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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-12
Copyright lq30. NEA Service, Inc.
Illustration by E. H. Gunder

privacy, if you can serve us. Miss Chelsey has little dog with her. He'll want bones."
 Soon they were together in the inn room that had been Jerry's. Polly was helping the porter lay out the supper. A table had been moved into the middle of the room, it's two leaves raised and a white cloth spread. Silver candlesticks held lighted tapers; in the tables center was 8 bunch of August lilies that Jerry had bought from flower seller beneath their win dow.
 Jerry had ordered extravagant- ly, for he was extravagantly happy. Though Polly had sug- gested eggs and tea and scones, he had called for fowl in 8 silver covered dish, with coffee and a sweet.
 Polly was impressed. "Have you learned all this from the English?" She wanted to know. T ought to have on my low-neck muslin dress and my dancing slippers, ready to step off minuet!"
 You ought to be just the way you are," Jerry answered. Some how the words carried the mean ing he wanted to convey. He was an inarticulate New Englander, in love for the first time in his 25 years of eager living, and he was a little dizzy from it. "Tell me about old MT. Dart now," he suggested.
 Polly told him, and he listened thoughtfully. After that he told her about himself, and how he had become stranded in London. we are both in some danger here," he said simply, but things will be all right. I'll take care of you, Polly and get you home to your father if it's the last thing I ever do."
 "Then my father will be ever lastingly grateful to you," Polly said. "He sets a lot of store by me. He was against my coming. He said he'd rather do without money than ask the Darts for it. But persuaded him we ought to swallow our pride and ask for what was our due. Dick could have his medical course at Yale, I reminded him, if we could get our share of Grandfather Darts money, and I could have woman to help me with the housework. I've been doing it alone since was barely fourteen when my mother died"
 Haven't you ever played, Pol ly?"
 "Oh, Yes. When I could find time. But I'll admit I've been pin ing for some excitement for long time. That's why I snatched at the ocean voyage when Cousin Tim Chelsey offered to take me. reckon I was tired of work"
 She looked ruefully at her long strong hands, calloused at the base of each shapely finger. Jerry took the hands in his, but when he had tenderly examined the callouses he did not let them go.
 Polly said, "You'll never know how felt when I realized I'd walk ed up to perfectly strange young man and put my hand on his sleeve and spoken to him!"
 Jerry said in return, And you'll never know how I felt when found you were gone!"
 There was stilted silence
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plained, because I am going in for acrobatic stuff. We live next to big playground and there are bunch of us who work out on the rings and bars. I swim and dive pretty well, too.
 "Girls?-aw, gee, no. Nor danc- ing school. There's plenty of time for that"
 He's Changed Now
 Genes mother, who had accom- panied him to the studio, said:
 When he was little thought he WIS going to be a regular Beau Brummel. He liked to be dressed up all the time, and several times a day. Now he won't wear a single new thing, or even comb his hair, and he won't let me throw away any of his old clothes. I don't un- derstand it.
 "There never was an actor in our family, but he always said he want ed to act. From the time he was 2 1-2, Gene began crying to go to school. We finally let him start when he was 4, and right away they made him leader of the school band-one of those little -children's orchestras, you know, with cymbal and bells and things"
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By Bill Porter
LaricatureS by George ScaI

Oldest the Royal Famhe Barrmo-Lion will be 60 April 28 infant with his travelled the with stock the 25 started Island
 
