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The Samuel Goldwyn Film

EDWARD ARNOLD

JOEL MCCREA

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FRANCES FARMER

COMING SHORTLY TO HONGKONG

'From shanty boy to timbor king that seas the success story of Barney Glasgow, weat thiest man in Wisconsin. Once ho had loved Lotta Morgan, a cafe singar, but thirst for power com peliad him to marry his boss daughter, Emmy Louise Howitt. Lotta married Barney's old friend, Ban Bostrom, pave birth to a baby pirt and shortly after- wards, diet.

Twenty-five years passed -- it was 1905, Barney, now a man of fifty, had reached his goal. Is had two grown children, uvie and Richard. On a hunting trip to Iron Ridge to visit Broan, Bar- noy mot the second Lotta, noie grown to glotoing young woman- hood, and becamo madly infatu ated with her.

Chapter Four

The telegram which Barney wrote Was addressed to Mirn. Kamy Louise Glasgow, Butte des Morts, Wisconsin, It read:

"DEAR EMMY LOUISE BWANS BACH MUCH WORSE TAKING HIM TO CIRCAGO IN PRIVATE CAR FOR TREATMENT BY SPECIAL IS BACK SOON AS POS- BIBLE LOVE TO EVVIE" In Barney's private car nitached to the paenger train speeding

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nt the back of the cottage where Hwan spent happy hours lending. the flowers and vegetables. Kario Irolled about the spotless kitchen like a contented mother-hen,

"It's heaven, that's what it ta," she told Lotta, "Valballo-that us Sweden boon yelling about all our lives."

"Who do you think I anw on the way to business college this morn- ing 7" Lotta broko in excitedly. "Evvie and Richard Glasgow. They ¡drove right by me as close an... "How they look Karts asked curiously.

awfully

"Byvio'n

and ntylish protty.. Richard's too! Nicor

ovon than he used to be as a kid. Wonder if he'll remember that summer he spent up north?" Her face glowing. Lotts rattled on, "Oh, Aunt Karto, was there ever auch a man na Mr., Glasgow? All he'a do- ing for us. for Pai"

A sudden thought frozs Karlo's emile.

"Lolta-you don't suppera

"What?" asked Lotta absently, "Ob... nothing," Kario checked herself, but for the rest of the day ahe was quiet and preoccupied.

In the last tow mantle Barney had spent as much time nt the cof- lage na he safely could without arousing gossip. He would come, ostanalbly, for one of Karlo'a fa- mous Swedish dianom, or alop by in the evening for a cup of coffed. a smart carriage and handrome pair of black goldings would be

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By JOHN R. TUNIS

D

✪ you remem- ber the first

novie

over saw?

you

Possibly you'vo

I've never been

forgotten the name, the char- actors, the actors, everything about it except the thrill it gave you,

to a Movie

Well, that thrill is coming to me at the age of 40. I've never seen match showing that disputed Bellove it or not, my wandering point. It was up to me to ace thoughts as I stepped off the kerb that movic.

a movie!

It hardly seems posible, does it that a normal person could reach that age without ever having seen a movie? Well, it's a fact.

This might sound as if I were a crank. I'm not. You see, it hap pened like this.

Job as n

muny years my

But this ting, however, not going to the pictures had become a sort of tume with me. I'd had several nar row escapes in previous years, and things had reached the point where It gave me a klek to say I hadn't yet

into the trame cost mo a couple of cracked ribs, several thousand franes, and no small amount of pain, But, anyhow, my record was safe.

Destiny had kept me from the movies, and before long I began to bellove in it. Now I'm about to surrender,

For writer on a newspaper didn't seen a movie.

Yes, I'm seeing a movie at Inst. sports

That may

be foolish, but it's a I'm about to lose my amateur stand- give me a chance to vlait picture

fact. So I just forgot all about the Ing. painees at night.

Whenever I had any spare time disputed point and the newsreel.

