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DONNA BIG TOP-

CHAPTER XXVIII

by BEULAH

·14,

1935.

POYNIER

I thought of Madeline as she had been) ville bookings easy

to secure, but

In his first anger over Con's cal-on the motor trip to New Orleans, for some, reason there, seemed to be lousness and the shock of Madeline's laughing and gay. She had sold, very few theatro managers who wore death Renfroe had meant what he said "If we could only go on like this willing to pay the price Con was forever!" and he had answered curtly. obliged to demand for his act. This, when he dismissed the animal trainer.

There had been other times like Con assured himself, must be due to Soon, however, howmanship dominat-

that, and remorse for it overwhelmed the fact that Renfroe had spread the ed sentiment and after three formances without Con's animal act him, now that it was too late. Made news that he was temperamental and

repent

his line had been loyal. He knew how dimcult to handle and that he had Renfroe had reason to

Business Was not good, the agents hasty action. He therefore sent word terrified she had been during those walked out on the circus.

firat

days of entering the lions' enge. for Con to return.

Yet she had gone through with it told him. Pictures drew better than to fill a house as an animal act, A message from the hotel where she had done It because Con ked

former. When the circus left New

Orleans, therefore, it departed minusled many

inore

woman

but after

the animal trainer had stayed brought her to... Yes, Madeline had loved him.eville and a good single did an the information that he had checked Temperamental, with but little which entailed much greater expense. there were out immediately after his wife's funeral and that he had left no for sentiment in his nature, Con was Con's act, they said, belonged in a for taking care of the still not quito so hard-hearted ur circus, anyway, where warding address,

Buffered. animals. Small theatres Incked the Renfroe made a round of the hotels callous of feelings as he had a facilities

Consequently he but could find no trace of the per- he trail rover been a dis-space neccssary. Con heard the same

Because he

small amount of objections over and over. 7 intoxicated him. He found Perhaps had conditions been dif- Reveral lions, tigers and their trainer. that by drinking he could forget forent he would not have given Amos

thought, period of rainy weather set in.

novoral days of Everyone in the troupe was down and from the time he settled into Siddal and his farm so much 28 4 a boarding house that bad once been cast and ridden with the superstition a stately, mansion until he left the vain attempts to find employment it that bad luck was hounding the show.

there ahould city he did not draw a completely occurred to the animal trainer that be a welcome for Made- Since expenses were enting up

who line's husband at the farm. It would nober. breath. profit and there were only a few

The little Creole dates to be played before closing for

from his incas. A farm should havo the winter, Renfroe posted a notice owned the boarding house and called also be cheaper to recuperate thero her establishment "a home for paying plenty of fresh milk, fresh eggs and

excitement. that the engagements had been cancelled, llence the circus did not Kucats" pitted him from the depths little

which Con rench Montgomery and Con failed to of her sentimental heart. She made receive the letter Donan sent there.

overtures of frienurmured often,] ignored and she

could see how she and her farmor The midgets took a train directly "Such a pity! He's going to the dogs again. This idea intrigued Con. Ho to New York where they joined large vaudeville net made up of time and who can blame him? So young husband were making out. Probably

to lose his wife that way! They little more than bride and she

welcome. On the other hand, sho end when it to bored by the time with the cfreult of the eastern cities. Later they would embark for Germany, to Con did not appear in the shabby.

she

had been leading. If that that section of Bavaria where so many genteel dining room, when he ale

friend with open arms of their kind first saw the light of what food he wanted from "hot dog" were true she would resolve her old Con know how Madelino and Donna wagons or munched tamales that he Two of the clowns who worked in bought on the streets.

had hood-winked Amos Siddal by er

Now he decided identities. the clothing business during the win- There were nights when, bleary:

changing

unless who had admitted tho ter months went farther west. The eyed and uncertain in his walk, ho men and women booked for the rodeo wandered along the river bank un truth to the family, it was high time

he she should be compelled to overcome by hurried on to their other show, but

til, the majority, of the troupe travellad would fling himself upon the levee When Grandfather Siddal dled the La Chicago,

until

grandchild daylight fortune he left to his

would, by rights belong to Madeline's husband.

There were days on

and sleep. awakened him.

RO

there

exhaustion,

ere

•

•

Besides that he could see Donna

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Though Con had managed to elude Renfroe, he was still in New Ortenus.

