New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1926, Page 4

A Desperate Sltnation Confronts Madge and iugh, My hand fell from the helplessly, and 1 turned to Grantland trying hard to fig a mounting panic that hysteria, “I can't whispered, He starcd at me for a see I saw coming into his fact prehension, the rc strength which had standing charactorist) personality, In the twinkling of an cye our were reversed. 1 had cor this expedition to protcet him f danger. I found myself now looking lielplessly at him, d upon Iiis courage and 1o et us out of tl AT wd had been sprung with us inslde. “It's probably stuck,"” he sald with | an elaborately casual manner, It was altogether too casual to deceive me, however, and 1 caught my breath to keep from crying out in sheer terror as he went to the door and went through the same futile manoeuvres as I had in attempting to open it. Finally he knelt down and looked through the Kkeyhole, then, rising, flung his body against the barrier with a sudden tremen- dous onslaught which set the air of the empty house reverberating, but made no impression whatever upon the fastenings of the door. I caught at his arm as he reeled away from the door gasping with the effort he had made. | “There's no use wearing your strength out like that,” I said. “The door has been locked from the out- side, hasn't §t?" “Yes,” he returned. “I saw the key when a knelt down."” Hugh 1t dow s alimo open the I olution t ot resou ey which I ¢ tones, for we knew of course that whoever had locked that door must ‘be upon the other side of it. Despite my foreknowledge, I clapped my hands over my mouth to smother a terrified ecream when from the other side of the door sounded a volce as smooth, as polished, as cold, 23 a plece of jade from that Orfent- al country from which its owner had come, “I must congratulate you, Mr, Grantland, upon your eyesight. 1 wonder {f your memory is as good? Do you by any chance, remember Yet Kai?" NIGAT LETTER FROM JOHN AL- | DEN PRESCOTT TO PAULA ‘ PERIER | Will you please try to get your | »ducers to cancel contract with for motion pleture sequence to hot at the Hamilton Steel Mills? vill personally reimburse them to | any extent if they will do so. The | nvarly fatal accident which we had | st week has made me afraid of something happening from which you would not escape as easily this | time. T wish you had not bought those pearls. Although I am very glad Leslie has sold them, I am sorry it was you who purchased them. Ever since Leslie has had them, which meany ever since she was married, i1l luck has seemed to follow her. | Please answer immediately about | the motion picture sequence. JOHN ALD PRESCOTT. 1 Wire From Paula Perler to John Alden Prescott Producers positively refuse abroga- tion of the contract. y worth over a million dollars ro them. Under the circumstances I expect we will have to go on with {t. Don't worry. Tightning never strikes in | the same place twi PAULA PERIER. Nots From Paula Perier to Leslic Prescott Dear Mrs. Prescott, When Mrs, Atherton was in Call- | fornia, ehe had so much to tell me of your great kindness to every hu- doorknob if | beautitul {the direction of the voice. |that one day dead whiteness of thelr | eves from watering. At Hugh G he the first words I antland's flgure stiffen as had come in co with an current, und I kncw that he tzed that suave taunting | Of course to me, the name Kai, meant nothing. However, | membranes of Lee Chow's ex- | ry efforts to clude pursult | tall Orlental he had seen in | umton and the memory of | man who had trafled Lilllan and | me, 1 mo that it was {ndeed the | “bi; Hn " who stood outelde the had meen r traor by Bing 1 “I remember Yot Ral" Hugh be- | when with a sudden romem- brance, an equally sudden Intuition, | I spr toward him, put my hand over ) mouth and motioned hilm | * his head so that whis. reach his cars but no| | “Don't talk mo cohcrently,” I cau-| tloned. “He thinks you are still un- | lor the Influence of a drug whicl somehow or other was in t posed digestlve pellots you w ing. Lilllan and I changed for harmless ones the first of {Don't let him guess you arc youreelf again.” He nodded comprehendingly, then broke out in apparent excitement: “Yet Kal was a very bad Where {s he? Not here, for he was in prison.” The man on the other side of the |’ door gave a short, mirthless laugh, | “You are really quite an accom- | plished actor,” he sald, to escape me has becn, fectly aware of I am per- | the reason your feminlne—friend—' he halted dlabolically on the last word, | “made that hurried trip to Bing- hamton at night. I know that for | usual-—medicine—and