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BEGIN WERE TO-DAY

JANET HILL, and HOLF CARLYLE have been engaged almost a year. They have pul cd their marriage because Janet Insist they Janel is secretary to HAMILTON, and Unite, reployed in th office.

staat have F100 in a HAINEY, TANT FON atveriaing manager of Every Home Magazine, wirertising

Janet, deeply in love, le not suspicious when Rolf howlns to make exces for not coming to see her. One night he breaks an LAM- engagement with her and MOLLIE

HERT, Wives across the ball, feile Janet

she has seen him with another girl

When

Janet kaks about this Itoit become shars. declare their engagement is meaningless and that if Janet wally wanted to marry him

she would have done so,

quarrel and Janel is miserable.

The burn that the girl Molle Rolf BETTY KENDALE, niece of ber of the frm for which he works. hu taken a job in her uncle's office.

w with mem

Joget meets Belf on the street, and he tell her be in worry they quartelle. Janet, min understanding, skyr the Tendy to marry Ilan Ammediately. As much as the wurde nov mit else realises her melake. There is wh-

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CHAPTER XII

the aiste

nust

by LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

her. The first week I stayed at a Anything hotel but I didn't like that very well."

of

nover course. You

names. She liked could tell about the way his eyes crinkled at the corners when he smiled. They were such very blue eyes. She liked the way he laughed, too, and the low

How tall he was! Walking beside him, Janet felt much less than her five feet, which was certainly a good average height for a girl. Something pitch of his voice.

Well, she had tried to make up about him made her sure that he had for the cross way she had spoken played football and probably ather

porta. He looked like that.

Do you think you're going to like here?" she asked politely. "Oh, 1

guess so. It's convenient. I'm working for Standard Steel down in the Rossiter building."

Janet had never heard of Standard Steel but the name was impressive "What do

do you do?" she asked.

♫

A

that other night. She hoped she had made a better impression this time. Not that Janet had tried conaciously Lo create an "Impres xion" of any sort. It was natural, though, for her to be friendly with She didn't like to think of everyone. herself as being cross and snappish even when there were excuses for it. "I'm glad," she said to herself, that he didn't say anything about a Since he's already made

February

The young man Inghed. I had

piensnut, low-pitched laugh to date. Hetty

match his pleasant, low-pitched voice, friendn I won't have to worry about "To tell the truth," he said. "I'm that." just beginning to find out what it's A few days later one of Janet's all about. I'm supposed to be a sales-questions about the new roamer was About all answered. She learned that his first man same day k through file name I've

no far is

was Jeffrey, for antong the other quarrel and she recanca ilalf of wanand answer letters. Before I came letters laid out on the table in the 14 marr BITTY KENDALL for her money.

bere

I worked in

"Mir. addressed to steel mill. This all was one

It was rather a Jeffrey R. Grant." several nights inter she office life is all new to me." lientina la watching ber ant kaika

He mentioned the name of the city nice name and it seemed to suit him. where the steel mill was located and

lded that he had worked there since. A week phased art she did not leaving college two years before, “

nee Jeffrey Grant nenin. There was

in the conversni had given way to March, which ar #patise The young man arress

tion.

rived in lamb-like fashion and re- Steel mills were certainly not flushed slightly and shifted his gate to the bright border of car cards over subject on which Janet had much in mained that way, Each day the sun πλη She could think of ab shone. The wind lost a chilly Janet's head. His blue eyes fastened formation.

and at midday was almost zephyr manstrosity solutely nothing to say about them. on a parple and orange

But they had almost renched the Bike Crowds pouring out of down- ndvertising cough strup, ft have interesed him for be studied rooming house. She fell back on one town buildings lingered on the side-

of the stock

walks to chat and suri themselves, used with qurations intently.

romers. "Da you know any people The windows of department stores blossomed with bright-coloured spring give Janet was able to

ain Lancaster ?" she asked. him

Already girls raiment.

were “Oh, I've met quite a few at the preund, covert glaner and recognized him at once. He was not, as she hal office. There are a couple of fellows, wearing little smug straw hats and supposed, another of the starers and too, that I used to know at school. some of them had discarded winter conts for jacket suits and lightweight smirkers to be frigidly ignored. He Lanenster seems to be a nice plner **

wraps that might be cool but were was the

now me at Mrs. Snyder's all right. I guess I'll.

undeniably trim and becoming. Tulips the young

man who had mistaken like it as soon as I get to feel more and hyacinths and freezias inte gay her room for one that was vacant and at home here."

