Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1935, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935. DAILY SHORT STORY: TARZAN AND THE LION MAN. IN THE MIDDLE Interfering in a Domestic Quarrel Was Thankless at Best, But These Results Left Rachel Gasping. BY CAROLYN CARLYLE. —By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS everything? You have all the money you want to spend. He doesn't care how yoa amuse yourself.” “That's just it,” Nina's voice sank. “Steve's — well, you know.” Nina f had reswned her agitated stride back and forth across the room. “He's bald and fat,” she narrated glibly, “and he doesn't know one tune frora another. He doesn't look at me, really look at me, once a week.” “I suppose,” Ra- chel said with quiet scorn, “that Hugo is years younger than Steve, and handsomer?” “Oh, yes!" Nina's voice was ecstatic. ACHEL REY- NOLDS' hand remained clasped about the receiver for several minutes after she had replaced it. She continued to stare thoughtfully at the toe of her black suede pump. She was think- ing abcut Nina, Steven Ames’ wife This thing wasn't going to be easy. She knew what happened to people who projected themselves into private quarrels. But she'd promised. She'd let Steve talk her into it. After all, Nina and Steve were her best friends. An hour later she chose a chair which faced the fire in the living room of Steven | “Hugo is only 29.” va Tousartea . inc. LTk e 3 F{ED' FEATURE SYNDICATE, UNITED “I hope you can keep your balance on this beam,” she said, but she did not hesitate to step into his cupped hands. “I hope so,” he replied laconically. For a moment she groped about above her, then she asked to be lowered. “Well,” Tarzan asked, “what did you find?” Not All the Freaks Are in the Show Business! NVELLO‘,VP;A-SW, MY PARTNER \WikL BE HERE % “I found another beam,” Rhonda replied, “but the top of it is just out of reach. What are we to do? This is like a nightmare—straining here in the darkness, with some horrible menace lurking ready to seize us, and not being quite able to reach the sole means of safety!” He wedged himself through and clambered to the top of the beam. Above him the shaft rose as far as he could reach without hand—or foothold. He leaned down toward the girl. “Give me your hand,” ; “we’ll have to do some more exploring As Tarzan climbed upward, Rhonda reached out and guided him to the ledge where she stood. “I found a beam,” she said, “and fastened the rope to it.” The ape man saw that the beam lay across the dark shaft, leaving a space on each side -large enough for a man's body. MUTT AND JEFF— —By BUD FISHER AS SOON AS MY TWO LAWYERS C MIND - | ARRIVE You CAN SIGN THE I'LL HoLD | PAPERS AND ILL PAY You T MySELF!| £1000 FOR THE INJURIES MR.HTHIMALAYER WALDERMARKER KNOCKYABLOCKOFF HAS ARRIVED, Heavens! So there was a man. MR.SI Lo, ARRIVE SEND THEM Ames’ beautiful new Spanish house | in Bel Air. | “You don't mean that” she said, | looking up at Nina, who stood facing | ! her. “You wouldn't leave Steve.” | i ~Oh, wouldn't I?" Nina shrugged B “Does he know that you're al- most—" Nina stopped her. that years don't matter. “Hugo _thinks Oh, Rachel, f only—I can do better than Steve. on’t you think I can?” A thin ray of sunshine had broken RIGHT |N, BRONSON! YU RECEIVED WHEN MY CAR STRUCK You! with a slight secretive smile. through the clouds. It slanted | Nina Ames in her gay striped | across the low stool where Nina had | lounging pajamas was youthful and | seated herself with her elbows on her | slender. But her efforts to AaDPeaT | knees and her chin on her girlishly | sophisticated .and entirely composed | Jaced fingers. There was a decisive | were not altogether successful. | gleam in Rachel's eyes as she con- “No,” replied Rachel sensibly, “you wouldn't. You've been married to| Steve too long to—" | “That's it exactly,” Nina broke in. | “I've been married to him too long. I| don’t intend to waste any more time.” “What do you mean, waste? Steve’s | crazy about you.” “So what?” retorted Nina, pushing | back a chair that interfered with her | pacing up and down. Rachel stared blankly. “I want to get the most out of life. I wan't to make the most of myself. I want to develop my talents. I want to sing. I want to coach with Case- Jotti, or some one important. Hugo says that it's a pity to waste my voice | in ensemble work. He thinks I should | be starring in opera. Well,” she| flushed, “light opera or—" “Who says?” Rachel interrupted. Heavens! So there was a man, Rachel mused. Steve hadn't told her that. Poor stupid! Maybe he didn't even know it. Or did he? She hadn't | thought that of Nina. Why, it was positively silly. “Oh, never mind,” returned Nina with a lofty gesture. “You wouldn’t understand. You're like Steve. Do- mesticity is your forte.” Then her tone changed. She looked long into Rachel's face, which loomed serious and white above her severe black satin dress. | “A star! A light opera star!” she | breathed. | “It sounds reasonable,” said Rachel | bluntly. “Light opera stars are usually around 40." | “And,” Nina went on unimpressed, | “I have a nice figure. You're heavy | and solid. I'm as slim as when I was | 20. And I've always had dramatic | ability. Why, Rachel, if I were free, | or—or married to a man like Hugo! | He's so handsome, so chivalrous, so | romantic. He could give a girl every- | thing.” | Rachel sat up with a jerk. heavens! “Good Doesn't Steve give youl! | amazement. | spoke from the doorway. templated the gray hairs that glistened in Nina's brown bob. | “Of course, you can,” she