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BARGAIN BRIDE

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

BARRETT COLVIN, back In New York after years road, falls in love with 20-year +44 ELINOR STAFFORD. Barrott a 35 wealthy, and has tiade a name for himself an archaeologist. Years before he shielded half-sister, MARCIA, when a youthfal romants ended disastrotaix Marvin had

poh whom Barrett lopted. She is constantly

adair.

LIDA STAFFORD, Elnor's beautiful, and Carrying on * underuptious mother, le flirtation with VANCE CARTER, LIA

in me that her husband will learn of the

KATHARINE HAYILAND-TAYLOR

"Oh, yes,

Mr. Colvin. If there's a thing we can ask of you I promlan I'll let you know."

had cost $2. If the battle were futile "If there's anything I can do you'll he would be haunted by the 'shabb!. let me know? neas of that room; by the chair that he could not sit on because the springe were broken; worso-by three boys who must go to work before they should have stopped their schooling. "Mrs. Thrope, he confessed, "this whole thing makes me miserable

"I'd appreciate it, Mrs. Thrope. Sometimes you proud people don't know how much you hold from others with your pride!!

Canadian Pacific

"I know. Mr. Colvin," she admit "I've no doubt of that, Air. Colvin," sho agreed in her kind way. "Butted, "but the one thing the poor can echtenses constantly to keep in the good graces you couldn't help it and it's done and cling to Is self-respect. If that should Sccamer

of Mies File Sexton, her husband sunt in order to Inherit a share of the Benton fortune. When she learns Barryit is, about, to pro- pose to Elinor the deliberately scheme to break up the romance. The girl is heart- broken when she does not beat from him.

Over!"

"But," he protested, "one can' right n wrong-whep it's ns. simple as this one!"

I don't know about that, Mr.

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18 with aints E/Japan Jan. 14 Jan. covered for the winter of wood., Bessie Lood smiling at the

Jan. 29 Jan. 31 Feb. door unill Hutten had closed the /Atin

door after Barrett. Barrett waved at. reflected. "You're right, but it makes E/Russia things worse for me!

One day they meet at ber aunt's home. Colvhi," she said slowly, uncertainly, motor her. "God bless you!" hoE/Canada Fob. 11 Feb. 13

refuses, declaring the or not smoke. fiabellions at her mother's hypocrisy, Elinor takes a curarekia, thereby offending Kina Bexion who once more revises ber,will them somehow!

He rose. "You're going to think it over," he urged, "and the needs of your boys."

day.

Mar,

Feb. 18

17an. 10 Jan. 21 Jan 27 Feb. 1

4 Feb. ? Föb.

Feb. 18 Feb. 18 Fob. 25 Mar. 1 Mar. 14 Feb. 20 Feb. 28 Mar. 1 Mar., Mar.

Mar. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 19 Mar, 24 Hutten chose the bridge over which E/Japan

Mar. 8

April A few unya Juter ube dien, leaving practi- Bessie rose too, a little stily. It Barrett had once ridden with Elinor.

Mar. 20 Mar. 22 Mar 24 Mar, 28 Mar. 28 cally her entire fortune to Harrett lie donlways "took it out of her knees" to Biding across its span again Barrett'a

April April 101 April 17 April 23 not want it and yet ea. not turn it over

a house thought bitterly of his happiness that clean the refrigerator, the rightful inheritors.

FE/Canada April 8 Apr 6

May 4 Vance Cariere Lida to keep her bald god before which she must kneel.

The look of Bessie's parlour haunted miae about divorcing her husband. She refusen "I never forget the needs of my

May May 8 May 14 May 10 May May Colvin It's difficult to explain gray stretch of water chilled by E/Japan

June 1 The

Bay 10 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 20 it's this way. I feel that the floating patches of Blush-ice.

June 8 June June 12 June 17 boys' biggest nord will be answered look of that room had told Borrett E/Asia by their knowing that we made our too much of Bessie Thrope's noods, E/Canada Miny 20 May 31 own way in the world, that even if her husband's needs, the boys' needs.

June 12 June 14 Jane 18 June 18 June 20 June 20 June 28

July July 8 July July 10 July 12 July 14 July 16 July 18

July 29 July 31 Aug.

and Vance lover. After drinking hosvily be 72 #abe answered "But you see, him, as he looked dismally on the E/Russin April 17 April 19|April 21 {April 23|April 25

returns and shoots llentwell Blasioni who has only might chance to recover,

Barrett, hearing the news, goes to ask DESSIE THROPE, Elinor's aunt, what he can

do to help.

CHAPTER XX

Bessie said honestly, "You can do anything for Lida Stafford; nothing for Elinor."

Barrett Colvin looked up quickly. "You mean--Miss Stafford has pride?"

*

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we failed we didn't beg. I've seen It was a clear and depressing chart. E/Russia too much of what taking can do to people and it isn't a pretty thing to are. It makes lying and cheating and all the things that are so much worse than not having things.

