1935-08-19 — Page 10

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

AUGUST 19, 1995.

SERIAL STORY.

THE

FUNNE One Hove

BLUE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE

SARPEDON

PHILOSTETES

Rails 21 Aug Int

Maravillon, Casghlnuen, London, Rotterdam & Olangow mails 4 Sept. for Camblichen, London, Nat. terdam, Hamburg & Hu}}

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

LAOMEDON in 28 Aug. for Havre, liverpool & Bromborough

NEW YORK SERVICE

GLAUCUS nails 2 Sept.

for Busteni, N.Y., Philadelpain. Baltimore, Montreal vis Manila, Hirsitues

PACIFIC SERVICE ( Kobe, Nagoya & Yokohama)

TYNDAREUS mile 22 Ang, for Victoria, Vanesaver & Seattle

INWARD SERVICE

TEUCER

TEINESIAN MEMNON

.

Due 22 Ank

From Europe vis Staite

Due 24 Ang. From 1. K. vin Straita Dne 30 Aug From . K. via Straits

Specially induced fires are quintod for cargo steamers with

limited passenger accommodatineu

For freight, passage rates and information apply la

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Tel. 30333.

Agenda.

1. Connaught Road, C

LLOYD TRIESTINO

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MARITTIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR

EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE.

FAR EAST-INDIA-ITALY.

Through Tickets to LONDON (Sea and Rall 22 Days) Henvy Luggage to Londen by Special Train FREE OF FREIGHT interchangeablo Return Tickets with the Dollar Lines on very favourable conditions.

ROUND THE WORLD TICKETS ISSUED

in connection with all the Trans Pacifle and Trans Atlantic Conference Lines at

special reduced rates.

.

Agents for the. "ITALIA" and "COSULICH" ·LINES-

Issuing through tickets to North.

Central and South America, via Italy.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

Queen's Building, Groundfloor,

Tel. Ad. "LLOYDIANO" Agents.

Canton-Mera.

P.O.B. 143

Telephone 32081. DODWELL & CO., LTD. Shameen

AEROMAIL

Facsimile of

Watermark

SPECIAL

REDUCE YOUR

AIR MAIL CHARGES

BY USING

THE "POST" AEROMAIL LETTER PAPER

AND ENVELOPES.

EXTREMELY LIGHT

AND STRONG

ON SALE AT:—

THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD.

Wyndham St.

Tal. 26615.

PADS CONTAINING 100 SHEETS, LETTER SIZE, $1.00 ENVELOPES. IN 3 SIZES, $1.75 TO $2.75 PER 100.

· SMALLER QUANTITIES ALSO, AVAILABLE.

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

JANET HILL, engaged 10 HOLF CARLYLE but they do not have watch money to marry. Janet is

for Decretary BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Hageline, and Rolt work for the Atime Advertising Co. Janet Insiela (bey' myal have $500 in a savings account before they can be married.

OwAND GRESHY, another employee at the magazine, tries 1 make

with Janet but she discourages him.

the hurries home from the office one Halur- ilky to prepare a surprise birthday dinner for Roll. On the way she ones à nouple entering the fashionable Brawber Ilotel Coffee Shop and recognizes, the young man ka Hell

CHAPTER II

In another instant the girl in the fur coat and the young man besido her had disappeared. Janet had barely seen them, had heard her heart ery out, "It's Relf!" and was still struggling with the shock when the door of the Coffee Shop closed.

Immediately common sense return- ed. Of course it couldn't have bren Rolf with that pretty, expensively dressed girl. It' was some other young man whose topront happened to be the same shade of gray na Rolf's, who wore a dark felt at the same angle.

"I was bocaitse I was thinking about him," Janet told herself. "Imagine making such an idiot of myself! Why. It couldn't have iseen Rolf" She accepted this explanation engerly, with a sense of relief.

For a mas startled

a moment, though, she had been

01

Smiling, reassured; Janet hurried along. A minute or two later she wna turning into the doorway Romey's Cafeteria. Most of the noon-time crowd had lunched and departed. The long room with a innumerable tile tables, all with gleaming the tops, was not even half

led.

Janet ordered a satisfying lunch- two vegetables, a -nlad, a gloss of milk and for dessert, a delicious look. ing fruit tart. She carried her tray to a table near the side of the wall and down. It was quiet there.

sat

Blessedly quiet. Suddenly Janet realized that she was hungry. The hot food seemed delicious and for several minutes she devated herself to it; thinking ouly how pleasant it was to out an appetizing meal in peaceful surroundings.

