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OCTOBER 15, 1934.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXX

By MABEL MeELLIOTT

Spring days with a hint of warmth in the air; rainy days with ribbons of allvor mist floating in from the river and fog' horns blowing..

Boots lived through them

Edward went to Nassau on a late

"If it weren't for my mother I Her heart began to beat sickly, girl want on, gulping water hurriedly Kay. wouldn't enro-so_milch,” the younger) painfully whenever she thought of because of that treacherous lump in her throat.. "It's--I wish I could see her and be friends."

Hilda Apfel patted the hand that March cruise and sho missed his voice nervously beat a tattoo on the table on the telephone and his laugh and Don't worry. You will." his admiring glance. It was lonely "I'll come out of this," Boots said and her rooni was full of the rest-suddenly, fiercely. "I'll make some lessness of spring. It s was painful one of those llac-tiated I'll go homo and show them."

thing of myself; be somebody. Then flow about the boy friend I've seen Wildn gave her, a shrewd glance. waiting for you at the corner of Thirty-fourth once or twice?"

On

drying on city pavements, to walk along the narrow streets, to see bar rows of daffodils by the curb stone er a hucknter with his wagon filled with plants for window boxes-- panales, pink geraniums, ageratum. And to be alone in the city in spring- time, Boots discovered, is an experi ence at once sad and sweet.

She wanted someone

to

the enjoy Jongthening days with her, someone to hum the music that every hurdy gurdy Italian played on his wheezy barrel organ. The radios along tho shabby streets gushed music, too, And she was young. She went along on dancing foot,

evenings, with a quick, cariler zala

Boots coloured. Edward? Oh, he's just a friend. A nice boy. ・・・

"Ha'a rich, isn't he?" She shrugged. "Yes... I guess

80."

"You guess! 'Course he is. I saw that car of his. There was a fellow came up to Hunter's Falls in the that. Kummer once with one Minerva, isn't it?”

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"I don't know honestly. I never noliced."

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"Sho

thought rebelliously.

has everything," Boots:

Yet there was a certain hardness, too,, under Kay's air of complete femininity. Kay had made a success! in the world of affairs, too. Kay modern apartment had a

afat salary, check, had her own (Edward had All said) over in Beekman Place. angles, Edward had wald, and chalrs made of cork and silver tubing, with a deep purple ceiling scattered with silver

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Once only recently Boola had had a glimpse of Kay in the store. Kay, in a

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of scarlet, had been wande wandering about with one of the buyers, Miss Bovan, touching fabrics, making notations. Miss Bevan had been openly subservient. Front a distance Boots had watched the young LONDON SERVICE Englishwoman, had heard her deli cious, low-loned laugh.

the deep-seated resentment aho had She had not been able to explain

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blond, serious-minded Hilda No wonder the men fall for you. engagement to Denis yet," Boots had

Bald

hotly Apfel who had been a student nurse You've got a-I don't know a little but hadn't been able to stand the girl way about you. That's what isn't settled." rigors of training. Hilda was popu- they like." lar on the seventh floor of Lacy's. She was a quick, cager, pleasant saleswoman. There was talk of her being made some sort of supervisor nt Easter.

"I took to you right away. You're different, the wide-eyed Miss Apfel to Boots. "Sure, I like all

It was only, Boots reminded hor self, that Denis and she would no Boots flushed. "I haven't."

longer be friends, onco Kay had mar- "Well, take it from me he's somerled him. Kay would be you could one to hang on to," Hilda offered, see-the violently Jealous sort, And buttering the last bit of brown bread Boots did long to see Denis, just to and eating it with evident relish. talk to himnothing more. To feel "This man's town is a hard one for his handelasp, see his long-lashed, a girl alone. Sure, you can earn dark ryos crinkle up with and irls, but there's something about enough to keep going day to day. I den laughter.ith the telephone you.

could see you were tied to But what about what about receiver in her hand in Mrs. Mooney's better things.

She knew the whole story now, getting older and losing your looks stulling on her lips. But she had How Boots had oloped with Russ; Ituss's death; she knew all about the tay, cramped flat in Astoria, with Gloria cutting out sleazy blue and red silks under the glare of the over- head fixtures. Boots had told her

her parents anger, every

all thing.

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about a winter

sick?

