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NANCY

I WISH

OH, DEAR AUNT, FRITZI WOULD

TAKE ME ON A →

VACATION DOWN

'SOUTH!

OH," AUNT

FRITZI --- HERE'S

AN AD I CLIPPED

OUT OF THE PAPER!

GO SOUTH

NINOTCHKA

From The Novel By

MELCHIOR LENGYEL

Adaptation By

LEBBEUS MITCHELL

A VERY

GOOD

IDEA!

SHE'S

SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT

READING THE REVERSE SIDE

February 12, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

CHILDREN SHOULD

VISIT

THE DENTIST TWICE A YEAR

WHY DON'T I SHUT UP!

ERNIE

CONSTANTINOPLE

Ninotchka is back in Moscow from Paris, where she had been sent to take over negotiations for the sale of the former Grand Duchess Swana's court jewels. In Paris she and Count. Leon d'Algout, Swana's sweetheart, had fallen in love. Swana had got hold of the jewels and returned them only upon Ninotchka's agreeing to leave Paris that very day by plane, without seeing Leon. Having an omelet in her Moscow room, with the three Russian agents she had supplanted in the negotiations, she receives a letter from Lcon, but every- thing is blacked out save the salutation and, the signature-- "censored."

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have a complete report of your negotiations and ・・ expense ac- counts."

"Don't ask for it, Ninotchka."

"Comrades-friends-don't make i

it difficult for me. This is no more a pleasure trip for me than It is for you."

NINOT CHICA looked and WIA dumb-founded, for there stood Count Leon d'Algout, smiling at her longingly.

"They wouldn't let me into Rus-

That," said Iranoff, "wak our idea when we first came, but wesia," he said, "so I had to get you learned botter."

"We are in the magle East, NI- notchka," sald Kopalaki, "the land of Aladdin and his lamp. In one single hour you can crowd in a thousand and one nights."

"All you have to do is to say 'open, sesame,' added Buijanoff.

"I don't know how I can get you BULJANOFF out of it this time. How will t Iranoff and Kopal end? What will happen to you?"

"Shall we tell hor?" asked Bul the Pjanoff. His friends nodded, "Ni- tinople airport and notchka, we hope you will be our took her to their guest." luxurious suite in a

"We have opened a restaurant," hotel.

naid Iranoff.

ski met Ninotchka i

at

RAZININ, commissar of "I haven't either, but I've the Moscow Board of Trade, heard about them. You must had sent a message to realise it was only on the Ninotchka asking her to strength of your, Paris re- call-and, as his request port that I sent them to Con- was a command, she went stantinople. Without that to his

I would never have trusted office.

them on a mission as im- Isn't it wonderful? portant as the fur deal,"

you

"How do Jike it, Ninotchka?

"But, Comrades," she started to

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"We have a wonderful electric sign," said Kopalski.

"You mean you are deserting Russla?" asked Ninotchka sadly.

Kopalski objected: "Don't call it desertion.

Our little restaurant-

She stood before his desk, a number of folders in her hand, waiting for him to "May I ask what happened ?" protest. recognise her presence. "As soon as our representa- "Now please don't start figuring that is our Russia. The Russia of

tives go to a foreign country it out in cows," said Iranoff. At length he looked up. they acem to lose all sense of said wearily, "and I am responsible. "You have done it again," she "Good morning, Com-balance. Those three have been How can you forget yourselves this in Constantinople six months way? You were sent here to make and haven't sold a piece of fur. money, not to spend it." "Good morning. Com-This is from a report I've had: "You still have those old-fashion- rade Commissar." She was gain respect among the Mos-

'How can the Bolshevik cause ed Bolshevik ideas," he replied,

"It is high time you got out of very businesslike. "Here is fems if your three representa-Russia, said Buljanoff. my report on the materials tives get so drunk that they "But, Comrades—" available for trading in the throw a carpet out of their hotel said Kopalski happily. "We are

"We are not comrades any more,"

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out."

"So

you're behind all this!"

she gasped. "I might have known!" Leon advanced, took her hand and kissed it fervently, while the threo Russian agents, having ex- changed covert glances, walked discreetly out of the room, closin the door.

