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Show Thursday, May 20, 1937 THE To bell with the map!" Ham-mon- d broke forth angrily. "Certainly It's back of Wrangell. Maybe seventy-fivmiles, a hundred. I don't know." "Just below the Stikine river, against the Alaskan border," supman from plemented the "The newspaper said Winnipeg. so." "I suppose that makes it a fact," Hammond answered sarcastically. "Then why don't you go on to Wrangell by boat and up the Stikine river?" "You can't go up the Stikine this time of year," an outsider argued. "Might as well try to walk on Icicles." "Will you let me explain the setup?" Hammond Insisted. "If you go In by way of the Stikine, you've got to make nearly 200 miles and double back. You can't turn off that river runs through canyons almost to Telegraph creek 'way past the discovery. It's next to Impossible to cover the Stikine route on the Ice" "Boats make that river In the summer time," someone insisted. "Certainly; paddle wheelers. But this Isn't summer. The spring break-uin that country isn't due for months. Think that over." Then Jack Hammond stood silent, listening to the jangle of words about him. Men were arguing about whether or not the newspaper was correct, as If any Inaccuracy were a personal affront. All In an instant, the thought of gold had torn reason to shreds. Then Olson caught him by the arm and shot the question: "YabI If you can't go In by way of Wrangell, how do you go in?" "By Fourcross, if you want to be a fool and try It" "What's so tough about that?" "The weather," Jack Insisted. "You don't get any warm winds e red-face- d COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER COPYRIGHT-COUR.TNI- Y RYIEV W.N.U. SERVICE COOPER. CHAPTER I TIMES-NEW- S. NEPIII. UTAH "About the same as the la.t tin. I saw you when we made the rush together into Rouyn, in Quebec." "That's right Glad to see you again, Annie." "Thanks. That goes double. Prospector." Silence followed. For an instant Jack Hammond felt annoyed at this Then he dismissed interruption. her; It was only Around the World Annie, who bad made every Canadian gold rush of the last twenty years. Around the World Annie, with ber lore of frontier knowledge, her Inevitable thickness of paint and mascara and garish clothes, ber log cabin at the edge of camp with its dance ball, illicit drinks, lti screaming phonrgraph "Living here, are you, Annie?" Hammond asked at last Around the World Annie straightened. An effulgent woman, with what might be called an figure, she groomed a loose fold of dress, diamond-fingerea and raised hand to restrain a whlsp of bleached hair, wilting with the dampness of the incessant rain. Then, with a jerk of her head, she Indicated a group of dance hall glrU who stood in a nearby doorway, as though they had been herded, all of them on a work train. Left note for you though, Mr. Hammond." Jack Hammond reflected, as he Jack unfolded the scrawled letwalked up from the wharf, that ter that had been left by his bearded rain was Prince Rupert's most partner. It was brusque, and Jerkily bountiful crop. frank. He made the climb from the waI figured you might play the ter front and cut across the little fool"Well, it you ever got to Seattle and met terraced park, where totem poles that girl, but I never thought you'd spill the beam like you did. Why didn't you stood gleaming with moisture and wait until you hit the bush before grotesquely lonely. Everything you got drunk? There U beagain a thousand "Listen, Prospector," she asked, in mornfools Prince in this the up before Stikine dripped Rupert country "would I be chaperoning that gang break-up- . of out I'm here with k even the hitting stuffed discolored, ing, of girls if I was living here in supplies to get In there and probear in front of Al Monion's short tect our Interests before the rush starts. Prince Rupert?" trading store. At last Hammond See our lawyer and be sure our claims "But where are you headed for?" end leases are in good shape. Then come halted abruptly, looking over the on She grinned, the wrinkles therewith as as you can." supplies quick wooden fence of back yard. from creating deep creases in ber Hammond turned to the waiting Howls and whines had centered bis face enamel. attention. boy beside him and ordered his "I'm going where you're going. to taken room. bis Then he 'What are you trying to do with bags Sweetheart." beaded for the door; again on the that dog?" he asked. A man baited Hammond sighed. In his efforts to kick a harnessed street, he started toward a three-stor- y "I suppose you were on this mornbuilding a few blocks away. boat too." mongrel into progress along a ing's His course was a broken one. "Got on at Vancouver." muddy space