The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1922, Page 9

19 by Leas Joseph Tame, (Continued From Saturday) “The men I've got in mind to di- him a ring and find out fer you.” “There's no hurry, Mr. Summeriad. ep the first step toward forming a company yet.” “Well, but I'd hate to have you Jone a chance. Barry's a wonder Even Griffith takes a back seat when Barry Nolan picks up the meg. o" @nswered him at length, Lucinda'’s attention wandered, she began think more about the speaker, less about what he was saying. Unde Miably a most satisfying creature, at Teast to look at. Bending over the table, his face glowing as he illus trated his meaning with an animated play of hands; tho his words were all for Lentaine, Summeriad’s con sciousness was constant to Lucinda his quick eyes were forever seeking hers . . . Hard hit and making no ‘Beeret of it, Not that it mattered, more than | for the good it did one’s self-esteem | to be respectfully if epenty adored by @ personable young man whom one found agreeable. Vanity Deen sorely sprung by Bellamy's sac- Fifices of his wife's love to his ap. Petite for flirting with women of eheap emotions. Neither had Dau Deney’s devotion meant a great deal @F4 acquaintance not ( be misprined. Tt had needed some new conquest as this to make Lucinda think well of herself; this at least proved her harms not yet passe. Lucinda inclined to approve the style in which Summeriad main. tained himself, The bungalow, ee- eluded in wide and well-kept grounds, | Might have served as the warm ‘weather retreat of a grand duke. By merely turning her head she ould look out thru an open case Ment to a lawn where moonlight like | silver slept between mysteri- OuWa, dense masses of purple shadow ‘nd fragrant. In Chicago the ther Mameter had shivered in the neigh Derhood of zero; New York, accord ing to telegraphic news, was digging out from under a snowfall second only to that of its legendary blizzard. “I want to purr,” Lucinda con- fesned, finding Summeriad’s eyes inda be hig 6 LouIs JOSEPH VANC} Remember, Mr. Lontaine hasn't tak, Lontaine Interposed a question of | technical nature, and as Summeriad | had | being something too familiar thru); ‘The breath of the night was bland! be busy, you In especial far too busy to give me many evenings like this,” | dare,” “It's as you care to take it.” He accepted with a smile the smil ing gage of her eyes, They under stood each other perfectly. When it was time to return to the Alexandria, Summeriad insieted on driving them home himself. Lucinda fell asleep that night to dream of coursing a \willo'the-wisp thru a land whose painted Iltusion failed and faded as she fied, till in} the end there was no more beauty only the bare grin of the desert, say age and implacable. She started awake with her hus | band’s name trembling on her lips. XVUI The room the Lontatnes occupled In the Alexandria adjoined Lucin. | da’s, and while she was lazing over | | breakfast Fanny tapped on the com munteating door and drifted in, en | negtigee, with a cigaret and an airy }nonchalance oddly at war with a/ problematic shadow that lurked in | her eyes “My amiable firet husband,” she announced, “has charged me to ar | range for an audience at your con venlence,” “Aa soon as you laughed. “This morning Harry has waked up with his poor dear head more than usually addled with gorgeous schemes, and says he wants to con- sult you. What he really wants is your unconditional approval of| everything he has to propose, So do be wise ag well as kind.” “rt try," Lucinda promined. Considered in the light of this semiserious warning, all that Lon- taine bad to lay before her seemed almost disappointingly conservative. “I've deen thinking {t over all/ night,” he assured Lucinda serious. iN ike,” Lucinda ments, I him attention, “and it seems to me 1} | ought