New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1929, Page 12

* By ELEANOR EARLY |wouldn't give it to her, she was going to sue me for breach of promise. And she was going to ask damages of $100,000.” Molly looked at him contemptu- THIS HAS HAPPENED Molly Burnham, phenomenally _successful young playwright, 1 her second success on Broadway! “Sacrifice,” the newest play, has| been attacked by the censors. But, instead of being frightened, the pro- | ducer and the actors are delighted It will assure continued popularity. they say, and guarantee the success of the play “ Molly, however, is p adjectives the censor: Play, hurt her. She resol the controversy, and d dir tire attention to little Rita Newton. all the adorable child of her best friend, i been h who has died. Molly has promised & long time, waiting to to take care of Rita, and lavishes dad. I understand she mad wealth and love upon the child. attempts to my fathes Bob Newton, . Rita's fath hired a lawye whom Molly is not particularly fond You can’t blame me calls often to see his little daughter ad she's dead! Molly knows of certain shadowy epi- werted her glance sodes in Bob's past NOW GO ON WITH CHAPTER XXXII “By the " Bob began wardly, “you remember Miss Smith, 3o Molly?” it ously. And so,” she said, “you're glad the girl is dead?” “Naturally,” he declared. “Think the scandal she'd have kicked Think of the baby. And your- as fs as that goes. Pretty isn't it? Give you material for another play. Plenty of and first-hand chance at it of up. self, story, rturbed. The apply to her to avoid > her en- mayhbe of nging around for my al Slsie’d probably have she'd lived of for being Molly fully distaste- you're a he THE STORY Sany; said. “The take after their fathers after their mothers. I that's wrong, hecause 1 should ' little Rita evincing any her of your characteristi / course o> should 1. he eed you didn't think there “But 1 think that's the anything wrong?” he hazarded. | Molly. Kids show the result of Molly preserved a frigid silence. |their environment more than their Did you?” he demanded | breedir Rita'll be all right while “I've no desire to talk about your !you keep your eye on her.” friends,” she objected. Molly sighed. “I hope My friends!” he laughed said You told me she was a very good Suppose friend of your had “Did 1?” Bob colored uncomfort- | her ably. “I don’t remember.” the flat. Rita would hz picked “Well, you certainly did. up her cheap little mannerisms. home in the taxi that night And, as the child grew older, she'd the station. Anyhow, sinc have absorbed something of Elsie's brought the subject up vou personality. Her viewpoint. ~ Her may as well tell you that vour lit- laxity. Al the finenes tle friend came to the Copley to|that Rita bequeathed her daughter. see me. And I must say, Bob, that|couldn’t have eliminated the con- I think your taste is perfectly ex- | tamination of daily contact. ecrable! Also, T think it's wretched-| “It's a wonderful thing ly bad form for you to talk about|Rita to be here with you. the girl. I'm sure I'm not in t-|ing to make a wonderful ed” her.” “I; thought maybe you might be,’ e he drawled. Molly yawned “Well, 'm not!" “It's getting pretty late, Bob, “Different from most women, she observed. “Yould better sa aren't you, Molly? Superior to gos- | the culogy for another might.” sip and scandal, and all that sort| He rose promptly. of thing? Wouldn't be a bit inter-| “I don’t blame you,” he admitted. ested in getting the real low down |“for being pretty rough on me. I've on Elsie?” | been a good deal of an egg. But “No, 1 wouldnt. Do you think|there’s nothing I wouldn't do for T'm going to sit and chat with my little Rita, or for you, Molly.” best friend’s husband about his| “Thanks” she murmered. inamoratas?” | fully good of you, I'm sure.” She rose angrily. When he had gone, she wrote two “You'd better go home, Bob.” letters. One to Red, and one to “Oh, all right.” ack. It was fun, writing Red He rose leisurely, and Fun, and a lot of satisfaction. He the ashes out of his pipe had heard, of course, of the success pink porcelain fireplace. And the efforts of “Only—well, Elsie yesterday, Molly. Automobile acci- dent in Montreal. Peculiar coin dence—you remember the way Isa- | dora Duncan twas killed? Searf | have the censored profit by the ac- Kknotted about her throat. The same |tions of the censors. Divine justice. thing happened to Elsie. And the|he called it. strange thing “abéut it ~was™that| He had Elsie danced in an Isadora Duncan tory wire from Ottawa, begging de- ballet once. She simply idolized tails. She would send him what {hat woman. You may not believe clippings she had, and tell him how it—but Elsie could dance. She|pleased Mr. Durbin was with the ac- broke her ankle a few years ago.|tivities of the censo And that rather finished her . . .”| While she was writing, Durbin Molly turned on him fiercely. himself phoned. Everything was “You beast!” she cried. “Haven't|going wonderfully, he declared. you any heart at all?” | were selling three weeks in “But you don't understand,” he!advance. The evening papers had interrupted. “If Elsie hadn't gone|all carried stories. And there was to Montreal, she'd mever have been |talk of padlocking the theater. Killed."” “I wish yow'd come over” he “What has that to do with it?”