The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1922, Page 24

eter ME 3 Arold Author Of" The Voice INustrated By JOHN HARDING, fied down to bustness all his life, is just ready to ire and go in for lighter things, when a letter from his wife tells his daughter, BETTY, has fallen in love. The letter doesn’t say with whom. Hard- plans a deal to control a bank and wonders where five hundred issing shares may be. MAATHEWSON, his secretary, doesn’t know anything except that the shares once belonged to old Nicholson, former rival of Harding, who {y left his estate to a grandson of whom Harding has heard nothing * for thirty years. At his club, Harding is accosted by a stranger who introduces himself as MR. SMITH, who compels Harding to listen to him for five minutes “ Millionaire Bur Mac Greath & ite SHinensBogge c a de meet bank and the confuston of your ene- mies. Ah, here come my chops!'’ The unknown ate his chops. He ad more; he gnawed the bones, and with the relish of a man who was honestly hungry. Somehow this ex- hibition of sound appetite, under fire as It were, convinced Harding that “Mr, Smith’’ was absolute master of his nerves. If he belonged ¢o the un- derworld, to the clans that lived by thelr wits—and other people's lack and incidentally to pay for his supper. BECOND INSTALMENT. tm whioh Mr. Smith persuades John Marding to Join him in a perilous ad- venture. HE offender complied at once. “Parfon me that necessary rudeness. You are a wine and reasonable man. I am here wpon a most serious errand. I am not @ book agent, a reporter or an inventor. I had to see you alone, ab- eotutely alone; and I took this equiv- cecal method of accomplishing that purpose. To begin with, let me say that my presence here is due primar- fly to the fact that I consider myself under the decpest obligation to you. Never mind now what this obligation is. The point ts, I know where there are 5600 shares of a certain bank stock. T can put my hand on them between now and midnight.” Harding could hear the far-off click of billiard balls in the ailenoe that followed this amazing statement. Had he not heard that familiar sound he would have had some doubt as to whether he had corporeally ceased to exist, or had stepped across the thres- hold of some incipient nightmare. “Before we go any further into the subject, Mr. Harding, I'll confess that IT am ravenously hungry. I haven't had anything but a dried ham sand- wich since noon. I've been hanging onto your heels from 6 on. For what Mes before me I shall need a full stomach. Will you offer me the hos- pitality of this club, or shall I vanish as I came, in a hired taxioab?"" The smile left the stranger's face and Harding was able to distinguish the firm lines of the jaws from the pleasant lines of the mouth, He was a man of impulses. What- ever move he made, however, was mulded solely by # thinking brain as cold and clear as crystal. He sat up jerkily; the magazine slipped to the floor, forgotten. Already an idea was forming in his mind. He would sec this thing through. That it was an underworld proposition he had not the least doubt. But to satisfy his curiosity he was willing to accept any ordinary risk. The young man would presently be asking for a large sum of money, and whether or not it should be paid depended wholly upon the outoome of his idea. Harding rose. “Follow me," said, The grit was deserted at this hour and Harding had to ring for attend- ance. “Chops, fried potatoes and coffer ordered the unknown. he rather “suppose you tell me who t you are?" an orphan. Call me ‘Mr, Smith, The smile returned. ‘Neither who I am.nor what I am essential. I am under I am offer- “This ovligation interests me, What is it?" “All In good time. I propose ti carry out this affair in my own fash jon, You have asked me to accept the hospitality of your olub, I tak: that as a sign that you agree to fol- low whatever plans I suggest." “Ah!" Harding did not propose to commit himself. He fell to scrutinizing this singular individual who had bearded him in the innermost recesses of his @ion's den. of them--then he had fallen from heights. The underworld did not “WE HAVE MANY MILES TO GO. WE'D BETTER BE OFF.” There was nothing to suggest the, breed this calibre; crook in his appearance; so Harding | absorbed tt. marked him as doubly dangerous.| regret. A fine, resolute young fel- “When they are good-looking and|low, gone wrong. It was a pity. plausible, watch out,'’ was his maxim.