to let you know more spectfi-) mark cally what you're letting yourself In| toe Ine for, before I ask you to hold your: | self pledged.” “That sounds | preparation for | easily.” “Please don't think that." There was a convincing glint of alarm tn | normal} Lontaine’s look. “N thusiastic, more sure of anything | perwoe than I am of your eventual success. suspiciously ke] Good y OUR BOARDING HOUSE 7 MazTHA DEAR, I BROUGHT OF SIBERIAN BEAR SKIN & DOWN FROM MY “TRUNKS To SHOW You WHAT SPLENDID SERVICE I(T COULD BE PUT "TIO AS A PRETENTIOUS RUG! | THE MEMORY OF HUNTING Feet you In your first pieture, Mra, “r'm not at all afraid of being ore” Tee; that is, if you can get hold of | doomed to ennui thru any lack of IT, L CAN'T PART. WITH, COAL BIN! . You couldn't do better, but | ingenuity on your part.” BUT T WILL OFFER You his salary's eenormous. I'll “If I'm pot mistaken, that's @ “THE OPPORTUNITY OF ACQUIRING THE " don't expect much, can’t be very hard hit if everything doesn't turn out as happily as one might wish.” “If that spirit won't win for us, nothing will,” “Now for @ tentative program . . Our first step, naturally, incorporate. ly, as she and Fanny settled to give / be the fashion on thia side, and our corporate name will serve as a trade I venture to suggest “One name t as good as another, don’t you think? Call that settled, Then as letting me down! ts finances studio condition that products oxcennive ‘over MOTe CH | cont of a well-made picture today in n eighty SIX DOLLARS! PAGE 9 BY STANLEY THE SEATTLE STAR THE OLD HOME TOWN os BY AHERN 4 WE TRIED TO SELL BUSTE! UNK AN OLD Ha HA: Look ATTH’ BALD SPOTS ON IT IN ANOTHER YEAR IrLL BEA BARE fiSTOOL=saID SKIN ALL RIGHT= [7 (rT BELONGED HE'S SOME HUNTER*E]-to-TH! GREAT HIS AIM 1S GOOD a INDIAN CHIEF WHEN IT COMES "SrtnnGe To HITTING For BULL” A "TOUCH's HOORAY = WHOOPEE? 2] NEST 2» WHY, I WouLpn'r USE IT For A RUG IN THE SKIN FoR N. BLACKSMITR AND GENERAL HANDY MAN, CAME To THE RESCUE OF THE COMMITTEE AND <A REPAIRED THE FLAG POLE THAT COLLAPSED SEVERAL DAYS Too Unusual to Believe wot DOINGS OF THE DUFFS V'0 LIKE To SEND ONE OF THOSE YELLOW PLANTS You HAVE IN THE WINDOW out To MY WIFE - HERE'S THE ADDRESS LIKE FUN You 010! DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH - ILL CALL UP THE FLOWER SHOP AND FIND OuT! OH;TOM -LooK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL FLOWER SOME OWE SENT ME - THERE WAS NO CARD WITH IT AND 1’VE BEEN TRYING To THINK, WHO COULD HAVE SENT IT: HELLO, IS THIS BUDD THE FLORIST ? | ORDERED A PLANT SENT OUT TO MRS OUFF BUT FORGOT TO PUT ACARD WITH IT ~ WILL You WRITE ~~ Lontaine declared. will be to And since it seems to . Linda, My study of American, has satisfied me n comnts thig side are The average and a bundred and twenty thousand—t nh ob tpon her. “I am enslaved by Cali-|But {t's going to mean hard work|pay nate me . fornia.” for both of us.” “Mr. Culp’s secretary told me Al “{ must make the most of these! “I shan't mind hard work." Lu ma Daley's pictures cowt between a jhundred and fifty and two hundred thousand each.” “If oo, Ben Culp ts throwing money away thru ignorance or bad management or indifference. “But gay a picture costa us fifty thousand: fts gross earnings, the first year, should be two hundred and fifty thousand. We ought to turn out not lees than four pictures & year, which will mean at least jfour hundred and fifty thousand clear profit to be split up between the star, the executive, and the cap itelietn,” “It sounds Ike a fairy tale.” . “It ts a fairy tale—come true tn real life. Nothing else could ac count for the present-day tribe of |motion-pictrre millionaires. They jhave imagination enough to see cheap amusement for the masses in |What most intelligent people, a dow en years ago, considered merely a! mechanical curiosity, So they In vested their small