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his

Hell, she's got to know she can't Dippy stood up

On the foot do what she wants just because brake. The roadster teetered, she's your daughter." choked and stopped. There was Roger Travers stared at the less than an inch between the young man, then he cleared bis bumpers of the head-on cars. throat. That epoch-making polar trip,

"You're right. I'll see to Another automobile was behind it. Thank you, ́er starring Admiral Richard E. Byrd the first, and behind that still a seem to place you. You're...

1 don't and his loyal band of 56 fol-third slid suddenly into sight. "Brett lowers, has been recorded for all Then yet another auto appeared. Brett turned abruptly and started Chalmers, Ragman." time in Paramount's "Littleland behind it another. And still for the hike to the control gate. America an actual scene by another.

His feet were heavy for his heart scene account of the intrepid ex-! Horas clamoured. Voices rang was in them He did not know plorer's second Antarctic Expedi excitedly over the noisy water. that Roger Travers' puzzled eyes: tion as taken by two cameramen Men hurried forward And still clung to who accompanied the expedition. cars appeared. forming a discon-though he did half suspect Dippy's retreating back, Every thrilling event of this certing queue. Dippy's blood grew teary ones. †hazardous undertaking in this weak as water. She looked at her "That took courage..

truth-is-stranger-than-fiction watch. A quarter till four. That you off like that," said Travers to telling production, crammed with sus- darned control!

his daughter. "I have to pro- pense, drama and romance in!

A dusty young man cut through mote that young man.” every foot of film, is showa. Iso- the crowd. He brandished a red But promotion did not suit Dip-| lating themselves of their own fag under Dippy's nose and yelled, pr. Nine dull days later she cor- free will, filled with the spirit "What are you doing" Then the nered her father. "Rodge, where's of adventure, this courageous young man

blinked and looked that poor young man that used to expedition set out to conquer the again.

wave the flag on the control?! frozen wastes of the South Pole. "Don't you dare speak to

"Strikes me you drive to Coni- determined and ready to face any like that," flared Dippy.

fer too much," Travers evaded. danger, every hardship.

He ignored that but his eyes "I wouldn't if there were some- The intimate everyday life of xrew guarded

with recognition-thing to amuse me close by." sigh- these men, who spent 18 months "I'm sorry, Miss Travers, beled Dippy. "Rodge, darling. you in an ice empire making valuable snapped. though his jaw line didn't fire that poor young man?” as they battled the tightened and paled. "Control Rodge wagged his head. **I've elements, is vividly shown in the means control a thing you have looked up his record. He's a good picture. This fearless group are to understand. No more smashing kid, and you let him alone. He's shown at work, fighting through gates. There's $500 fine for violat-blasting." blinding blizzards, roaring gales, ing the control, and if you were

"Blasting! But Rodge. that's unimaginable cold in a land of the governor's daughter, you'll pay dangerous!" ice and snow. They are seen at

"Nonsense!"

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“Come ahead slowly. radic programmes in their under-cars ground city, and at their studies back this bird cage off the road in their own

University of Anat the grove." tarctica with the expedition's "Bird cage." gasped Dippy.

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"Come off it, Daphne. Oh. all. right, all right. Hearen help him. where do you want him???

"Rodge, such a way to act! It's just that I think he's a

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"More over.” The flagman thrust her aside and slid behind The film opens on board the the wheel. Dippy cringed into the Hagman, don't you? He explains ship Bear of Oakland as it fights far corner. He fing the soiled red things so nicely to people when he its way through the icebergs and bunting into her lap and began to has to ride in their cars to the dangerous pack ice to the 70-foot back Fifteen cars trundled slow-other end of the control to open high barrier to "Little America"ly after them, eating dust. jexactly as they left it a few years!

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"Be quiet." said the flagman.

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Dippy was quiet. Even when off or some thing. the front fenders shaved the aspens think, Rodge?"

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It was three weeks later, in the They surveyor's office at the camp. Be-

to

as they slipped off into the grove,, "Don't call me Rodge," shouted she didn't speak. One by one the her father, and made a memoran- In this Columbia production cars sprang past. The young man dum to the blasting superinten Edward Arnold plays the starring waved, the drivers honked. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to role, that of the Police Inspec- he turned and looked

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at Dippy his nose. tor. Peter Lorre is seen as Rao-from her curls to her heels. His Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

kolnikov, the murderer.

