The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1936, Page 3

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936. Golden SYNOPSIS: Iris Lanning finds herself in the fairyland of her Aunt Phina’s Park avenue apartment meeting the conventionally beauti- ful Sigrid with whom her brother Owen is in love. Aunt Phina is America’s most famous couturiére ; Owen designs for her. And the strange thing {3 that [ris did not even know whether either Phina or Owen was living three days ago. Borgan Black, Iris’ best frjend, found both of them for her, and they at once snatched Iris from the old-fashioned home of her Uncle Will and Aunt Ella. Chapter 18 GAY PARADISE RIS never had seen a platinum blonde before, except in a movie. Sigrid’s naturally yellow hair had been made almost silver; her brows and lashes had been done with the conventional mascara. Aunt Ella would have called her “actress: except for her quick forthrightness of gesture and manner. Phina introduced them formally. “Where is Mrs. Russell?” tris asked to break the moment's tension “Oh, she isn’t staying,” Phina said. “1 do not think she will ever be} worth the trouble } upon her.” Sigrid said. She had no foreign accent, but a| slight inaccuracy about the proper | valuation of words and the right elisions. Her intonations were a little flat and vaguely wrong, also— but it was so intangible that Iris could only feel that it was a pity one flaw marred the girl's perfection She was so beautiful, and so ob viously intelligent and charming She looked no more than sixteen. “I suppose it is a part of the work. | but when fat women cry on me 1} want to give them a kick in the} pants.” Her doll-like childish beauty and | high cool childish voice made her rough words irre funny Owen laughed out with a look of pro prietorship and pride. “Mrs. Ru friend,” Phina said, at which Sigrid lifted a black line of eyebrow mock ingly. Fortunately dinner was an- nounced. To plainly reared Iris it looked} like a party. The four tall candle sticks, with yellow candles matching yellow roses in a low translucent bowl, the lace runners, the low glass nut dishes matching the bow! for the roses. But it was, she knew, Phina’ normal state. What might seem cas ual charm was careful correctness. Iris loved beauty and order, and it soothed and delighted her. The little dining room had deep | cilver-cloth draperies, hiding the | windows and making all one wall: it had odd geometric ver lights, tri angular silver cha You felt as if you were living in a pattern, not a real, tossed-about place. You wanted to step and speak like a girl in a pageant. The courses followed ceremont. ously: clear tomato soup, a mousse of fish, peas and broccoli passed inj a silver dish with two compartments. Then endive with something curly which proved to be chicory and a tingling Roquefort dressing. Finally for dessert a dish of fruit Tris had thought wax, it was so beau- tiful, which had been standing on the odd-planed side-table; and a choice of cheese and biscuits, passed on a dig silver dish of a sort Iris re- called put away at home, and a mys- tery till now. Coffee in small golden cups. “Tired, Iris?” Phina asked when | dinner was two-thirds over. “Or do you want to go to a show” Theaters, as casually as that? “Td love it!” “Get the paper, Honora—” and Phina read down the list, discarding this one and that. She settled on a revue, finally, that Iris “must see.” Honora telephoned an agency; was all arranged in five minutes. it “]RIS will have to use my black vel vet cape and the bag with it. | haven't her evening wraps ye Phina said, with more seriousness} than she had used on all the rest to-| gether. Her voice implied the deep | importance of evening -vraps and the bags which matched them. Sigrid, too, looked serious. Iris thought it was because of their bust ness, but she discovered later that most women felt that Honora came with Phina’s gold and fur coat and bag and long gloves. She herself was given the} black velvet cape, a short thing with long ties. Sigrid slipped into some thing that had been lying across a chair; Owen was given his overcoat, folding silk hat, gloves and cane. They entered the mysterious door | to the elevator, and were off. It was | all pure enchantment to Iris—her first New York theater. When she told Phina, her aunt was shocked. “Owen, you must see to that. Make out a list of revivals she must see, and buy her seats to play's shé should know about.” Today In History —France declared 1862. on Mexico. 1917—President Wilson issued appeal to help in feeding the Al- lies, practice economy, and plant gardens, 1922—Rus and a Germany made trade and economic trea- imaugurated Pres, Rain Margaret CWiddemer s Phina put} P | silver wheels. } ner,” | Dicky, or at least he stopped talking “All right.” They were settling themselves in the taxi, by a known routine: the girls one each side of Phina. Owen on the folding seat in front. “I can't get over the casual way you, use taxis,” Iris couldn't help saying. ' “The limousine’s no good for the theater district.” said Owen, above his cupped hands, manipulating his lighter. “In fact, no- private car is.” “Well, I like the feeling that if you bave your car down there the taxi people; have to wait,” said Sig- rid pertly. “You could have the runabout,” said Owen hastily, as if to check something Phina was going to say. Iris felt dimly that Owen was ner- vous when the two women were talking. And yet they worked to- gether. And the vague feeling of antagon- ism was dimmed by the fairytale in. ference; two cars, evidently, Owen's runabout and Phina’s limousine. Was she a greedy pig to like it that were a commonplace, and | and runabouts a casual | And then they entered the warm | white and gold brilliance of the the | ater lobby: there were little usher. girls in gay costumes like French | cadets; the party swept forward down the aisle to orchestra seats: the orchestra began playing heaven- | ly merry dancing music; the cur i tain presently rose on a stage full of slim beautiful girls in long rose | colored gowns, leaping and laugh ing with exquisite precision. The long lovely curves of the dance, the light and color and music, so moved Iris that her eyes filled with tears. She hoped they didn't see her, and presently she was laughing with the rest. She did not know that the others watch her with amused pasure at her frank rapture. “I’m dying for a cizaret,’ said, at the end of the fi ‘Come on out in the lobby.’ you go, Iris, I'll stay here,” A: Y id Phina, who loo! a little tired after her trip. After all, she was human. So the young ones, Iris, in her black and rose, alight and ex cited, small Sigrid with her silvery head, Owen, slow and climbed over three stout sulk: movable women and down the aisle to the gorgeous lobby. The smoke was thic’ jomebody finally opened the front doors, letting in a gust of spring a “Oh, that’s good,” Iris said thank ful pposing she v next Owen “You bet, baby!" said the man be side her, and she found she w ing at the red-headed Dic had tried to make friends with her on the chair car that afternoon. His party had evidently also decided to end the evening at this, the most popular of the revues. “We meet again!” said he, with a hand on his shirt front. “Who's the platinum blonde? You kept her from me.” “Sigrid Swenson. The name is Swedish, so you needn't wisecrack, beautiful.” said Sigrid for herself behind Iris. “And you, young strang- er?” “Dicky Hamilton. The name is Czechoslovakian. Cigaret?” “Sure, I'm nonchalant. Seen you somewhere lately. No, I'm not try- ing to make you. I did. “Yep, that’s right, | remember the But 1 don’t know where. Where | saw the other one was on the train coming over from Philly this p. m. from the game. I was just getting her sold on the ng when Allan pulled me off her— c he is. Hey, I know. Phina Weatherley’s. Georgia Blair dragged me in there last week.” right, I'm the junior part- said Sigrid: which impressed | ' } | jong enough for ber to continue. “Iris is her niece, Owén's her nephew—Phina’s.” Owen was beside the two girls, listening to Sigrid’s quick patter of talk with something of Uncle Will’s detached serenity. The handsome nutcracker face, black-eyed, bright- painted, black-banged, of the girl called Georgia pushed in beside Dicky’s. Her red dress, her spatter of glittering earrings and necklace and clips and buckles all focused on Owen, “We saw you both,” she said with emphatic friendliness. “You never waked all the way across. Do you always sleep like that?” She had a sharp possessive charm when she j smiled. “Curtain’s going up,” said the cool | voice of the tall man Allan from be- hind the rest. He and Iris smiled at | each other like friends. Georgia | pulled from the other groups as they widened apart, putting a thin glitter- ing hand op Owen’s arm, (Conpright, 933.36, Margaret Widdemer) Piste efe-dtin whicte | ing tomorroy ~ t | | | | | { | i Congress | relief | through a farm board, tariff read- | Hoover in mess to recommended agricultural ge justment, repeal of the national origins provision of the Immigra- ‘tion Law, and legislation for re- apportionment. of Nations: condemning} Germany’s setting up of conscrip-! {tion and for a committee to | plan means for combating such a thing in the future. 1935—League adopted resolution INDIANS COME | | Waner ; Herman i Browns. | | Boston club hit his first home run the \the Brooklyn Dodger ;Parmelee got the best of a pitch- | Philadelphia THE sxE¥ WEST CITIZEN BY JOVE | { BACK AND TRIM TIGERS, 14-7): BUCS STAGE RALLY IN NINTH; AND DEFEAT REDS; CARDS DOWN CUBS AND EVEN UP} SERIES (Spe NEW YORK Cleveland Indians form yesterde 16.—The returned to! fternoon, and turned the tables on the Detroit Tigers, world champions, taking the game from the Detroiters by a score of 14 to 7. Trosky of the, Indians was credited with a home! run, Tommy Bridges, serving Detroit, was knocked from the} box. The Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Cincinnati Reds for their ‘ond consecutive victory. Paul of the Pirates and Babe| of the Reds each hit} home runs. The Chicago White Sox took! their second straight game from the St. Louis Browns. Harlond Clift knocked a homer for , the April The Boston Bees, the old Braves name, defeated the the! y a new Walter Berger of of the s The mphed over| Yankees, which was Washing-| ton’s second straight win. ! The New York Ciants defeated 's, Which was Mungo and} their second victory. Bartell came to blows in the sec- ond inning and weve banished from the game. The mix-up came} when the players collided when} Mungo was rushing to cover first. | The St. Louis Cardinals were! victorious over the Chicago Cubs. ! i | | ing duel with Bill Lee. The Card- inal manager delivered a home; run, irst of the season_ which was the tally that won the game. The game scheduled between Philadelphia and Boston in the American League was rained out. The summaries: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washington R. H. E. New York 512 2 Washington 6 9. 6 Batteries: Murphy, Kleinhans and Linke, Pearson, Dickey; | Russell, Coppela and Bolton, At Cleveland Detroit Clevelznd Batteries, Phillips, Cochrane; Hudlin, and Pytlak. R. H, E. TLL 417 2 Hogsett and Hildebrand RHE werkt 10 oe eS ee Knott, Van Atta and tratton and Sewell. | St. Chicago Batteries Hemsley i Philadelphia at Boston, | poned, rain, | post- NATIONAL LEAGU= At Philadelphia R. HE. Boston 5: SED EI. if anid 2 Cantwell| Benge and Bowman, Johnson, Pas- seau, Pezzullo, Bertrand and Wil-! son. Grace. Hl | R. H. B.| 18: 3 610 2| Brown, | At Cincinnati ittsburgh incinnati Pp ig M. Freitas and C At New York Brooklyn New York Batteries: Leonard, Baker and Berres, ; Phelps; Gumbert and Mancuso. 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