savings, these pet |ty tradesmen and barnstorming ac then. Presently we'll both cinda replied © For You to Color ! TINTED TRAVELS : By Hal Cochran (Coprright, 1923, by The Sesttie Star) “Aa for disappoint ° WISCONSIN q |tors, in the venture that high ft » is nance scorned, and the boom found a |them securely in the saddie. That's "4 lwhy the public gets so much per ’ |functory and stupid stuff thrown at it today.” | “But our pictures aren't going to jbe in that clasw—are they?” ve “ftather not! We're going to go at| dozen who'd jump at the ghance, this thing in an intelligent way.| Lontaine replied without a quiver. | We'll pick a good aetaff, select our © want to| WHY, TES, & THOUGHT] DON'T Do (T MR. TRUE. “The question is: Do we wa > } chorita with dare, get the best - ¢ a tp GO THERE AND /I Saw IT YESTERDAY, | take them in? Is Mt necessary Is it} to write our scenarios, and gather | 80 | ISce THAT FILM IT’S Low AND DEGRADING, jround us a group of actors, like | S00d business? ism Not JusT Risque | ‘those who have made the Conti-| “Can we avoid that™ > nental cinema what it isteday, more| “simply enough, if you care to! interested in their work than in|take the risk. I'll confess I'm not themselves, willing to take thelr | financially in a position to invest in|] @ chances of scoring in fine ensemble | the business myself. But if you! acting instead of insistent that every | should decide to back yourself, use x NF By Mabel Cl Cc le ‘land? 4 picture shall be distorted to throw| your own money to finance Linda 4 led star into prominenes. | Lee, Inc., you would ultimately re-| a oe cea : in America such sincere art-| ceive twothirds of the profits in- ciel b> A, STORIES ¢ feconstr’s known the nation wide sts exis we'll find and bring | stead of the one you'd be entitled to (Chapter 1) For mo. ster timber trees | them together and prove that cine-| as the star. And no outsider would ns adi ma production can be an art as well/ have anything to say about the way | “If I go where it's good walk-| but the deep, strong voices of It E is a le. win Bg as a me ng_ scheme.” we conduct our own nat. {| I&” Mamie raid to her lonely it-| white men talking quietly to- nh butter, milk dnd cheese | “Bravo! bravo?’ Fanny in “1 don't think T care about that Me att, “theca bs Tatiana end | ne ee iad lated. “Hark to the dear man! Now| Lucinda observed thoughtfully. “But ne | “Help! 4 Mamie. “Oh' jit on ell perform one-half as| it does appeal to moe, the idea that if I go into the clearing they'll | please, hel: and she began to | bravely as he protmises—!* if I use my own money nobody bat|| see me.” | sob in earnest. Lontaine flushed a little bot paid! myself can suffer if we're making a} So she trudged on and on till The three miners—for they no other heed. “To get back to the| mistake, if we don’t make a suc she reached the thicket of under-| were miners—just happening to K ADYV EMTURES question of capitalization . Ar- | cess.” brush in an ugly muddy place,| pass that way, heard her and ans bitrarily setting fifty thousand as a| “Then—you will find the capftal|| and there she lay down to rest.| hurried to her. Very tenderly s--4\ OF THE TWINS @ fair production cost, we'll want at| yourself, Mrs. Druce?” It was very dark pretty soon, | they carried her all the way to Clive Roberts Berton a 4 least a hundred and fifty thousand| “I think I can manage ft without | and she grew cold, and her arm| Jacksonville, and gave her into to begin with.” | much trouble.” |] ached and swelled, but she! the care of a good woman there. MAGIC POWDER WILL SHOW COMET-LEGS “But surely we won't need a hun-| Lontaine sighed quietly and re|] mustn't cry aloud, they might| And do you know that tho we war RUN AROUND thousand margin for safety?” | laxed. The contented glow of last|] hear her. lines “to ‘ha: vane’ casetas alanh CIKS