that your un- | disputably brilliant brain 1is func- tioning again. §o do not indulge in | the childish pretense of being drug- ged. For myself, I am glad. T shall | have the exquisite pleasure of re- lating to you the tale of how T have outwitted you, and detalling the— let us say—interesting experience still awaiting you." Slowly, deliberately, Hugh Grant- | land drew his army revolver from his belt and almed it carefully in| (Copyright, 1926, by Newspaper Feature Scrvice, Inc.) man being and your rympathy with every living thing on God's earth, that my heart was gladdened by the fact that I, too, wag your debtor, T shall never forget how kind you | were to me during my first personal | appearance in Buffalo, | | Then agaln you earned my great |t he sure the gratitude by giving me such a gor- |« Eeous time with your two boys when | I was in ftisburgh last week and | I'm going to ask you if I may come | |to sce them again when I return | next Tuesday. I expeet you know I have promised | to make some personal appearances during the bazaar and the plan i8 now that we shall shoot the mill sequence right afterward. Give my best love to Sally Ather- ton. She has been one of my true friends ever since we met. I hope during my stay in| {your city yoy and Sally will lunch with me. Affectionately and sincerely vours, PAULA PERIER (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Next: Letter from Melville Sar- toris to Leslle Prescott, | Colored 0!l('|01h women are relieving the kitchens oflcloth on Many with rose or green tables and shelves. Under Water When pecling enfons, under cold water, | hold them | to prevent the === COLOR CUT-QUTS = The Three Lemens ) the dolls can now act out the whole story. At last the day came when the ¢ was to marry the prace. he saw a little were Um-e lemons ked the cook and she killed a dove that from three drops of here on the ground ) tree, cut cach sg he W had and ce open T4 d a 15 his true third for she to punish ber lie, but s very kind lom. The rued and the true fairy. n by the arried the rince slave prines ek Menus for the Family BY SISTER MARY 1y finna “but your |, effort is as futile as your attempt I8 |37 We were both speaking in hushed |several days you have not had )our»..g {tered casserole, letables and add about 1 cup of boil- ling water. |with gratea cheese and large spanish onfon make a delicious NEW DBRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURD . 3536 .= il llllllllll i T W Horizontal Tribe of Siouan Indians Marshy Relative pronoun Avenue Sounds Commonly Foundation Hymn linbecile Fair To satlate To grin ¢ Deity To socura Male Point of cowmpass To fly End of 8 dress coat Those who believe and body aet in ¢ Arch in shape of Targe oceanie flsh Point of compass Door rug Male child Sacond note in scale Withered 1 from Arabia ‘fously Raves Metal eloth Vessel Angers Urn with two An Indian g Py To snggost In the midile of Vertleal Meavenly body Similar to a frog artile snot in a desert Preposition of place Booty Act of setting too low a value Moose Like To maintain a grasp "nit Controversies Voluntarily Local position 5 bag cnus Ulmus) who does not bling debts Horses' guide Oriental g Devour: 1 Venomons wnake Branches of le pay gam- emptnously rope |80 32 nous bag inglish coing Wiser 'In blossom e charge that mind lination 39 10 Yoga To stuff To accomplish Treposition s fasfencr S| e e e e e e e {and seasoning the vegetable is much [due miental or physical fatigue, or improved. Let s at lvast an [some othcr unhe Ithful condition. hour in an uncoy 1 china or glass Do not spit c.a the sidewalk or in [dish and shake two or three times your handkerchicf or into anything ;»Inc-vs unerneath except into a .putum cup, A teaspoonful of Hold a handkerchief or a paper nearly canncd (napkin before yeur mouth when you 15h or sneeze, it boouds and face several One cup cooked peas, 1-cup diced |times daily and care ‘or your nails cooked bucts, 1 cup dieed cooked |scrupulously. carrots, 1 small head cauliflower, 4 | Have your cwn towel, your own table-spoons butter, 1 tablespoon S$04p, your own drinking glass. flour, ealt and pepper, 2 (nbl('spnonsi Eee to it that your cishes are grated cheese, bolling water, iscalded and -wished separately and Melt butter, add pras, beets and are not mixed with dishes used by carrots and shake over a low fire [0t r members of your household. untll vegetables are well coated with | Boil your handkerchiefs before butter. Sift flour and salt over veg- adding them to the wash. ctables and stir carefully with a | Sleep alone. fork. Put the cauliffiower which has | Kecep your face clean shaven. No