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1934.
BEACH CLUB GIRL
CHAPTER XXII
By MABEL MCELLIOT
proverbial last straw fast dleappogrej pan on its hooks she heard Buss at the Ing
door. He came in briskly, bringing a It was too late now for Boots to "We must see each other soon truth of cou, srean air with fun. pretend she hadn't seen isabol. The again, was the burden of Isabel's "The boy wonderl” He thumpod other girl's warm, welcoming hand song Boots, agroeing, still foit the himself on the chart. was in hers. Her bright eyes were barrier between them. The old foot- full of friendly interest. It was as if hold could not be regained, however the months between their last meeting did not exist.
"Why, Boots dear," Isabel said again and again. "But how terribly nel And I had been thinking of you! But I didn't know you were in New York. I hadn't the least idea...
Boots ran into his arms. "You've got something ?!" ... strang the bond was. Her new life "Yep!" Ho hold her off at arm's was too confused and too uncertain for lengen. A club at Miami. Better plans. At length she promised to than the one last year." telephone, to write.". Her own address she did not give. They were moving any day now, she said. “
"We were to have gone to Florida
It was difficult after all this to go before this," Boots offered Vaguely, Dack to the shabby flat. Somehow it walking along beside her, "but we're had never seemed so sordid, so de still out on Long Island." "Out on finitely run-down-at-the-hool," before. Long Island" sounded rather better, Glodia was at home, spreading pattern on the whole, than "Astoria." Isabel papers and a gaudy purple and rod allk was polite, faabel did not ask where remnant of printed silk all over the on Long Island the young Lunds were living room floor. living. Boots blessed her for the omission.
"Russ called," Gloria looked up to "Will you have lunch with me?" you he thought he had something lined say abstractedly. He said to tell Isabel bubbled. "Here I was, hating up and he wouldn't be home for sup to eat alone you know me of old~per." and
all thatally starving to`death and
Boots danced in sheer. excitement. "Miamil. I've never been there."
"Hold on a minute, kiddy. I can't take you with me. You'll have to stay behind for a while at least."
(To Be Continued.)
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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES American Jurists contend that it' le Boots sat down in the tufted plush better to grant divorces in the pre- chair,
the springa of which were al-iminary stages of marital disharmony und just about to stop for ready sagging. The collector had not than to permit unhappiness to drag luncheon myself Boots sald brightly. received the full amount for this chair along for yours, with the chance that "But I forget about it, shopping."
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company. The prospect, especially Sinners Meet, co-starring Dians **This old
after Isabel's
el's amusing chatter, was Wynyard and Clive Brook in their rippling laugh the hoped fervently was
The story deals with the convincing, positively maidy.this Wife tolerable for her. Without cade." had to get something to wear... and him there was simply nothing... dilemma of English husbands and things for the south, too, although
She hung up her things neatly and wives who find themselves chained to
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She
they do not love. In #Roo early” much in that line began to mend her other pair of stock-mates whom
ings. If there were only some books England, perforce, one must sin to Isabel nodded
Inbout, she thought wildly, finishing gain freedom. Hence, referring to the odded sympathetically. had her arm linked in that of her that task. If there woro a plano. shortest route to Paris and quick friend. They were opposite one of os. But only the snipping sounds diva common presion in London.
divorce, "They the Dover those big, plato-giassod tea-rooms so of her
Claverly
enacted by a brillant cast. Billie Burke, the plot ex- plaits all the little unhappy traits of man and women which wear out, like drips of water on the hardest stone, the greatest love ever born. "Where Sinners Meet" comes to the King's Theatre, on Sunday.
a
doar to feminine hearts. Isabel, guld-cars. No wonder people in these little ing her, whealed expertly through the boxon of fat aught the movies as including
*IN CALFLS of escape. There was nothing shopping throngs, steered her through aise to do, nothing else to look for- the revolving doors. Boots faintly
protested
ward to, Please take time for just a bite. Picasal Isabel begged prottily.
Boots, thinking of the lone quarter in her flat change parse, shuddered in- wardly. But the next words re
assured her.
