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¥ i i ——— B THE LUXURY D Wy Synopsis: Rita, obsessed by an in- | iition that Ray still loves Barbara, | 0cs to visit her. When she learns that Barbara is the wistful, sad-eyed ! girl who frequently sat alone at the | Golden Dollar, Rita realizes she can- | cient proof that Barbara's not allow Ray to be parted from Barbara, Rita and Barbara become friends, and that night Rita tele- phones she has a plan to reunite the | man she loves with his estranged | wife. | A few weeks later, a brilliant first night crowd is gathering for the opening of “The Knave of Jazz" Ray's revue, in which Rita is billed for a specialty dance, “The New Yorker."” Chapter 41 BEHIND THE SCENES Opening night for “The Knave of The state of tension in the audi- cnce was as nothing compared with | that which had prevailed behind the | scenes since early afternoon. Hopes | and emotions ran riot. Chorus girls | flustered and giggled over their | make-up; and ° préducer bustled hither and thither; all and sundry | v would flop. | dead sure the sh Ray moved about like an auto- maton, his face white. his eyes slassy, not hearing cven the en- | couragement of Pete Anheim. | Rita had been apportioned a lit- ilc cupboard of a dressing room all 10 herself. Red and white Amer can Beauty roses stood in a long pitcher on the floor. Across one corner of the room was a faded | Japanese scree: Behind this sat Barbara—Barbara in such a high state of nervous h‘n-; sion that she kept locking and un- | locking her fingers incessantly. Rita, | powdering her long slim arms be- | fore the mirror, alone seemed calm Now, bending near the mirror, she stage playing his sa idea was that jthat first act unbearable. | rise or fall NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929. o3 HUSBAND, GRELG 7 J —every bit of it. But nk that we've actually o 'BY. MAY.SIE xophone. Rita's Barbara, instead of |t herself, should take her place™®n the | ac opening night and go through the dance. This should give Ray suffi- oh, girl, to T it closed her eyes, something was swelling in his throat, instinc- tively her arms tightened about him. She wanted so bgdly to feel him close to her or the last time . for the st time. the, temptation in that get the lit nobbish ideas had changed At the same time her appearance in this revue, the score of which he a public as-| Oh! was now at onc ment to f with him in his profession. are room. Why should she Having made herself up to her |sacrifice her happiness for any girl? complets ction, Rita thought | Why should she ime to go above. The five minutes | If only she could farget T ready sounded. ot that somewhere down old girl, and wish h t Ray loved the ife he hadidescrted t longer sk mo- surance t ve | deep i ara’s | poor little ri passed out of the door A found the 1"or one monie him, her suspense of to Anythit she would have given to have out in front. How was the audie reacting to it? They must be enjoy- paint shoulder h. she wrenche from him o long, ing it—they must. The mere thought " of failure appalled her. She knew | While to herself she m the dregs of disillusion that would she continued her headlong w then be Ray's. 4 She could see Ray standing beforc the public at the final curf ing a stiff upper lip while his soul cked in agony. It must be a suc- cess! Too, added to her fear f was the sure and sickening edge that with the s ure of “The Knave of J her own ou've got to be a sport you. You've got to go through v it now!"” (Copyr in kee Dial Press) Rita carri ings of tomo hopes. Crushed, defeated, irretricvably she would lose him d sort of prayer “Make them like this Please, pleas will break R: She paused abruptly. first, growing louc din of applause plause. She wrung her cried, without being in the les show, Otherwise it wife in the | rbara | were streamin, threw out over her shoulder: | “Do you think you've got the steps down pat?” | g a0 But really, Rita, 1 n't think we had better go hrough with it. Don't you think the whole idea’s rather crazy?” over with he way—Sc : Pleasantly flavored. E. awallow. A tonic food. Try it! SCOTTS xt moment Rita h dressing room. Rit ing about, shouti in he ment throwing an absurd goili- | wog mascot from one cnd of the | “Sure i's crazy. But if it weren't | 4T¢sing room to another. r the crazy things of life we'd all B o successi 1 L BLCCE EMULS'ON huge, roaring, howling suc commit suicide. Say, while, you'rc dancing don’t forget to keep your hands going at the same time as your . You've simply got to the New Yorker across, Barbara. | | | | | COD-LIVER OIL you hear the h ? The first our weakest. If that's gone the next is going 1o b 1 wait and see. . A alf laughing, haif ing in her Barbara swallowed twice, chew- | the paint from her underlip, I ShefashcdRonEE RuloLs t “I know. You're all sorts of a sport | {0 the door. 10 have given me this chance, Rita. | ™M Off to see ther & ngerous he | St i it 6l Along the corridor she rushed pressants take safe, mild} purel But do you hor nw any good? “You mean with Ray?" Barbara nodded. “Sure! Do you think T would have | &€ sone to the bother of coaching you | SI¢ Put up hev arms and f I hadn't? I tell you, you've got to | MM by the shoulders. do something drastic to show him | ' 1US & success, Ray that you are now one of us. vegetable NATURE'S RE and get rid of the howel pe that cause the trouble. Not ing like headache and constipatio pleasantly. | bumping into n and girls | Now she had found Kay, a stun- s though too ad turned 1 shook Mild, safe, purely veget At drugsists—o we've put it | across! We've put it across! | They were in each other's arms, Barbara's rueful smile was by | T way of confirmation. Rita, as she [ ToCKing to and fro in an ccstasy of A HT turned her attention to her hair, [1°3: Gk i ler A |7 VRita—T've got you to thank for it ROW.ALRIGHT mentally reviewed the heme she had put into motion for the recon- e e —mar . IT'S A HEARTY BREAKFAST — AND M et S aeine | SO TASTY AND SO EASILY DIGESTED sad-eyed, wistful little girl she had so often sern sitting alone in the hooth at ihe club. That proved with- | out question’ hat the girl was still in 3 i love with Ray. Also, that she regret- | - ted the impending divo: From that ,moment to this it bad never | she | occusred to Rita to take her own happiness at Barbara's expense. { The very fact that she should be | the means of bringing them togeth- | er was comic in itself. Regarding the | scheme she had devised for further end Barbara had been right | in denoting it as crazy. Too, it was < thea 2 he extreme. But Rita, . trical in t Xtrem i} ita Wlth all the bran of the whole wheat =SS trained {o the stage; saw everything in terins of the theatrical. | Ray had always made a point of | stressing the unsympathetic attitude | his wife had adopted towards his | work. 5 oL ! Chiefly with the idea of overcom- | Lhe right food to eat when the body needs resistance for ing this had Rita planned the whele | chilly days. Eat it with plenty of milk, hot or cold. 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