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BEHIN HERS TO-DAY SYLVIA RIVERS rules the younger et meek, fashionable New York suburb. She alaikes DDOTS RAEBURN whore family
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One night at the Yacht Club toolá is put Tu ne viskarenutnu altumslan by HANDY
By MABEL McELLIOTT
WM, of Bylvia's dunia, who had Fee drinking, Sylvia malleonly entries to free resignation from the Junior, i Hellfated, Boole withdraws from the crowd. The core bus with RUBS LUND, the ww{m~ wing Sentruntur. Iterum caile in down with her lente én elepe with him and she taks for Jim to think it over,
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CHAPTER XIV
Of course it was madness, Boots told herself as she slipped out of the baif-wet bathing suit and nervously began to dress. Why, it was Just a game they were playing Girls and boys talked as she and Buss hnd nil the time awl it meant precisely nothing. Johnny had been shouting to Geraldine that very day ou the raft, "Be mine, darling. Be at-yunt I can't live without you!" And every with one had simply screamed
ughter. It had been the most price less comedy line.
ran
feminded herself, that she Ind domej same and finally Boots, weak and nything to be ashamed of. On the defeated, crept quietly away to her contrary, her journeyinga with Ituse own zoo. The scene had ended with land heen of the most devorous naturen few mild tears and reproaches on Arle it the sweet smelling lanes her mother's part. All right then, she n chocolate soda at the Sweet wouldn't talk about working in a shop. Shop but would people belleva All right then, she wouldn't mention that? A girl didn't usually spend so business course may more
"If she finds out about my realgn much time with one man unleak the current of their affairs tan marang from the Juniors I'm simply deeply and swiftly than that of a through." Bosts muttered to herself Platile friendship. But it had been darkly, tossing on a hot pillow. And pintonte, Boot told herself sturdily, of course that revelation was only a After that first impulsive kiss weeks multer of time,
ago Russ had not laid a finger upon
with her.
"What did you say, darling?" Her mother, straightening a sloped back, lifting out a pile of underthings layered in tissue paper, leaked at her fondly.
her. The memory of that kina stayed | Sleep would not come. It was all wrong, the girl thought desperately, tossing in the darkness. Everything was wrong-her life here, the narrow- news and stupidity of it, the restric tions that bound her. With Rung- and here her heart lenped-everything would be different. He belonged to a different world. He was not bound by the age-old taboos and conventions.
"Nothing!" But the sound that had escaped her was almost a groan. Her carefully built up fabric of common
ese crampled and shattered at the Maybe that
If she thought of Russ's eins answered him coolly and distantly to- narrow he would go away to Chile, She would never ace him again.. said at random, taking a brown crepe "Here, let me hang that up," she frock from her mother's fingers. She fairly few at the rest of the unpack
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Yes, she and Russ band were just playing at being in love. It didn't mean a thing. It was exciting. like and Mrs. Raeburn, who had been telling herself that the child was Buing in n drama the Amateur Group strange and silent and evidently had side lamp to peer at the clock, It NEW YORK SERVICE of the Juniors might give.
She faced her white sandals and sunething on her mind, banished the was & o'clock. It was 4. At daybreak comb through her unruly curls, then and reflected that Barbara was she caulionsly put on her clothes and slipped out the side door. The world The memory of Russ's grave, un- rowing up to be a grent help.
Aunt Nichia wanted Boots to come was dewy, silvered in the pure early sirilling fitte as he had sold, "Tand visit her in the autumn. Mirs. morning light. liverything was de Raeburn said, with quiet satisfaction. licitusty cool and fresh. Clear drops of crystal hovered on the nasturtium "You'd like that, wouldn't you?”
leaves, and every delphinium spike was magically spangled with dew. Inwardly Boots shivered. The The girl, pale and beavy-eyed, afrode thought of Aunt Nedda's cold, dour
neross the grass to the gate which led brownstape house Bear the Boston into the Hartson garden. It was only Common made her shiver. And where a short walk from here to the blue would Russ be by autumn? Making stretch of the sound. Her head ached, love 1.6
beautiful Spantal
She wanted to be alone--to shake off sonorita in an embroidered shawl? the dark thoughts of the night. She could see herself, going to the
"ought to do this more often." ibrary to change books for Aunt
she told herself, striding down the Nedda, going to symphony concerts: empty path to the water. It was with pale, drab, decorous people ali good to be alone in a quiet world, about them.
