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NYLVIA RIVERS rules the younger wet or Beck, Faizale New York auburb Bhe disilkes BOOTH RAEBURN wine family Due night at the Yacht Club Hools a put an embarknesing tution by HARDY WILTMORE, one of Sylvia's guests, who had Sen drinking, Bylvie malleusly contrives to Tore Bou relenation from the Juniors. Humilated, Hoats withdraws from the crowd She goes about with RUBS LUND, the swim mine instructor. Russ rella in love with her Boho Koing away. He bear mth him and she asks for Boots dress baring her mother hear about Mr. Raeburn returns from a visit and her dignation from the club.

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CHAPTER XIV

By MABEL McELLIOTT

And

reminded herself, that she had dones'same and Anally Boots, weak anything to be ashamed of. On the defeated, crept quietly away, to her contrary, her journeyinga with Russ own room. The scene had ended with had beet of the mest decorous nature, a few mild tears and reproaches on A ride in the sweet smelling lanes her mother's part. All right thon, she

a chocolate soda at the Sweet wouldn't talk about working in a shop.: Shop. but would peoplo, bolleve All right then, she wouldn't mention that? A girl didn't usually spend so business course any more... much time with one man unices the "If she finds out about my real- Current of their affairs ran more ing from the Juniors I'm almply deeply and swiftly than that of a through," Boots muttered to herself platenie friendship. But it had been darkly, tossing on a hot pillow. And platonie, Bouts told herself sturdily. of course that revelation was only a ago Russ had not laid a finger upon After that first impulsive kiss weeks matter of time.

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Sleep would not come. It was.all wrong, the girl thought desperately, "What did you say, darling?" tossing in the darkness. Everything Of course it was madness. Boots Her mother, straightening a stooped was wrong her life here, the narrow- told herself as she slipped out of thounek, lifting out a pile of underthings ness and stupidity of it, the restric- half-wet bathing sult and nervously fondly.

layered in tissue paper, looked at her lons that hound her. With Rusa began to dress. Why, I was just n

and here her heart leaped-everything. game they were playing, Girls and

"Nothing" But the sound that had would be different. He belonged to a boys talked as she and Russ had nill creaped her was almost a groan. Her different world. He was not bound by time onl It meant precisely carefully built up fabric of common the age-old taboos and conventions. nothing. Johnny had been shouting See crumpled and shattered at the Maybe that was the way life was to Geraldine that very day on the thought of Russ's kina. If she meant to be, free and bold and simple. raft, "Be mine, darling. Be mi-yunt answered him coolly and distantly to- As his wife she would miss some of I can't live without you!" And every morrow he would go away to Chile, the naftness and case she had been trained to expect. Vagabonding down She would never see him again... simply screanted

"Here, let me hang that up," she the world in gypsy fashion one would frock from her mother's fingers. She sheets and finger bowls as the greatest] fairly flew at the rest of the unpack luxuries, pleasant but not viial.

"I must be mad," she said for the ing and Mrs. Rachurn, who had been strange and silent and evidently bad, side lamp to peer at the clock. It NEW YORK SERVICE telling herself that the child was hundredth time, switching on her bed- something on her mind, banished the waa 3 o'clock. It was 4. At daybreakt idea aut reflected that Barbaro was the cautiously put on her clothes and growing up to be a great help.

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laughter, it had been the most priced at random, taking a brown crepo come to think of hot baths and clean

less comedy line.

Yes, the and Russ Lund were just playing at being in love. It didn't mean a thing. It vas exciting, like being in a drama the Amateur Group of the Juniors might give.

She Inced her white sandals and ro a comb through her unraly curls, Tho

memory of Russ's grave, smiling face as he had said, "Po morrow," stayed with her. Nonrense, It was all nonsense and she was a fool ever to have let him say such things) to her Tonight mother would comel home; everything would go back into its proper place, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. ituss would take the cattle bunt or the fruit for Chile. She would have one letter from him- maybe two. This time next year she might not even remember his name.

"That's how serious it is." she said half-aloud to, convince herself.

Aunt Nedda wanted Boots to come and visit her in the autumn, Mrs. Racburn said, with quiet satisfaction, "You'd like that, wouldn't you?"

