10
THOROUGHBREDS
DONT CRY
Adopted from the METRO GOLDWYN MAYER Picture HALSEY RAINES
deernight 1837--Koon's Jas,
Chapter Ono
The Pookah was na linndroma a
stallion ne one could hope to see. A long, finely formed head, high
it ought to worry me. And it does. And if you're thinking of not tak- ing The Pookah - but you can't Do"
Bir_Peter's_alience was the most forceful of ait anwars.
"Oh, but you must take him to Americal" erled erect cars, trim, streamlined, legs
Roger, "Grand- and a coat of the teepest russet-ther, listen: aball have some brown were his outstanding phy-money, sha'n't I, when I conie et
an
sical qualifications. But perhapages, you will have," nnawered his most important, "amolo were Sir Peter. those of temperament. He loved to race: and hò nover gave, up.
Bix absorbed and admiring eyes were fastened on the horse as ho ehntered easily around the trackL Two of them belonged to ir Valor Calverton Atalwart, grey-haired Britta porisman. Another pair came from a point two feet lower to the right, whore Bir Peter's grandson Roger was clutching the wooden rail. Two other eyen ware pearing from beneath the furrowed brawn of Wilkins, who had trained The Pookah from the time he was on awkward coll
"ill, Jooy!" beckoned Wilkins, motioning to the ninbis bay who why giving The Pookah họa” work- .ant. Como oren minuto."
The boy compiled.
Tutem the other way 'round the cours ordered Willdna, "We'" ve got to teach in the American way!"
Jony stared in consternation. "Clo on, go on," nudded the train- er. "You and I know it's wrong, but since America's the place 'o'n goin' to run In, that's the way 'eli have to learn."
Off went The Pookah, this thra In what wa-from the standprint af Engilah mcing tradition-a bacte wards direction. Roger climbed up on the rail gleefully,
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"Then let me take some of that, now, and use it for the trip," pur- aurd Roger excitedly.
"Bometime, inter on, you can
our colors to Amertes," re "Perhaps, when the time conter piled Bir Peter, shaking his head.
can Accord where 1 falled. "But it wouldn't be any fin, go- ing to America alone," cried Roger. "And the poor old Pookah's rating dayn would be over then. Just lot ma barrow some of the money now...”
"I'm afraid not, my boy," oald Sir Peter. "I was a oplendid and Ronerous en, Roger, but there are two things you munt, learn."
He put bis hands affectionately on the boy's shoulder.
"Yes, nit?"
"Ong, là that gentlemen accept their let gracefully. The other thing lo, that thoroughbreds don't cry" Roger squared his shoulders. Ho looked up at his grandfather with an expression of determination,
"I think I understand, sir," he frald, starting away.
Bir Peter's eyes filled with mist an ho followed the small retreating Bure. But his mind was already buny with the nucleus of a half- formulated plan. In a moment ho the number of his barrister. stepped to the telephone and called
"The Pookah doesn't seem to while Hoger wan busy with his One morning shortly afterwards, mind which way, he runs he x-easons, a tall lean individual who cialmed, "Does he, grandfather?"
Bir Peter made no reply.
"I could teach that 'oro to nin backwards on two logs," cut in
i
bore
the singularly appropriat Bams of Threadneedla was nouneed at Calverton Hall.
"Vell?" Bald Sir Peter, when
"The master's just decided to go to America,"
Wilkins. "And 'o'd still be out in the new arrival had been ensconced front. Drawin' n fond of 'ay, too." in a chair, and the ritual of order. Roger Jumped down and ran ing colches-and-godan had been of to follow the progress of the completed.
horso around tila track. 11t "I was able to arrange a lawn.” thoughts were all on the challenge und Threadneedle slowly. which Bir Peter hnd accepted to "Bplendid."