Until the afternoon, when the afternoon I wanted exercise.

in

How do you think I'll like 'em? two What'll be my reactions to Garbo?

I like to play games as well as watch reporter friends decided they had I don't know. Imagine yourself in to see the flim and decide whether my place. Wouldn't you be thrilled

So you can easily understand that the ball was good or not. Of course, at what was coming, at what you

had before you? So am I, whereas some folks fall naturally I'd go too.

I'll be seeing this magical world into the movie habit, feil naturally I protested in a feeble way, but

attention. I they paid no

was I've heard so much about and read away from it.

Then one day, suddenly, bang- hooked. There wasn't any way out. so much about, for years past, with fresh mind. I won't know who- bang! I found myself falling from We started walking toward the

movie house. Here goes my record ther the photography is improving or not-whether the acting geta bet- ter every year. I'm not a fan nor a producer; not even a movie critic. I'm just man who has never

Tnce.

It was in 1932. And strictly in of 20 years, I said to myself. Ine of duty. I was reporting the

Davis Cup matches between France My Surrender

and the United States in Paris.

goes... "Altention!"

On the first afternoon a close WELL, no hope for it.

ended in matchi

n dispute. A shot W

shout near the line, a

from the umpire, a roar from the crowd, and

ball the fight was on! That

Was good-it was not good. It was-It wasn't.

My Big "Kick”

д movie THE next morning

palace on the boulevards advertised a newsreel of the

This Lindrum Shot Should HelpAmateurs

Here

secute movie.

After all, life hasn't so many pleasures that we can afford to miss any, and I see now that I've been making a mistake.

There's something in the movies,

A rasping French voice. A horri ble noise. Then blackness. When I woke up I was in a French hospital. and I want to find out what that is.

Are

You Sure?

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(a) Italian rule in Abyssinia (b) Franco's Government in Spain (e) The "Emperor of Manchukuo"

2. Chicory (we put it in coffee) comes out of a;-m

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Basket handle

Term in baseball

Old-fashioned cloak

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At Rector's, where they dined, Latta's radiant beauty attracted a good deal of attention.

from fron Ridge to Chicago, Karlo, bitched to the Bostrom's front gate. Lotta and Ewan Inspected the lux But he never overstayed, never

with made the rensen for his vislu urlously appointed lounge wide-eyed, open-mouthed wonder. obvious The women were dressed in their Barney's family find begun to Bunday best-provincial copies of question him about the Bostromy. The fashion of the day tight vvio thought they were aweet. banques, owooping skirts, leg-of-Richard had heard reports of Lat mutton aloevra, and to top it all, it's beauty humdinger for huge befeathered hats perched on looks" was the way he put it. Emmy Louiso pricked up hor" ears warily. olaborate chignons.

Watching Lotta's starry-eyed ex-There was a strange gleam in her citement, Barney folt himself grow-eye. To all their questions Barney Ing younger by the minute. Bo- gave casual, ovnsivo replies. Emmy neath the friendly, jovial exterior Loulae couldn't for the life of hor his interest in the he showed his guests, his blood understand stirred holly. To humor Latta's shanty family, or why he had whim he agrood to order dinner brought them to Butto des Morts. in the dining ear, where they were the pivot of all eyes,

Nevertheless, at Barney's tirging And because she herself was con- Chicago was a revelation to them, cumed with curiosity, ale and Evvie Barney took the women to the beat went calling at La Bostrom cot- Evvio was ahop la town, outfitted them from tags one afternoon. head to toe in the most expensive friendly and gay, but Emmy Louise and fashionable finery. At Rector's aroumed her most frigid nnd po where they dined, Lolin's radiant lite social air, Evvie at once pro- young beauty attracted a good deat posed that Lalin go riding with her o attention. Now that nho longed tookos tiko preened herself like a peacach.

