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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935.
SERIAL STORY
SILKEN SPINDLES.
by Laura Lou Brookman
DEGIN, DERE TO-DAY
GALE, HENDERSON, pretty and 23, works fl. She and her 14-year-oli brother, in, support their invalid father. ETEVE MEYER who ako works in the mill saks Gate to marry him. the broma to kire him en khower in a few days,
Later that evening Gale om skating 60 the river, goes through the fee and is rescued by BRIAN WESTKÖRE, whose father, now send, bulit the mill, Brian sake Gale to walt]
henta ha car but, when he sets
Drian has come home after two years in Tar, convinced been never be an artist and eager to go to work in the wilt, VICKY THATCHER daughter of ROMEET THAT- CHEN, general maneger of the mill, schemes to entrate, Brian.
Brian men, Gale in the will and re contenises her. Next evening he aska ít de can i walk hame with bar, Gale refusam, but Steve sees them together and later she and Steve quarrel
Lonely. Gisle roer skating again. She meets Hiria and they skate together, He asks her La meet him again next evening.
anawer.
P......
CHAPTER XVI Brian went on, not waiting for an "We'll skate up the river," he said, "maybe as far as the Fulton Brdge. It's smooth all the way, they
ny. And solid
When there was no
answer he turned. "See here," he said, "you're not going to say you won't come Not doing the disappearing act again when we're just getting acquainted 7"
“Gale said, "No-" "You'd better not," Brian said heartily. "What time hall we make it?"
The compare was only bed of sucking combe, now. Brian turned h heel on a half-burned bit of drift wood and looked up. Gale had moved further into the shadows..
She said, "I shouldn't comTTON" "Why not?" "Because I shouldn't," she told him, "Doesn't sound like a good reason to me. Do you mean you don't want lo?"
"I didn't say that."
"Well, look here, you and I went to school together, didn't we? We're practically old friends. I' bat we low a lot of the same people
"Yes," she agreed, I suppose we de. But we're not in school new. I I can't stay and talk about it any longer. I've got to go"
"Of course I will! Good night.” "Good night--"
rummaging for her slippers. She caught, up an old flannel dressing robo and throw it around her,
"What's happened 1!! she demanded. "Is it".
She skated rapidly, but it couldn't hayo been the exercise that made her cheeks glow so warmly and set her pulse to pounding. It couldn't have "I don't know exacity," Phil told been the exercise that put the star-her: "Hig hasn't' over bean like this thine in the gray eyes,
- before. He says he can't got his
breath."
The lamp in the living room was burning as Gale.came up the front Walk She let herself in the house find; her father looked up from the book he was reading,
"Have a good time?" he asked, "Yes: The ico was like glass." "Many skating?"
"Quite a few."
Gale wasn't listening. Bhe flow down the ball to the front bedroom. "Father," she said, "what is it?!
Thin/big man, lying in the bed, gasped hoarsely, "I can't breathe," he said.--
||"But, Father—”
Gale was down on her knees besido him. Once more the sharp, wheezing come. "Can't got my
She went into the kitchen to dry Bound
her skates and put them away. When breath," Tom Henderson repeated. she came back she asked, “Phil hasn't "Here" He put his hand on his como in yet?"
chost, as though to indicate where the trouble was,
A
"No" Galo returned to the kitchen. few minutes later she was back. think I'll go to bed," she said. "Is there anything you want?"
Her father shook his head, “Go on and got your sleep," he said, "I'll read a little longer. Maybe Phil will
como-"
Gale said, "Phil, help met To- Igether they lifted their father, propping pillows behind him until he was half-lying, half-sitting.
But the whoczing continued. Gale had never heard anything like it "You'll have to get Doctor Carr," she Galo turned into the little box-like told her brother-and she could not bedroom. She slipped out of her keep her, voice from trembling. clothing and pulled a gown over her "Hurry, hurry as fast as you con, head. Then she stood before the Phil
mirror and He mumbled something and dis- quare,, old-fashioned brushed her hair. Fifty strokes on appeared. The sharp, rasping noise, elther side. Presently also put out the come from the bed again.
