For Ginger's Sake.
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By ETHEL HUESTON.
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MARIE DRESSLER IN
Marie
was asked.
“LET US BE GAY”
How does it feel to have considered zel a has-been after forty years of triumphs, and suddenly find ing yourself greater success than
ver before?
Dressler grunted and grimaced when the question was
"Woll, Í'll tell you. If you had told To Ginger, the project meant no
would one a few years ago that I more than a pleasant adventure to five to see myself in demand gain whe paced while away the tedium of an un-dr anything I would have laughed To Jenky, it myself to death," she replied. "To Merker, that it was going to ani a home promising summer.
frank with. I am amazed, but promised a great many dollars saved he To drakes Brooks, tottert school
is so feel pretty good about it, you mur wife of all Bester Broke, and an ally which, as every one knows,
in Nure many dollars earned.
"However, ns you may know, I have f life that ja certain philosophy
Always has kept me bainneed-in the rough apota as well as the smooth belleve that whatever specens EATLES.
comes your way is destined for you.] that you are really A creature of ant ingk At my chance. So I de
anything I myself have accomplished. It just happened to
"That philosophy worked both ways. I have had reverses in my day, many of them. And I knew they happened In spite of all I could do. They were no fault of mine. How can we say our fallares are those of fate but that our successes are our own ar
b. B naked body to not me her went
in the purchase ut Ans. Milf Bách um 10 weer. The net of her with an old farm here Joplin W Mitt is in her hand, formulated
LINTON
And held dechy, ware to being hine down in his price. Alout half of whe loak with right."
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY,
CHAPTER 11.
AS
An unusual air of determination settled upon her gentle. Ince
he marched down the quiet street on her way to talk business with
oplin Westbury.
mo.
It New responsibility, and with new courage, had come to her with her marriage to poor, blind, help-sucess as Bess Benny Brooks. She developed Although Ginger was not given in sort of moody passion for money, to public elaboration of her plans fan interest that in one less truly while they were still in the forma devout would have been downright tive perled, she had a sound prac moremmary.
But the sorings from which her tical precedent for her contemplated
their motor audien craftiness had sprung were project. On one of tours in the East, Phil had taken crystal pure, In the back of her her to spend a week at Province; mind drifted shadowy, dishearten-complishments ?** town, where Ginger was
Miss Dressler's Intent rule is with thrilleding forebodings of the future. The with the gay adventures of a group time might come when she would Norma Shearer in "Let Us Be City." DE YOU artists who were making no longer be able to cope with of the well-known stage play, She Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's picturization their summer's aport and study pay exigencies of the public kinder.
plays the part at the pcentrit for itself by the unintenance of aurten. She might die suddenly
dowager. mik sort of night club.
from some hitherto unsuspected mil They called it. Sixes and Sevens, Janent, leaving him alone once more Six young women did the market to the casual care of a disinterested ing and cooking, and seven young world, man waited upon the talk, and all of them served intermittenly entertainers and reception commit
a
Lurkbu, in the back of her mind was the memory of that proditable and entertaining
She enterprise. realized that, in her own case the project would work itself out abog somewhat different rs, but one thing at least she was sure--if youth of the community would
Upent one thing she had set her beam. Either with her or without, Kenny should never agnis become a public charge if she could help it, and she was going to help it.
ist e-operate to clean up the old polity. in the
Hoid 4a Rocque plays opposite Miss Shearer and the supporting cat în
lades Raymond Hackett, Sally Eibes. Hedda Happor. Gilbert Emery and Tyrrell Davis,
Robert Z. Leonard directed).
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1931.
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Moran nad Mack, the Twe Black feeding openly, with the knowledge Crows, was born at White Clint of the Government. Furthermore, Kankas. Just ahent
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A member of the Peoples' Coun- Mack's first ambition was to bell has drawn the attention of the com a baseball player. For a time Government to the alleged dumping he was a sandlot star and then grof Soviet goods in the Dutch East duted to a catcher's position on the Indies, declaring that one of the Olympia, Wash...
professional tounyoldest firms in Batavia has been lismburz and hobnobird! with Joe Tinker and Hin Chase. The lympin street car importing Russian piece goods via company owned the team and part of Hamburg and that goods are also ingkang Mack's contract, in addition to half being imported via China, "the Honolulu
net as a street ear origin of the goods being cleverly playing, was eonnctor for six hours a day. disguised as German or Chinese."]
But Mack had another passion. mechanics. He became interested in teatrivity aml *2011 got a job as electricion
Tacomin theatre, plaudits of England to put them over. MANY After while he yearned to be at The tom now appeared in
New York
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George O'Brieg: Star Athlete
the cudiments of the "Three 1% hof similar Japanese and European Alexander That skill in any sport or apvels mirents moved Tocum, Washing products, while all the goods are She began inmediately to save requiring physical exertion is almost ton, and it was there that he obtained marked with the country of origin. ambay
-Reuter. guarantees of ability to pruap his
sehood education. The one-tenth of every cent of money that came into her possession, disquickly the fundamentals
Portinnd Any family malgratis ter
A Batavis message of March 4 other diversions pl work requiring Salem, Oregon, in other gears, but stated: positing it in a postal savings ac
physical prowess was dezenatrated eventually returned to Tacoma. rount, for she did not trust banks,
by George O'Brien, Aim star ..ne! savouring as they do so much of hu
churing athlete extraordinary,
the But the postal shuing of the man
Fox Movielusze service being
munificent Falling pirolization. "Rowth It.. place they would presently be hand of the United States was mance, which open on Sunday at pression of a cheary
The Queen's Theatre. rendezvourearcely less to be trusted than the, all their own, free from family en- well-blown hand of Providence #1. In the polare D'Brien Wheel ennbrances.
