New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 10

10 @ SRR s ———————— - [k 6y LOuIS JOSEPH VAN ©10M by Louis Jaserh Vance. (Continned From Our Last Tssue) A month of Hollywood, and Lucin da forgot to think it strange that she should not resent being made love to by a man with rouge on cheeks and lips and eye-lashes beaded with mas- earo, If the feeling her lines in strangs to wear off, in those work with the Summerlad company, the fun of it wasn't, Lucinda threw herself into the detail of every hour with tremendous zest, and liked it all as she seldom had liked anything before There was ness, of course hints of the uglier caught glimpses of it stance of Nelly Marquis, But aware- ness of it had no perceptible effect upon the spirits of those with whom Lueinda found associated for the time being. Some of the younger members of the acting division seemed to take life a thought serious- 1y—"1ife" meaning, as a rule, them- selves—hut the more experienced went about their work with jests ever on their lips. The common at- titude summed up to this, that mak- ing pictures was all a huge lark and (strictly between those engaged in it) a darged good joke on the people who paid the bills. As for the part she was supposed to play in this picture of Summer- lad’'s, Lucinda never managed to se- cure an intelligible exposition of its relation to the plot. Both Summerlad and Jacques seemed strangely vague in their own minds concerning it d Alice Drake frankly confessed he hadn’t read the ‘script and hadn't the faintest notion what the picture was about. To the best of her ohservation her role was that of an involuntary vamp. Not vampire: vamp. A vamp no longer means of necessity a vampire, a scarlet-mouthed seduc- tress of strong men's souls. A vamp may be a far more socially possible person than that. As an involuntary vamp, Miss Lee was to meet Mr. Summerlad under romantic circumstances and inno- cently wean him from strict fidelity to th charms of his betrothed (or it may have been his wife), Miss Drake. The said romantic circumstances wera sufficiently thrilling. Miss Lee was run away with by her horse while taking an early morning can- ter in the mountains conveniently adjacent to her family’s suburbuan villa. Mr. Summeriad, similarly en- gaged, happened along at the right time to observe her peril, pursue and snatch her bodily from her sad- dle to his arms at the very instant when her mount was plunging head- long over a precipice. After which he escorted her to her home and on the way the two indulged in normal and expected love-making. Lucinda and Summerlad were photographed time and again, in dis- tance shots, medium shots, and close- ups, riding side by side, dismounting to rest in a sweet sylvan glade by the side of the stream, and finally in each others arms, with Miss Drake riding up to surprise them as they Kissed. Because such scenes are a com- monplace of picture-making, Lucinda had not been prepared for the fact that she was to be kissed by Sum- merlad; whereas she had been flirt- ing with him dangerously for the best part of three days. Now, sud- denly, toward the close of the third, she was instructed to permit his em- brace, submit to his kiss, and Kkiss him in response. She made no ‘demur, for that would have seemed silly, but did her best to ape the matter-of-course manner of all hands, and went through with it with all the stoicism when the camera wasn't trained on her, that was compatible with the emotions she must show when it was. But her heart was thumping furi- ously when she felt Summerlad's arms for the first time enfold her; and when, murmuring the terms of endearment appropriate to hoth the parts the man was playing, he put his lips to hers, she knew, both de- spite and because of the tumult of her senses that she was lost. Control of the situation between them passed in that instant from her hands to his. Released at length, she looked round, dazed and breathless, to find| that, during the business of the Kkiss, a party of uninvited onlookers had been added to their professionsl audi-| ence. | A motor-car had slipped up on the group and stopped, and one of its| two passengers had alighted and drawn near to watch. This was Bellamy. XXI1 | Momentarily stunned eyes saw the| face of Bellamy only a swimming | blur of flesh-color shaded by a smile | of hateful mockery, her wits handi- capped by panic conviction that it was all up now with Linda Lee. In another minute or two, every- body present must learn, by night- fall the studios would be