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Show NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS i f v fix. ir STAGEvSCREEOADi'O Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE GRACE MATTHEWS, the new "Big Sister" star, began her radio career with a bang; a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London,' she was accustomed to the stage's broad gestures, and In one expansive weep she knocked the script from the hands of her fellow actor at the mike. Last year she won three of Canada's top awards to radio actors; played opposite op-posite Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy and Charles Boyer, among others. Her first part on an Ameri- X GRACE MATTHEWS can program was on a CBS sustaining sustain-ing show; Ted Huston, the "Big Sister" director, heard a general audition she had then, and ten months later she got her present role. ' Warner Bros. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" may be known as the father-and-son opus. Humphrey Bogart is starred, of course, but Jack Holt and his son Tim, who has a leading role, appear In It And Walter Huston is featured, and his son John not only wrote the story and directs the picture, but also appears ap-pears in one sequence. May be the start of a Dad-and-Junior cycle; after seeing his son's debut In "Pursued," "Pur-sued," Henry Carey began writing a screen play of early Nevada days for his offspring. . When Jane ("The Outlaw") Ruv sell did a guest singing appearance on the Kay Kyser show she launched her new career. She's signed for 13 weeks with him, and several sponsors want her for a half-hour program of her own. She says she'jvjleveloped' her singing style by lleiening to Jive recordings had signed up to do an album of songs for a major recording company. com-pany. The largest mob scenes photographed photo-graphed since D. W. Griffith made "Intolerance" were made for - "Keeper of the Bees" at Columbia's Sunset studio where Griffith shot those Babylonian sequences. But the mob John Sturges directed was 60,000 bees I -Sir- Columbia equipped a complete ship's galley for "Assigned to Treasury," fed more than 150 extras ex-tras with food cooked there, and then burned the whole set to the ground for one of the climaxes In the Dick Powell-Signe Hasso starrer. star-rer. Anne Baxter, who can act rings around most of the Hollywood actresses, ac-tresses, certainly deserved that Academy Award for the best supporting sup-porting actress. She'll be In 20th Century -Fox's "Letter to Five Wifes," and will probably walk off with the picture. Now that little Marlene Aames ("Cookie Bumstead" on the CBS ' "Blondie" show) has appeared in the last two Academy Award pictures, pic-tures, she hopes she's started on her third. With "The Lost Weekend" Week-end" and "The Best Tears of Our Lives" on her list, Ray Milland asked for her presence In "The Big Clock," starring him, Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan, Burl Ives has wandered over the country collecting ioik songs; now Maylia, Hollywood's new Chinese actress discovery, is teaching him some of her native ditties. Burl's stealing a march on fllmdom's producers, pro-ducers, who don't know Maylia can sing.- When Jack Barry Invited little Robin Morgan to Join his "Juvenile Jury" he didn't know that she is the busiest child model in one of the big model agencies. Candy Jones dis covered her last year and gave her expert training. . ODDS AND ENDS Tbt sponsors of "Ladies Be Seated," "Give and Take,' end "Meet the Missus" are consider ing tnoiber radlv program of the same general type. , . . Jack Temple, brother broth-er of Shirley, was assistant director on the Glenn Ford thriller, "Framed"; he's learning the movie business. . . . John Loder says bis role in "Dishonored "Dishon-ored Lady" was one of his oddest; he made love to his wife, Hidy Lamar r, then lost her to Dennis O'Keefe. . , . Elliott Reid, handsome young actor recently re-cently free from bis Paramount ton-tract, ton-tract, has become regular member of the "Suspense" cast. CIIAPTKB XIV THE STOEY THUS FABi Todd McKIn-on, McKIn-on, Georgine V eth and small daughter, Barby, were vlaltlnf Mrs. Peabody, try lot to solve the murder of Adeline) TIU- CHAPTER riV i The letter couldn't have been it. There was nothing in this letter to interest the persons in the Till-it Till-it house. She took it in to Todd. "Excuse me, Barby," he said punctiliously, and in turn ran his eyes hastily over the scrawled words. "I say, there are all sorts of messages for you, cricket. The whole letter's about you, nearly." "From Cousin" Dyke?" said Barby, in holy awe. Her face shone. Todd read it aloud. "'Dear Georgine, It's good news that my girl-friend enjoyed herself on her visit. Haven't had such a good time myself in a dog's years. You tell her I'll take her out again any day; popcorn and milkshakes don't run half so high as a spell of night-clubbing. night-clubbing. rt He shifted a page. " 'So you and the old man ' Don't know how much I like that title," Todd interpolated "'the old man decided to make the break without delay. Cheers, auntie dear; all kinds of happiness and what have you. You know I think you're tops and he doesn't deserve his luck. Wish I could' "another page was finished " 'be there to eee the deed done, but the Army needs good sergeants this week.' " "The maneuvers," Georgine laid. " 'Don't suppose you could wait about eight years until Barby's caught up With me, so we could make it double?' " 'Couldn't you wait, Mamma?" Barby said, radiantly serious. "No, cricket," Todd replied Brmly, "we could not. We'll wait till you're well enough to be bridesmaid, and that's all. Listen Jo the rest of this. 