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SEPTEMBER 13, 1930, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, to obeying that an | thoritative ring in his voice. to|she looked at him, and Sloan into her eyes without a word, n he deliberately kissed her. him, and playing there au- So d and BEGIN HERE TODAY accustomed Anne Winter, who began extra, is now under contract Grand United, one of the largest of the Hollywood studios. Dan Rorimer, former Yorls I 1/ M rew newspaper man, nOW a SCenario|gioan, with writer, is in love with Anne, but he | o his lip: is not meeting with much success anq look at and he regards his feeling for her| . (o .. as a rather hopeless one. Anne has| P been living with two girl e e Fva Harley and Mona Morrisor et The former, embittered by her fail- S ure, has left Hollywood, hut Mona iy being made of more ful styff. still hopes to “get a brea Paul Collier, who writes a daily movie column for a string of news- papers, shares Dan’s apartment. He has great faith in Rorime ability A play that he had written for the stage while in New York. is return- |~ (4 ed to Dan, unaccepted, and Anne i po. and Collier read it and are enthusi- | 0" tpough, astic. They urge him to revise it for | .yt was a cli ‘the movies. This he does. as New back from a little smilc continued to sit her. “That tly, coldly A ghed and Sloan course, nd primi g my face, tre “you're 1bo give slappi the h he decla you ent too la ve otion. 1 he apologized Not that I he added with a grin. | 1l experiment, but | more, too. If vou encouragement at you pretty hard, | then for Kiss- want was something showed me any a1l He drove vised her to get Eventually it is accepted by Grand United, and Dan, knowing that Anne would like a dramatic role, suggests to studio executives that she be given a test for the leading femi- and Anne obediently nine part. Garry Sloan is to direct | o bed lay the picture. He gives her a test and |t though, thinking that Garry she wins the role. Sloan is the b as a range person, zest director in Hollywood and v O ng if what he had said begins to show some interest her could be true. “Too lady- and takes her out. |like—too cold—God gave you em Rorimer proposes to tion—use it she tells him she .is not She was troubled that she loves him. He thinks But on the set the next morning | will be better for Anne if he does greeted her as though nothing not show her too much attention: all had happened. He said he does not want to arouse Sloan’s ood orning, Anne. jealousy. On the eve of her big- | fit? ; . gest sceme in the picture, Sloan | “I had nine hours' sleep.” she an- suggests that she have dinner (swered, smiling. “I should be with him. At dinner he asks if she| “Good.” There was something has ever beea in love clse to be done, he said, before he NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |would be ready for her. So Anne CHAPTER XLI waited, talked for She smiled at him. “Do vou think | Dan Rorimer. ho 1 have?” ar her long, And | Sloan to keep looked ‘at her thoughtfully , 1 don't.” Anne laughed. and she eves drop to evade the look in hi: own., There was a bold searching It was nearly noon when her turn ness in them that made her feel|finally came and she stepped be- that her secrets would not be safe |neath the blinding lights. Rorimer from them. She said. “How do you |wat-hed her, and he watched Garry | tell—or are you just guessing?” . and he saw almost at once Sloan chuckled and gave Sloan was not satisfied with waiter a bill. +“It's something more |her. But the director said nothing than a guess. One of the require- |for perhaps two minutes; merely ments of a director is clairvoyance, |sat and frowned. Then he com- | vou know. . . . Shall we go?” He manded | gestured to the waiter that he did | “Cut!” | rot expect any change. | When she was beside him in the| Ann _car once more he continued where [and Sloan shook his head. They | he had left off. “Was I right, [would listen for a playback. he| Anne?" - perhaps Anne would discover “I'm afraid you she | what was wrong when she heard it. | miled. “What's to be done about |He rose from his chair and went 7 over to her, and Dan saw him say | “Something should be done about |things to her in a low tone that did it—immediately He added not cz to him. But he gathered ously: “You're going to fall in love |from his gestures that the director seme day, Anne, and when vou do|vas criticizing her appearance as| you're going to be a better actress.” | well as her voice “Haven't I heard something like | Ann that before?” aker and Sloan shrugged and | “I wouldn't doubt lifted his hands. Presently he came | mitted. “Old truths back to his seat, but he stood in- ones, after all.” stead of sitting. rested one foot on | “But how do we know they are |the chair and leaned forward. truths? Doesn't that sound like an| Someone commanded silence | extraordinarily simple prescription |asain: A alone on the set, tor success—to fall in love?"” moved over to a telephone which Sloan shook his head. He was|reng faintly and lifted the receiver. driving through a darkened stretch |A sharp cry from her and the re- and Anne could not see his face. | ceiver fell from her grasp and dan- “You're laughing at mc,” his voice gled on its cord from the table. came to her presently, “and I'm| Rorimer. with a cigaret unheeded telling you something that's good |bctween his fingers, looked on anx- for vour soul. You're voung, |iously as she covered her face with | Anne, and you're untouched by life, her hands, let them fall slowly. | and . 