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SPARE

The Story of

SHT

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

in LEO M/GAREY'S Production of

“THE AWFUL TRUTH

Adapted from The Serron Play by VINA DELMAR #besed On A Story by ARTHUR RICHMAN Serialization by ALBERT DUFTY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Chapter One

"Your

five and here are ten more."

Jerry Warriner diffled a red and blue chip from his pils and tossed them into the pot. "I'll see you," he Bald,

"Aces full," said George, showing his cards,

Jarry grinned. ""Tain't enough, my, good man. Four little ladies bora insist 'tain't enough"

"I give up." George complained. "I haven't won a hand from you now in three, four days."

"Bay, that reminds me. What time # 7 Jerry Rokod

Dave Martin reached back, Hifted the curtain and flooded the room with sunlight. He looked at his

watch.

Ton-thirty-five," he announced, "and a lovely day it to, too."

"Oh-oh," Jotry shook his head. "Time for me to pick up my mar bles and go home like a good little bay. I'm due back from Florida this afternoon."

A few minutes lator Jerry strode Into the locker room of his athistle etub, stripped quickly and strelched out on the massage tablo.

Turn on the sun lamp, Hank," he called to the attendant, "and give me all it's got. I've got to get a deep Florida tan and I've got to got it in the next three hours. Give her the gun!"

Franks Randall, another member of the club, paused beside Jerry "Hallo, Jerry," he said. "Bay, you look awfully pals for a guy who just had a wook in Florida."

Jerzy grinned at him, "You know he said, "that's what I thought, too."

"Oh ho! I got it. You didn't go to Florida at all. Putting one over on the wife ch?”

"Oh!" Lucy fluttered from Jerry's arme. "You know Armand Levalle, don't you, Armand and I have had the most terrible time. His car broke down last night this morn nowhere and we had to stay the ing, rather a million miles from night at the most unspeakable inn were coming home from the Junior you ever saw, It was dreadful, Wo

Prom and

"And will you forgive my auto- moblie's imperfect performance ?" Armand asked,

could you help that?"

"Of course," Jorry said. "How

"I'm afraid we'll have to be fo Ing. Jerry," Frank said. "We're we're off to the theatre." having an early dinner and then

Armand was waiting for Lucy and Jerry in the living room when guests. "The next time I take your they had said goodbye to fleir

wife out, Mr. Warriner," he said,

I hope -

ry cut in. "Or ciso I'll on you "I hope you buy a new car" Jer- mine. By the way, are you hungry"

"Why, yes. I'm starved," Armand

beamed.

"Then why not run out and ent a bito?" Jerry suggested pointedly,

Levalle stared at Ferry, "Mr. Warriner, what have I done?" ho asked.

"That's what I'm going to find out," Jorry ropiled grimly,

"Why, Jorry, you can't believe-," Lucy broke in.

"We'll discuss it in privato," Jer ry said. "That is, if Mr. Levalle ro members where we keep our door.”

Lovalle bowed stiffly and loft, Jerry turned to Lucy,

"Now, what have you to say for yourself?" he demanded.

Lucy sighed. “You know, I know you were going to say just that,” she said. Then she began to speak, Jerry frowned. "No I'm not," he patiently as a mother explana Insisted. "Not the way you stean, Boniething in the simplest terms to nnyhow. It's just that -- well, don't ¦ a child, “Armand was invited to the

"Armand and I had to slay all night at an inn (Posed by Oary Orant, Irene Dunne and Alexander D'Aroy.)

Coming

you ever get days when you want | Junior Prom, He invited me to go to walk out of your oflea"and look | along. I went boenuse I could think up the kind of people you used to of nothing worse to do. chaco around with before you were home, the car broke down. Wa alny- married?"

ed over night at an inni. This mora-

"But when you feel like going on atoar" Frank sald, "why don't you taka Lucy with you?"

Jerry shook his head. "No. Lucy wouldn't like my old gang. She'a not much of a mixer, you know. Sho's particular who she knows, hardly over takes a drink — sha's wo darn proper. She'd think they ware pretty rough."

Frank shook his head, "You're a 1001 If I ever saw one. You have the most perfect wife any man over had and

i

ings when a garage opened, the car was repaired and here I am.”

