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Dick insisted. "Sheila, if you'l only marry me I'll prove it to you. We'll have a home any where you say. Just the kind of home you want!" "_\"
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She laughed. "Providing I don't want it more than 15 min-who utes from Times Square. Is that
it?"
ing
Attors and
Barrymore is emphasised more than The personal magnetism of John ever in RKO-Radio Pictures" "States Attorney" which comes to the Central Theatre next week. The actor plays the role of a court-room Don Juan a wins juries by his fiery eloquence women by his debonair personali- Blonde Helen Twelvetrees As usual the argument carde to the feminine lend. A story of clash- pinys nothing. Later, however, dancing g
ambition, with Dick, matching her careful,
"States combines the conflicts of graceful steps to his, Sheila won a romantic triangle
with thrilling dered if perhaps she wasn't fall-
court room drama Willinum (stage) ing in love with him-at least a and Jill Esmond plays the society Boyd portrays the underworld chief little. His serge-covered arm en-girl. closed her. His soft voice mur- the murderess.cn has the part of
Others in the featur mured the words of the dance, ed cast are Raoul Roullen, C. Henry tune the season'a love song in Gordon and
and many others. George her ears.
His eyes caressed her Archainbaud directed. The screen whenever her glance met his. Brown is based on an original story play by Gene Fowler and Rowland Their steps matched beautifully. by Louis Stevens.
"Blind Timmy wrote that song. Did you know that, Shella?" Dick asked as they resumed their sents.
"Blind Timmy?"
"Yes, he wrote it last year. Had to sell it outright because he needed the money and I under stand he didn't get much for it. Now the publisher is cleaning up on it in a big way." .
"There, Dick! That's just what I've been telling you." Shella said. "That sort of thing is con- sidered fair enough on Broad way, It wouldn't be any where else. That's Broadway for you!"
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"Behind the Mast"
A man with the soul' of a friend exercises his brutality in "Behind the Mask," Columbia's "horrifying my story, which is coming to the Queen's Theatre on Thursday. Man after been declared the most inhuman and
is killed
by
a method, which bas torturing means of sending a person to his death. A legitimate private hospital is the institution wherein innocent victims of this mysterious man-monster meet their crud
cruel fates. Causes of their death are never investigated; whatever fictitious re- ports the hospital submits are always accepted. A victim is strapped to the operating table and the fiendish operation is performed. Only a local the dying man should see as well as is administered so that annesthetic is a feel his life being snuffed out. With a scalpel, the doctor digs through layer and layer of tissue, and cuts through the body wall to reach the phrenic nerve, which is located in region of the heart, and which is of primary importance, in respiration When the nerve is cut, strangulation Sheila was young and bitter.
The victim has an agoniz- caused. She had not yet learned that ing death; and the interim up to the struggle and not attainment is the point when the nerve is cut is worse breath of life for many thousands than death. And that is how the Blind Timmy was one of those.
demon
leader of a notorious depe Four days later Sheila packed ring gets rid of those that ""know" to depart for the road tour. This much in "Behind the Mash." Boris Karloff, who performed G time she went as a featured prin- startling as the monster in Franken | cipal. She was not a star. alstein. appears prominently in a though there, was little difference sinister role in "Behind the Mask." except in her salary and the bill-Other leads are played by Jack Holt ing. Announcements read, "Fine and Constance Cummings. The sup Feathers with Shella Shayne" in-porting cast includes Claude King, stead of Sheila Shayne in Fine Willard Robertson. It was directed Bertha Mann, Edward Van Sloan and Feathers."..
by John Francis Dillon.
They danced again, Dick hum-na ming the words of the tender little love song dreamily. Sheila was dreaming, too. She thought of a time to come when she would he mistress of her own home far from Broadway. She would see to it that Blind Timmy should end his days in peace and security.
"Igloo"
the
She had six specialty numbers in the new show and liked them all. The chorus" was clever and attractive. Skilful dancers were This is a tenet of the civilisation of Only the strong deserve to live. plentiful on Broadway that year the Eskimos of the Aretic, and one und easily selected.
which they observe as a matter of "Don't be upstage with the firm belief. When a member of an girls now, will you?" Jappy cau-vanced age, and has become "80
Eskimo tribe has reached tioned Sheila, as she folded un-weakened that he cannot enter into derthings, slid trees into slippers, the activities of the village, be is and folded skirts.
often scaled in his ice house or igloo. and there left to die. He may hasten the end by suicide, if he so desires, and often takes this method of
end-
"Of course not, My memory is too good."
So is your heart, honey." Jap
an ad-
Py paused. "I wish," she said, "iting his earthly cares. The obser could be a little kinder toward Dick Stanley."
She wanted to ask about Jerry
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aneu of this custom is shown in "Igloo", Diving Scott's Universal the ice-bound Alaskan village of drama produced by Edward
Sirall Wyman Was Sheila's eagerness Point Hope, are. Enncied by, a cust and now showing at the to return to the road because it Central might mean an opportunity to see entirely composed of Eskimos, head. Jerry again? The show would ed by a handsonte stalwart named play in Jerry's home town, Jappy Chee-Ak, it is at once the most knew. She had looked up the picture ever made in this land of
exciting and routing. She wished somehow eternal ice and snow. that site could say just the right Devil and the Deep" thing to her friend. Desperately she tried.
"You aren't keeping a little corner in that heart for Jerry, ara you?" she said, trying to keep her voice casual.
"Maybe it was his sister, lap, py!"
"If you see him in Spencer are you going to be friends again? You knowtalk to him, have din ner with him?”
"I might,"
That was all that was said but in her heart Sheila knew she longed to see Jerry: Somehow she would find a way to bring about a meeting.
(To be Continued.) (To be continued.)
Rome, Mar. 18. The death occurred to-day of the Duke of Abruzzi, the Italian ex- plorer, mountaineer and author.
the most intimate
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Against the fomantic background of seaport on the north African coast and the neighbouring Bahara, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper,
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