The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 6

by Haroll Rell Waight | EXIT Tony Latour’s do- Harriet Noel re- marriage proposal £ flight te New York with the proceeds of a benefit play. Thu: financed, he be- ecmes an or, soon being jeined by Harriet, wh) mcon- while has left Orchard Mill for the stage. But Tony returns fo the village after a bitter q r.1 following his discovery Harrict's engagement fo Doncvan, their manager years after little Pi Donovan doserts his wif rict, taking with him h son, Bruce. Then she returns with her son, also talented the atrically, to lye in Orch Hill, where, despite the - sipers, she finds Toay a true fricnd. Little Ann ¥ dcvoted playmate happincss, cloud comes to live wit A SYNOP: ir when his his | ceive my cue from the s and I, Tc scenes have pr and 1d step ings. You played many stage. We with sor lodramatic. etime: h we have [ my little Pierre. They ng the curtain down when I my exit line and leave the| Tony. on and on and on. ierre will cont. togethe: You | > wings watching will come next and I together exit ¢ i then you atch Pierre’.” When it was all over nio sought to comfort littl ierre with the beauti h the bey’s m {him, the child ac said h:‘u\c' 1 know, Father Tony, mother e: plained it all to me before she made iher exit. I am actor, t00, so 1 understand.” Harriet had made Antonio the léegal guardian of her son and ex- ecutor of her will. She left in trust a small sum, which by careful econ- Jomy she had saved, to be given to | Pierre when he reached the age of 20 in order tr he might have funds for his training in the the- | 1 wil D!h:n\u])h\ | | shares the when Bruee Harriet HARRIL an it seems, ‘he theatrical vy, Bruce, to Perhaps he, a he sent is a m wished to rid Perhaps som love fo merely burden. or wanted to live with | certain of the villagers a protest that Antonio feared they would have him de- 1d become of his stepfather. |clared by the court morally unfit to Bruce Car even at this age,‘fl(! as the boy's guardian. When he was overbearing, insolent and recalls this the old actor laughsand without mercy when he set himself says, “I was lucky they did not to gain his own ends. But he burn me at the stake.” So a home quickly learned that now, without 'for Pilerre was found with a child- his stepfather to support him, he less couple whose religion Orchard must exercise judgment in his do- Hill approved. minion over his foster brother. So| “And now that the actress mother he disciplined little Pierre in se- is gone” said Orchard Hill tri- cret, and dared the smaller boy umphantly, “and that horrid actor, tell. Antonio Latour, has found that he ' On one occasion only cannot dn what he pleases with rebellion, sudden, decisive and dis- | Der son, Pierre Donovan will have astrous, to the older boy. Bruce |3 chance.” taunted Pierre with a disparaging | Old Tony chuck!es, “There I was remark about his mother. It w unanimously voted the most dis- as if he had touched a match to reputable character Orchard Hill| powder, and a stone flung with had ever produced—their perennial | savage intent by the furious Pi prize exhibit to prove the terrible | cat his head cpen so successfully effect of evil living—and I might that he was carried home uncon- have reminded them that I had scious with his assailant following |been raised exactly as they pro- in tears iposed to raise Pierre. But I did The y not. And the poor fools never riet was ill ne knew how fervently I thanked God the vigorous, that Pierre could have such a good ¥ times almost beyond her home. The couple was kindly th Mr. G on, one pair who had always wanted chil- of our v offered to Gren. The man was a generous pro- give Bruc and help him ' vider and his wife a most excellent to an education, the boy in return 'cook. As for my unholy influence to work in the store out of school I was confident that re and I hours, Antonio insisted that the could manage somehow oifer be accepted. B he actress mother had im- The rest which came with the pressed herself too strongly upon elimination of Bruce enabled Har- | the sensitive nature of her son for riet to rally and, for a while, she the years to efface her image. To seemed quite well and strong again. |Plerre and his Father Tony her But gradually her illness returned presence continued as if, indeed, and as her vitality slipped away, she were—in her own words the spiritual side of her nature be- standing in the wings. Increasing- came more evident. ly dear to Pierre s his Father The championship of