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place Thursday night instead of
Sunday as has been the custom.
Mrs. Ida Brown has arranged an
interesting program.
Mrs. Flora Dannenburg of New
York is the guest of her cousins,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lehman
Mrs. Sadie Nauheim of New York
is visiting her son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Nauheim, and is the house guest of
Judge and Mrs. Milton Strasburger.
Miss Ida WE'LL and her brothers,
Mr.. Nathan WE'LL and Mr.. Samuel
WE'LL, have gone to Miami Beach.
Mrs. Lillian Detre has returned
from Southern motor tour.
Miss Jennie Sarger and her
brother, Mr.. Monnie Sarger, are
vacationing at Miami Beach.
Mrs. S. Hahn of Pittsburgh is here
visiting her sister, Mrs. Sidney
Seidenman.
Mrs. Betty B. Luchs is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Hilda L. Hem
merdinger, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Vivien Cohen was given a
sweet is birthday party recently
at her home on Chevy Chase Park
way.
Evening star., 1941-03-16
OF Personal Note
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Grosner
Visiting in Philadelphia

Mr. and Mrs Gerald Gosner with their daughter Miss Gerry
Crosner spending the in Philadelphia
the wedding last night
daughter of Mrs Julius Ron
Neustadt of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Alexander Kaufman and daugher-n-aw Mr.
and Mrs Joseph A
honor Miss Babette Bunenfeld
be married March o.
Mrs Isadore Mnz and Miss Ethel Mn
Mrs Eele Nordinger Wednesday trip
Florida.
Mr. and Mrs David Thursday
they three
Mr.. and Mrs. visiting daughter
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O'Mahoney to Speak
AtA. A. U. w. Dinner
On Wednesday

Senator OMahoney will be guest
speaker at a dinner to be given by
the American Association of Univer-
sity Women Wednesday evening at
the clubhouse. The Senator. who
will be presented by the Committee
on the Legal and Economic Status
of Women, will discuss What
Makes Big Government Big" Miss
Nelk l.. Ingels is chairman of the
committee and Mrs. Edna Thomp-
son will serve as hostess at recep-
ton preceding the dinner.
Other activities at the club this
week will include supper tonight,
with a piano recital by Percival c.
Rogers, a graduate of the Peabody
Institute Of Baltimore and a son of
one of the club members. Mrs. A.
Remington Kellogg will preside at
the supper.
The morning poetry group will
meet Thursday and that evening
the junior group will hold a dinner
bridge party, with Miss Edythe Rose
as hostess.
Mediterranean Mosaics," colored
motion pictures taken in Europe in
1899, will be shown Friday morning
by Mrs. James Shera Montgomery.
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Alexandria Talent to Give
Performance of 'MikadO'
Engraved Invitations Being
Sent to 1,5OO for Performance
In May; Personal News

