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little matter. But in spite of all
the studio could do. Joel Paynter
refused to go to an opening, to a
party without Mrs. Paynter or to
go with any other woman star.
Mr.. Paynter was adamant on that
subject. Janet didn't even know
that.
Janet knew that the romantic
buildup of Joel was inevitable and
unacceptable. It was box Office"
and had nothing personal or dam
gerOus in it. Let the school girls
write their heart secrets to him.
Let the shameless wives bear their
passion for him on paper. Some of
the letters came written illegibly
on lined paper and some of them
came on heavy white linen. The
buildup had worked. Women were
mad about Joel Paynter. He was
a herman with usefulness, an I'M
beatable combination. He made
screen history. No matinee idol of
another day had ever touched his
heights.
Janet took it with a grain of
salt. She read the magazines and
press scrapbooks that Joel tossed
toward her. But she read them
only when he was there. 1t sick
ened her a little to read that her
man belonged to the public. It
wasn't really her man who did, it
was a shadow man on a screen.
Let the public have that man.
Her man was still the same one
who had always needed her.
Needed her long before she came
into his lonely life.
It was funny when you think of
1t that a man who could bring the
hearts of the world of women to
his feet could need plain, little
Janet.
But Janet wasn't the plain lit
tie girl she thought herself. She
didn't have glamor. even after she
had bought the expensive clothes
and become a regular client of the
most famed beautician in Holly
wood. ALI that these things did
for her was to bring out the small
proportional perfection of her fig
ure and to groom her beautifully.
Janet developed beauty within
herself. 1t began with what was
in her heart. It softened her ma
turing in her late twenties. It
gave her a repose that shone in
her eyes. Her humor and under
standing gave sweetness to her
generous mouth. Because her role
was a secondary one, she had
learned quiet and poise. Combined,
these qualities took her far from
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the position and classification of q
plain girl.
It was indicative of everything
about Janet Paynter that she
would have believed none of these
things had you told her about
| them.
There is a repose in women that
comes, not only from security. but
from trust and faith. Janet had
both faith and trust in Joel
Adulation could not change him or
his love for her. Success could not
turn his head or affect his feeling
for her.
She recognized the ever-present
possibility in every marriage that
Joel could tire Of her and for that
reason she bent her efforts to be
necessary to him. But for no other
reason.
And so, when Joel proposed that
she go east without him that sum-
mer, she was glad to go. She
thought the vacation would be
good for both of them.
She would have preferred that
Joel could go with her but he was
working on one picture immediate
ly he finished his last one and he
had little time.
She protested family when he
pointed out that she had been long
away and Martha Colby had writ
ten that she longed to see Janet.
He also pointed out that Janet and
Martha could take trip up to the
Cape and look over the little the
alter at Grannis.
The little theater had been a
great joke. The manager had
written glowingly of the season.
The first week the net proceeds
had exceeded $165! That day Joel
had paid $500 for a tweed suit.
He thought it was very funny.
1T might be very good idea
for me to see our property" Janet
responded and sent wire to Mar
tina to meet her train in New York
and be prepared to go on to Cape
Cod Immediately.
When she packed, she was torn
between anticipation such as she
had not remembered, and regret
at leaving Joel.
Don't get into any mischief,
DEAR" she begged and couldn't see
him for the blur in front of her
eyes when the train pulled out.
"Just remember you're my best
girl and I'll count the days until
you're back" Joel called after her.
Janet knew that but, before her
train was half way across the
country. the newspapers had a diff
ferent story.
ITO Be COntinued)
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CHAPTER 10

MIR. AND MRS. JOEL PAWN
TER were free, white and over Fl.
For them also, supposedly, there
was the right of the pursuit OF
life. love and happiness.
There was a big world about
and bc-.c:.... t,,.csn. There were the
means of seeing it. , They had no
illnesses and no poverty. There
was no one dependent upon them.
They were under 30 and there
were hundreds upon hundreds OF
young people the world over who
envied them the star that favored
them.
Janet Paynter reflected bitterly
upon these things.
They were healthy and they had
plenty of money. They had love.
but since they were not free what
did these things mean?