mother Tony; increasingly dear to the old and son became more intimate and 'actor was the son of the woman he understanding. Plerre could not, had loved. of course, realize as Tony did, the; Many wonderful hours did An- full import of his mother’s failing tonio spend with Harriet's boy in strength, but the lad’s sensitive na- that little hillside retreat behind ture responded and he became in- the willows in the pasture and creasingly thoughtful for her. Vaca- many times in that sacred place did tion time came and they were to- [they speak of the things deep in gether constantly. | their hearts: of Pierre’s mother and To Antonio, during those slow her dreams for him, of his training months of her illness, Harrlet said for the stage, and of the future many things which she could not which was to place his name among have mentioned under other circum- |the truly great actors of his gen- stances—things which are too sa- eration. cred for the old actor to whisper| OIld Tony says, “He was a hand- even to himself. |some youngster, tall and strong But of her approaching death, I\thh his abundant physique, health Harriet Noel talked to her old{and energy, he loved life as he friend with amazing rreedom—‘lowd the theatre. To him, life was even with a smile. “You see,” the a glorious play and every person old actor explains, “she made me{an interesting character acting a understand and accept death not as | part. ifit were the end of the play, but| “He never waveted in his pur- as if it were merely the actor's|pose to become a great actor and exit from the stage. ‘I feel’ she|hoarded his small savings to add would say, ‘exactly as I used to feel |to the fund his mother had left in in a play when I knew that in an- |trust for his education for the other minute or two I would re- stage.” Tony, but raised such e the boy under The boy himself ve no clew, nor did he know there was ar that Bruce was 14, Har- rly all winter and 1f-willed boy taxed a 1 our acting com- heads. can't »s have | maw This difference in |In the District |In |any THE DAILY ALASKA EMPTRE THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931. It was natural that young Pierre should take Jenerous part in am- ate and in this he was ac s mother that tho had known Harriet in her girlhood whispered anew th’* <0"1\ old scandals which ha. v had other foundation Lnan imagination of little minds. “Poor Pierre,” the villagers would say with a doubtful shake of their “He’s a nice boy, but he | never amount to much with start he got from that actress and that good-fer-nothing old , Tony Latour.” Because Orchard Hill was only a small country village the relation- ship between Pierre and Bruce |had been LARGE REDS - FOR his who the A total of p And the play will go|Carey continued almost as if they | Bay area up to last Saturday according to at lo ate: nt under the same roof. When- n occasion arose the older | today asserted his authority, and |United Pierre outgrew his childish |from Ag of the dom g Bruce, his |eight per c abit of yielding to him remained. |Was red salm the natures of | Indications, the two boys was most noticeable | excellent for to watchful Old Tony in the matter | sections of of their mutual interest in Ann|U t vhicl Bevis—the little girl whom Pierre 1 impr |at a very early age had decided :o reported D. m been counted the bureau's usu; large season. No I 1930, by and Co.) Appleton | Ann or a career? How like his mother’s test is that com- ing to Pierre temorrow. Then —a golden cpportuni - OF HEARING Court for the Ter- ritory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau. the matter of the application| of Nancy Ellen Pyne for change of name Notice is hereby given that Ellen Pyne has filed an application in the above entitled court asking that her name be changed from Nancy Ellen Pyne to Nancy Ellen Acklen, and that a hearing will be had upon said application in the District Court at Juneau, Alaska, at 11 o'clock a.m. on July 8th, 1931 All persons may appear at said|on the time and place and show cause, if |at 11 they have, why the prayer of |and place Said applicant should not be grant-|Said ma ed and her name changed heard. Dated at Juneau, Alaska, GIV! 29th day of June, 1931 seal of (Court Seal) JOHN H. DUNN, neau, Clerk. |19 LEIVERS, Deputy. | 1931. NOTICE OF NOTIC TION FO One, In the at Jur Nancy| ation | PUBLIC N | GIVEN, That filed in the [y ing that dissolved; {been ordered 20th ock all o' SN und the ska the By: J. 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