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DONNA BIG TOP by BULA

CHAPTER XXIX

POYNIER

"When you're young and everything her. Doubly unfortunate because it

In ahead of you, Maddle," he said, passed through Bill's hands before it “death has a kind of terror, which it reached her. shoutin't have. But after you've lived your life-lived it as best you knew how, waking mistakes, of course, and there was an expression on Bill's face As he handed the letter to her sometimes sinning, why n long sleep that

Donna had never seen before......... 13 kind of pleasant. It'll be Wrench

"Thanks," who stammered cons clous that her cheeks were taming.

"Who is this man?". Bill asked, trying to appear casual when she put the letter on the dresser,

Day after day Amos Siddal lay on his bed, unable to lift a hand or move the body that had known, such strength and agility and endured such hardships. Donna

sitting beside him, won dered what thoughts could be passing to leave you and Bill, but there's bin suspicion, Jealousy, curiosity and a through his mind. There were hours and my boy and a heap of my friends desire to hide all three. that she was to recall in after life, and I enteulate the reunion will sort when she read aloud his favourite of soften the sorrow of parting front passages in the Bible and listened as lying loved ones."," his feeble lips repeated the words after her. Often before lamplight banished

the

shadows of the little roon she would hold one of his hands in her while he talked of the strug gies he had known as youth.

- a girl could almost Sometimes the girl feel the presence of the young wife ho had nover censed to love.. Soms Limes he spoke

ka of

son and of he

what he would go on.

n' child. stadeline A n

"A little tousled red-hend.", chuckich,

hot-headed. I'm glad who learned to conquer her temper."

When first he spake of Madeline in the third person Donna's heart miss ed a beat. Then she realized that to him the woman and the child wero not the same.

"But you growed up beautiful, "I'm sorry able to see you, I can feel or I could--the straightness of your All the Siddals had straight noses. And your little round chin. But I can't see the colour of your eyes nor your hair. Bill says it isn't so red any more."

HOSE.

on

You mustn't think you're going to die yet," the sobbed, tegen rolling down her cheeks, "We need you, unli and I

"Why, he was the-you remember, he had the animal act in the circus."

"I remember the night I took you supper after the show and you admitted he wanted to marry you," he

answered.

to

of

"That's sweet of you. Maddie, can- sidering in nothing more than a horden now. But you and Bill will "Oh, that!" she taughed. "I was get along all right by yourselves kidding."

Were you? I also remember You love each other and when a mon and a woman really love each other something your partner said. Lis they can surmount all obstacles. You my business what you did before we ried, but. I knew you'd do it. I knew were married. If you've chosen to it was the right thing for you two lie to me about affairs before you children to become man, and wife know me--I can, overlook that, too, just as P're known that your soul is but if there's still something between

you and this fellow-" un beautiful as your face."

"B" She recoiled as though he

"Grandfather le. When the Lord had struck her.

Oh, yes,

first sent my affliction to me I was bitter. It didn't seem fair when I'd tried to be a righteous man and never knowingly harmed

anyone, but. Emer- non-I think it was Emerson who

a

"Well, why are you writing him?" "This is the first time I have," she said, "And you see the letter camo back to me."

"But why a firul time? Why writo

at all

wrote it, but anyhow it was why I hadn't heard from some writer-sald one of the truest things in the world. If you lose "No. It's brownish," she choked. annething " says it's like gold with the thing.

he said, you gain some Bly i

blindness WBA it Woman's frowning

really blessing. glory," he chuckled. "My, how dis ever have seen with eyes alone, and I've seen more'n I could appointed your Grandma was when the seeing has given me understand- saw a red-headed grandbaby! ing-understanding of people's inten- She cried. Yes, sir, she cried, In tions. I figure, in spite of that adag those days red hair wasn't so popular about hell's pavements, that when the tint women put store stuff on honest day of judgment comes we're goin brown hair to colour it. Times change to be judged more by our intentions! Yes, times change."

than

what we did." "I hope so," Donna murmured fervently.

she

Once he asked, "You don't recollect the time you fell down the rain bar-

"No. You?"

roj, du

Mad-from Doans for some time and In her wild attempt to find a loglent excuse without admitting the truth, names became twisted on her tongue and her voice thickened.

