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Modern small town life is being
portrayed in Friendship Town, a
new program series inaugurated over
no NBC-WJZ roast trecoast net
work. An all star cast, Including
IT.dwm Whitney, I'on Carney, Pick
Malone and Pat Paget t. blackface
comedians; Virginia (iardlner; Edith
Sttweer and IJarry Salter’s orches
tra depict Hie various characters
making up the country villnge of to
day. There are scenes In the drug
mm-; the academy of music, np
atnirv; the garage; opera house and
other local points of Interest In
Friendship Town, laical politics
play a large pail In the general
ihome, with love Interest supplied h.v
s pair of young sweethearts. Vocal
selections are provided weekly by
Frank Luther, tenor star.
* * *
Ray Perkins, radio funster, says
there are a lot of men today who,
when they think of business, gel a
slump in the throat.
• • •
Marcella Shields, who plays varied
roles, is proud of a naive tribute to
her ability ns a delineator of chil
dren, Following n recent broadcast
in which the former vaudeville ac
tress played a Utile girl, she re
ceived dozens of letters from chil
dren who thought she really was a
ohild.
• • •
\ soldier who has been in the
Pn fed States Veterans’ hospital
since the World war recently wrote
to Ulftlne Page, fashion expert on
the Woman’s Radio Review, for
Instructions for crocheting a scarf
described in one of her broadcasts.
Ttie veteran explained he could
stick to knitting like ninny of his
comrades, but he preferred to do
something different.
* • •
Many celebrities are nervous be
fore a microphone, but not Frank
Ruck, tbe man who brings ’em back
alive from the Jungles. Ruck, who
wm recently Interviewed by (.rant
land Hire over a national network,
admits he was jumpy during re
hearsal, but perfectly at ease when
he faced ttie “mike,”
* • *
The quintet of Hawaiian Sere
nadirs hails from the South Sea Is
land* Joseph Rodgers, the director,
picked up the other four members
am brought them to America. They
are William .lo-eph, Frank Antisnr!,
Jim Flnplklnl and Samson Akaka.
Will Rogers, according to Frank
Lather, tenor, Is the only great
comedian who never looks for “gags”
for his next si age appearance. Lu
ther traveled with Rogers through
Ihe South and West on a Hood relief
tour, and declares the humorist Is
nev« r at a loss for the correct an
swer to any question—serious or hu
morous.
* • •
The other night on the Cantor pro
gram:
WalHngton: Hey, Eddie! In China
they grow pumpkins so big they
rut ’em 1n two and each half makes
s cradle for a lmhy.
Admiral Cantor: Huh! That’s
nothing! Back home they grow Teg
♦tables so large that three cops
sleep on one beet.
• * •
Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson,
4ropped In on Rudy Vallee at the
Pennsylvania Grill recently. Vallee
suddenly broke into his routine, and
sailed ou Crumit to sing his “Gay
Caballero.” Frank got up, cleared
hi* throat, hesitated, and had to ad
mit that at the moment he could not
remember the words of one of the
most famous of the songs written by
none other than Mr. Frank Crumit.
Home quick prompting by Miss San
derson saved the day.
• • •
Ruts Columbo deflues his brand of
entertainment by saying that he
•takes a song and reads It musically
into the hearts of listeners.”
• • •
Three versatile NBC staff members
snn reproduce almost any program
•n the air, In the opinion of their as
sociates. They ars Robs Gorman,
who plays twenty-five musical Instru
ments; Hay Kelly, sound effects ex
pert, whe reproduces almost any
known sound, and Hack Wilson, en
gineer, who can imitate virtually any
radio volet after hearing It once.
THE
FORBIDDEN YEARS
by
WADSWORTH CAMP
She took her first oppor
tunity to ask Dr. Morris about
Gray.
“Left shoulder shattered.
He’ll be longer mending than
you.”
His glance was disapprov
ing.
“From what I hear you’re
both lucky to be alive at all.”
From what he heard! They
had all heard now. The period
of mere suspicion was closed;
the secret out in the open.
Perhaps that was why Mrs.
