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Summer Sweethearts

CHAPTER XLVII

Ward went to Victor Strykhurst by wire and he, of course, was furious. "Married to Michael Heniheroe weeks ago. He here with me. Both nak blessing and forgive. TEAN,"

matters of this sort."

"I'm sorry," said the man, knowing himself dismissed.

Violet felt that abrurd pity welling up in her heart again. When he left she shook hands with him quito calm ly, and then she went back into the house and tore up letters which she had been keeping in a locked box.

People got bored hearing it. Lida ineffectual, Parker, who was foil of Bertine, said

roundly.

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1935,

to the point where he proponed?. She didn't know. Maybe she'd go on like! this forever, working at the shop, coming home to a dirty house, getting older by the minute, not having any- thing she wanted.

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How nice it would be, fiabel musad, staring around the dark, shabby little room, to have pretty things, to have Victor almost had apoplexy Bertine did not do much to soothe She was burning them in the fire beaux and dates galore. While you him. What was this outandish tale, place when Sybil and Diana, deposited were young-that's when it counted because, after all, it wouldn't matter Victor fumed! Katharine wandering by the school bus, reshest in.

when she was older. She wouldn't around the mouthwest with God knew "What are you doing, Mummy?" whom, lost in the desert, found by She smiled at them dimly, "Burn-care, then.

old love, my Oh, sis, a box enme for you to wheing the ghost of an thin extraordinary young man

day." Mary Maul, gangling and paie had taught a riding class in Innicock dears." and who, amazingly enough, had been!

Why she had kept those old love at 11, in a ginghani dress a size too married to Katharine for weeks.

lottern, she could not have said. She small, came to stand and stare from Bertine sald again and again that was a true and faithful wife; but the door.

"A box? How? By parcel port 7" HONGKONG TO:— there had been a lurking sentiment she could not get over it She re- for the old tle which she had never Bundles of any sort were an event in peated the phrase Impressively, as

ROBE and RETURN "I don't know. No, I think some- though the very weight of her words before been able to sever. She saw this family.

Victor now as he really was-elderly, must stun the listener.

hidebound How could one left it at the door. It was on the stoop. Daisy," said Mary Maud she ever have loved him?

virtuously, "wanted, to open it, but Isabel, who worked in Miss Betsy's I wouldn't let her," • Beauty Shop, read the news in the village newspaper and went back to Frantically Isabel tore at the string, the shabby little house she shared ripping it off. Under folds of tissue with her mother and sisters to gloat paper lay a white and silver frock- isabel gasped, staring. She tore open over the story with a trace of envy.

"I knew

the the square creamy envelope. There her well," she told dazzled little sisters who hung over was a signature. Sally Moon. the very poor half-tone reproduction Why, of all things.

"Dear Isabel: I'm going to Paris for a year. You said some- of Katharine's picture. "Oh, who's lots prettier than that, Daisy! She's

thing the last time you did my real blond and you know we don't

hair about getting married. get many of those fellow she married many a time, too.

Don't say I gave this to you. lie's real good locking-I don't know

The old cats have talked enough as he's

my type, though. Now, my already. Good luck." ideat" They before Dates Crankly wel's called me marvelled Isabel. Casual, careless Sally had sent her the weil yawned. "My ideal," pursu Izabel, running ding dress!

Both a wet romli through ber wave an purrowing her eyes speculatively at her Image in the spotted and cloudy mirror

"my ideal is sort of like They forgot about time, forgot Fredric March only younger, but with about food. Isabel emerged from the "When did you ever encourage con: the same kind of chin.",

scrubby cubicle which served AA fidence from Katharine, my dear?" "Bill don't look a bit like Fredric bathroom, her arms and face gleam.

from inquired the other woman softly un-March," observed Daley with an air ing

recent scrubbing. She able to resist this stab.

