Show DAILY SHORT FICTION STORY STORYe e e e e e eA e A MOVIE EVENT By MARCELLA HAYES HAVES Copyrighted 1818 1816 by McClure N newspaper Syndi tate cate The lights went out the curtain rolled up and the empty white whit square n which ina in ina flashed on the screen P upon a minute or two would follow thrilling thrill thrill- thrilling thrill thrill- and adventure in Ing scenes of love The orchestra played Here Comes and altogether It was wasa a moment of general expectation Mrs Smith rolled up her crochet work and ana stuck it into her bag looking anxiously anxious anxious- ly between times tunes at the empty seat beside herI herI her she worried I wonder if hes he's sick I just lust thought yesterday when he came in without an overcoat that hed he'd catch cold Seems to me the folks at home ought to take better care of him Then he came stuck his hat In Its place and pulled down the seat Im aim a little late he said Yes and I was worrying You had no overcoat on yesterday and It was was was' cold Im I'm glad to see y youve you've ve got it out today It was the same way last week when you came in all that drizzle drizzle drizzle driz driz- with no umbrella Your folks oughtn't to allow you OU to do those things Folks Why yes Haven't you got any Yes a daughter but she isn't at home Do you mean you live by yourself Yes What's wrong about that N Nothing Only Only Only- Well youre you're no worse off than I am I live alone too Alfred my son has has has' been away for more than a year You dont don't say His tone lacked Interest because the butcher and baker and candlestick maker having advertised advertised advertised adver adver- all their wares the coming at attractions attractions attractions at- at tractions having been announced and the operator shown his number the name of the ensuing was feature feature was given followed by the faces of the cast Then the man sighed deeply Dont you like the Keystone comedies comedies comedies comedies' come come- dies dies' she ShA was Impelled by her Curiosity cu curiosity curiosity cu- cu to ask Oh yes they're all right but I but I Imay I may as well tell you When I was getting some winter things out of the trunk today I I-I I I came across across some stuff of Mary's Marys dolls Marys dolls and things she had when she was little little and and Ive I've been thinking about her all day And here Just lust before I left the house didn't a aletter aletter aletter letter come from her chock full of n news ws Shed She'd been an of office office ot- ot fice but she had an offer from a a. I photoplay company Marys Mary's awfully pretty pretty curly curly hair and big eyes and everything She's acting now and getting getting getting get get- ting along fine she says She Is getting getting getting get get- ting 50 and says she Is going to send for me soon that Just fine sympathized his neighbor Yes but that isn't all Here she's gone and engaged herself to a chap going to be married In n a month You dont don't sa say That's too bad I when she's doing so well I But she wont won't give up her acting Shell She'll go ahead with that after she's married same as now I think Its It's queer I guess Im I'm an old fogy maybe but I cant can't get used to It it I dont don't know whether Ill I'll go or not Dont Don't believe Id I'd feel at home In a place like that The audience grew noisy over some capers of if the police squad falling downstairs but Mrs SmIths SmIth's sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic eyes were on the man beside her The doings in the rectangle were nothing to this drama I guess youre you're right she nodded My IMy son In n New York too working and m making king good money He sends me plenty but keeps writing for me meto meto meto to break up here and go to him Its It's a queer place though and Ive I've always been afraid to make the change There Isn't that disgusting the way those people beat each other up I hope your your daughter doesn't do any of that kind of stuff No she's with the the let let me see the l company Its It's a new neV one I dont don't know as Ive I've ever even eve seen seen any of ot their plays It must be new Wouldn't it be funny if they should show here and your Mary be in it I was just thinking that There thank goodness that's over Somehow I dont don't feel like looking at t today The rectangle was blank a minute and then came the title of the next film When film When Dreams Come True produced b by the 1 company Why there It is gasped Mrs Smith Maybe Marys Mary's In It Look Theres There's the cast What's your name J Jones ones Mary Jones repeated Mrs Smith In disappointed tones Well it isn't there And Indeed it The first was a garden scene where the earl reprimands his son for a misspent life life no no women In the picture at all But while they are arc talking a a. girl bounds in the in-the the earls earl's granddaughter grand grand- daughter who daughter who rushes up to her father and n l. l throws her arms around his neck Mr Jones sprang up Mary Mary that's that's Mary he cried shaking all over Its just like her exactly But oh I wish she wouldn't put her arms around strangers Sit down Mrs Smith pulled anxIously anxiously anxiously at his sleeve People are looking Remember Its It's only In a picture and and and- I But the words died on her lips The I scene shifted to a carpenters carpenter's shop in which like Adam Bede a young man was working honestly and with a will I The earls earl's granddaughter was slipping sUpping up behind him ready to cover his eyes with her hand But it was the carpenter carpenter carpenter car car- penter who concerned Mrs Smith Alfred she gasped Theres my Alfred And hes he's kissing my Mary Iary protested protested protested pro pro- tested her agitated neighbor And she's to be married to another nother man I wont won't have It It it So hes he's a carpenter said Mrs l I Smith leaning forward with And all his education and college gone for nothing He always wanted to be a a lawyer But Its It's only a picture It was Mr Jones' Jones turn to remind her so But anyhow Im I'm going to write to him ab about ut being so af- af ante with girls when he doesn't know whether they're engaged or not And Ill I'll write to Mary I dont don't approve approve ap approve ap- ap prove of 01 these movies When the show was over Mrs Smith turned to Mr Jones at the entrance where It was their custom to separate one to go to his boarding house theother theother the theother other to her little her little cottage on the edge of ot town you have a a. cup of tea with me Mr 11 Jones Its It's cold and Id I'd like to show you some of Alfreds Alfred's pictures pictures pictures pic pic- pic- pic tures when he was little Why yes thank you Mrs Smith Ill I'll go out with you Hes He's a fine lookIng looking looking look- look Ing young fellow And your Mary Is as pretty as a picture re Say I know why they dont don't call her Mary Jones In the cast People People People Peo Peo- wouldn't wouldn't remember it It She's Flora Kildare right I J remember now They're both awfully good dont don't you think I wouldn't mind her kissing people so much If she Just wasn't en en- en If It was just your Alfred now It would be all right wouldn't It They reached the little house and Mrs Smith unlocked the door A letter letter let let- ter lay on the hall carpet and she picked It up Its from Alfred she cried Will you excuse me a minute while I run my eye over it and see what he says Yes indeed Go ahead And then he heard a little Just listen to this she quavered Heres Here's what he says Ive a little news mother Im I'm going to be marri married d toi a very sweet dear girl called Mary Jones Some people know her as Flora Kildare for In the movies and so dear mother am I. I We Ve work together and andare andare andare are very happy When were we're settled you must make up your mind to come here and live Marys Mary's father may come too Why I never thought of that said Mr 1 Jones dazedly What a little bit of a world It Is said Mrs Smith |