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Mr. Hippo smiles expansively, but it is small wonder that with such an Attractive mien he spends most of his time under the water. So should we with face like that..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931.
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Heart of Liane
by MABEL MCELLIOTT
CHAPTER 1
of the
per-
un-
atili 4 years old. Car Wash sim. still faintly elegant. In a The pavement in West 68th Kindly light she could pass for 35. street burned under the sales of Not at this exnet moment, Linne Barrett's thin shoes as she has, in her faded blue dressing crossed in the direction
gown with her hair screwed up on apartment building he called top of her head so that the roots home. Tail 11 was, its dirty showed dark and the ends yellow brick facade laced with the naturally golden. No, Lo-day Cass unimaginative detail of innumer locked all of her 45 years. able fire escapes. Liane carried a the light was harsh and Cass was fimp paper bag in one hand. in this were the rolls for lunch. The curve of her left arm embrneed a package containing lettuce, a few Tomatoes and a jar of prepared
and dressing.
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"I congratulate you heartily," anid President Hoovar to Harold Gatty (right) and Wiley Pont, who are soon on the lawn of the White House at an official reception recently, in small picture at the round the world airmen are seen at the commencement of a motor car tour of the capital.
tired, beset by many worries, The year's printed silk. Indeed the miner, Ime of the player's life, girl, freshened by cold water and
Ahead
of her, a brushing up. looked surprising Fawned emptily
Cass sighed had ly cool and sweet. this she [Always
managed somehow to pack linne again as the young feet tapped off to the country. But there was down the four flights of stairs.
Now
"A shume she murmured. The no such prospect this year. ljane was out of school, out of that woman gathered up the finished sorobe and packed it into an att invent to which Cass hind
"Dant
until it
Falr archers--and sharpssboaters at the Rockaway Hunt Club open tournament. Society women in America are taking a keen interest in this ancient art.
Up in the box-like um which -erved the Barrel a combina tion living and dining quarters the nir hnd a dead, stifting quality, astonishingly managed to send salt box. She cold-creamed her One of these mach discussed early boy all these years, and summer face with religions eare, made up heat waves had descended on the in the torrid small apartment with meticulous intentness, brush-
them. Summered her tarnished hair city before Park Avenueites had stretched before
pressed it into even contemplated sending their with no job in prospect, rent to gleamed and
her face. down comforters to the cleaners. !
to buy. No wonder shining waves about psy food
sca-There, that was better! She spent The women'e magazines were al has looked troubled. Her
five minutes massaging ready printing plenty of informans son at Now Art was nearly over.
her eyes. tion about "ending that summery She could hear Linne cintter-born wrinkle between apprcance to the city apartment ing in the kitchenet. The tap She put on a thin dark dregs
that bad
a vaguely out-of-date air but the Barretts had neither the R
hissed and sputterest, drawers time nor the money to squander on were lustily opened and shot, and a last year's straw hat. Then uch refinements of living. The cutlery clattered on an unseen tin she threw a rover of chintz ever machine and drew three-room flat which Liane shares tray. Presently Liane appeared the sewing with her mother was sketchily in the doorway, balancing that the shales nearly to the sill is an furnished with tables and clmirs tray on one hand in burlesque of effort to thwart the inroads of bought at auction rooms, most of an experienced waitress. She the relentless afternoon sun. After
into the them now disguised with a gallant said. "Luncheon's served, mother," that she went down cost of letture green paint.
Cass tried to look as if carry- it brave little place. The put it down wasily on the baking street.
table. green chintz at the windows hung rather Casa pushed aside the billows inst that mammoth box wore a dejectedly like a fax at half mast, of yellow cloth and got up stifly great joke which she, a whimsical but It was easy to see that, when "Looks grand," she yawned, pull-ady, had decided to take on for In the subway new, its birds and butterflies had ing up a shaky chair. "That's the the afternoon. been gay. Soot and rain bad last of the ice." Liane complained, she manoeuvred. it so that it just! wreaked a certain havoc on it. shaki inse a glass of ten. "I have missed the knees of the perspir Liane, 18, tall and lissome as a yell at Tony as I go by this ing fat man who stood in front of her. swaying as the train shot young Venus, new, threw her red afternoon.
say yell precious," around bends. The subway was hrt upon the disguised cot bed, i her bundles on the drop-leaf table Cans demurred. She used the fairly cool these first hot days which usually before the heat had had time to aid herself into a wicker chair.precise diction
then announced. "I'm den!" caused her to be mistaken for an work its way down under ground her de- and settle for the season. How Englishwoman, much to volce surprisingly vital,
light. She had been born in fresh that girl aeross the Indeed the girl looked amazing-
lonked in her pale dress and sum- her. Liane, large-eyed, trusting, grateful for that. She hoped she ly silva on this exhausting day. Syracuse.