and
Band another highly fancied racer "You'd better wall until you neroas the Atlantic and try for tho | hear the rest. The only way I could American cup. Consistently do raise the money who through a fealed in previous attempia to mortgage on the house bring back tile coveted trophy groundo?" Again he hesitated. "And to Britain, Sir Peter had felt that the best I could get was one thou- he must make at least and more sand pounds." attempt. The Pookah was his fav. "One thousand!" Bir Peter's faco orlle racer, out of a quarter of a flushed. "A thousand on the Hall! contury of blue ribbon competition. Why, flys thommand would ba Attle Somehow, Iloger felt, the horns enough. It's preposterous.” Renced the trust imposed on him, "I finow," said Threadneodio vad- and wouldn't let the family down.|ly. "My advlee la to refuse the of
Wilkins, who had been studying fer and give up the idea of the the thellom Bie Peter between trip to America." clonely knit brown, moved cloner, "A place of this size,” fumed Ble *IC" you'll excuso me, sir," he Peter. “One of the blagest enlates wald, "you don't neem none too in England, None has a better lils- 'appy bout the horse. There's tory- nothing the matter, in there, sir?" "I thought you wouldn't consider
"Nothing that anyone can blame the nifer." Bald the other. you for Wilkins," answered his "Threadneedle," cried Sir Peter.
suddenly rising, "have you the pa manter oberly.
pern with you?
"Tva, always done the best I could," replied Wilking. “I wouldn't like to feel I wan-well, a failure,"
"itowover hard he tries, a mán can fail," Bald Sir Peter, oyes averted.
"Why, you," said the other, start- led," "But surely, you're not--"
"I shall sign them and post them in you tonight," and Str Peter. "I'ni going to America."
"I know what you're thinking of, Pollock, the butler, took almost air." responded Wilkins. "Thoroas much pride in the accomplish- other horson we look to America,|ments of 'h Calverton racing entry Well, we 'avo falled beforo, I grant as Bir Pater himasif, He was en- you, but we won't this time. Notinged In pouring out some coda with The Pookah! We'll show these when Sir Peter made his declara-, Yankesa, this time.”“
tion, and he almost dropped the
Sir Pefur hesitated a moment, be- | alption bottle. It was not qulle ilmo fore replying, then turned and for Master Roger to receive him looked awkwardly at tits devoted mid-morning glass of milk, but for retainer.
once Pollock was going to make an exception to his rigidly followed schedule.
"We're not going to America this year" he said slowly.
"Not going, air?” alammored WI- kina,"
"No," said Sir Peter. "I'm afraid that decisiun'a, fino)."
he
Controlling his excitement, hurried with the refreshment tray to the room where the boy's tutor was discussing algebrale roots.
Pollock,"
Wilkins understood how to con- "You're early,
mid
trol his emotions. He was an ex-Roger, while the instructor tapped pert at self-restraint. As he moved on isla desk Impatiently. hway, however, Roger ran up.
"Beg your pardon," answered tho
The boy knew immediately from butler, "but I thought you'd like
the exprelons of the two men to hear the nows. The master'a that something was amiss.
madon chrowd guena and-ga il
just decided to go to America."
Roger klared, at first Incredu-
happened an accurate one at the tously, then in wild jubilation.
cause of the disturbunen.
"Grandfather," he anid, taking
"Whoopee!" fio erled, leaping up Ble Peter's arm, “it's taoney you're jand finging a whole sheaf of len- worried about, inn't it?"
BOT TRADECK over his head. "I must
"Whatever it is, there's nothing tell Wilkins. Whoopool"
lo boller you,” said Bir Peter.
Yea, thora Ìn. 10:14 wurries you.
• (To be continued)
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G.B.S.-Playboy and Superman
THE
By "AN OLD STAGER"
"THE star under which Mr. George
could not be lured to his fool. Åt Bernard Shaw was born was a
length after a special appeal from comet, and it danced in Irish Jia.
the chair, he rose up and addressed This did not in the least deter
the assembly, "I have listened with G. B. S. from hitching his literary
peculiar interest to the vice-presi- Jaunting car to its refulgent tall, derisive and sympathetic. His kind- Shelley," sald G. B. S.,
dent address on The Religion of with the romantic result that after ness is infinite and his generosity Shelley and I have in
much common. a grim, uphill struggle for fame and
Quixotic. fortune in his younger
Was Shelley Behind even his most astounding Shelley was a dramatist. So am 1.
a poet. So Shaw in the Parnassian 'eightles is unties lurks ever a whimsical bene- Shelley was a Socialist. So am I. probably the richest vegetarian in volence. Witness, his beliaviour Shelley was a vegetarian. So am I.
R
days,
Mr.
"because
the world, and could, were he not when a High School mistress coaxed And anally, Mr. Chairman, Shelley In reality a molest fellow, boast that him into distributing the prizes to was an atheist. So am I" It broke his Initials are the best known in her girls. "But surely you're
Christendom, besides having a con- to make them speech, Mr. Shawng up the Society.
