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SERIAL STORY.
DONNAL BIG TOP
by BEULAH
POYNIER
1935.
"I've never asked you about any
"You didn't need to. I think overy girl
I ever spent half an hour with has been stuck on a-pin and put under But you you've told me poscope for your minute in-
travels but you've never mentioned a so much about the circus, and your single man in whom you might have been interested."
there wasn't any."
besida "Bil!" she twinkled at him. "It CHAPTER XXVI
She dropped on her knees
to his isn't the circus you're Jealous of, you him and pressed her lips
she hedger! You're Jealous because you Donna started up in the darkness, gnarled hand. "You spoko!"
you think maybe there was nomo other Grandfather, ller heart was beating furiously and
Hobberi. "Oh,
man I cared for before I did youl" there was a queer, Amothering sensa-
"Admitted. I've wanted to ask tion in her throat that made the pokef You are going to get woll!!
Almost hysterical at the seeming. of clothes unbearable. Careful not to disturbi baland, miracle, she ran into the sitting room you but never had the re
31ins Perkins. le and aroused she pushed the blankets from her and called my name! He spoke to mel" women," she said.
aho Bild her feet to the
the floor. There
she'erled.
of fact. The
was matter stood, listening to the patter of rain
nurse
We've been expecting it on the eaves and slivering, as the "Why not?" wet, ley air from the open window
all along." wrapped around her lightly clad badly,
When they returned to the bed. What had wakened her? Of course she had been dreaming when om Amos Siddal's eyes were clored Not wishing to disturb Bill again, she had thought she heard her name and he was sleeping peacefully. called and felt as though something Donna Look & heavy robe from a had borne down upon her, crushing closet and curled up on the couch the life
from her body, What a hor until morning. Bili found her there
true. Men never meant any- rible dream! So vivid she was still when he came down to breakfast at in its grip.
the first dawn of day. Hearing his thing in my life. Of course, I never She found her fannel robe, slipped steps, she closed her eyes and pre-know many outside of the circus. The worth-while ones were married. The into it, and noiselessly crept arross tended steep but he was not foolel. the floor. Ancient boards creaked under her feet and the wind, whist. Even her news that Grandfather had very few who might have cared for spoken in the night was not of na ling through the trees, added a note much importance as the fact that
Donna had been unable to
of ceriness.
She reached the door, uncertain why she wanted to leave the room Iler hand was on the door knob when Bill stirred and mumbled sleeply,
you, sweetheart?"
That
Yes."
What you doing up?". "I thought I heard Grand father call," Donna answered thick ly, grasping at the first excuse that came to mind for what now seemed a foolish impulse.
Bill switched on the night lamp beside the bed and sat up. "Surely Miss Perkins would hear if he want ed anything. Come on back to bed and I'll run down mud, see if he's all
fully
Bill dropped back onto the pillow
I'll go. You're tired and I'm awake.
and, almost before she had left the room, was asleep again. There was a dim light in the hallway. By its gleam Doms descended the stairs. The nurse, who had n cot in the living room adjoining the old man's sleeping soundly as bedroom, was Donna passed through the room.
his
"What is the matter, Honey?" he asked, sitting down beside her and taking her hands in his. Iluve you been working too hard or are you sick? Or just bored?"
me--well, I couldn't see them. Then you came along and see what you did to me!"
*
Most girls of 20 have had love affairs," he said, not quite satisfied.
"For your sake, darling, I wish I could dig up an ex-sweetheart, but I couldn't do it and be truthful."
"Bored! With you here?"
He rubbed his nose against hors "Winter is coming on." Bill said,
of affection, glancing through the windows at the with a playful gesture gray, murky sky and the trous drip. "Not for my sake, dear. I'm darned ping raindrops. "You remember what glad I am the first man in your life. winter is on a farm-long nights and I've a hunch I'd be jealous as in if i And with Grandfather ever thought some other guy had short days.
I wouldn't blame you if you did kissed that little red mouth of yours
or tangled your curls like this." feel restless.
"But I don't," she interrupted, suited the action to the phrase. "Feel "And even if I were restless I'm equal to getting your old man some ever been breakfast, or must I fend for my- happier here than I've before in my life."
Helf "Happier than when you set tho crowds on their toes with thrills, and all the applause and-"
nu so
*
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you
กนก
She gave him a little shove and her efforts to hide the utter fatigue scrambled to her feet. In spite of she felt, she, swayed a trifle, and who under corrugated brows the adored her watched her and wonder- was no opportunity for ed. There further questioning, for at that moment Miss Perkins, who had been in Grandfather's room, entored and
that the old man wa announced awake ami naked to see Bil
"Asked? You mean he he spoke?" She
nate anid, Teli Bill I
Bill to the sick man's Jædskie. "I'm here, Grandhop," he said. "Say, this is great! We'll soon be jumping around like grass-hoppers at your command, and the next thing we know you'll be dancing a hornpipe."
"Don't!" She pulled her hands from kis, put her arms around his neck and pulled his dark head down until her check rested agains! his. I've worried about Grandfather, of course, and sometimes I'm tired. I'm so in- efficient I do a lot of unnecessary Suddenly, Donnn wondered with a work, but there isn't anything else, spasm of fear, if it had been Grand- Bill. Honestly there isn't."
married want ind voice that
aren't sorry father Siddal's awakened her. He had not spoken me?"
