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Show 25, 1937 .jay, June MS MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, UTAH tot footlights went up. But before ceit act there was the familiar Qor. 'BPaiUjj; tel Hfc, there at least bad been a long explanatory letter, gay and confident, SYNOPSIS tfl vivacious to feel th lcrf Herrndn, wmb too young unashamed, unapologetic. Magda and her Lucius bad been in a' lov-er- a whe" her tothr Uai paradise In Tahiti then, and to fortune. Ha '"i5ualV .out HU wife. their escapade had seemed to them cuot adjust herself to th Justified by their complete happi-nes-s. a beautiful woman, tend and a magnet for men th, it ? ZZu.lit and Vtctorto have SSL ."summer reaort and Keith te Si w Magda week-en- the excusing her-- i, i bridge party, -runaway." The beta such a . s return to their small Ban jpertment. Keith does not g Hilda's mad social Ufa and re-togurrtl frequently. Magda rom frm weallhy m whom she had met less than ,hiu L before. Manners arrives a few bier. Magda takes Victoria to nda to visit a woman friend who has , lighter named Catherine. There aha M ah b going to get a divorce. aooa is in boarding school frith Magda mar spend two year Victoria hal studied in Argentina. and at eighteen she visits her rents a beautiful when Terdy Magda Is unhappy over Ferdys and attentions to other women, dnhkes him. When her mother and itber return to South America, to go with them. Magda end tells Vic she and Ferdy have Meanwhile Keith has remar nctoris is now a student nurse, ink baa fallen In love with Lucius While she a married artist. the prepare for a trip to Europe, j takes a suite In their hotel, t sight before Magda and Vie are to Magda elopes with Lucius Farmer. Jt nursing the children of Dr. and i teats. Vic meets Dr. Quentin Har--: i brilliant ph sician, much sought tr by women, who is a widower frith e In a at ippled daughter. grata home, he kisses Vic. Several n later he Invites her frith other Mb In spend t week-enat hit cabin. Is enchanted with the cabin. Next ratal sbe and Quentin go hiking and at ravenous The party to disrupt-Sundaafternoon by the arrival of man Pool, a divorced woman. Vic to doua at Mrs Pool and a few days a tens Mrs Keats she is going to In his office. mhilu. Quentin quet-- i x Vie shout leaving. He proposes to She accepts him and they are nted. Vic and Quentin Are ldyllicly their home During six years has four children. Tba Har entertaining guests at Sun when Victoria's mother sud-U- y arrtrn from Europe. Catherine. Iriend gamers and they L IT, -- mic,; tete-a-tet- y gi mtt COPTER VI Vic looks Continued and well may! the newcomer said, be- daintily on her meaL "No, to. Quentin, she said easily tin she had met only a -went earlier. I'll have coffee. DuM I be a horrible pest if I asked I0 milk Ive had my coffee long with hot milk that I t aeem to get used to it any ier J astonished, e I fd m0 h Ti way! She loosened the frilled coat; Vic-f-e noticed with a disturbed heart Mr mother, under Jm-- rfa7 the first i fusness, of frippery, In distinct ef-- jcP set r clothes, also gave a shabbiness. Us nr brohe up iked, and took early; they Magda especially possession of that!Pare Victorias r0m gayly 0b not mind It at . J trunks often had to stand hall Victoria, auddenly 'h and dlscuraged, and it 1 i ?ng day had been too her- aird that it was J,?! x thing to be managing husband, a houseful of chit and to be fjv servants, the prospect of illness ? responsibllity. satisfied lf only 8 few weary ati w with her bltter prepared her- If for bed!16 - fac-wwt- her PtetK"1wouldagsured he asleep ? I tea ih,fttlUtcS and must b wak-u- yj mrning unless some-3ust the simplest Sunt. c.but Vlcky was not so 6 lay awake moBt of night tr K p Wasl-gim- ymR t0 her mother ,!?m'lc,ely changed Hfe, torbeby alhWHld bappen B0W fssions and ,hundred vau ta ears he knew ft hat it r Poor faded ' fallant1 mother. in the laces and rruis. outwnrr bad!y worn finery! here ton alternative; Mother .out be 6 is guest ot honor in alreadv Crwded hou as g u t0 ,tay- - But tonight' ,Ch?Se p lmpse 01 her had ids Vickv ICe upset and unsure MrseU low.. . After a year of that they had traveled, first to South America, and then to Europe, and finally had found themselves "divinely placed" in aome tiny German town with Rosa taking care of them. "It costs us exactly nothing, Magda had written her daughter, and that ia the main consideration with beggars like ourselves! Lucius can paint to his hearts content, and I can at last catch up on aome reading and go on with my French, which these hectic years have sadly interrupted. Paris is near enough for an occasional spree. That had been the last heard from Rothenberg. Just why or how this Ideal arrangement had terminated Victoria never had known. But her mothers next letter had been from Biarritz, and not In that nor in any subsequent letter had she ever mentioned Lucius Fanner again. She had usually been with delightful friends," or she had a "tiny diggina in Paris, in Florence, in Monte Carlo. And always the cramped note of money shortage had been there. Once sbe had been selling darling Sibyl Hudderstones divine things and giving them away, rather! once she apparently had had some sort of agency for powders