Twining never mentioned it,
and didn’t ask a single ques
tion. She came in several
times a day, asked Barbara
how she was, sat with her oc
casionally in silence before
going on again about her
duties with the manner of the
competent head of a nursing
home. The responsibility thus
thrust upon her served as an
elixir, so that she seemed more
vital even than when she had
returned from Europe.
The Manvels were in the
house perpetually. Barbara
heard Mr. Manvel’s crisp !
tones,, and his wife’s tearful
voice, and^he thought of the
mother’s agony in watching
her son play football. How she
must hate Barbara! Also from
time to time she heard the
suppressed murmuring of
Esther and Mrs. Holder, but
the concern of all these people
was with Gray; they had no
sympathy for her.
Harvey came as soon as he
saw the brief newspaper ac
counts.
“Bobbie, you told me you
had forgotten him.”
“I mean to now, Harvey.
This time I have to.”
It was all he said in the way
of reproach, and she was
grateful that he should spare
her useless, prying questions.
“I’ll do all I can to help you
forget, Bobbie.”
One from the other side did ;
stamp in and stand rocklike
beside the bed. Lyon Helder
frowned down at her, then
smiled.
“Serves you right for tear
ing around with a careless
young egotist.”
Yes, they all knew.
“Glad it's no worse. Hop; ;
you’ll soon be up.”
Another motive than kind
liness had brought him. While
Harvey had waited in the
library to be conducted up
stairs Lyon Helder and he had
had a little chat.
“What do you know about
that young man, Miss Nor
cross?”
Barbara told him all she
could about Harvey’s start.
“Determination and brains
there,” he said in his fashion
of inadvertently making a
thought audible. “He’s got the
acquisitive sense. Naturally
he asked me for nothing, but
I could see he thinks in big
figures already. He’s out for
capital, a great deal of it.
Thanks. He’s worth keeping
an eye on.”
From the door he murmured
an afterthought: “Don’t look
so infernally sad, young lady.
Accidents will happen; the
best we can do is to avoid
them as capably as possible."
She thanked him for com
ing, and for his interest in
Harvey, but he had increased
her impatience to get well,
because he knew, and waited,
as they all did, for her de
parture, her final removal of
the problem she had brought
Into their ordered circle.
Steve was the only one who
took the frank, normal atti
tude towards the revealing
episode. When she first heard
the tapping of his cane in the i
hall she hopad he would com<
in. He did, and walked tappin
to the side of the bed, a smih
twitching at his mouth. The
wrinkled face, however, held
reproach.
•‘Barbara! Barbara!”
‘‘Steve, I want to die.”
The worry fled from his
glance.
“There’s really not the
slightest need of that.”
He drew up a chair,
stretched out his legs, and
commenced striking at the
toes of his shoes with his
cane.
“I’d always fancied you were
the most sensible of young
women.”
“I’m afraid there isn’t much
sense in love, Steve.”
His cane rested between his
feet.
“It’s serious, dear child? It’s
as bad as that?”
She nodded.
“No use denying it, because
it’s all over now. I never ex
pect to see him again; never
want to.”
He brightened perceptibly.
“That makes life much
simpler for many people, in
cluding yourself.”
She looked at him narrowly.
“Don’t tell me, please that
you’ve been sent here as a—
a scout, to find out what hap
pened, how I feel towards
Gray, what I mean to do about
him?”
He resumed his tapping.
“I came, my dear, for a
number of causes. The first
and most important is that 1
wanted to look at you and
learn how you are. Another
happens to be that what you
two bewildering impulsive
young animals did has made
life rather hectic for my very
good friend, Jacob.”
Barbara spoke breathlessly.
“Mrs. Manvel, you mean.”
Steve nodded.
“When she fancies her sole
offspring near danger Carol
line becomes jungle primi
tive.”
Barbara seemed to be seeing
herself from a distance, won
deringly.
“And I’m danger?”
1 Steve seemed surprised she
should ask.
“It’s one of humanity’s most
charming traits that women
like you should be dangerous
to selective men; and I think
we may assume, after his
shamefully pampared career,
that Gray is particularly
selective.”
Barbara drew back
“I’d rather you didn’t talk
that way, Steve. I’m not sure
what you mean. What do they
want me to do?”
Steve’s quiet chuckle reas
sured her.
