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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER

BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

DECIN HERE TO-DAY ROOTU HALDURŊ is the meritest girt in Larchneck, fashionable New York but her father's financial reversed make

suburb, hard for her to keep up with her erased Wealthy BYLVIA, RIVERS chosen to forne lite to restan frun the Juntry, Deeply LUND, wtroming instructor,

secute the attentions of HUSS She realizes the it in love with Ruse when he tells her he is going away. He went her to elope with him but Boot asks for time to think it over. when her mother will wear about her wit

Biker Breads the time slawn from the club,

Unhappy and restless. Boots goes for a morning walk and meets DENIS FENWAY, young authur. They have a long talk and

troubling her.

Denis & moved by the girl's obvious unbap pines. He wonders what is

Boots gues to New York on a shopping trip and on he sake her to marry him and she is balf. the train meets Itus. Again persuaded,

ane.

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She must call her mother. Why, hur|to Greenwich to a swimming party. mother would be frantie. What had She was to stay all night with the she been thinking oft

Forbeses. If Boots wanted anything.

rang a dozen times more. Thore was couldn't ask her to stay the night The phone rang four or five times, .. Oh, she was terribly sorry thuy

10 answer. Boots' heart was beating but the fact was Sherry's couin, thickly, painfully. She had had her Elizabeth, from Toledo was with them. story all rently. She had been in a If Boots would call them soon! movie with Sherry Manning. They With despair in her heart Boots hid not realized it was so late. Could laid the instrument back in lle cradle. with her widowed mother, perched expected. The remnant of her hend she stay all night with Sherry who, All this had taken longer than she had high above the city in a two-room ache still nagged at the back of her apartment down near Sutton Place? brain.

But the fallure of her parents' to

She rose, swaying, ronching for her flower-trimmed hat. "I'll find some place," she told herself. "To-morrow I will got a job.

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answer the phone upset her plans. change nurse on the bed. Two dol She spilled the contents of her

She could not send them wire. In lars and 10 cents. A one way ticket. their quiet household it would be like Intch key. At home her mother bombshell. Oh, what was tho dohad the story of her humiliation at ing, away from the people who loved the hands of the Juniors from Mrs. CHAPTER XVIII

har so dearly--In this strange room, Fernell's glib tongue. Her father in this strange hotel, with slippered would be very, very angry. Bilent The headache which had swooped feet passing to and fro in the halls usually, such things stirred, him to down upon Boots in the glaring heat and strange voices talking and laugh- one of his rare, articulate rages. of the day was indeed a devastating ng raucously outside?

Boots dreaded these. She had had little sleep the She had switched on the bedside Bight before. Her early rising and lamp. In the mirror opposite, her the tangled emotions of the previous face was white and strained, a ghostly hours had worked havoc with her glimmer, healthy young body. Now, as she

"I look a fright," she said, burying But, as her hand touched the knob leaned back in the grateful coolness her head in her hands. "I look ter knock sounded on the panels. The of the taxi with Russ's strong arm rible...

door swung wide to Russ Lund, big, lald protectively across her shoulders, The cowhide bag at her feet was male, possessivo in his old tweeds. LIVERPOOL SERVICE it seemed to her perfectly right, per- Rusa's. The money which would pay "That's my girl," he said, putting fectly natural that she should do as for her room was his. But she was his hands on her shoulders. "Coma

ATREUS he suggested. She was miserable- perfectly free. Nothing had along. I've been thinking all the way she was half sick with pain and happened. She was free to turn the over you were too good to be true- NEW YORK SERVICE fatigue as she followed him across latch, walk out of that door this my girl. But here you are." the dim and darkened lobby of some minute

PREMIUS Her hands clenched and unclenched. out of his life, it shoThere was such a thing as fate, after! hotel. Her head was fairly cared to more washer feet and in all. She hadn't been meant to escapo splitting

She scarcely heard what was said that instant the sound of a ringing Russ. His love was there, a tangible to her nor noticed that the clerk, bell amste the stillness. The tele-thing, waiting to envelop her. Why tendering the pen, glanced at her phone.

struggle any longer? Sho alipped curiously. She only knew, in a dim

her arm in his. Together they went sort of way, that Russ called her his

down the long corridor.. sister. He would register for her, he said.

She was 1.

Then they were in an elevator, Ruas still carrying the cowhide bag. The car stopped at the 10th floor. Russ, the big, tagged key in his hand, fitted

Lilj

She stumbled to

as ho

every nerve in her body tingling. She reached for the instrument, The deep-timbered voice sounding restaurant that evening

Denia Fenway was dining at a roof over the wire was Russ's.

with his publisher. The two men had ignored "Feel batter, hub?" was on her again, the spell that aloof in the black and white, his lenn She began to tremble. The spell the heat sufficiently to don evening clothes and Denis looked cool and it into a lock.