Then she took a slip of paper from her purse and hegan checking aver the items sted. Hayslips first for the pen and pencil set. In parent hexls Janet had set down $5" seem a lot; enough even for the hand some pen and pencil she had visualized ns Rolf's gift.

by

LAURA, LOU BROOKMAN

Janet raised her face, glowing with happiness. "Kiss me," she

whitparad.

The sentence was lost as she made n frantic dash for the stove In time The dime store was on the list-to prevent serious damage she turned for candles and a glass top to replace or Lite blaze. Five minutes more and the broken one on the coffee percoin- the platter of steak, the asparagus. tor. The cut-rate lower shop next the salads and the crisp, golden rolls for a half dozen pink roses little were on the table.

would be fun to have dinner here words between them. Carlyle and together to-night. Just you and I. found occasion to drop into the Every Rolf. We're going to have a birth-Home office on other errands. After dny cake--"

the evening when he first persuaded her to have dinner with him the court ship had moved swiftly. In a lttle more than a month Janet Hill had promised to marry Rolf Carlyle.

All that had been nearly a year ago, Janet, during those months, had learned to care more and more for Rolf. Not once did it occur to her that he could feel otherwise,

The birthday dinner proved success. The steak

tender, cooked exactly an Rolf liked it. The salads were crisp and the rest of the simple menu as appetizing.

Janet thought, "This is how it going to be some day when we're married. This is the way we'll have dinner every night—!”

338

WAB

PRESIDENT LINER TRAVEL SERVICE

→

makes a Business Trip a Pleasure

Travelets are always telling us how this or that far-away Dollar Steamship Lines and American Mail Line office oz agent helped to make their travels most enjoyable. More than one has said, "I started out on a business trip and come back from a real vacation”....... You, too, are invited to make full use of this friendly world-wide servios that is free."

TO SAN FRANCISCO TO SEATTLE, VICTORI/

18 DAYS

THE SUNSHINE ROUTE VI Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, Panataa Canal, Havana, New York. Fortnightly sailings

Pres. Lincoln Pres. Hoover Pres, Claveland Pres. Coolidge

Prvs. Tnft

6 a.m. Aug. 28

6 am. Sept. 7

6 am. Sept. 25

8 a.m. Oct. 8 6 a.m. Oct. 23

EUROPE, NEW YORK

Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection' with Lloyd Triestino,

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Hombsy, Boer Canal, Alexandria. Naples, Genoa, Marselles

I'res. Hayca Pren. Johnson Pres. Monroe

Pres. Van Buren Pres. Garfield

THE

a.m. Aug. 81 Bam. Sept. 14 8 a.m. Sept. 28

8 a.m. Oct. 12

8am. Oct. 26

17 DAYS

THE EXPRESS ROUTE Shanghai, Kobe, Tokobama A

Victoris.

Fortnightly silings

Pres. McKinley Prox. Grant

Pres, Jefferson

Pres. Jackson Pres. McKinley

Might Ang, 8D

M'ght Sept. 13

1 a.m. Sept. 28

M'ght Oct. 11 1a.m. Oct. 20

MANILA

THE MOST FREQUENT

SERVICE

Next Bafilogs

Pres. Lincoln

6 pm. Aug. 20

Pres. McKinley dpi. Aug. 24

Pres. Hoover

Pres. Jayen

Pres. Grant

9 p.m. Aug. 29

8 m. Aug. 31

6 p.m. Sept. 7

MOST FREQUENT SERVICE ON THE PACIFIC

BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES ANERICAN MAIL LINE

PEDDER BUILDING HONGKONG. CANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Shakee Street

SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC

SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR VESSELS (with limited, but exceptionally good, passenger accomodation). Homewards to:

Djibouti, Port Said, Tripoli, Marseilles, Algiers, Oran, Casablanca, Rotterdam (Amsterdam), Hamburg, Oslo, Gothorburg and other Scandinavian Porta,

ones that wouldn't last long it would you light the candles," Janet said be just right in a low bowl on the she untied the blue and white table. The roses would cost only 50) apron. Her face was glowing and cents. Then there was the meat mar-pink from the heat, her hair a trifle ket and the grocery and all the things unruly. There was no time to think that must be bought to prepare the of that now. The dinner mast be irthday dinner.

caten while it was hat, Janet went over the list. No, there

Just for an instant they slood there was nothing she had forgotten: Two-together. The room behind them was Gifteen now. She must hurry!

dark. The candlelight-alckering and uncertain-cast a a pale golden radiance Four hours later, Janet Hill stood over the table, disguising the cheap before the two-burner gas stove stir- dishes and worn lunch cloth. The was talking about something at the Passenger Rates: ring cream sauce, trying at the same scent of the roschuifs was sweet and office. Suddenly the girl laughed. time to keep an eye on the steak spicy. Janet's hand slipped into "Oh, Rolf" she said, "the silliest trailing in the skillet that sat none Rolf's. She raised a face glowing tao securely over the other blaZD with app

The asparagus, cooked, was propped

"Kiss

she whispered. Alin lips brushed against her for as near as possible to the heat to keep head. It was a hasty kiss-almost a

from chilling. A steaming coffee

vised kitchen.