"Ooh-oh, don't

nice!" Bertine flushed and tossed her head. of innocence belied by the knowing silpped the lovely frock over her head.

you look in her beady eyes. stare For a few days she didn't telephone

"You better let Bill alone." Isabel Even Daisy said it, reluctantly ut to Linn, but the other woman heard

said with spirit. "I've told Bill many convincingly. When you

have never before in that Mrs. Strykburst had stopped a time he wasn't my ideal as far as what Zoe called "breadcasting" about lacks go, but he certainly is one hand your life owned a really decent frock. Katharine's elpencat and was satis- some fellow. There are girls in this Isabel thought, revolving before the town who'd give their shoes to go out square of mirror, it's heaven to own Meantime Victor Strykhurst went with him."

one at last ...it works magie for to nvg Mrs. Merser

"You really must stop raving about Kay," Lida told her friend. "People will

think there's something odd about the whole affair, and it's really very romantic. 1

I in't an if this young Heatherse hadn't turned out extra ordinarily well. He has a title if he

to use it, no tells me. all in the Times..

"Newspaper stories," said Katha rine's stepmother who had a complete disregard for all natter appearing in the public prints except the society, columns which were to her a sort of Bible,

Lida Parker

annoyed and showed it.

Whe

And the truth," she said firmly you know it. I think Kath Arine's done very well for herself

"So quiet, and sly and underhand ed." Bertine cried. "Never telling us a word about It or anything.".

fied.

"You, I knew about it,” Violet said. "You probably ejcouraged the whole thing Just from spite" Victor sputte ed angrily "I wei idn't have believed

I've seen

the

"Well, I never thought she even

"Try it on, six. Try it on." dingy little girls were hopping about in an ecstasy of excitement.

"Sez you!" Daly was setting the you. tahdo now, slapping forks and knives, Lost in her dreams, she didn't hear Didn't hear Bill's deep all hopelessly mismatched, down upon the doorbell.

cloth notable for the number and growl in response to Mary Moud'a variety of spots on it.

piping treble.

Tell her I can't make the_game," "You mind ur own business or

it of you."

"didn't know until afterward." you'll be sorry," tabel advised heated she heard at last. "Tell her I've at Violet told him, keeping her temperly. "Tell you one thing-when Bill to play pool with some of the fellors| in lenah. "I warned you the day she and 1 step off we'll have a slicker was thrown from the horse that she looking place to live in than this Isabel went out into the sitting

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"Ile was a groom," muttered Victor. "He was a cowboy before that."

"You're being very foolish about it. Violet told him, rising and ter- be lucky if she found a decent pair "Are we?" Isabel shrugged. "First Agents: minating the interview. "I don't of silk stockings to wear. When she I heard of it."

"Well, you know it now," said the know why I should listen to your had taiked so boastfully to Daisy and absurd accusations against me, except the others of her probable marriage man. He was staring at her as if he that I was once fond of you, and to Bill she had been whistling in the had never seen her before. realise parents are notably silly in dark. How did you ever get a boy!

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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

A Man," he pits the East and West dog, in a dramatic duel. A polished, spoil-

ed darling of fortune, all but non- atless, comes West to unlearn his past

(To Be Continued).

"The Witching Hour"

Hong Kong to Mediterranean Hong Kong to Rotterdam

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

Hongkong,

TEA MARKET

WORLD CONSUMPTION DECREASES

TRANS-PACFIC

TENDERS CALLED FOR A famous play by a famous Ameri-

AIR SERVICE .. and at himself for sterner realities can playwright le coming to-day to

London, Aug, 13. The World is drinking less top saya

Washington, Aug. 18. The producers have outdone them the screen of the Star Theatre. "The

The Post Office haa sut in selves, it is said, in making a picture Witching Hour" is the play, and

motion actual plans for cond annual report.