"May see the letter?" that is disloyal to you, I swear it

"There's nothing in it, Bill. Nothing "Then let me see It." He moved

A towards her. She snatched up the letter and crumpled it in her fist,

"No. If you doubt me and have to have proof"

"Give me that letter!" "No!"

Often the old man's voice tralled Afterward she was to regret the off in the midst of a sentence and then action bitterly, but as he reached Donnu crept. noiselessly from the towards her, whether to take the room

about her household letter from her or with a gesture of

L

Ko

"That was funny. There you were with your feet sticking up in the air and your body caught in the middle chores. They were many and varied, command she did not stop to realize. and yelling at the top of your lungs, but they were a blessing inasmuch as she tore the envelope into shreds und And when I came in from helping Nell with her calf you-no, that they tired her physically and brought dung them into the open dreplace. wasn't you. My memory is getting time for tortured thoughts.

steep. Idle hours would have left "You know," he said slowly, his face almost as white as her own,

H

as poorly na my hody. That was When she received no answer from "thnt

your Pa. Yes, it must have been the teller to Con and found no re-anythin" me the right to believe

#

*

+

Madeline's death in the

your Pa because Nellle died when he ference to was a little boy and I'm sure it was newspapers a

fle swing about abruptly and left. Kollit"

tled over Donna. was too much stricken as the import of his words to hope that the truth need never be forced themselves upon her. For Donna felt a morbi fascination in known, and yet Madeline was dead. months ahe had been prepared to face listening to him talk of Madeline's With the exception of Con David, no crisis, but not an accusation of this childhood. The chubby little girl leone in the world knew that the girls kind. described, who made mud pies ln the had exchanged Identities, and it was hog pen, who fell from apple trees doubtful that Con knew the whole and almost broke her neck when she story. tumbled through the hay-mow, who Mrs. Planter had ceased to be a was red-haired and freckled and often menace. Thero was the question of dirty, had nothing in common with the property, but, with Madeline dend,

Madeline who read the old man kin and Donna assured herself that, believable!

Donna had known. Bill would be Grandfather's next of Always when his eyelids should the property come to her, the lovered the Yarn white the his checks, the sunken eyeballs and Ball.

feeling of security set-the room. Donna stnad horror

Sometimes 84

fell

were

his fragility hurt her with a

pain.-e-could-noi-livesical |

That Bill, who possessed every atom of her love, who was so much a part of her that sometimes she felt she had only begun to live and breathe after knowing him, should for one, moment. think she cared for another man, and that man Con was

un-

She gave a strangled sob, run to

tell you what was in the letter! Bill" It was unfortunate that just when But the front door slammed with a this she had gained a measure of ponce jar that shook the house and the man, continued wasting away, He was and the shock of Madeline's death wasiatriding towards the barn, missed the little more than a wraith now, though lessened her letter addressed to Con explanation she would have minde. his spirit was as strong as ever.

David should have been returned to

(To Be Continued).

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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

wrote..

Reene

toe-tapping tunes and an originality in "Love Me Forever" which takes of story that is refreshing as an air-place in a small garret, the set actual- cooled theatre on a sweltering summerly resembles a garret, and is realistic day, "Every Night At Eight" proves because the audience can look through to be a blues-chasing, heart-warming the large garret windows to see the piece of funny business as has come snow-covered roofs of Paris. In the along in a month of musicals. The stage productions, this santo picture opens on a gay note with covers the entire stage, and is, there- Frances Sufferin en of the world's greatest Patsy Kelly as stenographer, switch it smaller would to me it possible