What

Once she ant

little hallway, the number

put the receiver down again. She had realized it would never do. When she could pay Denis back, and not before then, she would telephone to

and all? I'd like to work up to be a buyer or something like Miss Mad den or Mrs. O'Harrigan, but you can seo for yourself they're both middle aged. They've fought their way inch by inch and over dead bodies, him. too, if the truth were known," finished She was saving madly toward that Hilda with her hearty laugh. "ND,

"ND, end at the moment. somehow I've got a

feeling

you

In the moantime she lived soberly, couldn't stand the gaff of the store, frugally, saving the pennies, washing You ought to set out to marry again out her stockings and underthings in and marry right this time. That's the gray basin in the bathroom of

You'll get over it. Things will come out all right," Hilda told Boots seriously across a cafeteria table. The vinegar cruct, the catsup bottle, the heavy glass pepper and salt your ne. You're pretty and soft Mrs. Mooney's flat, wandering rather cellars were between them on the and you've got nice manners. Billingsgate

gleaming white table. There were coarse, white-handled knives and forks. There were twisted paper napkins and heavy glasses of water and their plates, heaped with the imple, satisfying food. Baked beans. Brown bread. Waldorf salad.

Scenes were filmed in Market while a studio reconstruction of the same venue was made, Dirt truck scenes were filmed at the Lea Bridge Speedway, and a number of "crack".

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hard and crystalline came to Lake "I'm working my way through this the place of her girlish case and particular hard time," Boots told her. softness. She no longer grumbled at “Charlie Chan's Courage"

"I don't want anyone's help,

hardships, but took the bitter with Since the earliest days of pictures,

Yet afterward when she had left the aweet, with a certain philosophy Credit Charlie Chan with making audiences have been quick to detect

"I know." Boots' eyes were for Hilde the conversation returned to older than her years. In the past away. Strangely enough, it was not her in its entirety, Hilda didn't she had perfect details on the screen. In a hero aut of Warner Oland. After

silly. She hadn't been portraying hundreds of villains on the days of the one and two-reelers, the serven, It fell to Oland's lot to moment. He and all the events of good-natured contempt. Like many at home.

of Russ she was thinking at the understand, she told herself, with known how to make the best of things there were the classic examples of an play the suave Oriental detective

If she had it all to do over automobile flicking across the horizon Behind That Curtain". Oland

the past summer seemed far way, other girls, Hilda believed Edward again she' would know better. for an instance a sevac depicting

Why, already It was May. Soon the Van Sciver was sent directly from Sometimes deep in the night her western action inid in the 70's or 80s proved to be such a perfect screen

awnings would go up at the club out heaven. Not that Edward had ever pillow would be wet with tears. in "Palloka", the Reliance

counterpart of Earl Derr

Biggers in Larchneck. There would be fresh said anything definite to Boots about in the morning she showed a smiling screen) thether!

character that he was comedy which Ilarry 51. Goetz

sand raked into the space beside the marriage. But there was something face to the world. She was brushed "Charlie Chan Carries Edward Small

United

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her stock. Black

enger feet on opening scenes are "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" and

the bleached his thoughts might be directed into ings were Artists release, the ce for

exquisitely neat. She rds of the raft.

there channels. taid along Broadway in the "ronring

"Charfie

wore her little, cheap hat with an Chan's

Oland's Chance" forțies" during 1910. One of the

"You were just a kid. You didn't ¦ No, she was finished with marnir. She had moments of feeling it The latest is "Charlie Chan's Courage", aete shows gay old Rector's cafe at w playing at the King's Theatre, lied Hilda gravely, consuming baked playmates. She was going to fight earning her, living with the best of know what it was all about," sup, ringe, finished with men, except as was splendid to be a girl on her own, the height of its glory. Scores of with Drue Leyton and Donald Woods extras were outfitted with costumes

beans. "You were just all for a good | her way to the top in the business them. leads. romantic

Although time.

world. Make people respect her for of the period but when the action

And then quite suddenly summer WAS

Oland devotes a great deal of his time "I rehearsed, the good old "A, D." found

was just a beach club girl," her attainments. Let Kay Chilling-shut down upon the world. A hot, to unravelling numerous mysteries Boots everal of.the.

contributed with dippancy ford with her soft, superior, throatybreathless, brooding summer... That men wearing in

in his latest picture, he stillTM finda- wrist watches, And since wrist time to further the romance between

"I've come a long way since then."¡ voke angle for the attention of every was another story. watches on men in that era were con- Woods and Mins Leyton. Miss Ley-

"I'll say!"

man present....