"Listen, Lotta," Barney told her, "You don't nood to worry about When they lind gone Karle was what other women think, because thoughtful, flow, she wondered, was you'll always be the most beauti-all this going to end? ful woman in the room, and they'll all be winhing they were like you." An iden had begun to formulate In Barney's mind.

a rube,

no zome day. And sho taughingly In- sho vited herself down for one of those Svenska uppers her father wan always talking about,

"Loita," she began hesitantly, "Mr. Ginsgow's a married man. More than twice your age... you wouldn't

"How about you all coming to "What if lie la?" cried Lotta do- Butte des Marta to live?" he said flantly. "Nobody in the world has to Bwan and Kario. "I've got & ever been so good to me no he has. little house down on the Peninsula d do anything for him, you under- that'd just suit you-and Lotta stand? Anything!" could go to schoul right there

Seriously inturbed now, Karis

And we and you all could be totook or problem to Swan. They Kether."

must go back to Iron Ridge at Hla augeation had the effect of a once-ills was no place for them. bombshell. They stared at Barney

Fried

Swan.

in amazement and delight.

"By Jimminy!" Jumping Jehonaphat~~"

"Oh, tr, Glasgow!" was all Loitn could pay, but bor face alone with Joy and gratitude.

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All these things Mr. Glasgow had been doing for them... I wasn't for them, It was for Lotta, Hin wns in love with Lotta; they hud been blind not to nen it before.

"You make big mistake, Karte," Swan told his sister with gentig ro proach. "Barney is not In lova with Lotta... he is still in love

In the next six months the world was turned topsy-turvy for Swan with her mother, that is all. I won't

and his family. Karla had given hear auch talk. You don't know the little house in Butte des Morts Barney Glasgow. Ia tu my friend!"

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ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

1. (a) No. (b) No. (c) No. 2 Root.

3. Nelson, Cromwell, Pitt, Mar-

shal Ney, Primo de Rivera.

4. 13 (for the 13 original States

of the Union).

5. Plant if in the garden. It is cyclamen.

6. Underground.

7. Gnomon.

8. Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics.

9. Gertrude.

10. League of medieval merchant cilles. The Hansentle League includ- ed Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, etc.

11. Gladstone.

12.

13

Middle, wolter, light, feather,

Ay,

bannt.

14.

20. (a) Companion of the Order of Bath. (b) Knight Grand Crose

the

of the Order of the Bath, (c) Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. (d) Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

10. Lord Chancellor,

17. George III. It was dropped in 1802.

16, 1705..

10. None.

20. Lacrosse, pelotaj squash,

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5. If somebody gave you

Flant it in the garden

The sovereign's head ceased to be stamped on silverware after:-

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1558 1800

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some

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15.

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Eat-it with the Christmas

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On traes

Stalks

delicacies

Underground

Flat on the

ground

Seaweed

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a:-

Astrolabe Gnomon

Moron

K.C.B..

16.

Rossint

Verdi Gluck

The letter C in the abbrevia- (a) C.B., (b) G.C.B.. (e) CM.G. stands for:---

Soundrely Counsellor-

sion is

Sextant

Quadrant

17.

Trident

8. US.S.R. The letters denoting bear the official name of Russia sland

for:

United Socialist Soviet Russia

The

the:

Cross

head of the legal profes-

Lord Chancellor

Lord Chief Justice

Master of the Rolls

Official Referee

torney-General

Advocate

The last English monarch to the title King of France was:-

Edward III. Elizabeth

Victoria Henry V. Mary

George III.

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publics

Union of Socialist Soviet Russia 9. The Queen in "Hamlet" was called:

Ito

Julia Rosaline Gladys

Gertrude Isobel Olivia 10. The term "the Hanse" refers

League of medieval merchant

cities

Anteroom of the Royal Exchange

1000 1405

1727

1815

1795

1048

19. Earth, air, fire, and water were the traditional elements. Which, if any, of them ATO really chemical elements,

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Ice hockey

Pelota Dadminton

Lacrosse

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