“Things are rather too con
fused for them to have found
out themselves. Jacob peers
and has little to say, except
that he doesn’t blame his son
for falling head over heels
with you; naturally that
doesn’t make the domestic
waters any less turbulent.”
He spoke slower, more softly.
“Caroline has alweys tried
to give Gray every plaything
he has ever wanted.”
“Steve, don’t!”
“Sorry, Barbara. Sound
cures are hard to swallow.
Hasn’t our young man looked
on the affair in much the
same light?”
She covered her face. Her
voice was muffled.
“I won’t talk about it. You
can’t make me.”
“Yet,” he said softly, “you
never want to see him again.”
“True, Steve, but for his
sake as well as mine.”
His eyes opened wider.
‘ I believe that. Some men
„ Vt know their luck.”
-You mean Gray doesn’t, if
r.i wont to call it luck?”
‘ Precisely,” he said, “and i
.n’t wholly his fault; it’s th.
rotten, w’orshipful fashion ii
which he’s been raised. He’s
been taught to want only the
glittering things of life; so
when it comes to his settling
down—”
She interrupted.
“You mean, he’d never
dream of settling down with
an Elmford savage like me?”
“Fond as I am of Gray,” he
nused, “he’s the selfishest,
aost ruthless human being
I've ever known, and I once
told you selfishness can be
pretty devastating.”
“You guessed that night on
the boat? I thought so.”
He chuckled.
“I’m not altogether an im
becile. Knoking Gray and see
ing you, I’ve dreaded some
thing like this ever since Elm
ford: and the caretaker there,
Siller, caught you two to
gether once or twice. He had
some fantastic ideas about
you, Barbara.”
She lowered her hands and
looked straight at him.
“They were fantastic,
Steve.”
He dropped his cane, bent
forward, and took her hand.
“You needn’t tell me so. He’s
keeping his ideas to himself
now. I saw to that. Of course
I don’t know what Gray
thought.”
She lifted her head trium
phantly.
“Then it wasn’t altogether
his fault. You’ve got to grant
him that.”
Steve smiled whimsically.
*T grant him nothing; I
envy him.”
The pressure of his hand
tightened.
“If I were younger I'd make
love to you myself. If I were
ten years younger would you
marry me, Barbara?”
“I don’t think so, Steve.”
She carried his hand to her
lips.
“But I wish you could make
love to me; you’re so dear; it
makes me so happy to hare
you notice me at all.”
“There are times,” he said,
“when I could horsewhip the j
young cub. This is one of
them.”
And after a moment, when
she had let his hand go: “Why
did you ever start with him
on that mad ride?”
Her lips tightened.
“I won’t talk about it. Hasn’t
he?”
Steve laughed.
“Gray? He does nothing but
growl. That also makes the
Manvel domisticity a trifle
spotty.”
“But,” she said bravely,
“you can tell them it’s all rigb^.
now.”
He rose.
“I wonder.”
Suddenly it rushed upon her
that when she left here she
wouldn’t see Steve any more,
or Mrs. Twining. Through a
sea of loneliness she held out
her hands.
“Mind kissing me good-bye,
Steve?”
He looked closely at her.
“What do you mean? Good
bye? I’ll kiss you, but not i
good-bye.”
“All right. It’s just that
you’ve been so sweet.”
He stooped and kissed her
cheek, and tapped his way to
the door.
“Cheer up, Barbara. See you
soon again.”
At last she started with a
crutch, and got as far as a
cane. She had even hobbled
up and down stairs once of
twice. She would be able to go
away almost any day now; yet
Mrs. Twining hadn’t said a
word. If she didn’t pretty soon
Barbara would take matters
in her own hands. No one had
mentioned Gray to her since
Steve’s visit. Perhaps it was
just as well that he had been ;
the worse hurt, becau e she
would be gone before he was
up and around.
Many of the night hours
swayed by without sleep, and
she lay watching the rich
light of an unclouded moon j
shift slowly about the room. |
The nurse slept in -ne idjoin- 1
ng dressing room now, am
Barbara wished she wrere bad
- n acot by the bed; it was s<
osperately lonely, and aheac
. he saw only more loneliness
She raised herself on ar
Ibow and stared at the door
hinking she had heard tb*
slick of the latch.
