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One I Love
CHAPTER XXVI
Janet looked up, puzzled. "Why who could it be?" she naked. "I don't know who could be calling me."
LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
that was her newest office dress. Its choosing hooka Mrs. Curtis would abun voyage rift had been freshly cleaned and there enjoy, ordering was a touch of ince at the throat that and unking sure the package would was flattering. She had just slipped reach the boat, finding out from the the dress over her bead when there electric company why the ventilator in the kitchen didn't work as it should. "I don't know, Miss Hill," the mida knock at the door.
Janet
minute and It was Hald, "Just
worrying over just such ani. "He didn't give his name,
Curtis sald, that bad There's only one telephone on this floor hen opened the door. It was Mrs, things, Dire.
Curtis who stock
given her those dreadful attacks of and it's in Mrs. Curtis' room. You can
here!" she ex- "nerves." It was no wonder sho "I'm so glad you're fie use the one downstairs in the library.'
elaimest. Is everything all-right, my couldn't sleep at night. Mrs. Curtic Janet hurried down the staira dear? Sorry I couldn't be here when regarde Janet as a marvel able to Was it Jeff, she wondered? Who else
you came. I told Lucy to see that solve any diffealty. would know where to reach her? you had everything you wanted." And why had he called?
"Hello," she said. "This Is Janet speaking"
that
came to her. It
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Mrs. Curtin was dressed in heavy) She was considerate in many ways, |- brown antin and wore a small brown There were always fresh flowers lu straw hat. The clasp that held the Janet's rooms just na there were in neckline of her dress contained a halt Mrs. Curtis When the eur wasn't But it was not Jeff Grant's voice dozen sparkling stones and two din needed for any other purpose and
was Bruce Hamilton and he had a message for monds gleamed from a ring on her Janet had an engagement Mrs. Curtis
Anger. Yet Mr. Curtin, Mrs. Curtis. He would not, he or glittering array, looked no more i
mire the red her to call Frederick and have she wished to drive her where she wis be able to keep engagement for dinner the next day but he would be honing than the first time Janet had go. She took Janet with her to a
luncheon at the Three Arts Club out later in the afternoon. He asked, seen her.
which Everything was quite all right,!
well-known novelist spakr. Janet how things were going and Janet assured her. She remembered
first Janet tried to make her AL seemed pleased with her report.
"I'll see you to-morrow," he said.. Hamilton's message and repented days systemalle. She found it way
impossible.
nothing else upset I'm getting away to-morrow "Poor Bruce he does work
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Mrs. Curtis herself was plans Deuce of n lut to do yet, tool"
Earl," the elder woman lamented, sure to do it. She would devide at Janet said good-bye and went up the And then, "By the way, there will the last minute that she wouldn't go stairs again. She felt a disappoint-only be you and I for dinner this to have the fitting ILL the dress ment she would not quite admit. She evening. No need to dress. Well, maker's. Or instead of having six hadn't expected Jeir to call her I'll leave you now." There was no reason why he should. And yet the big house seemed deserted
lonely.
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guests at dinner she would decide to invite 10. Mr. Curtis gratefully shifted
ted responsibility for such changes to her secretary's shoulders.
dif-
At dinner "It won't be like this later," she learned more of the houschald. There an hour later Janet
And yet, Janet liked her work. It was assured herself. "I'll get used to it were four servants-the cook, two sa catirely different from anything and besides 1l be busy."
maids and a chauffeur. It was Farry, she hund ever done. It took her to new. She returned to her unpacking, the younger mail, win host met Janci places and among people of folled Ungerie and Inid it away in the at the duor, She learned that Bertha, ferent world. It was interesting to chest
of drawers. She hung her the other maid, was a housekeeper in know how they lived. When Janel dresses in the closet and
The Arranged
all link title, that the cook bad heen, shopped for Mrs. Curtis she visited top of the dressing table with two with Mrs. Curtis 14 years and that stores she had never entered before. crystal bottles that were prized the chauffeur's name was Frederick. It was pleasant to sit back in the possessions and a china powder box. Mrs, Curtin talked a good deal about velour-upholstered limousine and give When she had taken everything out her daughter who was married. Janet Frederick instructions through the of the trunk and travelling bag she didn't ask questions but she gather-speaking-tube. It was pleasant to slipped off her dress and ran warm, ed that the daughter was now living meet Mrs, Curtis at the fashionable water into the tub. She had a lazy, somewhere in the cast. She was an
Three Arts Club, luxurious bath and then, wrapped in my child and obviously the idol of During that first werk Janet worked
negligee, lay down on the bed. But her mother's heart.
