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SERIAL STORY
DONNA BIG TOP BIGJOR
CHAPTER XXXVI
by BBULAH
POYNIET
1935.
ment, and had answered an advertise months had done something to his common sense. ment in a theatrical publication. usual hard-hended Nothing could have firet, Con Photographs accompanied the letter He had faced disappointments for so David's desire to see Donna quite ao of application, and Itenfroe had shown long that now, for a time at least, much as her reluctance to meet him. them to Con. They're good-lookers, he was seeing things as he wished After he had learned from Madeline aren't they 7" Renfroo had said, them to be, forgetting everything that Doung had not been married to The Gabriel
Val Gabriel Iti lie was unaware of the glittering Bill Siddal at the time of his own there are sisters, I remember that might baulk his plans.
hidden in the con your line, Con. Maybe you know him: eyes of Mrs. Planter, marriage to Madeline, Con had vinced himself that, in spite of her think he was killed by a tion."
him eagerly, allway but watching
the oficu. "Yes. He was a headliner. Wifes he made his way to Donna had really been in
a trapeze performer."
None of the time Con had spent be that if he had remained single Donna would have become his wife.
when she
love
reput him. He assured himself Wonder if these girls are his kids.fore the mirror was wasted on Mrs.
Madeline had been right
Seems to me I heard he left a family."," Planter. Swiftly she took in the de
Con had studied the pictures and tails of
of his appearance and oven had said that Donna's great attrac had advised Renfroe to hire the caught a whiff of the scented lotion tion for Con was due to the fact that sisters. Soon after that the girls ar no had used. Rho had refused his
attentionis so rived at headquarters, after can- Out on the street, he inquired of frequently. The element in the small celling sonte Binall-time vaudeville In small girl who was on, for way
that makes hint want what la dates. boy forbidden was strong in Con. While
haine from the butcher shop what Though Denna had admitted the direction he should take to reach the
癯
bis principal reason for coming to relationship to Val Gabriel, neither Lebanon was to secure the property girl offered any other information Baptist cemetery. that would have been his wife's by about themselves. But their net had
Receiving the information, he set hope inheritance, there was still n
made good. The "big top" was
circus Intimate out with a jaunty, care-free stride. the first dancing that the only woman who had ever small enough, the caused his heart to beat more quickly enough so that audiences could take lo had noticed would find him more attractive now note of the girls youth and beauty, snow flakes from the hotel window. flakes filling. and more desirable than in the days Madeline and Donna would have suc- They were coming down faster now
ceeded on that score, even if they had-the great, feathery past.
the air. Con, who was in no mood It did not occur to him that Don; been less clever.
From the first day of their meet-to think of their beauty, pulled his na might fear him. What she had said over the telephone Battered his ing in the huge enclosed grounds of up-turned coat collar more closely vanity. If she was afraid to meet the headquarters Con had been, do-about his throat and bent his heal child had told him to walk six. him it must be true that her husband finitely conscious of Dunnn. Though against the wind. was jealous of him. If Siddal was everyone was buayand he most of Jealous, he
must know something all, with a couple of new cats to break blocks and then turn to the left. The about Con and he could have learned in-ho found moments in which he cemetery was a good 10 minutes' walk from the hotel. By the time Con ar- of him, by only one means-through had endeavoured to win her regard.rived there it was snowing in earnest. The fact that she had obviously glittering mantle of white lay like sought to avoid him hul piqued his
Lushe Intereat, and by the time the circus a blanket over the mounds of earth,
iroos, sleeping rose fir ments opened two weeks Inter he had known
ents and tombstones in that lie was in love with her.
