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SERIAL STORY-
MARCH
25, 1935.
SILKEN SPINDLES
by Laura Lou Brookman
·CHAFTER XXIV ·
Miss Groves wouldn't have kept hert Dangerous for themselves and for walting if it had been anything like others! They've talked to this girl, tried to make her ulasatisfied with that.
It was an hour after lunch titno. Slanting sunshine came through the
But why was she here? Gale look conditions in the mill, telling her the high windows into tho great, gray room where machines, row. on row, ed about the room. There was low workers are underpaid and the hours were pounding and roaring Spindles stand with growing-planis before the too lone and I don't know what all. "She didn't know what to do. She whirled and hands moved up and window. There were plctures on tho,
a picture heard there was going to be a moet- down. Gale, bending to reach a bob walls. One of them was' bin, did not see Clyde Fisher coming Gale had seen before-a country seane ing to organize the mill workers in with a long rond disappearing into apposition to the company. These toward her.
She looked up quickly as she heard the distanco and treca on both sides ather girls insisted she must come to his voice. "You're wanted up front," The growing plants and the pictures the meeting. She was afraid of what he told her. "Miles Groves. Known the other furnishings made this might happen if she didn't go-and room jeom home-like. It would be of what might happen if she did. where her office is?"
pleasant, working in a room like that. Night after night she worried about away from the noise and machinery-It and finally she did the right thing Do you know Miks Groves put down the letter-she came to me. then and sorted through some cards what I told her?"
Gale shook her head, on her desk. She picked up one, Your name," she said, glancing at the card. "Is Gale Henderson?"
"Yes."
Gale said that she did. "You can go now," Fisher told her. "But see that you don't waste any time getting back."
Gale walked down the long cor- ridor and turned to the right. Miss Groves was known as the "personnel Gale knew little about her" director. except that she interviewed new girls before they came to work and asked them questions, some of them em- barrassing. Miss Groves had come to the till since Gale started to work there and Gale had never been in her ofce.
Was
1
But u summons from "up front"
bad omen. What could it! mean? Galo remembered that Josle had been called to. Miss Groves' offico once that time her sister was taken sick.
Suddenly the girl's heart beat faster. Her father! Could anything have happened at home? No, she wouldn't belleve it she wouldn't!
"And you've been employed in the mill for two years?"
"It's a little more than that now." Miss Groves pursed her lips and studied the card. She went on as though Gale had not spoken. "You Ivo in the mill village, do you not?"
"Yes."
"With your father and brother?" Gale nodded,
"Are there any other members of the household?"
"No."
•
"I told her to go to the meeting and hear what was said there. I told her the best way she could help these other employes was to let me know what it going on. Because it's my work to help our girls, even when they're in the wrong. But how can
help them unless I know just such things 7 1 told her she and I would work together to stamp out this dan- gerous, un-American propaganda. She left me, completely reassured. She's taking the right course and knows it."
Miss Groves looked at Gale and "Your brother works in the mill, went on in her purring voleo. "You see how a few words" at the right too, I believe?"
tline Gale said that he dki.
can mean everything? We Bren't going to let employer of this in stray into dangerous radicalism. Wa're going to keep our great big family happy and intact. Tell me," her eyes narrowed, "do you know of
-
hell?
She walked more rapidly. If her
diss Groves laid the card on her father was suddenly worse or any- thing had happened to Phil! Thero desk. "What I have to say to you," were accidents in the mill some times. she went on, "is, of course, just be
We have our littlo She'd seen Art Morini taken away tween ourselves. to be taken off. And there was the Groves smiled, a smile which to Gale Leota had said there was going to with his arm crushed so that it had talks here my girls and I-and after such meetings that have been ward our lips are sealed." Miss Gale thought of Leota Boller. Frasier boy
Breathlessly Gale opened the door was somehow repellent. "I like to be a meeting but not that there had of the porsonnel director's office. It call this room our Confi-corner behen one was an attractive office with a green cause it is here I learn how to know: rug on the floor and chintz curtainsy girls and they learn to know me."las anyone asked you to join a I don't believe you've been here be-group with the icon of opposing the fore, Gale, have you?”
over the Venetian blinds. There was a bookcase and several chairs and on the left, near the window, a mahogany deak on which were books and papers and a slender vase containing two
TOBUS.
