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Show The Cache American. Ixigran. Cache County, Utah Pajje Si OUR COMIC SECTION Kathleen Norris Says: When You Call the Tunc BtU Syndleat WNU Ft tturts. IU1 By VIRGINIA VALE bjr Wuure Ntwtptptr m4 Vnioft. Stage Door Canteen CBS be the vehicle through which Bert Lytell, once a movie idol, will return to films. The movie version, produced for United Artists by Sol Lesser, will bring us a host of celebrities, including Katharine Cornell, who's shunned the films so far, and Lunt and FonUnna, Tallulah Bank-heaand scores of others. Lytell has been so busy with stag and radio engagements of recent years that hes had no time for pictures. d, A Orson Welles Isn't trying to set a new fad with that shock of long hair that he's wearing at 'Ceiling Unlimited rehearsals. Hes letting his hair grow at the request of 20th for bis role of RochesCentury-Foter in their version of Jane Eyre, x George Montgomery will do one more picture before be goes into Bombers the service; Us In the Moon, opposite AnnabHla F i Helen begged him to help her get diiorce from Harry and legitimize her pretent position . Dick, newly made a lieutenant commander, would not hear of iL It might break into a tcandal that would injure hit career . By KATHLEEN NORRIS story of Helen van is a most unusual one. Like all the rest of THE us she has carefully made her own troubles; built herself the cross she has to carry. But in her case it wasnt the ignorance, stupidity or mere laziness that some of us can claim as an excuse; Helen deliberately broke the law, and now she has to pay for it. f Eighteen years ago she was a beautiful woman of 22, married to the wrong man. There wasn't any question of his being the wrong man; he did not provide for her, he drank, he annoyed and humiliated her with what seemed actual pleasure, and he openly said he didn't like her. She had been married three years when she met the man who, under happier circumstances, would have been the ideal husband for her. Dick had everything. Charm, manner, intelligence, success. He had been a young naval officer in the last war, but had afterward resumed law studies and was a judge in a remarkably short time. Helen suffered all the agonies of frustrated love for a while, and then she and Dick left town, established themselves in a western state and prospered. They now have a boy of 16 and a girl two years younger. When an occasional old friend encountered her, Helen always said that she had divorced Harry and married Dick, but as a matter of fact there was no marriage. When she asked for it, Harry flatly refused to consent to a divorce, and as Helen had already left him and gone to place herself under Dicks protection, she couldnt with any dignity insist upon it. Happy Home and Children. Dick and Helen have a lovely home, friends, a prominent position in the small town where they live. The children go to high school and are preparing for college. Bichard Junior happens to be a proud and dignified boy; he has literary ambitions and likes to refer to his ancestry. his good blood, his Americanism. Pamela is frail, fine, sensitive and both are devoted passionately to their parents. Last February Dick quite suddenly rejoined the navy, and was sent overseas. Helen had little time to argue the situation with him before he left, but she did beg him to help her get a divorce from Harry, and legitimize her present position. Dick, newly made a lieutenant commander, would not hear of it. It might break into a scandal that would injure his career. Humors would reach their own town and, above all, it would hurt the children. The only thing to do was to go on as they were, until some day Harry died, when they could quietly be married. Helen has not heard from Dick since early in September. He is missing, perhaps dead, and if he doesnt come back her affairs will For be hopelessly complicated. there is a rich old grandmother, as proud as Richard Junior, who is presently going to leave a good deal of money to Dicks children. But Helen is still Harrys wife under the law. Should Harry turn up he could wreck their lives. Helen knows it and agonizes over it. I have not had one moments she peace of mind for months, writes. "We had drifted along comfortably for so long without ever suspecting that anything would bring up this old trouble; no man PAYING THE PIPER The 'Helen ran Dyne of this letter called the tune 18 years ago, and now she is protesting against the terrible price she must pay the piper. For he will collect, whether she likes it or not . . . Its easy to say you are willing to take the consequences of an unconventional act. Its not quite so simple as all that, because you cant decide what the consequences are to be and when you are to be confronted with them. Sometimes they threaten the very happiness for which you once risked all. and woman ever felt themselves so truly man and wife as we did. We never thought of the irregularity of our relationship; we had decided once and for all that ours was a truer Ttiarriage than hundreds that are approved every day. I suppose we always intended to straighten it out, but the years went so fast and were so happy that nothing seemed to be missing. Divorce Too Late. "Now, to go back to the old town, hunt up Harry, and make arrangements for a divorce without the children suspecting that something extraordinary was going on, is utterly out of the question. And even if I did, what would it accomplish since Dick is not within reach? The slightest suspicion of it would break Pam's heart, and shame my proud, handsome confident boy. They would lose faith in their mother forever. "When Dick and I first decided to take this step 18 years ago, the letter goes on, we faced the conor thought we did, sequences squarely. We even spoke of a possible child, and I remember saying that if we had one he or she would be a little gipsy who wouldnt worry about conventional oversights. We felt that we were strong enough to rise above the law, and to us both it seemed preposterous that an irresponsible, idle, impecunious and improvident man like Harry should have any power over our lives. But Dick Junior is NOT an unconventional gipsy type of boy, and my