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The Story of

NANA

CHAPTER IV. "

WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Anna Sten

Suguntad ie frana ja

EMILE ZOLA'S

Besar Hatef of › Late at the The Sarap

eral seconds which seamed delight- ful hours, when a noise at the win- dow gave ho a slight start Fow ladies, Interrupted in the intimacy at todette or love's young dream, could have turned as she did, with

Nana, a girl of the shadows, living in Paria in 1882, to cohort up by a Mr. freiner, a powerful theatrical pro stucer who, "struck by her singular Seauty and personality, takes her into an immediata smile of unruffled As theatre, trains her, ant presents confidence.

ker to the public is kir nesunat revua,| It wna George. Ha poored over

sa sobich ́ake is a tremendous “menacéfthe edge of a window, his · face Hon. At the same time he makes love wreathed in a smile,

Nana ran over to him and am- braced him closely, warmly.

to the girl, and she accepte his careJSCE, Never have I seen you looking Derasies the users if she doesn't, he tell Bro her from the theatre and is exquisite before as you do i Kre of luxury and east six ne prown that gown, rling to love. The opening night she "mecta George Kufat, a good-tankher young ofloer, who frankly tell her he te quite amities with her and cake Aer to dinner. She rejuzes, dut beta a těsto, sive date for a later casignation with him.

NOW OU ON WITH THE STORY

What with the show, which the whole of Paris was trading and clamoring to see, and Greiner, who was still ma naistent with his love na ever, and the new element in hor life, her love for George, Nana had but little time for rest. So, When the show closed for the sum mor, she was heartily thankful to leave for a villa which she rented

in the South of France.

There wo ser her now. Nana, the gossip and delight of France and the entire world.

"You've worn it often enough; 1 don't see what No surprising now," she taunted,

"A" he smiled, "but mostly I've only seen it at night"

Laughing happily, Nana helped him lato the room and held him at arm's length, looking him over greedily, up dad down, her eyes seeming to devour him piece by plece,

""Oh darling," she murmured, "1 do love you, love you more than anything else in the world. You are my world-my sun and moon and atara, my very life."

Passionately sho embraced him, showering him with kisses from her And Cearra ru- warm red mouth, sponded, making love to her, to the à woman who had charted him from

F

After a while they sat smoking on Nana's divan, near the open win- dow. She was looking at him. ber: eyes following every movement of

Sana stood before a mirror in her luxurious bedroom Pertamed boy into a man, the woman who and cleaning. Just out of her bath had given him a reason for living, this body of hers, she thought, must dames of woich his whole life had and an escape over-night fram be God's greatest treasure to any woman. She caressed herscit, te previously seemeč romposed, las warm and antisod, Her thighs, swelling graciously, at the hips, necmad pilla of unmarked marbls, lesing themselves in a neecy, cloud- Uka heaven, the heaven of her thoughts. Her bssom. too. he his fact. thought must also have been born o heaven, so white and Bott it seemed. Her hair brought har vis- lona of a cl* of fragrant flowers. Strange thoughts ran through ber head as she surveyed herself like a be my wife." proud kitten "all-abuadio in a new **Why,” she said, “Il's not necess alik how. "She wondered if she had marg. I can have you, whom I love

you're

"If anyone

come betwren

Π soidier...

you just take your gruaty gun and abent

-

"You know, warling,” she said, "nothing can aver separate 13. We're one for all time."

"Yes," he smiled, “even with Greiner. You must leave him and

been right or if at anytime she had most of all, and I can have the the- neglected or abused this miraculous atre and all it brings me, too, if we Dody. Halt in a dream, she reviewed on as we have. If I tell Greiner briefly to herself, the Past ho to go to the devil, much as I would thought of the packel theatre, and like to, he'll throw me out. And, of audiences at clapped" endlessly darling, I really do want to stay on after her net. She thought of the stage. There's nothing to worry Greiner, and of the disgusting habit about. I love you, I can't tell you had of wing over her. Thank how much-and you love me. That's God, now, at least she was rid of all there is to it. Then added coy- him for a spell. He was safely 17, "You do love me, don't you?" enough in Paris. Then, as she

Do George smiled. “Love-you? thought of someone sise, her breath I love to breathe? I can't help but quickened, and her mouth, a rose love you. But, Nana, darling, Ta"

· Lud,coveted by so many men, broke feel so much more cure if I were into a whimsical-anulle. - to be on 14 to you Something- Georgo. George, the kind, the might happen to us as we are. Joving the only man she had ever Something that would tear us apart. nown who gave, without asking. And that would be my end. It will ile had given ber his heart, and finish me.”.

unquestionably abo returned here: Nana laughed. "Nobody's going they were as one she thought, in- to acharate us We're what we are separable as the atoms of reck for all tim, all eternity. Anyway,” They were made for each other. It she laughed, “you're a soldier. if was Inevitable that they should anyone tries to coms hetween us. have mel; they had, and now they why you just take your trusty were to be one, eternally one,

gun, and Bing'-you've shot him, Nana was happy now, happier and there's no more danger. He's than she'd ever been, happier she dead." thought with a shudder than any- But George was serious. "Nana, But this don't be slily. I don't fear a man one had a right to be. fear was short-lived. She chuckled or a beast or anything I can soo and kill, and that be the end of it. I inwardly.