ALEXANDRIA Va March 15Engravd invitations being sent
to 1500 Axandrans and their friends
Mkado Saturday evening May IT, when cast
dred will appear the production this
Gilbert Sullivan satire presentations
of light comic by Sharp and Flats" hhghs
annual winter
The performance directed
School, The will be entirely
users other attendants will be wearing japanese
costumes by residents brought them
Another of theatrical interest is Miss
Walker daughter Maj and Mrs John Otey Walker studying
fine New York foregoing vacation
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MRS. ROBERT Louis, and her young
son of Columbus, Ohio, who will be
joined today by Mr.. Louis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Saks and
Mr.. and Mrs Meyer Barnett are in
California.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Frank have
returned from the West Coast.
Mrs. Samuel ]. Pack is spending
the week in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Leo Schoenthal
Visits In New Jersey.
Mrs. Leo S. Schoenthal has been
the guest of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Hess,
at Margate, N. j.. and later in the
month will 60 with her sister, Mrs.
Louis Levy to Miami Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Cafritz have
returned from trip to Nassau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Glaser have
returned from their wedding trip
and are making their home with
Mr.. Glaser's mother, Mrs. Henrietta
Chaser.
Mrs. Emma Sancier and her SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Goldberg, are leaving Thurs
day by motor for Seal Isle, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Goldenberg
have as their guest the formers
sister, Mrs. Julia Liebowitz of Bal
timore.
Miss Dorothy Minister left Friday
for New York to visit her uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. B. I. Bloom
of Chicago.
Mrs. Albert Sigmund has re-
turned from visiting her mother,
Mrs. Louis Schiff, in Charlotte, N. G.
Birthday Party Thursday
At Home for Aged.
The monthly birthday party for
the guests of the Home for the
Aged, 1125 Spring road, will take
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months motor trip which will in
clude Memphis, New Orleans and
Miami
Mr.. and Mrs. William I. Gernand
have just returned to their home in
Country Club Grove after having
spent two weeks in Hollywood, Fla.
The special assistant to the Attor-
ney General, Mr.. Harry B. Fleharty,
and Mrs. Fleharty have with them
for an extended stay the latters
nieces, Miss Lenora and Miss Jean
Doersam of Melbern, Ark.
Mrs. Horace M Patton of Colonial
Village will leave this evening for a
three-week stay with friends and
relatives in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs Ronald v. Ellington
are spending the week end at State
College, Pa, with their daughter,
Miss Ruth Ellington. Friday eve
ming they attended the annual
spring dance of the Gamma Phi
Beta Sorority, of which Mrs. Billing
ton and her daughter are members.
DR.. and Mrs. Lamar Harris and
their family have moved from Lee
highway to their new home on
North Thirtieth street. They have
as their week end guests Mr.. and
Mrs. A. M. Stock of New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Rees have
as their house guest their daughter,
Mrs. S. Ross Shearer of Austin,
Tex.
Mrs. John J. Corson, with her
children, Jay and Nancy Corson,
are spending two weeks in Char
lottesville with Mrs. Corson's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Tilman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vergil Reed of
Golf Club Manor, with Mrs. Reeds
mother, Mrs. Joseph Robertson, are
spending the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. Tilman.
Mrs. George E. Allen, jr., will
arrive this evening from her home
in Richmond to spend several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William M. Stone.
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Tea for DR.. Park

A tea in honor of Or. ]. Edgar
Park, president of Wheaton College,
will be given by the District of
Columbia Wheaton College Club
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Arthur Wellesley Howes, jr.,
b014 Lowell street NV. DR.. Park
will come to Washington to attend
Che dedication of the new National
Gallery of Art which opens tomor-
row evening.
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Florida Resorts Attract
Many Arlingtonians.
A. J. Altmeyers Off for Visit;
Miss Rhoda Lowenberg in
Miami for Fortnight's Stay

Florida sunshine continues to lure
Yesterday Mr. and Mrs Arthur Club Hills left
10 spend several weeks at points
LoWenberg OF Arlington Village ornghts
stay with her brothern law and sister
Mrs. J. E. Tapp Tapp accompanied bv
Mrs Jones and Mr. E. Linton Washington
weeks will Mrs W. England her
father,
Mr. and Mrs Edward spending three
weeks with relatives Tampa
Mr. and Mrs Nelson Skinner
Miss Belle Rollins Rollins have left Arlington on
Evening star., 1941-03-16

ington, recent bride. Other guests
at the tea included the younger
married set.
Mrs. Richard M. Cults is leaving
the first of the week for a visit in
New York.
DR.. and Mrs. George S. Rice left
Tuesday for a vacation of several
weeks in Florida.
1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Frank Leamy,
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who have been residing on Forest
Hills road, moved Tuesday into their
newly completed home on Wood
mont road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bryant, who
have been in Florida since February
Il, arrived home Wednesday after
noon.
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Principal to Speak

