THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, MARCH 6.
1934:
Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND
CHAPTER XXV
by
tenalon was lifted. "You must get, estato of Mr. Robert Weston, Sr. (horsalf. How could she let herself
Bicep nd," the Bible wood The newspaper shook under come Pat's liness climaxed weeks of hunting for a job with and over herealf, and adding her Joan, “your sister is batter. She & Joans tremouny sands, Pain stab.
Roing to get well."
two
out encouragement. As the days passed, the loneliness had begun to oppress her, and her appetite falled. Often, who had been too tired to prepare food and her evening meal would be only a can
of sou
Ing had increased ard Pal got in bel, ming all the covers she could
winter cost.
bang her. The old pain. Barbara and Bob were engaged, of course, planning perhaps to be married cooA.
caro after all this time?-
And then Barnay's volco, a little unsteady with emotion and very tender. "Joan, dear, I haven't meant to rush you. But I cant bear secing you troubled like this. I love you. Won't you let me tako care of you and Pat always
Barney came back and Joan managed somehow to answer his gay banter. Shadows were falling
the car song around the curvy ing drive.
Where was her prido, Jonn asked
He had stopped the car. Sudden-
ing circle of Barney's arms.
Jean was crying, in the comfort-
(To Be Continued.)
She was having a chill. It had Joan went across the narrow hall been stupid to go out. And there to throw herself across the bed was no medicine. Perhaps she and weep her heart out, thankfully. would fool better after a while. But vigilance was not relaxed. rernaps the rain would stop and Joan stayed on at the dingy room she could go to the rugling house and Barney spent ten At end of each day she was se began to feel hot, terribly of his time there, ready to rush hot and dizzy. Oh, If only Joan off in his car if there were errands.
On the fourth day Fat's blue. were here! What was the name of the hotel where Joan was stopping? eyes, deep now in a white face Oh, yes, she remembered the which seemed much too small for Breckenridge. When she felt bot, them, opened wide. "Lo; Jonn." ter, she would call Mrs. Baker and "Darling, darling! You're bet- CINÉMA 'SCREENINGS Aristocrats" and "I guess It had to be ask her to telephone Joan. ter. You are going to get well and strong now." Joan was holding Pat close.
just a little more discouraged than before. "Return the nrst of next month. Things might open up by then." Other executives were less encouraging. Summer, they said, was a poor time to be job hunting Everything was slack. And and on.
on
"I get a job if there's one to be had in New York!" Pat had thought. Her fighting spirit was aroused. Sho had heard of girls, whipped into accepting defeat, but they had, not the same Incentive she had.
She couldn't go back to Memphis where everybody stared and whim pered "that's the girl who was with Jerry Forrester when he was killed. They'd boun at a road house."
Barney and Joan entered the bare little room where Pat had been waging her game fight. Now Joan was, on her knees, per tips against Pat's check, her tears on Pat's white face,
The doctor, a worried nervous Hittle man, came forward. "She docan't, know, any one," he said. "She's been delirious for hours."
"You're the sister?" Mrs. Baker asked. When Joan nodded, the woman continued. "We tried to They said get you at the hotel you had gone."
Pat's curved lips set in a straight line at the thought, and she drove hemelf a little harder. She was Joan felt she was being punished thinner and she had developed a' for her carelessness in not leaving cold. She had Intended to stop atia forwarding address punished the drug store on the corner and more than she could bear. get something for it, but always: Barney left the room to find a sho seemed too tired, or too en- telephone. He called a hospital. grossed in her thoughts when she "It's pacemonia. I want the best doctor you can get!" he stated passed.
briefly.
One morning she awakened to the sound of rain. That meant los-¡ ing another day. It might mean a job lost. And it meant, too, a whole day to be spent alone.
Then another call, relief in his tone. "As fast as you can get here, doctor. And bring nurao,"
your
best
"Sick long7"
"It has neamed a long time. dearest."
"The big, strong man?" "Just Barney. Pat."
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
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***The Chief"
With the hardst
wl-eyed Ed Wynn as its star, "The Chief," comes on Thursday to the Muca Theatre, The picture in unusual in that it is Jack, Oakle and Skects. Gallagher Wynn's first and probably his only api. are reunited once more as the fire-pearance this year. But it is is: un- most coinedy team of the films is usual in that the star himself. com- Paramount's first big musical comedy paratively unknown to the screen, is
A faint smile on Pat's face of the now season, "Too Much Har known by his voice in every home in
"Nice?"
"Wonderful!"
"She's always over-rating," said Fat, a ghost of her old, teasing smile playing over her face.
"Sho's well," Barney said, laugh- ing.
"Don't talk now, darling," said Joan. And Pat, wearily, obediently; like a child, turned her face against the pillow and slept.