"IL'S
ult
"Shall I fix things for dlaner ?!! Gloris shrugged. "Well, I got some sausage and there's a can of corn,"
Somehow Boots got through the
"Life in the Raw"
rest of the afternoon; the early fall For those who cravo bristling action, evening closed in. Lights winked on smashing conflict and thundering my birthday. I want to splurge in all the square windows. Children drama, Life In The Raw," has been Daddy gave me $20," said huddled around a bonfire in a vacant made to order! This Fox film, Taabel, answering the black-frocked lot at the end of the block. The prosvitalized by George O'Brien from the hostess' nod and following her to a peet was dull and uninteresting, but inimitable pen of Zane Grey, is coming table for two. "Let's have the cream-Boots from her porch envied the small to the Alhambra Theatre on Sunday. ed chicken and the double chocolate struggling figures milling about the It is a pageant of the West-element Ice cream cake. Membar how we scarlet flare, tasting the good smell al, vigorous, dynamic-riding to life used to love it?"
of wood smoke and burning fingers in from the story by the peer of Western their attempts to take toasted marsh-story-tellers! "Life In The Ray" mallows from the end of the stick. human drama fa a Western
*
#
So it was Isabel's party after all, Over their beaped plates the two girls reviewed, explained, murmured.
"You haven't soon your mother?” at
18.
locate...
ento- the
stripping the veneer from real tions...revealing simple nature in heart of everyone concerned. George O'Brion has a new leading lady...one She is of the finest he has over had. Clare Trevor, star of such successful Whistling in the The Party's Over!" Others in the cast are the glamorous
Up at Larchneek, at this time of last Isabel anked with gravity agar, leaves ore heaped-in great piles Boots shook her head. In spite of Lor burning. Her mother, in her old her manful efforts her eyes swam in a gray sweater and a well-worn tweed mist. Her
thickened.
would be raking, too, in the skirt, would voice
a match to the haven't really dared," she said.
lower garden, setting
words throat at the thought. Isabel's She doesn't dare," Isabel told her, kad tugged at her heartstrings. Her Greta Nissen, with Franels Ford,
mother her own eyes watering in impulsive Wh
miss her, frafted over her. Warner Richmond, Gaylord Pendleton, Alan Edwards and Nigel De Brullor. rympathy. "I do think your father is Why, sometimes at night she woke up The direction is by Louis King. being mean about it. Why, people
in a cold fright, shivering at the she would pover elope all the time. There's nothing thought that perhaps
"Daddy's so mad at mo. I wrote her neat piles. Boots felt a lump in Dark"
twice. She didn't
answer
"We're Not Dressing" "We're Not Dressing," coming to the She shook off the sick fancy. Russ Oriental Theatre on Friday and Satur The picture features Hing
terrible about it. He's behaving like see her mother
a. atone agu father
籍
I don't blame him," Boots said would do fine things, make something y
thickly, painfully, glancing down at big of himself. Then she wouldn't be Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns
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We're Not Dressing" is:
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The Trumpet Bl."
a tall them all about it. sideration beforehand. But she woulded passengers of a) know," to to restore a more cheerful atmosphere, been for the best. "But you know what I'd do if I were Lou came in and lights went on in your place?
cel I'd go up there some garishly, brilliantly all over the small day, see my mother and fix everything square roots. The smell of frying Just don't pay any attention to meat and bubbling corn permeated the him," advised Isabel gaily. "And apartment. once your mother spes you-why, she missos you frightfully, you can im- aging everything will be all right.” *****I could kill myself when I think of hurting her that way," Boola xaiḍi youthfully.
Ritz,
"Aren't you hungry?
"No. Not very." Boots hesi fated over the words "I met an old friend. She took me to lunch.”
•
The
Trumpet Blown, George Raft's latest starring picture for Pata Gloria's eyes lighted avidly. The mount, is now showing at the King's huh! Guess you can't see our Theatre. Supporting him are Adolpho Isabel patted her hand. "You take ente" Her face looked mean, looked Menjou, Frances Drake, Sidney Toler, the train up there some morning when curious in the bright glare of the Katherine DeMille, Edward Ellis and your father In enfely out of the house," ; overhead fixture.
the sald. "Everything will be siniply "N64 Boots Bald quietly. "Just a
See if it isn't Boots, thinking of hor empty puros,
tearoom.
Lou ate quickly, noisily, not joining of the fare to Larchseck, nodded dizain the conversation. Ho did not be ly. She couldn't tell Isabel about lieve in "jawing" at meal time, he that, though. There were some things often said. Eating was a serious you simply kept to yourself.
business.
They clung to each other on part- Boots offered to wash the dishes and Ing-Isabel in 题 girlish jumble of Gloria, anxious to get back to her warnings and whispered affection, baating, did not protest. At nine) Boots as a drowning man who sees his o'clock when she was hanging the last
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