"Alr," Tom Henderson said. "I am!! light and erept between covera
But I was a long time before sleep want-air-
Gale came. Over and over Gule told her. self. "There can't be any harm in the high as it would go and the cath
at going skating. I won't do itair swept into the room. She pulled again; of course. But just this, once! her robo more closely about her, He isn't a bit like people think. He moved toward the bed. isn't a snob and he doesn't put on airs. He's been all places I want to gọ and seen the things I want to wee, and he's fun to talk to. It's silly to make such out of something that's just nothing at all."
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Her father nodded. She heard the outer door close atsl knew that Phil was on his way, The doctor's home was on the other side of town. PHI could telephone from the ature on the They were perfectly good arguments corner. No-he couldn't. It wouldn't but they couldn't quite silence the he open at this time. But the Nico- clear, small voice that objected, "You letti hnd 1 telephone. He could shouldn't have done it; you knew you wake them. shouldn't have promised to meet him. Ton Henderson's eyes were closed to-morrow."
now. He lay back against the pillow added some new ones. And all the thing icy tightened about the girl's Gale repeated the Reguments and and for one terrifying moment some- time she was seeing Brian Westmore heart. Then her father opened his "Not until you tell me when I'm she stood looking down at her, hear-eyes ngain. Slow colour came back going to see you again. What am I ing him say, " like you, Gale Hender- into the girl's cheeks. to do? You won't talk to me at the son I like you a lot—"
"Maybe something hot to drink mill. You won't let me walk home;
would help," she sald,
"T 6x it with
Can I cume to YOU
your
She couldn't forgel that. It was won't take a moment." house
something to keep tightly in her heart She hurried to the kitchen, lighted "No," she and quickly. "Oh, no, and cherish, something so precious the fire and got out a saucepan. In you mustn't do that"
that she was afraid to take it out and a few moments she was back with a "But I want to see you!" He was examine it closely even here in the pitcher of hot milk and a cup. "If near enough to touch her, though he darkness. It was something the pre- you'll try to drink this, Father, who did not. "I like you, Gale Heider- | Clousness of that moment Galu said, "I think it may make you feel Hon. I like you lot
wasn't ready to acknowledge even to better." The dark lashes were lowered. Her herself.
But he could not drink the milk. face, in the darkness, was only a
She went to sleep at last, dreaming Even that slight effort seemed too oval of misty-white, Gale did not of a pair of dark eyes that were much for him. The harsh, rasping speak for a moment. Then she said serious one moment and laughing at breathing continued. The girl, listen- slowly, "I'll-try to come. I can't you the next, hearing a voice that waxing, thought that the breathing sound promise for sure."
low-pitched, a trifle husky and excited weaker, more laboured, "What time?"
There was no other sound in the It Phil who awakened her, room-only the Arsht She felt his hand on her arm, and saw struggle for breath, the triangle of yellow light shining Gale pressed her hands together,
bont house. I'd rather you didn't "You'd better-get up," Phil sníd:-)!!1f-the doctor would only cowel" she Smith, Col.--II.-C.-Harrison D.8.0 handled through a syndicate as in
through the deerwny.
twisting them, unaware of the pain. "It's Dad. I'm afraid he's worse prayed. "If he'd only come?" Gale was out of bed in an Instant,
(To Be Continued.)
"The same time as to-night.” "I'll be waiting," he assured her. Gale stepped out on the fee. She said. "It's only a little way to the
come with me,"
"You're sure you'll be all right?"
CINEMA NEWS
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
Was
tortured
EGGS FROM CHINA
SUSPICIOUS MEMBERS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
goes to Paris on a vacation. Frank; Morgan will be seen as the modern industrial magnate who
to escape from the grind of business. and Elissa Landi an the girl who accompanies him on his trip. Joseph Schildkraut will be seen as the young You are not going to see Shirley Composer who owes his success to
London, Mar. 14. the benevolence of the millionaire, hut Temple in person nor hear her on the who forgets the loyalty be owes him rudio, if the ukase laid down by the when he falls in love with the
Chinese eggs again amused the child's parents and officials of the Fox Film Corporation in adhered to presents
millionaire's companion. The picture House of Commons to-day when You will never see her in a newsreel, Hamiliar trinagle.
a new treatment of the a few suspicious members bom- either, for Shirley, whose latest Bletheme handive in a delicate manner.
with # daring barded the Minister of Health "Bright Eyes," comes to the
(Sir Hilton Young) with King's Theatre on Saturday, is to be
tions. kept a feature serven personality and nothing else all as a safeguard to her health. Within recent months
"The Queen's Affair"
The flin-going public, nowadays Mr. G. Lambert (Nat.