21
heathen.
siderable celebrity even among the "My dear fady, I wouldn't dream of On his seventieth birthday C. B. 5. such a thing. But I will give them was entertained by some of his old It was in dear, dirty Dublin on an exhibition of life-saving In the Fabian admirers and comrades, Phil July 26,
And, 26, 1856, that G. B. S. was born, swimming pool,"
over Snowden and Ramsay. MacDonald Looking back on that event in the seventy, G. B. S. did so.
among them, at a luncheon in the light of subsequent knowledge, it is Many years ago G. B. S. was clect- House of Commons. The gift they earth ed president of a Shelley society in made him on that occasion is trea-
astonishing there were quakes the only son official turned has been
#t
of a
or other portents. He was London. No anneals could prevail sured in the Shaw menage, though of an ex-law court's on the president to attend its meet banished by Mrs. Shaw to on incon- merchant. He Ings. At length the honorary secre- spleuous attic. It consisted согл characteristically franky wrote that the distinguished about that parent, who came of an- vice-president was lecturing on "The handsome silver inkstand with the Inscription: "Will Show ever die- elent linenge with noble connections, Religion of Shelley, and imploring not bloody likely)" but cultivated n weakness which G. B. S. to come. The conspicuous barred the family from its legitimate figure of the Superman duly appear- Would that the audacious jest were
octal heritage,
ed, but, refusing all invitations to a true. The world can ill afford in "If you asked him to a dinner or scat on the dals, curled up on a back these unbalanced reactiomry dayu to #party," G. B. S. has confided, "he row.
lose its one and only' G. B. S.--the was not always sober when be so am
Irth Nestor with the trenchant but arrivedi, and
Invariably scan- Wan
benevolent shillelagh the left. All dalously drunk when he left."
with
one
Discussion followed the vice-pre- nuthenlie Peter Pan of the Western the Superman's hero-worship weni sident's crudite paper, but G. B, S. Hemisphere. to his mother, who migrated her son and daughter to London, and. supported the little family by becom int a music mistress. Until the age attended a of fourteen G. B. S. Wesleyan school in Dublin. He then went into an estate agent's office, but on coming to London gave up a ! business career in high disgust, and started to tread the lotsome patlis
of literary aspiration.
£6 to Nine Years
WAS NORMA
SHEARER RIGHT?
NORMA SHEARER is ++++++
not playing the reck-
His first five novels, of which only two, "Cashel Byron" and "The Irra- tional Knot," have ever seen the Night outside obscure Socialist pages,
various were refected by
myopic nublishers. "I did not throw myself into the struggle of life," Mr. Straw less Sylvia Scarlett in the film of "Gone with the tells us, "I threw my mother into version
answer to thou- During his first nine years of Wind." In literary endeavour G. B. S, has stated sands of protests from her fans that he earned exactly £0. Some who declare she should not how one cannot help regarding that
play the part she withdrew
Shavianism.
A lecture by Henry George in 1882 from the cast, for she says she converted G. B. S. to Socialism. He thinks the fans are right. became a stalwart of the Fabian
She has given up a part because the fans don't like it. These filmgoers are making puppets of the stars, declares
SETON MARGRAVE
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his friends the Webbs, William the late Irving Thalberg came to Morris, Annie Besant, and last, but London, he and I had a not least, that splendid firebrand,
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the
war over ones who have not been tied down to patrician-Norma Shearer. He was her pro- ndiess repetitions Cunninghame Graham ducer and her husband, and he was churarter because that character was It is amusing now to recall that guiding her career most brilliantly once sucessful,
These stars began by being ver- G. B. S. owed his journalistic patron-from the point of view of box-office
saule. Luise Rainer, after playing age to William Archer,
success.
419 such opposite parts He critic to the London Star, and later that if I had rend the minds of mus creature of "The Great|
was staggered when I told him we He graduated brilliantly as music
and
the tragic heroine of all wrong. I burgeoned forth as dromatic critic goers aright he was
"The Good Earth." will be accepted said to him: to the Saturday Review. As Star's music man his nom de piunie "Norma Shearer, in the minds or in almost any part she chooses.