before a makeshift he knew halted him Townspeople Hammond pursed his lips. He sleigh, weighted with stones. was becoming more philosophical. "Going to make a sled dog out to question the accuracy of newspaper stories which Jack Hammond of him." "I guess I missed a lot on that "That bozo? He hasn't got the had not seen. His evasiveness only boat." nettled them. weight for it." "Oh, you'll catch up with It all." "What if you haven't seen the She leaned closer. "Just tell me "Oh, he's pretty strong." The man grinned. "Say, they'll be buy- newspapers?" they asked. "You this much. You're going on, on tomorrow morning's train, aren't ing anything where this dog's go- made the discovery. The Vancouver papers have been full of it You you?" ing!" know all about It what's the use For the first time that morning. "Where's that?" The pseudo - trainer Jerked his of trying to keep it a secret?" Jack Hammond truly smiled. "Yes. Annie," he said. "You head toward the white pinnacles of Soon a crowd had gathered about him. Hammond fenced frantically. distant mountains. might as well pass the word along. A big man, with a faint break of I guess the secret's out" "Over the hills there In B. C," "You're right it's out!" agreed the man said, "up the Caribou riv- accent in his voice, poked a wed-ohe face close to Annie. She patted him on the shouler, somewhere around the valley of to that of Hammond. der. "Well, I'll be seeing you." the Stikine. Haven't you heard "My name's Olson," he anThen with a grandiloquent wave, about it?" "I've got a map here she summoned her followers from Hammond's features had become nounced. suppose you point out the place to the doorway. strangely grim. Ui." Hammond walked on, to the sting "What's going on?" Hammond pulled at his breath. of fine rain against his face. The "Where've you been that you "Maybe I'd better," he agreed. smile had vanisLd; gloominess had haven't read the papers?" taken its place. Everything had "On the Aleutian, coming up from Then, as Olson poked the map before him, "Didn't I see you on the looked so different down there in Vancouver." boat from Vancouver?" The dog trainer stared. Seattle, with Kay in his arms, and "Yah, you saw me," said Olson. the secret that he had promised his "The ship that got in this mornpartner to treasure flooding over ing?", he asked. "And you didn't "And a lot of others." d "Why didn't you come to me know about it? Then you must have lips. been deaf, dumb and blind. There then? I could have explained all Kay the thought of her electrified him. His brain suddenly shimwere plenty of others who came this to you maybe you wouldn't have been so anxious about getmered with a thousand disconnected on that boat just because of it." but glorious memories; blurs and "Because of what?" Jack Ham- ting off here." "You got off, didn't you?" asked figures from which only one mond's hands, where they gripped emerged clearly. It was that of the fence, were strangely discol- the man with the pack on his back. "That was enough for me," came Kay Joyce, golden-haire- d Kay, with ored. her blue eyes hypnotizing him, her "Well, if you ain't kidding the another voice. Then a short man, to "Yon Throw Us Didn't Try and with an excitable soft body against his as they gold rush. Two fellows found placer Off the Trail?" danced, or floating far away as all gold up there. A couple of guys manner, edged forward. "How about me? I saw the story from the Japanese current,' once the world became vague and named McKenzie Joe Britten and in a Winnipeg paper and took a you're over the Coastal range. It's dreamlike. Kay tight in his arms his partner. Jack Hammond." for Jasper Park. Then caught 35 and 40 below, all the way to the until he could see only the curve of "Oh, I see," said Hammond jerk-11;- -. plane the train up here." her forehead and the uplift of her Stikine." "Yeh, and I came from Prince "I know that" said Olson lacon- eyelashes. Or leaning on her el"Yeh." The volunteer trainer bows beside him, her hands crossed rubbed casually at the loose fur of George," cut in another member of ically. "But why fight the bush for 200 under her chin, her tantalizing lips his dog. "Guess they'd figured to the crowd. "I thought we'd go in Alaska around Wrangell." miles with dog team when in a curved in a challenging smile. Then keep it quiet, all for themselves, you from "Look here," asked Olson, "you few months, there'll be airplanes, or the soft touch of her thigh against know. But this Hammond goes down to Seattle to see some old girl he'd didn't try to throw us off the trail, easy travel along the river and his as the music started anew and they rose to the call of the dance been stuck on ever since he was a getting off here, at