Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 111

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—FEBRUARY 16, 1930, The Heroines of Fiction By W. E. HILL (Copyright, 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The heroine of the small town story. Thisbe Perkins lives with her ma and pa in a small 1 lowa community wiere everybody is very rude The mystery story. and unrefined. Night after night, with no one \ Things certainly did to love her but her pare who are napping H look black for Lady in their chairs. Thisbe n the parlor lon # Diana Dalrymple- ing for life and love and beauty. When sh: i 2594 y Croop when she was can stand it no longer, she walks out to the i A 3 i discovered by Jimmy Lutheran Cemetery and buries her face in the z 3 Rockbottom, the rich uptucned loam and wenders why she was 3 cleverest man in born, and if it would be all right to pass the H 9 Scotland Yard, rifling time of day with the big, hairy garage helper | & the poehiets snd sufe at the Elite gas station on Main street, seeing of the murdered that they have never been introduced. Very ambassador of Ak- tragic. bar. Inspector Rock- bottom knew that Lady Diana must be The censored heroine. innocent, even “Tides of the Soul” is one though there was the of those delightful English reek of exploded cor- novels which, on account dite in her curls, and of the censor, are barred !‘e set out to prove from the U.S. A, and are it. It all comes out consequently in great de- right, and the bogus mand from New York to Prime Minister of San Francisco. Rhoda, the Tunasia confessed to heroine, is one of twenty- the murder. eight daughters of an Eng- lish curate, with a great many very up-to-the- minute views. Rhoda finally leaves the home ties and sets up housekeeping in London with a gir! friend i g whose views are «Lven The biography. “A Queen of Deception” s €75k more advanced. Pages and is really a true story, because the jacket 2 pages of introspection. blurb says it is based on the tragic loves of Louida, deposed Empress of Schlitzen- Schlotzen, and mistress of the reigning King of Sodaberg from 1521 to 1688. The book is full of choice anecdotes that have 2 : 5 to do with the historically great. Once, f / The juvenile tale. Little Roberta Bear, heroine of “How Granny Bear on a bear-baiting party in the woods of v Saved Wee Wee the Otter from a Bad Scolding,” is out with her Nussel, Louida met Alired the Fingerless, ; ? N 3 granny. They are going to call on Uncle Roy Bear. incognito. “Wouldst be afraid to ride R & | J ; wi_tc;\ Il’;l‘(‘, kiddile"' said Alfred. “Nein,” sai uida, “I've never walked home yet!” It was Louida who is said to have remarked on her death bed, “Love is certainly the bunk' Scandinavian prize novel. Ingebord, the beautiful Finn, works in a barnyard and meets Olaf among the pigs, heifers, fer- tilizer, and such. Of course, it is love in the end, but at first Ingebord pre- tends to love no one but the pig, Helma, and Olaf is mad with jealous rage. Very literary. Not so hot for those who like their girl heroines a la Hollywood. The Confessions Magazine. “After baby came 1 decided T ; Tt to look for a job, and as I had always sung in our choir Enpacwsprint column heroine. “Dear in Garske, N. Dak., I thought I could get work with the jopeharrassing Moment Editor: Not Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City. I was B ?E" my boy friend took me to a alone and friendless, and when 1 met Ro'f on the train, ‘-"“P!“"yh Socert, and our ‘scats lhmhl hm;{ 21" mi\;j hopes and plans. When we got to zf:i':::g' heiu :(’l"::":'gw (‘l’lfr.'"" """l"“‘;-"' the city, Rolf told me he was none other than Gatti A o> Giningia targo, Cazazza, the impresario, and I, in my simplicity, be- Eai‘;",""‘“;‘“?';'_'l{ Jpushed him over the Where the West hegins. The boys who do pic- The serial heroine. “With a catch in his throat, Larry gazed astoundedly lieved him. He was so big and strong, and he told me '“"] ¢ fell into the orchestra. Of tures for the Western stories love dearly to show at the vision of Diana Bellingham slowly descending the onyx stairw y. he would take me right up to the opera house, where course, I had told all my girl friznds the heroine looking out over the can ‘Valesquez must have painted her, he murmured at length.” | Van R, PP a2 it we were to sit in a box, and when - : L4 o . | . H t gth. arry Van they were rehearsing ‘The Giddy French Flirts, and thiey Wound T sw A Sntrd “l the arroyas, while the wind docs the t Foule and Diana Bellingham are the high lights in “Diamond Clasps,” that probably I could have Jeritza's part, as they were w;i~ 10;_‘“' o "" J in gallery things to her curls. Just for a change, here one of those serials of the ex; ve higher socicty type. Everybody is giving her the air that week. Oh, if I had only had a had “\hah YLy ”|" barrassed. I never croine with her curls blowing a’'l the wrong wa ery beautiful and fearfully rich, and there are Palm Beach bathing mother to guide me! Again 1 had been cruclly de. VidalBiauciMiey s mlomdnt Wild West girls are usually named Vaughn, or . yachts, cocktails, bridge, dukes and Park avenue pent hous ceived ! SRR Shirley, or Dawn, and they usually marry strong, 'he swell heroine, becoming bored with the rich wasters, marries a poor grim, determined men who are tender as the dove man with only ten million, and they live happily in a 49-room bungalow underneathv hard exteriors. at Piping Rock. D/ wm ) ba) S T30 (X