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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
BEACH CLUB GIRL
CHAPTER I
The day was gloriously hot. As for as the cyo could see, baby while clouds acudded across a sky deeply blue. The houses along the shaded streets of Larchneck wero picked out in glare and shadow, glare and shadow, like toy houses cut out of bristol board and posed against a back drop a theatre sat. Like n girl atrolling upon a stage, too, Boots Raeburn seemed as, dazzlingly white from her tennis dress to her low- heeled shoes, she came out of the door of No. 86 Poppy Lane and dawd- led gracefully toward a roadster waiting under the drooping maple
It was rather a dilapidated roadster, stripped to the frame, ornamented here and there with skotches of the owner's making. A counterfelt pro sentment of Mickey Mouse appeared on the hood of the engine, dashlugly skotched. In white paint. Behind talled a blue and white banner marked "Larchneck High."
The young man in the drivor's avat did not spring lightly to the ground like a knight of old, assisting his lady to
her place. He merely nodded casually to her, shifting the cigarette in de mouth ever so slightly to per- init the words, "flow are you?" to issue therefrom As he pronounced sentence Rounded Elus, "Hiyah ?"
the
Boots towned hor golden mane casually, her brown eyes sparkled. She said she was all right. How was he? She climbed into the seat be
the motor rumbled nide him and alarmingly as the driver shifted into
gent.
Something Now in “Wouder Bar" Sela Transformation - of architectural skill and engineering genius into a ercation of beauty, almost breathless in its magnitude, a tremendous tasks, was accomplished on the mammoth ensemble set of "Wonder Bar", the First National dramatic
musical which comes to the Alhambra Theatre Dance Director Busby Berkeley in his effort to create "Something new, something different" In the it musical comedy fakt, supervised the revolving construction of a circular, Bound stage with sixteen Immense, glistering sheets of glare enveloping a rovolving black floor. Hundreds of "dream trets" shake their silver and gold foil leaves to the brisk breeze; stately arches surround the act; black velvet drapes harmonize with the chorines' scnnty costumes, as they danco; oft lights melt the composita group into grace, rhythm. ecstatle bonuly. But this was not easy to attain. Engineers, carpenters, elec- tricians, iron-workers and counties prop men worked for weeks. Worked with enthusiasm to insure the suc cesses of the spectacle. A great iron track was built near the roof of the round-stage to carry the heavy, der-1 ricks. machinery and camera and sound equipment necusanry to take the "top shots." The plcture is based on the internationally fronous musical drama in which Al Jolson starred an the American stage. An all star cast plays with Jolson in the serven pro- Juction by Earl Baldwin, including Kny Francia, Dolores
Rio, Del Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell and a Lektoy. Lloyd Bacon directed the picture from the screen play by Earl by Baldwin. Music and lyrics Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
· "Little Mina Marker" Bringing to life the famous charne- ters in Damon Itunyon's celebrated Colliors story, "Little Miss Marker" Adolph Majos, Dorthy Dell, Charlos Bickford and Shirley Temple, together with a host of other talented players, are featured in the Paramount Alim
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Even the most casual passerby might have noticed that the girl in the ratty rondater was rarely lovely. The pearly quality of her skin, the depth and setting of her limpid known eyes, velvet textured, flecked with amber lights, the way her soft fair hair grew and glinted about her brow | all these things marked Hols (christened Barbara) exceptional in a world of beautiful young thinga. Larchneck's younger set admitted Boots was Juvely.
Or
the
The roadsler rattled past trades- men's ears chugging peacefully frantically by, according to driver's humour: past children in sun suits, frolicking on lawns; past tur- baned and aproned coloured maids shaking out ruga or watching for the poatman. It was all serene, restful, enny, Boots really saw one of il except as a tapestry which formed the background of her life. All her 18 years he had lived right here in Larchneck, The Raeburna
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By MABEL MCELLIOTT.
