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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932.
THE AMOURE OTHE EXOTIC ADVENTURES-
Mata Hari
septed from the monen gichne IN KAŘEN BROWN
by arrangement with
Mara Goldwyn Mayer,
CHAPTER XIII.
bassy 7
THE CHINA MAIL.
For this Mata Hari had been thoroughly prepared.
Yes. She had been his very good friend,
And was it not a fact that she had dined with him the evening be-] fore his death?
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"Certainly," she admitted, diaed with him very often.
And hadn' she quarrelled with him that night because he had re- fused her information? "And later you feared that he might denounce you?"
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-10.90
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7.4-7.30 p.m.-Musical Comedy. Follow a Star--Selection,
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR ness if the German wished to get Mata Hari, famous dancer and, from his country the money with enemy spy, makes an innocent ac which to pay my debts."
"I quarrelled with him, yes," said cumplice of a young Russian aviator, Her counsel, Maitre Caron, an old the dancer coldly. "That is, he Alexander Rosanoff. In order to and devoted friend, attempted to quarrelled with me. It is ridiculous protect him from her former lover, take her hand as evident of his to assume that there was any ques- Shubin, who is about to telephone admiration and Dubois, the head of the French She drew away from him, standing in Paris, there were doubtless thou: The
encouragement. tion of information. That evening, Secret Servier and involve Roganoff, alone.
him # kis
to
are
the dancer shoots Shubin.. But She was beautifully dressed-her Roxanuf contex to
the maid had brought her clothes-and latter. •The dancer persuades no whiter than usual and stood up him not to euter and Bends very tall and slender. The doya
Right
Russia speat in a cell in St. Lazare since her with messages, admitting that she arrest had not told on her in the loves him. He is shot down. least. When she spoke, in her. From her hiding-place, she hurries alluring, low voice, she looked at Jo him heedless of the threats the members of the courtmartial in
mind of Adriana, guiding
of turn out of those heavy-lidded eyes the enemy operatives. Rusanoff is to which so many descriptions had
a spp.
COURT-MARTIAL.
the Third Courtmartial. The room against her on any count. was large, the people allowed in it
sands of quarrels between good friends, for the same reason-one or the other was jealous,”
A sort of smile went around the courtroom.
Only Dubois and Mata Hari remained sober.
"Colonel Shubin was jealous?" "Yes...."
"With reason, perhaps?"
I did not
Jack Papne and His B.B.C.
Dance Orchestra, DX134.
York-
The Belle of New
House That Jack Built-
Vocal Gems, Columbia Light Opera Co. 9925.
Selection,
Ray Starita and His
Ambassadors Band 9915. 7.30-7.55 p.m. Concerto in E Minor for 'Cello and
Orchestra (Elgar),
W. H. Squire ('Cello) and the
Halle
Orchestra conducted by Sir Hamilton
Harty DX118/DX120. p.m.-Local time. 7.55-8.50 p.m.--A concert. Song-
re-
Chorus
Two Old Wedding Songs
(Gretschaninoff),
'Don Cossacks Choir DX129.
'Cello Solo-
Dance of the Elves (Popper), Mansions of Eternity (Bloch),
Maurice Marechal 2582-D.]
The Bloom is on the Rye (Fitzball)
and Bishop), Heddle Nash (Tenor)
Song-
•
DE720. Piano Solo-s
Mazurka (From "Five Piano
Pieces"-Delius), Waltz (From "Five Piano
Pieces"-Delius). Evlyn Howard Jones 2460-D. Chorus
The Silver Swan (Gibbons)- Fair Phyllis (Farmer),
The St. George's Singers
6717.
Octet-
Hearts and Flowers (Tabani), The Wedding of the Rose
(Jessel),
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet
DB590. Song--
Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
(Henley and Quilter), Goodnight (Shelley and Davis),
Hubert Elsdell (Tenor) DB699. 8.50-9.25 p.m.-Orchestral and Band.
Euryanthe Overture (Weber),
Willem Mengelberg and His
Concertgebouw Orch LX157. Silver Trumpets-
Grand Processional March
(Viviani),
The Reg. Band of H.M.
Grenadier Guards DB714.
(Kotlebey),
Orch 9859.
DB687.
The Penguin's Patrol,
Terance Casey DB704.)
Red Rose,
Hold My Hand,
(Baritone) DB695.
Jack Payne and his B.B.C.
Dance Orchestra DB707.
