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DONNA BIG TOP by BSULAY

CHAPTER XXI

POYNIES

6, 1935.

I would think of his selfishness. his beard and his eyes were bleary and The circus was on route to New utter callousness to her feelings, and blood-shot. His shabby, dirty over-

she hated him.

alls wore patched and, like the other Orleans and all the performers were They played Biloxi the day before dock hands, he was bare-arniod. looking forward to the week to be they went to New Orleans. Because "Oh!" was all Madeline could stam. apent there. It was where Con it was cheaper to remain there over

Ingri

Trafford usually spent the winter and he had Sunday Renfroe did not move the

aneorod. the following evening. "What is my fine lady doing down.

"My

oyal"

1

many friends in the city. It meant show nxious to get into the city. here? Looking for n job toting rice?"

change from Pullman state roots, but Con, since thong who could afford it would

With

and Madeline "I was just looking around. I move to hotels and boarding houses. bired a car and he

matored in. Orleans was considered the high Now

autumn breeze must get back to the show," Sho the warm

started to pass him, but he reached spot of the tour, and everyone was fanning her checks Madeline nestled out a grimy hand and grasped her getting costumes cleaned or making

against Con's shoulder, half asleep wrist. new ones for the opening there.

yet conscious of the odour of jasmine "Oh, no, you're not going off with- In Nashville Con had purchased and honeysuckle. She was happler soveral yards of amber coloured satin than she had been at any tinto since out some sort of howdy-do' to an and asked the wardrobe mistress to her marriage. The ents were left old friend. It's a sight far sore eyes make a suit for Madeline similar to behind and she and Con were alone. to see you again. How do you like

of his own. When she went for

"I wish we could go and on forever, my looks? Pretty nifty, eh? I've got you to thank for this. Some her first fitting Madeline drew back just like this," she sighed. in horror and

black-listed?" comic-down! I suppose you know I'm

"It's your

own fault," she said

one

not wear yellested that she could

"It's bad luck!" bad luck. Con. We'll get our notices or something else will happen!"

"No show, no animals-nothing but just ourselves."

"We'd soon starve," Con answerel

tersely. "We're darned lucky to have a good job. You haven't saved any money and I haven't enough to talk about."

hotly. "You jumped the show."

but

you

He laughed at her superstition. "Who cares about notices any way? I've worn a yellow suit in all the big cities and I guess if I can, you "I'll have something when Grand-

xo silly." Don't be so can.

pa dies, she reminded him.. Every free moment now he WA9 That's counting chickens, but working with Lucy, the Bengal lig uniess I'm mislaken we can pull ress, determined that she should bo down some real coin in vaudeville the alar beast when they played Now this winter. Any agent will be Oricans. The struggle for supremacy glad to handle an act with a wom- gaze with his bloodshot eyes. between man and beast was magní

an and a ficent. Day after day the huge cat

light

"Yes." Madeline spoke in a tight little voice.

ing

"After I saw you tied up with that auirnl trainer couldn't

I

bang around. Maybe you don't know it, knocked the centre nole right out from under me and I've been to the devil. ever since." brought his mottled face close to hers and held her frightened

"Let me go, Ned"

she said, try- a tiger. By Christina_you

to hide the terror she felt. "If to be able to manngo Liry you'd been any sort of a man you'd Con. facell her alone. She would

never have let a snip of a girl like snart defiance and crouch as though

me ruin your life. Why-why any to spring. Then, nt the crack of his There was a small hotel Just of one else would have known I was only whip, she would back away until her Canal street that entered to "pro- playing. I never we gorgeous body was crushed against fessionals." It was a rather dreary anything but friends-" the bars.

Bitt Luey would not go looking place, but the air of good think. But I've not forgotten the "So you say and so you'd like to through the routine. Each day Con fellowship and the reasonable rates times I kissed you and you let me would curse and leave the cage more appeated' to Con. Here he and determined than ever, to break the Madeline engaged a room and slept

hald you in my arms-"

"Ned, please! I've got to get to tigress's spirit.