and perfumes; "because one must make one's poor little 40 per cent if one can, she had explained. The last letters had quite frankly asked for financial help; Vicky was married now, and if she could help her Mummy Just a little it would be auch a godsend. "For we dont count money here as you do, darling, Magda had reminded her daughter. What you spend on those sodas and on frightful movies would take care of a whole family here. In the morning, after she and Quentin bad shared their early breakfast, and after the usual visit to the kitchen and to the surging and shouting nursery, Victoria somewhat wearily prepared a tray, not forgetting the continental touch of a pitcher of hot milk, and adding a tiny clear green glass vase in which sprawled three stiff brilliant nasturtiums. Mrs. Herrendeen was awake when her daughter came in. Oh, you darling child, with all you have to do and the newspaper, too but I shall miss my Paris paper; these American papers never have anything in them." Vic Did you sleep. Mummy? asked, with her kisft I slept divinely. I always sleep the other woman andivinely, swered, her cheerful voice and freshened face bearing witness to it I meant to lie awake, she went on, beginning her breakfast, "and think what a smart child I have, and what a lovely home this Is. Quentin liked her; that was a great help. Magda had still the secret of pleasing and interesting men, whatever it was. Faded, fussily dressed, affected and artificial, yet there was something real and affectionate and clinging in her nature that all males liked. About a week after her return Quentin electrified his wife by suggesting that they make up a party for the first night of the opera. Stern had sent him a box; Stern was on the committee; it might be rather fun. Quentin, who never wanted to go anywhere! "Fun! Vicky echoed, excited and interested. It would be the time of ail times to return the Perrys hospitality, and for a sixth they might old, musical Dr. Ward. ask whisper In the back of the box. Vicky had resignedly expected it; it always came somehow when they were daring enough to go to the theater. Br. Hardisty? the whisper said In the dark. "The hospital on the telephone. Doctor' Dr, Bruce. Re said it was urgent. And then Quentin was in the gloom for his hat andgroping coat, and off in full evening regalia for tome hot. odorous surgery, with the Valkyries wild scream interrupted half Wayr n was tSo bad. but tt wasnt the first time and wouldnt be th toat, Vicky reminded her mother philosophically, when they were in the car going home. And hicky for you. tool Magda responded. "Lucky? "Well, he was perfectly mad about that blonde woman, whoever (he was. He was going over to that box Just to meet her. But I thought you handled that very cutely, Vic," Magda laid. "Handled what? Vicky was genuinely amazed. Oh, saying she was lovely and youd like to know who she was. That was smart, Vic. "Thera was nothing smart to that! Vicky laughed, in generous amusement But she felt Just a little chilled, nevertheless. A bleak breath of wind from an country seemed to touch her cheek. Quentin admires beauty, she presently said. "BUt thats as far at it goes. "Just the same m bet you something, Vic, that he finds out tomorrow who she is. "Mother, youre incorrigible! They were at home now, yawningly dragging themselvei up the long tain. Til bet you a chocolate bar that he never mentions her again! They were in the house the folafternoon when Quentin lowing came in to smile wearily at Kenty and Susan, who were cavorting about in pajamas, and to discuss the products of the Argentine with Gwen Magda was playing solitaire by the fire. Oh, listen, Vic, remember the blonde Venus in the' box last night? Quentin presently asked. Magda looked up, and Vicky turned with a almost-forgotte- n CHAPTER VII 7, W t petal-smoot- umber-shadowe- him!" A safe! But Magda was not to be laughed out of her position. She said Women must go thoughtfully: crazy about him. Hes stunning! Vic laughed. Hes forty-threAnd he has a large family and the hardest surgery practice In the City. Forty-thre- half-smil- If you want to hold a man like Quentin, you ought to well, flirt with him! Magda said. Victoria laughed. "Flirt with my own husband? "Something like that. Not flirt exactly, but interest him, Magda said, a little at a loss for the exact words she wanted. Keep him busy. Unless a man la kept busy be gets Into mischief especially a sheik like Quentin, with a voice all the women fall for. "I dont know that all the women fall for his voice," Vicky said, unalarmed. "And as for keeping him would keep busy, I dont know what a man busy if an exacting profesa sion, five children, four servsffits, mile and a mother dont! Oh, Lord, not that kind of busyl I dont mean worMagda scoffed. or if the furnace the about rying new electric light bulbs came. And I dont mean curvature of the spine, either. A mans got to have some for a play, Vic. The sensible thingout all woman like you to do is cut balr-d- o this nursery stuff, have a and new a lipstick every week, get some peau de Jeunesse and lie around in the mornings reading fashion magazines! toI dont know where youd be out all this nursery cut if day youd Vicky wanted more than stuff! But she