The Americanization School and
its work will be discussed by Miss
Maude E. Alton, principal of the
school, at meeting of the Court
District of Columbia No. 212, Catho-
lie Daughters of America, Tuesday
evening at the Willard Hotel. Musi-
cal selections will be given by Mrs.
Estelle Hunt Dean, soprano in the
choir of the Sacred Heart Church,
accompanied by Miss Margaret
Gauges. A short business meeting
at 8 o'clock will precede the pro-
gram.
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Fantasia," the much
discussed Disney, with music con-
Quoted by Stokowski: 220 and $3.50
pm.
Keith's-"Citizen Kane" the ini-
tial Orson Welles film venture: 2:30,
and $3.50 pm.
Earle-"Meet John Doe" Frank
Capra examines today: 1920 am,
lis, 4:05, 6:55 and GAS pm. Stage
shows: 1885, 3:25. 6:15 and eos
pm.
Palace-"That Hamilton Woman!"
and her affair with Lord Nelson:
10:45 am, 1:25, 4:10, $50 and 9:35
pm.
Capitol-"Pot O. Gold" how a ra-
dio show might begin: IL am, lbs
4, 6:25 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows
12:45, $40, 5:35 and 9 pm.
Metropolitan "They Dare MOI
Love-" refugees have their trials
11:25 am, 1:30, $50, 5:35, TAO anc
9:40 pm.
Little-"The Girl in the News
another of those deft and daft Brit.
ish thrillers: 11:25 am, lao, $40
$40, TAO and 9:45 pm.
C0lumbia-"Ziegfeld Girl" musi.
cal story of three of them: 1914.
am, LIS, 4:10, 6:55 and $40 pm
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
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morrow and Wednesday nights at
BIS o'clock at the studio playhouse
in Rock Creek Park Charles
Trainor is playing the Stage Man
ager. and others in important roles
will be Lois Newton, as Emily; Will
liam Mcdonald, as George; Allen
Andrews, Dennis Brown, Joseph
Cohen, Gladys Caswell, Patricia
Irwin and Roy Schatt.
The Falls Church (Va) Com
munity Theater closes its season to-
night with the presentation at Madi-
son School in Falls Church of the
fourth original one-act play in the
contest the group has been staging.
The final entry is a comedy, "Un-
broken Melody" written by John
Baker and being directed by Eliza
beth Webster. The author also Is.
playing a leading role, in a cast
which includes Margaret Bledsoe,
Evelyn Hinman, Dillon Myer, J.
Foster Hagan, Jack Reynolds, Jennie
B. Hill, Betsy Forsythe and Ann
Donovan.
The Players Club of Central Com
munity Center will hold open try
outs Wednesday night at O'Clock
at Central High School The play
being cast, for summer production,
is After Wimpole Street." comedy
concerned with the married lives
of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.
The school groups:
The Footlight Club of Bethesda
Chevy Chase Md) High School will
present Thornton Wilder's THE
Happy Journey" Wednesday night
at o'clock at the school auditorium.
Principal roles will be played by
Jean Defandorf, Jack Rice, Billy
Leitch, Mary Shumate, Martha Sc
bree and Bill Benson. The schools
a capella choir will share the pro-
gram with the Footlight Club.
Members of dramatic classes at
Gunston Hall will stage "An Old
English Custom" Saturday night in
the assembly hall at o'clock. The
cast includes Jean Miles, Mary
Schlubach, Betty Sweet, Sally Roszel,
Charlotte Mellum, Virginia Black,
Ellie Wood Keith, Augusta Clarke,
Hortense Padgett, Mary Kathryn
Willis, Novella Capps and Louise
| Pollum,
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stamps would bear the imprint of
the face of various film personali-
ties and would be mailed in to the
studios, or to some central Holly
wood agency, in exchange for auto
graphs"
Arnold says he would like to hear
from the fans direct as to what tax
plan-if any-would appeal to them
most. Right now you can catch
him at the Paramount Studio.
Joel McCrea's delivery of a mo-
tion picture speech has prompted
Edward H. Zabriskie, associate pro-
fessor of international relations at
the University of Newark, to re-
quest copy of that speech to use
in his lectures, with credit to
McCrea.
The speech was the final one in
Foreign Correspondent" which,
Zabriskie tells McCrea in a letter
recently received by the star, is
considered the most impressively
delivered address of the year.
Joel revealed that he's had many
requests for that same speech
about Americas need for prepared
ness.
Loretta Young is working harder
in the testing and costume depart
ments of Columbia than she ever
will when the picture, Tonight Be-
longs to U.s." gets under way.
During the past few days, I've
submitted to 48 hairdress tests"
Loretta said. "And that's by actual
count, too. I've already been filmed
in Is different costumes and there
are u more to be okayed and pho
tographed. They've shot enough
film on me to make five-reeler."
Loretta, who says she's feeling
mighty we'll again (and looks it,
Is to play the role of a theatrical
celebrity of another century. Dean
brigham Young Jaeger will be
the hero and some more fancy
heroine-haunting will be done by
that sinister, yet fascinating Con-
rad Veidt.