A

Janet's

Atant.

She hadn't been listening and Rolf

via

Manila and Straits Settlements

.3rd Sept. 3rd Oct..

14

M.V. "NAGARA" M.V. "CANTON" Outwards to:-

Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka. M.V. "CANTON" M.V. "SHANTUNG"

.23rd August 18th Sept.

Hong Kong to Mediterranean Hong Kong to Rotterdam

£48 £55

G. E. HUYGEN

Canton,

thing happened to-day. I was com ing by the Brewster Coffee Shop and I saw an awfully pretty girl. She was with a man in gray and for a minute I was sure it was you! I-I was certain of it!"

"You mean you thought you saw

Agents:

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

Hongkong.

narrow

I n

www

Two

to the

pot pored perilously at the corner of preoccupied one. Janet's eyes, just the tiny shelf, serving both as kitchens her heart, must have been so filled table and a support for the gas stove. to overflowing with joy that she faile Dishes, tea towels. paper sack,

nek, ed to

to notice the look that crossed "You must have a double. Hon- knives and spoons littered the impra. Rolf's face. It was gone in an inestly, I'd have sworn--but then of on the California highways, became a principals three skating

rink pro- course I knew it couldn't bel" For a moment Janet stopped stir Janet snw a young man any casual her. Somehow the man's laugh was Gazing across the table at him,

speedster for the sake of art. Janet laughed and Carlyle Joined talented young actress, who has the 1

The moters, a young lawyer and a small-

crooked A strand of hair back

politician. ring to push

masters from her Ince. She was warm and server would have called rather not so convincingly mirthful as the leading feminine role in the First writing were given the job of trans of the art of screenplay her nose was shining. The Insthardsome. Rolf Carlyle found it girl's.

National Alm "Murder in the Clouds," forming "Transient Lady" minute, with everything to be done as to make friends. Women Biked! "Funny" he agreed. "You don't which is now at the Alhambra, was screen. They are Arthur Caesar and at once, was always confusing. Rolfesemblance (slight though it was) Brewster, do you?"

his blond hair, his dark eyes and the think I've taken to lunching at the being photographed in a scene which larvey Thow. Cerar is a graduate would come any time now,

Relf would come any time. There to a certain motion picture star. Men

shows her, speeding along n "Oh, of course pt. But honestly

of Yale University, and gained fame he was ung-the buzzer un the bell liked Curlyle because at bridge and it did look like you

country read. Shi rehearsed the Barber" "Baker of Men" and "Out a playwright, writing "Napoleon's downstairs

sirs pressed three times in golf he was as good a loser as a play The talk drifted to other things. scene once or twice, driving about of Seven Seas. He has written tapid

"aparter; because his enzy good nature never Janet brought the dessert and the forty of forty-five miles an hour each scores of screenplays since going to ment ceession!

was on the second floor and fellow wanted a loan Carlyle would drinking the fragrant golden leverly convincing for Director D. Ross gradute of the University of Min- seemed to desert him; because if a coffee. It BA while they were time, but the speed was not sufficient Hollywood in 1030. Harvey Thow is Rolf could make that single light in record time.

come across--providing he had the age, int Curlyle said carefully Lederman. He wanted action. A sharp rap at the daur-Janet carb.

"Janet, there's something I want.

On nesota, who started his career as a the third rehearsal Ann whizzed by newspaper leaving the stove, risking ruin of the Perhaps that gracefully molded to talk to you about."

reporter. Before be dinner to answer- slim, tall figurechin lucked a little in firmness,

the cameras at a speed close to fifty-catered the picture fold he wrote a (To Be Continued).

five miles an hour

"and

when the cena look, "Cruise of the Wock", with their voice in the shadows, hapa the brown eyes,

ingratiating smile, were a bit

was actually being taken, she zoomed play, "Young America", and two pleasure-loving, In Janet's

opinion

along the road at nearly sixty miles musical comentes, I WAN &

Rolf brief greeting. Janet

possessed the combined wit,

Ile starte hurried back to retrieve the cream the heroes of the six current best charm, intellect and good looks of sauce and the steak. The young sellers, the six most popular plays man tossed aside his hat and top on Broadway, the six most success- cont Indolently. Yes, I was a gray ful recent screen dramas and more topcant and a felt hat exactly the for good measure. same shade as the young man who entered the Brewster Coffee Shop had

worn.