Prince Rupert?" mountain trails " Hammond spread his hands in a "Yah," said Olson, "and find all floor. kid. Then he got on a big bust and a mo- the claims gone." He stumbled and brought himself spilled everything. It's been in all gesture of disgust, and for "Or you've gobbled up the whole up short suddenly realizing that Sethe papers, I guess. Quite a ro- ment silenced them. "How in the world could I try to country through a set of dummies," attle was far away. This was Prince mance." man added. Rupert, bleak in the grip of a win"Yes, quite," said Hammond thin- throw you off, when I didn't even the "You can figure that out for your- ter rain, yet burning with the gold ly. "So everybody's figuring on go- know you were on my trail? None fever. of you came near me on the boat." self," Hammond answered abrupting up there, eh?" A girl was coming down the "Y a h," laughed Olson, "how ly, and shouldering through the "Everybody and his brother. That's why I thought I'd train this could we? You were In your cabin crowd, again moved up the street, steps; she had a hand to her throat, most of the time. Getting over leaving the throng muttering behind clutching it as if seeking, by muscudog." "That dog can't make the grade that head you must have had when him. But again, a bloek farther on, lar power, to overcome a desire to In the Stikine country. Zero's a hot you got aboard down at Seattle. his progress was halted. This time sob. Her face was bloodless; for an instant she looked at him, with day around there this time of year. Some time you had down there, it was a woman. No chest Thin legs. A light coat yah?" "Well, Prospector," she asked. hazel eyes in which burned the fever of desperation. Then bravely from being around this coast counHammond straightened. He "Can't you say hello?" d Hammond looked up into the fea- she straightened, and while he flathand and, try. No hair on his feet he'd last raised a about two days on the trail." removing his hat, allowed the cool- tures of a wrinkled person, valiant- tened himself against the scarred, "That ain't my worry. Let the ing rain to fall for a noment on ly battling her age with thick foun- plaster wall 01 the staircase, went fellow who buys him lose sleep over his dark, tousled hair. He regarded dation cream, high rouge, mascar-ae- d onward. In the glimpse of passing, Hammond could not help noticing eyes and a heavily that." He gave the dog a kick, the crowd which hemmed him in the spasmodic Jerk ol her othershouting: "Mush! Mush on, there!" with a look almost of pity in his mouth. Yet it was a sprightly face, blue eyes set in crows' feet of hu- wise fine lips, the tenseness of her, The dog's howls remained in dark eyes. "Listen, fellows," he began, "you mor and experience; lips which life the expression of gauntness with Jack Hammond's ears as he walked slowly up the street. So this was a don't know what you're getting into had hardened without leaving them which she faced the drizzly square of outside light. A moment more grim. this an echo of the by trying to beat that country." gold rush "But the map shows that it's just "Well, Annie!" he exclaimed. and she was gone. broken laughter and excited jabber-ing- s (TO BE CONTINUED) of himself and McKenzie Joe back of Wrangell," Olson insisted. "How are you?" Britten, one day last autumn, up twe in the y Stikine coun-H- r Then their discovery of placer gold, poor man's gold, eyiugget as it, is so often called, had brought great visions. Here was new money, waiting to be washed from the gravel of a river, and of value the minute it was found; no need for great shafts and expensive machin.n go hungty . . . men die . . . men surrender happiness to ery to extract this wealth. There had beer, big talk that day of what new gold meant to a waitsatisfy their lust for yellow metal! Up beyond the last outing world, the happiness it would post of northern British Columbia lies a desolate lake, once bring, the accomplishments. There , had been no thought of the greed, the site of feverish activity as civilization struck northward in the suffering, the jealousies and hatred which must inevitably follow. pursuit of wealtn. Learn the story behind this ghost town . . . He passed Al Monson's trading read "Poor Mans Gold," a chronicle of the search for love store and Ben Deacon's. Both were jammed with purchasers; many and riches starting in today's issue. Carefully written, authenhad the white faces of persons who nothing of wind or pelting ice tic in its representation of life among the surging streams kny cles, the whip of a blizzard or and treacherous njiountains, "Poor Man's Gold" comes from jlaze of sun on ice. Hammond tried to tell himself that it was none the popular pen) of