2 He paused, and Anne wondered | faltered, was strangled. then if he was going to add some-| But Sloan shook his head thing trite — something after the |and called her over to him. “Anne,”" manner of fiction writers, about |he said, “you—vou're just crying, bringing out the woman in her in |th all. It's more than that: it's order to bring out the actress, ot to be something that'll simply But he didn't. He said instead their hearts with pity.” | “You've a great talent but ruck his 1 rply with you don't use it all. You hay nd. “You knov (o learncd yet to let vourself Now to me.” there’s something that I doc't er it she remembered | know —there’s something inside of in “Broken Blo! you that you're keeping locked up. 1 other pictures . T said that when you fall in love nodded mutely. you're going to be a better actress said and T mean it. I know it doesn't went throv sound original, because there's an | this time Sloar awful lot of guff printed about |his watch and actresses having to live parts sorel in order to act them and all that it until sort of thing. And of course any | h lunch hi sensible person knows it isn't true.” | to v in th on the lot » | Anne told sorry home then and ad- a good night's rest, went straight > for a long her awa me, oan ve r A but all sure | it he at L did not linger n i raised his eyes and |things him busy. Anne She thought, | ing roor she quickly excused it let her |on the way to her dres I'm nothing but nerve | the were," s it are the he ad- truest again wring ¥ his open want He a Lillian H =0 give it ked Gish ntione An And I try, She h it with a sigh tried lunch again, and a glance at that told of told her to| He took their patie forg, Anne said humbi She said. I don't though, what you 1 ing something up ir " Sloan pressed his foot brake pedal, and when stopped he turned and faced her “Look at me,” he said And Anne wonderingly did as he told her, because she had become “I'm inderstand, an about lock- | seem ide 3 at ¢ s afraid sorry 1 to dab handkerchief let you I'm I've bly A the car Don't sharply ¢ o Sloan's haven't that exc POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN AUNT HET None o' my folk feeble-minded, hut Cousin Joe was a solemn little squirt that got mad if his wife nod- ded while he was readin’ his newspaper at her.” on to the next house.” Copyright, 1930, Publishers Lcamr ght. 1930, Publishera Sy ——————————————————— |\ ———— { “In my day a boy had to 0 to the front door for his girl, but Betty's beau just honks an’ if she didn't run out to him I guess he'd drive | ed however, but found | and not plied, I'm v He tol th the had been pl your tightened up And he meni not wa money. They ir. the eveni Rorimer scens saw conferred wi then went to Ann The door w down weary had beel And i with 1 D he na chur wou at,” But mustn't say tirely. He Dan: very sal he nting antly sentmont Anne Sloan took er he was goi afternoon anned. “We'll r afterward Iw tione to nt you t somethin, waste ng if returning afte th the script c d s open and She said, “Hell voice. n crying. he was Nobody browbeat sin 14 d protested 1t's my browbea that hasn't her going to give up. i've got it and I'm going to have schedule return You're any would work until late necessary. r lunch, Sloan come back alone, and he she was 1y and he saw fault en- | mile and that was all. er clenched his fists. Sloan rcappeared then and “Come on,” he going to eat. Going to Rorimer Dan nodded Sloan grumbling | they had wasted a cou sar.d dollars that day. and th first time Anne replied with some | ‘ve spirit. Sh Mr. You sort know | the devil Sioan's to | most You said, Sloan.” haven't You hand. | Anne. | don't you le voice rose unt a shout. all 1f go, in B dark, but Rori | bite her lip and turn he |and he knew he no | keep silent. So he | “Why rub it in was doing her best. And Sloan turned on ahead that o relax. g about mor lerk and | | ng room. | el that way little ham! What's it | ‘You're just a | said. and swung his fis a 0, Dan, thas (To Be Concluded) CITY'S GRANT IN hot-eyed | but a you like “You | U. 5. BUDGE ten me, you're quite wrong. He's been | patient.” 