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SERIAL STORY:

DONNA BIG TOP,

by BEULAH

POYNisa

CHAPTER XXVI

Duma started up in the darkness, Her heart was benting furlously and there was a queer, smothering sena tion

in her throat that made the weight of the bed clothes unbearable. Careful not to disturb her husband, she pushed the blankets from her and

011

alld her foot to the floor. There sho

of stood, listening to the patter rain the caves and shivering, as the wet, icy air from the open window wrapped around her lightly clad

body. What had wakened her? Of course she had been dreaming when she had thought she heard her name called and felt as though something had borne down upon her, crushing What a hor-

beside

She dropped on her knees him and pressed her lips to gnarled hand. "You spoke!" she Bobberl.. "Oh, Grandfather, you spokol. You are going to get well!"

Almost hysterical at the seeming miracle, she ran into the sitting room and

Perkins. "Ho aroused Miks called my name! Ile spoke to me!" she cried,

Birl

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Yohe said.

"B" she twinkled at him. "It bis jan't the circus you're fealous of, you hedger! You're Jealous because you think maybe there was some other man I cared for before I did you!"

"Admitted. I've wanted to ask you but never had

the norve." "I've never naked you about any

didn't

need to. I think every ever The nurse was matter of fact.

spent half an hour with why not? We've been expecting it has been stuck on a pin and put under all along."

a miseroscope for your minute When they returned to the bedspection. But you you've told ine room Amos Siddal's eyes were closed so much about the circus and your and he was sleeping peacefully. travels but

you've never mentioned a Not wishing to disturb Bill again, single man in whom you might have Donna, took a heavy robe from a been interested." closet and curled up on the couch Because there wasn't any."

"Madeline! until morning. Bill found her there when

the life from her body she was still! he came down to breakfast, at

rible dream! Se in its grip.

She found her flannel robe, slipped into it, and noiselessly crept arross the floor. Ancient boards creaked under her feet and the wind, whilst ling through the trees, added a note of ccrinesa.

She reached the door, uncertain why she wanted to leave the room Her hand was on the door knob when Bill stirred and mumbled deepily, "That you, sweetheart?"

"Yes."

"What you doing up?" "I thought I heard Grand- father call," Donna answered thick- iy, grasping at the first excuse that came to mind for what now seemed a foolish Impulse,

in-

"It's true. Men never meant any- In my life, Of course, I never the first dawn of day. Hearing his thing steps, she closed her eyes and pre-knew many outside of the circus. The tended sleep but he was not fooled, worth-while ones were married. The Even her news that Grandfather had very few who might have cared for me-well, I couldn't see them. Then spoken in the night was not of as much importance as the fact that you came along and see what you did

to me!" Donna had been unable to sleep, be

What is the matter, Iloney asked, sitting down beside her and taking her hands in his. Have you been working too Alek ? "Or

"Bored! With

•just hard or are you

you

here?"

ik coming on." Bill said, through the windows at the gray, murky sky and the trees drip- ping raindrops. You remember what winter in on a farm-long nights and short days. And with Grandfather Bill switched on the night lamp wouldn't blame you if you did beside the bed and sat up. "Surely feel restless." Ailas Perkins would hear if he want ed anything. Come on back to bed nad I'll run down and see if he's all

right."

"No, I'll go. You're tired and I'm fully awako.

"But I don't." she interrupted "And even if I were restless I'm happier here than I've ever been before in my life."

"Happier than when you sat the crowds on their toes with thrills, and all the applause and-"

Bill dropped back onto the pillow and, almost before she had left the roam, was asleep again. There was a dim light in the hallway. By its

"Don't!" She pulled her hands from gleam Donna descended the stairs.hin, put her arms around his neck and The nurse, avho hnd 1 cet in the pulled his dark head down until her living room adjoining the old man's check rested against his. "I've bedroom, was sleeping soundly as worried about Grandfather, of course, Donna passed through the room.”

•

and sometimes I'm tired. I'm so in- efficient I do a lot of unnecessary work, but there isn't anything else,

Bill. Honestly there isn't."

"You aren't sorry

married

E

"Most girik of 20, have had love affairs," he said, not quite misled.

"For your anke, darling. I wish I but I couldn't do it and be

could dig up an ex-tru

He rubbed his nose

hers with a playful gesture of affection. "Not for my sake, dear. I'm darned glad I am the first man in your life. I've a hunch I'd be jealous na sin if I ever thought some other guy had kissed that little red mouth of yours or tangled your curls like this." He suited the action to the phrase. "Feel equal to getting your old man some breakfast, or must I fend for my- self?"

She gave him a little shove and

scrambled to her feet. In spite of her efforts to hide the utter fatigue she felt, she swayed a trifle, and under corrugated brows the man who adored her wat

watched her und wonder- ed. There was no opportunity for further questioning, for at that moment Miss Perkins, who had been Grandfather's room, entered and announced that the old man wh awake and asked to see Bill.

