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Show saw By VIRGINIA by W.siern R.l.aa.4 HAROLD CHANNING WIR i ; He had turned Into VALE Nrtppf Ginger Rogers Tender WN.U.AIUAII beaver this old coon never did cot- ton to. Clay Manning. And that Stev young un of Tom Arnold. waa It him night rldin up Crazy Woman Creek not two hour after the bank waa robbed. Him and four strangers here? Seems Lka I was camped on Crazy Woman then. Lew stared at him. "The bank In rade " may not Academy award, as tee t'num. new Com- - hr an ready for bed. Kitty the dark toward his unrolled blan-ketwhen something tailed past Even thos name that meant 10 Foyle did, but RKO is doing much have vanished now, o that him and fell with a soft thud. best swing that coveted He stooped and pushed the you will look In vain for Ox Bow or honor her way. Tender Comrade ends of cottonwood together Dripping Spring or the valley of the ;wljj gjj0wn at two theateri In Los Little Comanche on any recent map. and crouched there, waiting. It wai UngCjfI on December 29, though Us not until the little flame leaped up, And It ii hard to believe that thi national release is not scheduled till land, where flashing beacorn now aheddlr.g a wide circle of light, that guide the roaring course of planes a figure sterped from the shadow. Ox Bow? Willy nodded. "But was a man to by night, and by day motorcars dart Even then he didnt move. He aat some trouble now hed see why hunt miles Nickle, endless atiU, Willy across its wholly watching effortlessly d was then but a wild and rolling feeling aa he always did that tins so many Cross T horses go was a ghost shape from out of a far-of- f up Crazy Woman. That prairie of buffalo grass, and a Jour would be at nighttime, early. past ney of any length had no certain He came forward silently on deer Tonight? ending, and aU of a restless nation skin moccasins with high tops laced "No, already made It. Waa some seemed to be following the sun in mad race set off by the cry, "Go halfway to his knees, a small, thin, gunshot late this afternoon which man, ageless. Long must have hurried em. If it was West, young man, go West!" not fragile-lookinchestnut hair brushed his shoulders, this nigger tomorrow going down sixty years ago. but his checks and chin were shaved the valley hed keep to the east side. Tills was a time of new and un Ilia face was very dark, yet Thats talk, though. Maybe some clean. PullmHn believable happenings. aort wouldn't listen. Golden Palace cars were running oddly smooth and as gentle as for the childs "Maybe he wouldn't, Lew agreed except quick sharp, red to with their the clear Pacific, and smiled. "Maybe he'd like to velvet curtained windows, their gas brightness of its small gray eyes. 'How are you, Willy? Lew said know. lamps that made the coaches as "He'll find tracks then. Willy ofand got no answer. His only greetroom brilliant as a ladies drawing and their sleeping compartments in ing was a nod as the old man came fered. "They're plain enough. But which many women still refused to from the ahadowi with an ancient was It me I'd have old SUverbell undress when going to bed at night needle gun cuddled like a baby here ready." He stroked the slender barrel of his needle gun. Three thousand Negroes were across his thin chest Through a little silent time, while March. Thia bit of maneuvering Always it was not until three deep marching afoot from Alabama, with their women and children and half puffs of kinnikinnick hit old Willy's Willy Nickle' head drooped and he makes it eligible for an Oscar this starved dogs, to claim the forty brain with their terrific force that seemed to doze. Lew sorted out the year. Ginger plays a war bride who takes a Job In a plane factory while acres of land and the span of mules talk seemed jolted out of him. Even old mans Information. He felt a grimly troubled mean- her soldier husband Is at the battle-fron- t. which the state of Kansas promised. then it was veiled talk of his own Boxcar emigrant trains rolled out strange kind. You never learned ing in that none of these things had of the East one upon another, spew anything from Willy Nickle by blunt- been In Tom Amold'a letter. The A radio counterpart of filmdom's bank In Ox Bow belonged to Arnold; lng settlers along the way, and the ly asking questions. Awards is broadcasting's Academy took his lifted and its three lie he could be puffs knew, pretrobbery, Pittsburg wagons lum the "Radio bered West behind their ox teams, his head and looked sharply all ty bad. What puzzled him, wholly newest wrinkle. Titled hour-lonbroad-loos- e P81the was this business of to meet not a barren prairie but around him. unexplainable, ,s ach over heard cast Sunday he said It 'WcU!" horses being run up Crazy suddenly. the red swarms of Texas longhorns His Woman to the Staked Plain. If it ,ul1 Blue network- - with the editors has been some. I do say! coming up from the South. Varicy magazine selecting the was rustling. Arnold or his fore-o- f For this was a time when the man squinted gray eyes came back. A year now come man. Clay Manning, should be more loPnotch acts from screen, stage, Lew nodded. in the saddle was king of the plains