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SMART GIRL

CHE was lovely to look at..

SHE

Most

girls of her type are. They'r Tommy's wife, didn't do or say

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thing. She decided that Freda was too smart, too. Faustina was smart, She proud to admit defeat before the pu had to be or she wouldn't have gotten blic. This was, fine. Without inter- places. There was one hitch. She knew ference from Tommy's wife, the affair she was lovely and she knew she was could be more speedily precipitated. smart. She figured she was smarter It was. In June, right after the mu- than other girls. use 22 B

sical was but, into cans, Tommy pro. We called her Tina, pronouncing it posed. He wanted Tina to run away DI- "Teena." She was twenty-one when with him. Tina shook her head. she had her affair with Jerry Hope. vorce Freda, and she, Tina, would mar- But Jerry was a band leader.

Tommy was grieved. He had a Ty him. good spot on the radio. Tina, got her that was the ultimatum, and the next first real break crooning a couple of week he instigated divorce proceedings. ballads on Jerry's programme. She The trial was a speedy affair. Freda figured she was on her way to the top. contested only mildly. In the end, She wanted fame and money more than Tommy got his divorce and Freda got a settlement for herself and the chil- anything.

Jerry was young and good looking dren, and Tina was free to have Tom- and unmarried. They fell in love. Or my.

so the newspapers said, It was good. Everything was fine except for one publicity. Young, romance. Sincere thing. Freda's settlement for herself devotion. That sort of stuff.

and children amounted to $1400 a

Then one day Jerry didn't show up month, and that was just about the for rehearsal. He had eloped with total of Tommy's salary! Marion Gerda. Marion Gerda was No one knew this but Freda, because thirty-eight. She was rich. She had Tommy was one of the vainest men fallen in love with Jerry. She wanted that ever lived. People thought he him. She bought him a yacht, and made a lot more than that, and he established an annuity for him, and he wanted them to think so. When the married her, we

hu question arose in court, Tommy was She disap- torn

He told the court, because he

It broke Tina's: heart.

peared forza, fortnight. Convalescing,, ity two desires, and his van-

By Meredith Scholl

knew the figures would be published, that he made a thousand dollars week, we

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the newspapers said. She didn't spend more than two weeks convalescing, be cause to do so might cause the public to forge who she was,

Tina found out about it when the di- Her affair with Jerry was the excuse vorce papers were being made final. she needed. When she announced that She noticed Tommy wasn't as free with never-again--would-she-fall-in-love,-we-his-money, and she wondered. Finally were supposed to understand. Any she asked him point blank, and Tommy thing she did from now on was sup- confessed. It was a shock to him to posed.to be justified.

hear Tina rave. You see, when Tina

Some of

during the the things that happened had insisted that he marry her he

next five years are not thought for sure it was love she was worth writing about. Tina almost got after, instead of riches. Her attitude to the top on several occasions. She soured him. He never quite, got over never quite made it, because she it, and the way he felt began to show couldn't deliver the goods. But she had in his, work.

plenty of publicity and plenty of So when Tomy's option came up for money. She didn't allow scruples or renewal, it wasn't grabbed, and Tommy morals to stand in the way of what she found himself out on his ear, Tina, wanted," pung

too, didn't do so well. The public can

In the spring of the year she reach- stand an awful lot, but this business of ed twenty-seven, Tina woke up one breaking up Tommy and Freda with morning, and discovered she was be«, two kids involved, and Tommy's job ginning to look old. She had lived too gone haywire,, was too much. Besides, fast and too high. She had bleached Tina's hair was more brassy than ever. her hair and it was beginning to get Her option went the way of Tommy's. that brassy look. She decided she'd Tina never got over it. And the better make her pile in one last coup hardest thing of all for her to under- unless, at twenty-eight she wanted to stand was that Freda, another woman, go on relief.

had proved herself smarter. Smarter?

She decided that Tommy Hedwig was Well, Freda was in love with Tommy. the man. Tommy Hedwig was an as- Actually Which gave her an advan sociate movie producer. He was rich tage. At any rate, Tommy and Freda and famous and had a wife and two are now together again, and Tina~~ children. He was, to all appearances, well, no one knows or cares where Tina happily married.

That was the spring that Bill Ga (Copyright, 1988, By The Associated briel's orchestra, with whom Tina was

Newspapers). singing, was making a musical for Pacific Studios. Tommy Hedwig was the producer, so Tina saw a lot him. Pe

She took it easy at the start. DIf Tommy were happily married, ho might be hard to bring in tow. But it de- veloped that Tommy wasn't as hard as she had fearedjenetrati

FUNERAL OF QUEEN

MARIE

Telegraphic information has been

Tina still had something about her, received from the Secretary of State even at twenty-seven, that attracted for the Colonies that the funeral men. And she was smart. She had Her Late Majesty Queen Marie of Tommy Hedwig taking her out to lunch Roumania will take place on Sunday before a week had passed.

Within another week they appeared 24th July. All flags on Govern- at the Trọc, together. Then they ap- ment buildings and launches will be peared other places, and pretty soon flown at half-mast from 8 a.m. to the tabloids began noticing the fact

Tina was rather surprised when Fre

sunset on that day.