Others are not so fortunate. Mar- Corno
di Bassetto. There is one flmgoers, represents the perfection Imperishable fragrant of his very of womanhood. You have been pre- lene Dietrich is tied down to being a as tightly 15 Warner early Fleet Street days.
senting her in films like 'Let Us Be statue almost G. B. S. attended a prize distribu-Gay, A Free Soul, and Strangers land to being Charlie Chan
Fred Astaire to dancing. tion, and mentioned that the chair May Kiss.'
slor who wishes be versatile "was taken by a deplorable M.P."!
was
the
"In all of these she has had to play
and
Ills incomparable articles for the jun immoral character. Therefore can be too great a success in one Saturday, coruscating with impish you are destroying the ideal which part. I doubt whether Gary Cooper wit and shrewd humour, first made has made filmgoers wish to see her in ever escape from "Mr. Deeds," or
in Alms." famous the initials G. U. S. It Wis
a journalistle tour de force. Thou- Her Best Film sands rend the Saturday. Shaw.
crowd. Creating his Public
marks
returned to romance, and
ed into Alms.
be
ACROSS
1 The foolish fellow was always
feeding I declare (10).
A vessel almost closed (4).
A butterfly that might interfere with Franco's fleet movements (two words-3, 7).
10 Bird (4).
12 Girl found in the shrubbery
perhaps (0),
14 The name of this early motorist
still respected (5).
17 Part of a whole rnce or of an
individuat. (3).
mean
Robert Montgomery from being a playboy, in spite of his excursion into "Night Must Fall." or Joan Crawford solely for
FTER we had argued for 48 from "Our Dancing Daughters." -or But G. B. S. was at heart a wore the
hours he cut right back at Robert Taylor from his dress sult. propaganda fanatic. He motley purely in order to attract at-me and asked, "Supposing you are which he detests. tention--much as a Hyde Park orator right, what fim would you muke Comedians' Dilemma
CERTAINLY the business of might stand on his head to draw the next with Norma Shearer?"
answered: "I would get right
being true to type has been back to Hollywood and make 'Smilin'
murder to many of the most success Through
He He found his true literary meller e did, and "Smilin' Through" has ful of the comedians from our British -and his congenial propaganda pitch been the most successful flm in music-halls when they have ventur
as a dramatist. His first play was which she has ever appeared.
Players like Wil Hay and George With "Smilin' Through" Norma Formby have a tremendous problem Anished in 1002. But though "Arms und the Man" had a fair run in Shearer America, neither it nor other early proceeded in this key in ascending in deciding whether to do something
successes in plays were box-office
scale to star in "The Barretts of old, of which the public may Londan. There was no Shaw thea-Wimpole Street" and the exquisitely tired, or something new, which the
public may not like this country. So beautiful "Romeo and Juliet," which public in tre
Among British uctresses the great- G. B. S. set out to make one.
peak of her career in arest success has been the
achieved by He published his plays in book-sile achievement.
Anna Neagle in her transformator form, with inimitable
The problem of choosing stories for from a musical comedy star to play-21 prefaces, but so lucidly com stars is one of the chief headaches of ing Queen Victoria, but then the has tated that the average reader, the film world. with no technique of the theatre, It is twice
vice aggravated,
In the first the wise guidance of Herbert Wilcox, 22 Town of Italy (6).
who is one of the shrewdest show-23 Mistaken (U). could follow them easily. From place because producers choose
25 She is the main part of an that moment G. B. S.'s apotheosis stories by obstinacy instead of intel- men in the film world.
But Herbert Wilcox is only one
opera (3). WRS assured.
His plays proved best-ligence, and in the second place be among many producers, and there 26 sellers us books, and soon a playa cause stars often seek to escape from are very few players who can take 27 broken truce (5)..
thint demanded
the sort of part which has made on any sort of part, going public cose Shavian
drama. Even as author
or them popular. G. B. S. was entirely original on the
They call Spenerr Tracy-I had to business side. His publishers did Both Wrong
et his name in, since I um his most PRODUCERS generally think devoted fan-the greatest actor in cot pay him royalties. He let them took the
stars should always be the Hollywood, because he can play any draw the royalties, and
Stars think they should al- part to perfection. risks and the big profits-himself.