Thus Con reasoned himself into a He had become a vietini of remorse, Once so immaculate in his up

and frame of

enme of mind that sent him to a clean shaven finding (now that she was dead) that

pearance, he had really cared for the girl who handsome, Con looked new like aket agency to buy a ticket to Lebanon. hnd given him her whole-hearted beach camber and Mrs. La Luer. There was no use, he decided, to send devotion. His ambition to become for all her sympathy, began to think word to the farm that he was com star in "big time" and been destroyed that she would have to ask him to ing. He wanted to get the lay of the with the death of the Bengal tigress. leave her bearding house.

land before he walked in on thein, and he was in a numbed, sodden con-

Then une day a glimpse of his He was not conscious of any desire. dition, refusing to take stock either

unshaven cheeks, his pasty-hued skin to injure Donna as he made these anyone were to suffer and. Con of the present or the future.

and hollow eyes jerked Con back to plans.

it would her He had checked out of the hotel sanity. He paid his bills, packed his thought,

ho had where he and Madeline had stayed trunks and took the first train for Embittered by the many blows because the walls seemed to echo his Chienge.

received in the past few months; Con dead wife's voice and he could see her

On the

he took stuck centred his rancour on the man who, long trip in the shadows and in every hallway of his possessions. He had a little he felt, hnd robbed him of the only Always she looked as she had that money, but funeral expenses und days woman he had ever really loved.

That Donna had never cared for last night-white-faced and terrified of dissipation had enten a large hole about to enter the cuge with the in his wallet. Obviously he could not him did not matter, or the fuel that. If Ligress. Over and over again. Con remain in Chicago all winter with the blame lay at anyone's door, It lay

at Madeline's. in "big time" vaudeville was out of the question now. It was not that there ried someone else and, because of He knew that it was true. I had were many performers with a better this, the whole structure of his future been nothing more than a desire to act than hiseven minus Madeline had fallen.

Somo men become big with ad- punish Madeline for her pust folly and the tigrees but the time when that had impelled him to force her to bookings should have been made was versity, develop muscles of character go through the act alone with Lucy. now past. Con had spent it idling and principles, but Con David shrivel- ed and lost the decency that had car- Madeline had not been ready to do about New Orleans. that. She would never have been! He landed in

in Chicago during aried him far in his chosen profession. On the trip to Lebanon he visioned ready, for only his presence in the snow-storm-and promptly was taken

beside her had given her courage down with a severe attack of grippe. himself as Donna's husband-and-the and confidence. Com knew all that It left him with a cough and a feeling master of the Siddal property. He of complete fatigue that made him saw Bill Siddal gnawing his heart Moving away from the hotel, ho postpone daily any attempt to go to out with disappointment. This pic ture seemed to please Con mightily. Boon found, could not crase the work.

(To Be Continued). memories that haunted him.

ile

could hear Renfree's accusation, "You nothing to do. An engagement Can argued that Donna hnd mar-

killed her!"

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enthusiastic about the singing of the three girls after witnessing a preview

A mystery story replete with sus of "Every Night at Eight" in which

and loaded with laughs they appear as a sister singing trio pense, Miss Langford and Miss Faye, both sprinkled with a delightful romance Metro-Goldwyn-Mrybria cur- proteges of Rudy Vallee, were well marks

the alr before entering rent comedy-drama, "Ona New York showing at the Oriental films. Miss Landford

been Night", has g on the Hollywood Hotel Hour Theatre on Friday and Saturday. elaborate most screen's

radio programme in addition Introducing a

Tornantic leading costume, costing $6,500, is worn by Grace Moore in one of the sequences to her picture work. Bliss Kelly in Franchot Tone" team to the public, of her new Columbia starring vehlele, the surprise member of the group as man and light comic, and Una Merkel, "Love Me Forever," a musical drama she is known to films fans only as a pretty comedienne, are co-featured in

mysterious murder to though she won fame on Broadway as place in which is showing smultaneously at comedian and not as Alhambra and King's from to-day

of life is re- The

weighs musical-comedy favourite. costume

flected in the

wha Satuve pounds and took more

various guests "Dante's Inferno"

become involved in the crime. Fran- persons alx weeks to than twenty

seamstresses "Dante's Inferno", one of the most chat Tone is cast as the nan from Ten experts make.