"No."
"No, Miss Groves."
company"
"No.
"Well, we must get acquainted. I
Miss Groven sighed. "I'm glad to want to be friends with all the girls hear it, she said. "Of course its in this great mill. All of them!important to know how far this dix- The woman who sat at the dosk There are so many ways in which we loyalty has gone. Frankly, I was
want them to worried. I called you in because wore a blue dress with white at the cue to me with their little pecrets knew you were one of our stendy,
can help each other. throat and cuffs. She was trille stout and the way her hair was fluffed and their problems and know that reliable employes. I'm sure you un
I will help them. You see. I love derstand that rebellion of this sort out about her face seemed a bit too girls sol I feel that it is a great will demand discipline. The company young for her. She had a round face privilege I have here, coming in touch will be obliged to punish those who and a high-ridged nose on which were with so many young lives, Wonder- defy them. And it distresses me be perched spectacles. It wasn't a dia
agreeable faco unless you noticed thful young livest Youth in such a cause. I love young people and I know
lines about the rather thin lips.
way.
"Ye "what is IL?"
-
she
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wonderful thing, my dear. Don't you that, underneath, none of them are think so?"
really wrong-headed. They only "I suppose it is," Gale agreed,
make mistaken. Mins Groves put a hand, on the
Gale shifted uncomfortably. 'Sho
She glanced up from the letter she was reading to the girl in the tuor-girl's arm. "Of course it is. There's remembered Clyde Fisher had said, sald crisply, nothing in the world so wonderful as "Don't waste any time getting back." youth. And you have it. You're He would be angry because she had young. I want you to tell me your stayed so loug. And why did she problems, iny_dear,"
"Are you Miss Groves?”
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"But, Miss Groves"
have to sit there, listening to Mias "I'm Gale Henderson. Mr. Fisher}
Groves 7 How could she get away? said you wanted to see mo
"Now, now! Of course you have
The personnel director went on, "Oh--Gale Henderson. Yes." The problema. Everyone has his or her slowly. "A bright girl-a girl who personnel manager's manner unbent problems and it does as good to talk keeps her eyes open-learns a great slightly. "Yes, I did want to see you. them over. That's why we have our many things. And I'm sure you're In that chair Confi-corner. Such a lovely young a bright girl.. If you have anything Sit down, won't you?
girt was here, sitting in the same chair to report, from time to time, I hope there," -Miss-Groves returned to her letter you're sitting in, half an hour ago. you'l-come-to-see-me--Fussure-you- i and Gale sat in the chair beside the She came to me because she wanted can make it-well, shall we say, desk. She felt relieved. It couldn't advice and I gave it to her. It seems to your advantage? Can I count on bo un nccident or anything that had some of the girls she works with have you, Gale?" happened at home, she was pure, taken up some, very dangerous ideas.!
(To Be Continued).
