tut trout so run:
WK“ GORDON. beautilul
mus“
I g 3 wet“. or
interline is fun and line
hell . . . but no work or.
A Site refuses to do her own
housework. uni hires 'a mold
But Dick has to let the mold
to. Gloria has swamped him
with debts for clothes and
till“!!- ‘
She becomes inletuated with
ll! out-of-worh actor. STANLEY
WAYBUBN, and follows him to
New York. But he spurns her.
Then she tries to get a lobe
the stage as a chorus girl and
tails. Discouraged, she comes
home to Dick. lie takes her. >
hark, but not as his Wife.
Gloria begins to suspect hell
he is In love with his secretary.
SUSAN BRIGGS. At last she
wrhlgs lrom lilies Brings a con-
leselon that she is in love with
Dick. and insists that Dick dis-
charge her. When he refuses.
site goes home to her mother.
Dick puts his house up for
sale and goes to live with his
father and mother. lie sends
Gloria 550 weekly. but she re-
turns it to him. and goes to
work. lier employer rushes love
to her and she resigns her posi-
4 tion. She hasn't suillcicnt cour-
age to go out alter another lob.
Finally she makes up her mind
to go homo-to her own home.
She gets the key of the house
‘ lrom Miss Briggs, buys some gro-
ceries and goes. Alter she has
eaten her lonely supper. she
makes up her mind to telephone
Dick and beg him to come to
her. But Dick’s mother answers
the phone, and advises Gloria
not to communicate with Dick
any more. Gloria realizes that
Dick‘s mother wants him to di-
vorce her.
iNOW GO ON “El'l‘ll THE STORY)
OTHER GREGORY turned
away {tom the telephone to
meet Dick coming in from the
back yard. “Why, I thought you'd
gone!" she said in surprise. “and I
just told a fit) without knowing it.
. . . Gloria called up. and I said
you‘d irons out for the evening."
Dick considered. “I guess it's
Just as well you did." he said after
a. time, “we don’t get anywhere,
talking things over. It’s just a
waste of time.”
.His mother drew a long breath
that caused all the black jet bonds
to heave on her vast bosom. “l cer-
tainly am glad to hear you say that!"
she declared. “Your father and 1
Above been afraid you’d go back to
her. all along. She’ is not the'woman
. for ion. Dick and never wt. sl"
Dick twlried his hat in his hands.
"I came back here for my brief
case," he said. “Have you seen it?"
His mother walked into the living
room and roturhed. with itA'in her
capable hands. " 'A place for every-
thing and everything in its place.‘ "
she quoted. “If you'd only‘put that
brief case on the hall table you‘d al-
ways know where it was! . . .
Where are you going?"
“Down to the olilce."
ewered shortly.
Ills mother followed him out onto
‘the wide side porch that overlooked
the driveway and the back yard.
“Now. don't be silly and call Glory
up " she said, as be bent to kiss her
goodly
“She probably didn’t want to say
much of anything. anyway " Dick
answered. “but i think i'il give her
'a ring and see what she wanted. "
' He resented his mother’s advice.
Didn't she realize that he was a
grown man. well .overmthirtyl Or did
mothers elways lee] that. way about
their sons—that they were still little
boys. even when“ their hair turned
gray?
At the first drug store Dick
stopped and went in to telephone his
wife at her mother's house.
“Why. Glorys not here!" Mrs.
Dick on.
Gordon said, when she answered the
"Don't,,you' know where she
phone.
is?"
"How should I
,asked helplessly.
leave the house?"
know?" Dick
"When did she
C?
"Well. she called me about an
hour ago." Dick said. "When she
comes home ask her to call the at
my office. will you?"
He climbed into his car and drove
downtown at break-neck speed. so
as not to miss Gloria's next telephone
message when she called again.
That is, it she (lid call again. . . .
lie unlocked the door of his office
and went in. Miss Briggs was eit~
ting at her desk. With her long while
hands draped over the keys of her
typewriter. She looked as if she
had been sitting that way a long
time.
