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Show THE Thursday, July 3, 1941 vAo.. r Harry McClure Pugh happy-go-luck- y i Mary Etta was already moving into the living room. Laura put her hand on Tom's arm. She did not mean to detain him more than a minute. Mary Etta was suspicious private conversations between her husband and his mother. She had been determined when she married not to be "mother-in-lawed"Isn't business any better, Tom?" asked Laura. "Better I haven't made enough this week to resole the shoes I've worn out." "I'm sorry." "But Mary Etta's raking It in, so I should worry." Again Laura winced. But she said nothing. Because there was absolutely nothing to say. And Mary Etta was already glancing toward them with narrowed eyes. According to her philosophy, a man's mother made trouble between him and his wiie if she could. Mary Etta was exactly like a prickly cactus. Ready to stab at the least excuse. She was determined to have from life exactly what she demanded of it. And yet in spite of her clipped efficiency, Laura had occasionally glimpsed something in Mary Etta's defiant black eyes that resembled panic, absurd as that seemed in connection with her. She was private secretary to Harvey Cobb Leigh, one of the most Howerful cogs in state politics. He was also a contractor in a big way. And he accumulated money with very few scruples about honesty. Mary Etta had gone straight from a business course in high school into his office. She had brains and she could keep her mouth shut. When she married Tom she was already handling most of her employer's private correspondence. Tom had not wanted her to go on working. Mary Etta had pointed out the folly of doing anything else. She was earning almost as much as Tom in the big real estate agency where he was learning the business. He planned to start for himself eventually. But, as Mary Etta said, he lacked capital. She saw no reason why they should skimp along on next to nothing when she could drag down a monthly salary check. So she didn't resign. And she announced that she did not intend to until Tom's earnings took a decided turn for the better. Unfortunately they traveled in the opposite direction. The depression knocked the bottom out of the real estate game early. From being on a fairly decent salary, Tom was reduced to a strict commission basis. This during the past year had all but dwindled to a thin mist There was no longer any question of Mary Etta's resigning her position. For months Tom had been coming to the point where he could contribute nothing to their common expenses while Mary Etta's salary continued to increase. Laura knew the situation was blistering Tom's sensitive male pride. "Oh, hello, Shirley," murmured Mary Etta as her husband's older sister appeared in the doorway. Mary Etta did not care for Shirley. She bluntly said that she thought Shirley belonged in the lavender and old lace school. But Kathleen got on better with her sister-in-laMary Etta held Kathleen at arm's length as she did all her inlaws. But she did not take It as a personal Insult if Tom asked Kathleen to look them up when she was in town. Mary Etta herself never proffered such an invitation. Of course she worked and she and Tom efficiency In an had only a apartment hotel and took most of their meals out But, as she bluntly explained. It wasn't that Mary Etta to be used as a just did not propose convenience by her husband's family. Kathleen, eyeing her brother's wife, wondered as she had before how Tom ever came to fall in love with anyone who made such an art of ." ' one-roo- m of being thoroughly unpleasant Privately Kathleen thought Tom was getting fed up. And she didn't blame 'him. He looked as if he had been on a steady diet of cockleburrs. "Hello, Kits. Gunning for big ' , game?" ht asked with a grin. Kathleen made a face at him. "It all depends on how you feel toward Mamma Newsum," she said, then squeezed his arm. "Shi Here they come. My sainted cow, doesn't she look like Mrs. Astor's pet horse?" The Newsums were just emerging from their handsome closed car. Jaird gave his mother his arm. Shir ley, looking out the window, felt the little wayward jerk which the sight of him always gave her senses. He was probably in no way extraordinary, but he always seemed so to her. Just Jaird with his clean-cu- t profile and steady blue eyes, yet he represented ail of heaven and bell to Shirley Maguire. His mother was mincing along In evening slippers that