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THE HONGKONG ⠀⠀ TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934.
BEACH CLUB GIRL
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY BOOTH RAEBURN la the pestilest girl in Larchneck, fashionsble New York suburb, hut her father's financial reverses make ti
BYLVIA
pelemes to foreg
Wealthy via with her ered. outs in Train from the Junkies. Deeply hur Bunta accepie the attentions of URA 1.UND, the winaming instructor.
She realize she is. In lose with Ross when he tells her he is going away.. The wants her to elope with him but Boots ask for time to think it over. She dreads the time when her mother will hear about her with
anal the club.
Unhappy and restless, Boots go for morning walk and meris DENIS FENWAY, young author. They have a long talk and Bon in mored by the girl's obvious unhap- nes to New York on a shopping trips and on the train meels Ituss. Again he asks her to marry him and she is half-
She must call her mother. Why, her to Greenwich to a swimming party, mother would be frantic, What had Sho was to stay all night with the she been thinking oft
Forbeacs. If Boots wanted anything. rang a dozen times mere. There was couldn't ask her to stay the night The phone rang four or five times,,... Oh, she was terribly sorry they 10 answer, Boots' heart was beating but the fact was Sherry's cousin, thickly, painfully. She had had her Elizabeth, from Toledo was with them. atory all ready. She had been In af If Debts would call them soon! movie with Sherry Manning. They With despair in her heart Boots hnd not realized it was no late, Could laid the instrument back in its cradle. she stay all night with Sherry who, All this had taken longer than she had with her widowed mother, perched expected. The remnant of her bend apartment down near Sutton Place? high above the city in a two-roomuche still nagged at the back of her
brain.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG
CHAPTER XVIII
But the failure of her parents to She spilled the contents of her answer the phone upset her plans, change purse on the bed. Two dol- their quiet household it would be like A latch key. At home her mother a bombshell. Oh, what was she do had the story of her humiliation at ing, away from the people who loved the banda of the Juniorn from Mrs. her so dearly-In this strange room, Fernoll's glib tongue. Her father in this strange hotel, with alippered would be very, very angry. Silent The headache which had swooped feet passing to and fro in the halls usually, such things. stirred him to down upon Boots In the glaring heat and strange voices talking and laugh- one of his rare, articulate rages. of the day was indeed a devastating ing rauconaly outside? one. She had had little sleep the She had switched on the bedside night before. Her carly rising and lamp. In the mirror opposite, her the tangled emotions of the previous face was white and strained, a ghostly hours had worked havoc with her glimmer. healthy young body. Now, as she
"I look a fright," she said, burying But as her hand touched the knob leaned back in the grateful coolness her head in her hands. "I look tera knock sounded on the panels. The door swung wide to Russ Lund, big, The
That's my girl," he said.
"
Boots dreaded these,
She rose, swaying, reaching for her flower-trimmed hat. "I'll find some place," she told herself. "To-morrow I will get a job.
of the taxi with Rune's strong arm rible.whide bag at her feet was mole, possessive in his old tweeds.
[ald protectively across her shoulders,
seemed to her perfectly right, per- Ruas's. The money which would pay
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fectly natural that she should do as for her roont was his. But she was his hands on her shoulders. he suggested. She was miserable still perfectly free. Nothing had along. I've been thinking all the way: who was half sick with pain and happened: She was free to turn the over you were too good to be true- NEW YORK SERVICE fatigue as she followed him across latch, walk out of that door this my girl. But here you are." the dini nnd darkened lobby of some
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out of his life, if she strange hotel. Her head was fairly cared to. There was still time... splitting.
She stumbled to her feet and in She scarcely heard what was said that instant the sound of a ringing to her nor noticed that the clerk, bell smote the stillness. The tele tendering the pen, glanced at her phone. curiously. She only knew, in a dim Bort of way, that Russ called her his sister. He would register for her, he Bald. She was ill.
Thea they were in an elevator, Ituss still carrying the cowhide bag. The car stopped at the 10th floor. Russ,
the big, inggel key in his hand, fitted
it into a lock.
very nerve in her
She reached for the instrument, body tingling. over the wire was Russ's, The deep-timbered voice sounding
"Feel better, huh?"
Her hands elenched and unclenched. There was such a thing as fate, after all. Sho hadn't been meant to escape Russ. His love was there, a tangible thing, waiting to envelop her. Why atruggle any longer! She slipped her arm in his. Together they went down the long corridor.