A premature dunk had graveyard. settled between the trees through which the wind howled as though a wandering soul, innsed from its tomb, were meaning its plea for a resting place,
is a hell of n spot to meet
Con mattered aloud. hepe she gela here pretty Hoan,"
le shivered with the cold and wel.
bolster shelter and, to
his up spirite Ife looked about for some sort of
That meant she had not for- Donna.
him, gotter
Perhaps Donna was afraid to trust herself with Con because he might trying arouse an affection she was to crush. Tals throught pleased him As he shaved and dressed greatly. meticulously for the meeting he visioned Donna in the days when he Small, lithe first known her.
he had and exquisitely beautiful," thought her. The arrogand with its which she carried her head aureole of flaming curls, the perfect symmetry of her body, her daring in the ring, and her utter indifference to the admiration of men had all attracted him.
had
and alike,
about
.
*
mony old
Ile supposed he was still in love with her and would always be. Ils marriage to Madeline, her death and his nervous
renetion were on interludes between he rea episodes, ly important events of his life.
He found himself as impatient to patient for the winter months
when he had counted the pass during the years he had known
uld meet at had dropped with the eariness and days until they
Ambition leaped into flame
more.
of the place, lighted a cigarette. But
Though the two girls, Donan
If Donna did care for hiti wet snow extinguished the flame. Madeline, had looked much there had been a distinction
even if her affection were but lake so he stood whistling dolefully, his body, braced against n mausoleum, his Doman that always made her part warni--he could convince her that she bat julled far down on his forchend.
ner appear drab and colourless which was wasting her beauty and talents There was not another oneliness
саку
began to
in the two were together. Frans the in a place like Lebanon. A dend town very beginning Con had doubted the and a dismal farm. How had she sight and the stilinens and
to get on Con's nerves. Weird statement that the girls were slaters, been able to stand it as long as she stories ho had read in the past, tales though no one else in the troupe had had 7 Divorce was
there! of murder and vampires, of disen With Donna as his wife, they bodied spirits, flashed through his days. seemed to do so.
would be able to do anything! There was no limit to the success they might memary and did nothing to add to his cheeriness and comfort. What could Rohlevel
Grandfather Siddal's money was be keeping Donna? Why didn't she
Into Con's como?
Then he saw her a slim, hesitant forgotten for the time. of
imagination floated all the rusy. figure wearing a close, dark hat over pictured for her bright hair and a rough tweed
•acter ad aerialist, skilled Madeline-an engagement with
dreams he had once
cant pulled about her. She moved European circus, visits to all the cautiously, peering through the driv famous cities in the world, his name ing now, stumbling a bit as her heets
and Donna's-featured above all sunk into mounds of i
Con did not move. He waited until sito was within arms' reach. Then he stepped from the shadows and touch- el her arm. Donna screamed in
"It's me, Donna," he said. “Who kind of terror and he laughed, Perhaps the discouragement and did you think it was a ghost?"
(To-Be Continued). in past ers who had failed to keep an engage-hardships Con had known
without
ก
I did not seem credible to Con, who had spent almost his entire life under the big top, that members of the same family should not only
traits show kuch different
but that one should be an every trick of her profession, while the
thoughi not other, ability, was obviously new circus. the two girls had joined the show. act, mere daring and more sensational
"Vividly he recalled the day when the others. He would build a Renfroe's headquarters were in Vir- than any the world had ever seen. ginia and until the season before Con And, above all, Donna would be with had housed his animals with Reu- him. They would have their tritinph froe's. The showman, had been dis- together. appointed by two European perform
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Ag cinematic magnitude, "Tonce the popular.
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and at the Star Theatre, of several actors Charles Richman. Arnold is the tyre who assisted him in his earlier star impressionable females, effecting con-
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ይከ Arnold has romantic interest of the picture.
neroplane trip. Coward is co- his attractive daughter.
allowed at rates which may be obtained on Nurman McLeod directed the pic-ported killed. But just as his friends are indulging in sardonic witticisms an argument with Richman's son Ray Milland, and when the latter is found ture which was adapted to the screen at his expense, he returns to stone
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One of the songs
To Call You My supportingroles. They include Hopo This is what Alfred Trebell in Callente as part of the comedy plot.