"What a question! Of course I'm for weeks, but suppose In the night--
at him stood, hesitantly, on the not sorry." She looked
don't really think room, gaining earnestly. "You courage to face what might be death. I've ever regretted our marriage!"
He flushed. "Well, once in a while Then she entered. Amos Siddal lay just as he had for so long-metion when I see you sitting so quiet as
the
miles away Live wondered if the white than the pillow case, his thin, coldfurless face tururd toward the pull of the circus wasn't tugging at window. A shaded lamp cast long, you. I'm Jealous of your old life, grotesque shadows upon the wall, sweetheart. Might as well confess it. shadows that moved with the flutter-And afraid. Of course to me you're as lovely in a gingham house dress as ing of the curtains.
Donna tiptoed across the room, you were in all your fine trappings, bent over the old man and gently hut don't you ever miss the silk and touched his forehead. It was moist velvets and the paint and powder that und warm. She crew 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 a croaking whisper issued from his throat, "Maddie!"
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"And there's none of the old crowd No one that you you'd like to see? used to like?",
The old lips parted in a smile, but was negative movement of the white head. No, Bill," Amos laboriously. "No, I Siddal said recton. My time-la close at hand-
Lord Maybe I ought to put my house in order-be ready when the 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'll send Ben Hoskins out?"
"Sure, if you want me to."
To Be Continued).
won the
ly ambitious youths who write to her, been magically reconstructed in Holly- serve as the and now they But so many of the letters I receive wood usk me if the writers should spend background for a moving and poig the money necessary for operatie nant love tale in Paramount's "The training," sighs. Miss Moure, Por Devil Is A Woman," now delighting fleurs, it is so hard to tell then that audiences at the Queen's Theatre. I cannot advise them at all in that Marlene Dietrich, who has respect without knowing more about position of the screen's greatest en- their voice possibilities. It hurts me chantress with her earlier portrayals, Jackie
Cooper, the little star "Skippy", "Sooky", "The Clump" and to be unable to give them any definite returns as the star of this picture in She is many other pictures, now comes to the answer, for I would always hate my-a typically Carmenesque relo. Queen's Theatre at an early date to self if I encouraged a hopeless voice the protagonist of the dramo, a whose amlle flares men's ar, on the other hand, if I said any-woman delight little tats and grown-ups like thing
that production embryo
un imaginations, whose kiss destroys would discourage in the Warner Brus
star. It is heartening, their souls. Opposite Miss Dietrich is nky. The picture, has the best
Lionel Atwill and Cesar Romero, as child actors taking part, in- tha
though, to realise that there are so
youth- cluding Betty Jean Hancy as Jackie's many ambitious young girls who want the middle aged lover and the
Jimmy Butler, orge to make singing their life work. An ful romantic. Atwill, who has lost sweetheart,
Se interest in music of any kind is very position, happiness and wealth in a Fellows, Edith Ernest,
Sidney Miller, Richard Quine and Frank Gernardi. commendable, und, even though one faslhardy pursuit of this heartless may never reach the heights, the effort beauty, attempts to intervene when he place The scene takes
a milltary academy for boys and an orphanage will so ropaid by the sheer enjoyment learns the girl is luring his friend
Romero. With the undertones of of music.' Cootbull There next door.
wild and fantastic Spanish carnival baseball games, cade
cadet drills and
"Against the Law"
for its accompaniment, this dramo loved by the youth of
works itself out to the point where every sport
Johnny Mack Brown, screen favour the two friends meet on the field of There
of is also plenty America. romance and glamour. The picture isite since his famous portrayal of said to appeal to grown-ups as much "Billy the Kid," returns to modernour over Miss Dietrich's love. As result of the Aight Atwill is gravely as to children. Mary Aster heads the outdoor action pictures with "Against wounded, Romera is captured by the cost of grown-ups as Jackie's mother, the Law," tense drama of the herole police as a political fugitive. It is at with Roger Pryor as the lawyer, who life of emergency ambulance screws, this point that Miss Dietrich asserts l very much in love with the widow. which plays the Alhambra on Tues herself, employs the same charm to Other in the east include Henry day and Wednesday. Lamber lyer, free and aid the men who have risked Armette, Henry O'Neill, Clay who directed twenty of the famous ail for her. Clement, Florence Fair, Joseph Bill Hart westerns, handled the Crohan, Addison Richards and James Johnny Mack Brown film. The latter, Burke.
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Joel following his sensational football ex- McCrea race through eight hours of Where the ordinary "fan" letter icits on the University of Alabama hectic adventure in a single evening's sent to a motion picture star asks leven, modo "The Fair Co-ed" with entertainment in a play that boasts Marion Davies na his first silent one of the fastest-moving sequences for an autographed photograph, the picture. This was followed soon by of events ever seen on the sereon, in majority of the letters received by his successful talkie "Coquette" with "Woman Wanted," now playing at the on munt Mary Pickford. While Brown's great King's Theatre. Packed with action, ters pertaining to singing and careers. Miss Moore, seen in bin's dramatic musical romance, "Love important Brown
Yoman of
"Love Me Forever"
Me Forever," showing on Thursday at Moon," "Dat
"Wonun Wanted"
"Montana between law and
"Under-
Grace Moore ask her advice of um- est hit was "Billy the Kid," other and still rich in comedy and romance, Affaires Include the new drama, dealing with the fight DENTAVAT revolves, about arganised crime, i capes from Custody. joys stellar athlete drafted by the screen about to uncover the
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