“i thought I told you not to work
into these hot nights, Susy'” Dick
sail neveieiv. closing the outer door
behind him.
"I m not working.‘ lilies Brigg.
answered. duiiy. “And it's. not lute
-—only eight o’clock."
As she spoke o clock somewhere
across the roofs of the city chimed
eight. '
“lies Mrs. Gregory called up here
tonight for me?” was Dick‘s next
question.
Miss Briggs
brown head. "No
inaudlhiy.
She sat motionless.
shook her smooth
she said. almost
chair where he had laid
turned toward his private office.
for something vital—stupendous.
‘odlce.
again.
said.
you?"
"About five o'clock."
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Only her blue
cy i moved as she watched him take
off his hat and hang it up lie
picked up his hrief4‘ase from the
it and
sue Briggs could seetthat there
was a sort of restlessness upon him.
He seemed to be waiting feverishly
“Be sure to call me if she does
phone." he said as he went into his
In a. minute or two he came out
“Call up Mrs. Gregory's mother
and ask if she's there, please." be
"You know the number, don’t
lilies Briggs knew the number. She
had called it scores of times for Dick
during the months he had been cadet down in it.
gazed to Gloria. . . . it had always
Her mouth twisted and a tear slid from under her lids.
hurt lye abominably to call the,
number. It hurt her now . . . ilk
an old wound. But she called in
number in a brisk. cheerlui voice.
is
ported to'chk. “tier motller‘eeyp
she doesn't know when to expect
her."
dark hair.
slink!) aloud
this morning to see you." she sat.
husklly.
tell me?“ he asked sharply. “Where
was i when she was here?"
and I forgot to tell you about it.” i
(lice.
Dickl . . . She hadn't wanted to
tell him about Gloria's visit. Add it
Dick knew it.
spoken misery in her eyes. i
something. Mr. Gregory." she sat.
after a moment "i was just going
to telephone you about it when you
came in tonight. . . . i
on.
have done it . . . but 1 gave Mrs.
Gregory the key to your house to
day.”
asked.
than . ._ . at the house!“ Dick e‘x
claimed.
answered dryly.
nervo. her gallantry. to say those
three small words in hint that tone.
Dick go into his office.
the crcnk or his swivel chair as he
long silence. . . . She knew that be
mun-L
. «r “5:?-
”do: a... “
en
.lll
‘wi
m
in
"No. she hasn't come in." she re}
Dick ran his hand through his
“liut good Lord: Where
site?" he asked. unaware that he -
Susan Briggs cleared her throat
"Mrs. Gregory came into the oilic‘e
A4“
Dick wheeled. "Why didn't' yoh
”You had just gone out to lunch "
i
A telltale blush mounted to h r
She had not forgone to tel
She looked nt him with her up-
“I suppose i ought to tell you
n
Dick walled silently for her to go
"i don't know .whether i should
she said ut last. i
"Did she ask you for it?" Dick
Susan Briggs nodded
"Well, I ll bet that‘s where she is,
the eyes lighted. E
S
"I wouldn't. wonder.” Sue Brig
it took all of her
From under her lashes she saw
She heard
Then there was a
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"'Mr Mr. enmr- she began
a con to he tut-then
Will
truth not
write tell the men she loved that
any more because he was in love
heart was broken and that there
never would be any Happiness any.
where for her again. And yet that
was the truthl . . . Anything else
was it lie.
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tlon at courier one where i will re~
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tin Dick's desk where he would be
sure to see it tlrllt thing in the morn.
ine..
allies she brushed against his old
times cost hanging against the well.
it annulled of the modem he smoked :
in that villainoUs pipe at his.
sleeves of it ‘still hold the shape of
Susan Briggs answered. "and . . 1. hi! arms. -A ~ .
eyelids. - i ,
her belongings.
lights. and went.
up-Athe floor of the corridor.
her was a small girl with enormous
black eyes and a mop 0: straight
black hair. As Susan Briggs pulsed ,
her she held up her doll tor her to ‘
admire.