| Harding chuckled inaudibly; fhe It was not a pleasant ordeal to be| Wrinkles at the corners of his eyes the object of Harding's cold scrutiny. | ™UItiplied. There was something re- ‘The unknown, however, bore it tran. |feshing about this; something that quilly, He gazed about the room in-| tickled his risibles. Any man who it only fatally He felt a momentary]. terestedly. ‘That's a good Con-| Uld slip past old Michaels in such stable you have over there,’ he|@? ingenious manner, who could by observed. physical contact restrain John Har- “You know something about paint- ding from ringing a bell as a prelude ings?" to summary ejection, and who, be- “A little. I know a little about a| ¥0nd this, could calmly request some- thing to eat, was worthy of more than. passing notice. Harding possessed a pecullar in- 1t| Stinet. A man drew or repelled him at once; there was never any dodder- ing. The unknown’s equivocal ac- tions should have repelled him, where- as he felt himself irresistibly drawn. Was it the old freebooter, trying to crawl up through the hatches of con- vention? Was it the suppressed pirate, recognizing a kindred spirit? Harding knew himself thoroughly. He you are prone to shy off anything that] W88 always dissecting his impulses, is not regular and conventional, You| his emotions, with the keen analysis prefer to get your mysteries out of | f @ philosopher who scorned to clothe Bookat—slyty: his acts from the specious wardrobe “You seem to be well informed re-| of palliation. He knew that a hun- garding my habits." Harding smiled | dred years gone he would have ridden Iryly. the Caribbean with the best of them. The information I have received| But he was at a loss to transfate th great many things.” “Anything about men?’ “T'll leave that for you to Judge."’ Harding reached for a match, was rarely he permitted a cigar to go out. Suddenly it came to him as a shock; he had seen yonder face be- fore. When and where? ‘Have you ever been in my offices?" “I have not. I never Iald eyes on you, Mr. Harding, until 6 this after- noon. I understand, All this is un- usual. It's mysterious; and men like about you comes from a reliable| feeling which was now taking posses- source,” sion of him, “Where are these mysterious} Obligation? He dismissed that, shares?" This was no son of any man he had helpe@ in the past. And he never gave to charity; that was Mrs. Hard- ing's office. The face was familiar; but, dig into “Bafe enough. If they are in your Possession to-morrow morning you will have accomplished two impor- tant ambitions: the control of a great Co his memory as he might, he could not penetrate the fog. Generally he found that scrutiny was like sunshine; ft dissipated mental mists and vapors. Tt wasn't a likeness, a resemblance; the face stirred his recollection to the point that he had seen it before. Per haps he had seen it in a crowd, In # theatre, In a hotel corridor; and he had casually admired tt. Then he saw the unknown's left hand. Tho little and third fingers, angrily red, were twisted and withered like the stalks of weeds In a snow- covered field; and the back of the hand was mottled with patches of red and white, after the manner of sert ous burns, Having noticed this, Harding further observed that the unknown used the arm awkwardly, as tf at the shoulder he had also suf fered injury, more or less recent. “Ready?” asked the object of these cogitations and observations. He tossed astde the napkin “{ have seen you somewhore be- fore.”* “That 1s scarcely poss!ble. I am tot in the rogues’ gallery—on this alde.” ‘Then he was something of a for- eiguer! "T take it,"’ said Harding, “that you intend to lead me forth on a bit of irregular business. If it's a quality of burglary I must beg to de- celine.” “We are not going to steal any thing, Mr. Harding. We are simply ssoing to borrow something for a few hours." “A neat distinction, Mr. Smith.’ Very well; you go and get that stock and bring {t here to me. By the way, what {s your price?” “I shall make that known to you after the transaction 1s wholly com- pleted." “Before the fact, young man, be- fore the fact; I never make oargains after a thing ts done.” “There will be no bargain. You will accept my price or refuss ft. 1 hold you absolutely to nothing. I spoke of an obligation.” Harding was puzzled, “Somewhere along the line, then, I have done you a favor?" he said. “An incomparable one. To-morrow night at this hour I'll tell you what it 1s. Oh, I have cause to be very grateful to vou, Mr. Harding!" “Then this adventure does not be- gin and end to-night?" “No. I shall put before you my con- ditions. You will obey me implicitly while you are with me. That ts tm- perative to the safety of us both. I promise to take you where the stock is and place it into your hands. I need you. If I am caught alone I'm done for; but with the prestige of John Harding at my elbow! All day to-morrow you will be as free ak the air, But to-morrow night at seven we shall return the stock. There will be risks; but I am prepared to meet and deal with any such. Accept these con- ditions or decline them, as you please."