little Pamela is the clinging gentle type, and I dont dare think of what the truth would mean to them. What is the right way out, one that will save us all? Im not answering this letter,, because as far as I can see, there is no answer. When and if Dick Senior comes home after months, it might be possible for Helen to persuade him to make things as right as they can be made now. If he doesnt come back, perhaps Helen could confide in her mother-in-laask the old lady to make the children of her son her heirs. Husband Always a Threat. To find Harry now wouldnt do much good because Helen, even if divorced, couldn't be married to Dick until Dick returns, and unless Harry has somewhat improved he might seriously threaten her peace of mind, and betray her to her children. So that the only thing to do is go on this way for the present, and hope that time time that brings about so many unexpected solutions to our human mistakes and problems will offer an opportunity sooner or later to straighten out all this. It is one thing to call the tune at 22, and feel quite willing to face the consequences, and it is another to pay the piper when he comes around with his bill. Real consequences have a maddening way of being much more complicated. YOU SEE -IP YOO EARN YOU WAVE TO PAY THE INCOME TAX COLLECTOR 4000 O AND IP I LOSE $5,000 DOES WE PAY ME ABOUT $1,500 P story of an American pilot whos shot down in Germany. Do you wonder that Hollywoods wondering what to use for leading men? propnet; be Maybe Bob Hcr hopes so. His The Road to Moroo-c- o was filmed six months before the Allied invasion of that territory, and released right on the dot. Recently he interrupted bis tour of the army camps for 48 hours to do a scene for They Got Me Covered which depicts a deflated Mussolini escaping from the nation be led Into Its present predicament its being filmed with the blessing of the Offioe of War Information. Bobs got his fingers crossed, hoping that this scene, too, will come true. Alan Ladd's date with Uncle Sara upset the apple cart so far as Paramount's "Incendiary Blonde was concerned. He was to have starred 's in this screen version of Texas Hutton, but his life prospective induction into the army wrecked that plan. At present the film has been shelved; Miss Hutton gets the feminine lead in Lets Face It, and Betty Rhodes gets a supporting role. Gul-nan- with-Bet- ty They could hardly believe it at Metro when they got two new lads at once. Tommy Dix and Gil Stratton were brought from the New York and stage for Best Foot Forward at once Stratton was assigned to Girl Crazy and Dix will win Lucille Ball in Best Foot Forward. If the actors on your favorite radio program sound pretty exhilirated, its practically certain to be due to Just one thing the return of a former member of the group in uniform. Pepper Youngs Family was almost disrupted when Larry Woodleaf appeared recently. Larrys a handsome lad who joined up before Pearl Harbor, after doing publicity for the program; hed spent eight months in the Far East. Eddie Cantors explanation for substituting for Phil Baker on 'Take Last April, Phil It or Leave It Baker took my place when I was in the hospital. So I took his place when he was in the hospitaL Next time well both be on the program the audience will go to the hospital! William L. Shlrer, the news commentator, is planning a series at talks at service camps throughout the country in the near future. He has already given numerous talks at camps in the eastern area. Ed Mur-rothe London newscaster, reports that he's expecting to solve the nogas problem soon; he has his eye on an elderly horse, but is still dickering over the price. ODDS AND ENDS Radios Tim and Irena or among the featured players in Columbias picture, Reveilla With Beverly" . . . oe Schilling, Edward G. in Destroyer Robinsons stand-iwears a naval lieutenants uniform the do is boss can a chief boatbest his swains mate outfit . . . Thomas been added to the cast of Metros Bataan PatroC . . . Nelson Eddy, who Married hasn't made a picture since an Angel? will return to the screen in Universats remake of The Phantom n of the Op-r- a; Deanna Durbin, origin-fl- y scheduled for the pictui e, probably taont appear in it. By J. Millar Watt DONT YOU s pa-R- W me! ALL DOLLED UP TO tou.2 VER NO DAU&HTER OP YER M07HER-SH- E ' WAS ALWAYS o MWE-YERU- M E Itrrin B O D :Y S s T E N O G By Sam Nichols WNU Features. READ IT TWICE No Indication An Irishman, driving a donkey-cain the middle of a narrow road, heard continuous hooting behind him. He looked round and saw a powerful car following in bis wake. He continued on his way, and the car behind continued to hoot. After a mile or so the road widened sufficiently for the big car to draw level. Why didnt you make room for Teacher I see you are still at me to pass? asked the infuriated Prof. Can you give me an examthe bottom of the class, Henry. Can't driver. How should I know you wanted ple of a paradox? you get any other place? Smart Sure. A man walking a Henry No. all the others are to pass? You weren't going any faster than I was, V was the reply. mile and moving only two feet taken. LAST ONE IN rt Long Tough Trip Did you hear the one about Pat getting kicked by a mule? He was picked up unconscious and rushed to the hospitaL As he was being carried into the building, feeling the swaying motion. Pat started to come "Oh-h-and I to and moaned: aint landed yet. It's the Same Sergeant Private, is that your cigar butt on the floor? Private Naw. you can have it. You saw it first. Youre Still Out Didnt 1 hear the clock Held Down Officer The detectives got the strike three when you fell in over the womans fingerprints from her husdoor mat last night? band. Mr. Oh, no. You see, it started Second Ditto How could they do to strike eleven but I stopped it so that? Officer Easy, she'd kept him unyou wouldnt be disturbed, dear. der her thumb for years. Poor Mirror Same Difference Lady My greatest sin is vanity. Boss What was your last job? Only this morning I looked into the mirror and thought, How pretty I Applicant Diamond cutter. Boss Jewelry business, eh? am. St Peter Pass in peace. To be Applicant No, I cut the gra.s u a ball park. mistaken is not a sin! Mrs. |