were a size too snail. Her gray chiffon gown was expensive, but she could be depended on to spoil the effect of any costume by adding a jarring note. tn this case It was the hug pink SEWING CIRCLE " Service The Story So Far W. N.U. STilGESCREEN RADIO fix a flat tire for her and kisses her. He tells her he Is a newspaper man out of Job. The Brat to arrive for the dinner are Laura's son. Tom. and his wife. Mary Etta. Kathleen course you wear the bolero with it on the street. Pattern No. 1359-is a tried and true design for the ideal warm weather dress. It has everything; youthful lines, back Enmeshed by Habit opening which makes it easy to Habit is a cable; we weave a no which details fussy get into, thread of it every day, and at last take time to iron. Horace we cannot break it. Make this dress in any of the Mann. washable sports fabrics; cottons, linens, rayon. Percale, dimity, chambray, broadcloth are particularly recommended. Bolero can Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL match the frock. The frock in a a solid print and the bolero in color is also a smart effect. By VIRGINIA VALE B (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) characteristic of Metro I T'S that "The Yearling" was abandoned, after all the slid out the door. At money that had been spent breakfast Laura had been impres vesive about the solemn significance on the of the occasion. But Mike was just hicle for Spencer Tracy. we won't as likely as not to forget to come Some studios to dinner when there were guests. would have them name But to her relief as she came down gone ahead and shoved it through, the hall Kathleen heard his voice and then tried by ballyhoo to con at the rear. He usually came in vince the public the side door because there was a that it was all it short cut across a vacant lot that It's ought to be. saved time from his office. said that $500,000 "Dad!" she called imperiously. had been spent on "Don't you realize you've only ten the production beminutes to make yourself presentafore it was called ble?" off for the time beShe jerked open the screen door ing. Maybe it will as she spoke. She meant to chase made really be Mike up the rear stairs as quickly "next year," may. as possible. Only it wasn't Mike be it won't But if into whose arms she catapulted. it is to be produced "Oh!" cried Kathleen. It'll be done as Spencer Tracy then, well as it can be. "Exactly," grinned the black-heade- d man in faultless white flannels. Appearing in an Orson Welles pro duction seems to bring actors more "Kathleen," beamed Mike Maguire, "this is Ritchie Graham, a luck than rubbing dozens of rabbits' gentleman and a scholar after my feet Five of the players in Welles' own heart." superb "Citizen Kane" have picked Kathleen stared into the sardonic up RKO contracts, and now Anne gray eyes of the irritating young Burr, leading lady of Welles' Broadman who had rescued her from the way play, "Native Son," has signed ditch and kissed her and laughed with the same studio. She was a about it The man she had most fashion model for eight months, an extra in "Quiet City," then did radio ardently desired not to see again. "I've brought him to dinner," an work and a year ago played in stock. nounced her father with triumph. Samuel Goldwyn feels that Gary "I hope it is all right. Miss Ma after "Sergeant York" and guire," murmured Ritchie Graham. Cooper, He was grinning. He knew she "Meet John Doe," 1 was furious. So did Mike. And they has been serious long enough. So both laughed. They were undoubted he's slating the tall ly soulmates, thought Kathleen with star for a comedy helpless rage. Even though they did role in a story about not look a lot alike. Mike was almost as tall and lank as his guest a college professor and a burlesque Only he was fair. He had a thin. It will be showgirl. blue that eyes face, clever, boyish were irrepressibly gay, and a droll the second of the mouth. His crisp russet hair was Goldwyn productions to be released lightly grizzled at the temples. He was forty-fivbut he carried on his by RKO Radio. The will be "The Cooper years as insouciantly as he did ev first Little Foxes," with Gary erything else. one of should be it Bette Davis I suppose both of you would go will be another into a decline if I said it isn't all her best The third Like Ned you would," Gary Cooper production, "The Singright. and the Gold," a story of the growled Kathleen. "Do come in and ing original Dutch settlers on the