Liane said. "I'll scream at him mer shaes! Something like that and 18. Cass. Harrett knew the would be asked to come back next Her bronze-gold hair, allowed to
Liane should be wearing, instead world well enough to feel that a season, but-well, she didn't know. shoulder length, was caught then."" Krow
Lordy, I hate to think of that of Molly Cronin's kind castoffa. young girl should not be required.
to fight it alone.
Vernon 'Dny Wells, the actor of her neck. It curled and scal-long afternoon at Willabaugh's,"
Summer is the time, Cass mused, Nevertheless, sho entered the manager, whose pet the New Art loped itself about a face the colour the girl went on. " feet do of a sunkissed peach. Her thin ache so and it is so hard to sell when one needs money more than stage doer with a smile on her Theatre was, thin, saturnine and dress fitted her charmingly and anything to the terrible women ever. In winter it is possible to lips. It was the smile of the good iron grey, entered followed by his since it was aleeveless, lent. an air who are just looking'"
keep warm somehow. And cheap trouper, Besides, worry made one coteris. As always there was a food is appetizing then. It is when look old. That was the one thing small stir at his entrance. Nods,
bows, sycophantic amiles. Her mother nodded in in
chearsal began. Liane continued,
sym-day's "I know, my pet. It's that are hot and nights stifling Cass could not afford to do.
Rehearsal had not yet started. catching up her parcels, and fucndful, but when Mre, Cronin, to eat. Ono wants to dine on. She was glad to be early and have
one wants crisp, alluring fed
"Good Lord, Elsief" he was im going inLo the
high with
a vlew Here the surveyed with some spoke to me about the part-time roof,
dusty, coolness.
a little fire into that, will you? distaste the'
k
the tiny work this week I thought we'd river. Oh! sighed Carn, for the time to catch her breath in the ploring a few moments lator. "Get "Got your costume finished?" You're a courtesan, remenaber, a You're jealous. cupboard, the stove with its three better snatch at it. After all, millionth time in her life, how difl-
cult it is to
to be poor! Awful, that's chirped Elsie Minister, the in- Florentine woman,
madly, insanely burners, the battered oilcloth on it's only afternoons and you can
Jealous! by a bit of money for later."
what it was.
pined for small genue, who stood in the wings You're the shelves. She longed for the know I ought to be glad of luxuries, such as linen sheets, greedily making away with an ice). You've got blood in your veins, not Ritz and attentive walters, for
English cream cone, Cass nodded, Sho milk, Let's have a littlo Are, cool drinks in tall glassm-and the chance," Linne sighed, sip-changed-overy-dns, forming skim, opened the box, shook out the you little real feeling. That's all I ask she had this instead!
ping her tea. "Somehow I can't for sheer stockings and thin, na low folds. "Why, the not the was not hard to believe Vernon had Cass reflected sardonically that it it's lovely," get excited about it."
You ought to be having lonais underthings. All this she desired Elsie admired. "You'vo
once directed movies. The manner Her mother, sitting at an old- and swimming and parties," Cass not so much for herself as for I don't know the other She was unmistakable. Cass had been
Cans smiled back at bor. fashioned sewing machine in ouo murmured resentfully. She spread Llane. corner of the living room, looked her hands wide in an axpressive After the darknes and chill of the liked Elale. The little thing seem in pictures herself ence for a brief can one do underground the heat of the ns- od friendly. There were no muy Now that'il be all for today," up, alghed, and did not reply. geature. "But what
phalt was again a shocking reality. cliques in the New Art. So much Yards of alenzy yellow material about it?"
You never know who Wells boomed presently.. "As you billowed around her and ne shu pressed her foot with energy the as
Haven't quite shaped up plans for "Must have this Anishes "I'm not going to be able to
Cass had bean with the New Art next season, but we'll talk that over more seasons of this," Cass two," Cass announced. aby t
thought prophetically. When the girl came to say
"My heart's for three seasons now. It was not inter."fle waved his hand in a She exciting, a sort of stock company, signal of dismissal. Chas looked goodbye a few minutes inter her not what it used to be." mother looked at ber admiringly. felt a chill of fear. Her heart really. But it was safe and euro. fearfully across at the others. They That red thing's nice on you,... And then, what about Liano? It meant bread and butter for nine were all talking, laughing animated-
(Continued on Page 11.). Llano with all the world before months of the year. She she said of Molly Cronin's last
in an engaglag knot at the nape
of fictitious coolness.
"I'm dead.
"I
Sho
way
The
a
Casa went back to her machine She traversed the few stops to the fearionds were, but Elsio ap-all know, we're closing next work.
your
mator hummed and the yellowiano clattered through the stage door feeling actually and peared to be genuina
stuff resolved Itsolf Into costume. Cass Barrett's costume,
In fact for "The Mark of Man,"
a so-called highbrow drama play
ing that weok at the New. Art "Theatre, far uptown.
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