-trans- to do justice to the book masterpiece Augustos Thomas is the playwright, the International Tea Committed so- Starring in this Fox Film release is With a theme of intenso interest, to

The absorption by the consuming Pacific air mail and passenger ser- "The least direction is the best George O'Brien; around him is a fine modern psychologists, the story of

countries was 862 million pounds 'In direction", says William A. Seiter supporting cast made up of Dorothy The Witching Ilour is both drama-

the twelvemonths.

San Francisco, Honolulu, million in the previous who directed" Jumes Dunn, Alae Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods, tic. and peculiarly poignant, at the the year 1934-36, compared with 860 vice, by advertising for bide for

Butler, Richard Clarke and Nell Hamilton in "The Jimmy

Carlisle,

isie, same time. Something of the sen

quality of "Smilin'

This is due to world economic con- Manila, Canton route.

The. bids are receivable until Darling Young Man", the Fox Film Clarence Wilson and Edgar Norton finiental, nostri quale romance of ditions and not restriction.

*3m- Through" is found coming to the King's Theatre on Fri-Heretofore Western pictures

Mr. C. L. Wu, representing the midnight on October 21. The con- day, In explaining the wide varianer bolized conflicts of law and outlaw. Judge Prentice which survives through

in London mencing not later than one year In which recently arrived in results that two different directors The new type of Western hero, as many years of frustration to come to Chinese National Economic Council, tract will be for ten years, will obtain with the same cast of described by Harold Bell Wright in the aid of two young lovere badly in will consult with the International after the award. players.... Since

a director is largely "When a Man's a Man," is a more need of help. In fact, the theme of Tea Committee. Mr. Wo sims at in-

the interesting

story might be "Lave comes back rensing China's tea exports and an person, and

oach held responsible for the success or complex

need

1. Service once a week it most." The

this the Tea Committee.seeks failure of his picture, it is only natur-equally at home in the drawing room again when you

young lovers are played by Judith al that he should try to bring the or maddle.

Allen, as Nancy Brookfield, and Tom to persuade China and also Formosa way,

2. Mall load of 800 lbs. with Scheme, to story to the screen exactly as he sees

to Join the Restriction. Brown, as Clay Thorne. Both Arc it", Seiter says. On the other hand,

which all negotiations have hitherto provisions for carrying any ex-

ccas offered.

layers.

I

"Public Hero Number 1"

Provisions of the bids are:

com-

rising young lumilurier in the cinema falled. "Public Hero Number 1" the sky. In the story, Thorne has A The International Tea Committed's 3. If the contractors land

Nether- to China

and there.

4. Planes must be multimotor- Formosa but nine millions pounds in- crease of China tea imported Into ed, of seaplane type, and capable cent of their motor power at an England last year was sill awaiting of substained flight on fifty per absorption last April.

The International Tea Committee altitude of 1,000 feat, with mini-

sengers.

5.

The contractors must ar

Loo much insistence on doing every. thing. Just so is very apt to result in a dull and uninspired film, especially Metro Goldwyn Mayer's new thriller, phobia or complex on cat's-eyes, which when working with younger

due seen at the "Queen's Theatre, are semi-precious jewels and not the report omphasizes that some traders, voluntarily at intermediate pointa, a drams Immortalising the unknown eyes of a feline. Superstition has considering the production quota for mails shall be carried to and from

India, Ceylon and the An old and experienced trouper can soldiers of peace in their rentless war long attached itself to these strange lands Indies, turned accept fussy direction and still give against organised criminals. The jewels; and the superstition

warks a good performance but younger play- et, as a rule, become rattled under story is, nelde from being breathless Thorne to the extent of forcing him

fantastic crime. He

commits exacting criticism

entertainment, an eye-opener to the into of their gestures und dialogue and tend to walk public, in showing intimately what murder, but when he did it, or where, through*

goes on in the struggle on the side of or why, he has not the romotest idea, part the

is in the It

Thorne that mechanically the law daily. Chester Morris as Tauze Prentice and his romance or is planning world-wide propagandamum cruising speed of 125 m.p.h.