(To Be Continued.) sidered distinctly efféminate and since

who the party in progress was supposed to ton is a new screen personniity

from the Broadway contiot of two-flated sporting charac- recruited

This is her first tend in the stage. termi celebrating n prize-fighter"

films, and big things are expected victory the Lickers just haut to go from her. Woods in a Hollywood boy Another thing

hing the "A. D." had to who went on the road and finally to watch was the tendency on

part New York in stage work in prepara.

ANNUAL CHARITY RAZAAR of women to o light cigarettes. Some tion for a motion pleture career. He wonion did smoke in 1910 but not in was borrowed from Warner Brothers

HELD DURING WEEK-END Itector's, that [n, if the head walter saw for the juvenile lead in the picture.

Under the distinguished patron- there first. "Palooka", starring

Jim

Others in the cast are Paul Harvey, Women's Guild of the Kowloon pupils, their parents and friends at age of Lady Peel, the two-day nite Duraute,

Lupe

Velez, and Stuart Murray Kinnell, Reginald Mason, Union Church on

Saturday Erwin con

was the prize giving day of the St.annual bazaar held by the Sisters comes the King's Theatre on Virginia Hammond, Jenks and very auceċessful,

to Wednesday. Marjorie Rambeau, Ro Harvey Clark. The fli

a sum of $600 Peter's Collega, which was held on of the Precious Blood Convent, in hiert Armstrong, Mary

pro being taken. Carlisic,duced by John Stone and directed by

Saturday evening at the Chinese aid of their Children's Hospital The bazaar was opened by Mra.Y. M. C. A. auditorium in Bridge and Clinic at Shamshulpo, WAS William Cagury, Thein Tan George Hadden. Seton . Miller. A. Fraser, wife of the Assistant Street. The prizes were distribut-opened by Bishop H. Valtorta at Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra are wrote the screen play from the novel, Attorney General, at 3 p.m. At the ed by Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, after which the Chinese Catholic Young Men's featured in the supporting cast, under The Chinese Parrot", by Earl Derr conclusion of the ceremony the direction of Benjamin Stolott. Biggers.

a the students performed a delightful Society premises at Caine Road, "Viva Villa"

basket of African daisies was pre- concert consisting of many musical on Saturday afternoon. "Britannia of Billingsgate"

sented to Mrs. Fraser, by little items and n Chinese play.

In declaring the function open, "Britannia

Can you imagine Wallace Beery Dorothy Allen, daughter of the of Billingsgate", a stramming a guitar by the light of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. E L Allen. the leadmasteer, Mr. Thomas To Peel, whose patronage, he said, In presenting his annual report, Bishop Valtorta thanked Lady brilliant Gaumont-British picture the moon? Or singing a sentimental Mr. Fraser was also present. featuring that great actress of "Bing- love song? Belleve it or not, it

said, in part:

was an inspiration and encourage. Baya renown. Violet Loraine with hoppens in

The attractive stalls comprised: "Viva Villa Motro

"The school was founded in 1927 ment to charity-giving. Gordon Harker, England's finest actor Goldwyn-Mayer's spectacular story, uf les

Novelty (Mrs. Durran); Wool-

He also thanked many sup of Cockney characterization, is coming Pancho Villa's life and loves. The

(Mrs. Grey); Needlework, and today is its eighth anniver to the Queen's Theatre as the next photoplay is the feature attraction at (Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. Walker) aary. During the first years of its porters, amongst them Drs. J. II, change. Based on a play written by the Queen's Theatre. Becry plays Books (The Bible, Book and Tract existence, the number of students McElney, H. D. Matthews, Y. Y

and Christine Jope-Binde Sowell Vin, Mexican war lord und re- Depot Limited); Sweats, (Mrs. N. reached a maximum of 220 pupils. Tang and T. Z. Bau, for the in- Stokes, the atory relates the life of volutionary general and Villa.it Watson and Mrs. Graham);

The number of pupils has been estimable and excellent work they the Bolton family, who live in the developed during the production of cream (Miss Maisie Tillery); Ten reduced mainly by the prevalling have been and are still giving to Billingsgato quarter. Bolton is a fish the picture, isus something of a gay (Mrs. Atkinson, Mra. Sweeny, Mrs. trade depression. In the present the Hospital and Clinic; the Hong- market porter, whilst his wife pre- blade with the ladies. Which makes Duncan, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Mil-year the school has an enrolment of kong Society for the Protection of iden over a “ilah and chip" shop. At incumbent upon Berry to slug the ler, Miss Kempton and Miss Ellia 120 students with a daily atten- Children for a supply of medicine fim unit moves into the market to and stram the guitar in romantle Brown). "ghost" scence. The mike" is in mood. The

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amongst the film oxecutives. s.) is an accomplished musician. "Viva five 24 tables being occupied.