stood for an hour head down in cold |tuberculosis paticnt should ever salted water, in the center of a but- |Wear 2 beard or a mustache. Surround with veg- | DBrush your teeth well at least twice a day, Ne kiz» anyone. anyone to kiss you Glve ycur child protection. Do not allow him to visit the room of a |consumptive; kissed or fondled by the sick, or by | anyone not known to be well, Do not allow your child to place fn his mouth anvthing taken from [the mouth of another person. | Provide an out-door playground. i Take care of your teeth, consult vour dentist at least twice a year. === [Have vour children's adenolds re- moved. Co-operate with the school ‘ | physiclan. | 1 ‘come up for air.’ sugar improves vegetables, Casscrole of Vegetables all Secason with salt and pepper and cook in a hot oven for 30 minutes. Remove cover, sprinkle return to oven long enough to melt cheese. Other combinations of vegetables can be used in practically the same way. Beans, corn, tomatoes and a Never allow casscrole. (Copyright, 1926, N [Your Health i EA Service, Inc.) Pancing Wax | A good dancing wax. used dur- ing Revolutionary days, may be made as follows: Melt togsther, over boiling water, a pound of yel- low beeswax and half a pint of 1 neat's-foot oil. Melt a lump | of resin tho size of a walnut in half a cup of sweet butter and add to wax. Deat well, remove from fire 4 stir in a cup of turpentine. How to Keep It— (auseq of Illness BY DR. HUGH 8. CUMMING) Surgeon General, U. 8 Publie Health Service Any one who ha: heen unfor- tunate enough to contract tubereulo sis uld place Limsclf under the re of a physician skilled in the trratment of this disease. | Keep the bedroom windows sonstantly and sta: in bed | and night until the temnperature mains nornfal at all hour: Take no medicine except that pre- | ribed by vour physclan. Spend | r money for food ratlier than Ly hard rubbing. re Cuticura Talcum The Family Comfort vo hear or other ed by your whiske: pr: no in fool ts mueh Milk and e meat f I i I p L 5 and i t not be omit- T tire you gain toilet powder for the eatire 4. It prevents chafing and irri- and comforts T vour 1 ta former kind of ue BT W te | | | | do nct allow him to be | en covered, Apply soft and pullsh‘ D |graph. Adventure begins at a road- JANUARY 16, 1926, 925 by NEA S I TODAY born to Violetta and Bruce and that BARBARA HAWLEY, Jilts gives her another lonely pang. BRUCE REYNOLDS, her flunce, hu-‘ Barbara aceepts a job offered in cause she wants to sec life. She gets 'a letter from Harvey Christopher, a job on the New Britain Teles dramatic critic of the Footlighta Magazine in New York. After getting houee where u prom.nent man kills (a Mttle apartnient in New York she himself and Barbara connects LY-|enlls up BOI JEFFRIES, newspa- DIA STACY, weathy widow, with the caso by means of a red scarf. |lice reporter on tha Telegraph, and Mrs. Stacy llkes Bruce. When he invites him over for dinner. refuses her advinces she tells AN- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY DREW McDERMOTT, editor of the | CHAPTER XLVITI Telegraph, that Bruce's realty firm, On faturday, Barbara reached i (rested. ! have seen him at once. Once more { Yowler crouched and resumed his jed alo | which Yowler | Farmer Brown's Boy chuckled 18 of no us {about.” | whe | trial | Bruce. o Barbara went out into the living room and looked at She brought a match and lit the At seven o'cloca the table, Every detail seemed perfect. candles, ew pleasure, ofter the long ¥ ternoons at the Tel aph office, with football scores to be taken by telephone, or o pile of lovelorn mail to be handled. A maid who worked about the [building was sweeping the living room when Ba “tntered. The windows were open and dust covers had been thrown over the uphol- stered furniture. Barbara went out to the kitchen ond inspected the tiny refrigerator. Then she made o lst of grocerlds and went out to mavket, At the lit- It1e French bakery she bought rolis and s, at the bhutcher shop a fat for roasting’ and green ners, Bruce's partner, absconds. VIOLETTA girl, who was “lovelorn” column. ra plunges into worlk to try to forget. At a women's cluh convention she meets Manners and has him ar- He implicates Brue sarbara confronts Mrs. § the red scarf in an effort to to testify for Br Mrs. S fuses but at the last momer takes the stand and advi t of the clears ghter, Fancy, apartment, man about A child s MeDermott's dau who res Barbara's ROME BALL, town. Barbara is loncly. chicken was a good dinner down under there. if only he could gvt it. We'll sce. Yes, sir, we'll & | He noted just where Yowler had Ibeen seratching, There