|coaxed. “The little girl T have on she stormed. “The poor girl's dead. | publicity says she could arrange a fsn't she? What difference does it|lot of things, if you were, on the make whether she went to Montre- [spot.” al or not?” What kind of things?” Oh, interviews, and personal ap- pearances. She thought if I should give you.a luncheon, and invite 2 My father lives in Montreal,” he |lot of writers, it might be a good said. “He's one. of the richest|idea. Then she said something men in Canada. You never knew s vour doing some lecturing on that, did you, Molly? Rita never |cens . 1 wish you would, told you? Rita was proud as Luci- fer. She wouldn't take a penny of the old man’s money. You see, he cut me off when he learned I'd been married. He'd have let us starve, to bring me to terms. When the| baby was born, T wrote him that h had a grauddaughter. It didn’'t seem to make any difference—on= kid more or less in the States. He did't even answer my letter. Rita said that settied it “I was sore as blazes with the old man. But I admired Rita for her pride. There were times I'd have gone to him on my knees. But | Rita said she'd never speak to me again, if 1 asked him for a penny- by the And T never did. | Besides, there was that horrid, “About a year ago T met Elsie. [hateful woman, Mrs. Bulwer-Eaton. She came from Montreal. and she| A girl couldn't very well write a knew who my dad was. She was a|loving letter to an ex-sweetheart wise kid, and she played her cards|who sat under her very nose with pretty. It's a long story, Molly. I|a huge, red creature, old enough to won't hore you with details. be his own mother. Still there was “But Elsie went to Montreal to|that silver ring she had brought ackmail my father. She was go- | home from Florence. She had ing to ask him for $50,000. If he|bought it for him, because she rson,” awk- boys to see aised inquir “Of She eyebrows ingl che hope fully bunlk, wa 50, she " he went on, Isie bull-dozed me into marrying Or even letting her stay on in Coming from you've self, T general for little girl of “y knocked in the led that sort of thing. Censorship infuriated him. And nothing pleased him more than to Red loved sent her a congratula- woa s Bob was filling his pipe again.| Packing the tobacco thoughtfully. > laughed at his eagerness. Not even for you,” she retorted. {“I'a rather go back to Snodgrass.” But it was something amusing to write Red. She filled sheet after sheet with the tale. He would be delighted with the enterprise of the censors. Mr. Durbin said they'd done more for the play than all the | billboard advertising in New York. | It was late when she began Jack's letter. It wasn't fun writing 1s it used to be. 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And because she had lost | the little* shining diamond that was | nis gift to her. “Deare % he began—no, wouldn’t do. . . . 0o casual. . . . |that sounded all right “Dearest Boy,” but just “Dear Boy. |Not too exclusive. ' But familiar. Loving, but not extravagant. “I am sending you a silver ring. Lucrezia Borgia, they say, had one exactly like it. ~And she hid her | poison powders in it Oh, dear no—that wouldn't do at; lall. Acting as if nothing had hap- | | pened. “Dear Boy, | “I wonder who the charming!| lady was I saw you with at th® theater. . . ." Hypecrite! Hypocrite! Hypocrit “harming lady”—that odious cri Besides, he might think she | jealous. | loved him. Washington, Aug. 15.—One of the that | most interesting things in Washing- | ton is the bureauof standards. You can take one look at congress or at the president and you've seen every- thing. But you can snoop around out at the bureau of standards for a week and be surprised several times a day. The bureau’ has 18 buildings and 43 acres of land way out on Ci necticut avenue, where a large. staff of scientistq is charged with the job of developing, constructing and main taining reference and working stan- | dards used in science, engineering, | industry and commerce. The Fathers gave congress the! right to ‘fix the standard of weights and measures” and today these enticts are measuring a one- millionth of an inch and determin- ing how much a five-inch steel bar bends when you pr our fingers against the ends. What It Has Done The bureau of standards, among other important things, has devel- oped a new currency paper for the government with 50 per cent longer life, produced the first practicable model of the earth inductor com- pass mow used in long distance flights, developed the radiobeacon which gives an airplane pilot a val indication whether he is follow- ing the correct course, built the first latitude laboratory for measuring airplane engine performance under fiight conditions. worked out pro- cesses of coating steel and other metals with cromium—the hardest known metal, doubled the life of | physically exhausted. ~ Her he@d | printing plates, used by the govern- achod, and her throat. And there|ment, discovered ;a satisfactory |Sere pains in the backs of her|leather tanning material in waste i She was cold, too, although | Paper from paper mills, developed a Ve e was ovarm: | treatment which made good rubber \When she was ready for bed, she |Out of cheap rubber, established the ing gown over her|corn sugar industry, made three night dre and tip-toed in ”,,\lsh’md:\nls of planeness thick to Hna Hita 1dy’ ‘on Teb |within one five-milllionth of an with her cheek turned against the |inch, cast the largest disk of optical pillow, and both her little hands |Blass ever made in this country—for thrown up over her head. |a telescope—after immensely im- It must have been because Molly | Proving the proces of making opti- was tired, and she