"Perhaps if you are interested." Another smile.. Mata Hari's eyes narrowed and she threw back her blind. Mata Hari promises to marry been devoted. A number of the head as if she were gratified by the hem wad go away with him. But men had met her in the past, a few success of her thrust. on leaving the hospital, she escapes would have paid court to her if she
A Summer Night (Marzials Had she not on the morning of an attempt on her life by one of had cared or so she believed. There his death come to visit him in his
and Thomas), Auriana's men only to come face to was an unshakable assurance in her office with papers on which she need-
My Dearest Heart (Sullivan), face with Dubois who arrests her as attitude, for in her heart of hearts,ed his help?
Doris Vane (Soprano) DX71. she could not for a moment credit) NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY any of them with a desire to be her intending to make up our quarrel.
"I came to visit him in his office Violin Solo-
Arietta (Pergolesi-Fachirl), enemy. Dubois, perhaps. No valued hla friendship.
Yelly D'Arany! 2448-D. other of these men, no man, could wish to lose it. Since M. Dubois block of Colonel, Shubin's house. The trial of Mata Hari took place care to see her die,, no matter what had me searched there, he can He had seen you dance and at night in the courtroom of the As-she had done. And as Maitre doubtless inform you whether sizes and was conducted with the Curon had pointed out time after had papers or not."
Icognized you." utmost secrecy by the members of time, there was no direct evidence
It was a slight shock to her, and] In A Chinese Temple Garden But, insisted the prosecutor with-she faltered the least bit. How glad out a sign of irritation, the, atten-she was that she had walked from Maitre Caron, himself, swore by dant in Colonel Shubin's office now Shubin's house back to her cari
A. W. Ketlabey's Concert few. The defendant, her advocate; her innocence. The white-haired anid that she had left a note on the the prosecutor, the members of the old man had almost wept in her cell Colonel's desk
"It may have been so," she said Marche Militaire (Schubert), just before the) Court, M. Dubois, and the "guarda, to think that one so beautiful, so en-search.
after a moment. "I do not remem-Villanelle (Dell'Acqua), And afterwards, she had ber where I left the taxi. The lights bigh up glared upon the trancing, so guiltless, should be sub-asked for
I did
Reg. Band of H.M. Grenadier the letter back again. not notice." faces of the accused and accusing jected to the discomfort of even a why, if it were
Guards 9919. just an Innocent and left the rows of vacant benches, few days in prison.
After a few more questions in re-
9.25:10.27 p.m.--Varlety. He would save message to the Colonel to say she gard to letters found in the search Song- stranded in shadow. Because of her. He insisted he could. All had been in-and since she so valu-of her house all of which she ex-i the weight of the evidence and her friends would come
To-day I Feel So Happy, to the re-ed his friendship she would wish plained with perfect calmness-the nemos involved and the importance scue, too.
Renate Muller (Soprano), him to know that she had sought, of the spy systems, even the sentries Nevertheless, as the questions be by this means, to renew It-why, in Caron rose to move for her acquittal Organ Solo-
prosecutor sat back, and Maitre outside were not permitted to ap-jeame more specific, hemmed her in. that case, had she retrieved the on the ground, of lack of direct ayi- prouch the closed doors nearer than he cast anxious glances at her to note? ten paces.
dence to show that she was a spy, see whether they were having any It was his smoothness that gave had other than Dubois had begun his first exam-effect on her nerves. But she seem- Mata Hari pause, and Maitre Caron, tion with Shubin or had even been
a friendly connec-Song-- ination of the dancer by demanding ed to be unshaken. Sometimes, in-too, accustomed to the tactics of the in his house the day of his death. English Maids". Raymond Newell brusquely. "Tell me how long youfdeed, she had to pause for a moment courtroom, sensed in this a warning.į have been in the German Secret Ser-to consider the reasonableness of That particular kind of patience de-his voice impressively, now lower-Orchestral--
With many gestures, now raising vice." 'And when she had replied her answer when they struck too notes the consciousness of strength ing it with a tremor of emotion, he with equal curtness that she could near home, when, for instance, they in reserve, a hand not yet revealed, begged them to believe that he was not tell him that because she was inquired about the submarine affair, an ace up the sleeve. It is the as loyal a not and never had been a spy, he mentioned the time she had caused calm before the sudden storm which patriot as any of the members of Song-
Frenchman, as true e had returned again and again to the death of an important French may wreck the ship.
the Court, he begged them to re- the attack, even calling her by the agent in Belgium, and her success- Instead of answering the question member that he had practised his] number with which she was identiful efforts to learn through her by another aally aimed at Dubois, profession for forty-one years and fled in the German lists, "H 21, aviator friends the routes by which the dancer decided to treat it with had a great deal of experience with when did you rat become a spy in airplanes were dropping Allied apparent seriousness and candour. crime. His client might have been the enemy's pay?" his animus had agents benind the German lines in
"The letter I wrote to Colonel driven to within a short distance of not sufficed to break her down. Belgium.