Boots glanced around her Incuri-shouldered man with the ready smile searched the

everything about this big. square- dark face almost hawklike ously. The narrow room with the had for her. Ah, but she musta' around him. He had been telling cream coloured walls, the mahogany give in to it-she dare not!

faces of the people bed, the typical hotel dresser with

"I'll come right over. We'll eat Masterson was disposed to think

Masterson about the Raeburn girl and its glass top all vaguely puzzled her. some place nearby. Listen, honey," might find a place for her. They had She only knew that she longed to in a lowered tone "my brother knows a novel contest at the moment. The sink down into the coolness of the minister who'll fix us up to-mer-worst entries were winnowed out be white pillows, to draw the coverlet

her head nud aleer.

: : miind "Where are you now?

fore reaching the readers. Lols Hort had implied that Boots' taste in books there in 15 minutes,"

I'm over in Long Island City. Be

miles of distance separating them The receiver clicked and the netent

I hate to leave you here alone," heard a voice saying to her a fron, a distance. Through a mist she Joaked up at the face of the man beside her. "You're sick, kildy," he

вдіі.

She would be all right, she said. If he would get her some aspirin... why, then, she would get to sleep.

-row,

Her

Was

explaining. It ail snemed very far

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be

as a nice one. She might very well qualify for this post in Masterson's arrow city atrees with the other office. So it was of Boots that Denis was thinking as he swung down the

broken, once his voice dropped into were there once more. The spill was

man.

They passed shabby brownstone the void.

She ran into the bathroom, began "vacancy" signs hanging behind dingy

houser | Shanghai and Hongkong, which was She would be all right. She thought to brush her hair, to wash her fevoredace curtains. In this block, about with high "stoops," and scheduled to be played to-day,

was of her own shabby, widewindowed face and hands. She must get clear Great crowds gathered at St. hold yesterday on account of the room under the eaves with the shades away from here, be gone before he square down from the shining Cancens station and at Tilbury docks | typhoim's 'approach.

drawn against the hot, battering sun-arrived. She would leave a note for hostelry they had just quitted, was to-day to bid farewell to the Austrn- Although very short notico

shine, Her why

bed with its blue Own

Him tinn cricketers, who are leaving given, there was a fair attendance spread. Singland for Australia with the Ashes. Although the main party is leaving on the steamer Orontes, several members of the team are not joining the ship until she reaches continental Amongst those at St. Pancras were the Earl of Cromer, Sir Kynaston

ports.

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Wun

the

new, rather shoddy, pseudo-elegant

shedly in at the lobby as he strode past. He drew in his breath so

had

sharply that the elder man glanced at him in Aurprise.

"What's the trouble, my boy?" "Touch of indigestion," Denis suid

Sudd, Sir Sinnley Jackson, Mr. A, P. after the match, and Lady Peel ing. "I'll can'. she heard Rusk. say- was to get away, alone, where she briefly: He kept his eyes determined- İ

F. Chapman, Mr. P. E. Warner, and Mr. Findlay.

The unnnger of the Australian team is slaying on in London until Thursday to assure himself of Don Bradman's welfare.-Reuter Special. BRADMAN BETTER.

London, Sept. 29. Don Bradman's general condition in now regarded as ogtisfactory,

He anent a very good night, and is now reported to be going on well. British Wireless.

SCOUTS AQUATICS

St. Andrew's Troop · Retain Cup

Two 1924 records, the 25 yards free style (Cuba) and the Interpack relay were broken at the annual wwimming spurts of the Boy Scouts' Asociation hold in the V.R.G. bath on Saturday afternoon.

The 25 yards recard was broken by

forward.

at the match, including His Excellency away. To-morrow she would put her Her movements were slower than hotel. Denis swung his stick, glanc- the Governor, Sir William Peel, and hand in this man's, take his name. usual. It seemed to her that Lady Peel.

That was what marriage meant. Be- could not do anything properly. Her Shanghai

the dress was sedly rampled. She com-yond that she know nothing Ente fortably by seven goals to two, thus pain beat at her temples like a live lung herself down just as she was

when she came in. But that didn't. thing rulaining the Keswick Cup.

His Excellency made

"Call the desk and order some food matter. What did matter just now speech en- gratulating the Shanghal players if you need it,"

could think clearly-work this problem in an hour." Bu you presented trophies to the visitors.

out for herself,

Oh, he was a fool to think that girl The goal scores for Shanghai wore. When she awoke it was quite dark. She wouldn't go home. She would had been different. There, hanging Sutterleu (3). J. Keswick (2), "An- The square of window below the blue try Sherry first. Sherry was two or in the arm of a great bruiser who drews and Franklin,

shinde showed yellow against the three years older than she and looked as though he might belong in for blackness of the walls. She sat up, possessed-of good, hard--common of that obviously. second rate hotel, a. prize-ring, emerging from the door pushing her half back from her face, sense. Thumb through Amber was the girl who had been at that will her mind fogged for an instant. Oh, she found the Manningsen number.

she was all right. She was in the Mr. Manning's gentle voice said moment capturing his dreant.