"They're just a lot of cookies, sir!" Own" is a ballad which is sung by Williams, Stanley Ridgea, Rosita laugh at locksmiths, it ecldem laughs And when, too late, he goes back to
Phil Regan
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at bill collectors. Can love and accept the ones scorned joba, he finds'
enthusiasm youthful
the that opportunity having knocked of screen butlers, and no one should
three numbers
"I'll Love You Always" around
He door what rigours of economic necessity of the once, has passed on. know botter than Alfred. Ilo is the The other
Ling built his most tradition-laden butler over to which Busby
A honeymoon and a job-hunt com- many rocks strewn in the channel of any youngster who is broke, des- of
danelley
features. "In was brought to
pic bined. Two youngsters trying to get domestic happiness children, incom- by Caliente," capital
the title song of the pic- Edmund Gwenn,
This is the vibrant story that Colum- as the actress who gives up her lng up around him,, his dreams of a com
entertainers and accompanied by a bin Pictures has told in "I'll Love career for marriage, who is willing great career shattered, would do. ploted the featured role in Metro-colourful "sembrero dance" by the
Always,
to sserlico everything to make of Jean Dixon, noted comedienno of the uesday and Wednes-that marriage a success, presents &
cross
the path Hollywood. He special
to the
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English stage star who recent/edture is sung by a group of singing along in New York on $15.00 a week. (patibility, jealousyt Nancy Carrell { porato, who neos his marriago crack-
Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Bishop Mis- chorus. "Lady In Red" is a novelty ahambra next showing at the
yoong in thiumkia behaves," which opens on Tuesday at Spanish-Afred Show, "Muchachas] day. It's timely, it's modern, it's the brave and beautiful answer to thego New York stage, scores in the role
Your
and
serving man, his forbears" at one this big number, a revuo is being do they do those thou 50, what wide emotional scope reminiscent of adds to the humour of the plot. The
those in whi
ca
the King's Theatre. He has served sung by
Always." The dramatie_values of girl friend, and Raymond Walburn as of 1056 who marry on love as the role give to Miss Gine, the for thirty years and before is an important production number sour of over young couple in this troubling questions in "I'll Love You of the big hearted and-wise-cracking that he worked for the famous mime, song, telling the story of the special great expectations. Their numbers
Carroll the the-boy-friend Charlie, who travels, Sir Herbert Troo. Of long line of act in beth verses and chorus. In
nro. legion. Where do
"Devil's of young
in "Laughter" and timo carried. Indies about London in staged at Agua Caliento featuring hopefuls turned out of our univer-
she scored sensa cast likewise includes Arthur Hohl, successes. Young "Bereen Dolores Del Rio
George Harry Beresford, and Robert Allen. chairs. curtained sedan
as a dancer and sities each year, with wonderful tional bullers are very funny, of course, Phil Regan as a singing chief bandit. scholastic records, ready to take the Murphy, an the opinionated, solf Loo Bulgakov, noted New York stage ho added, "I wouldn't think of hurt in the comedy story into which the world by storm, to build the greatest assured husband, fresh from college, director, wielded the megaphone for
out to take the World by atorm, is ing anyone's feelings. But they're musical numbers aro woven featured bridge, welte the greatest novels? not really butlers you know. They rules are taken by Miss Del Rio, Pat And how dees the world mceive excellently cast. The epitome of all "'ll Love You Always," and Vera haven't the combination of self- O'Brien, Leo Carillo, Edward Everett them? Even the most romantic of youths ready to conquer the world, Caspary and Sidney Buchman adapted hands thoro just aren't any the Lawrence Hazard story for the effacement and dignity that makes a Horton and Glenda Farrell, besides us will concede that two can't live as
Jobs worthy of his steel. "decont" really
I should a host of other stars. Lloyd Bacon cheaply as one, and while lova may good butler. No,
Acreen,
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