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SERIAL STORY-
DONNA BIG TOP-
DAL who enli themselves
home.
When Donn le injured in a fall from the trapese Madeline Arrange for her to be taken to GRANDFATHER BIDDAL's farm partner Donna pretends to be Madeline. She falls in love with BILL RD, DAL, Madeline's rousin, And though she is naharuet of deceiving Bill and Grandfather aho is afraid to sell thera the truth.
OCTOBER | 30,
- 1935.
by
BSULAR
POYNIER
BEGIN BERE TO-DAY
frealized that she was eneluked behind If there and been he wouldn't havo As, usan! Con resented interference DONNA GABRIEL, and MADELINE BID.Iron bars with three huge, vielous let me do it.".
"The Gabriel beasts that could rend her into tatters Rialers' ara elreun performers. Years vailler with one stroke of clawed paws, from cutalders and said brusquely when she told him of the delegation Madeline ran away from her grandfather's everything went black before her.
She caught Con's arm and clung that had approached her with advice, to him, not for protection but to keep "Tell them to mind their own business.
seemed
to Every one of them does an not that from falling. The cage- rock, as though it were being tossed is just a dangerous. I haven't asked about on the illows of a stormy sea. you to tickle Lucy under the chin
to yet! She tried to do as Con whispered, to
No one but Madeline knew how at the cats. But she couldn't lok .. Meanwhic Madella zukorica CON
che ever knew DAVID, animal trainer with the cirrus. She felt that the beasts knew her she suffered during the two weeks tells her he is going to put her in his animal terror and if she looked at them they that followed. No
of the nightmares that made her act and the day after their wedding, to epite would spring upon her.
veritable hell. A of her proteste, insists she must enter the
sleeping hours a thousand times between midnight and daybrenk she endured death in the jaws of Sandler or Leo or Carlo.
CHAPTER XV
ller wavering gaze focused upon the bars. They danced crazily, came towards her, receiled, twisted and writhed.
Again and again she relived the "Steady." Con whispered, "Stendy
masinta that seemed like centuries: Everything's fine!"
The
he called. "Carlo. Come, when she entered the gilded cage
learned and
without to stand, Carlo."
The yellow beast cringel, slunk flinching, before the inthering jaws backward. Con called again, this and lashing tails of the jungle cats. with a rasping command. The The night after she first-faced Lucy, cat snned, lashed its tail. Made the Bengal tiger, she jerked with. line's muscles Lautened. Then the hiecoughs until day-light nad vowed lion started to draw nearer, his both the man she loved, would she enter that never again, though it lost her flattened until his shaggy stomach rested upon the floor. Madeline could the enge with the tiger. But she did walked feel his fetid breath, smell the rank it. Again and again she
door and olour of him and her reeling senses through the iron-barred
not even Con realized what it cost seemed to congeal,
her.
a
Con produced a pair of leather trouser", leather leggings and heavily padded leather jacket from one of his trunks. He gave them to Madeline and told her to put them or
"Tuck your hair under this cap," ke added. "There's never beent wotnan in the enge with old Sander and Leo and I don't know what their will be, so we'll take 110
hear He did not walt to
what Madeline might say, but straile to give some instructions. The great, gilded cage that housed three African lions was pulled into the arena and small steps, mounting to the 'door, were placed beside it.
Mailcllne dressed. cold
Suddenly the animal retreated, crouched and emitted a blood curdling roar. Con smothered an oath, thrusti Madeline from him, jammed his chair fall in the face of the beast and with
Sotion poured from her body is free hard unlatched the door.
She
felt so physically ill that she wondered if she could walk from the Jet
"Get out," he muttered. "Get out.
out! It's Back
smelit" your Somehow she contrived to do as he
dressing room to the "big thing, commanded. On the steps her legs)
alone enter the lion cage.
but
the fact that she knew half the crew was standing by, with amused incredulous grins on their faces and bets that she would never do it, in duced her to step out of the little dressing room at all.
caved in like jelly, the fog of black AURA swept her along with it, and she did not know what occurred un- til long afterward..
