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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

DEDIN HERE-TO-DAY

time to think it over,

By MABEL MĊELLIOTT

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her young husband. Indeed, though enco SYLVIA RIVERS, Pichest girl in. Laresho might have been disappointed alacrity which would have amazed her neck, fashionalsie New York suburb, dislikes about the background of her now Hfo, mother. The eggy plates, tho cups BOOTH RAEBURN, Due, to Brizia's maile his love-making still held in it a with their smoky dregs of darkly clous relp, Itools in asked to restan from breath-taking quality for hor. She suspicious liquid, the stained and the Junior

Hurt and reckless, šluota accepts the alien was a woman grown now, she remind sticky spoons she plunged into a pan tions of RUBS LUND, swimming Instructor, ed herself proudly, looking at her of suds, Sho had been wanting all He asks her to marry him bat Boots wants Rushed checks in the mirror, Sho) week to clear that coffee pot. This

When Mrs. Itseburn returns from a trip to mind the fact that Lou used double

was beloved...how churlish of her was kér chancel out at town floota dronda her mother's learne Ing about her wishulrawal from the club,, negatives and that his table mannors Bests goes to New York on a shepping trip were not those familiar to polite and on the train encounter usa who beg her to inrry him muxt day. She agrees society! In a few days now, in a Ituse Xues to apend the night with his family, week she and Russ would be on the leaving fouls at hotel.

and green flelds. All this dreariness open road. It would all be blue skles would be forgotten.

Interrated in loote, Poes the couple together DENIS FENWAY, Joung wurther, who is

in a hotel lobby..

CHAPTER XX

It was a dream—it was all dream- like. The bare, busy room with its grated window and the businesslike man asking questions behind it. The yollow-haired girl in the frankly cheap silk dress, staring with open curiosity.

"Whet are you thinking about, Beautiful 7"

"Don't think, then!"

She smiled at him. He was only a little boy at heart, really, Home- tines who felt worlds older than be.

Thinking that I'm starved to death and that I want my breakfast and that you ought to be up at that Bronx; garage seeing if they've got the car The other giggling couples and one; fixed. V ataid, olderly group.

Russ rolled over, staring out of Boots signed her name; they all the window. "Don't nag, sweatness. wont away in a taxi. Boots had It's bad for the skin.” already sent a telegram to her par-

"Oh

wasn't she protested, ents, saying she was to be married. horror-stricken at the baro Idea. "I She didn't know-she could not only thought, Imagine how or why things had como to pass in this way. She hadn't! llo got up, silencing her with klases. expected to be married in this fashion. This, reflected Boots wearily when he What her mother would feel, she did hind retired to the bath-room, behind not oven dare to think. In the back whose door sounded wild splashing of her mind, however, was the con- and aputtering, this was the way all fusal feeling that all old scores were their arguments ended. It was right thus being paid off in Larchneck. and proper, in the circumstances, she She would not have to go back, to supposed; but there were some mat free the smiles and the patronage of ters too important to be settled that her enemies. She was free. Marriage way. Oh, well, soon they'd be out of this depressing atmosphere and she wouldn't have to argue about things.

She bogan carefully to make up the couch in daytime fashion, folding the gray sheets meticulously, piling up the pillows. This floor, sho thought, ought to be cleaned to-day. If she only hind a vacuum cleaner... if she had some liquid wax. .. But she dared not make any such sugges- tion to Glorin whose housekeeping was of the most casual order.

would set her free.

The dreamlike onze persisted all through the hurried and brief eero- mony at a dingy uptown church, whose denomination she did not even trouble learn. Tho minister was thin, anxious, harried, and accepted his donation from Russ with an almost pathetic show of gratitudo,

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Then, auddenly, it was over. The yellow-haired girl whom Russ called Gloria and her husband, Russ's bro- ther, won away, leaving Boots and her bridegroom alone together. She bo- gan to tremble. It wasn't a game ufter all. It was terribly real, ter- ribly earnest. She was this man's wife now, forever and ever.... Find me some socka, will Hon?"

Russ rolled over, stretched, yawned, reaching out a long, muscular arm to embrace her. The girl, in her thin gown, a cheap new negligee thrown) over her shoulders, moved away,

"We should have been up hours ngo," she said in an undertone, with a glance at the closed door separating the living room of Lou's flat from the box-like entrance hall beyond the smell of burning which came toast. "It's terrible.

They had been married a week now. They were, presumably "Just stop ping" at Lou's for a short

whole

When Russ came whistling into the kitchen 16 minutes lator, his cockatoo's crest of leaf-brown hair slick and dripping: he found Boots wiping plates and spoons with a housewife's pride. on the gus burner. There were four slices of Fresh coffes percolated golden toast piled in a saucer.

"I couldn't find any oranges," sho told him, pearing into the refrigera- tor.

Sa-ay, Duchess, where d'you think you aromat the Ritz 7" Russ wanted to know, pretending to affix a monocle, "Oranges!"

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"You think so, hey? A lot you know!"

Ile poured himself a brimming cup; tilted the small squat bottle, rim.med and collared with a yellow scruff of hardened cream, and drank. Boote opened her mouth to any something and closed it again. It would be time enough later, when they were by thom- selves, to teach Russ that men did not behave this way with their wives....

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She considered what he had just said. Was it true that the things she had always accepted as part of her everyday life up in Larchneck were really luxuries to the sort of people whose lot she now shared? than she over hud before for providing She began to respect her father more INWARD SERVICE her with the life she had known. She had never had any real perspec tive on herself before. She was just a pretty, clover girl who had always expected the good things of life and who had been surprised and dis- contented when they did not come to her.