Hudstop cluttering up the door sill." son. Mike sniggered. "Don't mind the kitten's claws," he admonished his For the first time in her career "She only scratches companion. will appear under the Claire to Come those she loves. up my banner Trevor r. Metro-Gol- d of "while slick'down I room, my boy, second romantic lead She the has these old gray locks." to Lana Turner in "Honky Tonk," Kathleen stood at the foot of the in which Clark Gable is to be stairs and glared after them. How starred. on earth was she going to tell Laura that as usual, Mike had spoiled ev Harpo Marx, who has just finished erything by one of his preposterous "The Big Store," with his brothers, in behalf of a perfectly gestures tour of Mrs. Newsum was making like a man who had no earthly la planning a nation-wid- e strange hip in full sail for the love seat. business to have precipitated him- army camps. That should be good self into an already overstrained news for the men at many of the thing to fill up the wall space. So situation. camps, who bewail the fact that Laura had. trusted to luck and their only diversion is Grade B pushed it back into the most inaccesmovies, old ones, the best that they CHAPTER VI sible corner. Only of course if there can find at near-b- y towns. was any weakness in the enemy's As a matter of fact the crisis armor. Belle Newsum could be Recently when Carole Lombard trusted to discover it Laura bad a resolved itself without fatalities. It bad to rehearse a radio sketch, sow to Mike was exactly like draghorrible vision of Jaird's mother beClark Gable drove to the studio to ing precipitated into the middle of ons' teeth and reap love apples. Just take her home. Autograph seekers the floor and refusing to trust her as Kathleen was turning back to the besieged her, but they missed him. living room the telephone rang. weight again to anything in the MaHe was sitting 10 feet away in a house. was But Alex Kathleen "Kathleen?" caught guire speaking station wagon, and had been for a a the storm signal and acted. and his voice was trine thick, half an hour with a two-da- y growth "Dear Mrs. Newsum," she ex- bit inclined to run up the scale at of beard, and dressed in the old claimed rather breathlessly, "what the end of words. "Tell Mother I work clothes he'd been wearing on do you think of the plans for the can't make it for dinner." bis ranch. June fete?" "Alec! How could you?" to run do the a rat Quite dexterously she interposed "Sure. I'm Lonisiana seems to be a favorite her slim self between the lady and out when she s staging a lamuy for the movies right now. aetting the point of collapse. Mrs. Newsum, shindig. But that's how It is. And The revamped "Sunny," in which delighted to be allowed to tell about you can't do anything about it So Anna Naegle stars, offers mild enthe very important committee of take the air." tertainment with that background. which she was a member, permitted "I'm not talking about that You Paramount Is getting "Louisiana herself to be ensconced in a sub- know what.I mean." Purchase" under way by rounding stantial wing chair. And Laura "Do I? What of it? You don't need up Hollywood's 12 most beautiful while with sighed exquisite relief to tattle to Mother, do you?" girls for the screen version of the Kathleen winked at her over the I shan't She still highly successful musical. The "Don't worry. guest of honor's elaborately mar thinks you are worth getting all same studio announces that Ellen celled head. Kathleen hot and bothered about" Drew and Robert Preston, who were "Shirley, whispered Jaird in a replaced the receiver. She teamed in "The Night of January voice that was not quite steady, "do soberly and Alec had fought from the time 16th," wlU be paired again in you remember that you were wear were both in rompers. There "Mirdl Gras Murder." they kissed first I the blue ing night were less than two years between you?" their ages. To the casual observer Mickey Rooney and Sidney Miller Did she remember? Shirley looked seemed always at the point of roll a piano onto the set when they down at the soft clinging folds of they trewere Actually they begin a new film together and start her blue lace gown. She looked mayhem. mendously fond of each other. And done six stately and a little a loot Like a girl Kathleen, although she had no in- writing so song. andThey've written and had far, pictures in a painting. Very cool and re of telling Laura so, was published five songs. Now they're