Beif.
when And certainly
the a buyer wimmer and equestrian in Having Ben and Jenky la charge United States should cease to ex
inseeded, plays the role of a stalwart would disarm all conventional ob ist she would have no further needing lumberinck and it was press jections, for certainly a married, for her savings.
but that he learn the use of climbing trims and of the luberman's age niiddle-aged school-teacher was น In the old orthodox days of her After a brief schooling by actuni; chaperon to the satisfaction of the intimate connexion with the parcheriarks in the wild forest country most areasonable parent.
sonage she had practiced tithing. Inload from Tivoma, Washington, in taking a tenth part of her income the Cascade Range, where the in- look very far for the Lord," Ginger did not
al.ly, went on location." as she said.
author of stage material. Some of musient shows in New York and made BANK OF CHINA. into the future. Ifer Immedinte though it reached him by the some.
swarded up at big tree and hopped" his writings were accepted and used graph records, over 7,000,000 af in approved fashion, much to the by netprs. And so Mack decides to which have been sold. Many new requirement was something to do what, devious route of church
astonishment of the real lambéejseks write an act for himself, for if his dirers were crented by radio broad-Reorganized October 26, 1978, ander special something to think about. She had cials, por baskets at foreign mis standing below.
lines were valuable to others, why casting. $5000 just eating itself up with insions. But in the new responsibility
Some of the high spota of "Bouch couldn't he put them over himself? terest in the First National Bank, which she had so bravely amumed. Romance" include AL thrilling tare He tried blackface for many years as she often complained. And he found that, to deduct from her intween two teams of malimat dedend finally teamed up with Momn. everybody said that lowa form land smell salary one-tenth for the Lorddugs, a rough and tunable free-for-all They played in vaudeville in America ven if it was all grown up to and one-tenth for portal savings battle between the luggers and trap. for a number of rents, but it took the weeds and brush on the bank of subjected her household to painful Rabbit, liver was a good paying privations, investment.
Jenky had
never been
able to
And there would be work, brisk, vigorous 'work for string young arms-there would be raking and up successfully with spiritual gging and burning of brusht, problems so she trustfully took hers there would be scrubbing and paint- [struischt to Mr. Tolliver. Jenky in and the hanging of swings was one of those who, in the very Ginger's mentiory swept back in presence of glaring ministerini mis. great torrent to the crowiled, happy, takes in the conduct of their own haphazard parsonage days, and she affairs, was able to retain implicit smiled contentedly.
confidence in the wisdom of the
When she rejoined her friends cloth as concerned the affairs of under the maples her expression others.
was divinely seraphic.
"A Junior Country Club,"
Nor was her confidence in
this
s
*he case misplaced. Mr. Tolliver
said succinctly. "That's the ticket. ned sympathetically to the state-p No
parents allowed.
Ho preachersment of her problem and then took admitted, and the first member that both her thin hard hands in his. has a baby gets chucked out on his
"My good friend,” he said, “any- | brad."
thing you are doing from day in "Oh. Ginger, that's just
price day, or any safeguards you Bre less," said Patty warmly.
building for the future, for
that *T
poor blind husband of yours, you and jure doing for the Lord, yes, a thou sand times more definitely for Him Eddy than the majority of our church ac-
"Okay here," said Wesley, the ens
school-teachers aunts, too, will you?"
"It has its points" said
guardedly, for he knew Ginger. tivities. Postal savings for Besny "But I foresce impedimenta,"
is more pruetical service for the
"Well, you needn't bother point Lord than the collection plate for ing them out," said Ginger. "You're foreign missions. It is a noble ex- almost too old to belong in the first ample of the cup of cold water in place. And if you begin. pointing my name.""
out impedimenta, you are too old.
1
suppose
suppose some of the ladies will
we'll have to make room criticize me," she began wistfully. for the older high-school boya-
What, those infants!
swaddling clothes and-"
But he patted her hands and
SUH in laughed. "Now, Jenky!" he chided ber. "Is this between you and the
"To do the work," explained Gin- Lord, or you and the Indies?" Ker thoughtfully. There's going
Happily she was able to believe
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to be heaps of work to do, and all it as if it were the very Gospel, and the older boys have summer Jobs, she proceeded cheerfully to practice We won't let them join-we'll just small economies that in the old encourage them to take a sort of days she had never dreamed of. Interest. There'll be oodles of work Now, suddenly, in Ginger'a sur- before that place is ready." prising proposition, she saw Eddy Jackson knitted his brows suspected avenues of income. thoughtfully. "Oodles of work, eh? she and Benny gave up their rooms And there's a place is there? You've in town and went to the country for really got an idea, have you?"
"Yes, I bave an idea," said Gin- save the amount of three, and pos
the summer, she would certainly ger pleasantly, "But of course it's sibly four, months rent. She would Ben and Jenky's place."
have a garden, there would be fruit, and Ginger had promised to take. Jenky was more anxious than care of all household expenses, Ginger herself to push the pur-
(To be continued.)
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