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1934.
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BYLVIA RIVERS, richest zin. Larch neck, Cashionable New York suburb, dislikes 10018 RAEBURN. Due to Sylvia's malf elors Everly, Hoots la naked to realan frou the Junlar.
Huts and reckless, Boots accepts the alton flone of KUBS LUND, swimming atructor. He saks her to marry him int Hoots want
time to think it over.
When Mrs. Haebuen return from a trip ut of town Bonts dreads her mother's learn ing bout her withdrawal from the club, Pouta goes to New York on a shopping trip and on the train, encounters us who be Jer to marry Mis next day. He agrees, fluss goes to spend the night with his family, Iraving Boots at a hotel.
DESIN FENWAY, Young auther, who i Interested in Boots, sets the couple together
I hotel lobby.
CHAPTER XX
It was a dream-it was all dream like. The bare, busy room with its grated window and the businesslike! man asking questions behind it. The yellow-balred girl in the frankly cheap silk dress, staring with open curiosity, The other giggling couples and one stofd, elderly group.
Boots signed her name; they all wont away in a taxi. Boots had already sent a telegram to her par- ents, saying she was to be married, She didn't know-she could not imagine how or why things bod come to pass In this way. She hadn't expected to be married in this fashion. What her mother would feel, she did not even dare to think. In the back of her mind, however, was the con- fused feeling that all old scores were thus being paid off in Larchneck. She would not have to go back, to face the smiles and the patronage of ber enemies, She was free. Marriage would set her free..
The dreamlike daze persisted all through the hurried and brief cere- mony at a dingy aptown church, whose denomination she did not even trouble to learn. The minister was thin, anxious, harried, and accepted his donation from Russ with an almost pathetic show of gratitude,
Then, auddenly, it was over. The yellow-haired girl whom Russ called Gloria and her husband, Russ's bro- ther, went away, leaving Boots and her bridegroom alone together. She be- gan to tremble. It wasn't a game after all. It was terribly real, ter- ribly earnest. She was this man's wife now, forever and evvT.
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"Find me some sucks, will
you, Hon?"
Ross rolled over, stretched, yawned, reaching out a long, muscular arm to embrace her, The girl. her thin gown, a cheap new negligee thrown over her shoulders, moved away.
"We should have been up fours ngo," she said in an undertone, with a glance at the closed door sepurating the living room of Lou's fat from the box-ilke entrance hall beyond which came the smell of burning
inant. "It's terrible.
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
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her young husband. Indeed, though; ence of vanished meals, with she might have been disappointed alacrity which would have amazed hor about the background of her now life, mother. The eggy plates, the his love-making, still held in it with their smoky droge of darkly breath-taking quality for her. She suspicious liquid, the staled and was a woman grown now, she remind sticky spoons she plunged into a pan ed herself proudly, looking at hor of suds. She had been wanting all flushed checks in the mirror. She week to clean that coffee pot. This was beloved how churlish of hoe was her chance! to mind the fact that Lou used double togatives and that his table mannera were not those familiar to polite society! In a few days now, in a week she and Russ would be on the open road. It would all be blue skies and green fields. All this dreariness would be forgotten."
"What Beautiful
are you thinking about,
She embled at, him. He was only a litle boy at heart, really. Some times she foll warlds older than he.
"Thinking that I'm starved to death and that I want my breakfast and that you ought to be up at that Bronx garage seeing if they've got the car fixed, ..."
Ruas rolled over, staring out of the window. "Don't nag, sweetness. It's bad for the skin."
"Oh, I wasn't” ale proteated, horror-stricken at the bare iden. "I only thought.
"Don't think, then1"
When Ruas came whistling into the kitchen 15 minutes later, his cockatoo's creat of leaf-brown hair slick and dripping, he found Doota wiping plates and spoons with housewife's prkle. Fresh coffee percolated on the gas burner. Thero were four slices of golden toast piled in a saucer.
"I couldn't find any oranges," she told him, peering into the refrigera. for.
"Sa-ay, Duchess, where d'you think you are at the Ritz?" Russ wanted to know, pretending to affix a manoela, "Oranges!"
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He poured himself a brimming sup, tilted the small squat bottle, rin.med and collared with a yellow scruff of LIVERPOOL SERVICE hardened cream, and drank. Boots He got up, silencing hor with kisses. opened her mouth to say something This, reflected Boots wearlly when he and closed it again. It would be time had retired to the bathroom, behind enough later, when they were by them- NEW YORK SERVICE whose door sounded wild splashing selves, to teach Russ that men did not and sputtering, this was the way all behave this way with their wives.... their arguments ended. It was "right) She considered what he had just and proper, in the circumstances, she said. Was it true that the things supposed; but there were some mat- she had always accepted as part of ters too important to be settled that, way. Oh, well, noon they'd be out of her everyday life up in Larchneek were really, luxuries" to the sort of this depressing atmosphere and she people whose lot she now shared? wouldn't have to argue about things.