CReleased By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine)
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roaring old melodramas in the tradi-
tion which has made the group and
it's Rockville pike barn playhouse
well-nigh famous hereabouts. The
title is The Mountain Limited"
Following this, in the order listed,
will come:
Too Much Johnson" an old
comedy by William Gillette, about
a certain Mr.. Billings, who becomes
embroiled with another mans wife
and is saved from a fate he does
not feel he deserves by his ability to
lie superbly;
Insured at Lloyds," a rousing
melodrama of life on the sea;
A surprise show, marking the
middle of the season, promising to
be quite different from anything
else on the program;
"To Die at Dawn" melodrama hit
of the 1885 season, still ranking high
among all the old-time thrillers
Roadside has presented;
"Tennessee's Partner" an old-time
Western drama, story of a high
class" gangster's romance with an
untutored mountain girl, one of the
hits of the turn of the century;
'Davy Crockett" one of the most
popular melodramas of the last half
of the last century. the original star
Of which, Charles Mayo, chalked up
1000 performances, then stopped
counting.
The Cross Roads Theater, down
at Bailey's Cross Roads, Va, plans
to present 10 plays this summer,
each to run one week. OF the 10,
only have been definitely set so
far and dates for these are not
arranged at the moment.
The season here opens with
George Washington Slept Here
the Moss Hart-George S. .Kauf-
man comedy which grew out of Mr..
Hart's experiences in Pennsylva-
MAS well-known Bucks County
retreat. This opens June II, runs
through June %, the theater being
open Sundays and dark Mondays
this year.
Other items on the schedule are
Goodbye Again" (Which will CO.
star Catherine and Reginald Allen) /,
P. G. Wodehouse's Good Morn
ing, Bill" "Skylark" and Reserve
Two for Murder" which will be the
Summers one mystery play at
Cross Roads.
The week:
Students of the King-Smith
Playhouse, who last week presented
a thoroughly commendable produc-
ton of Kind Lady" now stage
Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." as
the second of two spring plays.
This Is scheduled for tonight, to-
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nouncement was premature, that all
the returns were not in. Now that
the public has spoken, it seems the
picture is "Out of the Fog"
Which is precisely what we prob
ably never shall be again!
y X
Apt enough to serve SatiriSt as
title for a report on Washington
cat least every now and them is
Crazy With the Heat" which hap
pens to be the name of the tabloid
musical which the Capitol an
nounced today as booked for some
time in July.
That would be the Willie Howard
show which ran this season on
Broadway at a $3.50 top. The ver-
sion to be brought here will be
briefer but the cast still will include
Willie, Mary Raye and Naldi, noted
dance team, and Diosa Costello,
noted bombshell. Miss Costello
dances the title number of the show,
which should give you an idea of the
difference between it and the usual
musical comedy, in which title num-
berS are merely sung.
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to Crash the Movies" The boy
and his mother, Detroiters, have
been in Hollywood haunting the
studios since last September. Their
daily rounds of casting Offices got
nothing, not even promises.
Then Billy decided on a daring
plan Hearing that Korda was
looking for a 10-year-old to play
one of the pictures key roles, he
did something never attempted by
an aspirant in this town before
He wrote scene for himself
learned it thoroughly and then
sold the casting Office and Korda
on the idea of testing him in his
own self-written, self-directed
script.
The plan was so radically differ
ent that Korda fell for it. Now
he's glad he did. Billy looks like
the juvenile find of 1941. In I'll
lusions," he'll play the highly dra-
matte role of a little blind boy
doing most of his scenes opposite
Miss Oberon.
y II X X
With new taxes under conSidera-
ton for practically every other
commodity, Edward Arnold, presi-
dent of the Screen Actors Guild
is raising a collective Hollywood
eyebrow with the suggestion that
a tax should be levied on screen
stars autographs.
The beneficiary in this instance,
Arnold points out, would be the
motion picture relief fund. For
some time Arnold has been trying
to work out a practical system
whereby an assessment might be
put in effect.
$50 many actors tell me they
like to sign autographs and feel
it is service they should give
free to the fans" he said. But if
the fans knew that by paying a
few cents they were aiding needy
persons in the film industry, I'm
sure they would be glad to con-
tribute. In my own case I've proved
it, and I'm no Gable or Flynn who
gets a pile of romantic missives.
1--WE had discussed a plan for SELL
ing stamps at flve-and-dime stores
throughout the country. These
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Singer Signed