agog over the news that Linda l.ee was no less a personage than Mrs. Dellamy Druce, All at * once Lucinda discovered how passionately her heart had be- come implicated in this adventure. To that she had cast places was quick three days of another side to the busi- heard dark side, one even as in the in- One herself MY PICTURE ON EVERY PACKAGE P.D. Q. chemical (not an insect P.D.Q t powder) that will actually rid a ‘house of Bed Bugs, Roaches, Fieas and Ants with its proper use-im- possible for them to existasit kills their eggs as welland thereby stops future generation. A 88¢ package makes a quart. Fresapatent spout in every pack- age toget them in the hard-to-get- at-places. Special Hospital size $2.50 makes 8 gallons. Your druggist has it orget it for you. P.D. Q. canalse be purchased in wsaled bottles, double strength, liquid form. hear the inevitable verdict read upon her earece before it was fairly launch- ed, “Another screen-struck society woman!" were an affront to decent self-esteem by the side of which it seemed a trivial matter that RBella- my, no more her husband but by the grace of the flimsiest of civil fictions, had caught her in the act of Kissing another man Nothwithstanding, her cheeks were hot, she experienced Infinite vexa- tion of the knowledge—she was shaken by gusts of irritation in whose grasp she could almost with- out a qualm have murdered Bellamy ! where he stood, if only to quench his graceless grin, His gay saluatalon incredulous. “How d'you do, Miss Lee say you've forgotten me so soon! Druce, you know, Bellamy Druce—'" “Don't be ridiculous, Bel!" “Can't blame me for wondering— can you?-—seeing the way you stare, as if 1 were a ghost." “So you are,’ Lucinda retored, shocked into gasping coherence by this impudence. “l1 can't imagine a greater surprise * * *" “] believe you, But think e mine I mean, of course, my astonish- ment.” Bell would have her hand, there was no refusing him that open sign of friendship. There was nothing fell upon ears Don't A PARTY ~OF=T C 1S HAD BEEN ADDED TO SSIONAL AUDI- she could do now hut take his cues as they fell, and treat the rencontre as one of the most welcome she had ever experienced * * * “But wherever did from, Bel?" “From the night's train the making you bob up east, naturally—Ilast Never saw a movie in before you know. Most entertaining. Congratulate you and Mr. Summerlad .on the wa you played your little scene just now. Only for the camera over there, I'd have sworn you both meant it." “Don’t put too much trust in the camera, Mr. Druce,” Summerlad in terposed blandly. “Rumor to the con- trary nothwithstanding, the blame thing has been known to lie."” “H'are you, Mr. Summerlad?" Bel- lamy met his impudence with irre- sistilble audacity. “So we met aagin. Well: pleasanter circumstances than last time, what?" “Conditions are what one makes them, out here in California. I hope you'll find the climate healthier than Chicago's.” “Trust me for that,” torted in entire good humor. “But, I say”—he glanced in feigned appre- hension toward the camera—"not ob- structing traffic, am 1? o fear, or Jacques wled you out long ago." ‘"Sright,” Jacques averred, com- ing forward to be introduced “All through for toda fol ' be called back to the company. “Le's go!" “Anxious to see you, Linda, of course, and have a tally, some time when you're not professionally en- gaged,” said Bel as they strolled to- ward the machines. “You may call on Bellamy re- would've me Friday, At the Hollywood, of course. Many thanks." Bellamy was about helping into their car, own, wagging Summeriad as with Jacques, They had punctiliously gallant Lucinda and Fanny then returned to his a cavalier farewell to the latter sped away some time been under oothCare means keeping them. anti- weptically clean. Only of dentifrice stays on long enough to do this. POLLY AND HER PALS — MR PERKING, [ \X/ISH) T0 Lay ~i/ HUGE FORTLWE AT “Dur DAUGHTERS FEET. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1922, way when Panny broke In upon Lu- cinda's meditations with an cestatie murmur: “Priceless!” Lucinda came to with a “I'm glad you think so," she shortly. “Don't be upstage, priceless, Why didn't your Bel was such a lamb “He's not my Bell any more, and 1 don’t consider him a lamb." “Then I presume you've tion to my vamping him?" But Lueinda was Inattentive; she had lapsed swiftly into an abstrac- tion which had less to do with the reappearance of Bellamy than the isue of the Summerlad affair, Noth- ing that had happened since had served to erase the impression of thut first kiss, nothing concelvable could seem half so momentous, The presence of the camera had meant nothing, they had kissed in earnest; mute, her lips had confessed too much. 1t remalned only to be de- termined whether or not Summerlad had understood their message, If he had, TLucinda well knew, she was a lost woman, She was possessed with a specles of rapturous alarm * * * XXI11 In sequel Lucinda knew two days made up of emotions singularly strati- fied. Most of the time, of course, all of it spent with Lynn or in dreaming of him, she was merely but compre- hensigly a young woman in love and glad of it. Nevertheless, dark hours alternated in apprehension of mhat she was resolved must be her final talk with Bel. Lucinda found it by no means easy to compose an attitude which she could depend upon to dishearten Bel decisively, without going to the length of telling him point-blank that she was in love with another man and meant to marry him as soon as her professional commitments would leave her free to go through the mill of Reno. X “Go ahead, Linda, by all means divorce me if your heart's set on it" —one could almost hear him say it— “but don't tell me you're dong it just to marry a man who paints his nose for a living.” Somehow one got scant comfort of the retort obvious, that if Lynn did paint his nose he at least did it with nothing less harmful than paint. frown. sald You know it's you tell me no objecs (Continued in Our Next Issue) Genuine imported Schweitzer cheese 55 cents a pound. Russell Brothers.— advt. EXCITING BOWLING HATCH Foote and 'Anderson Defeat Lewis and Dewey of Bridgepqgrt, Three Games To Two On Casino Alleys. Foote and Anderson last night de- feated Lewis and Dewey of Bridge- port, in one of the most sensational bowling matches of the season in the Connecticut Duckpin tourney. The game was held on the Casino alleys strips. The local boys took the odd game of a five-game series by a one- pin margin. The locals won the first game by three pins; the second by three pins; lost the third by 14 pins, lost the fourth by five pins, and took the match by a single pin. The scores: Dewey ... 97 117 107 115 104—540 Lewis 108 95 97 95 107—502 205 212 204 210 211 1042 108 112 92 102 98—512 100 103 98 103 114—518 Toote Anderson 212 1080 Best coffee, 3 lbs. for $1. Russell Brothers.—advt. EARLY TO BED IS ANNOYING TO JURY Talesmen In Gov, Small Case Threaten to Strike Against Balliff’s Actions, Waukegan, T1l., May 25 (Associated Press)—The trial of Governor Len Small was halted for a few moments when the jury threatened to go on strike unless allowed to stay up late at night, The jurors complained that their balliffs both elderly men, put them to bed at 9 p. m, and demanded that younger bailiffs be appolinted to take the jurors out evenings. Judge Claire (', Edwards called a recess and conferred with attorneys and the sheriff in an effort to agree on a third balliff., The conference was unproductive of results, It was learned after the recess that the bailiffs had also complained to the court that the jurors had been ridi- culing them. The trouble was sald to have started because the elderly bail- iffs were unable to walk as fast or as far as the jurors desire on their daily constitutionals. The jurors also complain of being locked in their third floor bedroom at night because the court house is not equipped with fire escapes. Judge Edwards today ordered the sheriff to buy a rope and equip all the win- dows of the room with rope ladders. Officers of the Cudahy Packing Company testified today that the irant Park bank, in which $29,000,- 000 of state funds were deposited by | Governor Small and Lieutenant Gov- ernor Fred E. sterling, did not figure in loans made by officers of the bank to the company. John E. Wagner, treasurer of the packing company, and Frank D). Clark, Assistant Treasurer, testified 'that the Grant Park bank was not mentioned in the course of the ne- gotiations with the late Senator Ed- ward C. Curtis and Vernon 8. Curtis, his tbrother, who owned the charter of the bank. CAR WAGE DISPUTE TO BE ARBITRATED Connecticut Company and Its Dis- satisfiel Employes Wiil Get To- gother For Settlement. New Haven, May 25.