"Asked? You mean he he spoke?” She nodded. "He said, 'Tell Bill I

himp Bill went to the sick man's bedside.

want you

spoken met in question? Of course I'm "I'm here, Grampen, he said, "say. She stood, hesitantly. on the not sorry.

ry." She looked at him

this is grent! We'll soon be jumping around" like grass-hoppers at your and the next thing wa command, know you'll be dancing a hornpipe."

The old lips parted in a smile, but there was a slight negative movement

of the white head. No, Bill," Amos Siddal, snid laboriously, "No.

Suddenly, Donna wondered with a spasm of fear, if it had been Grand- father Siddal's voice that had awakened her. He had not for weeks, but suppose in the night Chreshold

his of

roam.

gaining cariestly. "You don't really think face what might be death. I've ever regretted our marriage!”, courage to

He lushed, "Well, once in a while Thers she entered. Amos Sidikal par

as he had for so long-motion- when I see you sitting so quiet as less, his nowy head scarcely leas though your thoughts were a thou while than the pillow case, his thin, sand miles away I've wondered if the colourless face turned toward the pull of the oircus wasn't tugging at window.

of old reckon. My time is at A shaded inmp cast long, you. grotesque shadows upon the wall, sweetheart. Ught as well confess tifose I ought to put my house in shindows that moved with the flutter-And afraid. Of course to me you're ing of the curtains.

is lovely in a gingham house dress ns Donna tiptoed across the room, you were in all your day trappings, bent over the old man und gently but don't you ever miss the silk and touched his forehead. It was moist velvets and the paint and powder that and warm. She drew a deep breath made you such a bird of paradise?"

"Never." of relief. His withered eyelids lifted, his blue lips parted, there was an effort and n croaking whisper issued from his throat. "Mad-die!"

-CINEMA-NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

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"And there's none of the ohl crowd you'd like to see? No one that you uned to like 7"

star. It is

I

"Against the Law"

ready when the order-be

Loril sends for me."

"That will be a long time, I hope," Bill said cheerily.

When you go to town, Bill--ask- Ben Hoskins to come-out. I ought to make a will. Been putting it off and-you' send Ben Ifoskins out?"

"Sure, if you want me to,”

To Be Continued).

romantice

ty ambitious youths who write to her. been magically reconstructed in Holly- Bul so many of the letters I receive wool and now they serve as the ask me if the writors should spend background for a moving and polg. the money necessary for operatic mant love tale in Paramount's "The training," sighs Miss Moore. "Poor Devit Is A Woman," new delighting dears, it is so hard to tell them that audiences at the Queen's Thetry. I cannot advise them at all in that Marlene Dietrich, who has won the respect without knowing more about position of the screen's greatest en- their voice possibilities. It hurts me chantress with her earlier portrayals, Jackle Cooper, the little star "Skippy", "Sooky", "The Champ" and to be unable to them any definite returns as the star of tbls picture in many other pictures, now comes to the answer, for 1 always hate my-n typically Carmenesque role. She is Queen's Theatre at an early dute to self if I need a hopeless volee the

the protagonist of

the drama, s delight little tots and grown-ups alike or, on the other hand, if said any

whose smile flares men's woman thing that would discourage un

an imaginations, whose kiss destroys in the Warner Bros., production, thi

Inky:" The picture has the best embryo

heartening, their souls. Opposite Miss Dietrich in chikl actors taking part, in though, to realise that there are so Lionel Atwill and Cesar Romero, as cluding Betty Jean Haney as Jackie's many ambitious young girls who want the middle aged lover and the youth-

An make

singing their life work. Aweetheart, Jimmy Butler, George

Atwill, who has lost Edith FellowN,

Sidney

Miller, interest in music of any kind is very position,

and wealth in a and Frank Gernardi. commendable, unt, even though one foolhardy pursult of this heartless Richard Quine The scene takes place in a milltary may never reach the heights, the effort beauty,

to attempts Intervene when be academy for boys and an orphanage will be repaid by the sheer enjoyment learns, the girl is

of music." There

ursti are football

Romero. With the ring his friend undertones of a and baseball games, cadet drills

wild and fantastle Spanish carnival for its accompaniment, this dra every sport loved by, the youth of

works itself out to the point America. There is also plenty of Joly Mack Brown, screen favour the two friends meet on the field of romance and glamour. The picture isite since his famous portrayal or said to appeal to grown-up as much "Billy the Kid," returns to modern

honour over Miss Dietrich's love. A። as to children. Mary Astor heads the outdoor action pictures with "Against wounded, Romero is captured by the In result of the flight Atwill is gravely cast of grown-ups. as Jackie's mother, the Law," tense drums of the herofe poffee as a political fugitive. It is at with Boger Pryor as the lawyer, who fe of emergency ambulance screws, this point that Miss. Dietrich asserts In very much in love with the widow. which plays the Alhambra on Tues herself, employs the same charm to cast include Henryday and Wednesday. Lumber Hillyer, free and all the men who have risked Armetto, Tienry O'Neill Cips who directed twenty of the famous all for her. Cloment, Florence Fair. Joseph Bil! Hart westerns, handled the Crohan, Addison Richards and James Johnny Mack Brown film. The latter, Burke.

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