She was still smiling when she eyes were cold and contemptuous said "Hello" to the reinstated Under the direction of Josef, von! "I thought," he said, "that you fapman. And though, five morn- Sternberg, who has innumerable were through with me. I thought Ings later, she still said "Hello". hits to his credit, and who is gen-one engineer in your family was as cheerily, her smile was slight- Through a haze where the erally considered one of Holly-all you could stand. You said my ly thinner.

sun that water has to go somewhere, wood's outstanding directors, the pay wouldn't keep you in stock.

still shone uncertainly they could you know. Old Gray's been wor- Brett Chalmers had not melted see the straight lines of rain fall-ried all day. film promises much in the way of ings."

in the proper. spirit Now

Said cloudbursts jentertainment.

i The young kar snorted.

He looked helplessly down the

ing in a curtain on the far slopes turned hell loose in this canyon. road of the mountain. The immortal story concerns it turned the roadster and climbed The gate must close.

Eig drops That's the way it got its name." other splashed down self with the causes and effects of toward camp.

car was in sight Cleverly Dippy lightning ripped the black sky.

on them. Red He talked grandly, loudly, to the crime Raskolnikov commits..

"Stop. Let me out." screamed contrived to be the last car every

steel her courage again. The spent Having recently graduated from Dippy as the bearings shrilled on day on the early control.

The river lathered at their side. storm drifted away into the north- the University, a brilliant student.

the first curve. For answer be

She could take a lot of punish-The ier downpour plastered their east. The rain gradually lessen- with a penchant for analysing the

trod on the accelerator. They ment. He had to hand it to her.

clothes to their bodies. Dippyfed criminal mind, Raskolnikov finds raced into camp and stopped be This being the flag car every trip laughed, lifting her face to the Then he kissed her.

As Dippy himself and his high ideals buffet fore Roger Travers'

The couldn't be very nice for her ...

lightning, shouting back bluster said later, that was enough to ed about. He is ragged, starving. Young man was pale. Dippy was swallowing dust, creeping miser for bluster at the thunder. Brett make anyone think of something His beloved sister is about to pale, too. She scrambled from the ably.

clenched his cold fingers and star-lelse. She probably would · never car and fled to her father, sobbing,) obnoxious Government

He hadn't helped her any either.ed ahead tensely.

have heard the horn at all, even official just so that he, Baskolai-"Hodge, oh Rodge"

It was bad enough to be taken off "In another second we'll be out Brett heard it and struggled to his kov, and

Brett Chalmers swallowed hard his mother" will have

feet. They were saved. ja man's job and thrust back into of danger," he cried. and faced the Travers scowl money.

riding back and forth over the A jagged flame leaped down be had come. "You ought to know.

She

control as Believing that, with his superior won't stop till she's made to. Miss

a signaller when

fore them. Thunder bellowed and re-echoed other-way traffic could begin. mentality, he can commit the per-Travers drove through the control

-deafeningly, fect crime, he murders a wretched gate this morning,

"Hello," he grumbled thankless-ground to a stop, the back wheelsjing a young-man of strong char- and just hag of a pawnbroker and robs her. now"

ly and accepted fate. He climbed slewing dangerously.

acter Brett managed; almost, Across the road lay a large keep his eyes on his firures when The remainder of the film ahows

into the blue roadster but clung: "Daphne! groaned Rodge. why he fails to escape the long

virtuously to his own side, scowl aspen, smouldering, steaming, stin the screen door squeaked and "Gray wanted to mend the gate

shuddering from its fall. The old Dippy came in. "Good morning, arm of the law, in the guise of the and not report it, sir. I knewing straight ahead. relentless ret gentle Police In- there'd be trouble if we didn't. If Don't be horrid again

"Please, Erett," begged Dippy. Warning sign was broken. A re- Miss Travers," he said.

mnant, crazily askew, shouted in "Dippy.to you,” said Daphne' a to-day. she gets away with something once Tre apologised and all. Marian Marsh, a young lady... you know.... I mean

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Brett sighed. "Why don't you Brett smiled with Dippy, but his her hand over his work

Dippy read it aloud, laughing.something else, BrettTM

She put tides, plays the leading feminine blackmail.

are being bled for carry the flag yourself? You don't

Ineed me."

eyes were grave. His voice was young, recently-prompted surveyor !role. Others include Tala Birell, The cast includes Donald

reassuring, cool.

dropped his pencil and took her Robert Allen, Elisabeth Eisdon, woods, Winifred Shaw, Warren silent trip Dippy did not turn the the lights burning. They'll help.”