—Articles of agreement to submit the wage dis- pute to arbitration and to accept the decislon as final, are to be signed be- tween the Connecticut company and a committee of its conductors and mo- tormen of the entire state on Satur- day, it was announced yesterday. The ballot completed by the trol- leymen's union in the entire state is against the acceptance of a wage cut of five cents an hour and an expressed desire to let this question go to ar- hitration. It is understood that the board of arbitration will be made up of the same members as a year ago, At- torney Joseph Berry of Hartford for the company, Attorney James Fahey of Deston, for the men and Justice John K. Beach of the state supreme court as umpire. While the officers of the trolley- men do not like to have made pub- lic the figures of the balloting, it can be said that the proposal to accept the cut offered by the company was rejected by the local conductors and motormen 50 to 1. The working con- ditions as prepared by the committee of the men and the company's rep- resentatives were accepted, 40 to 1. ~ Comrade Honors Nurse Cavell Marguerite Blauckaert, who was sentenced to die on the same da: as Nurse Edith Cavell but whose sentence later was commuted to 11[}; imprisonment, places a wreath on Miss Cavell's grave. AR T DERN FEAR A THOUSAND DALLARS. ALL ToLp He’d Have It Afi GREAT GuUNS! asd’ YCALL Copyright. 1922, " Newwpaper Feature Sexvice, Inc.. Gireif Rritain Hights resarved 'MRS. BUNCE T0 SPEAK Will Address Home Mission Depart- Church Wonizn's Association Tomorrow Afternoon, ment of South The Home Mission department of the Woman's association of the South church, will meet at the home of Mrs, George W. Traut of West Main street tomorrow afternoon at 8 p. m. The speaker will be Mrs. Gertrude Ware Bunce and her subject is to be “At- lanta University and Its Work," Mrs. Bunce is the daughter of Ed- mund Ware, president of the univer- sity, and a niece of the late Rev, Joseph Twitchell of Hartford, She will be remembered by many local people who were acquainted with her when she attended the loeal Normal school, Those attending tomorrow will take either the 2:17 or 2:32 trolley, get- ting off at Andrews’ crossing. ‘STRIKE IN ROME. neral Walkout Affects the More Than 10,000 Pligrims Visiting There. Rome, May 25, (By Assoclated Press),—A - general strike .was de- 'ree from Connecticut State & Municipal taxes. clared today In protest agaipst dis. orders last pight in the crowded Ban Lorenzo quarter when a procession of Fascistl returning from the funeral of the natlonal hero, Enrico! Toti, clashed with soclalists, - More than a score of persons were wounded, In- clyding some members of the royal guard who intervened, The shutdown notably affected the street car lines and the 20,000 pil- &rima now in Rome for the Eucharts- tic congress were for the most ' part compelled to walk to 8t. Peter's for the celebration of mass by Pope Plus AMERICAN ELIMINATED John G, Anderson, Bole Survivor, Lones His Place in British Amateur Golf Tournament—Hilton Wins Match, Prestwick, Scotland, May 25.—(Ry Assoclated Press.)—John G. Ander- son of 8iwanoy, only surviving Ameri- can in:the British amateur golf champlonghip tournament, was clim- inated this morning by W. I.. Hope of Turnberry, 2 up and 1 to play. J. Wilson of Prestwick, who yes- terday eliminated Edward Van Vieeck of Garden City, was defeated in this NEW ISSUE $500,000 Imornln.‘- play by C. Bretherton of ‘| Handsorth, ope up. Roger Wethered defeated C. Gibb of Troon, six up and five to play. Harold H. Hilton, former amateur champion, defeated A. M, Carr Brown of Morton Hall, 2 up and 1 to play. MEMORIAL SERVICE Sons of Veterans' Auxiliary to Pay,| Homage to Memory of i Members Tomorrow. i A memorial service for: deceasedy members of the Sons of Veterani auxiliary will be held In the G. A. R.Ji hall tomorrow evening. The mem- bers will meet for their usual Friday) afternoon social from 2:30 o'clock un- til 6 o’clock. The family supper will be omitted but the regular meeting| will open at 7:30 p. m, At 8 o'clock the annual memorial service for members who have died] during the year will be held in the lodge room. Members of L. D. Pen fleld Camp, Sons of Veterans, of thg Daughters of Veterans, Women's Re Hef Corps, Grand Army, Americ ] Legion, Spanish War Veterans apdy other patriotic organizations will in attendance. Officials of the varios organizations will speak. ceased Free from paesent Normal Federsl income ta THE FULLER BRUSH COMPANY HARTFORD, CONN. 7% Cumulative, sinking fund, First Preferred Stock \uthorized $500,000. Par—$26.00 per share Present issue $500,004 Dividends payable March, June, September and December 1st. Security Trust Co.,, Hartford, Sinking Fund Trustee. 