longer hours than she had ever work- did not sleep. There were so They went into the living roomed before. It had been agreed that many things to think about. She was after dinner and played two-handed she was to have one afternoon to still in Lancaster and yet she night bridge. The game vous new to dan dihyself,ach week and theas evenings almost have been a thousand miles who had to give all her attention to when Mrs. Curtis har engagements, away. Everything seemed no differ- her cards. Buster, the Persian eat, Somehow the time slipped by and ent.
All of the people about her were wandered into the room and watched Janet was busy every afternoon. strangers. How way she going to the players from his post on a nearby like this new life? How would these chair. strangers like her? Would she h At pau Mrs. Curtis decided she happy here?
had had enoughs of cards. Janet
she
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She was sitting at her desk in the little room off the library, Friday morning when a mesinger delivered It was a box from the jewellers, and the boy What, Janet wandered, WAS hape table and went to her room.
was quite certain that Mrs. Curtis hail piness, really? Something in your It was the first of many evenings ordered it. own heart instead of whit went on that were to be similar. Janet in Jutet untied the wrappings and around you, she thought. Something the beginning felt that her new duties drew out a handsome silver picture you couldn't see or explain but couhij were no duties at Sho soon Trame Inside was a carbon slip in- only feel. But happiness was not changed her mind. It war true that dicating that the frame had been left what Janet was looking for. She had there was no routine as in an office, for repair. put that behind her. All that she There were no long hours of dictation
"It's all wanted now was to forget.
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The most impossible thing in the! Typing but there were small im- who right," she told the boy Homewards to:
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muttered something and departed, Half an
hour later Mrs. Curtis entered the room and Junet showed ather the frame.. "Oh, yo!" she said.
After a while Janel decided it was 7.30. When Mrs. Curtis appeared "It's for 2157 daughter's time to dress, he arose and put on ut the breakfast table an hour later The glass broke and I left it to fresh underclothes. What
in dress her letters were waiting her. Janet them "put a new out. I'll just should she wear? The maid had said was always, present at the daily in- get the photograph something about "dressing for dinner." terview with Bertha over menus and Her voice trailed off as she hurried Did
that mean
she was supposed to
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She could put on the telephoning members of Mrs. Curtis "Don't you think she's attractive," blue crepe from last summer.
Frommittee of the Wednesday club. Janet took the photograph. It was Jnnet looked at it and then shook her Sometimes there were errands to do Betty Kendall! head. She took down the bine silk down town-dificult errands such nal (To Be Continued),
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"Roberta"
There is bound to be. Perhaps the Among their atler achievements most important thing for a stage (the talking pletures can list record actor to remember when acting for ing the sensational dancing of Fred the screen is that every audience of Astaire, who is currently, performing his is sitting in the first row. There in "Roberta," HKO-Radio's musical is no gallery for the screen. Careful romance which stars Astaire, Irene interpretation of the role being Dunne and Ginger Roguld not have
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A new type of screen juvenile iseen photographed in the silent this phase of acting than on the stage, Tom Beck, who, within the past six prezure explains. "His feet would change his facial expressions
સ actor might, days," aer cameranian Eddie where to shift from the handsome here have been just a blur because the still get
cameras could not cope with his
munths, has demonstrated his ability
classification to the vile villain group silent pictures, we used to shoot his lines
camera
and back to a hera role in Fax Film's 30 feet of film to the minute. Ante/Exrelations" by Charles Dickens,
oduse several new dances device ta be
with it as he sticks Asked whether he encountered any dimculty with the in his best picture, "Great latest Uriller, "Charli Chan in we 'shul' 90 feet to the Egypt", which has Warner Oland in That extra 30 feet is just enough full frankly admitted
that the cold, a while. the leading role and
on to enable us to record clearly Astaire's steel eye had him scared for a comes
in steps. Astaire and Miss] "It's only natural, he Wednesday
"for a said, to the King's Theatre.