(To Be Continued.) Willowmere where Russ had left her. Sherry wasn't home. She'd gone up

Yates scored both goats Hongkong.

A full report of the match appear in to-morrow's issuet

The teams were:

Shaugini.-L. R. Andrews. (No. 1), S. Franklin (No. 2), J. H Keswick (No. 3), Capt., and Forrest Sutterlee (No. 4).

1),

Hongkong-D. P. Yates

W, J. Keswick (No. 2), W. New bigging (No. 3), and Capt. J. L. Jordan (No. 4),'

The Interport dinner will be held at the Gloucester Building to-night) AL 8.16 p.ht,

LADIES' HOCKEY

Central British Meeting

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

in

character with a zest that

wito absolutely irresistible. ThosQ have become accustomed to Kay Francis as the serious, earnest heriona of her recent pictures will be astonish. ed and charmed by her interpretation of the flirtatious, irresponsible wife of Vienna's richest banker. The other members of the aurporting cast show all round excellence for the saRIC

LEAGUE ADVISER

NO SUCCESSOR TO DR. RAJCHMANN

Geneva, Sept. 29. The League has not appointed

Many renders of Kathleen Norris' recent novel, "Manhattan Love Song," which is now playing at the King's which Warner pictures have become anyone to succeed Dr. Rachmann Theatre, as a Janet Gaynor Charles noted. Helen Vinson, Hardic Albright, in connection with the work of Farrell screen feature, under the title Henry Kolker, as the Baron, Andre technical collaboration in China, of "Change of Heart", might suppose Luguet, Lee Kohlmar, Spencer Char. but a director of one of the com the noted writer was merely drawing ters as a police agent, and the rest petent sections of the League will to the be despatched to China for a short on her imagination when she set the contribute vivid portraits stroy down on paper. On the con- Viannese scene. But the stroy so period to examine the measures tancy, this tale of four penniless completely belongs to Hay Francis necessary for ensuring a continua college youngsters and their adven. and William Powell that the rest of tlon of the development work.

Vieans and the world is mero back- H. Sanchez (2nd. Hongkong) who Central British Association held a

The ladies hockey section of the tures in New York was taken to an

It is not yet decided who will unusual degree from real life, being ground for what gous on between

be sent, or the covered the distanco in 10.3/5 seconds, meeting at the clubhouse, King's largely based on the author's own them.

date of his de- beating the previous mark, held by Park on Saturday afternoon,

the Banie situation.

Child of Manhattan”

parture. Those experiences In J. McCubbin, by uns, fifth of a second present were: Missus F. K. Walker, In making "Change of Heart", which while the relay mark was shattered . L. Whitley, S. Whitley, E, Woolley, bringe Miss Gaynor and Farrell to

The director's mission will be to by the And. Hongkong, who clipped M. Roger; G, MacNidor, A. Hirst, K. gether again on the strewn after a stage, and capable of accommodating examine the present situation with four acconds off the figures set by Fisher, P. Rapp, D. Hunt, M. L. W. soparation of

year and a half: a nearly 400 dancers, was constructed reference to technical co-opora- the Talkoo Pack, the previous holders. Втубоп, A. E. E. Steele, J. B1. notable supporting cast wan solected at the Columbia studios in Hollywood tion, particularly from the ad- fained by the 1st Kowloon (St. An-Boat and Mrs. G. B. Gurevitch.

The Bird Challenge Cup was - Beavis, R. Binckmore, B. Moss, that includes James Dunn and Ginger for Brenes in "Child of Manhattan," ministrative side, and the estab

Rogers as the other two collegians, Nancy Carroll's latest starring pro drow's) troop who scored 18 points, dillo the President's Cup, for run-

ensure official co-operation. The report of the activities for the and Beryl Mercer, Irene Franklin, duetion which starts Wednesday at ahment of an organisation to stirm-up, was again won by the Sea past year was reviewed by Miss Gustav Von Seyfertitz, Drus Leyton, Alhambra Theatre. Taken from one

Stecle, last acason's captain, who re-

Theodore Von Eltz and Fiske O'Hara. of New York City's most popular

There is also the complication outs who socurod 11 points. The marked that the team did very well, John Blystone directed the picture, palaces of the dance, the set provided

concern- By the End Hongkong Pack. The this sens, even better, could be ex-field Sheehan, and Sonyn Levien and reds of extras during the filming of}ing international Interestin previous holdere, St. Andrews, full- pected. Tho question of

ed to gain a point.