1Post Office Addition One of Most Dan went back to his office; Phil- | lips wanted light was for a long t Moore depar him, with a Anne and S When he found sat dejectec heard Sloan ever known Don't ans to be doing just w ight—you', She did li m bly his criticism Rorimer her. ser off d nervously didn't go ho didn't want But he wanted to while what Sloan fr Collie: work hysteria. He tho ready for a strait | doesn’t let up or her her He looked after seven, off the set and know the he sat there he remembered him ime. But ting and sympathetic oan were did finally dly say beside any you real grief know crazy with it hat 1 spoke ah holding bac it ain for a corner, vi he wondered me. Sloan him for anythi remained, beca om r had ing a told hi star into iz e ack at his watch and looked at him questioningly | Pack and saw Anne come dejectedly again and Sloan look at her disgustedly. “You're gt have to ke oing to do it ep vou here he said with sudden s going to ge 1. And looke he saw He and coldly. 's voice came from the loud |orde» to his as Dan sat b give her co othing to f eel badly, Aune.” t some din then w d around him Rorimer left then to stant eside her mfort. But be said nd excep! the smile, that | a] government" “at it again.” go in he Sloan talking to Anne, who him You're hav Feeling | terrible off day, Anne. Haven't you | buildings in the state of Connecti- what him a while with |2£ain. Sloan drove her on implaca- | department His temper he outcome. 11 et he walked softly ! x re coming and nodded there Shene e L Costly Ttems This Year late in the afternoon, the red| burning over door and he had to remain outside he saw Moore By C _(Washin Washington, study of the progress o gigantic | federal building progr that New Britain did badly in the allotment He| Out of approximately g a | authoritized by congres: RGE H ton Bureau, stage | 2 | ¥ Lester | told in your | cut it | 000 2 You're | ut last | New Britain was al post office buliding addition to this a n the vicinity of been cited by th being in In towns and | paye was fraying and | post offices or federal buildings and took a sharper edge.|on this account will got up and wandered off, He said, |thought he was a little abrupt, but | because he couldn't stand to watch | time to time makes othe in red attention when col the set | smoked why he knew priations for the contin building program. Some ington. and Thom these tow report , an receipts of £20,000 or b nd since it is the plan to take of the 1 towns postal receipts figure, it will be seen | communities will be ta ometime during the ) building program Congress already ha: 2,000,000 for a merw of these places Glastonbury, ng. nville. wuse he and | m about a fit of have if he are in It was $ i Hartford ight 1f 1|0 I night." | oo “I'm | rora 50 | pla 1 for Derby, in the st A recent survey building situation country, conducted ury department, | were 2,000 cities which federal structures nother, but principally This survey took in all e tor of thro by gla ring, issue an tried to w t “Don't | She managed t0 | had annual postal receipts of 000 or over OW IS THE TIME TO DO YOUR LLPAINTING No Job Too Large IFA [} r Too Small | Tears swam in her eves; her voice | | Estimates Cheerfully Given Crowley Brothers TEL. 2913 Congress has either a priated $ lic building cor District of Columbia. | movement on foot in | increase this authorizati ely that Jersey many of will | sooner than had heen | 1t was the original pl the expenditure of this a period of 10 years, m: | of which have ady possible, howe that the present u ployr tion 10-year plan | regarded. i | | the POLLY AND HER PALS é THE CO-OPERATION. S OF THE CHILD’S b~—— RELATIVES. S— S = e ————— on the way anything exasperating. vou've got the stuff. “Why don't you let [southern folk tunes to warn resi- the name of God She told you she 3ecause,” he said in sudden angc She's big chump,” D. C. Sept for an extension to its present receive prefer- All public building §00.000 for Waterbury. $140,000 nd additional sums for showed of one kind or ruction outside the ! If this plan materialize: And Rori- HITCHES CALLIOPE 10 TRAIN ENGIN “Musical Mike” Sounds Tuzeful Warnings Along Line Anne said shortly, eat, | ey went out, that ple of thou- And for the | done my | of the | You Why i t go of it il it was al- Memphis, Tenn., Sept.~13 (P— With a calliope on his engine, ‘“Mu- sical " Brady. veteran railroad engineer running between Memphis and Sheffield, Ala. plays familiar | dents of small towns along the way mer saw her | that his train is approaching. T face away.| \when Mike has cleared the last | onger could | oon Jight in the Memphis yards said quietly, | o\ 1o frip out, he strikes up the | opening bars of “Dixie” at the first |crossing, and switches to “Casey *"as the trip progresses ring the end of his run, the musical engineer plays “Alabama Dan | Bound” to let Sheftield know he is ; a0 | o1, the job. : | On the return trip his favorite | number is “Home, Sweet Home." Residents of small towns had | complained that they were disturbed I by the shrill whistles of big locomo- | tive | So the raliroad decided |giving them music. | Mike's engine was equipped with calliope, including the the major diatonic extra high and low him hotl cting like to try a ten-note eight tones of scale, with an | note. | The ingenuous Irishman discov- lered almost immediately that ‘tunes’ could ,be played on his new | “whistle.” ]l L Flashes of Life —— not