Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1932, Page 22

_B-6 EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUEsDAY, uR 27, 1932 BYNOPSIS FOR PRECEDING INSTALL- MENTS. Judy Allison had been in Chicago for six months without finding work and her fi wired”her to return to her home in Kansas. | & Seauty Builder progiam at his studio. Judy was chosen. She was 1o work three mornings a week for $40 a week. While Judy was_ talking w the Beauty Builder pro- | dette came up and asked d thrown her down after for_some new kid After Lona left. Day and ot lots of radio wa o d Tie up azainst it money badly, vator to go to his office. Lona 2, Maliclots elance and laughed ‘While Judy was T raing with . £reatly disturbed by a telephone call a d he would call back in five minutes. When she reached as waiting them was a tall, regal g CHAPTER 9. ICK was going to dance with - the girl in white satin. The girl draped her arm around Dick's shoulder. Holding him much closcr than_she ought to. Looking up at him. Laughing a Jot. And moving with him through the crowd. Graceful. A good dancer. Too good, almost professional, Judy thought A flame of jealousy swept through her. But now Dick was looking at Judy over the girl's shoulder. Falsing his ey “Dick! That was the nicest thing anybody ever did for me. The very nicest.” brow, nodding. Dick making words with his mouth without saying them. Vords? He cidn't nexd to make . She knew what he was think- All at once she didn't hate the girl tn white satin. She found herself | feeling rather sorry for her. For all the girls who listened to Dick’s smooth, deep voge, and wondered about it and dreamed . . . The music ended. The people didn't want it to end. They didn't want to go back to their tables. to the smell of food, 1o the clink of glasses. But they had to. The music was over. The men in the orchestra were filing out of the band- stand, disappearing, hurried. A man with a cu a violin was with Dic! . I thought I'd never get back,” aid. seemed to be happy dancing t girl,” Judy smiled. part of my job. Her father So what?” aid Judy, somehow Just part of be- ing a public figure. And the girl in white satin might have a gown that cost 10 times as much as Judy's, but that wouldn't h “Judy. I want you to meet Ben Ber- ‘ve heard of Ben Bernie, of course " “Heard of him? I've heard him and wanted to meet him for years and years. Only—" Bernie smiled Not as young and handsome as I was, Miss Allison. But I've my charms. I'm the old maestro, you know . Of course. We used to listen for you every night back in Hiawatha.” “Hiawitha.” Judy crimsoned. “It's in Kansas. It's got 3.211 people and a thousand automobiles.” “Good for Hiawatha. And I'm glad to have met you, Miss Allison. We'll se you ofte “I hope so, A man much as he amuced them. A man, Jud? membered. who soid things that were Old_microbe. somcbody And instead of being angry about the name, Ben Bernie liked it and used it and laughed at it. Nice man “Good-by, Mr. Bernie.” | “Good-by | He was gone, and people were saying. *Hy, Ben!” and “Hello, there, old pal!” | and most of them didn't know him at all, most of them were just making their girls think they knew him because he Was & somebody. ‘ But it wasn't that way with Dick. Ben Bernle had talked with him as an equal, | Ben Bernie, whose name went all over the country! Dic 2 “Nice fellow,” said Dick, sitting down, ashing Judy a quick, ‘young smile.| ne of the nicest in our racket.” “Why . . . you're not going to| vou hate radio’ | Oh.” He nodced wisely. “Elton ay again, eh?" “How did you knor He grinned. “First thing he tells eve new girl. Very first thing. Let me see. | Something like this.” He made himself | solemn, he leaned back with his hand | almost’ covering his eyes, he began. “They're all fools in Tadio or they wouldn't be in it. And I'm a fool, too. | I could be back home selling a story | Do and then, and being the boy prod- | igy. but e | 1t was uncann; His voice was like 's voice, almost exacily like it. “Dick! Stop it! That's cruel.” Maybe. s can you make your ve o and he’s an actor, and what any other ham “That's what all actors call them- selves when they don't want to believe a word they're saying.” She giggled. Somehow, she ed he hadn't said it. But it was| “Dick, didn't you want to be cal actor?” | ‘Of course. But I wasn't. Not good ugh.” ‘Why not?” | “Couldn't believe it. Stand up there, dressed in a suit you got-in a second- hand store, and tell people you're Silas | arner of Mr. Whatchamacalit. And | it's too much, Judy. Bad enough being | a voice— “But——" Bad -enough being 2 volc You're not paid to use your brain. _You're paild to be a volce” Elton Day had said. Oh, = i ‘The same words. The words she heard, sitting in the parlor back in Hiawatha. A joke that wasn't funny until Ben Bernie sald it, and then it wgs very funny indeed. " A queer sort of confidential way of talking that ade everybody lean forward and sten. And_the show. A boy who sang. Pat Kennedy. Of course, remembored him. Her mother liked the way he sang “Mahdalay.” That was the song her mother's brother used to sing so much before he died | in the war. Queer. You could take just four steps from this table and say, Something_into the round little micro- phone and a thousand miles away your | mother would be hearing you sa “Hello, mother. I love you, mother. | Good night, mother Queer. And sort | of terrible. To send your voice out| into the air without knowing where ltj vas going. what it might do, who; might_ hear it. i not listening.” | I was thinking” | “Uh-huh. And while I'm telling you the true story of my scarlet life! you're a thousand miles away.” | ust a thousand, Dick. Back home.” | Oh. Lonesome,’ Judy?" little. Sometimes. When—well, | just now that boy sang a song mother, used to like very much. And—-" ‘Mandalay,’ you mean? That one, Judy “Yes. Her brother used to sing fit. A long time ago.” “And maybe your mother is listening richt now? ‘She always listens for Ben Bernie.” I ot up. 3 ! Where are you going?” | in a minute, Judy. Just one| minute.’ | Tall, very tall. he walked out under the ligh And Judy. watching him, watched poople at the tables, too. Girls whispering and looking at Dick and whispering again. Men looking a little | disgruntled. Girls and men pointing. | And, out in the middle of the dance floor, the boy who sang listening, nod- ding, when Dick whispered in his ear. A | chord from t orchestra and Ben ! Bernle speaking into the michrophone. Judy could hear him i “And, by special request of Mrs. Al- lison of Hiawa Kans.. our boy. Pat Kennedy, sings ‘Mandalay.’ And I hope you like | Just as they used to it. sitting in_the parlor together. Funny old song. Crazy old thing. hel o flying fishes piay . . ." | On the road to Mandalay i People staring at Dick. Staring at her. Whispering. Wondering. Won- | dering about the little girl with the! chestnut hair and the cheap little| powder-blue suit. Wondering? They needn't. She was with Dick Mason. | She was a name, too. Wait. A month or a year, and they'd be listening for Judy All'son. Maybe playing the organ. Mavbe talking. Maybe playing the % Just_wait! I hope your®mother likes it.” That was the nicest thing anybody ever did for me. The very nicest."” | There wasn't anything more to say. | Except the sort of thing that is said | only by the way you look at a person, | and the way that person looks at you. o (To be continued.) Jupiter's Fleet of Comets. The planet Jupiter has a following of 50 comets which are commonly sup- nosed to have rushed in from outer ace, but were unable to return be- cause they fell a prey to the powerful attraction of the largest of the planets. Prof. S. 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