New Queen's Hall Stealing Thro the Classica No. 1-
Orchestra (DX10). The Masters (arr. Somers),
Debroy Somers' Band (DX287). 6.41-7.32 p.m.-Variety. Humorous Song
Virginia (There's a Blue Ridge in
my Heart),
culties to his entrance.
the French authorities were none that he could see and heare very much annoyed." appeared to be headed for an ex-
"Hm. You knew about that affair: hilarating interlude.
... and knew—"
She put the glass directly to There was no traffic at all on the
"And Carlotta. If I were you, the Marquis lips. He drank and Faubourg. He could just make out
choked, Rosanoff found that she the car ahead and he thought but
"I will. And into you, too," said could laugh. He laughed, too. was not sure that at intervals he Adriana simply. "Tell me this: If She then turned and looked him heard the throb of a car following you thought you were being fol-full in the face, a long, impersonal, They crossed a bridge, the stonewed, why did you come here to-heavy-lidded stare, aa if she were arches above and their reflections in night?"
examining a statue in a museum With a hint Seine
of malice she re-and would then go on to the next farming perfect circles. Rosanoff plied, "Because I was told that you statue. Her eyes did, in fact, travel tossed his cigarette into the water wanted to see me particularly and on.
the black mirror of the
this
The next instant she exclaimed
He's Tall, Dark and Handsome,
Sophie Tucker assisted by Ted Shapiro (4942).
and a shadow arch broke into little that personal danger is never to be brasquely. With an elbow she had there were the usual number seat-
because you've always taught me ripples.
Ahead of them lay the considered in Place de in Concorde. At
the performance of upset her glass. The wine was spilt tered among the tables, proffered point they met other taxia, there duty."
in a wide puddle across the mahog- the croupier a ring in exchange for were a few lights and some people
"You enjoy it, don't you?"
any of the bar. A man with a chips. The man declared that it in the streets, and they lost the
"What else do you think I do it pointed gray board called a waiter was against the rules. maroon-coloured car.
for? The driver.
The money? I have my and said, "I hope it hasn't spotted "It's worth twenty thousand however, seemed sure of his direc- choice of bank accounts."
your dress, my dear,"
france," insisted the girl. "I'd sell "Still, thirty thousand marks for
it for ten.""*
But Mata Hari appeared already to have dismissed the incident from
tion. They turned up the Champs Elysees and had gene on quite a a few papers is a great deal.” long time, the way growing dim-! "To me, no!" she said superbly. her mind.
She held it up. The ring had a single, large stone in a queer, aquare mer and dimmer. As Rosanoff was
"No one would dare to offer me
"You Bay you never gamble, setting. about to question the driver, the less! Many have offered me more. papa?" she inquired of the Marquis.
"What an odd ring," Mata Hari I have my court and my courtiers, "Good Then I shall gamble for said. "Let me see It." the decrepit de Signec, Caron with you. I feel lucky."
She examined it with some inter- tears streaming from his eyes at
Rosanoff moved behind her to the est, while the Marquis looked elab old will, Ambassador B you have tables as if pulled by a string. At orately away. She then returned to form an firat there were no other vacant the ring, and the girl, gathered up
crunch of wheels on gravel told him that they had arrived.
an
They were in front of house half hidden by trees.
It
but to see him eat
looked imposing but a little shabby opinion and there were no particular signs eyes of a pig and the mouth of a where he could watch her and hear table.
of him the Prince with places and he took up a position her empty handbag and left the of gaiety other than flickers of coward, a grand duke, a great must-her light at the upper windows. Rosanoff cian.
a sinking premonition of disappoint- mont, he went in.
And I hate them all! I am
Again the croupler called, "Faites had half a notion that the driver bored with all men.”
"We'll start with five thousand," vos jeux!" had tricked him. He did not be-
she said.
Again Mata Hari loat. But this lieve that Mata Hari would waste A surfeit.
"Too many victories, my dear.
"Five thousand?" repeated the time she was annoyed. She brushed her exoticism on thla desert air little mad... and
You're capricious, & Marquis weakly.
the remaining chips to one side and Nevertheless, the man had departed,
we have work
"Isn't that enough to begin got up hastily. he was alone on the street and with
on hand. Is Shubin siill among with ?"
"There's no pleasure in losing," your admirers?”
"Faites vos jeux!" called the she exclaimed.. "Shubin! Oh... how simple, croupier.
The heavy gold skin of her dress Adriana!"
She lost it all and Rosanoff just brushed the cloth of Rosanoff's "Not so simple. It is a question thought that the Marquis would uniform and emitted an electric desk just as in a provincial hotel. Archangel," he said in a matter-of- better have another five thousand." stroked.
shipments of munition from faint. Mata Hari declared, "We'd spark Uke a cat's back when it is An attendant pushed a pen and a book toward him.
fact tone. "We want the ship lists She seemed to be going through a He was desperate with helpless- Iroutine mechanically and paid no ness for he felt sure that she would am informed that Shubin got them attention to the play. This time, soon leave, yet all the approaches to-day."
there was a slight delay before the he could think of seemed too croupier made his announcement.clumsy. One of the "pretty ladies" of which TO-MORROW--The Ring.
A flight of steps led from the street level to a cloakroom and a
"You are a member, Monsieur?", "No." "You will please."*
have to register,
Bringing
Up Father.
of
and the ports of embarkation.
"You will have them to-morrow," she replied in the same tone.
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