ways be different. Both are wrong. But there is only one Spencer, It is not a tribute to our insular same. intellectuality that G. B. S.'s plays,
The choice of stories for stars So I come back to wondering considerable though their luter suc- should be the castest thing in film-whether the fans were right in for- ceas has been, were never the popu making. All you have to do is select bidding Norma Shearer to play Inr triumphs here that they are in almost every country in Europe as story which will enhance the per- Sylvia Scarlett. She might have sonality already approved by the given a treat performance. On the
other hand, her representation
and
pilen
of
you must enhance the per- Sylvia might have been clouded to
vious pictures.
i well as in America. To some ex-
VS not
change it or cramp it, mlitions of illm-goers by her pre-
and
tent the Irish prophet is still with- out due hondur
inspira- his dramatie try. Ibsen was his adopted coun- lon, but G. B. 5. out-Ibsened his after it is approved.
We have had many cases of stars It is all very difficult, but I hope master. The sparide of his dialogue often supports what would otherwise rebelling against characters in which you see what you have done.
they
were not approved.
By your power at the box-office be Intolerable singe perorations em-
Myrna Loy rebelled against. being you have terrified the stars bodying the Shavian gospel of rational Idealism. It is quite impos-cast as a siren, and is now the ideal their producers into considering what sible to estimate the effect Shavian-wife of films. William Powell kick-you will like rather than what they ism had on the youthful mind of the ed against being cast as a villain, and think is right.""
Certainly you pay for your en early twentieth-century generation. Is now the happiest of fim husbands.
others who have rebelled against you are entitled to get what you pay James Cagney and George Raft are tertainment most handsomely, and being eternally in the wrong parts in for; but are you quite sure that you' are not making puppets of film stars? think Bing Crosby discovered Defied the Public Only obluse mentality could rate G. B. S. aa the brillant elbwn. He himself when he insisted on charne- towers among the outstanding Intelli- ters having a sense of humour, and gences of his epoch. A genius gifted that Frank Capra discovered Clark with a rare facility of seeing conven- Gable when he made him the happy Are you not the first cause of what tlonal things through unconventional hero of "It Happened One Night" perspective. His message is that Tied to their Parts humanity must co-operate loyally
G. B. S. sowed the dragone
and then derided the earthquake!
Man's Destiny
and intelligently with the Life Forca
ARE you not puling the strings 2t little too strenuously?
they call the machine-made Alm'
Or is that the way you like it? A very great producer, whose THE root of the trouble in name wild elephants would not drag
Hollywood regardng the from
in perfecting itself for its larger
me, once sold to me, "I do not: destiny, or be discarded on the scrap-casting of stars is the apparent in- give a hoot for the pubile. I make heap of eternity like the prehistoric ability of producers to see the differ- pictures to please myself."
ence between stars being cast ac- He was and is an enormous suÇ- monsters,
and cess. So, are you right, all the time? The Shaylan physique reflects per-cording to their personalities fectly the Shavian intellect. G, B, S. being woodenly stereotyped.
I put it to you, and I leave it with
In the eightles is a tall, thin, com- Some few have escaped being you. manding figure, bearded and san- stereotyped. Baile Davis, Luise Perhaps Norhia, Shearer should dailed like the Prophet, erect and Rainer, Margaret Sullavan, Barbara luavo played Scarlett and defled the alert.........challenging. and humorous, Stanwyck are among the forlimate lot of you.
14 This doesn't
neighing but is ambiguous (9). This exists for the sake of 5 down (5).
A
player disguised as
# Cus- ter? (0), 92 Fish (4). 33 Convicts may not pussess this but may take exercise in it
(two words—0, 4). 34 This is essential to rhythm (4). 35 Little colony
popular with traders (10).
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2 This often impedes navigation
on the Nile (4).
3 Spirit that might please another
across perhaps (5).
4 A continental government (5).
5 "The undiscovered country from whose bourne no-10- turns", ("Hamlet") (9),
7 Rejoicing (10).
8 Irresistible advice to a man at
the mercy of a jujitsu export
(10).
11 "No harp" (anag.) (6).
13 This would indicate to a busi-
ness
Ig
that turnover necessary (3).
15 This improvement if curtailed
linproves mankind (10).
16 School Bubjects (10).
19 Futility (0)..
20 The part of the City for a bar-
gain in bacon? (9),
24 Three quarters of an hour (3). 28 Anything in shorter form (5). 20 Town of Belgium (5).
30 A little bit made from. 24
across (4).
31 As this coin is going up, it has
Jittle value yet (4).
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