She began to respect her father more She began carefully to make up than she over had before for providing the couch in daytime fashion, folding her with the life she had known. the gray sheets meticulously, piling She had never had any real perspec-
pillows. This floor, up the
ahe tive on herself before. She was just thought, ought to be cleaned to-day. a pretty, clever girl who had always If she only had a vacuum cleaner, expected the good things of life and if she had some liquid wax... But who had been surprised and dis- she dared not make any auch sugges- contented when they did not come to tion to Glorin whose housekeeping was her. of the most casual order.
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"I'lleurs," she said now, quietly, to her husband..
Her own few belongings she packed away in the imitation leather bag Russ
He glanced up quickly at the tone. had bought for her. They, were "Here, Beautiful, you're going to pitifully few. A gown, a toothbrush, get your hands all red, doing that a pair of red slippers, some handker- dirty work. For the first time ho chlefs from the dine store. Russ was seemed to be aware of her absorption "n little short just now," he had com- in the task of cleaning Glorin's din plained shamefacedly. He was "ex-couraging kitchen," "Look, don't be à pecting some money any day." Boote dumb-hell. Let that sloppy wench was too young, to inexperienced, to clean her own paus.' inquire further into their finances,
While Russ was carolling in the tub she went rather shyly out into the kitchen. Gloria was sitting on the window all.. poring over a tabloid. She looked up without Interest as the other girl entered.
"Oh, I left some coffee," she said vaguely, "I'm going out in a min- ute. Over to my girl friends. We want to seek Clark Gable down at the Empire and the show starte at 11."
"Is it that late?" Boots glanced remorsefully at the alarm, clock on the kitchen dresser. The hands point- ed to half-past 10.
They had been married a week now. They were, presumably just stop ping" at Lou's for a short space before going on to new fields. The whole experience had been a revealing one to the girl who had expected the glamour and romance of open fields and new scents to gild her young Gloria took the paper with her and married life. Instead the four walls retired to the box-like bedroom down of Gloria's shoddy living room en- the hell. In 15 minutes she emerged, compassed-hot-Russ said. inzily, her makeup freshly laid on, her yellow when she pressed him, that he was sports dress not too clean but still "getting the car fixed up?" and very Jounty. further, he thought she ought to "go up and see the folks and find out if they had any ideas."
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"Help yourself," she said, belatedly hospitable, at the door. "Til be seein' you."
Boots sighed with relief as the of any such slam of the street door attested to At the baro notion procedure Boots' heart sank. She was the other's departure. She attacked outwardly docile and sweet toward the kitchen, with ita depressing avid-l
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"You
mustn't call her naules. We're accepting her hospitality, after all," Boats protested, struggling with a hank of steel wool, attempting to scour a frying pan which steadily re. Risted her efforts.
"Aw, she's a pain in the neck," Russ blustered, swallowing. the last of his coffee and reaching out a hand for more toust "Lou owen me lots more than this; I've always been n pal."
Boots refused to argue the matter. They had been over this ground before, "Well, anyway, we ahan't be here much longer," she said with pretanded cheerfulness. "Shall we, dearest?"" Russ began to whistle. It was a way he had. When you didn't want to answer a question you whistled,
"Little girls shouldn't go worrying | about things," he said na she.persist- ed. Then he had his arms around her, his face was buried in fragrance of her hair.
"Love me, Beautiful?" "Of course I do!" But she sighed as she struggled free from his embrace. This wasn't the answer to her problem.
(To Be Continued.)
the
Harry Green and Eugane Pallette, plays the role of Nick Charles, an James Cruze directed. The film is entirely different type of character an adaptation of Anne Cameron's than any he has played before. In Saturday Evening Post story, "Green earlier detective thrillers the detec Dice", the screen play of which was tive usually was on the outside of the written by Ralph Spence and Sanya plot. In "The Thin Man", the story Levlon. Will Rogers declared it to be in woven around Nick Charles. Co the most poignant and human comedy he has had to date,
starred with Powell is Myrna Loy, rapidly proving herself one of the The most beautiful girls in the
most popular of the screen's feminine world, tuneful melodies, n cast of
"The Trumpet Blows"
personalities. Prominent in the sup popular performers, a trio of new George Raft's second starring pic porting cast of "The Thin Blan" fresh comers, a murder mystery, and Duke ture, "The Trumpet Blows" a story of from her triumph in "Tarzan and His Ellington and his orchesten, all wrap- Mexico and the bull ring, comes on Mate" Is Maureen O'Sullivan, as well ped, up in a single package labelled Thursday to the King's Theatre. It as Nat Pendleton and Minna Gombelt, Enri Carroll's "Murder at the Vani-Paramount picture, featuring Other players include Porter Hall. Adolphe Menjou, Frances, Drake, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, ties", In showing at the King's Theatre Sidney Toler, Edward Ellie, Katherine Harold Huber, Cesar Roniert, Natalie Lo-day only hy special request. It is DeMille and Francis McDonald, and Moorhead. Edward Brophy, Edward a filmization of the Earl Carroll show was directed by Stephen Roberi ture was directed by W. S. Van Dyke.
