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Show r ha tm ' PATTERNS Jl SEWING CIRCLE rADTRRFAKI is CONSPIRACY W STAGESCREEN Bv VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. first picture which Hepburn will under her make for "I don't know why Mr. Taussig re- new long-terNew York for the last two years, CHAPTER I contract will and she worked at it. She may be minds me of an adder in tourist's "Without Love," in which At three o'clock Tuesday aftertaking a vacation. Captain Wilcox clothing," Anne said. "Or why he be to follow me around." she starred on Broadway last noon Anne Heywood hurried through was on her father's paper too. He seems the blinding snow toward a fashion- may be the reason for her going Miguel Valera's dark eyes were season; it's by Philip Barry, fixed on the shore line coming lu- who wrote "The Philadelphia able dress shop on upper Fifth Ave- down." He stood rigidly for a moment, minously into view. nue. She pulled her beaver cap It's one more version and sat down. down tighter over her smooth "I heard him ask the captain why Story." the young THE BRENDA CONRAD ft m C 1 """"" M-G-- M m reddis- "Here is her picture." He took it out of the briefcase. "It was taken two years ago. She is even lovelier now. It is her coloring as much as anything. Her hair is reddish-gold- , her eyes are almost amber with gold flecks in them. I have been watching her the last three days. I can't make out whether the way she laughs when people ask her if she's going down to see Wilcox is because she is or is not. At any rate, watch her too. She is intelligent and keen, as well as beautiful. I wish we had a few women like her." book He took a green cloth-bounout of the rack under the radio. "And here is a bon voyage present for you. It is "Puerto Rico: A Guide to the Island of Borinquen," kindly put out by the Government of the United States. It has all the proper information about the history and monuments of the island. It also had a map on the back cover. Unfortunately it was not as detailed as we wished, so I have taken the liberty of substituting another." He riffled the pages until he came to the end of the book. "It Is a scale map that you are to mark. A blue circle for major plants in civilian areas, a red circle for key stations in military establishments. Green where they supply both civilian and military, like the plant at Aguadilla for instance, which serves Borinquen Field and the town. Use blue and red crosses for minor units. Put the number of h-gold hair and drew her beaver coat closer around her slim legs. It seemed so utterly crazy to be buying summer cottons In the middle of a winter blizzard. At the same moment, two blocks away, a slow gray spider was silently spinning Its web across a dark corner of a cellar wall. And eighteen floors above. In the sig. French salon of an elegant She didn't know, exactly, why eiapartment, two men raised ther of them should make her feel their hands In a formal the way she did. It had all seemed salute, and sat down at a satin-woo- d plain enough sailing the day Jim table In front of the window. who was managing editor Hawley, heavy-seOne of them was short and t of her father's paper in New York Behind his rimless thick-lense- d City, called her in. spectacles his blue eyes were small "Look, sister you've been asking othand piercing and shrewd. The for a good Job, and I've got one for er man was tall and blond. They you," he said cheerfully. "There's a were both In their middle forties, story in Puerto Rico. The place is arroand both had a kind of cynical a hotbed, and Uncle Sam's pouring gance that neither made any athalf a billion dollars in. It's got to conceal. tempt old Spain, new moneverything di"Your orders are simple and love, hatred, ey, glamour, poverty, rect," the tall man said curtly. He everything. Go get it You can kill In of a worn briefcase front opened a flock of birds with one stone. You him and took out a sheaf of papers. can get a tropical tan and maybe "The Island of Puerto Rico can be earn your pay for once. You might effecas an out commission of put even do a service for your country tive base in half an hour, if you do can't ever tell." you your Job the way you're expected And as Anne started out he'd to." looked over the of his "Even after the millions the glasses. Americans have poured Into Its de"And while you're down there, fense?" make up your mind about Pete WilThe tall man ignored