masses of bloom in the flower shops, enme there to bor

borrow an electrie

and every sign pointed 10 spring. globe. She had seen him only once

What a time is be lonely and un- since, leaving the house one morning Now they had reached the room happy! What

time to nurar Abend of her. Innet's quick seenting ing house. Janet entered and went heartache, to paint a brave smile on took in the dark blue overcent and to the hall table where mail was left lips that did not dare to stop smiling! the snap-bei black felt. Yes, he was to see if there was anything for her. Janet tried to find saluer in work. rather hive looking

Young Mr. Grant hurried up the

was any time in the Every stairs. There were no letters on Home office and she was grateful Sudicule their eyes met again and the table for Janet but she fingered for it. She arrived early and remain. this time Janet angled The young to speak to Mrs. Snyder who appeared Jate, Bruce Hamilton, who

n.w

"You'll like it," he assured him cheerfully.

† ስነ- smiled, ton, Uncomfortably jed in the doorway. Then she mount-customarily forgot that those he work- Janet remembered that she had noted the stairs slowly and went to her ed with lacked his immense physieni been very gracious the other night. room.

energy and dynamic driving power, quite the opposite! She had treated] No letters. No telephone cally, abused every privilege of an vinploy. the young man as thongh in were a Nothing but a lonely evening alwad, er. He gave her more work regularly. burglar, practically accused him of exactly like last night and the night than any secretary could turn out being one. He had been embarrassed | before. and she had done nothing whatever

to make the situation easier.

"What's the oatler with me late ly?" Janet asked herself. "De

quarrel with everyone Caut 1 even spent civilly to a stranger "

hare 141

She

closed the door behind her, tonk T her hat and coat and went about the business of preparing a sketchy meni. Ealing was only a matter of routine these days.

between the hours of nine and five La'clock. He gave her errands outside the office and he was irritable when the letter he wanted was not on his desk the minute he wanted 15. Janet was uncomplaining.

When alie was too tired to think of any- As she lit the gas burner and set thing except the ache in her should- the tea kettle on to heat, Janet's persit was easier to forget spring It was easier to They were still suvernd blocks from thoughts returned to the young man nights a year ago.

A why of midnight velvet the rooming hutse, Janet did not stairs. Rather a nice young man, forget

she thought ensually. Not madplushed with star-shine, soft winds look toward the young man again; but when they both rise to leave the Rolf-oh, there she was, doing what bay and a girl, hearts heating high

sonur, not really good-looking like playing a mad, exciting melody, car he waited to let her go ahendi On the sidewalk she turned, besitat, she had sworn she would not do! and in unison and the world at their

Thinking about Bolf. ing. The young man swang down to everything she did to other days and

Comparing feet.

It was easier to forget that li He ground.

evenings when she had been with that was over- him! Why couldn't she stop it? She came slowly up the stairs of Well, she would stop! She would the rooming • house one evening. deliberately put Rolf Carlyle out of pausing on the next to the top aleg her mind, as she hnd assured herself to find the key in her parse. A again and again she had already doar halfway down the hill opened "My name's Janet Hill" the girl jalone.

would not think about and Mollie Lambert emerged. went on. And of course I know him!

"Janet!" whe exclaimed eagerly. There you're living at Mrs. Snyder's. Have

was that young man up"You're the very person I've been you been in Lancaster long?"

stairs, Mr. Grant. Janet wondered looking for!" "A little over a month," he told idly what his first name might be.

(To Be Continued).

"You're Mr. Grant, aren't you Janet asked Only a moment before

anne had come to her.

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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

She

Baxter. The background IN thetonor, falls heavily for Mary New Argentine pampan, where the gauchonberg, a charming girl whom he be live a colourful and romantic Hfe. leves to be a member of the Opern

Then-

Lew Pollock andi Paul Webster, whose House chorus. She is enurled by "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" swept Kleeberg, a wealthy old man, but is the country last year, prepared song in love with Theodore, a musician, mbers for the production, some of whom she attempts to help by which are sung by Warner Baxter cultivating Gattle friendship. Laughs and thrills blend, and ex- and Ketti Gallian. Veloz and Yolanda dure, Jowever, lets her down, and with following this she quarrels Tango" in this production.