"She had planned too carefully to fear something else.".

have

anything 60

wrong

DOW.

doorge and she were all that mat-

She smiled indulgently,"

·

tered, and she had so stranged it there to fea driving at, what is

here in this far-off placa.

*V, hat are you

Right George didn't speak for a long next door in the neighboring villa time, and when he did there was.4 George lived with his brother Andre, hesitating furtive quality in his and Andre's wife and child

Every voice. evening George slipped, quietly, cut

"Something fraidious. Something

of his house, and like a lover from no one can see, and no one can fairy tale, rame to her arms in top. I feel it. darling. And that's And if any. the still of a Riviere night. There all I feel sure of IL together, yet alone, in the silence thing ever breaks us up, it will be of the night with a warm soft wind tearing my heart right out of my playing through the open windows body. My losing you will be my of her reum, Nana had experienced death knell."

His voics was louder.

known before-LOVE!

Nana laughed. "Nonsense," abe said, "nothing's going to happen to

with George what she had never "And Nana, darling, I think it's Even Satin, she reflected, was coming. Something in me says ǝ.” smart enough to keep her mouth shut on those few occasions when Papa Grenter came to see. Nana and Zoo, Grainer'a old friend, whom he put in charge of the Villa to watch over Nana, had grown amen-

Why this can't ever stop. It's

too beautiful and are and noble

"... It's no use, Nana,” be in- terrupted, "I know something will

abla when some money was dangled happen. It's inevitable that Fats before her greedy ayos, “No,” Nans will never allow any two human bọ- thought, "nothing can happen. This "heaven will go on forever, just like ing to be so happy for long. It's in the Heaven learned about in Bun the cards, darling, and we CAN'T NOR

the player who is dealing them" day school"

Her reverie had progressed say:

(TO BE CONTINUED)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30.6.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

FOX RELEASE

KINGS

HE SETS A NEW

PACE AND A NEW STYLE!.

because

HAROLD LLOYD

THE

Every thing is new but these

CATS PAW

— with.

UNA MERKEL GEORGE BARBIER NAT PENDLETON GRACE BRADLEY ALAN DINEHART GRANT \MITCHELL,

AT THE KING'S

Harold Lloyd's New.

Role

Abandoning the adolescent roles. the stunts and paraphernalia which Arst Helped to make him one of the world's outstanding motion picture comedians, Harold Lloyd returned to the screen of the King's Theatre, a. new, full- grown man and record-breaking audiences, their faces aglow with laughter, and their cheeks with intermittent tears, bid him a lusty heartfelt welcome! 小

**The

THIS SPORTING

AGE

At The Alhambra

BOOKING AT THE

THEATRE. TEL. No. 25313 25332

--NEXT CHANGE---- “You can save the life of the man I love,”

the said to the husband she had ceased to love!

TO-DAY AT THE MAJESTIC

CINEMA

HONG KONG

KING'S:--

"The Cat's Paw* QUEEN'S:

"The Scarlet Empress" GIENTAL:-

"Fashions of 1934"

KOWLOON

ILHAMBRA:-

"This Sporting 'Age"

JAJESTICI

"Son of Kong"

THES

CRIME DOCTOR"

A prenost in kriminology, maddenes by jealous hate, conceives the “perfect

"enme” and almost gets away with it.

Lovers of the polo game and of horses should not miss this picture which will be shown for the last four times to-day at the Alham- bra. It is a picture full of thrills, spills and chills of an internation- al polo match with the strangest duel that was ever fought for a Woman.

the

With

RKO RADIO Picture

OTTO KRUGER KAREN MORLEY NILS ASTHER JÚDITH WOOD WILLIAM FRAWLEY

THE SCARLET EMPRESS

Marlene Dietrich's Greatest Role

At the Queen's Theatre, Marlene Dietrich is to be seen in one of the greatest roles of her career in "The Scarlet Empress" which la a story of the early life of the‹ Princess who was later to become Catherine the Great.

The picture is a good one from a historical point of view and gives a good insight of the careful upbringing of Catherine, who how- ever, because of her marriage to the imbecie, Peter III, was driven to

assert herself in the Royal household.