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In voin were Con's reassurances that the cats feared his pistol and chair and whip for more than she feared them. She pretended to agree with him, but she know that, given | the opportu
they would rend her limb from
Above everything in the world Con cherished his reputation for fear- lessness and his ability to control was obsessed with the
heart, le ambition and far from satisfied with his position as star performer with
When n small travelling circus. Con met her half-way ncross the She revived with her clothing saw that Madeline seemed to enter arena and smiled approval at her soaked with the water that Con into the training and appeared to be "There's not a thing to be afraid of,” | had thrown in her face. She burst anxious to add to his fame he had 1x Matick. "Achild
could pet those into tears and robbed her contrition visions of achieving more with her babies and not be hurt."
"Oh, Con, I'm so sorry! I never assistance than he could ever have
his She managed wan smile and tried fainted before in my life. But done alone. This increased ta walk steadily beside him, but her courage did not, increase when she realized he was going into the enge and that none of the men unarmed whenually stood close at hand with
revolver, in case (
come
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res was present,
"and when
gard for her far more than benuty or love could have done,
WARM
so sented. I never knew any one could be scared."
"You were fine," he assured her After each rehearsal his caresses "Carlo got nasty, but everything helped repay the girl for the sick
be all right. Maybe panic she suffered,
See
CAU
a beast should be used you
you into it too soon. We'll Fortunately there was no occasions go slower and in a week's time to mention Donna's Bame. Letters "Stand
Con
you'll be Parent. Next time
with the old boy, came seldom and, though once Con call, come in the dron
if you
you handed one of them to Madeline, he He picked up a chair, mounted the won't be afraid at all"
diet not Inquire about the other girl stairs, turned the key in the luck, "Oh God," she thought, "I al- or ask what she was doing. He took opened the door a trife and slid his ways be afraid. flow can I go on it for granted t that Dontw WAR body through, siamming the door with this? How
he take it married and
happy. after him.
Often Madeline wondered what this way?" tigheden of
Faves of nausea swept over Made. Before dinner time every one in Con would do when he learned the line.
Hundre of times she had the circus knew of the incident. truth. Several times she was tempted watched him do this thing. Hundreds Con David hand forced his bride to to write Donna and beg her to write of times she had seen him stroke the enter the lion cage and she had a letter saying she was engaged to head and beard of the great shaggy fainted when Carlo attacked her. Bill or had just broken an engage-
accounts of what netually, had ment to him, but she healtated.
The rehearsals went on, and the versions.
day for her public appearance in the Most of the women were' indignant, cage drew near. Then one afternoon think of was Donna's warning "The Madeline, was an aerial artist and Con announced! that during the eats always get them sometime." what business had Con trying to put evening performance Madeline Gabriel That Sander purred like a kitten could an animal act? Every one would enter the cage of jungle cats.
control wild
"Never before, ladies and gentle- and seemed to love the touch of Con's
Opposition fans,
Madeline's men, has a woman faced a cage of Aworn enemies. he-sur-to-hate her. He would sense was over-exactly joyous when he Never before has a woman dared such her fear. Oh God, she couldn't do it!first went into a lion cage," she a leath-defying stut!"
"God help you!" muttered Mazie Con turned, beckoned to her exclaimed, "But I
and
I wasn't so awfully unlocked the cage door.
afraid either. I hadn't slept all Vale of the Flying Vales as she stood night, for one thing, and I wasn't besidu Madeline. "T'd rather The magic of her love for him feeling ace high. That's why Iron the bars than step into the cage moved her weighted limbs. When fainted. I knew there wasn't any with that Bengal," the door clanged behind her and she real danger with Con beside me.
had not occurred to her. Now, with her limbs like lead, her hands clammy.
beast, Sander, and the danger ofed were garbled in a dozen
her heat swimming, all she could
*
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her into
Their opo
hand neant nothing, He would pride. "I don't suppose any one lions and gers
"Come on," he said. "Quick."