once to say never did. ana Men have always liked me, character had any yet Ive never want I and I never do anything dont woman explained older the to do late 1 wander simply- - "I lecp y r not at the danMagda mused. Is Hes e. gerous age yet, "He Wasnt a Gentleman; It Simply Wasnt There! little color in her face from a minute inspection of Susans reputedly burned finger. "Shes an English Mrs. Harrison or Morrison or Robinson or something, Quentin said. I telephoned Joe Younger today I wanted to ask him something about the golf club anyway. Her husband is an English officer attached to the foreign office or something they left today for China. on e He fell to musing, a his face. "That was certainly one beautiful woman! he said. STAR DUST aa-su- Victoria felt that she could afford to laugh at this. According to Mummy every man between the ages of sixteen and eighty was interested in any reasonably pretty woman, anywhere, everywhere, at all times and seasons. No wife was It was at the opera that they first saw Serena Morrison. Not that Vicky or anyone in her neighborhood knew who the woman was, at first With four men, she was sitting In the forward seat of a box; an ashen blonde in a black bare h velvet gown, with d shoulders, and deep-se- t in the Everyone eyes. bouse was looking at her when the curtain went down and the lights went up, but if she was conscious of had any character I wouldnt the admiration and curiosity she exr,cproached herself, cited she gave no sign of it rnmo- r..!S. Q'lk different In the "Thats Joe Younger that stout in as bad an It with her, Quentin said, layfellow night" frank ing down his glasses after abeauti-tiful! fc Jr mLkneW, very Bttle of Inspection. By gosh, she is llfe had been in kst r ten "Oh, Quent you know him! to mtjch absorbed said eagerly, leaning forward I her own Vicky air ,0 tohik much of In her old chocolate lace to have air? tnther', N another look. "Couldnt you slip not vr;nd Mrs- - Herrendeen i Very often. In the over and meet her?" Smu g will in the next d I now mov-ie- : No time 'embered. there a lnn in the afteoon to 8' luxurious txplana-lnlre Quentin whispered as downtown entracte! the assume siigntest never I out a confession, but the house lights fanned down sud L? guest before she discovered that they were partly true; Magda really never did make any effort, or any responsibility, except to Interest and please men. She would not be left alone at home at night with the children, even though they were all asleep 4n their beds. One of them would set something on fire, and then youd think I killed the loU" ahe plead-d. and the mere suggestion of this calamity prevented Victoria from aver urging the arrangement For the rest It was astonishing to discover that Magdas bad suffered no whit by her long and exciting career. In the beginning of the European experiences, Lucius Farmer had become "strange." He had been a delightful person In Tahiti and Majorca, but somehow southern Germany had affected him badly. It wasnt his fault but ha didnt really have quality, Vic," Magda explained it generously. He wasnt a gentleman; It simply wasnt there I Perhaps I was to blame for thinking that it ever was. Victoria listened on, scrambling as she did so along the line ot the sitting-roobookcases, taking out childrens books, matching seta, stacking the volumes neatly. Now and then she sat back on her heels, smiling at her mother. Magda busy with a nail file and a tiny pair of scissors, occasionally In her turn raised her eyes from her hands and looked seriously at Vic, while without anger or resentment ahe recounted the strange actions ot Lucius Farmer. After all she, Magda, had done for him, he had been unappreciative enough to desert her. As the days went by and Vic found herself drawn more and more under her mothers Influence, affected more and more by her mothers point of view, she found it increasingly difficult to maintain her own standing; the solid earth rocked a little sometimes beneath her feet Poor faded Mummy with nothing to show for all the flattered, romantic years, the presents and the checks, the beautiful lace and the beautiful gowns Mummy couldn't be entirely right in her preposterous ideas and attitudes, but there were moments when Victoria felt uneasily that perhaps she wasnt entirely wrong, either. Mummy, for one very Important thing, thought that having more than one or two children was a mistake. It was a forgivable mistake. For you have them so easily, Vic, and you do adore them so. But I tell you it's selfish. You'll lose ice-crea- n.j, ponslbQlty, and I am altogether unwise and idle and useless I to the beginning Victoria would laugh at such whimsicalities. But her mother had not been long her anyone specially crazy about him? "Theres always some woman telVic answered unalarm-edlephoning, I know the signs. But he y. doesnt take them seriously. Magda was hardly listerting her eyes were narrowed in speculation. I dont think any woman gets hold of a man, Vic submitted, comfortably relaxed in a big chair now, with her feet stretched out before I dont believe any woman her. loses her husband because some other woman wants him, she subHer again. stituted, beginning mother regarded her in astonish- ment What do you think?" Magda