was now no ‘sou‘ul of that tapping. Then at a lit- Itle distance Farmer Brown's Boy |began jumping up and down. That crust was strong enough to hold him Grateful and Ungrateful By Thornton W. Burgess That for which I'm grateful may Make you fecl the other way. —Mrs. Grouse. Farmer Brow's Boy continued to stand motionless and’ silent an.ong the young lemlock trees, watching |¢o0t8 FHOTER Ty Yowler the Bob Cat. Yowler had (e J ¥ |the time he took care not to get noticed the sudden way in which [ ;0 (1050 to that spot. He wanted to Reddy Fox had departed, and 1t Was |y, " gyro not to break through and | plain to sce that Yowler was 8US- .. whoever might be beneath. plcmm His stub of a tall twitched 'Groat eracks ran this way and that as Yowler glared all about. He way along the erust as Farmer looked straight at Farmer Brown's prown's Boy jumped in a eircle Boy without secing him. That is, if |;rouna that spot. Finally he stopped he saw him he didn't know that he ;nq pegan litting off pleces of crust ia. Had Farmer Brown's Boy MoV- apq throwing them aside. Suddenly ed even l) o tiniest bit Yowler “Dul«l |a cloud of enow was thrown in his ;f:\t‘a and with swiftly beating wings | Mrs. Grouse burst out from almost under his nose as he bent over to }p\ck up a plece of erust. Although |he was expecting something of the kind, he w:s so startled by the sud- denness of it that he lost his balance {and £at down g0 hard that he went |throught the crust into the soft snow ;bcncnvh. |teet. “Towler the Bob Cat did you a {zood turn that time, Mrs. Grouse. |when all the time he was thinking to do himself a good turn, said he {aloud. “If it hadn't been for Yowler T wouldn't have feund you. No, sir. |{T wouldn't have found you. There {wouldn't have been a chance. So |you have Towler to thank that you [are no lonmer a prisoner under the | erust, likely to starve to death, Yes, |sir, you have Yowler to thank, Now 'T can ro home in peace. T eertainly should have worrfed if T hadn’t |found veu, Mrs. Grouse.” | 8o Farmer Prown's Boy turned homeward, and for a long time Mra. Grouse conld hear his merry whistle. Very prataful was she, very grateful, indecd, as she filled her empty stom- ach with buds, that being all there was for her fust then. But some ana else listenine to that merry whistle wasn't grateful at all. Tn fart, he wi most nnerateful, Tt [was Towler the Bob Cat. He snarl- {#4 to himeelf as he listened, and he falt that he hated Farmer Brown's hav nltheush he knew well enongh ‘hat even had Farmer Rrown's boy not hanpened alene. he, Yowler wouldn't have had Mrs. Grouse for his dinner, for he conldn’t have got lat her. But insterd of being grate- ful that Farmer Brown's bov had happened along to set*Mrs Grouse free, with the chanee that seme. fima he might cateh her in a fair h somn day, Yowler was up- |eratefn). People are that way some- (times. strong enough to keep from break- He was so startled by the suddenness of it that he lost his balance watch ofthat place on the snow where he had begn scratching. Then another Merry Little Breeze happen g and carried the scent of Farmer Brown's Boy straight to Yowler. Reddy Tox had vanished suddenly, but it was nothing to the way in vanished. He was and then he wasn't there. b to stay here any long- er,” sald he. “That hob-tailed scamy knows I am here now, and T won't have a chance to see him again to- day. Well, Il have a look at that place where he was scratching. 1 would like to know what it was all there, He walked over toward the place re Yowler had scratched the ! ns e drew near he heard " under- neath, “H laimed s he listened. *1 1 am mistaken, 1 know now why Youler was so inter- ested In that spot. He knew there fzint tap , tap fr * excl per man who was her friend as po- | Valo Acres, i8 crooked. Then Man: [home early In the afternoon. Thi ! when he was valking, but it wasn't | that way. All | He was all smiles as he zot to his | ASPINSTERHOOD SERVICE XNC | vegetables at the grocer's. “You'll have more than you can carry, miss," sald a good-natured clerk, as he tied up her parcels. you?" Burboara shook her head. thank you. I'd rather tuke them. She made several trips, laying the packages on the kitchen table be- tween journeys. “Lord's sukes, miss, )ou must he |goin’ to have a party!" remarked !the mald, staring at the increasing il ot exactly,” Barbara answered. “Just dinner for three, but T want it ‘to be very nice. It's my first enter- taining in my new arartment.” Bhe was making for the door again when she turned back, "Deo you know where 1 can get some flowers for the table?' 