A promising screen discovery was
credited to Columbia Pictures, with
the signing on a term contract by
that studio of Janet Blair, brown
eyed, chestnut-haired dance band
vocalist from Altoona, Pa, who
already has a fan following from
coast to coast as a result of her
appearance with the orchestra of
the late Hal Kemp.
Janet Is slated to make her screen
debut in a singing spot in You'll
Never Get Rich" forthcoming
filmusical in which Fred Astaire and
Rita Hayworth will be co-starred
by Columbia. The picture, with
Cole Porter music, is being readied
to 90 into production under the
direction of Sidney Lanfield. Beyond
that, the new screen find is to be
groomed for dramatic roles.
OF Irish descent cher real name
is Martha Janet Lafferty), Janet
Joined the Hal Kemp band upon
Evening star., 1941-05-26

Iys tlloU W1lot Al
right about a profitable one is its
title. The cerebral sweat that goes
into the evolution of THE Life and
Death of John Doe" into the final,
Meet John Doe" would amaze you
Or the torment of men who start
with two dull words like Lady
Hamilton" and are charged with
transposing them into something
30 pregnant with drama as That
Hamilton Woman" You have to
live through a problem like that to
understand how it turns gray the
hair, puts wrinkles in the face,
wracks the brain, and shakes the
soul of man.
Now tired of the gray, the wrin-
kles, the wracks and the shakes,
especially the shakes, Hollywood
turns (palms outstretche0 to the
public for surcease from the pain.
X \ X X
Pioneering the new palliative Is
Warner Bros. Studio. Its method is
q simple, straightforward one that
Is much easier on the public than
many another might have been. 1t
involves listing number of possible
titles on a card, sending or handing
the card to the passerby, asking him
to check the title he thinks most
suitable, and then counting the
votes when all returns are in.
Either the result of a desperate
sharing of the feeling that some
thing ought to be done about pic
ture titles, or because it has been
30 well trained to automatic re-
Spouse to the poll or quiz business,
the public has entered spiritedly
into the game. Eighty per cent OF
those exposed to the program have
responded, Warner Statisticians re-
port ever so happily.
The long term results of letting
the people name their pictures, SO
to speak, are not yet apparent. The
immediate effect, however, is visible
to the naked eye on few non-local
marques and will be apparent
locally almost as soon as the light
bulbs can be affixed. Even before
that, this department is in posi-
ton to reveal what it will be.
So near in the offing that one
can almost hear its painting is a
picture titled Million Dollar Baby"
It Is the first local sample of what
the public can do when it sets its
mind to naming pictures. To realize
what brilliant sample it is, one has
only to know that the original, or
studio, name for the picture was the
Iongish, dullish miss Wheelwright
Discovers America"
What the public did to that one
when 1t discovered Miss Wheel
wright was a baby with a million
bucks shows what it's thinking!
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That the drama department
which wants to be sure it knows a
pictures title may have to walk up
to pretty strangers from Keokuk or
Philadelphia-here to see the Mon
ument-to find out Is intimated in
another product of the poll system.
Just last week, for example, it
was printed here Tin a spirit of in
nocent mystification) that Irwin
Shaw's Broadway play, "The Gentle
People" had been retired Danger
Harbor."
It turns out now that the an
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CHUuIBIy, IC IldS IeSUI IeU 10 IIIe pUII'
rs the solution of the desolating,
maddening problem of what to call
Evening star., 1941-05-26