Allee Langford, Faye and fore, usually unconvincing. To build produced much literature, Milton was blind whente pectively in a mint Juten factory get for the stage hands to remove the

board operator and

acker res-struction, too much to make "Paradise.. Lost.' Alighieri, national port of Italy, wasting fired from their jobs for prac setting to make way for the setting an exile when he wrote his opic tieing their harmony singing in the of the next act during the brief in- poem, the "Divine Comedy," whose boss's office. Broke and homeless termission. Victor Schertzinger, di- firat

phase

has been used as a basts they decide to try their luck as a sing-rector of "One Night of Love," diret for the new Fox Film, "Dante's ing trio on an amateur hour. At the ed Love Me Forever." Leo Carrillo, ferno,"

coming on Sunday to the radio station they lose the prise to Robert Allen, Michael Bartlett, King's Theatre and featuring Spencer George Raft who appears this time in Spring Byington, Luis Alberni Tracy, Claire Trevor, H. B. Walthall A new kind of dramatic role, that of Douglas Dumbrille and Thurston Hall and Alan Dinchart. The greatness of a conceited band lender, Attracted to appear in support of Grace Moore.. the work must have been apparent

the girls and seeing their possibilitica even in the Middle Ages. The city of be starts them on their career as the He builds them up Florenen sought to have Dante buried Swanee Sisters.

to be a trio of sweet, unsophisticated love of a girl for a boy, and his battle thero after his death in 1821, but the southern girls, makes them petition was refused and Dante's tomb

In

dress

“Laddie"

Life's most beautiful theme, the

the last years of his exile. More than manages their lives for them. There and sympathetic understanding, in in Ravenna where he had spent like, look alike, and in general against all opposition to win her heart, is treated with exquisite taste is a series of sparkling events, then RKO-Radio's "Laddie," the

six centuries have passed since poet's death, but the timelessness

pf

other nny

surprise climax.

"Love Me Forever"

foot proven many instances.

the

while powerful drama of the Gene Stratton- Porter classic novel is laid upon the screen in as telling a fashion 'as

hin work cannot be better illustrated than by the fact that the motion ple- ture which, more than

Now showing at the King's and characterise "Little Woinen" by the medium, depends utterly upon catch-Alhambra Theatres is Columbia Fie-same producers. In simple, yet most Ing the public's mind and interest in ures fine dramatic musical, "Love effective manner the picture bares the the great "now" of to-day deems it Me Forever", which stars the un-hearts of the two whose romance is a suitable for its cameras and its au forgettable Grace Moore of "One highlight of the dramatic tale, and diances. Fox made an earlier ver- Night of Love." "Love Me Forever" with bold, vigorous, smashing strokes sion of the "Inferno," A silent film features

Reverd!

scenes from "La paints the unfolding battle that ne produced in 1924. Most of its players Boheme" and "Rigoletto," two of the companies the youth's struggle for have long been forgotten. Of the or most famous aperas in existence. his hennt's desire. In this production, ginal cast, only three (Ralph Lowie, That the picture studios can do better (Continued on Page 11.) Pauline Starke and Josef Swickard) justice than the actual stage to the are likely to be remembered by con- compositions of the old masters is. temporary audiences. Edmund Gould-known ing, who wrote the original screen screen has ond great advantage, for From the performer's standpoint, the adaptation, has become a successful director. So much for tho past. the performer can present

a perfect Possibly the most significant aspect stage, the performer is doing the performanco to his public. On the of the new photoplay is that it repre sents the first shy approach of the same show, for some three hours modern talking screen to the classical every night. He becomes worn, tired. shelves of postry. Short of "Casey His performances are not going to be at the Bat, poetry seems

to have as consistently fine as they should be. been completely neglected by the film on the screen, the audiences gote only producers. Now that Fox has broken the inhhed, perfected scene. From the ice with "Inferno," there may the audienco's viewpoint, every sent is be a concerted rush in Hollywood for not only a front.acat but every ob- the rhymed and unrhymed gems of server la a privileged observer. From the world's barda. "Dante's Inferno"

the

Hent in the opera house, the

Lachman.

"Every Night at Eight"

anglos

was produced for For Film by Sol patron aces and hears the performe M. Wurtzel and directed by larry ance from one point, one angle; in watching a motion picture he sees and hears the opera from seve

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The audience, also, in points. given the advantage of the greater The brightest spot of light anter-time and money expended in fening tainment in town will be found at the opora. Because of the greatly in- Queen's Theatro at an early date creased earnings from a motion ple- where "Every Night At Eight," will ture, producers aro ablo, to hold audiences in merry musical more time and money in production. aponil away. Highly hilarious, with tuneful, In one of the "La Boheme" acquences

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