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SERIAL STORY-
DONNA BIG TOP
BIG TOP by BEULAH
CHAPTER XXXVII
POYNIEW
mont, and had answered an advertise months had done something to his went in a theatrical publication. usual hard-headed common Rense. Nothing could have Ared Con Photographs accompanied the letter He had faced disappointments for so David's desire to see Donna quite so of application, and Renfroe had shown long that now, for a time at least, much as her reluctance to meet him. them to Con. "They're good-lookers, ho was seeing things as he wished After he had learned from Madeline aren't they?" Renfroe had said, them to be, forgetting everything that Donna had not been married to "The Gabriel sisters. I remember that might bauik his plans. . Bill Siddale at the time of his own there used to be a Val Gabriel In He was unaware of the glittering marriage to Madeline, Con bad con- your line, Con. Maybe you knew him. eyes of Mrs. Planter, hidden in the vinced himself that, in spite of her, I think he was killed by a llon."
hallway but watching him eagerly, repulsos, Donna had really been in
"Yes. He was a headliner Wife as he nude hin way to the office. love with him. He assurgle Donna Wonder if these girls are his kids. fore the mirror was wasted on Mrs.
a trapeze performer."
None of the time Con had spent be that if he had remained would have become his wife..
Seems to me I heard he left a family."
Con had studied the pictures and Planter, Swiftly she took in the de tails of his appearance and even had said that Donna's great attrac had advised Renfree to hire the caught a
Madeline had been right when sho
tion for Con..was due to the fact that sistors. Soon after that the girls ar-he had of the scented lotion
sho
had
refused his attentions no rived, at headquarters, after, can- frequently. The element in the small
boy that makes him want what is doing some small-time vaudeville
ahopo made
WAS
Out on the street, he inquired of small girl who was on #
hor way
forbidden was strong in Con. While Though Donna had admitted the home from the butcher shop what BALM
principal reason for coming to reintionship to Val Gabriel, neither direction ho should take to reach the 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 inheritance, there was still
good. The "big top"
Receiving the Information, to set that the only woman who had ever small enough, the circus intimate out with a jaunty, care-free stride. caused his heart to beat more quickly enough no that audiences could take He had notfeed the Arst dancing would find him more attractive now note of the girls' youth and beauty, show flakes from the hotel window. and more desirable than in the days Madeline and Donna would have sue- They were coming down faster now past.
ceeded on that score, even if they had the great, feathery flakes filling It did not occur to him that Don-been less clover.
the air. Con, who was in, no mood na might fear him. What she had From the first day of their meet to think of their beauty, pulled his
313
more closely nald over the telephone flattered ing in the enclosed grounds of up-turned cost collar
huge vanity. If she was afraid to meet the headquarters Con had been de about his throat and bent his headl him it must be true that her husband finitely conscious of Donna. Though against the wind. was jealous of him. If Siddal was everyone was busy and he most of The child had told him to walk slx 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 of him by only one menas--through had endeavoured to win her regard. from the hotel. By the time Com ar-
In That meant she had not for- Donni.
The fact that she had obviously rived there it was snowing
carnest. gotten him.
sought to avoid him had piqued his A glittering mantle of white lay like earth, Perhaps Donna was afraid to trust interest, and by the time the circus a blanket over the mounds of herself with Can because he might opened two weeks inter he had known fir trees, sleeping rose bushes, monu trying that he was in love with her. ments and tombatones in the old arouse an affection she was to crush. This thought pleased him
Krave-yard. A premature dunk had troes through Kreatly. An he shaved and dressed
He supposed he was still in love settled between the meticulously for the meeting he with her and would always be. His which the wind howled as though a visioned Donna. In the days when he marriage to Madeline, her death and wandering soul, loosed from its tomb, had first known her. Small, litho his nervous reaction were
were moaning its plea for a resting only and exquisitely beautiful, he had episodes, interludes between the rent-place,
in thought her. The arrogant way ly
is a hell of a spot to meet important events of his life. which she carried her head with its aureole of flaming curls, the perfect
Ite shivered with the cold and wet. symmetry of her body, her daring in Donna now as he had been im- hope she gets here pretty noon."
sort of ring,
her utter indiference Patient for the winter months to and
pass during the years
he had known lle looked about for some to the admiration of men had her, when he had counted the weeks shelter and, to bolster up his spirits attracted him.
and days until they would meet again,
gain, that had dropped with the ceriness Though the two girla, Donna and Ambition leaped into flamence the wet snow extinguished the flame, of the place, ghled a cigarette. But Madeline, had looked much alike, more. If Donna did care; there had been a distinction about even if her affection, were but
Get 50 he stood whistling dalefully, his Donna that always made her part-war
convince
budy braced against a mausoleum, his warm-he could
her that ner appear drab and colourless when was wasting her beauty and talents hat pulled far down on his forehead. the two were together. From
There was not another person in the in a place like Lebanon. A dead town very beginning Con had doubted the and a diamal form. How had she sight and the stillness and loneliness statement that the girls were sisters, been able to stand it as long as she began to get on Con's nerves. Weird though no one else in the troupe had had? Divorce was NO easy these stories he had read in the past, tales seemed to do so.
days.
of murder and vampires, of disem With Donna as his wife, they It did not seem credible to Con, was no limit to the success they might cheeriness and comfort. What could would be able to do anything! There bodied spirits, flashed through his memory and did nothing to add to his who had spent almost his entire life achieve! under the big top, that members
be keeping Donna? Why didn't she Grandfather Siddal's money WHE come? for the time. Into Con's
Then he saw, her-a slim, hesitant dreams he had once pictured for Madeline-an
her bright hair and a rough tweed engagement with
coat pulled about her. She moved European
circus,
visits to all the cuutiously, peering through the driv without famous cities in the world, his name Ing snow, stumbling a bit as her heels
Donna's featured above all sunk into sounds of it.
new Con did not move. He waited until Vividly he recalled the day when the others. He would build a the two girls had joined the show. act, more daring and more sensational she was within arms' reach. Then he Renfree's headquarters were in Vir- than any the world had ever seen. stepped from the shadows and touch-
Donna screamed in ginia and until the season before Con And, above all, Donan would be with ed her arm. had housed his animals with Ren- him. They would have their tritiuph kind of terror and he Inughed.