E/Japan Suddenly,as they reached the other | B/Asta

She was thinking of Lida Staf- ford, Barrett, looking on her, felt humblod

sido of the bridge, his eyes became /Canada July 24 July 20

a slit. He saw the way out. The one way out! Ile had been leaning the scit. Now he WER back in suddenly erect and tense. He lighted

concentrated gaze ing shend with that took in nothing before him.

"An immense amount. I don't! "You're a fine mother," he said.a cigarette with nervous fingers, star- know where she got it nor all the Sho brushed his tribute aside with lovely qualities she has, though I an embarrassed, "Oh, no!" Because always,

Hikel Bentwell when he was he saw that she had been deeply She turned her head to hide touched by his words as well na em- barrassed by them he asked quickly it there was nay news about Bentwell Staffary. How had he passed the night?

а

"Would Mine Stafford resent my offering her mother help

The thing had to be planned. He must think it through carefully, then go after it. Yes, it was the one way out!

Bessie Thrope evidently cared deep- ly for her niece. Sho was not the "I think it would kill her!"

The night had been a bad one, sort of woman who would think to She heard him mutter, "God-1" Benste disapproved of blasphemy Besele told him There could be no decorate herself by parading a family but she understood his need for it. encouragement for a few days, if io-affection that was false. And with enough loving, taking was possible. "I'vi got to get around this damn-j deed there could be then.

Pride could be surmounted. will," Barrett aid. “I want you

able

J to let me put your boys through college. You will, won't you?" For the first time he saw the room and read the need that was apparent everywhere. lle must manage to help then somehow!

"If he gous," he endt "we're going to ask Elinor to live with us." Again he saw, and felt, the room, Again his heart elliled. He could not imagine Elinor happy in that house, so shabby, dark and depress- Ing!

He could reach them all through Elinor, who had been cheated by an old lady's caprice and his unhappy place in Miss. Sexton's affections.

un

The car had halted before his door and be stepped from it briskly.

"Wait," he -Instructed the chauf- The poor child isn't fitted to do "I don't know, Mr. Celvin. I'd have to talk with Jim, my husband. a thing except teach music," Bessie feur. He ran up the steps and into the library We don't take help very easily. We went on. He hadn't known Elinor the house, nicked

hean played. She trien," he heard Beasle telephone without removing his heavy aren't just that kind," swered uncertainty.

say, "so hard to be useful and the cant. -

He gave a number and heard the "But this J't help, Mrs. Thrope. results are pathetic. She wipes my It isn't my money. It belongs to dishes and tiny woop on the shelves answering voice, He said, "This is when sha'sine with them bless Barrett Colvin speaking. I wish to talk to Miss Elinor Stafford. Please you and the Staffords!"

"nak kot to bycak,with inc. Toll her her!"

strong ally, he the matter is extremely urgent"

There was a ̈phuso that seemed waited restlessly. Then Elinor's voice, à trifle unsteady, ears Barrett came over the wire.

(To Be Continued)

She shook her head. "Aunt. Ella was in her right mind," she reminded Rently. His colourless face stiffened.

Elinor had a

He was doomed to a fierce battle with realized. He thought, "If you weren't pride, he saw. Ferlinps his argu- so good yourself you'd know her ments would do

than better." sirengthen the pride he saw before "Well," he said wearily, "I'll be on him in a frayed wash house dress that my way." The trip had been useless,

more no

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After six months of intensive preparation and fire months of shoot-

Dave Gould, ceator of Wildhack. last year's dance acnsation, The

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"Man on The Flying Trapeze"

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W. C. Flolds, laugh promoter of General in Nanking and First Se- ing, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents the age, reaches the top of his forta cretary of the Japanese Its most ambitious musical, "Brond as a comedian and pantomimist in his arrived here from Shanghai yester way Melody of 1936," which plays intest laugh riot, "Man On The Fly-day. Interviewed, he said that the this week end at the Alhambra and in Trajz," next attraction at the appointment of General Chang Chun King's Theatres. With Roy DelQueen's Theatre. With his particu-an Nanking's new Foreign Minister Ruth directing, and Jack Benny lar gift for belly laugh comedy given could not be interpreted to mean heading the stellar cust, the first full play, Field carries the picture definite friendly policy by the Chinese were filed on the largest from one uproarious situation into Government towards Japan. stage on the M-G-M tot for the another, pausing occasionaly in his

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Consul- as one of the most ever devised for the screen. The Inter, sending it off into gales of General, was an agitation against the whole stage was given over to a re- hilarity over the kind of buffoonery Japanese, directed only in a different production of the latest in Manhat for which he has no definitely n' flair form. Unless the Nanking Governs inn penthouse designing, but for the An amusing and quite plausible story ment took immediate steps to improve and Japan purposes of

carries Mr. Fields from one uproari relations between China the sequence, possessing car all sorts of bewildering mechanisms aus to another incident. This time the future remained most uncertain. like disappearing divans, grand

cami ho is east as a down-trodden, sub- planas rising up from nowhere, and missive husband persistently nagged 01. For control • of tho many by his wife and mother-in-law, con- "trick" devices, one of which enables sistently supported in his scrapes by Sino-Japanese conference curly in the

ensembles to disappear and re his daughter, Mary Brian. At the spring at which one of Nanking's Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual appear at will, there wore buttons. office he is a inemory expert clerk for proposals will be the abolition of all transhipment ports. Pressure upon them worked the a woollen manufacturer. The action fisting unequal Sino-Japanese trea-For Freight and Passage, apply to:- magic. The master key bared the centres principally about Fields of Eles.