"I'll learn," she said now, quietly, to her husband

Her own fow belongings she packed away in the imitation leather bag Russ He glanced up quickly at the tone. had bought for hor. They wera "Here,. Beautiful, you're going to pitifully few. A gown, a toothbrush, get your bands all red, doing that a pair of red slippers, some handker dirty work." For the first time ho chiefs from the dimo store. Ruse was seemed to be aware of her absorption "A little short just now," he had com- in the task of cleaning Gloria's dis-, plained shaniefacedly. He was "ex-couraging kitchen. "Look, don't be a pecting some money any day." Boots dumb-bell. Let that aloppy wenchi was too young, too inexperienced, to clean her own pans," inquire further into their finances, "You mustn't call hor names. We're accepting her hospitality, after While Russ was carolling in the all," Boots protested, struggling with tub she went rather shyly out into the a hank of steel wool, attempting to kitchen. Gloria was sitting on the scour a frying pan which steadily re- window sill, poring over a tabloid.sisted her offorts. Sho looked up without interest as the "Aw, she's pain in the neck," other girl entered.

Russ blustered, swallowing the Inst of his coffee and reaching out a hand for more toast. "Lou owes me lots morn than this; I've always been a pal."

"Oh, I left some coffee," she said vaguely. "I'm going out in a min atc. Over to my girl friend's. We want to seck Clark Gable down at the Empire and the show starts at

"Is it that late?" Boots glanced remorsefully at the alarm clock on the kitchen dresser. The hands point ed to half-past 10.

going on to new fields. before 11." experience had been a revealing one to the girl who had expected the glamour and romance of open fields And now scenies to gild her young married life. Instead the four walls

Boots refused to argue the matter. They had been over this ground before, "Well, anyway, we shan't be here much longer," she said with pretended cheerfulness. "Shall we, dearest"

Gloria took the paper with her and retired to the box-like bedroom down of Gloria's shoddy living room en- the ball. In 16 minutes she emerged, compassed her. Russ said lazily, her makeup freshly laid on, her yellow when the pressed him, that he was aparte dress not too clean but stilled. "getting the ear fixed up" and very Jaunty.

“further," he thought she ought to "go"Help yourself," she said, belatedly up and see the folks and find out hospitable, at the door. "I'll be scoin' if they had any ideas."

At the bare notion of any such procedure Boots' heart sank. She was outwardly docile and sweet. toward

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you."

Boots sighed with rollef as the slam of the street door attested to the other's departure. She attacked the kitchen, with its depressing evid

her,

Russ began to whistle. It was a way he had. When you didn't want to answer a question you whistled."

"Little girls shouldn't go worrying about things," he sal as she perslat- Then he had his arms around la face was buried in the fragrance of her half,

"Love me, Beautifal?". "Of course I do!" But she sighed as she struggied. free from his embrace. This wasn't the answer to her problem..

(To Be Continued.)

Harry Green and Eugene Pallette. plays the role of Nick Charles, an Jantes Cruze directed. The film is entirely different type of character an adaptation of Anne Cameron's than any he has played before. In Saturday Evening Post story, "Green carlier detective thrillers the detec Dice", the screen play of which was tive usually was on the outside of the written by Ralph Spence and Sonya plot. In "The Thin fan, the story Levion. Will Rogers declared it to bo is woven, around Nick Charles. Co- the most poignant and human comedy starred with Powell Is Myrna Loy, he has had to date.

rapidly proving herself one of the The most beautiful girls in the

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"The Trumpet Blowa"

personalities. Prominent in the sup- popular performers, a trio of new- George. Raft's second starring pic porting cast of "The Thin Man" fresh comers, a murder mystery, and Duke ture, The Trumpet Blows" a story of from her triumph in "Tarzan and His Ellington and his orchestra, all wrap. Mexico and the ball ring, comes on Mato" is Maureen O'Sullivan, as well ped, up in a single package labelled Thursday to the King's Theatre. It as Nat Pendleton and Minna Gombell. Eari Carroll's "Murdor at the Vani-Paramount pleture, featuring Other players include Porter Hall, ties", is showing at the King's Theatre Sidney Toler, Edward Ellis, Katherine Moorhead, Edward Braphy. Edward

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Monjou wants "Ladies of Leisure" and "The Miracle McLag-forget all about bull fighting. The Bellamy are featured with her, the Adolpho Menjou and Ralph Such popular actors as Victor Iell, Jack Onkie, Gertrude Michael, younger brother does change his mind cast also including Dorothy Paterson, Charles B. Middleton, Gall Patrick when he meets Frances Drako. But Charlotto V. Henry, baby Blyrna and athere contribute their share of girl too, be returns to his teacher, Jefferson, Claude King and Tom lator, learning his brother loves the Fresholtz, Halliwell Hobbes, Thonias the mystery and entertainment. The and makes plans for his return to Ricketts. "Forbidden" was written newcomers are Carl Brisson, Kitty the world's most dangerous profes- especially to bring out the greatest Carlisle and Dorothy Stickney. Thusion, Injured, he loses his Arst fight; display of Miss Stanwyck's talents. story denis with the opening night of and his courage gone, he becomes a In his previous direction of the star, Carroll's "Vanities" in New York. First an unknown, mysterious woman coward, drinking heavily. However, Frank Capra realized she had eme in found dead, and then one of the through a series of unusual incidenta tional powers never yet tapped by any embracing the three people. Raft principals of the show is murdered on Anally redeems his honour, wins his film role she had ever had. "Forbid the stage during a number. Bicla- heart's desire and his brother's love, emotions in a story that follows the don" lets her run the gamut of len eventually solves the dual killing and brings the picture to thrilling develonment of a woman from a drah

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Ifttle librarian to a brilliant, beauti "The Thin Man”

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