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JUBILEE REVIEW
KING TO LEAD FLEET TO EXERCISES IN MAY
"Little Man, What Now 7" The trials and hardships of a minor Capturing the spirit and beauty of "white cellar man," and his brave, un
A bullet in his head and is own the novel from which it was adapted. daunted wife, are graphically shown "The Age of Innocence", starring in "Little Man, What Now?" Frank revolver lying by his side, Acting Irene Dunne and John Boles, comes to Borzage's Universal drama which is Sub-Inspector Thoman Carson was the King's Theatre on Tuenday. Noted at the Star Theatre with Magaret found dead in his quarters at the as one of the classics of modern Sullavan starred and Douglans Mont- Kowloon City Police Station u-few American literature, the story deals gomery in the leading male role-minutes before 8 o'clock last night,
Portsmouth, Mar. 23. with the convention-ridden ern that in "Little Man, What Now?" Bor- The tragic discovery was made marked the close of the lost century, zage is suid to have produced a filting
Portsmouth and Southsea haye and gives intimate glimpses of life muccessor to "Seventh Heaven," bi by Carson's room boy who, acting
instructions received earlier completed plans for a brilliant week as lived by members of New York's sensational success in the era of silent on then Four Hundred. The picture pictures, and to have presented in the day, had come to call him of royal festivity in July, when the-
Shortly after 7.30 1.TIL and to adhere closely to the story of powerful exposition of the problema of Edith Wharton's book, which won the youth; able to achieve romanee-and other station-officers-were-at-din- King will hold the Jubilee Review | Pulitzer Prize 1920, and which was happiness in the most sordid surround-ner, a sound resembling a shot of the Fleet at Spithead," inter dramatized by Margaret Ayer ings. The cast supporting Miss Sulla was heard. No particular atten- starring vehicle for van and Montgomery in "Little Mantion was paid to it until a wildly
Two hundred vessels, ranging Barns & Katharine Cornell. The film marks What Now?" includes Alan Hale,
The Hell Cat"
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An while the story was able. "Back Street", and the support-the screen,
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Westley, Laura Hope Crews and Julie selling novel by the famous play was found lying in a pool of blood, farge section of the Reserve Fleet. Hayden. Philip Moulter, one of the wright, William Anthony McGuire. Life was then extinct...
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The late Sub-Inspector Carson Guild, directed this RKO-Radio Pie-)
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She hated the man he knew she Force for thirteen years. He hore-Nelson. Rodney, Mulaya, Joved... brause his love quenched her came out from England after the band in Barham und possibly KID MILLIONS flaming spirit! She was a hell-cat in disbanding of the famous "Black The breath-taking combination of erminchery, radiant, stealthy-until he and Tang" with whom he served the Hood and Renown. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and taught her humility and love made her Robert Montgomery acting together This is the dramatic story of during the Great War. For in the same film for the first time "The Holl Cat", the new
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"Forsaking All Others", new Metre Sothern in the title role, and Robert War, Carson suffered from gas carriers Furious and Courageous. Goldwyn-Mayer special which is now playing at the Queen's Theatre one of armstrong sharing featured blink poisoning.
The furioral the hit productions of the year. The Others in the cast are Minna Gombell, the madcap. Benny Baker "Shawow- triumvirate of Crawford-Gable-Mont- ski", to his stage and radio fans, this afternoon. gomery to perfectly cast in the now Gurcoll Naish and Purnell Pratt -- comedy which has been adapted from Briefly. "The Hell Cat" wells the story the stage bit of the same name, with of a spitfire social deb who tried to ties of Benvenuto Cellini, in which exercises at sea.
her with Joseph M. Schenck stars out loss of a single, bright line of dialogue. As a light comedienne, foftf impaso her iron will on a devii-may; Fredric. March, who plays the title standing at the altar one minute and saro newn reporter, When she raged ralo. The weightiest, costume, an ho fought fire with fire and traded elaborate affair of brocade, Jowels,
A parade of the Hongkong gar pursued by two handsome men the blow for blow! Their fand winds up and
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some rison will be held at Happy Valley This is the first time Joan has at-
forty pounds of beads and from 9.45 to 11 a.m, on May 7, In
tho the screen in years. Albert Roguli and the bodice, lavishly ornamented the King's Silver Jubilee. tempted pura comedy and she turns in romantic comedy-drama presented on
skirt alone, connection with the colebration of brilliant job. Gable and Montgomery directed.
with pearls, weighed more than ten are Both well known as masters of light comedy and they vie to outdo
pounds. The court costumes worn by It is hoped that the Hongkong one another with the many hilarious
Fredric March, Frank Morgan, who Volunteer Defence Corps will par situations of the story. The support- A hundred pounds of actress and a re-enacts his stage role of the Duko ticipate in the review, which will ing cast is excellent; throughout. thousand pounds of clothes! That's of Florence, Louis Callborn and some Bille Burke, appears as a fibberty-how Constance Bennult measured up of the other malo,actors, in this Unlterbe on an ambitious scale.
"The Affairs of Cellini"
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