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From England to make his fourth under its auspices, and T 1STON-half tone lower when appearing in twelve months, Darryl organisation of mystery fans has as the understudy. As the singer,
she had to Zanuck's 20th Century production of made an admirable selection. The she
suggeal "Cardinal Richelieu". Nearing 17,
nudience will shiver and thrill, as the a Latin recent who the trace of speaking the Mr. Arliss claims to be the hardest strange and unusual romance unfolds, linca of Toots, she had to use the
New working star in pictures, and can sub-by an all-star cast headed by Donald turns of speech native to
York mit statistics to bear him out. In Wade and Margaret Lindsayozayn born in Northampton, Pennsylvania. 6.8. "CONTE ROSSO" 2nd Nov. 8.3. "CONTE ROSSO" 10th Nov.
Don- Cito
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beauty the past year he has made "The House ald Woods gives startling portrayal of Rothschild" and "The Last Gentle-sensitive, tortured it. The ups although playing only two roles. Miss Page wore three 'different make- man" in Hollywood, and "The Iran enamoured of A Duke" in England. Stars of Mr. intensity and genuine passion which Two of the three make-ups were for Arliss' calibre make one, at the most him among the mortal "Immortals" in different degrees of light for her place the part Tools who must appear two, such big pictures annually. In order to
complete his thres assign of Hollywood. And for Miss Lind scenes with Cortez and with Hugh ments he had to make two crossings say and her gripping depiction of a O'Connell, who plays the taxi driver, between London and Hollywood. As young girl accused of patricide, her For her daylight scenes, the
the facial bestepped from the train with Mrs. Works excellent us, the father,
work stands pre-eminent. Henry greasepaint was pinkish, blending in Arliss and his inseparable Man Fri while exceptional work is done by sequences: Similarly, the sfer to light yellowish tint for the night day, Jenner, the star,
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Sight his eyes have youthful twinkle.
changes, "Manhattan Moor, Captuia,
principally achieved by This he ascribes to three things
Page, Universal's latest straining inteanu white light through hard work, moderate habits and singing and acting find, has nothing gauze shields and focussing it on her of rest, "One of the most more to fear from the movies. She face, gave Mina Page the ethereal Bencheial things I und, as I nivance has done the hardest thing in pice pallor desired by Walker for the opera in years, twenty-minute nap after tures on her first attempt. Fresh stor, lunch, and
the radio try to retire ench even-from
she had never studio, nrise ench
a stage or seren part a long debutante, used to palatial yachts, Able morning promptly at 8. To be to work hard
term contract by
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Universalong niso must
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"Manhattan spar-
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night club In what you eat. I am
veke:
medicinant in un on proprietor And tarian. But whether you eat meat Thursday, she plays two roles instead seruulous business with the under- or not, be motierate, learn just what of one, as a temperamental operatic world. Donald Cook, as a rich blue- ellar and her in." In the occa-blood who travels between Park
"stund you need, and be guided by that need alar rather than by your appetite. Before sional sketcher she played in radio, Avenue and Westchester in
In a speedy the title role in "Cardinal hins Page followed the accepted air roadster and steps on everything in released technique of reading her lines off as course. Robert .Armstrong, as a was
his which ough United Artists and comes to
script. She had never mem-lout, whose brawn enables him to act the King's Theatre on Saturday, Mr.
day, Mr. orized a line of dialogue in her young as cabaret bouncer, and his brain to Arilen delved into moto than a
In "Manhattan Moon" playing hundred life.
ich are the different
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Theatre to-day. Tho than two dozen tests in experiment who has the leading masculine role.
quartot Ing
with his make-up. He also took Playing this double role, debut pro-mects In the Club Heu-Haw, a gouge part in the setting of all the technical sented more than usual difficulty, ing cabaret which forms the back- details and research problems in con- since Miss Page had to make the two ground for the earlier sequences of nection with this Joseph M, Schenck characters almost the same, but just the picture. Miss Ames changes presentation.
trifle different. In the script, overnight from a blue-blood heiress The Florentino Dagger" Yvonne, the opera star, employs a to a penniless debutante. Bellamy Ben Hocht, long famous as a writer double, Toots Malloy, who loves a pats her to work as a hosters in the of bizzarre and unusual novels and taxi,driver, to do her burdensome (Continued on Pogo 11.)
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