They were only as free as JoePs
contract permitted them to be. 1t
permitted them to buy anything
thew wanted. Witness the white
house in the hills, the cars in the
garage, the clothes in the scented
closets. They were free to make
friends and to be with them
Weren't they at parties almost
every night? And when they were
at home, wasn't their house filled
with laughter and pleasure and
friends who were only as free as
they were?
They could see the world-some
day-when Joel had a vacation
And, in the meantime, they could
have an occasional weekend ano
some day, when Joel could get
away. they could fly east for an
opening and they could have
one week away from their golden
bars. They could do exactly as
they pleased. Except that they
had to stay at a fashionable hotel
and be Gin" to reporters and pho
tographers and if they had some
thing to do between press parties
and public openings, they were free
to do it. They could make any ar
rangements in the east they wished
to with the provision that they
were to drop everything and fly
back to California when the studio
wired for them.
But it was not these things that
turned the sick disappointment in
Janet's breast to a fiercer emotion
Of fury.
Mr.. Wertiem, Joel's producer,
said they couldn't have a baby be-
cause. the studio was building Joel
up to becoming Americas First
Lover!
That was the one and only time
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that Janet ever staged scene ana
when it was over, and Joel patted
her as though she were child and
he himself rather helpless little
bow. Janet forgave Joel for not
seeing her point and locked away
her forlorn hope.
It was not because Joel wanted
to be the lover type but because
Joel wanted them to have for
tune laid away against the tomor-
rows, when the average short-lived
career of star was over, that she
began to see his point. The studio
owned him but it paid well for the
privilege.
Janet began to think of those to-
morrows and she lived by them.
Some day they would be away
from Hollywood. The picture of
Joel was not quite clear then but
there was another picture that had
supplanted the one Of the little
white house. 1t was another kind
Of house somewhere in the coun-
try. There would be children then.
And there would be money in the
bank to take care of Joel and her.
self when they were old. Money
enough to take them around the
world on the cruise they had talked
about in the short week that had
been the time of their strange
courtship.
They had talked of Istambul
and Egypt, of Venice and the
Rhine. The crowded streets of
Shanghai and the wastes of the
Sahara where the footprints of the
camels left violet heart-shaped
shadows on the sands. They had
thrilled at the mention of temple
bells and iron grille gates with the
magic of the East ever an impene-
trable mystery back of them.
Hand-in-hand they had walked
on Fifth avenue during that week
looking into the windows of the
travel agencies or staring enrapt
at the posters of the Cote d'Azure,
at the incredible blue of the Medi-
terranean. The pictures of the big
ships had beckoned them and shy
ly they had confessed their mutual
longing to travel the enchanted
waterways Of the world. They
hadn't used the words tomorrow"
or together" then because they
hadn't known that they would
marry. And they had both be-
lieved there never would be a to-
morrow because the pot of gold
was at the other end Of a remote
rainbow.
Those were the days when Janet
had had dream Of one day walk
ing in the streets of Glasgow, the
city that she knew by legend be-
fore she had ever left the little
town of Chester. Those were the
days when Joel had thought of a
walking tour in New England be-
tween Broadway engagements as
the mark Of his ambitions.
And then when they were first
married and Janet was weighing
the caloric value of a small steak
against the pittance of her daily
budget, she had satisfied her long
ings with the magic Of printed
words. Reading through her long
evenings, she Travelled the ports of
the world with Joel at her side and
the promise of "SOme day" in her
heart.
But all that was yesterday and
today. when the dream should nave
been nearer, it was a greater dis
tance away than ever before.
Today there were no magic
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words like Nippon and Fountain
bleu before them. Today it was
San Bernardino and Palm Springs
or Ensenada or Caliente. Or pos
sibly New York. Even their world
of conversation had narrower
boundaries.
And when Janet tried to talk to
Joel as she had once, stirring him
up with enthusiasm for the things
they wanted to do, she had been
met with yawn or, did ] tell
you what Hickson tried to pull on
me when we were taking a shot
on the balcony?"
| So Janet had learned to put
another dream aside with reser-
| walton that the time would come in
q future that was more secure and
less enchanting. She had learned
to listen with her mind if not with
her heart. And always to give the
right answer wisely and softly.
There was another reason that
tugged at her conscience and made
the travel hope less concrete. They
had plenty Of money but they were
not saving it.
