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A serialization of Robert Riskin's screen version of James Hilton's novel. Norrative by Albert Dully. "MRIA VIATORE

WHAT HAB Hartened Berane

Kidnapped and brought bu plane to Shangri-la, an idyllic, lamasery in the fastness of for bidding Tibet, Robert Conway, British diplomat, soith his bro- they and three others, wonder why they have been detained there. In an interview with the High Lama, Conway dicavern that he has been chosen to guide Shangri-la through the troublous years which the Lama are ahead. It is Conway cho must guard the beauties and treasures of ari, literature and Shangri-lu music lored at

against the day when the forces of greed and evil in the outer world shall have spent them- selves and humantig, seeking solace and understanding, wiil turn gratefully to Bhangri-la. explained the After he has infeats and purvozes of Shangri- in, the Lama dien peacefully ind Conenyaheady half in love with the place and with a girl, Sondra, whom he has met there --withdraws to take up his new loerden,

the garden of the lamasery Conway paused for a miontent and looked back. Up on the same terrace where he had first seen her almost bid- Sonden dan by the floral arbor was

watching their departure. Chang was standing at her wide. Conway looked at her for a moment and then he turned and disappeared from view. When he had gone Chang placed his arm around Son. dra's shoulders which were shaken | with noba, “He'll roturn," he said

simply. "I know he'll return."

Days later, with the entire party. nigh"unto exhaustion, George was carrying Marta painfully on hu jnboulder as they edged their way I precariously around a narrow ledge. Conway was behind them and he was suddenly startled as he stared Into Diario's taco, Every vestige of youth and beauty had left it.

had become small, withered and aged. While he watched, Marių ges- tured feebly and George isid her gently on the ground,

It

"Forgive_mie, George,” she whis perod. I led to you. Everything they told you is true I made the mistake of failing in love with you. That locket. .. One of the portera brought it in on his last NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY" She turned to Conway. "Go

Chapter Six

When Conway rejoined the others he found his brother, George, wail- ing, for him is a fever of impatience. "Bob! he cried. "I thought you'd never return. Come on! Everything| in nil ready."

Conway atared at him abstracted-| ly. "What's ready?" he sucked.

back," she said. "There is.still Eințe. Sondra loves you.”. .. You'll be happy in Shangri-in.

They burled her there on that bleak, snowwwept hilalde.

George, Alled with remorae by what he had done, begged his broth er to return to Shangri-in.

"Shut up!" wan Conway's only re- ply, “I'll Take you back where you belong - and my job will be fin ished. He turned and trudged ahead.

For me George followed hini, pleading all the while that they turn back. Conway went on in silence.

"The portera! They're here and I've arranged to have them take us back with them." George turned and scowled at the others "I don't know what's getting into thene peu Despairing of changing Conway's ple," he said, "but they have re-mind, George stopped suddenly rused to come with us.”

while they were edging along the Conway looked at Gloria. Barnardi rim of a deep ravine, "Goodbye,

"Please don't leave Shangri-ia," Sondra pleaded, "We — f need you here." (Poned by Jake-Wyatt, - Ronnid Colman and Margo.)~ and Lovett, They all nodded cong Bob!" he shouted. "I've been a bur- Armation of what George had said. gen to you long enough! Please go "We're going to wait for the next back," Turning, he took two steps trip," Barnard sold, neting ans to the edge of the chrom, and

pokesman for the group. "We leaped off. kinda like it here."

Conway turned to George. "Fresh

A year after they had met on the le," he pleaded, "you mustn't do thir. | "S.A. Manchuria," the same four You've got to slay." George started | men who had been the first to to protest but Conway atleṇeed him. | greet Conway'a return from Shan- "I'm going to tell you what, has grista were seated in a booth in the just happened to me,” he said. As grili room of one of London's fash- rapidly he he could, he told the ionable clubs. They were nwalting #roup about his interview with the the arrlyst of Lord Gainsford. High Lam. They listened in allento but when he was done George was still unconvinced.