mote. And not quite real. But in tention heartsick about Alec. He had been at it again. side she was a cauldron of seething That was why he was not emotions. Did she remember? Her drinking. up for dinner. That meant showing The new arrangements heart sobbed. It said all sorts of he had been somewhere with Myra Fred Waring is featuring are plotfrantic things. But her lips only Boone. ted by Eric Siday, who studied to smiled very faintly. d "Darn cradlesnatchers with be a concert violinist and won an "Yes, I remember," said Shirley hair and motheaten morals!" award as the best amateur violinist as if it did not matter. under Kathleen her in England. Swing enthusiasts rave muttered Jaird locked white and baffled. breath. about them, as played by Siday and Belle of under the cover Laura, She couldn't see how Alec could Ferne. But Siday'd rather have ap Newsum's tiresome monologue on her own prominent connection with bo that sort of thing. It was such a preciation for his skill at table teall prominent social functions in pity he had to finish school the year nnishe's an expert at it. new electrical engineers were Covington, managed to whisper to brand a drug on the Industrial market. Kathleen. ODDS AD ENDS That recent "Where on earth do you suppose Alec was a bundle of nervous ener- appearance of Mrs. Eleanor Koosevelt't suited for anygy. He was better on Hess Johnson's radio program, "The your father Is? thing on earth than Idleness. Mike Story o Hess Johnson, aroused such Kathleen spread her hands hope tried to find him something to interest that the first Ijady may play e lessly. "Heaven alone knows. Want had do on the newspaper. But Alec hated repeat performance . . . The new Dr. me to see If he can be located?" "Mary created to make things Kildare film will be called "He's got to be," groaned Laura. It He was Day" . . . Craig U ood, winto write up the exploits Names the IV41 not happen, chamS. U. "Hulda can't hold dinner forever. the Coif ner of Open of others. With no outlet for his dywill be featured in an HKO pionship, the to make wheels go I'alhe namic desire Spftrtscope . . . Kay Kayer will faster Alec was, or so it seemed to play a Shakespearean ham actor in hit Kathleen, cooking up a merry little next picture . . . Seems Greer Garson't hell all his own, aided and abetted hair is "Florentine red" see for yourMrs. Boone, a self in the technicolor "lllotsoms in the by the worldly IhtsC . . . Don I miss ,4h!otl end wealthy divorcee thirteen ears hi laugh. in "In the Naty." It' Camellias on a bosom that was already overshelved. "How do you do, Laura? How very pretty you look," murmured Mr. Blake Newsum while his wife stiffened. It was not an auspicious opening as Laura knew. She wished the gentleman would keep his gallantry at home. But Jaird's father was never one to catch nuances. He beamed on Shirley and from her to Jaird who had taken Shirley's hand was looking down at her wih an expression that for a moment made of her heart a delirious singing bird. "Handsome couple," murmured Mr. Newsum. "I always said so." His wife gave him one of those looks meant to drop a husband in his tracks. And Laura nervously flung herself into the breach. "What a perfectly charming dress. Belle." "Do you think so?" murmured the lady, slightly mollified. "Who could help it?" contributed for Laura. Tom, Mrs. Newsum was making like a ship in full sail for the love seat in one corner of the room. It was the most uncomfortable piece of furniture in the house and unless sat in at just the right angle it had a horrifying trick, due to weak underpinnings, of closing up under an occupant It really should have been relegated to the dust heap weeksago, only there just hadn't been any- Pa ire Seven PATTERNS tan INSTALLMENT FOUR Mike MaThe Magulres re giving a dinner lngton's wealthiest citizen. for the Newsums. Shirley Magulre and editor and guire Is a Jalrd Newium are engaged but Mrs. mayor ol the town. Kathleen, younger Newsum would like to see her son daughter. Is furious at Mrs. Newsum's marry Connie Mays, daughter ol Covpatronizing airs. A stranger had helped CHAPTER V NEI'fU. UTAH TIMES-NEW- Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1359-- is in sizes 12, 14. 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements arc 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) dress requires ZVs yards fabric, bolero jacket US yards. outline takes 4 yards. 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