'she asked the maid. “1 didn't votice any flower shops when I was out." The woman straightened her back front the task of dusting a low book {shelf. “There is one, just around the corner a few steps, That's one nice | thing about this nelghborhood. You can buy anything you take a notion for." The window of the tlorist shop was full of asters, in pinks and white and lavender. Barbara bought a box of them and made her way back to the apartment, She paused to glunce at the grav-stone front of the bulld- fng, with its New York alr of com- pactness and sophistication. She was humming a little tune when she entered the living room tor the last time and passed through 110 drop the last bundle on top of the plie. “I'l unpack those for you, miss," gnid the maid, standing in the door- “No, Inden bara's eves were shining over the {plump chicken, the crisp lettuce. iis 15 going fo Le a perfect din- ner, “You do heat nll."” said the womn Iher eyes wide. “You uct os i yo !Mke messing around in the Xitchen. “Well, it's ‘an 1 do like it, have so few Business women of ! hara laughed. |awful admission. But ;,-rm»:.mv beconse 1 chances to do it always like 1o step into the role |housewife once in a while. {1 have two nice men {dinner. know."” The maid grinned. ocs. When a woman really lik cook, there's always a man behind it somewheres, But watch out yon don't land him with your and have to do it for him all the rest lof your life. after the preacher | youra.” 40N, ‘I'\m:hrd Barbara. there's nothing like that," We're just good | “Say, miss, I ;fmn. hut there’s mnothing to that, ‘fhere ain't no such thing as being, long. You ou hate iwood friends for very cliher fall for him or else jhim. Don't tell me. T've |through the mill. And I've been cooking these fifteen years, without no romance to it either. Look at those hands.” She surveyed her |burned and cracked fingers ruefully. “But I've prowd a woman can ihave a man fricnd,” argued Barbara. “This one has stood by me for a 1long, long time. Neither of us is the | marrying sort.” The maid shrugged her shoulders and went away. It was seven o'clock before Bar- bara thought of dinner. Then she {tried eggs and bacon, made a salad nd sat down to eat at the kitchen able, where she could watch the tights flickering in the skyscrapers. The hum of Broadway was' always ‘audible, and the sense ol life swarm- ing close |strong. Barbara ate heartily, running into the living room now and then to look out at the busy street. washed the dishes and began to make salad dressing. Several other | dishes that could be prepared ahead of time were standing in the refri- gerator when she took off her apron at midnight and went to the front of the house. 2 Every light in.the little apartment was burning. Barbara sank into a | cha'r and smiled at her domain. While she sat there, the telephone Ibell rang. “Miss Hawley,” sald a woman's voice, “I hope I didn't dis- turb you. I did not realize how late it was till after I'd given your num- ber. Just thought you were lonely on this first night in the new apart- ‘lmem. It's rather a ghastly feeling. sometimes.” Barbara an: ered brightly. She had caught a note in the woman's voice that suggested tears. “I'm quite all right, thank you. In fact I've been preparing for company dinner tomorrow.” They talked for a few minutes, Barbara lung up, puzzled at the solicitous interest of Miss Furnivall |and at her e ident morose humor. | ‘The next day was rainy and cold. | Taxicabs skidded past in driving sheets of rain, and the gutters of tlL: apartment building ran rivers. Barbara rose late, had her break- fast and set about the work of mak- |ing a cake. Her little kitchen was brightly lighted. The harder the | louder Barbara sang. In the middle of the atternoen the maid knocked at the door. “I just wondered if you wanted any help, Miss Hawley." She looked wistfully at the bright kitchen and the bewis of toamy egg whites and milk on the table where Barbara was working. Tmpulsively Barbara opened the door farther. “Maybe T shall need help. Anyhew, it's a good day to have someone to talk ts, Come in.” The woman loaked surprised but &he obered. Barbara set her t& pol- went on beating the eees and chat- tering gaile. Sha had net felt so light-hearted for months. “At five o'¢lock they went inte the living rosm. The drop leat table wan pulled sut frem the wall and eleared of ernaments. Barbara china. sliver and glassware from the cuphoard and sst & eandlestick at Mther end of the table “T love dinners by ecandlelight.” she commented to the woman. “Can- “Can't we sead the things over for | . T wouldn't miss the ! fun for anything in the world," Bar- | | n e Pestdey, | coming for | And