startling dromas ever produced by Wyoming, Unn Merkel as the blonde spent six full weeks doing nothing

telephone

"gets her man," but embraidering the costume. It is the motion picture industry, comes worn by Miss Moore in one of the on Sunday to the King's Theatre, Conrad Nagel, as the private scere- to the deceased broker, and The bottom of

scenes of unmatched spectacle tary the skirt is eight feet in diameter. and soul-stirring sights that leave Stefl Duna as the Russian Countess, prominent in the cart are The weight was so great that Miss nhoulder straps but had to have a The thrilling adventure of Dante in Harvey Stephens, Charles Starrett Moore could not wear it suspended by one breathless in their mighty sweep. Also

his journey

through the Inferno, as and Louise Henry. special wide girdle constructed so that recorded in

80

of all the weight of the costume

bliterary

Devine cinesics A steel Comedy", is suspended from her walk could se

picturised for the first foundation was constructed by the time on the talking screen as an ex-Cooper in his latest Warner Bros., The youngesters supporting Jackie department. Columbia engineering

which opens at the Over it were placed

Queen's Building, ground floor. material. expensve

ver attempted. Therentest Queen's

acreen Hilver and nickel thread, worker spectacles ever

P.O.B. 149

Telephone. 32081. weeks play is the drama of a modern trans group that sounds like "Who's who"

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• as expounded in the Dante was deelded to give the little star: to illustrato theme. It of seed pearls were strung provides for an amazingly graphic the very best supporting chat and no expense was spared in reaching on It. It also is featured by the added pictorial reproduction of that great out and getting the very best in child seeing in a certain part, step out TOPS EVERYTHING embellishment of more than three

in spectacio in

which talent. Betty sequence

Jenn Haney,

who is into a different role, and reveals new hundred white oratrich fenthers

character and

devotee

of Jackie's lady, is regarded as one of facets of personality. This precisely is "Love Me Forever", like "One Night Dante's work, Henry B.

the most promising youngsters in what has happened to Sponcer Tracy. of Love", was directed by Victor rends

had pictures. She

Just In his now Fox Schertzinger. Miss Moore is sup character, Spencer Tracy, In

Film comedy, "It's norted by Leo Carrille, Michael Bart to make him

error of his Jane's Pa" for Warner Bros., and terday at the Star Theatre, the popu lett and Robert Allen.

ways and visualizes for him, draw stopped right into "Dicky."

Edith lar star offers his fans something ing his images from the engraved Fellows who has been referred on a new in Sponcer Tracy. It's the first "Every Night at Eight"

illustrations in the book, the story

because of hor Flim producers having lured many of Dante's grim experience and the vest pocket" edition of Lily Pons, time in his screen carcer that he atraight feature-length comedy exceptionally fine has of spirit colebrities from the radio work, air

philosophy. The voico, was given the part of little role. Comedy scintillates from start

has orphan. George Ernest, who officials have launched a counter at modern angle of the film, which

has to finish. In the he had

past

appearing in any other

In the mercen youngster five-year singing contract to three mo- role, is closely linked with the spirit

Here is cause for congratulation, tion picture actresses providing they and atmosphere

picture packed with exicite "EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT" of its spectacular! with rales In "Little Men" and the 9t. romance and fun. In this made parallel, the story of Dante both "Mystery of Edwin will give up all

Alico

Drood" plays even work. Frances Langford and Patsy presenting the same meral, "the sins one of Jackie's orphan pals. Another cap comedy, Spencer has for leading Faye, Frances) & opposite of yesterday are the sins of to-day, orphanage in

the British beauty, Wendy Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori and human

MASSAGE doesn't change story in Sydney Miller who appeared Barrie. She is the charming woman | Georgo Raft in. Walter Wanger's unante's

Paramount musical comedy drama

was in the "Band Plays On" and "Hi, who played Jane Seymour, the necond Acupunetore, Moxocausis and Bone Betting Sol M. Nellie." by

wife, in "Henry VIII." Unheralded,

Holder of Japanese and Hongkong Overn "Every Night at Eight" scheduled to produced for Fox Film

Miss Barrio flow to Hollywood, was meat. Licences. Cares Sprained Ankles and open at Queen's Theatre at an early Wurtzel and directed by Harry Lach

"It's a Small World" date, received the radio proposal from man, will thrill and astound King's

Barcen tested, and given her first part Wrists Recommended for many years by Raymond Palgo, western Musical Theatre audiences by its breath

"It's

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