hit bewildered at first Absolutely convincing in both kinds of in***R.
at the now
Star to find himself without
but an audience parts, Tom Heck reveals histrionic
which are said
to be more This struck me, forcibly, because I skill carefully cultivated during his The Gay Divorcee." Miss Dunne's theatre and react accordingly. The than those which they did could always foot my audience in the studies at Johns Hopkins University golden voice, heard in Jerome Kern mark of
varied stage
is not really acting, acting experience.hits, is a stellar highlight of the but reacting to the
Part. It is, of Beck participated in Little Theatre production. Another feature is a
difficult to judge the exact netivities in Baltimore, and his work'spectacular fashion show.
/ af the story
unless con- was seen by Vludimit tosing, a New
sulting with the author and where the latter is inaccessible, it left entire York director, who got him his start
awl his
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"Fury of the Jungle"
ly in the actor's judgment and in-
AK
with occasional small parts in Brond Eight of Hollywood's most talented WN3" shows and rummer
stock in players are featured in the Columbia ination to fulfil the role as closely Massachusetts. As the juvenile lend production. "Fury of the Jungle," a remarkable personenily suc
cluses to-day at
the author's intention, Hull is in Alice Brady's "Mademoiselle", which
To nay the that he will prove as Beek won the attention of Hollywood Queen's Theatre. Donald Cook, eessful on the screen pa he has on and was signed to a long term con-handsome leading man. and Peggy the sunge tract by Fox Film Charlie Chan Shannon auburn-haired actress, upis vividness of imagination and in
is a forgone conclusion. in Egypt was produced by Edward ply the romantic interest, with more tensity of interpretation sets him off T. Lowe and directed by Louis King. than adequate menace The east includes such favourites as Alan Dinehart and Harold Huber.class by himself a class of dis
supplied by "Pat Paterson, Rits. Causias and Others in the cast are Toubin Mori,
In Great Expectations". Stepin Fetchit.
role, Hull definitely Dudley Digges, Clarence Muse and has lifted himself to the topmost rung Fredrik Vogeling. Roy William of screen luminaries. The Dickens Neill directed "Fury of the Jungle," classic is being presented at the which is based on an original story King's Theatre. With full
Horace McCoy.
featured Jane Wyatt, Phillips Holines. and Florence Revil
under Stuart Walker's direction,
"Black Moon"
Jungle drums beating.
yuudio
craze blacks in an orgy of blood
norrow at
"Great Expectations"
Jagritica
he gazed, horror- tricken at the scene
Ami sow that the leader of the savages Perhaps the most striking feature was bls wife! That's a sketchy Iden about Henry Hull, sensational of the thrills and suspenso that awaits dramatic netor of the stage whom the you when you see Jack Holt's latest screen has finally spared, in his dis Starring pleture "Black Moon," a tinctive individualness, As a 'rule n Columbia production starting to actor is usually likened to some the Queen's Theatre. It's nuteceding star. "He reminds me fult of thrills, but don't get the iden of so-and-so," or "he's another so-and- that it is a cheap thriller. reployed in the theatrical profession.
It's one
CRO", are catchlines
frequently em of the best entertainment Presented In a long time. Lavishly į not with Henry Iluil, who is as produced, expertly directed, perfectly
na Adam. I like Holly- and ndapted front one of
was the first thing Huff sald
т upon his initial interview. like It is a picture that spells grand enter for its panoramic vista of characters, talament. Fay Wray and Dorothy for its pulsating life and energy- Burgess are the two popular feminine have not found any of the lethargy players, Miss Wray is seen as the with which legend has endowed the sympathetic girl in love with Wisa motion picture industry here. "OL Burgess husband, the role in which course there is difference between the| Hall is Starred.
stage and the screen for an actor.
cant, year's best novelettes, "Black Moon"
his first wereen
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