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slipped out the side door. The world was dewy, silvered in the pare early morning light. Everything was de

icicusly cool and fresh, Clear drops of crystal hovered on the masturtium leaves, and every delphinium spike was nungically spangled with dew. Inwardly Boots

shivered. The The girl, pale and heavy-eyed, strode thought of Aunt Nedda's cold, deur sternos the grass to the gate which led brownstone house near the Boston into the Hartsus garden. It was only Cammon made her shiver. And where a short walk from here to the blue woull Russ be by autumn? Making stretch of the sound. Iter head nebed. love In kome beautiful Spanish She wanted to be alone to shake off senorita in an embroidered shuwi? She could see herself, going to the library to change books for Aunt with pale, drab, decorous people all Neden, going to symphony concerts,

about them.

served jolle soup and broiled chops All through the evening, as she mad lied to her father, as she washed dishes angl, brushed up the kitchen tiger with worn broain the thought sinyad with her. It was not serious she said vaguely, --she would not let it be. To-morrow

No-ever that!

"I think I'll have a Jol, by fall,"

"A job, darling" Her muther she would employ just the right blend smiled indulgently. "What could you of gravity mph humour in her fare- do?"

the beach club guard. He tu

Well. Mary, Ollivant is helping out would see, he would understand that in a dress shop in New Murtin and size was a woman of the world for she loves it. And some of the other all her 18 years, Sh flushed at the girls-Helen and Louise and Suc- memory of her scarlet cheeks and are going to take a business course." starry eyes. "Why, he must think me "Hut, my dear," began her mother in foci" she told herself indignantly in the tone, the strain Boots so dread "Ife probably says that to some girl ed, "after all they are newcomers here every place he goes and expects me They have no traditions to uphold. to know that."

Why, your grandfather bullt the first Manor house, the one with the cupola, that the Westerlys live in now. couldn't have you in a shop, denr. Daddy and I would never agree that.

In the flurry of her mother's arrival she almost forgot Rurs. The dear, familiar thin face and spare un fashionable figure. The unpacking of the shabby hage-somehow the even ing flew by.

"And how did she take care of you, Daddy?"

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Mr. Racburn, florid, baid, a good 10 years older than his wife, muttered that Barbara was fair enough but he was glad to have Mother home again,

to

glittering, her colour high.

Boots sat down on the bed, her eyes

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the dark thoughts of the night.

"I ought to do this more often,"

roud to be alone in a quiet world, he told herself, striding down the empty path to the water. It Waa

to think things out for oneself with out the barrier of four walls,

But the mood of exaltation quickly passed. She was, after all, little more isid before her. than a child, with a wontan's problems

Suddenly she pat her shining fair head down into her hands and wept. don't know what to do," she sobbed. "If someone would only tell me what to do!"

It seemed to her that every place she looked whe met an impasse. She had stayed off thinking of the in- evitable scene which would ensue when Her mother learned of the bitter snub administered by Mra. Fernell's heavy hand. She had tried hope thunt, with work to do in the world, the narrowness of her suciul life would' not matter. But that gate was now closed. Mrs. Raeburn seemed un- niterably opposed to any effort in that direction. "And there was always the restriction of mones

"We've never had enough, really," Boots thought angrily, almost scorn- no use saying fully. And it was money didn't matter. It mattered

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"But I've simply got to do some thing," she said foverishly, I can't hang around here all my life, taking allowance from Daddy, knowing that avery new pair of shoes I get She's been on the go the livelong How you exaggerate Placidly I'm so sorry-Can-I-be- of-any-

in practically a family tragedy....... frightfully. sime, he muttered, shaking out his the older woman rolled stockings into help?" paper and settling down under the

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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

Muni sarpasses even his remarkable thoroughly endeared to audiences CINEMA NEWS Dance as the hapless liero of throughout the nation that im- the Georgia prison camp in "I am a mediately a deluge of fan niall about Fugitive from Chain Gang". Set him awninped the studio. Not since sgainst a background of what may be that picture, until "Wonder