to think things out for oneself with-
the barrier of four walls, But the mood of exaltation quickly passed. She was, after all, little more than a child, with a woman's problems laid before her.
morrow." stayed with her, Nonrense It was all netinense and she was a fool ever to have let him say such things to her To-night mother would come home; everything would go back into: Its proper place, like the pieces of a Jigsaw puzzle. Russ would take the enitle bont or the fruit for Challe. She would have one letter from him-- maybe two. This time next year she might not even remember his name.
"That's how serious it is," she said half-aloud to convince herself.
No-no-never that!
"I think I have a job by fall, she said vaguely,
All through the evening, as she served jellied soup and broiled chops and sind to her father, as she washed dishes and brushed up the kitchen) floor with a worn broom the thought stayed with her. It was not serious --she would not let it bo. To-morrow A job, darling!" Her mother she would employ just the right blend mited Indulgently. "What could you of gravity and humour in her fare dr well to the bench-club' guard. Be would see, he would understand that she was woman of the world for all her 18 years. She flushed at the memory of her scarlet cheeks and starry eyes. "Why, he must think me
In the Burry of her mother's arrival she almost fargat use. The dear, familiar thin face and spare un fashionable figure. The unpacking of the shabby baga-somehow the even ing flew by.
.
Suddenly she put her shining fair head down into her hands und wept. I don't know what to do," she sobbed. someone would only tell me what
tu
do!".
un-
"Well, Mary Olivant le helping out in a dress shop in New Martin and she loves it. And soins of the other girls--fielen mod Laube and Sur- are going to take a business course."
It seemed to her that every place ", my dear," began her mither she looked she met an impasse. She a foul!" she told herself indignantly in the tone, the strain Bosts so dread had stayed off thinking of the in- "He probably says that to some gired, after all they are newcomers have evitable scene which would ensue when evers: pince he goes and expects me¦ They have no traditions to uphold her mether learned of the bitter knub to know that.'
Why, your grandfather built the first atministered by Mrs. Fornell's heavy Manur house, the one with the cupola, hand. She had tried to hope that, that the Westerlys live in now, with work to do in the world, the couldn't have you in a shop, dear narrowness of her social life would Daddy and I would awyer agree to
not matter. But that gate was now that.
closed. Mrs. Rachurn seemed Beols sat down on the bed, her eyes alterably opposed to any effort in that glittering, her eclour bith.
direction. And there was always the "But I've simply got to do some-restriction of money. thing," she said feverishly, "I can't hang around here all my life, taking an allowance from Daddy, knowing that every new pair of shoes I get in practically a family tragedy...
How you exaggerate!" Flacidly the clder woman rolled stockings into eat balls and tucked them away in the drawer of a scarred mahogany bureau. "Daddy and I are perfectly Mrs. Raeburn beamed. "That's
willing to make sacrifices for you nier, ducky. You've been having keep you in frocks and pin monoy good time."
Inwardly Boots writhed at her until some fine man comes along...
There was a good deal more of the i mother's trust in her. Not. ns shel
And how did she take care of you, Daddy?"
Mr. Racharn, flerid, bald, a goud 10 years older than his wife, muttered that Barbara was fair enough but he was glad to have Mother home again. Site's been on the go the livelong time he muttered, shaking out is paper and settling down amber-shaded lamp. "I never knew where she was after dimer."
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no Use saying
I'm so sorry. Can I bu....of_any. help?".
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The cultivated voice startled her. Looking up, touching her reddened eyes with a handkerchief, she stared straight at the tall dark young man she had met at Lois Hart's house. Agents: Denis Fenway.