She was a sight to make the onlooker draw a breath of sheer
admiration.
shabby bathing suit, tilted back in a kitchen luxuriant hair, Patty still had the a call board studded manner, the assurance and poise.of n great beauty. Patty's legs were too long, her mouth too large, her nose ay akingle house with its unfashion-chair against able big veranda and high gabled look with truss-checked keys,
"See you later, Boots!"
tro prominent; her voice was not even- predated the pseudo-Colonial farm-
pleasant. Yet it wne Putty who was houses and English cottages that
the leader of any group she belonged bloomed on every corner, But Boots! was used to the seldom thought
Johnny took his key and disappear tu, for the moment. Boots was not version of "Little Miss Marker" at about it, in fact, except when he ed. Bois, her neat striped ing overly fond of her, yet it was polite envy Ronicore like Sylla under her arm, wandered down the to be "on the good side" of Patty. the King's Theatre to-day, Runyon, Rivers whose house on the very bor- who knows the behind-scenes Broud: } ders of the blue Sound was a show row way of to-day, with its drifters and
"What's chewin' you?" Patty now heat of the July mid-afternoon seca krafts, its "mells" and its "gke" place of pale stucco and pink tiles stiflingly hot in the cubicle. All the She was an enemy to be feared. as few other living writers, has writ with logelas, patios and mission bulls ed to be concentrated in this single wanted to know. "Nobody's out on
to confound the casual visitor.
spot and the girl lost no time divest the flout but the kids. Stick around." dark eyes followed ten a charming and delightful story,
ing herself of her fow garmente, Patty's keen Fúnd producer B.-P. Schulburg, with. (Continued an Page 11.)
Wiggling into a slender tube of black Boots in the direction of the red sail. jersey. Seen thus, bare legged, her She smiled knowingly. creamy neck and shoulders dazzling above the stark lines of the garment, }
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"How's tricks, Boots?"
"Swell, Dintsy. You?"
"O, K." Dintsy Adrian had gone
"Hardy," she said, lightly and with
Duchess around to-day."
Sylvia was known in the Larchneck younger set as "the Duchess."
"No kkiding?" Laddie Rudd, chow- ing gum, rolled over on his back and stared up at the sky. "Romance, I calls it,"
Isabel giggled. Boots' seemed not to have heard.
Sylvia and Boats hnd bean rivals at high school. Boots had walked off with the valedictory address and Sylvia hadn't yet forgiven her for she was a sight to make the onlooker apparent irrelevance, "is steerin' the that. Sylvia's frack, of course, bad been by far the loveliest of all worn draw a breath of sheer admiration. by the graduating class; shecrest She ran down the corridor, tossing organdie, delicately founced, ruffled, the key to the shock-headed boy as arifully made. Sylvia, with her long she passed. neck, silky black hair done in a Madonna knot, her almost too promi- nent swimming blue eyes, had looked exquisite in it and the "crowd" had raved about it. Boots had tried not to be envious of Sylvia that night- she had so much to be happy about to school with Boots. The Adrians
"Any of you sand lizards coming in --but Hoinchuw Sylvia almost always were old Larchneckers, had no money!
She hated Patty for like that, Bome of the the water?" managed to distil the poison of cuvy but were naked every place. Larch.
neck was with her patronizing airs, her high, nootiest nowcomers couldn't take what she had just said. Patty had affected, artificial laugh. The Rivers the grade, Boots reflected. And scen Hardy's look at her last night. car, the Rivera' orchidh (grown in others, like the Rivers, burged right Patty resented any one else receiving their own hothouses) were very much in and swept everything before them attention of any kind, especially from
Hardy. in evidence,
The water was blue as blue, andi
Jim Ebern.an unwound himself. Ah, well, all that was past. They far out, against the clear black out-]
midsummer now and Boots, line of the Long Island shore, there from the steamer rug on which he had between whiles swimming, dancing ini the big club rooms, dreamily helping was a red kall in the foot of white been lying and followed her. her mother to make beds and to run ones. Hardy Whitimore's boat. Booka
She ran, glad of the chance to get his correct English voice, his good- the cut cleaner, was idly thinking stared at it reflectively. Hardy, with about the future. What should she looking clothes, his talk of Yale and away from the others, glad of the do when autumn came? Sylvia was
trips abroad.