Bar** considered the most significant years came along has Dick lifted baton in the history of the United States, except in those instances where he Muni is seen as the restless, ambit-has been prensed into services at in son of the prairies who rises various functions in impromptu Maybe you've always thought of from a daring cattle drover to ba fashion by audience demands. Dick Janet Gaynor as a somewhat fragile the dominating figure in American not only leads the orchestra in and delicate star with a flair for light industry. The rise and dissolution "Wonder Bar" but he does consider

in this mammoth romance of the fairy-tale variety, an epic drama that embraces four musical production, which pictures

of an American pioneer constitutes able warbling and a tremendous, popular appeal. noentions. Through it all Paul Manithe galety and drama of theatrical You've probably given her credit for as Orin Nordholm in the dominat-entertainers in a fashionable Parisian dramatic ability rather unusual in ing figure. The cast includes Mary night club. The picture carries an one so tiny. But the betting is that Astor, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, all-star cant headed by Kay Francis, Gordon Westcott, Henry O'Nell and Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Guy you've never considered her DE

many other noted players. Mervyn Kibbee, Al Jolson, Hugh Herbert. brilliant comedienne, That's

Louise Fazenda, Ruth Donnelly, Fin LeRoy directed.

d'Orsay and Honry O'Neill in addi- reason why her forthcoming vehicle,

"Such Women Are Dangerous" tion to Powell The "Change of Heart", is going to sur-

spectaculne numbers were created and directed by prise the general public when it

Three lovely women desire the Busby Berkeley while Lloyd Bacon. comes to the King's Theatre on thrill of Warner Baxter's embrace, directed the dramatic production. Saturday, "Change of Heart" differs the eestany of his kiss, in "Such Wo men Are Dangerous", the comedy. in a good many respects from her drama now playing at the King's preceding line. There is a comedy Theatre." Baxtor portrays the role of

A

one

to see the picture to learn that.

"Wonder Bar"

In

"Murder in a Private Car.” Charlio Ruggles, who has played undertone running through the story a handsome bachelor-novelist. One more intoxicated parts than anybody from the very beginning, and this un- of the women is Rosemary Ames, the else in plctures, hasn't been tighi charming girl who crashed into ple- Jiggled, or even mildly apllicated dertone frequently swells into hilar-tures, in "I Believed in You" The since prohibition was repentes. jocs scenes that afford the dainty second is Rochelle Hudson of Clare-pictures, that is to say. I can't Fox Film celebrity a real chance to more, Oklahoma, which has also con imagine why it is, Ruggles hald show what she can do a alde tributed. Will Rogers to the screen. during the filming of "Murder in the splittor. She is aided and abetted The third is Monn Barrie, who brings Private Car", in which he plays a In this endeavour by the other prin able experience into her screen work. flector of sinister crime, "but they've the noise and acting skill of consider mysterious and strictly sobor do- cipals. Charles Farrell, back with Which finnlly wing him? You'll have quit writing drunk parts for me since her again after an 18-month separa- lion, isn't bad us a laugh-getter him-

liquor was legalized. Boforo that I self when he wants to be, and James

was asked to be olled at least once Dunn and Ginger Rogers, who supply |

in every picture." lis part in "Mur- most of the complications of the

der in the Private Car" is no exacting Dick is waiting for it. He knows that he has to be sober every minute, piot, also manage to inject merriment it's bound to come Criticism always for he Into the picture,

called upon to protect Una And with such comes to the effect that a certain Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hindio nated humorists as James Gleason actor "dooan't look the part" and Dick and others in the east from a succes- and Samuel offenation working with Powell is ready to hit the soiling lan Sonya Lavien on the script, it's quite when someone says he "doesn't look menaced by wrecks, giant gorillas,

of fearful fatos. They likely that "Chango of Heart" will the part of at orchestra leader, assassins and a variety of dire hor meet with a warm reception from the lie plays suck a role in First rocs from beginning to end. In spite fans,

National's mammoth musical and of the thrills, the picture, is replete The World Changes"

dramatic production of "Wonder Bor", with comedy, Ruggles contributing After a brilliant season on Broad now showing at the Alhambra one of his funniest performance. way and in the principal castorn Theatre, Dick, as a matter of fact, "Murder in the Private Car" will be cities on the star of "Counsellor-At- was an orchestra leader long before screened from to-morrow at the Law," Paul Muni roturns to the he becante an actor. Being a good Queen's as the feature attraction. acroon in the stellar role of the orchestra, leader was what brought Many will remember it ng "The Rear Warner-First National production, about his debut into pictures, you Car", the stage play that was seban "The World Changes," which opens romamber to-morrow at the Alhambra Theatre. When "Blessed Event" was released the beroon with added thrills by your cinema history. tionally successful. It is brought to Metropolitan erities have already Pittsburgh lost all its chancos of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as directed by agreed that in "The World Changes, gotting Dick back again. He was so Harry Beaumont, en

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