*
as he
Dents Fenway was diuing at a roof restaurant that evening with his publisher. The two men had ignored was on her again, the spell that clothes and Denis looked cool and She began to tromble. The spell the heat sufflelently to don evening Boota glanced around her incuri-shouldered man with the ready smile dark face almost hawklike
everything about the big, square of in the black and white, his lean ously. The narrow room with the had for her. Ab, but she mustn't searched the cream coloured walls, the mahogany give in to it she dare not!
faces of the around him. He had been telling Poople bed, the typical hotel dresser with "I'll come right over. We'll eat Masterson was diaposed to think he Masterson about the Raeburn girl and Its glass top all vaguely puzzled her. She only knew that she longed to in a lowered tone, my brother knows might find a place for her. They had some place nearby. Listen, honey," sink down into the coolness of the aminister who'll fix us up to-morworst entries were winnowed out be
a novel contest at the moment. white pillows, to draw the coverlet
The over her head and sleep..
fore reaching the readers. Lois Hart i had implied that Boots taste in books was a nice one.
She might very well qualify for this post in Masterson's office. So
it was of Boots that Denis narrow city street with the other
They
passed shabby brownstone
row.
WON in " turmoil,
Where are you now?"
Her mind
there in 15 minutes."
"I'm over in Long Island City. Be
The receiver clicked and the actual
miles of distance separating them was thinking as he swung down the
broken, once his voice dropped inte were there once more. The spell was
the void,
"I hate to leave you here alone." she heard a volce saying to her as from. # distance. Through a mist she jooked up at the face of the mun beside her. "You're sick, kiddy," he said.
She would be all right, she said. If he would get her some aspirin why, then, she would get to sleep. "Reality" was the subject of the She would be all right. She thought to brush her hair, to wash her fevered vacaney" signa hanging behind dingy to the adoption of a car telephone ser- | Lesson-Sormon in all Churches of of her
She ran into the bathroom, lægan houses with high "stoops," and vice by the Police have been carried Christ, Scientist, yesterday.
pwa shabby, widewindowed out with great sucena by local ndio i
room under the enves with the shades face and hands. She must get clear lace curtains. In this block, al
away from here, be gone before he half a square down from the shining enthusiasts over the week end.
The Golden Text was; "Whatso- ahine. Her own bed with its blue
drawn against the bed, with its blue arrived. She would leave a note for new, rather, shoddy, psquid, wat Mr. G. Morriman, the Honorary ever things are true, whatsoever sprend. It all seemed very far him, explaining.
pseudo-elegant away. To-morrow she would put her Her movements were slower than ing idly in at the lobby ns. he strode hotel. Denis swung his stick, glanc Secretary of the Hongkong Radio things are honest. whatsoever hand in this man's, take his name. usual. It seemed to her that she Transmitting. Society, conducted the things are just, whatsoever things That was what marriage meant. Be could not do anything properly. Her past. He drew in his breath so the dress was sadly rumpled. She had sharply, that the elder man glanced at yond that she knew nothing Mr. A. W. Summers. While one was lovely, whatsoever things are of thing.
uro pure, whatsoever things are in beat at her temples like a live ung herself down just as she was
bim
in surprise. driving in a car all over the Colony he
when she came in. But that didn't
"What's the trouble, my boyf" · held telephone conversations with his good report; if there be any "Call the desk and order some food matter.
"Touch of indigestion," Denis said What did matter just now partner, who was sitting in the Five virtue, and if there be any praise, if you need it," she heard Russ say was to get away, alone, where she briefly, ile kept his eyes determined Station. Building.
could think clearly-work this problem ly forward. think on these things" (Philips. "I'll call you in an hour."
out for herself,
Oh, he was a fool to think that girl plans 4:8).
When she awake it was quite dark..
She wouldn't go home. She would had been different. There, hanging The square of window below the bluetry Sherry first. Sherry was two or on the arm of a great bruiser who Among the citations which com.shude showed yellow against the three years older than
she and looked as though he might belong in prleed the Lesson-Sermon was the blackness of the walls. She sat up, possessed of good, hard common a prize ring, emerging from the door following from the Bible: "Good pushing her hair back from her face, sense. Thumbing through the pages, of that obviously second rate hotel, and upright is the Lord; therefore her mind fogged for an instant. Oh, she found the Manningses number, was the girl who had been at that he will teach sinnors In the she was all right. She was in the Mrs. Manning's gentle voice suid moment capturing his dream.