wero
Hardy was in his
"Race you to the Point, Boots!"
going to Bryn Mawr-that was alit second year at coilcgo now. He had motion, the exuberance, that made right. She, Boots, knew that the everything, the girls of Larchneck her forget the hatefulness of Patty. She had been silly, of course, even to family finances would never stand said-money, tosks,
position. He
think that Hardy's gentle attentiona the strain of college. But what should she do with herself? Try (as could dance he had a mean the night before had meant anything line." Boots would have died rather
at all. Home people hnd suggested after see-than admit it, but for years now she
Sho dived from the float, cleaving: ing her in the school play) for a had cherished a secrot passion for stags job? Go (hateful thought!) to business school and learn the tire- Hardy. He had, surprisingly enough, the water neatly, coming up wet and same intricacies of shorthand? Idle uttended Larchneck High when every sleek as a soul. Jim, Tangy and about at home, wailing for invita- one expected hin: to go to Choats or sand-haired, brawny shouldered, fol tions, stirring up masses of fudge and Hotchkiss, He had been in the class lowed her to the topmost atop of the making brownies for the norority ahead of hers, and she had worshiped float where they sat, dangling their
him from afar. But he was at home legs. meetings?
this summer.. she had seen him at several parties
and, while he Netnwildlo + 4
hadn't singled her out for any special "What's on your mind?" asked the attention, aho kad danced with him young man in the blus pallover, once or twice. And last night sho wheeling his car into a shaded drive had been in a crowd which had been whero, under drooping maples, a driven home from Henry's, the hot- dozen motors of varying shapes and dog man's, In Hardy's big car. Hardy had grinned at her, had asked nizes were already parked."
her how she was coming." Bools
a baner."
She Boots sintled, leaping out nimbly: treasured the grin and the words. . . . It was not the thing in the crowd"
the Band. "Novor mind
over to bo norious. "Just dying to
The crowd, laging on
"Cigarette?"
"No, thanks. Not this minute." Jim said idly. "Comin' to the fracas Boots smiled at him quickly, cage~ to-morrow night?" ly. "What fracas?"
He frowned, squinting through thu Guess I pulled make. "Sorry...
her shoulders. shrugged "It was only," said the boy awk
get into the water," she trilled on a made way for her. Bho slumped wardly, "a shindig the Rivers are
metry note,
down.
This particular club, the newest
"I'm not parking here, fellows. and least exclusive of all such organ-: I'm plunging right in."
giving at the club. I thought you- I just took it for granted."
"Oh, that!" Boots ifto one eye- brow with a faint emile. It didn't
isations bordering the Sound, "was n They were all there nearly all surprise her in the least that Sylvia
lang. low stucco building crouching
on the sand. The red roof throw back Isabel Hathway with her tight, red was giving a party and not asking ..just the same." dazzling boat rays Boots and her curls, and her dazzling, Irregular her. But it hurt escort, Johnny Wolls, passed through toothy Patty Winsted, Jin. Eberman, There had been Raeburns in Larch- the unpretentious foyer, Johnny Laddio Rudd.... Hardy, of course, neck before there had been any Yacht throwing a casual "Hiyah?" to the was out on the boat. girl at the desk. They crossed a bare and narrow room with a scarred up right pinne braced against one wall went up a brief flight of stairs and nodded to a shock-headed boy in a
Club. Tonight Sylvia's crowd would AMANN ERAMATE 2
dence on the veranda under the bright Patty flung back a long). Insolent lanterns. T
was regatta week. chestnut mans and stared up at Boots Boots cared most awfully, She would Patty was tall, woll formed. With not ba thero out beauty of any kind save her thick,
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