Its pi c t ur e S.
"Whst to call"
refers to suitable
titles, not to
what you are
thinking.
Almost incon-
ceivably beyond
the imagination
Of the innocent
customers is the
cinema's belief
that W h a t is
wrong with a
wrong picture Is
Its title. And,
orr l a t iv e.
lxr fhof what Is
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Olivia's Partner

Olivia de Havilland and George
Raft, who've never been in pic
ture together before, will be CO.
starred in "All Through the Night" !"
to be produced soon by Warner
Bros.
Evening star., 1941-05-26

graduating from high school and
remained with the combination until
the leaders recent death in an
automobile crash.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Local Drama Groups
Barn Theaters Announce Plans
For Summer Is Icumen In
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

good time as let you know Of the plans
Roads and Roadside mdune opening the former June IT
and the Roadside June 16
group will present productions summer
schedule
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Precocious Boy Writes
His Own Screen Test
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

10-year-old test
the minor sensations of moand currently The
his talent landed
with Alexander Koda to play important Illusions
starring
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Movies Now Pass the Buck
To Public on Film Titles
That Old Torment of the Wrong Name
May Vanish With Customers
Going for Trick Like Mad
By JAY CARMODY.

The time when answering
questions in polls quiz that there will be
anything else Not which would thing
for love- the playing bathing
would not a
knew all the
apparently yet
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-26
. SERIAL STORY
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!

Her lips were only a few inches
from his He kissed her, gently
at first, then with a passion that
made the blood pound in his head.
"Oh, darling, darling" she muir
INJURED.
"Stephanie honey" he
whispered, crushing her in his
arms.
Pete staggered into his hotel
room at that morning. The
liquor had left him soggy. His
head ached aid he was dog tired.
Tiptoeing into the room, he
bothering to undress.
Suddenly the light flicked on,
and Landers sat up in bed, rub
bling is yes. "Where've you been ?"
he grumbled.
None of your business"
snapped Pete.
"Oh, yes it is, brother" retorted
Landers. now fully awake. It's
my business until this seasons
over"
He got out of bed and walked
over to Pete. Been drinking.
huh" he growled. Not enough
to leave Anne, the team and 500
alumni in the lurchl Sure, that's
fine. Double-cross the whole
bunch for some Hollywood tramp
Pete bolted out of bed. Say
that again, and I'll tear you
apart"
Landers laughed. why, you
stew-bum. / could break you in
two when you're sober. Drunk,
l wouldn't dirty my hands" he
sneered.
Pete tried to push Landers away
but he was too tired. too dizzy.
Landers grabbed his collar and
pulled him close. Listen, punk, :"
he snarled, I'm not going to say
this again. l thought you were
too smart a guy to kick away
everything you have at stake. But
that's your business. The teams
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