buried her head |¢al glass, ruled several steel scales in the blankets, and began to cry. |directly from light waves and dis- | She folt very sad, remembering that | covered a coating to greatly reduce Ruth and Rita had died, and Jack |the atmospheric corrosion of dur- had taken a dreadful fat woman to aluminum, the airplane metal. | the theater. | In a single year, according to bu- | Presently she twas crying out|reau statistics, it tested approxi- [1oud. Then little Rita woke. With mately 2200 electrical measuring her baby fingers, she drew Molly's | instrume: 2600 electric batteries, | hands down from her face, and|3600 electric lamps—representing | tried to kiss her tears away. And |purchases of 1,300,000 lamps by the when Molly still wept, little Rita |gOvernment—2500 gauges and sam- wept, too. Until Molly took the pies of gauge steel, 6500 weights |ehild in her arms, and carried her |and balances, 950 scales, 300 time- into the kitchen, to sit on the fable [ pieces, 13,000 pieces of glass volu- and watch, while she made cocoa |Metric apparatus, 570 hydrometers, for them hoth. 4,000 laboratory thermometers, 2,000 Tefore they were through their |samples of engine fuels and lubri- limpromptu breakfast, the nurse|cants, 1,7000 samples of sugar, 670 woke., Then Molly went to bed.|samples of radium and radioactive | But before she had been asleep an | materials 1,200 engineering instru- hour, the telephone hegan to ring.|ments; 700 aeronautic instruments, (To Be Continued) 3,000 specimens of engineering ma- terial 1,000 samples 6f metals and alloys, 150 pieces of china and pot- tery, 12,000 samples of cement and | concrete, 1,500 miscellaneous sam- | ples of ceramic materials, 1,700 sam- | not Jetter try once more. Tell him about little Rita, and the beautiful | new apartment, and what fun it w having a baby in the house. She would just refer to the ring in a P. S. It would be better that way. | Anyone would think that a girl who could wirte plays, could write a letter easily enough. But it wa | dawn before Molly went to bed.; Red's letter she put in a big stamped envelope. There were cight | sheets of yellow copy paper, hur- riedly typed. Jack's letter was hand- written on her best stationery. There was a single sheet, and the | writing did not quite fill it. Red's| letter had taken 30 minutes to type. | ack's three hours to compose. she had finished she was slipped a dres engine of the Ques- the army plane which . now wion. | mhe center | tion Mark, once set an endurance ree: is in the Smithsonian i- f‘fi real Pleasure” “There's no finer chewing gum than Tru-Lax—no finer chocolate candy than Tru-Lax. And in either form there is that wonderful laxative. 1 recommend Tru-Lax to all my {riends. 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RHINELANDER FILES PLEA FOR DIVORCE (Scion of Wealthy Family Says Negro Wile Schemer ples o rubber, 7,300 samples of te tile materials, 2,000 samples of paper, 300 samples of leather and 1,600 samples of paint and varnish, along with 1,200 miscellaneous chemical tests. The physical layout of the bu- reau is so large that it cannot be described herewith, but in addition to varipus rooms for tests of weight measurements, density, time, vres- sure and what not, there are vari- ous buildings of special construc- tion. There’s a low-temperature buflding with plants for producing liquid air and hydrogen. Here hy- drogen has been frozen and the characteristics of ordinary = sub- stances so changed that soft rub- ber becomes as brittle as glass and mercury is frozen and used to drive | nails. There are three wind tunnels, where scientists study the behavior of planes, dirigibles, bombs, build- ings and chimneys in an air stream. In the dynamometer building air- plane engines are tested before be- ing licensed by the department of commerce and there are automo- tive power plants, where automobile parts are also tested. The basement of one building has an experimental foundry and a small-sized paper | mill is found in another. Make Their Own Weather In one room artificial rainstorms and sunlight are produced. A largc testing machine in the industrial | building has a compression capacity | of 10,000,000 pounds. The kiln house makes optical glass for the:| navy’s binoculars, -sun sights and | periscopes, as well cement and | ceramic materials. There's a com- | plete cotton mill and an experi-| " mpe qistrict treasurer reports that mental sugar plant. And that reparations for the district picnic, doesn't-begin to tell half of it. |PEeE 2 s |the first to be held in this city, are The government often asks the|complete and will take place on Aug- bureau for the sgemingly impossi |ust’17 at Amusement park on Farm- ble—for an instrument to measur |ington avenue. It is expected that ship-to-shore distance when the shib | many members of the Falcon al- can't be seen, for a photographic (liance from throughout the state will piate which will = take pictures attend the pictnic, which will be for through fog, for a method of de-|the maintenance of the state drill ciphering burnt documents, and so 'classes. Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 15 (UP)— Leonard Kip Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and prominent family of New Rochelle, N. Y., has made ap- plication for divorce from his negro wife, Alice Rhinelander, she took advantage of his youth and |inexperiencel to induce him to marry her, it was learned today. 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