said force- fully. “Stay young as long as pos- sible. Marry a handsome young man who will appreciate you. Star in opera or—" “I'm so glad,” glittered Nina, you see it my way, because—' “And Nina,” Rachel went on, a confiding seriousness in her tone, “I appreciate your telling me first about leaving Steve.” “Well, you're my best friend, and | your husband and Steve were pals | and—-" | “Because,” Rachel’s voice was con- | trolled and smooth, “as soon as you're through with Steve, I want him.” “Wh—what?” Nina gasped | “that | in “Yes,” Rachel said placidly, *“Joe’s | been dead two years and I'm lonesome. | I never expected to marry again, but, of course, I didn't know that Steve would be—available.” The whir of a distant telephone broke the silence that was becoming overlong. Rachel relaxed comfort- ably in her chair and waited with humorous eyes for Nina's return. “Did Steve send you out here?” Nina asked in an odd tone. She Rachel considered. Steve had called: Nina's eyes were warm and glowing. “Yes, he did. He said you were going to leave him. He was all broken up and wanted me to see what | I could do.” | “I never thought of leaving him.” | Nina confessed. “But he’s getting old too fast. He eats too much. He's lazy, | and he gets irritable. He needed some kind of a shock.” Rachel smiled wickedly. “So did | you,” she said after a slight pause.| “I'd never think of marrying Steve.” Nina collapsed into a chair with a shrill scream of laughter. When she recovered she said. “So did you. | There isn't any Hugo.” | (Copyright. 1935.) REWEDS SPEEDILY RENO, Nev., March 19 (&) —Wil-| lard C. Gardner of Reno obtained a | license to marry Dorothy M. Davis, Fall River, Mass., late yesterday shortly after he had been granted a divorce from Emme Louise Gardner, also of | Fall River. The divorce decree was handed down at a private hearing by District | Judge Benjamin F. Curler on the | ground of cruelty. Gardner and his| former wife were married October 5, 1920, at Fall River. | Duchess Plants Tree. Before leaving Sandringham, the Duchess of Kent planted a tree to commemorate her first visit. CITY HEADS MOVE TO OPEN STREET Congress Will Be Asked to Au-| thorize Prospect Thoroughfare to Relieve Traffic Jam. Congress will be asked by the Com- missioners to enact a bill to authorize the opening of Prospect street be- tween Wisconsin avenue and Thir- tieth street as a means of relieving traffic congestion on M street in Georgetown. The Commissioners yes- terday approved plans for this project as prepared by Edward Dent, District surveyor. The cost of condemnation of pri- vate property necessary for the street opening was estimated at about $250.- | 000, but officials believe a considerable portion of the cost could be assessed as benefits. This is contemplated as a first step in development of a new | through highway for Georgetown which would connect with Pennsyl- vgnia avenue at the east and with Foxhall and Conduit roads at the west. With completion of the proposed | torious criminal” with at least six con- first step traffic from Pennsylvania | avenue could be routed north on| Twenty-ninth street and west on Olive street to reach the new section of Prospect avenue, and east-bound traffic could be routed from Prospect avenue extended south on Thirtieth and east on M street to Pennsylvania avenue, officials explained. | snugly and com- Motor Cycle Sales Jump. Motor cycle sales in Portugal last | Ve THE HECHT CO. CHARGE ~ACC SEEKS ANNULMENT Asserting her husband concealed U. S. AVIATION SPUR his long criminal record before their URGED IN MEASURE | Wisconsin avenue, yesterday asked the = i District Supreme Court to annul her | McSwain Bill Would Throw Open | marriage to Stanton D. White, alias Military Aircraft Com- petition. Stanley E. White. The petition states White told her he was employed as an airplane me- chanic by the Government before their marriage last January 28 in Alexandria. Mrs. White, through At- torney Jean Boardman, says she later learned her husband had never been regularly employed and was a “no- By the Associated Press. A measure designed to ‘“place | America in the forefront of all na- ;'uons in aviation” by throwing en- tirely open to competition the pm-; curement of military aircraft, has ——— |been introduced by Representative | victions against him for various of- fenses. _ When this den- tist's grand pre- scription for hold- ing plates firmly, T DENTAL PLATES PRy M PACE fortably in place has the largest sale in the world —there’s a reason ~—ask your den- tist—he prescribes it—never causes soreness—inex- | year were nearly double those of 1933. | pensiv lina. The chairman of the House Mili- tary Committee told reporters the bill | “is all right with the White House.” | In what was described as accord with a recommendation of the Fed- | eral Aviation Commission that nego- | tiated contracts be allowed to continue | in the purchase of fighting planes, the | bill would provide four distinct steps | of open competition. i An annual design competition would | be followed by actual competitive tests of performance, then by an- nual service tests of enough of the new designs to equip a tactical service unit. ! The final step would be the con- | tracting for construction of aircraft | in quantity, after open bidding, with | the manufacturer best prepared to turn out the kind of craft needed. McSwain, Democrat, of South CBm-I Boys Knee-Deep in Crime. CHICAGO () —Four youths, the police said, were knee-deep i crime when caught. 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