Ellis, and Cyril Thornton, The pic Was written by which was produced on Broadway The story, which
Porter Emers Browne and adapted this year. For it. Carroll brought to the screen by Wallace Smith, la some of his own beautiful showgirls a tempestuous romance in a back- to Hollywood, and dozens of additional ground of Mexico and the bull ring. beauties of the films capital were added George Raft, who has just completed to the cast. They are just as lovely his education in the United States, ture, written and directed by Frank returns to the home of his brother, a Capra under whose direction she made
"Forbidden"
Barbara Stanwyck comes to the Alhambra Theatre on Friday. In Forbidden, her latest Columbia ple-
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wealthy rancher. Menjou wants Ladies of Leisure" and "The Miracle "the most beautiful girls in the world". Raft to settle down now, marry and Woman." Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Such popular actors as Victor McLag-forget all about bull fighting. The Bellamy are featured with her, the let, Jack Oakie, Gertrude Michael, younger brother does change his mind cast also including Dorothy Peterson, Charles B. Middleton, Gail Patrick when he meets Frances Drake. But Charlotte V. Henry, baby Myrna and others contributo their share of later, learning his brother loves the Fresholtz, Hallwall Hobbes, Thontas his teacher Jefferson, Claudo King and Tom the raystery and entertainment. The girl too, he returns
return to lekaits. "Forbidden" was written newcomers are Carl Brisson, Kitty and makes plans for Carlisle and Dorothy Stickney. The the world's most dangerous profes especially to bring out the greatest ntory deals with the opening night of sion. Injured, he loses his first fight; display of tiles Stanwyck's talents. Carroll's "Vanities" in New York and his courage gone, he becomes a In his previous direction of the star, First an unknown, mysterious woman coward, drinking heavily. However, is found dead, and then one of the through a series of unusual incidente Frank Capra realized she had emer embracing the three people, Rafflm role she had over had. "Forbid tional powers nover yet tapped by any principals of the show is murdered on finally redeents his honour, wins his don' lets her run the gamut of the stage during a number. McLag heart's desire and his brother's love, emotions in a story that follows the len eventually solves the dual killing and brings the picture to thrilling development of a woman from a drab with a unique solution."
endlag.
"Mr. Skitch"
Jittle librarian to a brilliant, benut "The Thin Mian" ".
ful woman of the world—from a lone- ly girl to a woman whose love, faith "Mr. Shitch", the now Fox film
"The Thin Man", ΠΟΥ Metro- and courago enabled her to sacrifice opening to-morrow at the Queen's, Goldwyn-Mayer-Cosmopolitan picture her own career for that of the man In conjunction with the world-famous which is now showing. the Queen's she could love only in secret. A splen- Acrobats and comedians, The Palm Theatre has been acclaimed by pre did production has been given "For- Trio, has two of the screen's outstand viewers as one of the most unusual bidden" by Columbia. The two lead- ing players in the leading roles.mystory thrillers that have you come ing characters moet on a Havaan- They are Will Roger and Zau Pitts, from Hollywood. The story was bound boat and the beautiful Cuban each bringing to the picture a career written by Dashiell Inmmott, the capital in the scone of their love. of tremendous brilliance. Rochelle undisputed master of detective-story Back in New York again the scene Hudson, boautiful and talented young, fletion in America. It tells the talo | shifts front a newspaper offico to actrons, honds the supporting cast of Nick Charles, ex-detective, and of politics and a palatius Park Avenue and Charles Starrett has the juvenile three bailing murders that involved homo. Misa Stanwyck wears many leading role opposito her. Others in him wifiv-nilly with the Wynent stunning gowns and the rule offers the castaro Florence Desmond, Family, Willam Powell, famous for her a chance to show her versatility farious" impersonator of movie stars, detectivo portrayals on the screen, in make-up as well as in acting."
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