'HISTORY. The present country-wide business of The Fuller Brush Company is the outgrowth of a very smal Jginning in 1906 when Alfred C. Fuller began the manufacture of brushes. { Under very able ard pro gressive management the company has continued 10 grow rapidly, especially during recent years, unt today it is one of the largest manufacturers of brushes in the United States. and employs more sales men than any brush manufacturer in the world. Due to the rapid growth, the company has been prd dueing brushes in a number of small plants in Hartford and’ was thus handicapped in manufacturing th large volume of brushes required to fill orders. The proceeds of this issue will be used to construet thoroughly modern building upon land already owned on Windser Avenue, }-lartford. The.new builc ing will centralize the Company’s manufacturing, and add greatly in speedmg up productiof and i} reducing the cost of manufacture. SALES. | i iy i By 1912 the annual gross sales had reached a total of $64,936 and last year in spite of the busines depression the year’s sales amounted to $4,645,871. For the first four months of the present year thi sales tota'ed over $2,000,000 or at the rate of between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 per annum. The Com| pany employs nearly 3500 salesmen in the United States, Canada and Cuba, makil.g house-to-house sale; {irect to the consumer. EARNINGS. The net earnings of the Company before the deductions for Federal Taxese have grown frorif & 821.75 in 1917, to $360,688.98 in 1921, with a yearly average for the last five years of over $130,00 ver year. After paying Federal Taxes, the Company had net earnings which would have been applidy able to the First Preferred dividend' (if this stock had been outstanding), of an average of about tw and one-half times the amount required. Last year the net earnings after deducting Federal Tax were approximately seven times the annual dividend requirements on this issue. SECURITY The Company has no bonded debt nor can any be created, nor can the Company horrow money (for a longer period than nine months), without the consent of 3; of the First Preferred Stock. Thi Company cannot unde: any circumstances issue any stockAhavmg priority over, or equality with th First Preferred stock, nor can the amount of this issue be increased. This stock has preference ove uny stock of the Company now outstanding or that can be issued, both as to assets anq to dividends. N voting powér attaches ta this issye except in certain contingencies when it may. acquire sole votin power. The €ompany cannot pay any dividends upon any other class of stock which \*'i” reduce the ne | quick assets bglow 15C7% or the net assets below 3009 of the amount*of the First Preferred stock the witstanding. CAPITALIZATION. . i (After completion of the present financing.) 15t Preferred Stock 7% Cumulative (prescat issue) ............$5C0,000 2nd Preferred StoCK . .....ooveeviieinieieriiiiiieiiaeeie..... 2,600,000 Oonimon 80ck AR s s T i e et el Taleta s e Common Stock ‘A’ .. *Includes stonk subscribed for and not fully paid. SINKING FUND. Authorized Dutstanding $600,000 *829,100 *66,20C 914,00C 500,000 A sinking fund for the call or purchasc of the First Preferred stock at $27.50 and acerued div J'vnds bas been provided.for at the rate‘of $50.000 pe r Annum-—payable to the Security Trust ‘ompan| i'rustee, in equal quarterly installments. The first payment to be made January 1. 1923. 7his smkir fund is cumulative and no dividends can be paid upon the 2nd Preterred or commen stock until an arrears of First Preferred dividends and sinking fund payments have heen paid This issue can be called in whole or in part at any time at $27.50 and acerued dividends after dy notiee. * Al the legal proceedings regarding this issue have been under the supervision of Mesgrs. ‘Gro sross & Hyde. Attorneys, of Hartford. The books, accounts rnd reccrds of the company have beef widited by Mesers, Hadfield Rothwell & Soule. Certified Public Accountants.. «f dartford We offer $250,000 of this stock, when, as and if issued and received by us and subject to approval counsel, at $24.00 Per share to yield about 7.29%. Thomson, Tfenn & To. Members New York Stuek Exchange. 16 Central Row, tlartford Conn. Members Hartford Stock Exchange, New Britain Nationa! Bank Bldg., New Britain. Conn. Telephone Charter 8000, he statements helieve accurate and reliable. Pennies, Too - onteinia in this circular, while not gua.antced, are based upon Telephone 2580. information and advice which b ER, WELL OU'LL ADmiT Tuat i1 wouo LOOK BESIDE THOSE HUGE TINY FEET'® SN - BY CLIFF STERREY