demanded. I mean I think the wife has lost him first, Victoria explained. Ah, yes. but it all depends upon what you mean by losing him, the It doesnt alother woman said. ways mean that theyre quarreling, that theyve made up their minds to separate! It may mean that theyve drifted apart perhaps they dont realize it themselves . . . "Mother, do you really believe that all married women are waiting for affairs widi other men to come along; that all married men have an eye out for charming women fresh women? Mrs. Herrendeen's surprised stare was sufficient answer. she said, "Why, but of course! amazed. "Vicky, look at them! They do. They all don't!" Vicky muttered. But she was thinking. (TO BE CO.XT.UED ) J Virginias Capital Richmond, capital of Virginia, was once also capital of the Confederacy. and many things associated with the war between the states are to be found there. The White House of the Confederacy is now a fascinating museum. The Capitol, the main unit of which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, is the meeting place of the oldest representative legislative assembly in the new John's church is faworld. Old the as mous place where Patrick Henry fired the flames of the American Revolution with his stirring oration ending. Give fne liberty or are give me death! Near the city many battleflelds'of the war, which have been preserved as park areas t Radii T7IVE small boys have just . boutdisruptedHoll: They are the youngsters who played on the stage In New l(ork In "Dead End and who now are In Hollywood playing the same roles in the picture. wood. They dont Ilka Hollywood, they think acting In movies to pretty silly, and their eompleto lack of reverence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furious or tearful. One of them will go up to a famous tar, and out of kindness let US esll her Mii X, and say politely, Ts It true that you get paid two thousand dollars a weak? At har nod of assent, the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot, andjay VBut why? This Ia My Affair, a Twentieth picture, has Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor as Its Century-Fo- x hasnt a real yen for a streamlined sportster thats on and off in a Jiffy, launders easily, and cornea up smiling time after time. You can' concoct something clever of seer-sucker or pique and complete tha whole thing In an afternoon.' Why not order your size today and have benefit of a really companionable sports dress? The Patterns, Pattern 1302 Is for sizes 14 to 42. Size 16 requires 2Y yards of 39 inch material for the blouse, 2V yards for the skirt. Pattern 1286 is for sizes 36 to 48. Size 38 requires 4 yards of 39 inch materiaL Pattern 1913 is for sizes 14 to 42. Size 16 requires 3 yards of 33 inch material plus 314 yards of bias binding to finish edges as pictured. Send your order td The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 13 cents (in coins) each. who stars, whith is enough to causa a stampede at the box office any time, but fat addition this A S RIGHT &M rain, and as cool-inhas soma gripping are these clever young historical scenes. It must ba thrilling modes for the woman who eews. 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What more could any little heart rific drama, there to Wings Over to Honolulu for yon. It a Univer- desire? Not Smart Matron. C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. sal picture with Wendy Barrie, Ray You for sue should slander anyto BUI and and Jt Garran Miltond, so exciting that I Just had U stay one who calls you a Smart Matron Quick Giving and sea it a second time and any when you don this gratifying new You fashion We (above should center). step now give as we would reback I may go day again. into an entirely new size range ceive, cheerfully, quickly, and when you step forth in this frock. without hesitation; for there is no Incidentally, Bill Gargan la now So simple is its technique grace in a benefit that sticks to making a picture on tha Universal merely a deftly designed feminine the fingers. Seneca. lot called "Reporter Missing and jabot, softly draped contours, and be has been taking the thrills of the a meticulously slender skirt yet picture so seriously, that when a so effective. 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They remember, you see, that Don Wilson need to sing with a vocal trio at a Detroit staUon and they know that ha has a glorious voice. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Folk, uAa Kribbl on tho tablecloth in the Paramount ttudio rttlaurant era now fined thirty-fivcents. Jack Benny" , debt ran to high that Man Livingstona gava him a few old tablecloths from home to Use to . , . IThen Dick For an was given I new contract and told that he was going to graduate from Patterns into big, spectacular, f pensiva productions, he asked wistfully if he couldn't make a Western now and then. Dont you want to ba a big, imhe portant star of tha best pictures was asked. So," ha said, "J want to ride my horse . . Big Boy Williams shudders when he thinks of the jeering fan mail ha is going to get toon. Ha had to eat 18 cream pujft for a scent in Lets Talk of Love e f C Western Newspaper Union. 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