THIS. ane - “What do you want us to do?” for yourselves. Greased lightning fot for afety-for economy. | night crept back into his eyes. He After awhile she fell asleep and | “germs” and “infections* and e asked Nancy, when Mr. Peerabout,| is a slow freight train beside him,| When we finish gur first pleture It) produced his cigaret-case, and began |} sleeping and waking, waking and | things when we get hurt now, and KNOCK (IT & * y " K had finishea | Y dears. Yes, if you want to catch | will be a matter of six months at| to smoke in luxurious putts. |] sleeping, she passed thru the | pecause little folks aren‘t careful the “Man-In-the-Moon, h nished' him you'll have to hurry.” |Ieast before it can be exhibited.| “I may call on you for a check tm | jong, dark hours of the night, pontetinies. they tae. badly telling them about his enemy, old) «put protested Nancy, “our | Meantime, we can’t afford either to|a day oF two, for preliminary ex- When morning came she ate &/ swollen fingers and “infected Comet-Legs. magic Green Shoes only go a hun-| disband our company or hold Kt Senepe 4 " caida bas little and listened. All the world | knees,” that little girl's arm got rt oa nhingion ’ 5 | gether in idleness. © ought to| “That brings up a question,” Lo- a atifl. ‘Strange, frieheened ! xt Ke “Well,” said Mr. Peerabout, get-| dred miles a minute, Mr. Peerabout. | s¢ther natal ap a au nr seemed , trig all well in a week or two! ting nip from the floor where he had | We'll never catch him.” wee tet bales tick tect, woe me loins Gee ae a ay cheats | thoughts filled her mind. It rain-| ‘The woman who took care of heen sitting and going over to hie| “Ha!” winked old Peerabout, lay. | after we finish the first. hus we | will be 06 Lucinds, Drucs, and ed a little and she was cold. The} her cut the bullet out with her old ecuphoard—the one where te |'0s his finger beside his nove in a| will waste no gestures And allow. | don't ike to risk my incognita ‘a day passed and it was dark again, | lttt embroidery scissors | and P ; * ng three months to each, we whould | Linda Leo.” avi , ow a . kept his ruby saltshaker with the Comical manner. “Just you wai ree ee to fret about,” Lontaine || M4 fever kept her drowsy. Then | bound up the place with “pitch have our second and third ready by | He turned again to his cupboard a second day dawned and another magic powder. “I want you and oo Cie Ch Hegpese oF > ldesacel Oa 7 ere from a pine tree, and it was all Wick to go and find him. I'd do it|nd, reaching in, brought out an-|(he time the firet Bs oom Do| 4 elared, * Sar Vir cans as acceeee day passed and night followed, | right, myself, only I have to stay here and | other shaker like the ruby one, only |” " Be erga Then a third, ‘The ploneers say that the “I think you're quite right. You| | with a local bank in my name first, | said yesterday you had some people Nan the moon.” |this one was blue instead of red, lang. tranatoe’ os 6er7tise “abonele “OF Mamie's food was almost gone. | “germs” have come with the peo- “Ig he hard to catch?” asked Nick and sparkled like frost on diamonds. | 44, to furnish the necessary capi-| Linda Lee (Inc) as soon as we in.|| Her bottle was empty of Its water, | ple from the Kast, that all sorts excitedly, “Ob!” gasped Nancy, “how beauti-| (itor corpatate” and she was so tired and her arm} of cuts and wounds healed like “Hardt” exclaimed Mr. Peerabout, | full” “In half an hour I can find half a (Continued Tomorrow) hurt so and she was so lonely for| that in the early days and they turning suddenly and throwing up “My?! declared Nick. “Isn't that | “6 z a8 ine se her mother that she thought she/ didn't know a germ from a jack bis hands. “Hard! As he rides a| fine!’ Tae ooo didn't care much whether she | rabbit. “Humph? said Mr. Poerabout, lived or not. There is one more of these war. shooting star you may judge that | squinting one eye. “This old thing! Then she heard footsteps, nearer | time stories which shows a better OUR FIRST YEAR } | | | | | | i 2 | Why, it’s just made out of an old }) and nearer, and voices——no yelling | side of the Indians, sapphire that I picked up one day | & By a Bride ——~ |® voices nor guttural Indian words, (To Be Continued) in the Golden Forest,” Z =f y wid is vk in edindindindinditeeseeee ee) | The Twine then rememtered that CHAPTER XXII—WORLD’S BEST HUSBAND — or n ‘gnbik what Souk ta Mick wit | pause ‘s.0i0ie valuable things weren't muc h} “Certainly this is not a cheerful|perfect combination of inherited] “Some of them are! Mary shook | it's your first year! But %e careful! power. It's easy pending for me Mike grt Pheer Se yrs a thought of im that queer place. And /iome for my tired hubby to come|housewifery with vacuum cleaners |her finger fetchingly at Jack, Mary | how often you repeat the little joke! | promise myself to do big things. |week,” he suegested, : that things we think are worthless » prize highly. Smith is one of those devoted wives who scheme to get away from home and mangies. | Keep it up—and see what comes |Jack is different. But my adorable hushand refused of ter" He seems never} “But we can’t afford her—if jto have to call upon his will power abide by our budget,” I to,” I whispered. "Jack, dearest, I'm “The real value of this is in the| so sorry to be irritated by the upheaval injonce in a while to talk with other| I knew perfectly well what would | to \o “ inside,” said Mr, Peerabout, tapping| 1 know that I have the grandest |our little home. girls’ husbands, She's so genuinely | come of it: Jack would find out that | | pev6t Aad 5 Meade w deltvocnte mmches | eon was fo more!’ And T one the blue shaker proudly. “It con-| husband in this world, Jack at Iast| “Come on, Peggins!™ he exclaimed. | Victorian that she dares to come | his wife was not holding up her end |botween right and wrone, have added that (HAG wae: au Duan tains another kind of magic powder,|becamo conscious of the confusion | “Let's fix it up together! Let's make | close to coquetry, sometimes, of the housekeeping business as| And because he ts so right, nor-!a family of two in a flat of jthe kind that straightens crooked} about him. There wasn’t a restful|it an adventure!’ “Jack with a dish towel tn his|Mary Smith and his mother surely | mally, he has such boundless faith in ms and & bath, as |things. If a little of this would | spot for his eyes to rest upon and it} And things would have been all! hand! Have I lived to see that! Why, | did. jun, Maver ohne 4h be bed @eael GaN tee afford her while te oh jtouch Comet-Legs his legs would| was 6 p. m. He must have flinched | right if Mary Smith had not stopped|man alive, you're spoiling F Perhaps It was as well that Mary|sponsible for the disorder in my sohearents haath straighten and be could never ride| inwardly. For his mother is a de-| with a bundle of novels for me Don't do your work and hers, too.”|caught me in the depths of my dis |apartment. He simply concluded! Oh, Jack is so thoughtful, so j bis shooting-#tar again.” jscendant of New England house. “Aren't husbands angnis!" 1 Then Mary turned to me with grace. For then and there I resolved | that I had done the Dest I could, : ‘ v He must not discover how inde “Peg! Take it from me! You can | never again to make such an ex-/and that T wasn't to blame, that it|I can be, get away with it once in a year! If’ hibition of my own inefficiency, was unayoidable, c 1221-Third Ave *COR UNIVERSITY (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) too enthusiastically in order Her home is the'to conceal my humiliation, wives, one who has profited by mod: | glowed, ern inventions, “by fits and starts,’* (To Be Continued) ee sean, é