from

drift

10

"

Per-

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

Are domestic

story

concerns

slago

an hour. The director wavel for and "Julius Sersing Around"

Kiri

the

greater speed, and the time device his picture writing back in 1915, and used to check with the high speed for years has been one of the real cameras showed that she was travel. outstanding scenarists of Hollywood. ing

nt sixty-seven miles When

an hour. the scene

"Smilin' Through" was successfully finlahed, Ann entered her car to drive back to the studios and from that Jane Cowl stage play which Holly "Smilin' Through," the famous point on drove at a breakneck speed: wood's There is no doubt that she wis

happiness and Janet was too busy to notice that prejudiced. To his employers, Dwight Does a man continue to love his wife and baffling mystery drama, involving Theatro to-day with Norma Shearer

feminine stars of about eighteen miles an hour, been yearning to bring to the talk- have long professional Buccess compatible? "Murder in the Clouds" She had disappeared behind the Kendall and Jim McPhail, who awned

an unusual ing acroen, is coming to the Star screen that shut off the "kitchen" the Atlas Advertising Agency. Young These are the problems discussed in and the kidnapping of a beautiful Mayer, which produced this haunting when her salary pays the bills? the rest of the room, The Carlyle was a beginner with a fair Ann Carver's Profession," a Columbla

several strange murders in the

the starring role. Metro-Goldwyn- young man, left to himself, dropped chance, of working up in the business-] picture coming soon to the Queen's Dvorak plane. Lyle Talbot, Missly beautiful drama, has boasted that Into an arm chair. He produced People liked Carlyle and that was Theatre. The

and Gordon Westcott head the it would reveal the finest array of cigarettes, lighted motch, applied IL an asset. He had the brains too, T

2. woman lawyer whos

cast in a triangular. romance while. to a cigarette and leened back com-he'd settle down and apply himself. career of

others include Hobert Light, George,

(Continued 'from Page 11.) fortably, watching the curling smoke Rolf Ind worked at the Atlas office nationa! courtroom exploits Cooper, Charles Wilson,

establish her

Hedry for a year and a half. During the feminine barrister of New York City, and screen play are by Roy Chansler ceiling ward.

ILA the outstanding O'Neill and Russell Hicks. The story "Busy to-day?" Junot called, two years he had attended collego "So-ac. Suddenly Carlyle noticed Rolf had sold advertising on the coller husband, meanwhile, is forging and Dore Schary. the table with its bowl of roses and lege paper. He had landed the job is her salary which maintains their ahead slowly as on architect, but it its all candlesticks. "Say, what's Dennison, a frienti, had given it up

with the Atlas

company when Frank

household. Is it possible that their to join the staff of the Gazette. tragedy inevitable. Edward Buttell, Universal's newest film, "Transient marriage can be happy? Or domestic

Three of the most brilliant writers Hired at $30 a week and given rou-

at the day are responsible for Smiling, Junet emerged from behind fine office duties, Carlyle had earned the director, believes this story is the screen.

"It is a party, Rolf two raises since. He had three ac- one of the most significant yet written Lady", which is coming to the King's Don't you know what day it is? It's counts now for which he was respon- for the screen in that it denis with

Theatre on Thursday, with a cast your birthday! I wanted to surprise sible and occasionally was allowed to women. Fay Wray plays Ann Carver Frances Drake and June Clayworth. problems faced by all professional headed by Raymond, Henry Hall, try his hand at writing advertising and Gene Raymor her husband. "Birthday ay, I'd forgotten all copy for some of the more important Clairo Dodd, Claude Gillingwater,

The original story was written by about that. How'd

Octavu Roy Cohen, and ran serially know? clonta, you How'd you happen to remember-1"

It had been on an errand for the slap cast in important roles.

Jessie Ralph and Arthur Plerson aro in Liberty magazine. It is a glitter- "I've remembered ever since-oh, Atlas company (bringing copy to be

ing example of the masterly

ability for months and months. Something insorted in the Every Home Maga-

to portray everyday people, because you said one day last summer. Arexine) that Rolf Carlyfe had first scen

they represent the vast majority of little southern town and made his the public. So he laid his story in a

the idea? Looks like a party--"

you.'

"Murder in the Clouds" Ann Dvorak, who has always been

you really surprised? I thought it Janet Hill. There had been a few a law-abiding and rather timid driver

**Transient Lady"

WHEN AT HOME

Hongkong Telegraph.

..MAY BE PURCHASED

ATOMLE SELFRIDGE'S

Page 10Page 11