fare so of funds. | By 37,000,000 | s for public NNIN B. Herald) ‘ 13—A f the feder- c nagionwide am reveals | the Associated Press New York—Albert Einstein is the only living notable to be represent- cd in stone figures on the tympanum of the doorway of the new River- side church. Emerson is the only American represented among reli- gious leaders, philosophers and sci- entists of the ages. The explanation of the church is that Einstein could not possibly be omitted from any list of the 14 leading scientists of all time. Liverpool—The radio is singing the swan song of demagogues. Am- bassador Dawes said at a banquet given by the lord mayor: “For some unexplainable reason when persons listen by radio to the speeches of demagogues their in- stincts are not aroused in the me | way as when they are in a crowd.” Manhasset. N. Y.—A white cos- tume ball is Mrs. Graham Fair Van- derbilt's distinctive entertainment at country estate this year Last her ball had a jungle setting. Last night everybody was in white, representing sea gulls, bird men and women, princesses, snowbirds and the like. Thousands of electric lights were within little white bal- loons in the trees. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—There’s an- other Roosevelt in society. Mis Grace Green Roosevelt, daughter of the governor of Porto Rico. made her debut at the home of her uncle, Kermit Bridgeville, N. T, Postmaster Lynch has lost a soft job. Far five vears his office has had one patron and Uncle Sam has been paying him $607 a year. The department has ordered that he and his patron be put on a rural free delivery| route Mexico City—The best American | product ever exported to Mexico, in | opinion of Miguel Bejarano. commercial attache in New York | is Dwight W. Morrow. Beija- | 1ano spoke at a luncheon given the retiring ambassador by the Ameri- can colony. 5 Washington — The Gutenbers Bible, five centruies old and brought from an Austrian monastery, is money over |sealed in a trunk and locked in a ore than two vault of Dr. Herbert Putnam, li- passed. Tt is|brarian of congress. When it can in view of |be placed in its proper setting it nent situa- will bhe put on exhibition will be London—John Bull is walking. is using shank's mare so much lotted $250,- number of New Britain e Treasury need of new ngress from appro- uing of the South- Manchester, four of nnual postal etter a year of congress the country equal that | that these ken care of | life of the s authorized building at for Bridge- Mil- other up the for make the federai ughout tne the Treas- that there needed new post offices. towns which uthorized or 00 for upb- There congre on to is a s to it the projects be reached anticipated. an to spread He = v T that 194 buses have been taken off | the London streets. | Marlboro, Md. — Jockey Albert | Adams, 17 years old, has won nins | straight races, the last two on Wed- nesday's card, six Thursday and the first on yesterday's program. | NORROW FETED. INHEXICO oY Praises Business Men As World's Real Peacemakers Mexica City, Sept. 13 (UP) —| United States Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow said goodbye to a large | section of the American colony in | Mexico City at a luncheon given in | his honor by the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday. | Deploring the necessity of saying | farewell, the ambassador described the beauties and the climate of Mex- ica and the country's historical and cultural background in unusually | lavish terms. “Our tourists who “make long journeys to less favored parts of the | world are neglecting this wonder- | land at their very door,” he said. | The ambassador did not refer di. rectly to the problems with which he has dealt here, but discussed gener- ally the theory he had followed, that “the growth of civilization de. pends upon the substitution o agreement for force," Lauds Peace Makers “Many believe that the spread 0(‘ commerce over the world brings in- | ternational difficulties,” Morrow | said. “Under a long view of his- tory. however, we must conclude !hat‘ | | | | i DAGGE —_—— the men of commerce have been here. the real peace makers. “At the end of three years' work “When men learn that a peaceful“in Mexico I am able to testify to the exchange is a better way of getting |great part that the American colony things than a forcible taking, civili- | plays in good relations between Mex= zation has begun to replace bar- |ico and the United States,” the am- barism.” | bassador said. “You who reside hero Observers saw in these remarks a (are carrying out the precept that reiteration of the ambassador's con- | former Secretary of State Elihu Root fidence that his policy of meeting | expressed when he visited Mexico Mexican officials on a basis of equali- | City 23 years ago: while you con- ty and discarding methods of “strong | tinue to be good loyal Americans, diplomacy” had achieved the most|you should be good loyal Mexican possible for United States lnlerestsir sidents." 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