'You picked a nice place for the wedding, seemed as if that old town and the old bouse were clean out of this world End no war on. Mary Helen does. Seems, the old lady, her great-aunt, great-aunt, had plenty.' " Todd flipped over another page. " 'I'm with you In spirit whenever the wedding comes off, wish I could see Barby holding your flowers. Best of luck, Dyke.'" "Did you ever read anything so useless?" Georgine inquired bitterly. bit-terly. "Mary Helen talks a lot, and tnat s au ne naa to say aDoui ner or what she told him." Todd looked at her, his agate tyes intent. "He had more," he laid, and held out the third sheet of Dyke's letter. "Get the light across it, Georgine, and look at the period after the word 'plenty.' 'plen-ty.' " t . "Blotted," she whispered alter a moment's scrutiny, "and the rest of the page isn t. 'Ink rather a different color, too." "Then someone found the let ter, steamed it open and destroyed a page or two with something important im-portant on it?" "I d imagine so." Georgine met his eyes, breath ing fast. "It was taken last night, because the person in my room was feeling around on every surface sur-face where it might have been laid and it was returned this morning sometime. Great heavens, rodd. There must have been tomething here worth the risk! Could we get hold of Dyke?" Todd shrugged. "Not if the Army's deployed over half the Sacramento Valley. I can try, but doubt we'll get him." He followed Georgine into her room and shut the door behind him, leaning against it. His eyes burned coldly. "Plenty of valuable property, or something like that, I'd guess. It must have meant jomething to the person who read the letter, or what came after wouldn't have been destroyed. Lucky for him Dyke broke off at place' that might have been the and of a sentence." "Him?" "Anyone. 'Mary Helen talks up a breeze.' She might have let out, to interest Dyke, something important; im-portant; maybe she didn't know. herself, how important it was; or she may have been indiscreet about her own affairs. Curious,' be said, musing, "how nearly that fits with the plot I used her in. "Which kind was she?" "The Perfect Murderer. You needn't bother to read it; it's one of the kind with a fancy timetable, time-table, all worked out beforehand to give an unbreakable alibi in case of need. In reality, if you remember, this gal says she was In Sacramento all day, looking for mourning. Nice touch, that. "Very." Georgine shuddered. "It would have been possible for her to drive back to Valleyville, by some of those country roads. and leave her car behind the house, or even some distance away. Nobody need ever realize she'd been here. Mary Helen's got the mind to be a Perfect Murderer, She's shrewd, she thinks things out and prepares for eventuall ties." "I thought the Perfect kind al ways makes one mistake at least.' n, I'll ' qkGasfmfklW, Dh Lenore Uiemt slt. The evidence seemed to point to Gil-bert, Gil-bert, Mrs. 1'eabody's bnsband. One night (ieorflne went to bed with bad bead-ache. bead-ache. She awoke to bear someone In ber room. They (eft be re she could do any "That's the theory." "What would hers be?" "Talking too much," said Todd soberly. "I've made the woman in my yarn somewhat older than the man. She's trying desperately to get his attention, and drops a hint that makes him investigate, at first idly, and then Well, that's beside the point Dyke hasn't investigated, investi-gated, but he's damned attractive and I think La Crane worked hard on hira. She wants to be the center cen-ter of attraction, to be supreme. I can hear her: "There are all sorts of mysteries about this house, my great-aunt was supposed to have had beautiful jewelry and some of it must have been valuable. If she didn't sell the best pieces they've got to be here somewhere'." Todd's imitation was not too kind. "I keep remembering Serena." Todd frowned slightly, and looked past her as he did when something some-thing lay heavily on his mind. "The beautiful, suffering Serena whose death was such a blessed release. It's possible that she died quite naturally. It's possible, too, that someone hoped her death would release John Crane from his obsession." "And," said Georgine slowly, "when she talked to Dyke she couldn't have known that he'd have an uncle Who'd stir the whole thing up again." "Later this afternoon, Georgine, I'm going to take the car out by myself. I wish you'd help me with something. I want to drive around these back roads and then come up as quietly as the bus will run, behind the house. I'll tip you the wink when I start. Will you stay in the sitting room and listen hard?" "Must it be the sitting room? Oh, yes, because of Susie's having been there. What is it you want, to find out if you can come up unheard?" "That's it. See