* “I am not particularly impressed Why did you not come to me at my office?"* The other laughed. ‘'T could never have reached you. You know it quite as well as I do.’ ‘Mr, Smith" stood up and looked at his watch. ‘‘We have many miles to go, We'd better be off."* “Then you belleve that I am going with you, that I accept your condi- tions, like the crazy man I am?" “Certainly, I know you. You would never go thus far without having made up your mind definitely,"” “After all, I should tell you to be off about your own affairs and leave mine to me.” “Very well, Mr. Harding. It ts the old story of the good Samaritan, An unadulterated act of kindness is always looked upon with suspicion, Good night; and thank you for an excellent dinner." ‘‘Mr. Smith’ started off briskly toward the grill door. **Wait!"’ called out Harding. Never before in all his life had he been sc aggravated, mystified and amused. ‘I agree to your conditions, provided 1 shall not be called upon to do any. thing that is dishonorable." “Your honor, sir, will emerge with all its pristine lustre. Let us be off. Some one ts waiting for me. (Continued To-Morrow.) (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate.) Screenings By DON ALLEN POME, Sing a song of sizpence, Pocket full of rye; Four aad twenty dollars To the bootleg guy. When the flask is opened q rye begins to kick, Aud if it is wood alcohol We'll all feel mighty sick. —Whittier. FROM LADY HUBERT, Praise from Sir Mubert, whoever he ay have been, wu a lud's p does Mr r pupil considered praise ndeed, but when a kid's teacher sings es in such @ high key, as all unusual for him to stop during our WE DON’T BLAME HIM. reading and remark: ‘I love the way| Orville Caldwell, leading man for the book says that,’ or "That's al icatherine MacDonald, has a mad on pretty wond, isn't it?’ or ‘Can't you And we, for one, don't blame him just picture Pegasus feeding at that], bit, spring—I'd ilke to play there!’ Orville 1s a husky, g00d-lookin’ “He loves nature from the tiny insect life surrounding us to the most magnificent mountains and ocean scenery, Jackie is so vastly more than a clever child. It seems to me he chap, just the type for pictures and, withal, a good actor, Things were going fine for him, he says, until along comes Elinor Glyn has every blessing, together with a|®2@ blurbs to sentimental world determination of ‘strength of wil!|that “Orville Caldwell is the moxt which, rightly guided, will carry him| Physically perfect man on stage ot to the heights. screen.” As a result, Orville has “I usually spend the entire day|#alned a reputation as one of thoso with Jackie. We work fifteen min-| Pretty’ men who have almost utes—perchance twenty or thirty, |uined pletures. then read and play, or just visit—| ‘There's only one thing to do,” then work some more. “The happiest hours of the day and the happiest days of my life are those spent ) this adorable combination of mature mentality, delicate spirit- uality and just rough-and-tumble American Kid Boy.'* growled Caldwell.”’ “Whazzat?"" we asked. “Bust the nex critic who writes about my manly beauty right square on the nose! ‘As far as we're concerned we thint Orville Is the homeliest man on the as screen, JUST 'MAGINE! Jackle what pea sii She says:| Can you imagine spending two MEBBE! att le veads, reasons jand a halt hours dressing every| Hope Loving, who has written some @ works ovt problems, He lg n successes, gained her first eels and makes change with ; URE $OUWONK Ia laundry fester Pein een Risen. When money very easily. For ure brain} Neither can we she sent her first scenario out she power, quickness in thought, in| But that's what they claim Lon| was at a loss to know what name to grasping relations, breadth of compre-| Chaney does while he's acting in} sign to it and, being a great lover of hension, clear logical reasoning, p “Ching, Ching Chinaman!" candy, she combined the names of in my twenty years of teaching ex-| Lon {5 playing a Chinese laundry-|two brands and slgned her story pert have I seen a child who]man and they say it takes him that] “Pernadilti Allegrettl."' aa could npproach him long to put on one of his 1,00 That gives us an idea! Mebb ‘ sense © he Xe ary that's the way the i it lw not at }#092 tiles for pictures nowadays, “CAMERAI" Well anyway, the are true-blue. “A Dollar Down,” tt picture, will not be rele weekly instalments Speaking of Nazimova in “Salome,” an exhibitor’s announcement sald: “It's a bare."’ And now he's tryin’ to lame it on the poor printer, ‘My idea of an optimist,’* cooed Blaine Hammerstein, “is the man who fell from the Woolworth Building and, upon passing t called to a friend well so far’! Dick Barthelmess will probably sail for Europe to bits of the ould country as backgrounds for his next picture, But he won't sall until after @ very, very important event, scheduled for the near future, takes place in his family, We thought we had seen the worst picture ever made, but up until Saturday night we were mistaken. {now we KNOW we have seen it. If anything could be worse than ‘The Milky Wav," now being fed to thé neighborhood audiences, we'd seak no further for our answer to “What's the Mutter With the Movies?” “The Maverick” ts the brand seared upon the latest film by Vitagraph. Alice Calhoun has been spending her vacation breaking a bucking surf - board, We know a lotta good-lookers Neysa MeMein ove d 1 the twe A movie censors new Selznick Jin sixteen and when * depen Contest Conducted by Eve- ning World Ends in’ Elec- tion of Two Favorites of the Amusement World. Brilliant, Joyous Reign Is Predicted for Them—De- feated Aspirants Prove Good Sports and Losers, Joseph E, Howard and Ethtyn Clark will be King and Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras, the merry rulers over Carnival Week. It has been so decreed by the wotce of the people expressed in coupons through the Evening World contest. Their Gracious Majesties will be crowned {n Luna Park at the hour of 7 next Monday night. After that the word of the sovereigns will be the taw of Coney Island and thetr army of subjects will await thelr bidding for the fun to begin and their royal do- cree as to where It will extend. All hail to King Joseph, a King in hin own sphere. Bow down to Beanteous Queen Eth- lyn, @ Queen in her own right. Howard and Clark, headliners tn vaudeville, king and queen of enter- tainment and funmakers of famous worth, Tt ts predicted for the new rulers over the oarnival days and nights of Coney Island that thetrs will be a merry and popular relgn. That both will be en rapport with the carnival spirit one needs only to be familiar with the stage careers of both the King and Queen, and that means nearly everybody who will Jo} in the music, the march, the lights and confetti and the rollicking ¢estivi- ties of the Mardi Gra During the contest letters and cou- pons for the popular couple came in from all over the country. Thetr friends appear to be legion and their profession was a unit tn their behalf. The National Vaudeville Association sent in its indorsement, both being members of the organization, and the writer declared that the entire, body was working for Howard and Clark. Long live the King! Long live his bonny Queen Ethlyn! Viva, viva! and viva some more. And al hall to plucky Jo® Reid. the popular manager of Feltman’s who came in second in the kingly race with his colors grandly fying from his lance. ‘There could only be one king, but Sir Knight Joseph Reld proved to be a prince. He went into the fight at the urs of his friends and refused to desert them even when he admitted that popular Joe Howard, with the Na- tional Vaudeville Association and the rest of his profession behind him, couldn't lose. Right up to the last he stuck to his post until forced to surrender and then handed over his sword with the grace of a courtier. The whole world loves a good loser Merrily did the carnival combat rage among the ladies who fought for the queenly crown, At times the con- test was close between the rival beau- ties, Queen Ethlyn and Martha Mans- field, one of the queens of the movie make-believe world; so close, in fact, that the betting was in favor of Queen Martha, who in the end was third. Sadie Schultz, who was second in the coupon lists, was never out of the running from the start of the contest For several days she led the column, and when the lists became heavy with the showers of coupons she came very near topping the queenly candidates Her cohorts made a gallant fight for thelr lady fair and were strong for her right up to the very end. More than 100,000 coupons camo into The Evening World Contest counting rooms in the last hour of the combat! Nearly that number was landed for the leaders alone. Peter A. Minne- kake, Coney’s popular hotel man and one of