America's foremost outdoor writer of his business. He entered the ho-- ! p Ka-dia- d over-dresse- d. fiSHSFP hard-skinne- d, liquor-loosene- fp red-face- red-face- d work-thickene- far-awa- GOLD . I : tel. j "Joe here?" he asked the clerk. "McKenzie Joe? No, he pulled out yesterday morning, all in a rush.""' "Down North?" "Didn't say. Must ..ave. Got out PAGE SEVEN COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER I SIT AT S DUST s For Dress and Utility Movie Radio Dy VIRGINIA VALE does Miriam BITTERLY regret the day last year when she told an interviewer that her judgment on screen stories for herself was infallibly bad. Whenever she gets balky about working in a picture selected for her, Sam Gold-wy- n reminds her of her own admission. Then he goes on to point out that she thought "Splendor" was a fine story and that she did not like "These- Three." The latter was her greatest success, "Splendor" brought nothing but complaints from the customers. - Recently she completed "Woman Chases Man" and at the preview the audience roared with delight so continuously that it was necessary to take it back to the studio and inVIIY MoUie R- - are sert some scenes to slow up the acout Wy0U going tion so that laughter would not again? My own mother drown out the good lines. has become a gadabout " ff I- and all because she herself such a pretty new gun to If you have ever wanted to be a made screen star, if you have ever even dress. visit then Star Is Born" longed to lywood, Hol- "A Is a will F7 picture you adore. It Is so InIt Is gratiating, hard to imagine not enjoy uanur it Janet I T7 i cuaim rie March play the roles of the girl who goes to Hollywood and makes good, Fredrlo the man who helps March her and who loses his public just as she is winning hers. An old, old story certainly, but presented in a fresh manner, with gay, bantering lines, gllmpes of studios and cafes and parties in Hollywood. Here Janet proves that she is a mature actress, not just an appealing Ingenue. There are delightful comedy scenes where Janet Garbo and broadly burlesques Crawford and Hepburn. Only the three or four ranking in any studio are given little stars Really, Ma, those soft graceful lines make you look lots slimmer. I think the long rippling collar has a good deal to do with it. ur maybe it s because the skirt fits where it should and has plenty of room at the bottom." "Yes, My Darling Daughter." "Daughter, dear, how you do run on! Imitate Sis; put your apron on and have the dusting done when I get back from the Civic Improvement League meeting. And speaking of aprons, that is the cleverest one Sis ever had. I love the way it crosses In the back." "So do I, Mom, and see how it covers up my dress all over. Good-bMom, have a good time." Sisterly Chit Chat. "Sis, run upstairs for my apron, won't you? I wouldn't have a spot on this, my beloved model, for all the world. It's my idea of smooth : all these buttons ; no belt ; these here new puffed sleeves; and this flare that's a flare." "Just you wait, Miss, till I grow up! Your clothes won't have a look in because I've already be- y, portable bungalow dressing rooms parked right at the side of the set where they are working, so Robert Taylor was rather surprised when he went out to work in "Broadway Melody" to find George Murphy and Buddy Ebsen occupying a most elaborate one. Seeking out the busiA General Quiz ness manager, he asked if he couldn't have a dressing room on WNU Service. Ben C Syndicate. the set since he had so many costume changes to make. "What's the matter with the one we gave 1. When was the "conscience you?" the business manager de- fund" in the United States treason out the manded angrily, stalking started? set. Then he spied Ebsen and ury 2.. How far away from the earth Murphy and bellowed: "Those is the nearest star? clowns are at It again." 3. From where was the inscription on the Liberty bell in PhilaWhen Lanny Ross abandons the "Proclaim liber"Show Boat" program shortly, delphia reading: land unto all all the ty throughout Charles Winninger, the original be- the inhabitants thereof" taken? loved Cap'n Andy, is expected to re4. From where did the word turn, but Eddie Cantor thinks that "geyser" come? to much will be busy Winninger 5. What is the size of Yellowmaking pictures. He says Winnin- stone National park? new In Cantor the ger Is a knockout 6. How many different types of picture "All Baba Goes to Town." holly are there? 7. What is the net area of naJames Stewart Is so worried for tional forests in the United will change their minds States? fear about lending him 8. What city is known as the to R K O to play City of Hills? opposite Ginger 9. 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