"Trying to keep me away from you!" wald Leon. "It couldn't be done. I couldn't, naturally, go on forever punching passort officials in the nose--but I found a way, didn't I? Darling, I had to sec you. I wrote and wrote but all my letters came back."

"The one I got they wouldn't let me read, It began 'Ninotchka, darling' and ended 'yours, Leon.'"

"I won't tell you what came be- tween. I'll prove it. It will take a long time, Ninotchka-at least a lifetime."

borscht, the Russia of Beouf stro-

"But, Leon. I am here for only gonoff, bleenies with sour cream" a few days," she said, knowing in Iranoff interrupted. "The Rus- her heart what she wanted to do, sin of piroshki. We are not only but evading a decision. serving food, we are serving our If you don't stay with me, I'l country, we are making friends. have to continue my fight. I'll "Who gave vo" this idea?" asked travel wherever Russian commis- Ninotchka, completely bewildered. sions are. I'll make them all res- "What is responsible for all this?" taurant keepers. I'll depopulate "There's something in Constan- Russia. Once you saved your coun-

irresistible," tinople something

try by going back. This time you "anid Kopalski. window and complain to the friends, Ninotchka."

"It is in the alr," said Iranoff. can save it by staying here," "It may come around the corner as management that it didn't "We don't have to whisper any you walk down the street "Does this include the fly?"

longer," said Buljanoff.

Buljanoff look up the word: "It products of the Far Eastern

"We can say whatever we want. may step out of a bazaar, Ninotchka barely suppressed we can shout," said Iranoff, and may wait for you in a corridor. provinces?"

a smile. "Oh, they shouldn't do nobody pays any attention. That is It may hide in the shadow of a such things. Are you sure, the freedom."

minaret. report is correct ?"

"Isn't it possible to bring vol "But now it's on the balcun** ** "It gives details which back to reality a moment? I must said Kopalski, pointing.

next four months.”

,

"Yes, it does.". "You mean you have finished the whole investiga- tion?"

"Yes." "That's marvellous! You must have worked day and night. Don't

sleep?"

you ever

couldn't be invented. Naturally,

I want to verify it and that's why I need you."

"You

you want me to

"

It

"Well, when it is a choice be- tween my personal interest and the good of my country, how can I waver? No one shall any Ninotchka was a bad Russian."

He took her in his arms, and her Jips sought his.

THE END

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12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-į cession,

Rachmaninoff Concerto

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"I am sorry. I don't want to please, don't send me." overstep my position, but,

STARTLED,titude in this."

"How can I make myself Ninotchka ask-

clear? It is difficult to ex- ed: "May I ask press, but I'd rather not go to Glasgow Orpheus Choir conducted by why?"

foreign countries any more. "Please, sit Please, Comrade, let me stay MacGregor's Gathering (Lee, art. sel), Regal Orchestra, Robin Hood down,

There. Let me finish my work. Kalin), Bonnie Wee Thing (Fox), and the Sorrowful Knight Part 21, Will

I don't want to go away. Josephs Hislog (Tenor) with Piano Policeman's Holiday (Ewing), New and His Orchestra, you have

Percy Kahn; Strip The Light Symphony Orchestra; Studio necomp. by The foreign atmosphere throws wow (arr. Disck), Scottish Coun- Story by Aunt Susan; Let's All Sing cigarette?"

one out of gear.

Dance Orchestra cond. by 3. "Thank you."

finish my work. I have concen- Michael Diack; Peter At The Pictures of the Early Birds, In the Shade of "Well, Comrade, have you trated everything in it." (Beli), Humorous Monologue by Wil- the Old Apple Tree, The Audience

Liam McCulloch; Will Yo No Come the Paramount Theatre London, led heard from your friends, Razinin arose. "Please don't Back Again? (Maime-arr. Scott-by Al Bollington at the Organ. Kopalski, Buljanoff and waste my time, Comrade. Do with Plano accomp by Duncan Mortions.

Wood), Sydney MacEwan (Tenor) · 6.30 · Closing * local Stock Quota- Iranoff?" asked Razinin.

"No"

your duty." Goodbye."

Let me try

3. Like The Birdies Sing, She Was One

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