Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-12-25

IN THREE PARTS-PART ONE
tCopyright: 1929: BY Maude Parker
AIJADA SASARYK. who had been
M christened Mary McAIahon, clapped
her beautiful white hands-insured
for twenty-five thousand dollars-and
Immediately an East Indian servant,
richly gowned and turbaned, glided in
to the dining room.
In front of his mistress and Hartley
Holmes, her only guest, he placed
fragile white cups in silver containers
from which came the delicious aroma
of the bouilon for which her chef
was famous.
Hartley Holmes tasted it, then put
down the spoon bearing the crest OF
a family closely related to the late
Russian car
1T it all right?" Njada's voice made
her even more alluring off the screen
than she appeared in her information
ally a%pplauded moving picture roles.
It's perfect, but I'm not hungry"
He looked away from her long. black
fringed eyes, as clear and deeply blue
as tropical waters.
She adjusted a pin in the low knot
Of her sleek black hair.
Then she said, Are you tired?'
"Of course, I'm not tlred!" The ir-
ritation of his tone astonished him.
I'm bursting with energy-that's my
trouble"
But you finished the picture today?'
Exactly. And that makes five this
year. Pictures!'
you make it sound blasphemous.'
IT hate them! For six years I've
been playing the juvenile lead in draw
ing room comedies-With nothing more
virile to do than carry a teacup across
the room and kiss some blonde ingenue
at the endl 1t makes me sick! Nc
man could do It'll"
You forget the big outdoors pic
ture-last summer-when you rescued
the beautiful lady from bandits ano
carried her off on your horse. Ever
Jake was thrilled by the precipict
scene. He said, The boys got
well, the word you don't want me tc
use"
I've been thinking about that pic
ture all day." Hartley confessed.
The servant brought in a platter con-
tanning broiled trout chas.ely garnishec
with slices of lemon.
Hartley declined this course.
MAZDA carefully removed the center
bone of her trout, using a fish knife
and fork with dexterity acquired from
a titled English lady companion who
had been paid a large price to eradi-
cate the manners acquired in her frs
eighteen years in a Brooklyn orphan.
age.
Il saw Johnson's piece about you
she said. Her drawl pretended to bt
SO casual that Hartley realized sht
was annoyed.
Immediately he was on the defensive
Well, what was wrong with it?"
"Nothing-from the standpoint o!
publicity
Nor from any other standpoint
Johnson's a smart fellow-he car SET
beneath the surface-get down into thu
SubconScious mind"
"Oh, don't go intelligentsia on me
Save that for people who don't know
you'll" The blue of her eyes was deep.
er now. Sparks of light shot from
them. She quoted maliciously: Hart
ley Holmes, the actor, may be TIT
idol of all ome who see him on the
screen, but Hartley Holmes, in private
life, is essentially a mans man.
He jumped up, pushing back hi
chair so violently that it tipped over
$50 l ami he said. Its all true!"
And I suppose it's true that, left tt
yourself, you would lead a simple out
door life, catching fish for your owl
breakfast, shooting a duck for you
dinner and SO on and on into thu
night?"
you know I would"
II know nothing of the kind
Oh, sit down-don't glare at me-you'r'
not the villain of this melodrama
you're the boy famous for having man
ners almost as good a. ii you were al
English actor!"
Hartley's anger was now complete
Nevertheless, he sat down. He ever
accepted a tiny brown squad surround
ed by white grapes.
Il love simplicity" he declared.
$50 do l." she said. That's why
live this way. 1t takes lots Of none,
and lots of servants to accomplish it.
Don't be ridiculous. I mean print
tive simplicity" he said. Last yea
when we were making that western
picture / lived just as a cowboy woul'
live. At first I did it to get hard ant
to feel the part. Then I loved it.
flshed and shot sage hens and rod
twenty-five miles a day on a Mexical
saddle and slept in a tent"