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The sanio Japanese Journal Nays floor. Then, presto, pronto-up farts to attend

shortly his petty young popped tables, chairs, lounges and Unfortunately, even fountains In addition to sery brother-in-law steals his ticket while appeal to the Cabinet for the ap ing as Inenlo for story action, the the comedian, in one of his famous propriation of $1,000,000 for farm re setting was used for the magic retiring scence, has gons to the cellar habilitation in North China dances, in which June Knight, Robert to investigate the presence of bur planting will be one of the develop Taylor and Nick. Long, Jr., were the glars in the house. His trouble be- ment in North China for which the intends to principals. The outstanding produc-gin at once, from the moment he is Japanese Government tion Lad been preceded by more failed, instead of the house-breakers, spend $0,000000 annually, if experi than" "Abx months ・of " Intensive to the time he gets to the fight after ments are found to be satisfactory.

before a

camera was the bons gives him the afternoon off Peck Thero had been the most to attend his mother-in-law's

gan State Police from whose trus thorough going research, particularly "Funeral."

magic and novelty lines; plan- alɔng

adventures and exploits the story of there's no comedy. It's all up to the ning of gowns by Adrian, colourful

the pocture was drawn, Sir Guy spectator." That is why, avers the comedy cannot be judged settings by Cedric Gibbons-all with Fred MacMurray diacovered Holly Standing, Ann Sheridan, Willam director,

and Dean Jagger are except by its audiences. "Regardleas a climax in the dustry's first dress wood five years ago, but Hollywood is Frawley

before Tehearsal the night

First featured with MacMurray in the of what we think is funny, we can't the just discovering MacMurray.

tell until we try it on audiences", cameraa, turned. This last feature brought to prominence by his acting leading roles of the picture.

"That's why wo TODIKA Wood followed the Broadway tradition of opposite Claudette Colbert in "The

took the Marx Brothers out on the road and watched their audiences to Comedy in the most teasingly in deelle on their gagn. We strike a

*-*Car 99**

“A Night At The Opera".

J night-before-the-promlere dress Gilded Lily," MacMurray: now has rehearsal with "al hands" participat- the leading featured role in Paro ing, as if for a regular public per mount's "Car 99," which is at tangible of screen values. formance. For the picture, there is the Star Thontro. MacMurray first

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a melodiously brilliant musical score came to Hollywood five years ago to Hollywood good, it just by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur play in the orchestra of a Hollywood exist it's the audience alone that naturally be a matter of audience n't tell Fread, famous for their numbers In theatre. Before he left the film can make it tangible. Such is the psychology effort to appeal to the

is the first "Broadway Melody," and in capital he played bits in several conviction of one of the most success greatest number, "You can't other musicals. Five of their songs films, including "Tiger Rose" and ful of all Almdom's makers of laughs what an individual will think

he explains. "Physical · KALE" said to be of outstanding excellence Girls Gone Wild," but his brief ap-In celluloid. It is the statement of

Wood, who, because of, past Wood paints out, "depend largely on Feelin

You're year are "I've Got a

pearances won. offers from the Sam

no Foolia"." "On a Sunday Afternoon," companies. In the interim, Mac- comedy successes, was chosen to how they are planted and timed If "Broadway

dway Rhythm, You Are My Murray toured the country and sup-direct the Marx Brothers in their you want to show a comedian slip- Lucky

and "Sing Before Break ported himself as Su

saxophonist with Bletro-Goldwyn-Mayer hit, "A Nightping on a banana peel, you have first currently playing at to show the poet, then show the. fast." Stage, radlo and

screen the Oallfornia Collegians, a popular at the Opera, talent were merged to form the all- Jaxx orchestra. Recently he scored the King's Theatro. "Comedy, says comedian walking toward it, so that star cast headed by Beany and in a success in a role in "Roberts," Wood, "s something that is non- the audience knows what to expect. cluding Una Merkel, June Knight, Broadway stage hit.. That brought existant-except in the minds of Otherwise it's lost. If it's planted Robert Taylor Eleanor Howell, him to the attention of Paramount thore to whom it is directed. The properly, often you can get a better Frances Langford, Nick Long, Jr., executives and back to Hollywood. mind of the person who laughs at laugh by letting the comedian miss gag makes that Joko or the peol the audience expects him to Vilma and Buddy Ebsen, Harry. In "Car 99," MacMurray is cast a joke or

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