the Carnival Committee, may have been late with his coupons, but his arrival was a heavy one, The coupons came in bags and sacks and boxes, In bundles and packages, and some of them in twisted shapes that required the aid of a press to flatten them out for the count. Minnekake's contributions were somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 votes. But those for King Howard more than trebled this num- ber, while Queen Ethlyn exceeded the Minnekake contribution in votes. Joseph A, Reid had about 17,000, and then there were hundreds and thou- sands and less than hundreds for the candidates in minor pos ns, all of which had to be counted before the result could be make known, It was a popular contest, with lots of good-natured rivalry and a lot of fun in spots, and there was a fine crowd of contestants, all with sport- ing blood, as becomes candidates for the royal purple, No one was more Interested than the Carnival Committee at the head of matters concerning the Carnival Week, but they were interested only in the progress of the contest and in the people taking part, for they had no voice in the selection of either King or Queen, Whoever was to be chosen, the ar- rangements for thelr entertainment were the same, the arrangements go- on as fast as was the contest. And now the cutting he choice HE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 t9997 Joseph Howard, King; Will Reign Over Coney in ) \ \ LYN S Ne Pa OE FEN & of the voters announced. Forward of Carnival Week! we g0, to the jo King Howard will select his cour tlers and Queen Ethlyn her maids-and ladies in waiting The royal tatlors and dressmakers will be pressed into service and royal chariots and coaches will be repainted and refurbished. Odds Buttons and Billycoats! But it will be a busy week In the royal household. But all will be in readiness for Mon- Ethlyn Clark es a A "em Queen’ ’ day night, and then—— For ‘1922-Coney Island Mardi Gras Revue,” In the lists of Kings were sixty- seven contestants, while forty-three women fair fought for the Queenly Henrietta Le Derman . 58 Fay Bergman 2B Peggy Mack 58 Elsie Rich .... ee Peggy Inslee . : 55 - Mrs. Catherine O’Conno 45 CHILDREN ‘ro HAVE OUTTN, Gwendolyn Gcasas 42 The children of the Ninth Ans Mae Murray 4 Dis' t of Brooklyn will have their & Irma Kendrick sult of all the 4a outing on Wodnesday, Sept. 6, at Lu babe te TI ak bea Mrs. Harold Wollins 40 | Park, Coney Sirs; Bales uals FOR KING Ruth Brittenstein . 37 ¢ esr Viola Sjemann .... 36 CLL Natl elt] CORE is Florence Gottesman . 36 Ibe the host J. A. Reid ... 38,812 Dorothy Hall Mayer 35 su ay of amusement” P. A. Minnekake 28,014 Mary Gillen y narranged. ‘The safety and i 3,754 = of those who will go will be in “ F. A. Miller 7 Marion Davies . 28 892 anion - hands of competent mothers on Joe Bonomo 2,892 | Lillian Walker « 26. |e Sngenents Gommttice, emer eed Chas. Godwin . 1478 Elizabeth Owens . 27 | vitles will begin at 1 o'clock and clo Prof. Robinson 190 Hope Hampton . 25 dat 5, Izzy Katz 1,23 - —— Dan Higgins .... 1,387 Adolph Stern . 1,183 BROOKLYN: Big Bob 1,008 Chas. Speare : ao tae Chae: oheateneets a Americas Foremost Specialists “Champion Battling” Keefe 69 ea Fe PPENHEIM.CLLINS &G Harold Posner 510 Dh L E. H. Valdes . 438 FULTON STREET-BROOKLYN Phillip Ornstein . 304 Bide Dudley 3 . . A FG: denne 3 |i Girls’ and Juniors Rubin Barsky . 306 Rodolph Valentino 292 Hugh Griffiths Babe Quth Joseph Mallon Wm. Jaffrey Fred Cronin Fred Proctor S. R. Russell . J. A. O'Day «..- Michael J. Mona . Wm. Meyerson « J. F. Newman . 1. Schneider ...- Chas. McCullough Richard A. Guinsburg . Barney Rinn «.- . Corse Payton ... Richard Abbott M. Kaphan Martin Kenny . Senator C, C. Lockwood Harry Case . Harry Jacobs Michael Young Zack Wheat ........ Col. Dewitt C. Weld L. I. Lazar ..-..---- Irwing J. Rackoff wee Mayor John F. Hylan . Fritz Marsh . Morris Miller . Frank Pisani Fred Fulton . Leo Wolf ...+++ Ed. Tilyou Chas. Cuthbert S David Nadel Eno Levy ....-+ Chas. Guardino Hyman Feinerman Sidney B. Archer . Christian Stang Wallace Reid . Sam Berger Mortimer We George Snyder . Harris German Robert A. Wright . Barney Bair ..... FOR QUEEN, Ethlyn Clark Sadie Schultz . Martha Mansfield Grace Mullroney Madge Evars Roberta Sweeny Lillian Leonora Mildred Reynolds Jean Hollander ... Gladys Brown .. Priscilla Dean Tessie Miller ... Constance Binney . Frances Vouteau Molly Blumenstein Cousin Eleanor Schorer . Mary [Jenks Perkins Kitty Shea ... Sydell Kamin Cecil Harris . Kitty Licker . Kitty Emmott Evelyn Simmons . 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