"It's me, Donna," he said. "Who froe's. The showman had been dis- together. appointed by two European perform- Perhaps the discouragement and did you think it was a ghost?"
(To Be Continued). crs who had falled to keep an engage-hardships Con had known in past
He found himself as impatient to on. Con muttered aloud. "I
the
*
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all
traits of
of the same family should not only formation floated all the rosy,figure wearing a close, durk hat over
show
different Ruch character but that one should be and accomplished nerialist, skilled in every trick of her profession, while
Biber, though not abllity, was obviously circus.
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WEST END BRANCH. Gift." now! Rosalind Keith, Ray Milland and starring picture, "It's a
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"You're Telling Me' quests without love, leaving hatred himself
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Hongkong, 18th November, 1035. ... "The Bishop Misbehaves"
delighting audiences at the Queen's, select cast of Broadway stars in its of the songs, "To Call You My supportingroles. They include Hope "They're just a lot of cookies, sir!"
Own" i
ballad which Is sung by
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Villiams, Stanley Ridges, Rosita This is what Alfred Trebels should Phil Regan as an entertainer Aut Moreno and Lionel Stander. of screen, butlers, and no one should Caliente as part of the comedy, know better than Alfred. He is the The other three numbers Ground most tradition-laden butler ever to which Busby cross the path of Hollywood. Ho spocial
A honeymoon and a job-hunt com- many rocks strewn in the channel of once, has passed on. He door what was brought to the screon capital by Callente," the title song of the pic-bined. Two youngsters trying to get domestic happiness children, incom- any youngster who is broke, den
Gwenn, distinguished
along in New York on $15.00 a week,patibility. Jealousy? Nancy Carroll norate, who sees his marriage crack- of singing This is the vibrant story that Colum is sung by a group nied by at in Pictures has told in "I'll Lova career for marriage, who is willing great career. shatterod, would do, com- recently English stage star who
actress who
hering up around him, his dreams of a gives up and accom tertainers pleted the featured role in Motro- colourful "sombrero
by the You Always" showing at the
to ancrlice everything to make of Jean Dixon, noted comedienne of the ต novelty hich opens on Tuesday at Spanish-type sang in rhumba
Alhambra next Tuesday and Wednes that marriage a success, presenta the King's Theatre. He has served sung by Winifred shavu chacha day. It's timely, it's modern, it's the brave and beautiful answer to these New York stage, scores in the role Gwenn
thirty
and before
The dramatic values of girl friend, and Raymond Walburn as of 1936 who marry on love and that he worked for the famous mime in an important production number sear of every young couple in this troubling questions in "I Love You of the big hearted and wine-cracking
cseng, telling the of the special
story Sir Herbert Troe. Of a long line of act in both verses and chorus
great expectations. Their numbers the role give to Miss Carroll the the boy-friend Charlie, who travels, serving men; his forbears at one this big number, a rovue is being do they do those thousands of your those in Lathon and adds to the humour of the plot. The
do
"Laughter" timo carried ladies about London Instag
in which she staged at Agua Caliente featuring
onsa cast Ilkowise includes Arthur Hohl, curtained
hopefuls turned acdan chairs.
of our univer. Holiday" in Dolores Del Rio a dancer
tiona
BUCCCKSON, Yored Bensa-
Goorge Harry Bernford, and Robert Allon. butlers are very funny, of course," Phil Legan as singing bar and sitios cach year, with wonderful ho added, "I wouldn't. think of hurt. In the comedy story into which the scholastic records, ready to take the Murphy, na the opinionated, self- Leo Bulgakov, noted New York stage
build the greatest assured husband, fresh from
college, In anyone's feelings. But they're musical numbers are woven featured bridge, write the greatest novels? out to take the World by storm, director, wielded the more phone for hot really butlers you know. They roles are taken by Miss Del Rio, Pat And how does the work oceive excellently cast. The opitome of all effacement and dignity that makes a Horton and Glenda Farrell, bestdes us will concede that two can't live as
nt and light of self O'Brien, Lee Carillo, Edward Everett them? Even the most romantic of youths ready to conquer the world, really good butler. No, I should a host of other stars. Lloyd Bacon cheaply as one, and while love may "decent" jobs worthy of als stool.
dancinity has built his i
features
behayayer's "The Bishop Mis "Lady In Red"
for
In
"THI Love You Always"
out
laugh at locksmiths, it seldom laughs And when, too late, he goes back to at bill collectors. Can love and accept the once scorned jobs, he finds. youthful onthusiasm survive tho that opportunity having knocked rigours of economic necessity of the
aa tho
01
I'll Love You Always" and Vers Caspary and Bidney Buchman adapted
he finds there Just aren't any tho. Lawrence Hazard story for the
screen.