Joel and Janet refused to live in
credit though credit was offered
them in astounding proportions.
Joel paid for the white house in
the hills. He paid for the town
car and later for the roadster he
said was really necessity since
he could not deprive Janet Of the
car when he had to go away on
location. Naturally, the roadster
was no kin to that first little car
Of their earlier days. It was q
long, sleek thing that cost $4,000.
Money had a way of melting
when there were high wages to
Ipay for servants. Janet had a
cook, an upstairs girl and a house,
boy. She had two gardeners and
a chauffeur. She had enormous
bills for food and parties, for
flowers and garages.
Joel's bills for his clothes-and
there was constantly the need for
more-were staggering. So were
Janet's. Joel insisted that she
have the most expensive. Her
lingerie was imported. Her stock
ings cost SIS a pair and her gowns
averaged 5000 for the simplest
sports things.
There were very logical reasons
why $4,000 a week melted.
Janet tried and tried to find a
way out, proposing that they save
money, invest it. But Joel always
said there would be more.
Little did she know when she
persuaded Joel to buy out Lon
Hutchin's interest in a group the
alter at Grannis, a small summer
colony town on Cape Cod, that she
made the one most important move
Of her life. Or that the day was
coming when it was to prove the
key piece in the jig-saw puzzle of
their lives and to make the pic
ture solve itself forever.
Lon Hutchin was going to Eng
land to act in a series of pictures
and he offered the theater to Joel
for $4,000.
"Buy it, darling" Janet had said.
Those little theaters in the east
are getting to be very popular and
you can always sell again If you
want to. You'll get bigger kick
out of making a few hundred
season than you do here in a
week."
So Joel bought the theater and
forgot about it. Janet never did,
!: (To Be COntinued)
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READ THIS FIRST:

In Hollywood following an ingenious
maneuver on the part of his young
wife, Janet. Joel Paynter, second-rate
Broadway actor, begins work under a
short term contract. Meanwhile Janet
make a point of cultivating the right
people. joins tennis club and meets
Vernon Chester, an important director:
Chester asks her to play tennis and
have lunch with him. Chester likes
Janet and learns inadvertently that she
and a JOEL So have ~ he eeen resddP bgy be efs
Chester selects Joel for an important
character role in his new picture and
Janet virtually dictates the terms OF an
attractive new contract and. option.
Joel makes screen history in The
Dance Was Long" and the Paynters
fnd fame and fortune at their feet
within eight months. Janet has every
thing that money can buy yet hapPl.
ness eludes her because she finds she
has nothing more to do. Janet longs
for = baby but the STUDIO says "no:
Joel, now the popular American lover.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
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REPUBLICANS STAY
|NTHE BACKGROUND
But They'll Vote With DEM
ocrats Opposing Roose-
welt Court Plan
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COLunniSt

Washington, Feb. 13.-RepuDllcans
in Congress (the old-liners rather
than the so-called progressives) are
showing a good Fit of political intel
ligence in shaping their attitude to-
ward President Roosevelts plan for
Federal court reorganization.
They express opposition to it, but
not with much bitterness.
The fiercest denunciations of the
presidential program have come from
old-fashioned Democrats.
G. @. P strategists evidently fore
saw that, if their partisanship burst
into an immediate chorus of invective
the popular verdict would be, ooh,
well. that's to be expected; those folk
are certain to fight whatever the pre-
sent White House incumbent pro-
poses, anyway"
However, it also was easy to prop
hesy that plenty Of Democrats would
be Mortified by such a suggestion.
GOOD G. 0. +. STRATEGY
1t obviously was sound policy for
the Republicans to let Democrats
start the anti-administration uproar,
and then say, "These Democrats are
on the opposite side of the party
fence from US, but this is one of the
times when we must agree with
them"
To this "tick-tack" they have adj
hered with surprising unaninnity.
And if the Democrats Especially in
the Senate3 divide on anything APP
preaching q $3.50 basis, the Repub-
Iicans small as their minority is, may
very well be ai:le to cost the deciding
vote.
1t is excellent reasoning; the sur
prising thing is that so many Repub-
licans are capable Of reasoning rea-
sonably alike. But that is the advan-
tage of minority For self-preserva-
tons sake it must stick together. A
huge majority thinks itself strong
enough to afford to split, and over
does it frequently.