At the north end of the sixth "Let's get out and bike. "Teave hand: Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Lock-Hymer, Allen hart and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

Jenkins, Barton car. Banked thunder clouds which Dippy's eyes

"To call you dangerous," he MacLane and Olin Howland.. had oppressed them all day were strained serious face to the swol

flashed past. his whispered.

"Eat passable?** in blacker and blacker. Dust len river, scarcely two feet below **M-D-m-m. Well, I can't get was intolerable.

the roadway.

OVET JOU." She rallied gamely. "End of

She did not question or answer.

"Brett, don't try," warned Dip- lline Everybody out. Borrowed from Warner Brothers to Conifer for a swim and some as she turned from it and put her Roger Travers rose from his

Tm going She gave the roadster a little pat y Perry Mason, while Margaret for a leading role in the Mono-ice cream. I'll catch the 5 o'clock hand into Brett's childishly. They desk and stomped angrily out of Lindsay plays, the part of the gram production, Lyle "curious bride." Claire

Talbot, control. Wait for me." Dodd well-known-leading man, presents

tummed from the road and started the office, finging back grufly, continues as Mason's astute secre-one of the finest performances of her? Oh, yeah? Brett swore un-here in the sapen grove.

Ice Cream! A swim! Wait for up the mountain zide, less abrupt "Lord, kiss her, Brett, kiss her. tary-sweetheart,

his sensational career in The der his breath as the dusty blue Suddenly there was s roer, anto aigua."

And after this pay more attention The attorney-detective learns Thirteenth Guest," a mystery roadster swerved beyond sight jodd pulsing and vibrance of the that the bride's first husband, lodrama.

But when the 5 o'clock control was air and earth that was not thunder supposed to have been dead for In "The Thirteenth Guest" he ready to close, after interminable or echo or rain. "Climb!” sobbed four years. is alive, and fa at

plays the outstanding role of the centuries, he waited. tempting to blackmail her. The debonair. the man is found dead with a stab whose clever solution of the plot in, as sultry and had-tempered as Dippy and half dragged her to a

private investigator Then she came. Brett climbed

· He dung himself, forward 'beside wound through his heart. The furnishes the climax for one of the weather, stuffing the dag be tiny insecure ledge. They clung wife's keys are found at his aide the For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply and she is arrested for the murmurder mysteries of the year.

weirdest and most unusual neath his feet.

Most Beautiful In Dippy was petal-there. The roar was on them. It cool and sweet beside him. There swirled around their feet, tearing

The World Starring Ginger Rogers, Perry Mason, as the woman's cast also includes J. Farrell Mac-tips as they started off.

the was challenge in the tilt of her to undermine the refuge. Cold

wind rushed by.

Vienna-What is described as Donald, Frinces Rich, Irene. "There's a carton of ice cream other persons who had a motive Rich's beautiful daughter, and in the pocket... if it hasn't and waited. His arms were tight-world" is being issued in Austria Brett and Dippy shrank back the most beautiful stamp in the PGO BUILDING? CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG is the bride's second husband who Erville Alderson,

for killing the blackmailer. One Eddie Phillips. James Eagles, melted," she laughed, as he clawed by around her, his back shielding from May 5 to May 31 for ordine. Robert Klein, for it. It had not melted too much. her from rocks and rain, her heart ary inland postal purposes. It ta Phone 27721

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An explosion of thunder rocked beating madly so near his own. 2 reproduction of Albrecht with her; a chorus girl and her William Davidson.

Brett soothed her, tried to mini-Durer's picture "Madonna,” and elias of KI Cattle Canyon.mize the danger hardly past. "All the Child.”

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