Rrent bed instead of Pullman

the circus Then, as though she realized that berths for the first time since early mun was her master, Lucy became spring. tractable. The day she wriggled

remark that he was

1341

П

were

never

Pleaseds. I've a show to- ftung laughed harshly and nside her arm. "Sure, you've got a

to

ness the sawdust at hla command and lay fawning at his feet like

Con had already gone to the eir-show. I hear you're in the animal tame kittten he was as elated as a cue grounds when Madeline awoke in net now. So that's why the big star small boy with a new toy engine. the morning, "lia precious cats," hitched up with you! I think I' Con celebrated by inviting Renfroe she thought. Then, because she re- come out and see the net, Mebbe nad

La Belle Matilde to dinner at sented Con's leaving without calling you'll do an extra turn, knowing I'm a amart hotel and his gay spirits her, she took her time at dressing and in the audience,"

"Perhaps I will." She attempted caused the circus owner's wife to sauntered over to Canal street to)

excited look for a coffee shop.

lough lightly and mndo, a step lo over conquering Lucy than he had The city was now and interesting ward the doorway, but he moved more been over his inarringe to Madeline. to her and after breakfast she wan- quickly and blocked the exit,

dered down towards the river. The oki French

teeming Playbe you and your husband win | Madeline hated the tigress and her with life and she stood for some time neered keep away from Con. market hairesi held an element of jealousy, watching. coloured women bargain- Beyond a doubt Lucy was of vastly ing for fish and crabs and tiny river you don't more importance to Con than Made- shrimp. for mangoes, yams and red You'll what' line herself. Sometimes, as Madeline plantains. Then she moved on until

"I'll have you arrested for watched him

the beast, she|she reached the docks,

trying to kill me."

raining

·

WAS

upper with me afterward?" he

If

almost hoped tigress would turn Through an open doorway she could He flung back his head with a on him and pay him back for the see huge bales of cotton being hauled guffaw of harah laughter. "It's too brutality he had shown. Each after to a steamer. Crates of fruit and late for that now, my Indy! No noon and evening when she stood in great sacks of rice were piled on one would believe you. Well, run the enge with the benats her gaze was trucks and men in their shirt sleeves, along or you'll miss your cut, I'll longer

feured,

thought were lifting them to a derrick that, Her incen about. Only

La carcely

remained the la tur, lowered them into the hold stepped out into the sunlight again, personification of evil.

of the ship

Lo Canal street, Sho hurried over Madoline knew Home day Con The muddy water of the Missis- looked about for a taxi nad bade the would ask her to handle the tigresssippi eddied and churned, beating driver take her to the circus grounds alone. She knew she would rebel against the mounds of sand that ich as quickly as possible. and that on that day their marriage, it in leash. Madeline looked down at On the way she debated whether would on the rocks. Sometimes the rotting planks under her feet. or not to tell Con about the encounter The wondered if she still-loved-Con Shy was wondering at their strength with Trafford, then decided it was or if she hated him more than she had to withstand the inrush of the waters better

влу nothing, Trafford ever loved him. He destinated her in when she heard her name spoken. might not show up at the circus and every way. His will wag her law. She whirled in astonishment. and if he didn't an unpleasant situation His touch was still like a magnetic stared into the face of Ned Trafford, would be avoided, current but when she was alone she He wore three-days growth of

To Be Continued)

focused on Lucy. The others she no with brawny arms and chasta bared, ba seeing you! te shaking when she

to

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occur that change the lives of the Boley, Starling Holloway, C. Henry three principals. "The Devil In A Gordon, Jean Adair. Matt Briggs Woman" was directed, as were most Charles Levison, Adalyn Doyle of Miss Dietrich's previous pictures, Etienne Girardot complete the by Josef Von Sternberg, who also pressive cast. supervised the camera work and thej designing of the many elaborate and

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better. this intimate study of a business ro could not have done Raymond appears in a role for which Charles Bickford represents the real mance. Torton plays bookkeeper who

lates the heartaches of a romance is perishing through lack of money, HAMBURG and LEITH (direct) on or about the starts its local engagement to-day, ut

he is ideally suited. The part calls Joe Prince of her story, and she said, for fourteen years slaves for the sume transhipment ports.

salary. A secretary is hired. For

for good looks, dramatic ability and after seeing shots made at Elstree,

7th November.

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During his recent personal appear- "visualisations" when she wrote the that he can confess his love. Despair- anco tour, the women turned uut en book. Concerning the film adaptation in ever to find a gold mine in his masse to the thentres where he was of her story, to which Edward Knob- static pay check, the bookkeeper starts playing. Ann Sothern has a dainty lock has written a happy

to invest in gold-brick schemes, with loveliness that is alluring to men

Dame said she has "an open minds himself as the "Aucker." till and women alike. She is an actress may not like it quite so much herec adapted to the screen from Peter B. Fortune smiles. "$10 Raise" Wax of unusual ability and possessed of a but she believes One volde. In her role of a young revisions will be justified on

emphatically that

the Kyne's popular story. Joseph Engel actress, she has full scope for all her grounds of popular public demand feed it. In the supporting cast are produced, and George Marshall direct. talents. "Hooray for Love" is a de- the "happy ever after" climax, The Alan Dinchert, Glen Boles. Hosina lightful comedy drama highlighted film is showing on Thursday at the f with a musical revue, which includes Alhambra Theatre.