(To Be Continued.) way.O taste and see that the Willowmere where Russ had left her. Sherry wasn't home. She'd gone up
experiments with the assistance
of
The principal, interest in the tests, owever, lies in the fact that micro- Waves were used.
The experimentera were using
five intre radiophone to investigate quasi-optical properties
of
frequencies of over fifty million cyclon per second.
Mr. Merriman when interviewed, said that this was the first time that phone communication with a
travel- ting motor car had been accomplished in Hongkong.
that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord is good: blessed is the man Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, And suffer hunger: but they that
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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
LEAGUE ADVISER
NO SUCCESSOR TO DR. RAJCHMANN
character with a zest that is
who absolutely irresistible. Those have become accustomed to Kny Francis as the serious, carnest harlone The apparatus, which only weighs seek the Lord shall not want any
of her recent pictures will be astonish- wenty-four pound consisted of a
ed and charmed by her interpretation "Transceiver, which had only one good thing....For the Lord
of the firtatious, Irresponsible wife of Vienna's richest banker. The other) luo-triode tubo to carry out the duties good; his mercy is everlasting;
Geneva, Sept. 29. of combined transmitter and receiver, and his truth endureth to all Many readers of Kathleen Norris' members of the surporting cast show
The League has not appointed Conversation was carried on with an generations." (Psalms 25, 34, 100) recent novel, "Manhattan Love Song which Warner pictures have become anyone to succeed Dr. Rajchmann
the name all round. excellence for onlinary hand-set telephone.
which to now playing at the King's The Lesson-Sermon also in. Theatre, as a Janet Gaynor Charles noted, Helen Vinson. Hurdie Albright, in connection with the work of Easy Operation.
cluded the following passages Farrell screen feature, under the title Henry Kolker, the Baron, Andre technical collaboration in China, During a short trial run
from the Christian Science text of "Change of Heart", might suppose Luguet, Lee Kohlmur, Spencer Char- but a director of one of the com- the simplicity of the travelling tele book, "Science and Health with the noted writer was merely drawingers as a police agent, and the rest petent sections of the League will kone, Mr. Merriman stated that mere Key to the Scriptures" by Afary on her imagination when she set the contribute vivid portraits to the be despatched to Chinn for a short telephoning was not the real nature of Baker Eddy: "As God Himself is stroy down on paper. On the con- Completo C. But the stroy so period to examine the measures The experiment, as he was more con- good and is Spirit, goodness and college youngsters and their adven- and William Powell that the rest of tion of the development work.
trary, this tale of four penniless completely belongs to Kay Francis necessary for ensuring a continun-
of these rays which, because of their If goodness and spirituality are unusual degree from reat life, beine ground for what goes cerned with the study of the behaviour spirituality must be immortal....tures in New York was taken to an Vienna and the world is more back- tremendously high frequency, often
It la not yet decided who will be sent, or the date of his de parture.
to show
ow and obey the laws of ordinary real, evil and materiality are un tight.
Mr. A. W. Sunniers keeps a record
at the home station of all the test results phoned to him from the
| real and cannot be the outcome
of an infinito God, good" (P. 277).
ondater. On the trial run the motor SIR ROBT: HO TUNG.
car telephone was delightfully simple
to operate and neither the distanco or
the speed of travel neered to make
them.
"
on between
largely based on the author's own experiences in the same situation.
Child of Monlotton" In making "Change of Heart", which brings Miss Gaynor and Farrell to- A dance hall, covering one entire The director's mission will be to gether again on the screen after a stage, and capable of accommodating examine the present situation with separation of a year and a half, a nearly 400 dancers, was constructed reference to technical co-opera- notable supporting cast was selected at the Columbia studios in Hollywoodtion, particularly from the ad- that includes James Dunn and Ginger for scenes in "Child of Manhattan," Rogers as the other two collegians, Nancy Carroll's latest starring pro-ministrative side, and the estab and Beryl Mercer, Irene Franklin, duction which starts Wednesday at lishment of an organisation to By difference. Theas places varied RETURNS AFTER LONG STAY Gustav Von Seyfertitz, Drue Leyton, Alhambra Theatre. Taken from one ensure official co-operation.