the question. cox, will you?" "Puerto Rico-I-s vulnerable at two And it was funny about Pete, Anne gas-linand points only: its supply Heywood thought. He was the only its water supply. The first will be man she knew that she'd thought setaken care of. It's the second you riously about marrying, even if she is with. island The are concerned hadn't been able to make up her one hundred miles long and thirty-fiv- e mind, not finally. Everybody thought miles wide. Out of its 1,800,000 that was why she was down here unemof half them population now. But it wasn't. It was pride. ployed and starving to death It will It was the business of showing them be simple to find five hundred malall Jim Hawley, and her father, and contents. They are to be placed Pete himself that she could use her where at a given signal the maown head and stand on her own two of water unit of the chinery every feet system can be completely demolIt had been like a dose of vitaished, and the island destroyed as a mins, carrying her confidently up for of defense base the functioning to that moment. With the yellow the Panama Canal." masses of the ancient weathered "I shall need some help," the rock of El Morro looming ahead of short man said. her now, and the gay excited clamor "You will have help conscious of the people crowding around them and unconscious." against the rail, all the confidence The tall man picked up a sheet was seeping out of her. She looked of paper and looked down the list up at Miguel Valera. There was of names typed on it. something in his dark eyes, fixed "This in fact has been the most on the stained and pitted fortress delicate part of the program." rising sheer from the white poundHe smiled. Is ing surf, that silenced the casual reman the "Diego Gongaro only mark she was about to make. in Puerto Rico who knows you," he "You really love Puerto Rico said. "He is there from our party In . . . very much, don't you?" You He trust can him. has Spain. He looked at her gravely. done the spade work. His brother-in-la"Very much. My father says it Alvaro Valera, is the shining is only a country whose people sufknight behind whom you are to hide. fer deeply whose people love it deepHe has the old aristocrats' dream of ly. I don't know. It's true that with He is honest and Spanish empire. all the poverty and squalor and oversincere. It if those qualities that population that your magazines are you will have to use cleverly . . . so full of, our people won't leave but as he happens to trust his brother-inthe island. And when they do they -law Diego Gongaro, that will always return. Our country is an be easy." emotion, with us." He looked up, frowning a little. He smiled. "There are three possible shall I "But we're Latins, and Latins are call them obstacles or Imponderaan emotional people. You're Saxon. bles?" Our standards, our backgrounds, our The small blue eyes across the taShe didn't know, exactly, why eible narrowed slightly, watching ther of them should make her feci customs, differ as much as our languages." steadily, waiting. the way she did. Next to them along the rail a fat "The first is Alvaro Valera's son, woman in stifling ormen stationed at each In red fig- middle-ageeducatMiguel. He is twenty-eigh- t, nate was black we clinging to her husand the have at number ed at Gilman and Princeton, ures, Their faces were now. Or has seemed to each In blue figures. You may even band's arm. be. Here is his dossier. He wor- enjoy taking the tours that this book streaked with tears as they watched entrance of the harbor, ships his father. At one time he suggests. Do so In any event Now the narrowtime-worunder the fortress, openwas an ardent Nationalist. He has If you have any questions?" ing its rockbound arms to bring a captain's commission in the rethem home. on the southThe deep violet-blu- e serve corps, and was under orders "But the human heart doesn't difwhich the War Department can- ern horizon was slowly taking form celled last week without apparent and substance as the ship ploughed fer very greatly, does it?" Anne steadily forward, feathering the co- asked. explanation." For a moment Miguel Valera was balt sea. Anne Heywood leaned on "Do you know the reason?" k "I have an idea. But Diego Gon- the damp rail, watching silent Then he said quietly, "If garo will know and the fewer the- It In the east, already suffused with you have learned that, Miss Heyories you go down with the more pale green