entrance fee Juines Gleason wrote the screen play At the conclusion of the mooting for the Cher Clark Cup competition of Mrs. Norris' entertaining novel. the prizes were distributed by Mrs, was discussed, but the matter was Foxon, while Mr. E. Dormer, acting eft in aboyance pending decision by Commissioner, presented a warrant to

the

"Jewel Robbers"

A dance hall, covering one, entire

scenes of the screen story which tells China, which is doubtless partly an interesting and fascinating tale of responsible for the Committee's a taxi-dancer of the metropolis and decision not to renew Dr. Rajch- kor romance. Miss Carroll was bor-mann's contract-Reuter. rowed by Columbia from Paramount especially to create the title role, in

Mr. W. W. Scott, the Scoutmaster of / The question of the Club's uniform delightfully differont in the way of, "Child of Manhattan" and John Boles, Oueen's Theatre and proved to be one

the Son Scouts.

HAPPY VALLEY GOLF. Finalists In Club's Foursome

Tournament Known.''

T. D. Paton (8), and JW. Franka (11) wilf moet D. J: Valentine (16) and A. T. Braley (7) in the Dial of the Happy Valley Golf Club's second Loursomes tournament.

was also discussed.

The following allicers were clocked: Captain-Miss F. K. Walker: Vice captain and Seerotury-Miss M. L., Whitley: Treasurers E, Wool- loy; ConchMiss M. Roger.

Ladies'. Hockey Association. If you're looking for something

motion picture entertainment, see handsome portrayer of romantic roles "Jewel, Robbery" at the Alhambra is to be soon opposite the red-haired, of the best-knitted baming plots to Theatre. The Warner Brothers ple- vivacious star. Other members of the come from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ture, which opened inst evening, is one supporting cast are Clara Blandlek, studios. William Powell, noted for of surprises and suspense from begin Charles Jones, Gary Owen, Jane Darls detective characterizations, plays ning to and with Willam Powell and well, Tyler Brooke, Nat Pondicten, an entirely different sleuth than in all Kay Francis again together in this Jessie Ralph, Botty Grable and War his former pictures. As aume vehicle. But that's only one of burton Gamble.

Charlos, the retired pleasure-loving The picture was funny piensures in store for the directed by Eddie Buzzell. Gertrude detective, he gives the best porfor- theatregoera of Hongkong. Powell ↳ Purcoll adapted the story to the screen mance of his screen, sleuthing, career. the arch-criminal of this sparkling, from the noted stago success of the Myrna Loy, too, is seen in an entirely daring moledrama-but what

same name by Preston Sturges

different Debt than in her former pictures. criminal! For this, is no story of an

Known chiefly for her ordinary jewel-robbery and Powell la

emotional roles, Miss Loy makes her dahut na one of the scroen's Inpat

(29) beat J. W. Franks (13) and F. J. de Rome (7) I up.

II. T. Buxton (17) and T. C. Fair- barn (17) boat. A. T. Braley () and T. D. Paton (8) 2 and 1.

J. McKnight (0) and J. D. Kinnaird (7) bent 1. Hampton (10) and E. In the soul-finals Paton and Franks | Lewis (8) 6 and 4.

no ordinary robber. He is a super

overy

The Thin Man."

Nick

boat J. B. Rosa (7) and JL. Adamu J. E. Richardson and G. White will Raffles, outwitting the police of At last, a different brand of mystery charming light comediennes as Noen,

(E3), while Valentine and Bradley play IT. Buxton and T. C. Falr Europe at

turn, robbing has, been contributed to the seroon, tho lovely and wealthy wife of Nick boat P. Morrison. (17) and A. Mac-un in the semi-finals, while J. Me- his aristocratie victims with man-one that avoids all the hacknoyed Charles. Maureen O'Sullivan does Zarlane (17).

are the equal of their plots and horrors of the usual well with her turtas. Dorothy Knight and 3. D.. Kinnaird will play ners' that Results of the Third Hound of the the winners of the Third Round own, charming them with his polished thriller, yet holds interest from bo-Wynant, the bewildered daughter of third foursomes tournament are as match between ir, G. Wallington (12) personality until women are willing Kinning to end and inspires many the "This Man", and Not Pendleton and N. J. Ferrin (18) and J. E. Davey to part with their hearts as well as hearty chuckies. It is "Tho. Thin chanton his epata by appearing for D. Richardson (9) und 6, WEE (14) and J. A. R. Solby (7).

their diamonds. Powell lives the Man", which opened last night at the his first time as a police offlesr,

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