New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1922, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1022, funny right of its contrel will be trans ferred from the Tmperiuy Household to the municipal anthorities. The features of the conteraplated im- s it funny?” | provements will be the provisions for - sporting and gymnastie exercikes, (Continued In Cur Next Tssue) | construction of flower-beds and the converslan of Shinabasu pond inte a public bath-place existence. The new Iibrary will be | constructed nt Nakanoshima In ©saka at the cost of one milllon yen which has been contributed by Baron Bu- mitomo of that town. In rospect of appearnice ad well as equipments, the new library, which will be known as the Osaka Prefectuva! library, will be lone of the hest in the Orient “What too awfully struck you as so funny?" he exploded. “Show me anything, funny about this scene and I--1'1 eat my megaphone, What's so damn' funpy 7" “Oh, I am sorry," doing her utmost to sober herself, but still her volce &hook her hody rocked with recurrent spasm of idiotlc mirth, “You see—when you sald that—what you sald ahout why-—as funny, for words!" “Well) why but dancing why a reason, Whj tremolo of Nolan's volce as he de- talled the awful offense Richards had committed against Nellle in the play tickled irresistibly her sense of the absurd; and her laugh folowed natur- ally, Inevitably, uncontrollably. “I'm sorry, Mr, Nolan," she gasped. “Forgive me, T—1 didn't know I was going to laugh till—till-—tiil Is struck me so funny—!" Her volce rose and broke in an- all Give Nolan insisted, rage. “Hell! Fueinda was UYENO PARK CHANGES, Toklo, April 26— (By Mall)—Mark- —_— ed improvements will be made in the N TO LIBRARY. | appearance of Uyeno Park after the Osaka, May 20.—By the end of au- [inda feel " § LOUIS JOSEPH VAN merriment, Chile is electrifying the state rall- ©1012 b Louis Joserh Vance (Continued From.Our Last Issue) “I'm sorry. I only wanted you to understand why 1 felt I had to warn you against Nelly., She's unfortu- nate, God knows, bue she's danger- ous, too. They all are, once the stuff gets a hold on them, there's nothing they won't do, no lie they won't tell ¢ * “And this is what goes on in this earthly paradise!" “Tt isn't Callfornia, it isn't Holly- wood, it's human nature.” XXvii Lucinda dated from that Saturday the dawn of a fortnight when every- thing went wrong for ber with such regularity that, in the end, the burden of its crosses grew too sore, the wom- an had been something more than merely mortal, whose stores of forti- tude and forbearance had not run low. / Naturally she blamed Bellamy * * * But one day Lucinda devoted pain- ful hours to totalling up her bank ac- counts, a duty which she had been religiously forgetting for months and whose performance brought to light the fact that she had already given Harry Lontaine checks to his order in the sum of two hundred and ten ¢housand dollars, to he cashed by Mim and deposited to the -credit of Linda Lee, Inc. If she felt slightly dashed hy this discovery, it was less because of the money involved—for she had ‘from the first been prepared to pay more dearly for her whistle than Lon- taine - had declared it would cost— than because the end was not yet, the first picture remained unfinished. It was now necessary to write Wil- Ms and ask him to find her more money. But her only course was to con- sult Lontaine in the faint hope that out of the sum entrusted to him there might be enough left in the company's treasury to see it through the present production. And this she hesitated to do because of an in- tuitive feeling that he would take this as directly challengipg his com- petency. Lontaine was a sensitive soul * * * However, he spared her the pain, for the next time they met to propose marriage, and Nelly was to accept him, momentarily carrled off her feet by the sincerity of his passion ns much as by the glamour of his wealth and soclal position, While this was going on, Dick, the son, passing in the street, was to catch a glimpse of Nelly's shadow on_the window shade and, wild with jealousy, demand admittance. The father was to conduct Nelly to the private hallway, understanding that she was to slip away by the back door, Instead of doing so, Netly was to i linger and overhear the quarrel be- tween father and son, in the course of which it was to transpire that the former had! once offered to wager the latter that he could make the girl his mistress within a given perfod of time. Whergupon,. in re- vulsion of feeling, Nelly was to con- front the two and, while confessing she had planned deliberately to marry either one or the other of them for his money, assert herself to be too good to be the wife of either. } 2 Nolan proceeded now to act out In his own person the business which he concelved to be in character for a girl of Nelly's quality in circum- stances so contrived as to make voluntary eavesdropping on her part seem constructively defensible. And Lucinda looked on with earnest at- he blandly advised Lucinda that the|, company could do with another twenty thousand as soon as she could find time to draw the check; and on learning that it would have to wait a few days, or until she could hear from Willls, he seemed considerably discountenanced, or else fancy misled her. The day when Lucinda broke with Barry Nolan began auspiclously enough with a night-letter from Har- ford Willls stating