The nurse came in and Joan and Barney slipped quietly from the room.
"Get your hat," Barney said, "I'm going to take you for a little ride. You're worn out."
mony," which comen on Thursday to America. Besides the jokes which aro the King's Theatre. They were ac- Indelibly associated with the Wynnian claimed a few years ago after scoring humour the picture abounds in thrills, an outstanding success in Paramount's A four-storey building was burned to "Close Harmony." In "Too Much provide one of the highlights, and the Harmony, they play a pair of dumb spectacle of Wynn dashing dizzily vaudevillians, once a great pair of low through smoke-filled halls and dang- comics who have since gone high-brow ling four floors above the street by an to their own ruination. In their net uncertain pair of suspenders in salt to is Judith Allen. Bing Crosby, star of comprise a "high-and-dizzy" laugh a Broadway show, stips off in the sequence which recalls Harold Lloyd's sequence, a complete carnival was small town in which they are playing, most successful comedy. For another catches a glimpse of the act and offers to take them to New York in order transported to the M-G-M studio in to give the girl a chance. He falls in California meroly to give Wynn an love with her, but when he gets to opportunity to tusala with a wrestling New York finds that she's engaged to bear. Dorothy Mackalli. longa fa- vourite with Queen's audiences, ap Jack Oaklo. Crosby has a fiancee of pears opposite the star in his ble pro-
a gold-
Also features his own, Lilyan Tashman, grabbing blonde, She and Oakie ure ready to tear the roof when they learn Charles "Chie" Sale, bimso'f a star of of the attachment between Crosby and the stage and screen: William (Stage)
duction. The
cast
They drove by the Jigsaw be- cause Barney wanted to leave some Instructions for his secretary. He By night Pat's room had taken handed Joan an alternoon news-Miss Allen, And the Broadway show Boyd, Emo Elisir. C. Henry Gordin,
paper.
and
"Bombshell" -
in which all are starred has much "te Mickey Rooney, Bradley Page, Purnell B. Pratt. George Givat, Tom Wilson, tla harmony" until Oakin Gallagher put their "bright minds to, Nat Pendleton and Bob Perry. work to solve the problem. Arthur Johnston and Bam Cosiow have written heart now tunes picture, in-
cluding "Thanks," "Buckin the Wind" Lee Tracy-two of the picture warld's "Cradle Me with a Hot-Cha Lullaby." most colourful personalitiprs star- "Black Mconllght." "Boo-Boo-Boo," red togather in "Bombshell," the pic-
(Continued on Page 10.) "The Day You Came Along," "The Two!
A day alone would be intolerable. What was a little rain? Pat told on a different aspect. A uniformed
Back In a minute," he said. herself she could walk close to the nurse was moving capably about. alde of stores on her way to the One of New York's most famous
Joan scanned the front page subway. And on the way home she physicians ent close by the bed, briefly, passing quickly over hend would buy a bottle of cough medi-watching the still, white face, plac- lines on other pages. When she cine. There had been a dull ache ing a practiced hand on the flutter- reached the
ing pules.
contracted suddenly. There was in her chest for two daya now
She almost gave up the idea of Joan was sitting beside the two column picture of Barbara A paragraph below going out while she was eating her window, praying fervently. She Courtney. breakfast. She felt chilled and had refused to leave Pat even for stated that the first of a series of tired. Her head was aching dread a short time. And then toward affairs planned for the southern smile lightened the visitor would be a house party at fully. If there were no advertise morning & menta that looked encouraginė grave face of the physician. The Watch Hill, the beautiful country maybe she would stay at home, after all.
She ran downstairs to the apart- ment occupied by Mrs. Baker, her landlady, who saved the morning newspaper for her. Mrs. Baker lind seemed grateful, because Pat had
an entire month's rent
Back in her room, Pat turned to the "Help Wanted-Female" cal- urum. The Arat advertisement caught her eye: "Wanted, young girl of neat appearance and pleša. ing personality. Swift typist and accurata in shorthand. Good fol for right party."
Pat nad been considered a good sienneranker and an accurate and rapid typist. "I can't miss that." she decided. I get ready early. The early bird lands the job."
But when Pat, in her damp cont and soaked hat, reached the nd- dress, she found the outside hall half-filled with girla, though a sien had been conspicuously posted on a closed door, "Place has been filled."
A girl with dark, eynical eyes looked hard at Pat und sald in an audible voice to another girl, "The depression must be hard on a lot of office wives! Even the prettiest don't get jobs these days."
Pat left, feoling very slek and blue. She caught the surface car homo. It was a long, tiring ride and she wha shaking when she got off the car.
In her eagerness to reach her room she passed the drug store again without stopping. The shak-
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