Jerry shook his head. "That don't funny," he said. "If you had any sense you'd see that our marriage is teetering on the edge of a cliff, And you treat it lightly!"

Lucy shook her bend fi inock sorrow. “It's enough to destroy, one's faith, isn't it?" she asked.

"I haven't any faith left lu any- one," Jorty snapped.

"Not even in that conscientious person in Miami Bonch who malted

"I know It," Jerry Interrupted your letters to me overy day?" Lucy "Lucy's perfect, Too perfect. Her asked alyly.

behavior is always correct, her per- | Jerry alared in amazement. "And fection is unquestioned." Jerry | you've known all the time? Why elghad. Sometimes I wish sho'd be į didn't you tell me?"

a little buman for a change.”

"I bought it was a little gaine Frank laughed. "I'll remember you enjoyed playing,” Lucy explain- that," he said.

ed. "And I had a feeling you woren't

"You have a fat chance. Bha just) up to any real dovilment.” ails around and waits for me to Jerry beamed, "You're wonderful, come home. Makes me feel like a Lucy, I'm sorry I — I —” then rat."

suddenly, Jerry' remembered and ***Maybe you are one," Frank sald, scowled darkly. "But it's too lato "Anyhow, what about stopping off for

understanding. any sweat

at my house when you get through | You've fixed everything fine. I sup- here for a cocktail. The Barnsleys | paso you said to yourself — sauce and Viola Heath are going to be for the goose in sauce for the gan- there."

der didn't you?" "I have auch better idea. Let's pick up the gang and bring them all over to surprise Lucy,"

•

But Lucy wa't at home when Jerry and the crowd narived to aur priss her.

"Certainly not,” Lucy aald ang- rily, "but it's an interesting philoso- phy, Jotry, the story I've told you is strictly honest now let me tell you something moro, I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dip- ped in platinum, You're the most "Never mind. She'll probably ba contemptible, palty-minded, selfieh along before we finish our cock individual that avor breathed and. talla Jarry said, "She probably through with you, Bo go ahead ran up to her Aunt Fairy's cabin and divorce me. It will be a Bhe usually does if she gein lonely." plansurgi"

"Divorce you!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, APRIL

1988

MOMENT PAGE

CANADIAN PACIFIC

STLANDIRS

HOTELS

HARAWAYS - EXPRESS

By Paul E

TO MANILA

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

¡Thurs., Mar

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

FIRE PREVENTION

LAWS

EARLY AMERICAN COLONISTS DAUBED THEIR WOODEN CHIM- NEYS WITH MUD TO PREVENT FIRES. WHEN THE MUD FELL OFF DISASTROUS FIRES OFTEN RESULTED. HENCE THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY'S LAW IN 1631. PROHIBITING WOODEN CHIMNEYS OR THATCHED ROOFS —— OUR FIRST FIRE PREVENTION LAW.

YOUR +ALLS

BERDINIER

GIRLS

BOARDING SCHOOLS

LONG BEFORE MOST OTHER PEOPLE, THE MORAVIANS BELIEVED IN EDU- CATION FOR. GIRLS AS WELL AS BOYS. IN 174-6 THEY ESTABLISHED A GIRLS” BOARDING-SCHOOL AT THE BELL HOUSE OF BETHLEHEM, PA., NAM- ING IT THE SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES —THE BEGINNING OF SUCH SCHOOLS.

Capt. 1928 by United Feature BradbuẪN, Kar. TM. Reg. 03. 2. PAL ON—All righbe reserved

Those Mythical Russians

Truth About the KBE C.B. Let me add that I have focus their

Great War Hoax

By "AN OLD STAGER"

NOT

attention on the North

never met. the Major-General, have Sea, Russian transports, al n lime no personal concern in the publica- when our Channel transports and tion, and have not contributed to it. supplies were only too vulnerable to My criticism is therefore entirely im- attack. The myth spread beyond its partial and honest.

inventors most sanguine expecta- Hons.