Lab,
FORMER NR.A. CHIEF SEEKS LITERARY OUTLET
Washington, Mar. 14.
General
was the scene. of colourful
It is understood that spectacle last evening when thei 2nd, Battalion Royal Welch Hugh S. Johuson in considering Fusiliers Warrant Ofcers, Staff emulating some of the Washington Sergeants and Sergeants held their annual St. David's Ball. gentry whom he once characterized
in none too friendly tonea. In Over 400 guests attended, in-other words, he is considering be cluded in that number being is coming a columnist, Excellency the General Officer Commanding, Major General O. C.
AN reported by his friends, Barrett C., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.8.0.. Johnson would write two articles and Mrs. Borrett, Brigadier II. G. Seth-Smith D.S.D., and Mrs. Seth Weekly on current toples for sale to newspapers. Instead of being. and Mrs. Harrison, Lieut. Col. R.
E. Hindson, O. C. the Royal Welch the usual manner, the plan to for Fusiliers, and Mrs. Hindson, Col. Johnson and a former newspaper- W. J. H. Bilderbeck, o.u.E., and Mrs. man who is aiding him in the pre- Bilderbeck, Col. R. A. Bryden, ject to sell the articles themselves, D.3.0., and Miss Bryden, Cal. L. C.
Lewis and Mrs. Lowls, Col. J. H. direct to the papers, Morris, n.s.o., 0.3.E., and Mrs. J. H. Morris, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Ford- ham,
This, they maintala, will bring
Major G. R. P. Roupell, greater return-estimated at sey- V.C., and Mrs. Koupell, Lieut. Col. eral thousand dollars weekly. Al M. Carrington-Sykes and Mrs. that remains is to get the papers Carrington-Skyes, Lieut. Col. W.under contract.-United Press. C. Hartgill, Lieut. Col. E. R, Macpherson, the Rev. and Mrs. H.
and St.
Davies, Major and Mrs. Davies, from the loving cup and giving the Major T. C. Sharpe and Mrs. Regimental Lonst Sharpe, Major J. A. Grifin and David' Mrs. Griffin. Major J. Mullany,
Major. H. H. Dempsey and Mrs. During the evening Mr. Bor- Dempsey, Major E. S. C. Grune rett and Mrs. Hindson were pre- sented with bouquets of flowers by
quests have been made for Shirley actors and netresses playing the nese eggs were produced from W. P. Kenyon und Mrs. Kenyon. Betty Scott, who were dressed in
reys a great deal attention to the South Molton) declared that Chi- and Mrs. Grune, Capt. Allen, Capittle Miss Betty McGuiness
and
fed
Capt. J. Hooper ad Mrs. Hooper, Capt. J. D. Milne, Capt. W. J. the Welsh National costume. Fennell, and Capt. R. de B. Hardic. turn, Mrs. Borrett and Mrs. Hind- son presented the children with The hall was tastefully decorated chocolates. maroon and blue, while hung from C.S.M. E. Box. President; C.Q.M.S. The oficials at the Ball wore
In
to net as queen of a country fuir, to minor character parts in pictures. hens fed under the most loath- naldress 10,000 children, In a public And rightly so. Without the "minll- park, to open a flower show, to ap- part specialists to support them many me conditions. He asked the pear beford women's clubs, breakfast stars would
the Chinese be quite helpless and Minister how elaba, and dealers' conventions; to be films would be as Interesting as mud hens, phutographed with new refrigerators, nata. Every studio has its list of tractors, railway trains crates of let-small-part specialists on whor it The Minister for Health biandly in the Regimental colours of Luce and groups of visitors to South-regularly calls. For example, im- disclaimed, any knowledge, and en California. All of the olfers were portant parts in The Queen's Af- added that a most careful watch the balcony were ahlelda which the. Price, treasurer: Sgts. P. Evans, . gratefully acknowledged by Shirley's fair showing at the King's Theatre was being kept on Chinese eggs. parents and by studio executives, but to-day, are played by four artists There was no positive evidence of politely declined,
who have frequently been associated with successful British and Dominions danger to health. pictures, Gibb MeLaughlin appeara
Thereupon, Sir R. S. Horne Lovely
Elissa Landi, Paramount as General, Muriel Aked as a Lady-Co Hillhend) asked
in-Waiting, Miles Malleson
the star, has the leading role in "Enter Madame," Sunday's attraction at the Chancellor and Clifford Heatherley as Minister to recommend the Re- Queen's Theatre which has
a diploniat. They are four of the freshment Committee of the House Cary Grant featured. This new film which most famous featured players in to have a fow Chinese eggs placed was adapted from the stage play of British films, and so consistently have; in the refreshment room with a
"Enter, Madame"
да
the same name, is a romantic comedy British films that it is almost im
their services been used in recent view to testing them. (Laughter.)
