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Barbara Stanwyck TEN CENTS A DANCE
A LIONEL BARRYMORE PRODUCTION
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RICARDO CORTEZ
MONROE OWSLEY
Picture based upon the popular song "Ten Cents a Dance"
SALLY
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Screen Snapshots No. 1
Cannibal Capers.
The Castaway.
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"THE VIRGINIAN" SURPASSES HIMSELF!
Here'
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.
LOVE TRAGEDY OF SHANGHAI BUND BRIDGE UNDER FIRE.
ATLANTIC.
OFFICER'S STORY OF WOMAN'S
INFATUATION.
PISTOL UNDER CLOAK.
pretty girl seated at a type- writer topped out M love tra gedy of the sea at an inquest held in Southampton.
-It-was-the-story-of-enbin-10,C- deck, in the Royal Mail Steam. Packet Company's finer Asturias. told by many witnesses to Mr. A. II. Emmanuel, the Southampton coroner, whose giri clerk swiftly typed the sad tale as it was told.
Tapping, relentlessly topping. the machine recorded how Phoebo Sorel, a beautiful woman of 37, loved and Inughed and danced to her death because she had lived her life, and life offered her no
store.
Shortly after midnight on Nov- ember 24, when the ship was slow- ly moving to anchorage in Cher- bourg Harbour. Pliebe Sorel shot herself with a black, stubby, double-barrelled pistol. The bul- fet entered her left side, well be- low the heart, and she died of the wound in a Southampton nursing home.
Born in France, Phoebe Sorel became a naturalised citizen or the United States, and she lived at Park-lane, Douglas Town, or Island, New York, where she had rtablished a reputation as a cos- tume designer, "I see from her passport that she had travelled nach," remarked the rotuner,
Picture shows the Garden Bridge, on the Shanghat Bund, which came under fire from a Japanese warship during the week-end, on the pretext that the Bridge was hiding snipers. In the background is asen
the Actor Homes Hotel, which was the scene of sniping last night.
remarked: Yes, and let you off wound. "Berause I don't wish to acol-free.'"
Hive." whispered l'hoebe Soral.
Telling of the night of the last On the arrival of the Asturins dance, the officer said he had just at Southampton Miss Sorel was hanie, where come off his watch and was going įtaken to a nursing
her effects. to bia cabin when he saw l'hoebe she died, Awong Sorel with the third ofBeer, "I handed over by the purser, were from which the said. Hullo, what are you doing several letters.
She looked wild, and, coroner read such extracts na here?'
hands concealed went to show that she contem- noticing her under her evening cloak, I took plated suicide. She had, during recent years, her by the shoulders and from salled the seas in luxurious Uners, under her cloak
Lived My Life" took a pistol. and I was while she was voyag-She was very excited, and shouted:
ing
From an undated letter he rend.
to South Amerien In the Give me back my property." When R.M.S.P. Araguaya that she met the chief officer come i unloaded"My dear George-Life was meant and fell in love with Second Offeer the pistol and returned it to her, to be lived, and 1 ved it. Now I am going oul. Good-bye to all. Stanley Joseph George Hill, whom "You fool, she cried; I've got Thanks for the flowers."
she had first met in New York in others."
1929. This falce, slonder, young A Distraught Woman. offeer, who was married in May
From another letter, dated Nov- ember 18. the coroner read; "My
of last year and lives at Ton- Phoobe Sorel went to her gabin, dear John,—am sending res what bridge, Kent, told in a low volce a distraught woman in white, taking is left of the infatuation of Phoebe Sorel, the pistol with her. while the typewriter tapped out an experience lived in heart-beats.
written in
of my estaln. i um making my will in favour I lived my life Now the typewriter tapped out of your daughter.
At And it is time to go, su goud- the night watchman's story. "I think that she must have been half-past twelve," he said, "Theard hye and bless you all." in love with me." he told the moans and groans in cabin 16, the
In amber, letter coroner. "but I did not return her door of which Was locked. I
French was the pussage: love. I told her when we met in called another watchman, and we has been very hard to me. the Aragunya in 1929."
tried to open the door with a pass key, but the cabin key was in the Tanagra figure will be at the bot-
tom of the ocean." luck."
"Did she threaten to do you any harm?" prompted the coroner. The offeer nodded. "When I saw The moans continned, anet M her in the Asturias returning from Soral called out, "I cannot get to
Buenos Aires I asked her why she the door; my legs are gone." was in the ship again, and sho replied that it was not my busi-
Bess.
"Life
Your
of Suleide while Insane, sald be
The coroner, returning a verdict
Phoebe Sorel was satisfied that intended to shoot the ship's officer She, however, crawled to the and was thwarted. "I am satis- door and unlocked it, for when fed." he concluded, "that she in- Dr. Syer Barrington White, ti tended to shoot herself and that ship's medien officer, arrived she she was of unsound mind at the was lying in the alleyway between time." her cabin and the door, her white evening dress stained with bloud.
"I asked her if she was going to make mischief, as the crew were speaking about it, and she replied: Yes; they will have something to speak about.' I asked her to go away and leave me alone, and she the doctor.
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THEIR LIVES IN HER HANDSI One word Crom
Mr would run them all
RICHARD ARLEN PEGGY SHANNON NED SPARES
A final click of the typewriter, Why did you do this?" asked and this love tragedy of the sen
as he exnined the was told.
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