The story is cleverly told and there is a martial note throughout the picture that one cannot fall to enjoy. The musical accompani ment is carefully thought out and is very effective: The scenes be

tre fore the climax

gorgeously produced and the element of.. romance is finely drawn out,

At the 9.30 performance

Holt is faced with the sad task of shooting his pet polo pony "Grey Ghost" when his leg is brok- For int "The Cat's Paw" h's en. (being the fastest polo pony, In latest vehicle in many. many

the state of California), in one of months (which must have been the most exciting and dangerous dull indeed without him, he is an polo games played in Hollywood, unexpectedly different Harold let alone recorded on the screen. Lloyd, a type of comedian whom (Actually, of course, Grey Ghost's film audiences will not be prine leg was not broken.. For the to forget or tire of so easily.

movies, though their motto be Prior

realism, are to the timing of

zone

'less Cat's Paw." Mr. Lloyd adamantly humane.) Holt is supported by a announced that he would remain sterling cast headed by Evalyn off the screen indefinitely unless Knapp, Ruth Weston, Hardle Al- his exhaustive researches were pro- bright, Walter Byron, J. Farrell Palmer and ductive of the ideal story. To-day, MacDonald, Shirley few persons, no matter how carp-Nora Lane in "This Sporting Age," ing their critical faculties, can a story as sleek and leathery as a gain-say the star's Anal julgment new saddle. Taken from a story without exposing their own sanity by J. K. McGuiness, this Columbla to question. In short, and picture

to

co-directed by A. F. Erickson and "Andrew Bennison. everybody's way

thinking, of Harold Lloyd found what is in- dubitably the finest story of his whole career (and he has had traditions of the township of some mighty fine ones) when he Cheng-tu and the philosophical chose Clarence Budington Kel-sayings of the past Ling Po At- land's famous serial und best-sell- taining manhood, and none but ing novel.

Chinese girls available as future American city, and his courtship The new type of role alluded to mates, the young man is returned of Petunia Pratt (played by the provides Harold Lloyd with a char- to America with instructions to wise-cracking Una Merkel), is too acter of a missionary's son who is find a wife!

What happens to grand to divulge, so please don't divulge It even after you've seen 'The Cat's Paw yourself.

Was

taken to China as a little boy.him when he arrives and is hurled There he grows up in the dreamy into the fury of a helter-skelter

SHOWING

TO-DAY

1770

Saturday Miss Jere Lee and her "Madcaps" band entertained and the theatre enjoyed a full house. Miss Lee's "kids" provided the theatre's patrons with plenty of "peppy" "entertainment including comedy, dance, solos and special musical numbers.

BULLNS

IN

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Crime Doctor""

QUEEN'S:

"The Barretts of Wimpole

Street"

ORIENTAL:-

"Private Jones" ALHAMBRA:-

"She Was A Lady" MAJESTIC:-

"Supernatural”

4 SHOWS

DARY-

130-15

1.35-8.30

THEATRE

Nathan Road Kawloon," Tel. 57292 FO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

The monster lashed his tail three miles astern!

Back to the Island of King

Kong to search for buried gold!

SON

KONG

་་་་་་

OF

QU ROBERT

ARMSTRONG

HELEN MACK FRANK REICHER.

JOHN MARSTON VICTOR WƠNG

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY YALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

2 MORE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

DAYS

HERE'S THE BIG

FASHIONS MUSICAL REVUE

WHIPPED INTO

FLEMING ROAD

HANG MÁN

TEL. 20473

ON SENSATIONAL MOTION PICTURE. EXTRAVAGANZA!

A GREAT LAUGH

16. BIG STARS! 200 LOVELY GIRLS GO, GORGEOUS MODELS!

FASHIONS OF 1934

Apain the producers al "42nd Strait," "Geld Diggers," "Festlight

Pornoon trung yêu âm loại word in anim Giang

A First National

Section streng

WILLIAM POWELL »..

BETTE DAVIS

VEREE TEASDALE

FRANK M.HUGH

Marlene Dietrich in the Scarlet Empress, showing now at

the Queen's Theatre"

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.20 & 9.30

CHINESE GOODWILL

P.M.

The SCARLET EMPRESS

SPECIALTY

POPEYE

in

with John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louisu Dresser...500 Hell-riding. Cossacks...Thous ands of extras in on owe-Inspiring wed- ding procession.. A choir of 300 voices! A Paramour Picture capturing all the pomp, speciac and power of a barbaric empire!) Dired by JOSEPH YA STERNBERG:

THE SAILOR “Sock - A - Bye Baby"

MISSION

Despatch to Philippines Recommended

Shanghai, Nov. 30.

A meeting of the Sino-American Trade Council has adopted a reso- lution to recommend that the Chinese Government tend a good-

to will trade commission, .the Philippines during the next Spring, Spring carnival

It will be recalled that a similar commission from the Philippines visited this country last April

It is also suggested that Chinese the merchants participated in carnival with exhibits of Chinese products.

Reuter.

FAREWELL CALLS BY DR. ESPINOSA

Nanking, Dec. 1 The Vice-President of Nicaragua, Dr. Rodolfo Espinoza, arrived here from Peiping this morning and. left for Shanghai at 5 pm, en route home after paying farewell calls on the President or. China, Mr. Lån Shen, Mr. Wang Ching Wet and other Government leaders Roster.

ALHAMBRA

THE STRE

TO-DAY ONLY

Polo Spills

Heart Thrills!`

JACK

HOLT

in

THIS

SPORTING

AGE

TO-MORROW: Helen Twelvetrees in. "SHE WAS A LADY”

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