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"I was amazed witen I got Galns. tord's cable to meet him here to- night." Robertson Bald.

ilope he has some news of Con- way," said Carstairs,

Gainsford came into the grili and When the

"Ever since 1

remember." George said, “you've always looked after me, But now I think you're the one who needs looking after (greeted the quartet, They've knocked the pins right scotch and soda had been served from under you here. Good heavens, | Galnaford drained his glaas. Bob, things like that don't happen "Gentlemen," he said, "you see be- in the twentieth century. You've ; fore you a weary old man who has been hypnotized by a lot of loose ended a chase that Inated fully ten brained" fanatics. Look here, why i months. From the night that "Con~ don't you do this: Go with me now. way left the Manchuria and Later on, when you're away from Chiang Chow until two weeks ago here and can think fogically, if you | I have just mlased him by Inches. still feel you want to came back,

in all my life, gentlemen, I've that's fine. What do you say? The never encountered such determina- porters me waiting and, heaven tlon. During those ten months Con- knows, I had a world of trouble way did the most astounding things. getting Maria to make the arrange- Ho learned to fly, stole an army mento."

plane, was caught, put in jail ** Conway stared at bis brother and escaped. He tried to bribe Bilt- "Maria? You're erasy, George! You Ish officials, Hindu morchants, na-

tire porters -- even bandit revolu can't Inko that girl away from here Do you know what will happen to tlonists. He begged, cajoled, coaxed, her if she leaves Shangri-in" You' tought - always pushing his way have an old woman on your hands. toward the Tibetan border. Finally,

She came hers in 1888. Do you real-I trailed him to the most extreme ize she's more than sixty years old? outpost of Tibet.

A usual, he was already gone. If she leaves this valley stie'll revert 10 her rest age."

Kui those natives will never forget George laughed hallowly, "Sixty him. The man who was not human' years old. She isn't a day over they called him. Six times he at- twenty! And 11 prove it to you"tempted the mountain pans where Rapidly George went into an ad-no human has ever dared travel. joining room and returned with Six times he was driven back. The Marin, timid and frightened.

seventh lime ha tried it he didn't George placed a protecting arm return. around her shoulder. "Marla, dear,"

"And that, gentlemen, is the last he said, "don't be frightened, 1 that any known human being ever want you to show your lacks to who group was silent for a time

of Hobart Conway. my brother."

Bilently Marla opened a gold lock-while the steward replenished their

et around her neck and extended it drinks,

for Conway to sco. There was a

"Do you think," one of them pleture inside and, engraved on the asked, "that he'll ever find It cover, the following inscription: To again?"

April, 1932.”

"I don't know," Gainsford replied. my darling on her 18th birthday,Shangri-la may be a fact or it may "Don't you are Bob," George be a state of mind — but one thing plended, "the whole thing's ridicu- will always remain with mat

magnificent concaption." Gainsford jous!"

Conway cowled, "Did you say lifted his glass.

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"I give you a lost, gentlemen. the portets are down on the plaHere is my hope that Conway Ande leaut

his Shangri-la}" They all rated "Yes," "And our clothes?"

their glasses and Gainsford added, softly: "Here is my hope that we all find our Shangri-la."

Conway made his decision. "Come an," he said, "We're wasting time!",

As they made their way through |

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Poets Put

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'VE got your master very drunk in my kob,” said the four-wheel cabman to Charlotte, parlourmaid to Ford Madox Brown, the painter (you know, he did Christ Washing St. Peter's Fect).

Charlotte thought, then said:

"Afy master's sitting at the head, of his table entertaining his guests. That's Mr. Swinburne. Help me carry him upstairs and put him in

the bath."

A little boy watched the translation of the most distinguished English post since Tennyson up three fights of slairs.

That little boy, now in his sixty- fourth year, is Ford Madox Ford, grandson of the painter. In Mightier Than the Sword (Allen and Unwin. 10. dhe publishes a garland of. friendship and memory woven around eleven great names in literature.

Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy., 1. O. Wella, D. 11, Lawrence, Galsworthy. Swinburne- the list goes on like an Academy of Lettera,

But to get back to Swinburne and that bath-Why did the cabman think the poet was Madox Brown, most respectable and sober painter?

Because, benevolent yel practical, Brown had a tape label with his name and address on it stitched under the lapel of the top coals of Swinburne aid of all the rest of his friends who were apt to crletvale unwisely.

"So that on most evenings,“

M

con-

FORD MADOX FORD tocaves a parland of friendship and memory round great names,

tinues his grandson, "a poet was carried upstairs to the bath."

Charlotte, once they were sale there. "would dose them with dreadfully strong coffee and hold smelling-salts to

their noses."

Not a drop of drink, however, would sho give them. " The plending voices of pocta nud others whispered

NOVELS

ILLIONS of people look forward to their years of retirement, but surpris- Ingly few seem to know how to enjoy themselves when the office door or the factory gate closes be- hind them for the last time.

So I am by no means sorry that more and inore novelista are deserting Flaming Youth and devoting them- selves to variations on the theme of Richard AL- Bewildered Middle-Age.

dington is the latest-and not the least boisterous-of them in his comedy. Jarce, Seven Against Reeves (Heine- mann, a. Gd.),

His Mr. Reeves, settling down to savour his lelaure at nfty, soon found himself as harassed as a rabbit besot by weasels.

There was his wife, the snob, deluded by every artistic faker who came her way. There was his daughter, flying oft with some fool Frenchman. Worst of all, there were the artistic fakers themselves.

But weasels, it seems, are predes- tined victims. Using a porting rifle. Mr. Aldington settles them one by one -almost too easily. I hope he won't fnd his slege guns rusty when he goes back to them again,

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and our pace scene, we walk the wards of 1 suburban hospital in A Stranger Myself, by J. A. Cole (Faber and Faber, 75. 68.).

After Herr Neumann's world, I could' almost hear a safety-pin drop. But, as you grow arcustomed to the compara | tive quiet, you will catch the con- vincing undertones of half a dozen young women's lives

Nurse Barlow.

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́ ́*just a drop :: Charlotte, Just a tiny drop of unsweetened ... Charlotte, Just listent ..and Charlotte as un- hearing as an Egyptian monolith.“

Charlotte-hated all then others, But she liked Mr. Swinburno. He was n gentleman. She told little boy Madax Ford how only Inst Friday Mr. Gwin- burne. when lying "roaring-tearing boosed in the bath, called for pen and paper and wrote two odes-To Mr. Mazzini and Against the Emperor of the French

That weakness for unsweetened gin, however, lay behind tragedy as well as the comedy of Charlotte and the bath. Swinburne and Mrs, Dante Gabriel Rossetti fell in love. planned to elope.

Her face is very familiar to you. It looks down from almost all her hus- band's pictures, it looks up, still and drowned, from the water in Holman Hunt's Ophelia. She was very beault- ful.

On the evening before the clopo- ment was to take place, Mr. and Mrs. Rossetti were in a box nt Covent Garden: Awinburne "joined them in a state of inebriation so Insupport- nhle that Mrs. Rossetti went home and took an overdose of some oplate."

Swinburne's name was not men. tioned at the Inquest.

In two paragraphs Madox Ford tells the real truth about this horror. for the frol time,

That is his value. He really knows n the facts about the men of whom he writes. And by a few words he Klves the reasons behind the events which their official biographers have placed in history.

My pace has run out before I can tell you anything of the light Madox Ford throws on his other Titans.

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"Our Lord?" demanded The Voice, What do you know of Our Lord? Our Lord was a Gentleman.'

To el. let me quote an opinion of himself, which Madox Ford prints hero.

You must not be offended by his nunner te patrones Mr. James. He patronises Mr. Conrad. Of course. he patronises me, and he will patronise Almighty God when they meet, but God will get used to it, for he is all right.

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