Theodore Von Eltz and Fiske O'Hara, of New York City's most popular
There is also the complication John Blystone directed the picture, palaces of the dance, the set provided that cortaia large obstructions like kong since April 1933, when he went
After a long absence from Bong- under the personal supervision of Win: fun as well as employment for bund- of the Japanese attitude concern- feld Sheehan, and Sonya Lovies and reds of extras during the filming of ing international Interests in the side of the Peak hand shadowing
certain to London an adviser to the Chinese James Gleason wrote the screen play scenes of the screen story which tells China, which is doubtless partly effect which slightly Government at the World Economic of Mrs. Norris' entertaining novel. an interesting and fascinating tale of responsible for the Committee's weakened the conversation.
a taxi-dancer of the metropolia and decision not to renew Dr. Rajch- her romance. Miss Carroll was bor-mann's contract.---Reuter. rowed by Columbia from Paramount
from Victoria Hospital to North
Point, with occasional conversations
en route. It was however, noticed,
Phone for Every Cac
The experimentera stated that theso transceivers wore at present operating
IN EUROPE
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Conference, Sir Robert Ho Tung re- turned to the Colony by the Lloyd Triestino Haer Conto Verde on Satur day morning.
"Jewel Robbery
If you're looking for something especially to create the title role in delightfully different in the way of "Child of Manhattan" and John Bales,
Looking well, Sir Robicht was met motion picture entertainment, ses handsome portrayer of romantle roles Queen's Theatro and proved to be one at the very low power of three on arrival by a large number of re. "Jewel Robbery" at the Alhambra is to be seen opposite the red-haired, of the best-knitted baffling plote to quarters of a watt and that an in- Intives and friends, including Lady Theatre. The Warner Brothers ple- vivacious star. Other members of the come from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crease to about ton gratis would over-Ho Tung, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. Horace ture, which opened last evening, is one supporting cast are Clara Blandick, studios. William Powell, noted for. come the slight weakening.
La (his runs-in-law), Mr. B. W. Lo, of surprises and suspense from begin Charies Jones, Gary Owen, Jane Dar- his detective characterizations, playa Mr. Hio Kom-long, Mr. Ho KI, Mr. Honing to end with William Powell and well, Tyler Brooke, Nat Pendleton, an entirely different sleuth than in all Mr. Morriman sgrood that the ex-Wing, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Hung Tazo- Kay Francis again together in the Jessie Ralph, Botty Grable and War his formor poriments might some day eventuate yee, fr. J. Di Bush, the Hon. Mr. R.
pictures. As Nick same vehicle. But that's only one ofburton Gambio. The ploture was Charlee, the retired pleasure-loving in a "home-to-privato-car radio telo. Kotownil, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, many pleasures in store for the directed by Eddie Buzzell, Gertrude, detective, he gives the best perfor phone service since there were no Mr. Lau Ping-chai, Mr. Fung Houng theatregoers Hongkong. Powell is Purcell adapted the story to the screen mance of his screen sleathing career. Ereat difficulties from an interfer- chuen, Dr. Ng Wa and many, others, the arch-criminal of this sparkling, from the noted stage auccess of the Myran Loy, too, is soon in an entirely ence" point of view. There were, above
daring melodrama-but what a same name by Preston Sturgos..
different light than ifty mogacycles, ponsibly. sufficient i
hor former It will be recalled that Sir Robert criminall For this is no story of an
pictures. adiophone channels" to allow one for went to London viu Amerien. As the ordinary jewel-robbery and Powell is
Known chidy, for her emotional roles, Miss Loy makes her overy motor vehicle in Hongkong.... Chinese Government's adviser, his no ordinary robber. He is a super
debut as one of the screon's moat opinion ad important financial sub- Raffics, outwitting the police of
At last, a different brand of mystery charming light comediennes as Nore,
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Mr. Morriman and Mr. mden fects was many times sought by the Europe at every turn, robbing has been contributed to the screen, the lovely and wealthy wife of Nick are also studying the effects of rays chief Nanking delegato, Mr. T. V his aristocratic victims with man-one that avoids all the lunckneyed Charles Maureen O'Sullivan deer
living organista under the Suong. Sir Robert took the opporners that are the equal of their plots and horrore of the usual well with her part microscope. Ono germ which surviy tunity to undergo two operations, one own; charming them with his polished thriller, yet holds interest from be- Wynant, the bewildered daughter of Dorothy od long enough to be named in June and the other in December, personality until women are willing ginning to end and inspires many the Thin Man", and Nat Pendleton "Eustace," nally succumbed to a He spent considerable time in Switzer- tu part with their hearts as wall as hearty chucklos. It is "The Thin changes his spots by appearing for
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