you later." The doctor. Dr. John Crane, who could so easily have paid a brief secret call here before he Dr. John Crane could easily h?ve paid a brief, secret call. went out to see the Judge, and from there to his confinement case. Perhaps Miss Tillsit would have taken from his hands the seven tablets of luminal that made up a fatal dose. If your doctor told you that it was necessary No! If your doctor was giving you a huge dose of a narcotic, he d give n hypodermically. Had anyone thought of that? SHPJLL voice was raised from the front walk, and Georgine started out of her ab straction. "Hello, Virdette! Do you want to come up and call on Barby? Shea in bed resting; maybe you could play games." Miss Bacon appeared in the up per hall, her yo-yo rising and fall' ing in perfect rhythm with her footsteps. "Sure 111 stay with her," she said. Barby called her from the sewing room to say that she was all alone, Toddy had gone out to do something or other. Georgine thought with a small shock that she hadn't heard him go. He appeared almost on the heels of her thought- "I got to an out- side 'phone," he murmured. "Dyke's not in camp, can't be reached." "I was expecting that, weren't you?" "Yes; and, I think, so was the person who read your letter. He may have said in the letter that he wouldn't be available for a while." Todd kept his voice low, although he had stepped into her room and closed the door. "What was the use of stealing those thing. Mrs. Peabody had put s letter os her table from Dyke, Todd's nephew. The letter was gone, and It might havs contained Information abont the case. pages, when it was fairly sure that in a few days we'd be able to hear what was on 'em from Dyke himself, unless those few days will see the matter cleared up?" Todd grinned. Excitement was working in him. "I mean that things will automatically come to a head within a week, say; the game has to be won or lost in that time. And what's due to happen at any minute?" "Our leaving I hope." He shook his head. "No; the telephone made me think of it. The antique dealer, Georgine, who may be here at any time, and who'll presumably take away all that fine old furniture from the attic. Nobody knows when he's coming, except that it'll be soon, but the secret will go away with him. "The attic mystery and the murder mystery," Todd said from remote thought. "They may be the same and they may not. Perhaps Per-haps they touch only at one small point. But there's an interesting parallel there, Georgine : the sense of urgency, of something that has to be finished before something else happens. There must have been a reason why Miss Tillsit died at the very moment she did." Georgine remained at the door, smoldering. "And I suppose we brought this on ourselves, just by trying to be helpful to Nella! You would have to think of th nn- f tique dealer, and offer to get him up nere, and make it urgent for the rats-in-the-attic person to find what he's" after and maybe mow us all down in the process! I hope" "You hope what?" He glanced round at her, his eyes alight with laughter. "Oh, well not that anything happens! to you. I can't afford to lose you at this stage. But I certainly cer-tainly hope that the searcher gets cheated somehow, and maybe what he was looking for got thrown out years ago, unbeknownst, unbe-knownst, with the rest of the rubbish rub-bish from the drawers and the crevices of the chairs. Handkerchiefs Handker-chiefs and scissors," said Georgine Georg-ine with irrelevant bitterness. "and a nurse's cap that was supposed sup-posed to'vo Aeen lost from the wash, and buttons " "Is that what Nella found and threw away as rubbish?" Todd in quired. She looked at him, startled. star-tled. The aerial seemed to have shot up. "It's nothing much." he added. "I only remembered that the clean laundry is left in the entry at the foot of the enclosed stairs." "Well, what of it?" Georrine said crossly. "If someone's been going through all this rigamarole to( find something that was lost trom the wash, I'll know we re visiting in a loony-bin!" "rpODDY!" Barby shrieked from JL the next room. I told Vir dette you'd play the mouth-organ for us, and you never did yet, and yuu promised "I'll be right with you. Barbv." Todd said. "Finished with these. Georgine? Then I'll take 'em.' He bundled his papers together. xes, I ve finished, and there was something I wanted to sng- gest; but it'll keep. Go on and perform, Barby will yell her head otf if you don't" She walked up and down her room, frowning, her thoughts going round like a roulette wheel that might deposit the ball of logic In any one of a dozen places. Gilbert they had typed him as tne Damn Fool wasn t it possible that he might fit in yet another category? What if Gilbert were the Noble Sacrifice? He might nave seen the candy, or remem bered that Nella had -recently given him some to take to the old lady; and suspected, rightly or wrongly, that there was something some-thing queer about it Supposing just supposing that he had looked in at his aunt as she lay in the beginning of coma, had sensed that this was no natural sleep, but not being sure, had yielded to temptation just enough so that he kept still instead of calling her nurse. He might have hoped, hu