about a man who marries an opera possible to keep track of their star and acquires an entourage. Fed.
Major-General Sir A. W. F. up with his wife's neglect, he Dully numerous appearances. Now for the Knox (Con, Wycombe) amid gen- runs away from her only to have her at times all four appear together in cral laughter, naked "WI the
British and Dominions pieturu and Inovitable recon- cillation and a happy ending. Filmed their work is that of veterans in the Minister for Health lay some of the agalust a background of actual opera in "The Queen's Affair" inevitably House-Reuter,
business of acting. Their appearance these eggs on the table of
| pursue him with
scenes
"Enter Madame" features Richard Bonelli, Metropolitan Opera heightens its ontertainment value..
PA Wicked Woman".
Regiment find won. In front of the w. Beard, G. Mantle and stage, on lurge stand, were over
J.
eighty beautiful trophies which the Flanagan, Committee; and C. Sgt. battalion had won on the sports D. Randall, C.Q.M.S. A. Cheatham, fields of the world and in different Sgt. G. Wills and L/Sgt. I
Smithors, M.C.S. military competitions.
Music was supplied by the Battalion orchestra under Band Sergt. Flanagan, the dancing commencing at
8.30 p.m. finished at 3 a.m.
Ceremonials
and
The Ball, was attended by several brilliant ceremonials which are nilied to the Welch Fusiliers. Shortly after 9.30 p.m. the Colours were marched in, carried by C.Q. to the tune of the "Grenadiere" M.S. J. Price and C.Q.M.S. J. Edge,
March
Past Included in the parade was the Regimental goat.
The goat made its second ap
#lar, and Nina Kouclietz, famouK soprano, is heard in the operatic role
in the role of Naylor, newspaper Elllatt Nugent is credited with the direction of this film and appearing star, making her
Mudy Christians, brilliant Viennese editur while a good supporting cast bow in American also appears. Botty Furness is seen in the supporting cast are Sharon films in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Aasithe heroine's home-loving daughter, Lynne, Lynne Overman, Paul Porcast Wicked Wontan" which opened yeater-William Henry, as the reporter son, and Adrian Rosley.
day
the Queen's Theatre was born and Jean Parker, Metro-Goldwyn- "Sistern Under the Skin"
in Vienna, daughter of a fanious Mayer's youngest feminine star playa pearance during the celebration European actor, Rudolph. Christians. Rosanne, the frivolous daughter who when the traditional ceremony of With Elissa Landi, Joseph Schild-The Waltz Dream" and other hits Directed by Charles Barbin, "A Seven sergeants who had joined
in an illelt love affair. "enting tho leck" She won fame in such pletures as Indulges
took place. kraut and Frank Morgan in the in Germany, France and England, Wicked Woman" reaches an amazing the Mess since the previous Ball, principal featured roles. Columbia's and then came to the New York stage dramatic climax in a courtroom and together with the wives of four of daring drama, "Sisters Under the in Vicki Baum's "The Dliwin Drudge one is spellbound by the beauty, the men, stond on chairs Skin comes to the Star-Theatre, to- and Rachel Crother's "Talent." She personality and fine acting of the centre production has for its was signed by Bi-G-M. and this is her new star. The story was originally lock carriers entered. Each of the central theme the love of a married first American filma, Playing opposite purchased for Helen Hayes and Taye eloven persons was presented with man multi-millionaire business Miss Christians in this new produc- bare a woman's soul, devotion and a lock which they ate to the roll leader, for a showgirl with whom he tion, is Charles Bickford: who is seen encrifice.
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