Fear of Reprisals

Gilbertian Situation

The German Higher Command private warehouse [OT having a

my disposal, I have had to The main feature of the review is immediately concluded that an in- vasion of the Fatherland was in- adopt a strict self-denying ordinance, supposed to be its photographs of regarding books. I have made it my familiar and unfamiliar war scenes, tended. They moved large forces habit not to keep any volumes which as they were then and are now. The of German troops to various coastal do not in my opinion include them- contrast is usually startling beyond centres to be in readiness to repel selves among the literary classics words, and intensely Interesting to the threat. either actually or potentially. But all those who knew them "then," there is an exception to every rule, But what I have found most fas- and the exception to this particular cinating is the authentle and first- one of mine is books about the Great hond story of what actually hap- Then the plot thickened still fur- Wur.

pened in various phases of the ter-. ther. Our own Army Intelligence, In u

u corner of my study are sub- rifle conflict by men who played an which was of course stantial shelves containing perhaps intimate part in those phases.

perfectly Alty or sixty volumes, all of which

Take. for instance, the gunner off-

water-light, and had no truck at all are War books. It is my private con- cer's perfectly true story of the care with the Navy's simline staff, heord viction that there is not a solitary fully arranged battery shoot on the about these ominous Germon constal potential classic amongst the lot, and Western Front, all the most claborate moves, and jumped at once to the my collection. let me ussure

ure you, ly planned details of which were up- thrilling conclusion that Germany omits none which has any real pre- set because Headquarters cancelled tension to distinction. All of them the first target. That target was an intended to invade this country! All and the shoot troop movements from this country most are interesting, but not one was cancelled seems to me fully adequate to its quarters feared the enemy might re- our theme. The majority when one taliate in kind on them! Or the res irated at strategic positions In East comes to size them up, are quite dis- ply given by the uppointing.

to a batterye Headquarters

commander's request to Anglia to be in readiness to meet the My theory is that the wrong pea- be allowed not to use pie have written

certain Amert coming German landing. our War books. cant amuuniton because. It was as Nearly everybody of military age was certained, that 10 per cent. of the leaked engaged in some capacity In the shells, owing to losing their copper had never been made public until 1914-18 business, and of course the bands in the gun, fell short amongst people with literary leanings, if, as our

have merit, some great merit, and enemy' headquaruse our Head- to France were stopped at once, ond

Stuff

home dotence forces concen-

It was some time before the truth out oficially and the story

own troops. The reply was Major-General Swinton's admirable often happened, they managed to that, if 90 per cent, fell amongst the review told it in full. survive, wrote a a book about it. Bul Germans, the battery must carry

the very last type of mentality to onl produce a really good book about the

This is a fair sample of the ab- this Great War is the literary person. He the realities, as apart from

These are intimate gilmpses into sorbing interest with which

the Publication is compact, and explains la much too self-conscious, far 100 intent on getting his literary effects, mawkish romance, of battle, murder, why, in my opinion, the future his- and, above all, entirely too emotion and sudden death. But what drew torlan of whom we hear 50 much ally flamboyant. The right man to vealing, and, though quite matter- books to quarry in the authentic me to this subject was a most re- will pass over all the literary War undertake a War book is a bona-fide of fact, the most thrilling, chapter matter-of-fact gold mine, The liter- on aples and intelligence. I have space to deal with only one detail ary men in buckram will not in- in this thrilling revelation of the terest posterity. Future students of brains behind the fighting men. Not necessarily #1

the professional

Great War will prefer Major- Everybody remembers that amaz- General soldier, but a man with the genuine

Swinton's plain, hard-bolled compaigner's outlook ing Russian myth which was the varnished tale. and angle of life. Take an instance gossip of the whole country early in

soldier.

Twenty Years After

in point. Innumerable writers have the war. suppose there never was published books about the French more startling example of mass,

un-

Foreign Legion. But, having read hypnosis. Everybody believed that CONSIGNEES': NOTICE. thousands of Russian troops from them all, I have no hesitation in any- ing that the only one of real genius Archurigei

were passing in troop

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

is Frederic Martyn's Life in the trains from Scotland right through SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES Legion.