“Who’s that?”
She whispered it becaust
she wasn’t sure, and she didn'i
care to disturb the nurse in
the next room. It wasn’t her
imagination; the door from
the hall slowly swung in; there
v/as enough light to see that
A moving form blocked tbr
opening.
“Who’s there?”
“Shh! Don’t say anything."
The form loomed nearer, the
left side grotesquely out of
shape from the heavy cast,
and the arm strapped to the
body.
“Gray! Don’t come in here!”
“I’ve got to, or go crazy from
not sleeping.”
“Miss Andrews Is next door.”
“Then for heaven’s sake
keep o.uiet. Don’t call!”
“I must.”
“Trust me. Barbara. Give
me a minute.”
He was beside the bed now.
his deformed bulk blotting out
the moonlight as he bent
down, his hand groping for
her face.
“If I had the courage of a
tramp I'd shoot myself.”
She cowered away. She was
trembling.
“Don’t be afraid, Barbara.
That makes it so much worse.
I didn’t know. I just didn’t
understand. I was dumb, oh
so rotten dumb. Dear, won’t
you say something?”
“Please go, Gray. I don’t
know what you mean.”
“I mean I hate myself. Oh,
God. how I loathe my ghastly
self. I mean, try to give me a
chance to dream, too, al
though I don’t deserve it.”
He sat on the edge of the
bed, placed his right arm
under her shoulders, and
drew her close.
“Don’t shake like that. It
makes me despise myself
worse to have you afraid of
me.”
But she was conscious of the
trembling of his taut muscles.
“Don’t Gray. It’s all over.”
He buried his head on her
shoulder.
“It mustn’t be. I’ve earned
it, but it just can’t be. To the
devil with wha anyone else
wants. This is our game, and
we’ve got to play it beauti
fully, darling. You’ve got to
promise to marry me the
minute we can slip out of this
confounded hospital.”
She was quiter. She put her
arms around his neck and
kissed him.
“That’s for good-bye, dear,
He strained her closer.
“We won’t use that word
again. I’ll never say it. I’ll
never let you.”
“Remember, Gray, that
miserable night; remember
you said: tornadoes, plagues,
cataclysms!”
“No chance my not remem
bering. because I’ve suffered
every one of those trials since.
There can’t be any storms in
life half so bad as the ones
I’ve come through trying to
get to you. And you love me,
or you wouldn’t have kissed
me just now.”
She relaxed and placed her
cheek against his. She couldn’t
say anything.
“Don’t cry Barbara. Why
are you crying?”
“Don’t know.”
After a time she leaned
closer against him, for she felt
tears on her face that weren’t
her own. The man who didn’t
mind being hurt because It
was in the game; the one who
had withstood the worst of the
shock of violent physical con
tact on the football field; the
player who had been angry
because he had been carried
unconscious from his final
match—had tears for her be
cause he had hurt her.
“Gray dear, you mustn’t.”
“Can’t think what’s the
matter with me; pretty well
banged up, you know.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Junket Trips Planned
For Early Model Ford '
Brazil, Ind. — (UP) — A trip to
the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933
and a coast-to-coast trip in an au- I
tomobile constructed in 1906 Is
planned by James Watkins, living
here.
Watkins says the auto is one o(
only six of its kind and was made by
Henry Ford. When new, the ma
chine sold for $6,000, Watkins said.
The auto has a six-cylinder en
gine, made of brass and aluminum.
Watkins said the model was only an
experiment and was abandoned for
another, which was the forerunner
of the present model.
One of the elaborate accessories
on the auto is a three-pipe horn,
operated by exhaust from the en
gine.
Hungarian Engineer Will
Study U. 3. Methods
State College. Pa. — (UP) — A
Hungarian flour milling enjineer
who wants to learn American mill
ing methods will study in Pennsyl
vania State college for several
months this winter.
Tlie engineer is T. 7. Rozsa. of
Budapest, member of the technical
staff of the First Hungarian Ma
chine Works, Ltd.
He will study under B W. Ded
rick, Penn State miller, a recog
nized authority in his field. Dedrick
was on the National Dust Explosion
Prevention Board during the World
war. Later he developed a method
of baking bread in which the entire
operation from the mixing of the
flour to the removal of the loaf
from the oven required only 45
minutes.
