Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-05
No TIME TO FORGET

NO TIME TO FORGET
Watch IL. This Is no time to
forget what teacher told you.
You mustn't send even a sour
note 10 mar her happiness. Re-
member. She was your girl. All
her life she was your girl. When
you were small together you
used to pull her hair and hit her
on the back and send her home
crying.
when you got big enough TO
know that girls were different
from boys and weren't 20 he hit,
YOU bullied her and leased her
and watched over her with q
fierce and secret tenderness.
When YOU finished high school,
YOU knew that Ann was the
only girl.
"And then you-- Nuts. This
Is no time to think. This IL the
time to play. Remember what
the teacher always said. The
wrist steady. The fingers poised
above the keys. Bring them
down true. II won't be long
now"
SO he was all right when AM
walked into the mirror on he
fathers arm.
They were down at the altar
now. The group there was merg
ing with the group that had ar
rived by the aisle. The clergyman
was opening his book. Jack coulc
stop now. The clergymans voice
dripped and rang over the church
we are gathered together
Here was the end Of Jacks hopes
His hands fell away from tho
organs keyboard. He drew his fee
up from the pedals. But he did no
turn. He watched the ceremony
grimly through the mirror.
Well, well. well. Who'd thought
that little Ann would be standing
there today plighting her troth-
wasn't that the way they put it,
10 a guy she hadn't known a year
There was a lot Of palaver about
wedding. There was the blessing
of the church. presented by IT:
holy men. There was the sanction
of the state, presented by judge
or a Justice Of the peace, with al
eye TO publicity and the hopes o
a well-earned dollar. No matter
who performed the ceremony, i
was Society's O. X. on loving a!
he and Ann had confidently eX
pected TO love for years and years
EXPECTED 1T LONGER
He had expected il longer thar
Ann lie could sec that now. ]
Ann had expected il as long as he
she would still be expecting il anc
She wouldn't be up there now will
Paul Whatever-the- hell-his-name
was. She would be up there will
him. Jack EuStice. the old piano
player. the old organiSt. the OLE
sucker. who didn have the none,
20 keep a wife IN the manner il
which Ann Parage hoped 10 be
come accustomed.
They were all huddlcd dowI
there together The clergyman wa
dorninC over his book The groom
was staring AZ him dcad-eyed YoJ
could tell that from the stiffness
Il his back Ann was LOOKING
ytarry-eyed at nothing
II was one of her best poses
Old Pop Parage was perspirinI
fatty and with relief. All HI
money troubles were over Ann
his darling daughter, had com,
through for him
How. again was IL that II hac
all happened Let's see SD
month, ago. 10 and Ann wcr,
planning on how 10 live on IN,
so a week be made As an ar
ranger for Zokc B,airs Band. /
wouldn't always be 40 week. i
would be 10 times that some day
Yeh. So then Paul Allison
came along. The Alhsons came
20 live on Greenbrier street II
that big low-slung hacienda thai
looked like a Spanish don'l
drunken dream Paul Allison Sr
was The Paul Allison. The fnan
cicr YOU know
FLAW IL CHARACTER
steel. oil radio. whatever thcu
was money m. And Paul Jr wa
nice guy Ych. Jack had 4,
hand him that. lie was a rea
nice guy.