manely enough, that she was slipping slip-ping quietly away to her death. Would it be murder if he had detected de-tected this and had not given the alarm? It might have made him feel guilty enough so that he would be perturbed, then and lafc er; and, when he found that the town was talking, he might have offered himself as a scapegoat Going away to the war would have looked as if he were taking the easy way out She had to suggest it to some one. Todd was thoroughly en grossed, in the next room, teach mg the two little girls to sing "Father, dear father, come hom with me now." They seemed to bi almost paralyzed with giggles, bul were making a brave stab at tin tune. What was the time? , (TO BE CONTINUED) IT MAY interest you to know what various ball players, scouts and managers think about the next two pennant races. Taking a general consensus, here is the vote In both leagues. , In the National' league, the Dodgers Dodg-ers are sure to be an Improved team, - - with more experi- ence and greater consistency in pitching. Youth rides faster from midsummer . on. But the Cardinals are also much stronger than they looked to be a year ago espe cially with George M. Cooper Munger and Johnny John-ny Beazley back to help out Pollet, Breecheen, Dick son and others. The Cardinals look to be the class of both leagues. They have a young hustling star catcher a great pitching pitch-ing staff the best infield in baseball. with Musial, Schoendienst, Marion and Kurowski, and one of the best outfields. They have class and spir it They are not getting any younger young-er and there are still a few "ifs" connected with Terry Moore's knee, the arms of Kurowski and Slaughter, Slaugh-ter, Marion's back and Johnny Beazley. Beaz-ley. But so far, these highly impor tant cogs seem to be grinding smoothly. The serious experts I've talked to pick Billy Southworth's Braves as the serious threat. "If Mort Cooper picks up where he left off last year," one scout told me, "the Braves can challenge the Cardinals and Dodgers. Cooper is a great pitcher not merely a good one. Southworth is two deep. Elliot will help a lot. The Braves can be a tough club to handle any time." Cubs for Fourth Place The Spring vote for fourth place goes to the Cubs. After that, it Is anybody's scramble, with the Phillies, Phil-lies, Giants, Pirates and Reds in a hard drive tohead the second divi sion. But the experts are cagey enough to suggest that one of these might reach the first division. The Cardinals are the pick. "By all odds, the best all-around team in baseball," one veteran told me. "Only savage ill luck can let them down. They are all class. The Dodgers Dodg-ers will hustle, but they won't out-hustle out-hustle this Cardinal team not on the ball field, where thy win and lose games." ' The Dodgers are packed with "ifs" Branca, Barney, Head, first base, third base and Pete Reiser. The only Cardinal "if" is a few removed, and replaced, bones. The consensus in the American league circuit leans strongly to the Red Sox. I know the Tigers think they will beat out the Yankees. They don't think they can beat out the Red Sox but they figure there's a chance with better pitching, which they might get. And better pitching can pick up a lot. Yanks Need DiMaggio The collapse of Yankee hitting last year, plus the type of spring training train-ing they have employed, won't be any big help. Both the Red Sox and Tigers will leave Florida much better bet-ter conditioned teams. The injury to Joe DiMaggio has been a. hard blow. Joe is the Yankee spearhead. There will have to be -a terrific upward up-ward lift on the part of the Yankees to beat out either Red Sox or Tigers possibly to head off the Indians. At this moment, the Yankees are not in any too high favor as pennant people. Russo could make a big difference.' Yankee pitching can be O.K., as It was last year, but there must be a big change in Yankee hitting, Yankee spirit, and Yankee hustle. This refers to the Yankees of 1945, not the squad getting ready for 1947. But the 1947 Yankee squad must know by now how many games it lost last year through this wrecking fault. A few transfusions of Cardinal Cardi-nal blood could help more than a trifle. Yon can bank on Bucky Harris, Har-ris, Chuck Dressen and Red Corri-den Corri-den to handle more than their share of the plot, but they are not out on the field winning games. A Yankee revival could make a big difference, but this means practically prac-tically the entire team must play better ball outside of Spud Chandler, who is still their best pitcher after some nine years of major league service. , Cleveland Has Hurler s The vote we have picked up gives Joe Gordon a good year, possibly a big year, with Cleveland pitching al ways umScious. me ueveland outfield, out-field, however, is below par. The Tiger infield isn't any too hot, although al-though Kell is close to being the best third baseman in the league. The main job, of course, is suppressing sup-pressing the Red Sox, with Ted Williams, Wil-liams, Tex Hughson, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky! The vote, at this moment, is Cardinals Cardi-nals vs. Red Sox. The next vote is Dodgers vs. Red Sox. 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