that money mat- ters had been arranged in conform- ance with Lucinda's wishes, and add- ing that Willis hoped before long to give himself the pleasure of calling an: her in person; . he was leaving New York the day he telegraphed. Not a lttle to her own wonder, Lu- cinda found herself pleasantly excit- &1 by the thought that she was to - see this old friend agajn: Busy with such reflections, and with the pleasing prospect of soon having a willing audlence for her complaints, Luginda made nothing of the fact that Lontaine showed the whites of hils eyes and shled back 1fke a skittish cob from the telegram which she submitted to his inspec- tion, and was not much tranquilized by the check which, at the same time, she gave him for the replenish- ment of the corpany’s coffers. And in her most amiable tempre she hur- ried from his office to her dressing- room, into the newest, prettiest and most becoming dance frock®she had ever owned, who had owned fo many, and then out to the stage. The company was waliting, the cameras were walting, Nolan with an air of noblest patience with wait- ing. All of which was quite neced- less, for there was other work in abundance that could have been at- tended to. As ' Lucinda drew near, Nolan hoisted himself out of the basket- chair in which he had been loung- ing, with something more than a suggestion of limbs cramped by pro- longed . inactivity, and bowed polite- ly, too politely. “Sorry {f I've kept you walting Mr. Nolan, but I had some business with Mr. Lontaine we couldn't put off.” - “No matter at all, Miss l.ee, T as- sure you—not matter a-tall! My time is yours, the company's time |is yours, all the time there is is yours to use or waste, just as you think best.” Lucinda couldn’'t very well let offensiveness so pointed pass without ecomment. She stopped, turned square- ly to face Nolan, with a keen smile looked him deliberately up and down, & movement of shoulders summing up clearly enough the substance of her impressions. * “Thank you for telling me,” she s2ld sweetly. "And now that is un- derstood, suppose we try to make up for the time I've wastéd, {f pos- alble, by getting to work at once .« Nolan's eyes saapped, but the only report that occurred to his mind as at all appropriate he felt instinotive- ly to be inadequate in point of ele- gance. “Fair enough,” he agreed 'with A passable display of good spirit. “Let's go to it, then.” He approached the set, upon which two cameras stood trained at close range, with Kieg lights focused. “Now, Miss Lee, I'll just line in what I want of you this scene. The set was a simple angle, where two walls met in an apartment hall- way, with a door that opened inward from a living room set beyond. In this last the hl, dramatic moment of the play was to be staged, a scene involving Lucinda and her two lead- ing men, the heavy father and the juvenile, his son, both of whom were understood to be in love with Nelly Here, in his bachelor apartment, Nelly was to call at midnight on the father, to beg him to intervene with the titular . villain and save her wayward brother from imprison- ment. The madly infatuated father was “HELL! GIVE A REASON, WHY'S IT FUNNY?" tention and puckered brows, eager to catch every hint that would help hev become a better actress. Her distrust of Nolan extended only to his abilities as a constructive builder of story-teling pictures and a judge of pictorial values. For the very considerable amount of raw power as a pantomine which he indubitably possessed, she had much respect. This enthusiasm = was running away with him now, he was build- ing the solo scene which Lucinda was to play on lines of broad emo- tional melodrama widely inconsist- ent with the situation. Iorgetting that, while the conversation assumed to be going on beyond the door was one well calculated to annoy and dis- gust her whom it concerned, its revelations were after all hardly of a character to break her heart. Nolan was, as Nelly, ranting and| raving in the angle, like one gone half-mad with shock and grief. Yet such was the fire he infused into the performance that for the time being he truly succeeded in pervert- ing Lucinda's grasp of the scene.| Having exhausted his repertoire of emotlonal artifice, he stepped out of the camera Jines, consulting Lucinda with a glance and the stereotyped inquiry, *“See what I want, dear?” she nodded without thlnkingf"YOU| make it most real. I'll do my best" and stepped into character and the set as the lights blazed on; the cameras began to tick, and Nolan selzed his bation of authority, the megaphone which he invariably used while directing, though he had as much need of it nowas the cameras had of telescoplc lenses. “Now, dear,” he blared through this instrument—'go to it and show us all you've got. Don't be afraid of letting yourself go. Remember, this is your Big Bcene, biggest you've got in this story, your one grand little chance to put it over that you're a -ure-enough actress * * * Now'you put your ear to the crack in the door and hear your name. Give a big star and look horrified. You never dreamed men-could talk about women like that, you know. S8how us Horror, dear, and make it strong, you can't make it too strong. Remember you're just realizing the man you love §s such a rotten cad he could make a bet about your virtue. It just makes you feel sick all over— “Great snakes! What's that for? 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