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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

*

.

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.

the

new

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But this is all very new to us, isn't

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"The Scoundrel"

it, Alfred?" "Indeed it is, sirl" said Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur the little man, with feeling. The This

fastest Beusons

Gwenn's Holly with their now sim, The Scoundrel, moving, Bishop Misbehaves" is Gwenn's Holly have scored a distinct hit this hardest hitting

mystery, wood debut although he has appeared which is now showing at the King's

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:

"It's a Gift"

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Authorlard Capital

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the city's night life. To complicate astorge.", Jean Rouverol and Julian to the Coward charms. In the course transcled. Loans and overdrafla granted on

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Norman McLeod directed the ple- Milland, and when the latter is found dend, the heat, in on for Arnold. ture which was adapted to the screen Raft pretends to break with his by Jack Cunningham. friend starts cultivating the opposi tion and when he is caught at his game of spying, in forced to fight for his life. But it all comes out happily in the end.

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of New York society and Sabauribed and Fald-up and moving love tale are comedian, W. which ended Reserve Fund

HRAD OFFICI. presents Edward Ariend and body-guard of

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WEST END BRANCH. Gift." now! Rosalind Keith, Ray Milland and starring picture, "It's a

14-16, Cockaper Street, London, B.W.L Charles Richman. Arnold is the type at the Star Theatre, of several actors a literary Lothario who preys Olt impressionable females, effecting con- assisted him là hi who REAIR

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BRANCHES-Boobay. Calcutta, Calicut of bull dozing overlord who has bottled

"You're Telling Me' quests without love, leaving hatred himself

the gutter and ring up from

trud-Fashioned Way." They his wake. Into his circle Colombo, Hongkong, Kadras, Shangkal, Blogs. suffers from a reformer's complex in and "The

Agencies-in all the principal towns of Baby LeRoy, Fields' chief feudist, of vicious and parasitic friends, por middle life. He,

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Current and Fixed Depolto by of time he tires of her

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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

by wi

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.

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