Lawrence, Berton Churchill, Ray Muria Gambarell, Pert Kelton, Bill

Walker, Frank Melton and William whole company, numbering more than from 1007 to 1922, held the dirt track Robinson and Jeni LeGon,

Benedict.

a hundred, was taken for a trip round championship for four years, 1914 ta the Isle of Wight in a 1,000 ton yacht, 1917, when he entered the United' but it was no pleasure voyage for "Advice to Lovelorn" will be the

on the States Army Air Service and went to The Dovil Is A Woman," Marlene attraction at the Oriental Theatre on "Brewster's Millions," n rollicking complicated dance numbers Biotrichi new Atarring picture, Wednesday and Thursday. The wise-British "musical" with Jack Buchanan decks, bridge and look-out cabins had France. During the war he learned to be shot in spite of choppy that construction has been started in coming to the Queen's Theatre at an cracking Lee Tracy is seen in the and Lili Damita in the leading parts, seas which sometimes made footholde 1915 on a special model Peugeot racing early date, features two new Dietrich starring role, as a filp young reporter comes to the King's Theatre to-day precarious. This lasted a week to the car for Andre Boillet, French Racing lending men, Lionel Atwill and Cesar on a Los Angeles daily whose pro. The original comedy, which had a disgust of those of the company who idol, but that building of the car had Romero. The

The story

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were "bad sailors!" The cast is centres round.

strong one

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inside out In orler to give

"The Devil In a Woman"

"Advice To Lovelorn"

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"Brewster's Milions"

In the West End

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Jack ceased at the untimely death of the Fred latter when he was shot, down as an

a heartless Spaniel muff the biggest story of the year by before the war, has, of course, Ruchanan and Lift Damita, but none her heart. AWHI·lar, 2P, sleeping peacefully through an earth turned tons of girl friends amplo Emney, Sydney Fairbrother, Nancy air pilot. After the signing of tho favourite of the stago idle-aged most of "agony" column conductor. talents to the best advantage. The worth and Sebastian Shaw. Musicnt armistice Klein purchased the

car.

a quake. As suitable punishment, his and Hercen

en, editor demotes him to the humillating opportunity to display their respective O'Neil, Ian McLean, Allan Annės- plays Miss Dietrich's lover.

range from the interior of a numbers Spanish Tracy to retaliato by giving Army, he lavishes his fortune on the the wildest advice that ever alpinred Mayfair mansion to the market

are by Ray Noble, and Ho has, since then, kept the car In Aquar

such condition that it is still capable reat colourful Ajacelo, Cornica,

Douglas Furber... unfaithful girl, facing ridiculo and in

of leaving late model racing-cars-in- the loss of his position for her smile, a newspaper column, with the reat D's chief cameraman went last

Ault that he brings down upon hiz B. &

"Red Hot Tires" When

the rear. In "Red Hot Tirea" the of frantic mammas summer

for falls

his young friend, Cesar Romero, and wronged Indier and gets himmelf an exact reproduction of the scene at

racing car historic car is driven by Lylo Talbot In Hollywood there is charmer, Atwill attempts to dissuade embroiled in naveral highly melo- Elstreo. This set, which covered ten built in 1915 that still chips off 130 and was clocked offcially with a spoed', him,

"pretending that he in trying

to dramatic situations, some of which acres of the B. and D's studio at miles an hour. It is one of the care of 100 miles per hour. The picturo save the boy from her fatal fare. develop comic, and some, alas, highly Elstree, was used for the spectacular used in Alming the First Nationals a stirring romance of the auto race become open enemies. Heartlessly tho

they tragic consequences. Protty Saily carnival in which a crowd of over Pictura "Red Hot Tires" which opens

But the boy learns the truth and to Blane plays the sweetheart for whose 1.000 danced and made merry in true at the Queen's Theatre to-day. It is tracks by Triatam Tupper. Tho all

afren plays theso two men against weet sake Tracy tries to worm his Corsican fashion. Thornton Free- owned by Art Kloin, head of the star cast includes Mary Astor, Roscos each other, until finally, after a wilt way out of the humillating fob, land, who directed, considers this the transportation departments at Warner Kams, Franklo. Darro and Glavin and riotions carnival, dies meet in a Featured with Sally are Isabel Jowel, "high spot" of the film. Then the Bros., Klein who was a racing driver | Gordon.

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