the defence of Over-direction always repressca A adventurous Jeff Crane, and Joseph

to increase ten drinking-Reuter. and minimum capacity of six pas- player's personality and the picture Calleia as the fugitive crime overlord, long ago play such an important part. suffers accordingly. Personally always try to get my players into the are the centre about which the amaz- If the crime can be called. fantastic.

revolves. Lionel Barrymore the defence is even more so. And, It is pleasant to report that this Fox spirit of their parts and then let them in bath, comedy and pathos in the white "The Witching Hour" certainly Film with its baffling mystery and range at their own expense to enact the parts as they soo and feel' them, with as little direction as possi-principal character role, as the strange is not a "courtroom picture," it has sparkling comedy is first-rate screen secure ble. In this way they can give really old physician, tool of the underworld, one scene in the chambers of justice entertainment, which makes you for landing free and convincing portrayals, which and blonde Jean Arthur, with Morris, that has seldom been exceeded for get time and place under the spell of

provides the make for much better sereen enter excellent cast also features talament."

Kelly, Lewis Stone, Paul Hurst and Brown, the cast includes the eminent we won't tell you by whom! Mone

Plane's Fight sensational English actor, Sir Guy Standing Barrie plays the George E. Stone. The "When A Man's A Man"

lady from nowhere,

Honolulu, Aug. 12, prison break, the stampede of a thou- John Halliday, and Gertrude Michael. beautiful and young, who barges Into

The Oriental Clipper, trans- An engrossing story that in book sand convicts, the breath-taking opera-

a wealthy young bachelor's apartment "Ladies Love Danger"

airliner, 18 tentatively form thrilled sixteen million Ameri- tion sequence, where the doctor ner can renders, from the magical pen of forms a transfusion in a crook's hide- "Ladies Love Danger" is opening (Ronald) and claims his time for that Pacific

while being suspected of the multiple Tuesday for Midway Island. Harold Bell Wright, has been trans-out, the raid on the gangster strong to-day at the King's Theatre. Drama- night and all the next day, mean-scheduled to take off from here on posed to the screen. It is "When A hold, running battles between fast the, exciting tense are the situations murders which tally with her move-

The plane will remain there for Man's

A Man," now, at Alhambra, automobiles, and other exciting details this swift-moving romance-mys- where the romance of the Far West follows the Federal mon in their dan-Barrie and Gilbert Rdland. To effect tion in this Edward T. Lowe producthen fly to Wako Island carrying Theatre. Reports from other cities embellish the story as the audience tery, co-featuring glamoroux Mona mants, The Barrie-Roland combine three days, it is proposed, and will has already played, reven! it as an gerous task. The story is an original bo double-barrelled mystery, the pro- try to Woman Superb aupport two of the latest motion picture the hilt with tenas aituations. Harold founded entirely on actual facts. One poogery an

concessions to operate facilities, light-houses,

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romantic interest. The dramatic suspense and intensity. In A nonchalant

ant gentleman unhurryingly Paul addition to Judith Allen and Tom solving a series of murders by button aids.—United Prean.

this mystery with

tion is ideal better even than was

out-of-the-way attraction, packed to by J. Walter Ruben and Wells Root, ducera have **arreating combination, la provided by the cast: Donald Cook,fims for the entertainment of the....

Bell Wright's talont for depleting the of the amazing details is the resort for when you are not thrilling to the Adrienne Ames, Hardie Albright, Hor. ground crews working there, It bert Mundin, Nick Foran, Marion also carries fresh vegetables and vital drama of the West, and his gift of the crook to plastic surgery as a sinister sesuence of secret murders

-United Press. for creating unforgettable types, i disguise, that, however, fails to elude you are delighting in the light touch Clayton, Ray Walker, Rita Rozelle, other supplies to the small colonies. second to none. In "When A Man's the vigilance of Uncle Sam's watch-of the romance that runs side by side. And Snowflake,

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