Koen to great lengths to find her, and rampant in "Murder in the Fleet," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new detective

his secretary, Charlie, eventually does the trick through a charity perform-

citement, romance and comedy run duner their new, sensational "Cobra Gatti. Gotti, unaware of her namie,

"Imitation of Life”

thriller with a warship as its locale. "Magnificent nias be # muck ance. Mary, guided by pique, deter

muenificent rotar

"Elnor Norton"

Hailed as one of the most powerful

scheduled to be screened AÈ

the abused word, even in Hollywood, but mines to marry Kleeberg, but Gatti Queen's Theatre

soon. The story nothing else will adequately duscribé turns up at her wedding, and with deals with murders on board, visitors "Imitation of Life," the Fannie Hurst the aid of his voice, persuades her and crew impounded while a young novel which John M. Stahi made into to exercise the feminine prerogative. 4 picture for Universal, starring lieutenant turns detective, trails a Claudette Colbert and Warren Wil killer, and after a desperate fight am coming to-day to the corners him. Major thrills are the Theatre. It is a fight with the criminal in a flooded tion. Some notion of the scale on love stories to come from Hollywood which this film has been produced can in scosons, "Elinor Norton," the Fox | powder magazine as the water slowly rises, the strange killing of the singed from the fact that one Film production adapted from Mary setting cost $10,000. Nothing Roberts Rinehart's thrilling novel, engineer, the ehnso about this set was extraordinary. "The State Versus Elinor Norton," is through the ship'a compartments, the The cost came about merely to maite showing now at the King's Theatre. episode of the live wire, and the race the set perfect and authentic. In all, notable east, headed by such well- were bullt for "Imitation Williams, Norman Foster, Henrietta of known players as Claire Trevor, Hugh against Unie to install a firing gear. Life One of these Robert Taylor and Jean Parker share town house in New 45 a complete | Crosman and Gilbert Roland, will be

York City, con- romance and thrills alike in the pic-taining 15 rooms, a real kitchen and seen in the film, which has been ne

it, This garden was claimed

Bairamatic thunderbolt. ture, there are also plenty of laughs a garden behind

Mereen by Rone In the story...there would have to be, sodded with neinual grass and flowers Adapted for the

were planted there. From the what with Tod Healy, Una Merkel

From the garden Franken, widely known author

in "Another Language," and Philip

government

and Nat Pendleton in the cast.

"Under the Pampas Moon"

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kets

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a view of the East River was seen Klein, the story is said to carry all the distanco. Model vessels capable the brillant dratantic of operating under their own power

were

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made for this scene and small colourful detail with which Mrs. A new character, a new locale and scale replica of the Fifty-ninth Street Rinehart endows her finest novels. Bridge was erected in the background, Chuire Trevor has by far the finest three new song numbers will be in- A system of tiny moving electric role of her screen career as the young troduced to the screen when "Under lights in procession across the bridge heroine, "Elinor Norton" would offer the Pampos Moon," produced for Fox indicating traffi; in the night scene Film by B. G. De Sylva and directed shot in the garden was effective.

by Jamies Tinling, comes on Saturday

to the King's Theatre, Advance re- ports hall Warac: Baxter In a rolu

"My Song For You"

All those who have seen "Tell Me more romantic than his famous "Cisco To-night" shoul not miss Jan

a challenge to nay actress on the screen for it is a part which makes heary demands both on dramatic range and comedy skill. But all ad- that Miss Yance accounts ngree Trevor more than Justifies the op- portunities it places within her reach. The three men who figure in Kid" that of an Argentine gaucho, Klepura in "My Song For You," show

the the picturesque cowboy of South ing at the Queen's Theatre to-day. girl's life are played by Hugh wit Amerien in whose veins flow a mix-An outstanding production, not only Roinnid, surely as divers and interest- Norman Forter and Gilbert liams, from the magnificent singing of Jan ture of Spanish and Indian blood and lapura, but also for its combination ing a combination of leading men as whose habits are crossed between of romance, comedy and

offered. Henrietta spectacle. any -those-- of a railing bandit and a Its a real musical treat, with Jan Grosman, brilliant veteran of a score plainaman. Ketti Gallian, the French Kiepura delighting with ronditions of of stage hits, liss a leading role and state star who was greatly acclaimed operatie arls and sentimental ballad. other members of the Cant

infectiously happy personality Theodore Von Eltz, Cora Sue Collins, for the recent American screen debut represents magnificent entertainment. Nora Lane, Susan Fleming, Guy In "Mario Galante," co-stars with Klepura as Gatil the hero,, a famous Ussher and Robert Glockler.

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