Bootlegging Term Brings
Song Composer $1,000
Concord, N. H. — (UP) — When
Melvin Heartz, 22, began a four
months sentence at Hillsborough
jail for bootlegging, he requested
and was granted permission to use
the jail piano.
Recently, when he was released,
he had $1,000.
He had composed and sold two
songs to a New York music pub
lishing house. “Iron Bands of Lore”
brought him $800 and “Prisoners’
boyrt Letters” brought him $7Q«.
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QvcihfftSince. 1833
African Province Found
to Be Flealess Oasis
A plague prevention survey of Af
rica resulted in the discovery of a
spot which is absolutely free of fleas
and the incident was regarded as so
remarkable that the investigators tar
ried for some explanation of the un
usual situation. This favored spot
was the town of I’rieska and the
country Immediately surrounding It,
Fleas are notoriously good carriers
of the germs of this disease and
therefore the entire wide readies of
Africa were systematically searched
for animals carrying infected speci
mens of “pullex irrltans." Hence it
happens that certain dogs at Prieska,
which lies on the Karroo prairies of
t lie Cape of flood Hope province,
were searched for fleas by tlie medi
cal men.
Not a solitary jumper could he
found. Every cur, even tlie most
neglected and mongrel native-owned
brutes, was absolutely devoid of
them.
’I'lie theory of some residents is
that tlie nitrates in the barren lands
surrounding this particular settle
ment act as a natural disinfectant.
Living Characters Used
on Ancient Chessboard
The Mughul emperors of India car
ried out some strange plans in con
nection with their domestic life, and
a visiior to the famous fort In Agra
will he aide to see some of the beau
tiTut buildings used as part of the
zenana. One of the most interesting
features is the open space in the cen
ler of the fort, known as the Aujuri
hash. This space is divided Into
many squares, marked off by marble
slabs, and covered with green grass.
There are broad marble causeways
between the separate blocks. It is
generally believed that the Mughul
emperors used these as chess-boards,
nnd the “pieces” used in the game
were young slaves, who changed
their position according to the direc
tions of the players, who would be
seated in one of the marble pavilions.
The gamp played in those days did
vot correspond with the modern
chess, but was known as pachesl.
The size of the Anjuri Hugh is about
28b feet square.
Modern Girl Benefited
Notiiing Is more astonishing to us
older physicians in London than the
complete disappearance in one gen
eration of a disease which I, as a
medical student, saw extensively in
hospital practice, namely, chlorosis
of young girls. Tin's was a serious
form of anemia, which choked our
outpatient departments with its fre
quency. Its disappearance was prac
tically synchronous with the disap
pearance of the corset and the great
er freedom of bodily movements, and
the increased enjoyment of outdoor
exercise by girls and young women,
and it is a singular instance of how
fashion may hinder or foster health.
The very sensible exodus from Lon
don in the auliimn and at week-ends
is a comparatively modern invention
and one contriubting to better health
amt physique.—Sir Lrnost Graham
Little.
A Rembrandt Embellished
Glasgow, Scot land, n:is a sensation
In the report, that the famous pic
ture, "The Man in Armour.” by Rem
brandt. was found to possess the em
bellishment of a second artist, who i«
believed by an expert to have made
certain additions to the picture prob
ably 1 Cm) years asm. At present the
painting is in Holland being “codoc
tored” for certain cracks, which had
appeared in the canvas, and the ex
pert there lias reported to the Art
Halleries committee of Glasgow cor
poration that around the figure are
traces of the work of a second art
ist, The value of ‘The Man in Ar
mour” is estimated at over $500,000.
It wa« once in tin: possession of Sir
Joshua Reynolds.
Tho*e Headline*
City Editor—We)', what was all
the excitement?
Reporter—Nothing but a cat fell ita
the bay and was drowned.
City Editor—Great! Smoke it up
for an extra. Nine lives lost.
The had habits formed by a tailor
are often found in misfit parlors.
Faith is (lie soul going out of itself
for all its wants.—I’.oston.
condition for outdoor work
by using Mentht latum regularly
It is indispensable fcr cracked,
sore skin. Jars cr tubes.
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