Most of the others, oven England to embark for some Con- some of the most

tinental rendezvous. successful, merely

What is more, exploit his superb but absolutely un- Inaumefable truthful people army The Steamship self-conscious human document, persuaded themselves that they had Frederic Martyn was a soldier, with actually seen them with their own experience of the British Army, both eyes. The most circumstantial de-

commissioned offlcer and in the talls were current.

that

28 Are you crazy?

At that moment the ball door Do you think Ed bring that opened and Lucy Warriner came muslo teacher lato, court and let in. Tail, slander and graceful, with people see what you preferred to

strikingly vivolous face and a me?” ready smile, Lady was decidedly

"Very well then." Lucy crossed to

ornamental specially in the are the phone and dialed a number. * ning wrap and the alleging gown do Σ What's the most convenient who was wearing. She ran to Jerry day for you to be divercoat, abe with open arms, Darlingi" he cried, anked,

Jerry took'kar la Blu armas and Belhund bar, “Ciao, It's good to Boo you," he said. Then he looked over Laley's shoulder toward the door.

(To be continued.)

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1 Only in a literal sense can any

profit come from this (9)..

9 Gloomy and might be more so

(0).

10 All and part are good for the

health (9).

11 This gas has light properties

(6).

12 This can be obtained from Wal-

mar now (9).

13 Go to mend (8).

17 A modern enthusiast (3). 19 This describes repeated cheers

(three words-5, 8; 8),

26 A man in the last stage of his

life (8). 27-Fighting was his profession (0), 28. One stage in the production of a

photograph (0),

No. 11 A/38 Bringing Cargo from Marsellies via Saigon etc., arrived Hongkong on Tuesday, 19th April, 1938:

Consignees are

heroby informed that their goods with the exception

20 Part of a forget-me-not (8). of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the 21 A timg of importance? (0). Suburban residents glimpsed the Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow-

Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon 25 You should see soldlers still at the literary gents book like a Christ- Russian fur caps at train windows. 100, whence delivery may be ob-

this supplement.

Railway porters were seen brushing tained immediately after 18 true in this particular case

Russians from the

Inading. is even more true of the books about the snow

All claims must be sent in to me exact number of The the Great War. The long-haired,

way station automatic machines they will not be recognized. temperamental lerary blokes dip that were out of order, owing

on or before 30th April, 1938, or their pens in earthquake and eclipse, Russians trying

Damaged Packages will be examin- and pile on the agony but for the stead of pennies into the slots, was Messrs: Goddard and bouglas in the push kopeks in- ed by the Company's Surveyors most part they completely fail to cap forthcoming. These are only a few presence of the Consignees at 10.00 time the true high lights and low shades of the Great War. From the of the authentic details that clinched am, on Monday, 28th Aprli, 1988. point of view of the front-line fight the great Russian myth of 1914,

Consignees must have a. Revenue Now let us have the plan un-Officer in altendance ing man, by far the most satisfacer varnished truth. It is almost more dulable goods are examined by the

when publication that has been about the 1914-1918 adventure is the fantastic than the mythere Compliny's Burveyors. Uz s Ulustrated review. "Twenty Your The Russian hook was the inven

No Fire Insurance will be effected After which has appeared lit week. tion of twn Havattometr mployed by us in any case whatever. ly numbers edited by the very dron Admiralty Intellijmerima wafe Ungulhon and level fended older, hall. The proad the story in-or- Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton, der, to get the German Admirally to Hongkong 19th April, 1938.

to

to

OHL

Akent.

any

29 "Angry bend" (snug.) '(9).

DOWN

2 A bore often makes a hearer

this. (8).

8 Crime (8),

4 The typical wise old man (d),

Painters in a certain" medlum Ingréo`lin, chúracter: (15)):

A story, with a strange".com"

mencement (8)/ 17 Game for one (0)

8 Englian town popular"

with

14 This kind of taxation is carried

only under pressure (9).

on

13 Bultable chemical, for buliding.

a parapet round a well? .(9). 16 The opposite of a salient (9)

17 Tree (2).

18 Used by flahermen and in many

games (3).

22 One party to a business trans-

action (0),

23 A musical composer's effort, no

doubt (8)...

24 A Sultanate of the Malay penin-

sula (6).

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