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Muni surpasses even bis, remarkable thoroughly endeared to audiences CINEMA NEWS performance as the hapless hero of throughout the
nation that Im- the Georgia prison camp in "I am a mediately a deluge of fan mail about Fugitive from a Chain Gang". Set him awamped the studio. Not since against a background of what may be that pleture, until "Wonder Bar" considered the most significant years, came along has Dick Hited bulon In the history of the United States, except in those fistances where Muni is seen as the restless, ambit has been pressed into services at ious son of the prairies who rises various functions in Impromptu Maybe you've always thought of from a daring cattle-drover to bo fashion by audience demands. Bick Janet Gaynor as a somewhat fragile the dominating gure in American not only leads the orchestra and delleste ator with a flair for light industry. The rise and dissolution "Wonder Bar" but he does consider- romance of the fairy-tale variety, of an American pioneer constitutes abis warbling in this mammoth An opic drama that embraces four musical production, which pictures and a tremendous popular appeal. generations. Through it all Paul Murl the galety and drain of theatrical You've probably given her credit foras Orin Nordholm is the domainnt, entertainers in a fashionable Parision dramatic ability, rather unusual ining fure. The cast includes Mary night club. The picture carries an one so tiny. But the betting is that Astor, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, all-star cant headed by Kay Francis, Gordon Westcott, Henry O'Neill and Dolorus Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Guy you've never considered her as
many other noted players. Mervyn Kibbee, Al Jolson, Hugh Herbert, brilliant comedienne. That's one LeRoy directed,
Louise Fazenda, Ruth Donnelly, Fifi d'Orsay and Henry O'Neill In addi reason why, her forthcoming vehicle,
"Such Women Are Dangerous" tion to Powell The spectacular "Change of Heart", is going to sur
numbers were created and directed by prise the general public when it Throu lovely women desire the Busby Berkeley while Lloyd Bacon
thrill of Warner Baxter's embrace, directed the dramatic production. comer to the King's Theatre
| the ecstasy of bis klas, in "Such Wo- Saturday. "Change of Heart" differs men Are Dangerous", the comedy- "Murder in a Private Car." in a good many respecta from her drama now playing at the King's preceding Amn. There is a comedy Theatre. Baxter portrays the role of Charlie Ruggles, who has played undertone running through the story of the women is Rosemary Ames, the else in pictures, hasn't been tight, handsama bachelor-novelist. One more intoxicated parts than anybody from the very beginning, and this un-charming girl who crashed into ple- jiggled, even mildly splifiented doriono frequently swells into hilar tures, in "I Believed in You" Tho e prohibuton was ope. in ious scenes that aFord the dainty second in Rochelle Hudson of
laro- pictures, that is to say, "I can't Fox Film colebrity a. real chance to more, Oklahoma, which has also con unagine why it is", Ruggles дей tributed Will Rogers to the screen. during the timing of "Murder in the show what she can do as 25 apiltter. She is aide and abetted the pose and acting skill of consider mysterious
The third is Mona Barrie, who brings Privato Car", in which he plays a
and strictly sobor do
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In this endeavour by the other prin- she experience into her scream work, flector of sinister crime, but they'vo cipale. Charles Farrell, back with Which finally wins him? You'll have quit writing drunk ports for me, since her again after an 18-month separa-
tion, fan't bad as a laugh-getter him to see the picture to learn that, self when he wants to be, and James Dunn and Ginger Rogers, who supply! most of the complications of the
plot, also manage to Inject merriment
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liquor was legalized. Before that I was asked to be oiled at least once | in every picture." His part in "Mur- der in the Private Car" is no exacting Ni-l is waiting for it. He knows that ho has to be sober avery" minute, found to nama d'ellsign always, for he is called upon to protect Una as on the afford that a pain, Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hadio an'i lank the osri and Dick and others in the cast from a succes
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Into the picture. And with, such noted humorists as Inmes Gleason and Samuel Hoffenstien working with Dawa i randy to hit the colling sion of fearful fates, They aro Banya Levlen on the script, it's quite shan't lank menaced by wrecks, giant gorillas, likely that "Change of Heart" wil meet with a warm reception from the the bart" of my orchestre leader assassins and a variety of dire hor
rola in Fizel rors from beginning to end. In spite Audinonite mammoth musical and of the thrills, the picture la repleto dramatic production of "Wonder Bar" of his funniest performances. with comedy, Ruggles contributing then Ah Murder in the Private Car" will be Thantwa, Filch, as a matter of fort. pune në „örnbagten Toader Toner. Hisfors screened from to-morrow at the
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