 quit that for stage directed Ruth Chatterton in Madame X first feature musical The Rogue Song" directing act about quit 193O but public demand caused him Soul which him 1881
 he's of the few character actors in Hollywood who stars
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which Polly hastened to break by calling Nuisance to her and tell ing the story of his life, so far as she knew it, to her distant cousin from Massachusetts. Don't you think he's got points?" she wanted to know.
 None that I can see," Jerry an- sWered. But I reckon he'd die for you if he was put to it. Polly, do you think man could fall in love just like falling off a cliff, wothout working up to it?"
 T think" replied Polly, striving to be sensible and clear headed, that we're apt to do that sort of thing when we're far away from home, and lost like. I'll try to remember that, and I'll thank you to do the same.-Do you think we ought to hold hands like this, for no reason at all?"
 "Yes," Jerry Whitfield said hus- kily. "Yes."
 At that moment a street musi- clan struck up a tune on a flute, very sweet. Polly ran to the case- ment window and threw it wide while she leaned perilously out. Jerry crossed the room and stood beside her
 Darkness had fallen. It was en- chanting to Polly. Outside were the noises of London - the sounds of strange hostile city settling to rest, and the sweet minor notes of the flute that seemed to pipe of love and danger Within was candle light and a table set for two, and Jerry's arm around her. For he had put it there, and she had let it stay And when she turned from the window it was inevitable that she should find her face near to his, and his arm yet closer around her. Her arm crept around his neck, and when he kissed her, she answered the kiss shly, experimentally
 Presently she drew away from him and whispered, What must you think of me, Jerry Whitfeld?" She put her hands against her burning cheeks, looking at him in wide-eyed consternation. i've seen you only twice. Both times I've thrown myself at you. And now I've let you kiss me in a tavern room, like a wanton."
 Hush, Polly!" he said, holding her to him. T can't bear it if you belittle yourself. Will you marry me tomorrow.
 (TO Be Col;tinued)
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STRAND

Current attractions concluding their engagements tonight at War ner Brothers cozy clean and com- fortable Strand theater include Thin Ice" co-starring Sonia Hen ie and Don Ameche; also Michael Whelan and Gloria Stuart in Change of Heart"
 TomorroW's new show is head lined by that lovable bad man, Wallace Beery, the star of "Viva Villa',, in his latest hit "The Bad Man of Birthstone"
 Somewhere in the scenic bad lands we meet big bad man Wal lace Beery in the act of holding up stage coach in which are riding Dennis O'Keefe and Guy Kibbee. Just how MT. Beery manages to make it seem very funny, exciting and new is his own little secret. But he succeeds and somehow his bad man is as lovable as of old. There is the same mountain, sand stone and prairie dust that charac- terized the Western editions of a decade or more ago, but Beery and his director, J. Walter Rubin, tell it in new way so that the com- edy races always one step ahead of the melodrama. At Birthstone our young hero, who has surrendered his money to the bad man, retrieves his watch in a poker game. The bad man discovers that his victim of the stage coach holdup is the son of the "only respectable woman he ever knew"
 A very amusing comedy farce, Paradise for Three," with cast that speaks for itself, Frank Mor- gan, Florence Rice, Robert Young and Henry Hull, co-features the program.
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OUTBREAK of the World War V in 1914 proved the ultimate test of the doctrines of Socialist orator Jean Leon Jaures.
 For months Jaures battled to prevent the entrance of France into the war. He sought Socialist cooperation in the European cab- inets, but in vain. His final move was resolution calling for up- rising by the masses in the event that war was declared. Since this was tantamount to- revolu- tion, this also failed of victory. And in the midst of his bitter fight Jaures was, assaSsinated by a French Chauvinist.
 Jaures ranked as one of the greatest orators in French history and among her leading reformist Socialists. Early he exhibited So- cialist tendencies. In 1893 he was elected as Socialist to the Cham Der of Deputies and soon became the leader of the Reformist wing of the party. / When Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was thrown into prison on false charges of selling military secrets to Germany, Jaures played a prominent role in the fight for his release. With Zola and others he was finally successful.
 Honored repeatedly since the war, Jaures is shown here on a 1886 French commemorative, is- sued to mark the anniversary of his assassination. His friends rontended that had he lived he would have ultimately espoused The French declaration of war.
 dCopyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl
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chance. Amt it good enough for you?"
 Jerry shifted before old Chet's gaze. "It's good enough for me" " he said, "but-" How could he tell this practical old seaman that the girl they had seen that morning was haunting him?
 Did you have in mind shippin' on somethin' fancier?" inquired Chet. "If you have, you'd better find it yourself. Try to, that is."
 It was then that the girl came to- ward them. She was walking rapid ly and her eyes were fixed on the sign of the Unicorn and crown. In her arms she carried a little mon grel dog.
 Jerry went toward her, and when she saw him she stopped in her tracks. Her face lighted in a way to quicken his pulse. "Oh!" she said. "It's you! can't tell you how glad I am!"
 "You mean you were looking for me?"
 "Yes. I had to find you again I'm Polly Chelsey from Connecticut and I've just run away from old MT. Darts house in Hempill street because he hates Americans. He's my great-uncle, but he doesn't claim me Do you remember seeing me this morning?"
 "Yes! I looked for you after you ran away, but not trace. My names Jerry Whitfield"
 T know. I heard him call you that" She inclined her head to- ward Wheeler who was making elaborate pretense of studying the sky.
 Jerry asked, Are you the daughter to Trepid Chelsey who lost the brig Proud Lyme off Nan tucket a few years back?"
 "Yes. That's my father"
 "Then you're my cousin, Polly Chelsey! - Far distant, I mean" ," Jerry added hastily while his eyes paid ardent homage. My mothers got Chelsey blood. We live in Massachusetts, Newburyport."
 Chet Wheeler cleared his throat, and Jerry made the introductions, after which old Chet said pointed ly: Were just leaving London, Miss. Jerry and me. We're talk ing coach for Dover"
 "Oh-h-h," said Polly in a small forlorn voice.
 Can she go with us9" Jerry asked Chet.
 "No! I had to fight for two pas sages as it was. Get to France yourself, lad. Then send for her."
 Jerry looked hard at Chet Wheeler. "Ill not leave her stranded here," he said. The two seamen understood each other as well as if they had argued for hours. Jerry Whitefield would stay on, knowing that every hour that passed must make more precarious the life of an American sailor in London. They shook hands and parted, old Chet looking as sour as if pickled in brine.
 Jerry took Polly into the tavern where he was able to engage a small room overlooking the stable yard. He explained to the inn keeper, MT. Toby: T will use that room. My cousin here, Miss Polly Chelsey, will take my former room. Send up fresh linen and have the room cleaned for her. We'll have our supper there for
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MOUieS Playing
 Today
POLI'S