"See Dolly?“ she said. Miss Briggs “V‘ ‘
brushed passed her and weaken s
‘ few steps.
and saw the small girl's eyes. They
were the eyes that all children have"
tor strange and sudden crueltios . ‘~ ,
hurt and bewildered.’
ind 'her esr.
"romeo. Ho cer-
inevitable brlel
there where he
her heads still A
list. she did
and at his re-
tear down
'e‘nd pencils.
poivder. a face y
in handy box full ‘
e room where
alloy rem
”tilt began to write:
intuit say to him? The
' 0. She couldn't
e Wasn‘t going to work tor him
tit his wife and not with her!
She couldn't tell him that her
Well. then. she would have to tell
She Mined her hands above the
outline, held them poised there an
slant. on {hip wrote rapidly:
"1 am in: this opportunity to
”Sincerely yours. ~
SUSAN Juices.“
She neither dated it nor sealed n
. . just laid it in the wire basket
As she turned to go out of his
The
Susan Briggs put her aims around
it. hugging it close to her breast.
and laid her cheek against its rough A.
tl'i'eod surface.
ller mouth misled
nd a tear slid from under her closed .
Suddenly she loosened her hold of
the coat and let it swing back into “A
place.
she untried out of the chine.
in the outer room she pickediup
snapped out. Abe
A cleaning woman was moppinx
'Behitlfl
Then she turned wand.
Susan ran back and pressed a
nickel into the child: small grimy
palm.
"Poor babyi" she said. Her eye!
were blinded with tours as she went ‘
down the stairs and out of the build» .
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The Nash; Baymo d
.Lee Worthi'agA and others. The story
at. midanight with n youdg men with
, feature picture. The picture will 'be
. a cathedral in theAAnew James Craze
A’l.‘ ulna PALACE.
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Big Picture in line addition to Van-
delilie Show. ’
M
ter for the last times today. This
picture combined with five spiel‘idid'
acts or vaudeville makes a program
which is hard to boot»
. "Night Life in New York" has a
wonderful array of stars in its cost.
The stars who appear in the picture
ln‘the ewveral rotor are.-A , Dorothy
Gish Rod Ls. Recalls. Ernest Tor-
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ot the picture deals with New York
plenty of money trying to threw his
fortune away. The lead 'act in the
vaudeville is the "Dixie Revue." a
singing and dancing not.
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Stuart Holmes and Aime. Bennett;
The story is from the novel hv
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Wonder! claim. .
Allergest‘ motioli
inside a stage,"
. Described no "t
picture set over b
production. ,"Bemt; oil Horseback."
attracted hide attelitiol‘l in Holly-
wood during the filming of the luv-
ish spectacle. ‘
The cathedral had an ectuel seat»
in: capacity of 1.200 persons. and
more than 3000 could have been
crowded inside its walls.
In this enormous building occurs
the "jazz wedding“ of Edward Eve-
rett Horton and Gertrude Shore, can.
’t Three other sets’vlrtuaily as latte
,were constructed at the studio tor
the picture. ‘makltlg the production
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"Nifihi “‘9 l“ N3" York" 4‘ the ‘trcat. The picture is now playing at
lecture picture at the Palace thou-into Riulto Theater. it not only giv
you an opportunity to brush up
history but also introduces one
the sweetest romances ever offered
on the screen. .
to be 60, one years old has been ‘
found' near here in the "Msnmoth"
caverns at Pollau. The “Venus" is
six inches high and mode of line-
grained sandstone. This remarkable;
pies of crattmenship is supposed to
represent the pertect women or til t
period. which. it estimated/are c r4
rect, was during the Old Stone Age.
time is indicated by figures on We
ismell panels. instead of by heads
pointing to numerals on a round"
3 ‘r’eded to be. one of the most fantastic .
' events or its kind ever conceived. ‘
llorfibaek." opening a threwiuyru
today ht the Regent Theater. it
an adaptation by Mom Woods
ih eKatgtpan-Cormolly stage hit.
we... “——
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"The Iron Horse" is a real movie"
A NCIEST CENU. l‘ODV'D
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the hours are changed the same
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