Shubin consisted of just line Once she looked down and moist- two saying I was
or the Colonel's house that morning, But the methods of the proscutor,
sorry for last an unfortunate coincidence which prompted by Dubois, though moreened her lips. Dubois had declar-night and wished he would ring me might befall the most innocent. bland, were more businesslike and fed that she was known to have been up. There was nothing else in the But no one had seen her enter or more concrete. He described to responsible for the death of at least envelope. After I was searched, she had kept an engagement with Song her transactions which she had fifty thousand men-poilus in trench the indignity made me angry. her dressmaker. These were not undertaken and carried through, her holes; sailors hundreds of feet below felt that Colonel Shubin should take the actions of a guilty woman. His actions as oserved by the Allied sea level, remote from all human better care of his visitors; I decid- client had been "indiscreet-yes. secret service bureaus in various life in the compartments of sub-ed he should really apologize to me, Unmoral-yes. countries and asked her how she marines; officers shot at dawn for and as I knew the attendant would thousand times no! And guilty of
But a spy-nea Duet- could explain these actions on any their complicity in her manoeuvres tell him I had called, on an impulse, so foul a crime as the shooting of other count but that of her hidden all sorts and conditions of men I took
the note and went away, a dear friend in, as the prosecutor occupation.
gathered in army and navy and sub- Surely, if it had contained anything had tried to prove, the pursuit of Organ Solo- Wasn't it true that when she had jected not only to the direct fire of serious, I would not have cared to her nefarious business-never l" been in Madrid, occupying a room the enemy but to the insidious welk around with it after a search." "The chivalry of France cannot! in an hotel next to that of a Ger- betrayals of treachery and espion- "Where did you go after that?" and, will not on such slender, such) man agent the latter had wired to age.
She knew that she Waa his colleague in
on msupported, evidence, indeed such Amsterdam for "And those men," finished Dubois, treacherous ground here, and she lack of evidence, brand a beautiful "we must remember! Those men answered with great care as close to woman, a neutral subject and a we must avenge!"
the truth as possible. "As nearly great artist as a spy and a common There was a silence. Those mem- as I can remember, 1 took a taxi in criminal!" "I am not French. I have the right hers of the Court who had not seen order to go to an hotel for lunch. The old man sat down, exhaust- to have friends in other countries front line service themselves had Then it was such a pleasant day Iled, and appiled a even among those at war with intimate connections with men who decided to get out and walk. I his brow and to
his eyes. France. The German Was my at the very moment might be in the walked for quite a while, thinking guards had been moved friend.
I had need of money in midst of agony and horror, might of some dances which I had in mind fervor, but the members of the Madrid and he offered me some. Ille at the point of death.
and I was so engrossed that I found Courtmartial stared at Mata Hari do not know where he got it." But it was a question of far more I had long passed the hotel. I had with blank faces and the dancer But why had he ordered it paid concrete evidence than this, the something to eat in one of the cafes looked straight back at them as if to H 21, which, declared the pro- prosecutor began again, of a far and hurried back to keep an engage-challenging them with all the con. secutor, was known to be her official more specific crime. Was it not ment with my dressmaker."
fidence of a clear conscience, true that she had been very friend- "We have the statement of a The prosecutor, then nodded to "It is not known to me," she re-ly with the deceased Colonel, Shu- taxidriver to the effect that he Dubois, who stepped forward. torted. "And it is not my busi-bin, Attache of the Russian Em- drove you that morning to within a [TO-MORROW-Confession.]
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money to be paid to H 217
"Yes," she answered without hesi- tation, even with a shade of hauteur.
number.
Bringing Up Father.
handkerchief to
The
by his
If They Ever Had An Income
Tax On Love, Florence Oldham DB724.
Piano Solo-
Mignonette. Honeysuckle, ...... Billy Mayerl
DB728. Humorous Dialogue→→
A Spot of Income Tax Bother,
Clapham and Dwyther DB736.,
Got A Date With An Angel, Who Do You Love?,
Bobby Howes DB697.
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries,
Layyon and Johnstone
DB711.
I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart,
Terance Casey DB727. Orchestral-
Bow Bells Selections,
Jack Payne and His B.B.C.
Danca Orchestra DB780, 10.80 p.m.-Close Down.
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