NOT SENSATIONAL
The Presidents message was not
intrinsically so sensational; not nee
essarily.
Its sensational:ty was partly a mat
ter of Interpretation.
If the country had been looking for
it, it might have been considered COM
paratively mild.
But it came like bolt from a blue
sky. No president in American past
history ever so abruptly cracked
down"
The questions arise:
Had F. d. this scheme in mind
during his last reelection campaign?
If he had, and didn't mention it, it
was an omission which verges closely
upon a policy of doubtful faith. If not
what stirred him up so recently? It
would seem that something suddenly
muGt have aroused him to a fit of
temper.
What was it?
Well, the Federal Supreme Court
has handed out some anti-administra-
tionistc decisions which may have
rankled-but they ante-dated the last
campaign.
Some newspapermen, described by
their editors (perhaps Enthusiastically
as sin close touch with the White
House." have written magazine
stories more recently, which con-
ceivalaly the President did not like
Stories" which l have had occasion
to refer to hitherto, by DR.. Stanley
High. George Creel and Prof. Ray
mond Moley. Stories by others, too,
perhaps not so well known.
These articles perhaps were ag-
gravating at the executive mansion
They have a cumulative effect.
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READ THIS FIRST:

In Hollywood following an ingenious
naneuver on the part of his young
Broadway actor, makes screen history
in the course Of eight months. Fame
and fortune are theirs following one
outstanding picture in which Joel plays
an important character part. He OBJ
tanned the role because Janet cultivated
the right people and Vernon Chester, a
leading director. Denied baby be
cause the studio. frowns on domestic
notes in building up joel as the ,popu-
ness GLIDING her, despite everything
money can buy. because she has nothing
more to do Janet discovers that So. 900
a week melts rapidly living as they
now do. After buying a small group
fheater in Cape Cod as a lark. Joel
promptly forgets about it.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
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CHAPTER 20


ONCE JOEL had written his
check for Lon F1utchin's theater in
Grannis, he forgot about it. It
was no more than writing a check
for the station wagon. Oh, yes,
there was another car in the
garage now because guests and
servants had to be transported
here and there. II
Janet didn't protest at the ex-
penditure. She was learning, how
ever, not to accept the fact that
they ''have to have this, dearest,
because in the end it will save us
money"
IF Joel had forgotten it, Janet
hadn't. She played with the idea
and learned as much as she could
about it. She had so little else to
do.
Joel was working hard at being
Americas First Lover. His box
Office returns were tremendous and
the studios demands in response
to the public's demands to know
more and more about him left lit
tie time for his wife.
A New York newspaper and
l,4OO other daily newspapers all
over the country were running his
life story. Janet marveled at the
items the writer's dug up. She
thought it was rather a strange
way for a wife to learn about her
husband.
Joel had been the son of a river
boat gambler and an aristocratic
mother. At least that was what
the newspapers said. They also
said that he had private tutor in
the mansion that had been his
childhood home. Another paper
said that he was the son Of a
wealthy ranch owner and had run
away from home when he was a
child because he wanted to be a
portrait painter. Another paper
fatty denied it, saying that he had
worked as a waiter in an effort to
earn enough money to study medi-
cine.
There were pictures Of Joel at
ievery conceivable place. His diet
was a matter of public concern.
The cut of his lounging suits was
copied by every movie-going youth
in the country. Breathless school
girls began to look with disap-
prevail at the neat, sliclxed hair of
their boy friends. Joel Paynter's
hair was always softly tousled.
just look at the billboards. IF
you don't see a picture of him
there bigger than life, you're sure
Ito see it on at least two Of the fan
magazines on every newsstand.
And if youth open those magazines
Iyou'll read the most intimate de-
tails about him. You'll learn that
he likes luxuries because he never
has had them. Or, If you read an
other, you'll find that he prefers
the simple life.
There will surely be an article
telling you that, quite frankly, he
says he enjoys the company of
women-that they stimulate him.
Well, we can't help it If a rival
fan magazine says that he prefers
the company Of men and that his
favorite sport is skeet shooting in
company Of his cronies, Tony
Menone, the famous comic, or
Larry Kelton who plays detective
roles.