The greatest roundup of big name stars of any musical yet, whole "who's-who" of the screens pepper-uppers, frolics to town with three sirens of swing in search of social security who find themselves side-tracked by love in Sally, Irene and Mary" The new 20th Century, Fox rhythm romance with the lift and-lift that have made Daryl F. zanuck shows tops in entertain ment, opens today at the Loew-Poli theater.
 Alice Faye and Tony Martin sing the tunefullest songs you've ever heard, as only they know how! They top the cast with Fred Allen, star of radios Town Hall Tonight" and he is twice as funny face-to- face.
 The cast is uproariously star glorius with Jimmy Durante, the street-sweeper who crashes into cafe society; Gregory Ratoff, with a champagne bankroll and a gleam in his eye; Joan Davis, the gazelle with knee-action; Marjorie Weaver, the sensation of Second Honey moon" now making second sen- sation; Louise Havick, who keeps Reno busy, and Barnett Parker and J. Edward Bromberg.
 The romance is made rhythm ra- diant by eight top-notch tunes by four top-notch tunesmiths. The na- tion's dance bands will get new life from these rhythm-radiant hits: Half Moon on the Hudson, T Could Use a Dream, "This Is Where Came In", Help Wanted Male" and "Who Stole the Jam?" by Walter Bullock and Harold Spi- na; and Get My Mind on Music" and Sweet AS Song" by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel.
 Although a comedy dance num- Der shows on a theater screen for only two or three minutes, 1t re- quires more than IT miles or feet motion to make, Joan Davis, ec- centric dancing comedienne, discov- cred on the musical comedy act, Sally, Irene and Mary"
 The comedienne reported to the stage for her role of Irene in this film, ready to test one of her num- bers with a pedometer.
 When Director William Setter shouted "cut" for the last time at the conclusion of her dancing num- Der Joan checked the pedometer to discover that she had traveled ex- actly 17.6 miles. This dancing se- quence is only one of the hilarious events of this outstanding picture.
 On the same program is another big hit, entitled "Saleslady" with Anne Nagel and Welden Hepburn.
 of Human Hearts" is coming to this theater next Wednesday. Don't Miss It!
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M The Local
 TheaterS
STATE