Ice

stalled just outside Mrs. Bolton's shop, once charmed audiences in the New The rafle of a night-dress cano havoc she is wreaking in the sound found when he started to sing for the and Miss L. Calman. and that lady. unconscious of the York theatre, is sontewhat rusty Beery was organised by Mrs. Atkinson sequence, proceeds to sing. Dianiay first time for the screen, but it still

A whist drive in connection with works. The guitar was easy. Beery the bazaar was also successful to glee with the discovery that Bolton has just the voice need Villa!" is one of the most spectacular for a forthcoming production. So she pictures the screen has seen in many

The · prizo winners wore:- is "starred", the family,,

Ladies: on the

(first) Mrs. Tinson, in day. Filmed largely in Mexico, strength for her presumed success, with thousands of peons taking part (second) Mrs. Yalland,... (booby) soaring to affluence. While Bolton in many scenes, it assumed epic pro- Mrs. Atkinson. The Travelling thoroughly enjoys the new life opened, portions.

prize was won by Miss. Martin, to him by his wife's essay into the

Alm world, Mrs., Bolton regrets the

free and clay ways of the market and

"The Little Giant"

The thrilling sport of polo is given

tonga to return. The climax. shows a new, ainnt in the First National

Mr. Noble won the men's first prizo from Mr; Andrews, and Mr. Millington secured the "booby."

The raffle of the night-dress case

YEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF ST. PETER'S COLLEGE

There was a happy gathering of

and milk; the British American

"In our annual examination we Tobacco Co., the Kwong Sang hnd thirteen boys enter the Junior Hong, Messrs. A. S. Watson & Ce.. examination, of whom eight passed, and the Blue Bird Co. for goods Fourteen'students entered the Com- for the Bazaar, mercial examination with ten

passes,"

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of and the Ohrist, Scientist, yesterday.

The Golden Text was:

A variety of goods, all cheaply priced, was attractively laid out in a number of stalls. Besides the inevitable sweets and cigarettes, fancy knitted wear was also being sold. Bunting and decorations combined with games for the children added to the galoty of the fete.

The Bazaar closed yesterday.

How a compromiso is effected among picture The Little Ginnt," starring was won by Miss Dorothy Smith. the family, which ensures their future Edward G. Robinson, which is coming happiness. In Violet Loraine, British to the Alhambra to-morrow. films have found a wonderful player, the scenes in which Robinson himself one to manage the eteed

White to work in pairs on a single horse,

and canst not look on iniquity" who in her first Alm scores a tremend-appears as a poloist are excitingly other to swing the mallet. Eventual-

(Habakkuk 1:12, 13). OUP BUCCOK. Misa Loraine is

gorreal, it is when his mnoh of a dozen ly the mallets give

"The The Lesson-Sermon, also in- geous in her role, rendering her tune- or so gangster henchmen suddenly de- trusty gate when they discover they lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he from the Christian Science text way to their Lord. is our judge, the Lord is our cluded the following passages ful number with an artistry that is in- cide to try out the sport that new and can- by this method register A herent and inimitable. Gordon Har- novel ways of hitting the ball are dis much higher percentage of hits. will save us" (Isaiah 33:22). kor, who has claims to be considered played to the audience. Totally un- This is one of the amusing incidents

book,, "Science and Health 'with Britain's

Among the citations which com-Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Kreatest

Cockney killed in the ability to mechanics of in the attempt of Robinson, as an ex-prised the Lesson-Sermon was Baker Eddy: "Christian Science humorist, is perfectly at home in the hitting a ball with silek atop of a Beer Baron, to horn in on high society the following from the Bible: reveals God, not as the author of role of Bolton, the fish porter. He ralloping polo pony and. still more after his retirement from the beer Art thou not from overlasting, sin, sickness, and death, but as has the ability to get right under the unfamiliar with the long stick while racket following the legalizing of Lord my God, mine. Holy One? divine Principle, Supreme Being, skin of his characters, and his latest) alternately perched on the horse's good beer. The story is by Robert portrayal in a characterization which neck and rump, the gangster sport-Lord with Mary Astor in the leading we shall not die....Thou art of Mind, exempt from all evil” will win appreciation everywhere, men eventually and it more efficacious feminine role. Ray Dil Ruth directed, purer eyes than to behold evil, (p. 127).

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