You will not find a single article
that says that he prefers his wife
to any other woman in the world
or that he has an adorable habit
Of pretending that he is sitting in
her lap when he has troubles. Il
You will find very little about
Mrs. Paynter. a
The studio takes care of that
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Arrested on a charge of putting
poison in flour which resulted in the
death of Mrs. Andrew Cox at her
home near Lumberton, N. c., Leroy
MCNEIL (above), negro, was saved
from threatened lynching by his Sc
cret removal to an unannounced Jail.
Anticipating trouble, Sheriff Mark
Page of Robson county spirited the
prisoner away before an angry crowd
gathered in Lumberton.
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William J. Anderson (above), radio
dealer of Elizabeth City, N. c., has
been placed under $4,000 bond pend
ing trial on charges that he kidnap-
ed sMrs. Louise Cohoon, wife of his
brGfher-in-law. Mrs. Cohoon, who
brought the charges in Chapel Hill.
testified Anderson held her captive
in .his automobile for three days and
nights, insisting she get divorce and
marry him. fAssocited Press Photo).
Montana labor news., 1937-06-03
MEXICO HAD A 'WAGNER
ACT LONG AGO

MEXICO CITY. - (FP) A or
gained labor wins victories in both
the United States and Mexico, the
big bosses of both countries vince al
Wagner Acts" and cry out for a
law of compulsory arbitration Of
labor disputes.
In many instances the cries issue
over the same mahogany-topped
desks. For Mexican petroleum en-
ployes work for Standard Oil and
Mexican miners for the American
Guggenheim interests.
The bug of compulsory arbitration
bit big business in Mexico soon after
Pres. Cardenas and his Natl. Revo-
lutionary Party came into power in
1884. Then the high moguls dis
covered that the new government
was going to enforce Article 1913 of
the Mexican constitution. This
clause, outlining labor's rights, was
written into the Mexican constitu-
ton of 1917, but had been convent
emily overlooked by previous con-
sentative governments.
When Article 1913 was referred to
Mexico's Wagner Act, a Mexican
government authority retorted: 'The
Wagner Act is the Article 1913 of the
United States" He emphasized that
the Mexican labor law, formulated
in 1917, was the first of its kind in
the world.
According to Article 1913, collective
bargaining is compulsory. Arbitra-
ton of labor disputes may be pro-
vided by m agreement of en-
ployer and the union. In many in
stances of impending strikes, Car
denas himself has interviewed as la
Dor conciliator, though in some cases
he has been criticized for bringing
too much governmental influence to
bear on trade union policies.
Montana labor news., 1937-06-03
NATURALIZATION PRIV
ILEGES TO WAR VETS
ABOUT TO EXPIRE

The exemption privileges granted
to non-citizen veterans and veterans
of Allied countries of the World War
will expire May 25, 1887, according
to word received from the American
Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born.
(Those entitled to apply for ex-
emptions, under the provisions of
the Naturalization Act approved
June "a, 1885, are former members
of the military or naval forces of the
United States during the World War
who r in receipt of an honorable
discharge. Also, any non-citizen
lawfully admitted for permanent
resident who left during the period
of the war to serve in any of the
Allied forces and, having served, was
h~onorably discharged.)
It is pointed out that any non
citizen veteran who wishes to take
advantage of the exemptions must
file his petition with the Naturaliza-
ton Service before May rs, 1887.
Montana labor news., 1937-06-03
l.. 0. AUTO UNION
wins BIG VICTORY
IN PACKARD PLANT
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pared to argue for Il other demands
in the conferences with the company
which are scheduled to begin at
once. =.
John Brophy, director of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
issued the following statement on
the Packard election from his Wash
ington office:
''This shows that wherever work
ers have the opportunity to express
their choice freely, they will decide
for an industrial union that aims
to establish real collective bargain
ing, rather than for a make believe
organization or a union of the 81
Varieties
'"The United Automobile Workers
are to be congratulated on the re-
suits Of the election"
Ed Hall, vice president of the U.
A.. w., commenting on the election
said;
we expect that manufacturers all
over the country will take this cleo
ton as a criterion, quit Sailing and
start dealing with their workers
through legitimate labor unions"