Local movie fans simply raved about Deanna Durbin's latest screen triumph in Mad About Music" the new Universal picture which opened a four day engagement at Warner Brothers State theater yesterday.
 Here's an entertainment tip make a date now to see this 15- year-old girl, whose name is on everyone's lips, whose smile is in every ones heart, in the delight full, irrepressible story of youth and song. You'll never forgive yourself if you don't see this film
 In the principal featured role with Deanna is Herbert Marshall, one of the finest actors in America. The principal feminine role, that of Deanna's young mother, is played by the beautiful and popular Gail Patrick.
 William Frawley, screen veteran, is seen as Dusty Rhodes, a theatri- cal manager. Arthur Preacher, not ed English comedian, is also fea- tured. It presents Deanna in diff ferent characterization from those of her previous pictures, and in a mood and tempo entirely different. Mad About Music" is comedy drama. Only a few tears-and those in the most effective manner-in- trude into the story of the little girl with the make-believe father and whose dreams come true.
 Deanna sings as beautifully as ever. With the exception of Gou- mods Ave Maria," her selections are lighter, more in the popular ballad vein, than those of HOO Men and Girl" She renders three songs, q Love to Whistle" Ser enade to the Stars and Chapel Bells," by Jimmie McHugh and Harold Adamson, in addition to Grounod's Ave Maria"
 The excellent supporting cast in- cludes William Frawley, Marcia Mae Jones, Helen Parrish, Frank lin Pangborn and many others who turn in fine performances.
 And for your further enjoyment the management presents a thrill ing exciting story "The Spy Ring with William Hall in the leading role supported by Jane Wyman Jane Carleton and Jack Mulhall.
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CHAPTER w

Jerry Whitfield, who had sworn to his New England mother that he would not drink strong liquor, sat in the Unicorn and Crown Tavern trying to drown his troubles in a mug of ale. Those troubles were as follows: he was caught on the wrong side of the Atlantic when America was going to war; and he had seen for a moment and lost again in the fog a tall brown haired Yankee girl who had appealed to him with fright in her eyes.
 He looked up to see old Chet Wheeler beckoning to him furtive- ly from the doorway of the inn. He got up and followed Chet out side.
 Get your clothes together in a hurry, lad!" the old sailor whis- pered hoarsely. Were going to Dover by coach. Down at the wharves I scraped acquaintance with a Scotch smuggler, half French, that says he'll take us across the Channel. He's got @ fishing craft called the Sea Ser pent that works out of cove be- tween Dover and Deal and he puts in at a fishing town near Calais. He calls himself John Mclean or Jean Clittee, accordin' to where he's standin'."
 Well, now" Jerry demurred.
 What's the matter with you, lad? I thought you'd jump at the
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LATE SPRING FORECAST

Ukiah, Cal. (UP)-The steelhead fish is to California what the ground hog is to Ohio when it comes to weather predicting. The manner in which the steelheads are running indicates a late spring with several weeks of stormy weather preceding, according to those who know Steelheads.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-08

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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-08

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The Washington times., 1938-08-06
POINT

staying with her sister, the very
active Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney So now, with the countess
and daughters and little Gloria
Vanderbilt, whose principal GUS
tody Mrs. Whitney won in long
court fight, we can say that it's
all en- famiAe.
Emily Davis, who is summering
at Watch Hill, r. l., went to
Potomska, Mass, to see her friend,
Angelica Lloyd, the other day -.
Emily will probably be seen in the
Newport scenery during the tennis
week Margot Hagner McCon-
ihe has been staying in Narragan-
sett, R. l., with her husbands fam
lily, the Malcolm McConihes
Hubby Mike, who works in the real
estate business down in Washing
ton, came up for the week end =.
and brought along with him Broker
Tinsley Garnett Beauteous
Mary Lou Marsh, who has also
been enlisted among the Nara
gansett summer colonists, with
her uncle, Eddie Gardiner, has
gone to visit Cassie Johnston in
Jamestown, R. l. Cassie will
become today Mrs. Gardener En-
mons, and so Mary Lou will be on
her way again. She will very prob
ably go and stay in Newport for
a while. Anyway, Mary Lou is fed
up with Narragansett The
beau situation there is terrible,
we hear, but things may be better
in Newport!
Clock" Victor, who is studying
very hard for his diplomatic exams
in Washington, was another visitor
in NarraganSett for the week end.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
By igor CASSlnl;