and yellow and pink, a wood, you have learned a great deal facts you'll pick up. This may help single itar still shone, a precise It is something most people never clean candle lighting the sun's way learn. I should have thought yu you." were one of them. Perhaps you He passed two closely typed sheets up over the last step into the dawnwill learn even more." of paper across the table. ing world. Without turning her head Anne She heard a step on the deck be"The second Is Captain P. G. Wilhind her, glanced around and smiled. could hear Mr. Taussig. His voice cox. He is an American newspaperwas moistly oleaginous, his Informaman now in the Military Intelligence Than it isn't it?" She nodded Into the opalescent dis- tion precise and pedantic, in a way Service. He is attached to the office that reminded her of the courier-guid- e tance. of the Assistant Chief of Staff G 2 who had taken them through The man beside her stood for an in San Juan. He is an ace newsNotre Dame in Paris. paperman, and impatient with what instant, gravely Intent A sudden little panic of loneliness I presume he regards as official red "Yes," he said. "That's it" Anne catch her breath quickmade " de Rico mis 'Puerto reason he For that patria might tape. ly. "I should have told Pete I was mores, even be of use to you." coming," she thought It bad all Jardin de florei . . '. " He looked across the table intentseemed so simple In New York. Facto and turned her He with not he said. "You're stopped ly. "No," ing it now the noisy teeming city, likely to fool him for very long. a smile. "The Isle of Enchantment, Don't try. Just watch that he doesn't we used to call it Now they call it the babble of a language spoken so rapidly that the little she knew was The Gibraltar of America." fool you. Here'i his dossier." "And we're spending how many hopeless she bad the sudden sense He got up and moved silently back and forth across the room, and came millioni to make it that?" Anne of being an outsider with no right to a stop by the window. Heywood asked lightly. She glanced to be there at all. And underneath "Then there it a girl whom I around. "Mr. Taussig would know, it there was a vague chOl feeling of apprehension, like the sound n haven't been able to figure out," be I suppose. He seems to be a of a stealthily opening door in an inform at Hm bureau." said slowly. "Her name is Anne A short heavy-se- t man in a light-gree- n empty midnight house. Heywood. Her father is Bryson Hey"I'm being an utter fool," she told of the Heywood wood, editor-owne- r tropical suit with tennis slipShe is going to San pers and a yachting cap bad come herself sharply. She looked down newspapers. Juan on Friday in the Santa Isa- out on deck. A camera and a pair again at the gay welcoming faces on bella. That is why your plane res- of binoculars were slung over his the dock, trying to revive the determination that whatever this ervations were cancelled and you shoulders. The black sun glasses atare going by ship. We don't know tached to his spectacles turned out to be, it was to be her Job. "But I do wish I'd cabled him, why she's going. She has had a hid his pale blue eyes without makJust the same," she thought. job on her father's paper here in ing him any more attractive. lemon-and-gra- y ten-roo- stiff-arme- d 1 of the old, old tale about you were coming to Puerto Rico," woman who marries with the underhe said, without moving. that the marriage is to be Anne glanced at him quickly. standingone of convenience, and then purely There was something a little odd in discovers that she loves the man, the even tone of his voice that dis- after all. turbed her. It disturbed her too that Mr. Taussig should be wonderUntil about two months ago Dick ing about her, because she had been Haymes was just a chap who sang wondering a little about Mr. Taus- with a band Harry James', Benny ' ' Goodman's and Tommy Dorsey's, in that order. As vocalist with Dor-sehe'd had a share in "DuBarry Was a Lady," when it was made at Metro last spring. Recently his star began to rise; he had a successful y, d e Little' Belle little girl would be happy ANY as a lark in a dress like thi3. Note the sweetheart neck and ... half-moo- perky sleeves. deBarbara Bell Pattern No. 1796-signed for sizes 6, 8, 10. 