that adds interest, you M oeay it cooking ! Tt ain't so romantic, | makes hin: | don't want to be | been ! about the bullding was | Then she | rain beat against the windows, the ; ishing silver at the sink and then [ 'dles make the room so homey, and besides, they make —cvery womnn {look Bwice . & pretty as she really ) |And that is always important.” The maid grinned. “IIl tell world." As Barbara was putting the fints! ing touches on the table someone run lup the steps outside and rang the doorbell sharply. “ e of them telegraph hoys," cul the mald, “They always ralse 1l dead. Hope it's no bad news fron your folks." “I haven't any folks" answer. Barbara, on her wuy to the door The woman wos right. A Western Unlon boy stood at the deor, hokliis out a slip for Barbara to | tore the envelope open hu Mhe message was from McDormott “Having hard time to flll your | place. Bincerely hope you don't your new hoss and are good homesick, 1f 8o, just wire me, |will meet T"ootlight's salary." Barbara laughed. She took a pai (from the waiting boy and wrote her |answer. “Many thanks, but 1 & not homesick and I like my bo ywell enough, Regards to the bunceh.” “The idea of my leaving N York, when I've just fouyd it!" sl sald to the maid, without bothe 'to explain the remark, Bhe went back to the Kitehen si ing. The Ilittle apartment seen {more than ever hou elike nosw. The chicken was simmering In the roaster, the skin turning a golden brown. The cuke wgs rising pre- ternaturally high. Th8® glass 1 plates sat ready on top of the ice box |for the lettuce and asparagus. | “I guess that's all," said Barbara 'to the ‘woman. “But if you come around sohrtly after seven, I'll glve you your dinne around shortly after seven, {to be going home befors go along now."” Barbara dressed slowly and ear fully. The heat of the kitchen liail brought but a fresher color in her cheeks. At seven o'clock she went out in‘o the living room and looked at the table. Every detail secmed perfe (8he brought a mutch and it leandlvs, her face ecager in the flure of light that rose from theip yellow thy el A\ T then, give rn a sat down by the window 1 from behind the curtzins peeting every taxi that eanie o street (o stop in front of her 10 {door, As she gat there, the elicken be- zan to bubble very loudly in the loven, Barbara ran out to look at it. |8he was opening the oven door when ‘the front doorbell rang. She laild down the towel tn her {hand, smoothed her lafr and went lout to the living room. She cast a iquick glance around to make sure ithat el was right. Then she opencd the door and held out her hand to i Bob, But he grasped it only for a mo ment. He was drawing after him into the room u pretty girl whes red halr curled erisply at efther slde from beneath her tight Jittle blue felt hat. (To Be Continued) MATER KND PATTISON ALSO ARE, COMPOSERS {Artists 1 Hore Under Auspices of Musical Club Tomorrow Do Finc Work Both Guy Maier and Lce Pattison wlho will be heard in a recital of ‘musle for two planos at the Capi- itol theatre tomotrow under the aus- {plces of the New Britain Music.l club have entered the ranks of comn poscrs. Their program here wih ‘nr(\lml)ly include Guy Maier's a:- rangement for two planos of a st |of Wedding Waltzes from Dohn- |anyi's pantomime -operetta, “The | Veil of Pierrette.” ? Lee Pattison has made a number of arra rements of compositions for {two plano performance, among them the Coronation Scene from the.opera “Borls Goudounoff,” and the Con- certo Pathetique of Lisat, for which 'he not only made the arrangemer |for two pianos, but the orchestral score as well. 1. decidedly popular jvein, he has recently published a |foxtrot song, “The Land of Bye and Bye." These quict-mannered, unassuming young men gave a duplex perform- ance that is all in its own class. |Others may give two-piano recitals {it has remained for them to raise the form to a most fascinating en- tertainment. It is not enough to say that the listener can hardly tell where one leaves off at one keyboard and the cther begins at the second, though that is true. Neither is it enough to say that they play everything from Bach down to Germaine Tailleferre, who is the most super-modern of all the moderns, though that is also true. They play a Russian waltz, and never was a waltz meore delightful They change to a bit by Oesar | Franck, and one héars a c¢harm in the old Belgian one never before suspected. They even play a glorified form of jazz, thereby confounding the: lofty of brow, and delighting all the rest. A large palr of sclssors is in- valuable for removing the tough fiber of grapefruit in one plece. brousht | §