By the way, Diplomat Victor
has bought new house in George
town, which, we hear, is very at
tractive y. But Bill McIlvain, who
was also preparing for the foreign
service, has given up his diplo-
matte dreams, not because he
couldn't make it, by cracky, but
just to get into business The
George A. CARROTS are also going
to Watch Hill in very few days. ...
Senor and Sonora Mariana MAR
got Garrett) Zuberbuhler may
also go up for brief stay and a
rest after the torrid Washington
weather and the many diplomatic
fatigues and obligations.
Randy Hagner hasn't made up
his, mind yet where he is going,
but Saratoga Springs, New Bed
ford and Nantucket will probably
see him quite soon Tinsley
Adams, the Princeton lad, who has
seen his belle cross the ocean for
Maitland recently, will probably 60
to Newport for the big tennis
week, and the "cuties" will, indeed,
try to console him there =. but it
will be hard job! Alice Tuck
erman is on Cape Cod visiting
Caroline Cecil, whose only thought
is Tommy" We hear that Ann
Perrin, popular Washington gal,
has gone off on a trip to the West
with Helen Davis, blonde daughter
of the Dwight Davises Ann had
a house party just before leaving,
in Watch Hill, and Bostonian
Amory Lawrence, who resides in
D. c., and those former Washing
tonians, Quimby and Dudley
Brown, came all the way up for
the occasion.
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glamour girls, has selected hef at
tendants for the big event
and they are all as glamorous as
they could be .. The maid of
honor is her sister, Consuelo Villa,
and the bridesmaids are Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, Mrs. H. Whit
field Cahart, jr., Priscilla Grant,
Leslie Bogert, Jane Pope, lus-
cious Lucy Saunders, Virginia
French, Aerielle Fraser and LIE
Brun Rhinelander The young
engaged couple, in the meantime,
are being widely entertained
The William Simpsons (she is the
former Beatrice de MenocaD will
fete them with a "swing" party
tonight at their large mansion on
Piping Rock Road, in Locust VAL
ley, L. I.
Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, who
has returned from Hungary with
her daughters, Mrs. Eugene B.
Roberts and Sylvia and Nandine
Szechenyi, is now in Newport,
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Activities of
Women's
Clubs
By MARY PADGETT

You will not find two young
ladies in Washington who are
buster than Miss Mary Rose
Manning, 16, senior princess Of
Bethel No. 2, Jobs Daughters,
and Miss Rosa Robbins, II,
marshal of Bethel No. /, be-
cause each girl is the editor
of her Bethel newspaper and
they are using their combined
efforts to put out q joint
special souvenir newspaper" to
be distributed at the annual
supreme session Of the Order
of Jobs Daughters, at the Ward.
man Park Hotel, August 22-25.
Miss Ruth IverS, past hon.
ored queen Of Bethel No. /, Is
chairman of the newspaper
committee. Other girls helping
to edit the extra convention
edition" are Margaret Wrathall,
Margaret Yeager, Florence Flem-
ing, Alice Tydings, Winifred
Smith and Virginia Haight.
WILL BE SOLD
The paper will be sold dur.
ing the convention, which will
bring approximately $500 mem.
bers and delegates here from
all parts of the United States
and Canada, to defray the cost
of renting costumes for the "All.
States Pageant" to be presented
during the conclave.
The elaborate pageant will be
given Tuesday evening, August
%, and it will be one of the
most colorful Of the programs
connected with the four-day
session. It will depict Patience,
Faith and Reward" and will
show the relationship between
the Masonic fraternity, the Or.
der of the Eastern Star and the
Jobs Daughters.
Miss Manning and Miss Rob-
bins are contracting Bethels for
news items for their paper.
Both girls Joined the Order
Of Jobs Daughters when they
were 13 years old. In order to
be a member of the organize
tion, a girl must be a near
relative to a member of the Ma
sonic Order. Girls cannot join
until they are 13, and after they
reach the age Of 20 they become
honorary members.
BOTH HONORED
Miss Manning, who is the
daughter of Thomas r. Man.
ming, Of the Dawson Lodge, No.
Is, District Masons, has served
as third messenger and as presi-
dent of the choir for her Bethel.
Miss Robbins, the daughter Of
Mrs. Helen D. Robbins, grand
matron of the District of Co
lumbia, o. E. S., has held the
first four major offices of her
group and is now in line for
the position of queen.