12 and 14 years. h material. Size 8 requires 2'i yards 1802 n d n salt-stick- y one-ma- thick-lense- 1796 d TO BE CONTINUED) Bright Basque V"OUNG set favorite the basca 1 topped dirndl that will be sea everywhere this summer. cool, becoming. DICK HAYMES Gay, night club engagement, cut two tremendously successful records, was given stellar billing in the air's "Here's to Romance." He'll probably sign with a major studio before you read this. Somebody at Metro realized that the lad was hot stuff, and ran "DuBarry" for a look at him. Every scene he appeared in had gone to oblivion on the cutting room floor! When making jelly, shave up a sufficient quantity of paraffin, place in the empty jelly glass and pour in the hot jelly. The paraffin melts, rises to the top, and seals the jelly all m one performance. Should the wooden handle of a crosscut saw break, temporary bolt on a worn-ohorseshoe. This will serve quite well until a new handle can be had. ut the" Bell Tolls" still "For Whom heads the list of what New Yorkers are talking about with the war ex cepted, of course. The general opinion seems to be that it is by far the best picture that has come along in 1943, worth sitting for nearly three hours to see. You'll enjoy it more if you've read the book, since it had to be changed a bit to conform to the Hays code. But on the whole it is remarkably true to the story. The cast is excellent; it was nothing short of inspiration to give Katina Paxinou the role of "Pilar." The photography, in technicolor, is some of the best that we have seen. . If door and window screens are painted with aluminum paint it gives a clear vision out, yet makes it difficult to see in from the outside during the daytime. 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Housewives have been most in response to appeals to save waste fats; but government surveys reveal that while six out of ten women are saving fats, only three out of ten have thus far been delivering their waste fat to meat dealer collectors. Directions are very simple. Housewives simply strain waste fats of every kind into a clean can and, as soon as the can is full, take it without delay to a meat dealer or frozen food locker operator. Any clean can will do. RKO Radio announces that staee. radio, night clubs and little theaters have been combed to orovide the studio with new film talent having possibilities of stardom. Edward SmalL whose pictures are released by United Artists, announces that ne nas signed Tony Devlin, student of a Los Angeles high school, the first of a list which he hopes to recruit from high schools and colleges for possible motion Die- ture careers. The talent search is Ext A complete file of the London Times for the period of the great blitz of 1940 was received by War ner Bros, for source material for the Ida Lupino-Pau- l Henreid picture, "In Our Time." One of the issues included an account of the death of Stanley Lupino, Ida's father, who was killed in the blitz. The famous actor was serving as a defense volunteer. Incidentally, you'll hear Ida humming one of her own songs in the picture; paid $25 for it she sent the money to the Hollywood Canteen. . Juu,uTl!liillu3 .t atviL About a year ago Russell Wade was picked right out of a trrouD of extras by RKO and given a term contract He 11 be featured in "Ghost Ship." lttr 3 V . Ktflou'iCtni rutatnrt. Wwltni0ll (RAIN NIU jRmvi VAlUttoUhitmn tVltiWiBiXNudMBdIro j i1 DAMAGE... ;:,od.uou' onl .Iff,.-- No. CaE for each Give geraniums fresh air every day; do not allow them to become too dry ; fertilize them with a commercial fertilizer and give them The 350 soldier actors of "This Is the Army" were forbidden by the war department to talk to actresses on the Warner lot while making the picture. Joan Leslie, the leading lady, couldn't understand their in difference to her. They sent a second lieutenant to her dressing room, finally, to say "My men want you to know that by nnanimous vote they have chosen you as the motion picture star they'd most like to meet." After that Joan felt better. ODDS ASD ESDS-C- ood standing in a Barry Wood fan club requires the Titular tturrhnse nt mr LnnI. J nnA t,;,..:- irimni . . . Wallace Main will again he teamed, in a Metro comedy called Kationing" . . . Johnny Cart's recipe for uriting a song hit i one a number composed by one the old Despite hit Montana background Gary Cooper's no shark at poker; playing it lor two days for scenes in "Saratoga . . lrunn, ne tried vainly to draw to an inside straight ...The War Shipping board's taken "Action in the nnh At. lantic" for use as a training film. . h TTn'firr ? i 1' |