A year In calf time, he said. watch than that The trail drive dio and tte concert halIs of tte world and prairie; all others were would need every saddle animal the for presentation during that time. beneath him, to be swept aside Cross T had. And Steve . . . by the relentless march of his trail The management of Washington, "Willy, he asked, "youre sure D. C.s Constitution Hall Is regardherds. Ten million Texas longhorns it was Steve riding that night of the that had run wild since the Rebeling Alec Templeton with something lion were finding a market in the robbery? akin to awe. The CBS "Carnival" Old Willy opened one eye. "Cer- star broke all e recahipping towns of the new railroads; existing tain, he said and closed it. a thousand cattle ranches were beords when he appeared there In coThere was no answer to that ncert It was the first sell-oening made in the new lands of Montana and Wyoming, where cattle Even gagement in seven years, and the Things happen in a year. had never been before. Up that twelve months ago. Lew remem- first time an artist has been asked trail, twelve hundred miles long, urn bered, Steves young rebellion bad to return In the same season. checked by storm or drouth, by rovturned into violent ways. He was coming back, perhaps, ing bands of Comanches or the Dinah Shores picture career, the barbed wire of the Just in time. For he and Steve bad coming bard on the becls of her great flood poured northward, a milgrown up together in a close com- sensational success in radio, is movlion head in a single year. panionship, more confiding than be- ing to fast that her films cant keep This was a time of a young mans tween father and son. Everything up witb her. Her first, "Thank Your Tom Arnold had built here in Texas Lncky Stars, opportunity. Whatever a man was is now showing was planned around his boy. Still throughout the conntry, her second going to be depended only upon himself. there was that antagonism between will be released In February, Just g nature as shes starting her fourth meanthem, a reckless, In the upper valley of the Little fighting the strict, unsparing one ol while her popularity on the air inthe mam Comanche that night only one campcreases daily. fire pierced the blackness, a small Inevitably Steve brought up hie sister Joy. Lew bent forward and Don Ameche maintains that even one, glowing faintly where high rim-roc- k knocked his pipe out against his boot standing in line may prove to be guarded a narrow entrance toe. Behind all his thinking tonight lucky for the standee. He was' standdown from the vast empty reaches was one question. He asked it now. ing in a theater-ticke- t of the Staked Plain. line in 1928 Lew Burnet was cooking supper Willy, when did Toms girl mar- in Madison, Wis. The stock comover a cautious blaze. He had laid ry Clay Manning? panys star met with an accident, his cottonwood twigs together at the Willys head lifted. His gray eyes the manager recognized Don and "Never did. put him into the role. squinted brightly. ends, Indian fashion, spreading Theres been none of that on the them outward like the spokes of a It looks as if "No Time for Love Cross T. Why not, this child couldnt wheel. That way they burned with no smoke and a small flame, but say. But theres somebody could is going to be remembered along make a better man for her. Well, with the other delightful comedies made an intense point of heat bethat people laugh over years after he could! neath his pot of coffee. The coffee boiled and he pushed "No, Lew said. Its the sleek theyve seen them. And the heroine bucks they run to, Willy. You know of those films is likely to be either the pot back. A comb of antelope Jean Arthur or Claudette Colbert stood that. braised, propped ribs, already In a moment when the old mar This time its Claudette, playing a against a rock. A pile of stick bread Lew stared at him. "The bank stood up to go he knew there was photographer for a smart fashion lay at his knee. He tore the antelope no use offering a bed here. Willy magazine, falling in love with a ribs apart and fell to eating with the In Ox Bow? always slept alone. It might be ten husky lad (Fred MacMurray) whos hunger of a man whod had nothing Wyoming and they do say things miles from Dripping Spring or only a sand hog. since dawn. on the Little Cooff a hundred yards; he wouldnt His was a young face, with sober have happened been gone. manche since Ive Jane Withers, whos 17, has her know. strength in its long lines, but first So I guess, said Willy. "This important straight dramatic tramthe with ancient needle from the marked Standing strangely know. gun cuddled again across his chest, role in 10 years in Samuel Gold-wypling hoofs of an outlaw horse years nigger wouldnt The North Star. He knew all right. There wdte Willy took that quick glance all Though There was left now only a ago. 30 pictures since her to in no made the beaver shes He cheeklonger trap him into the shadows. around great his crease from curved right South Park of Colorado, nor shaggy stepped back. "Raise your smoke," screen debut, and starred in most bone to his chin and a white cresherds of buffalo to follow north to he said, if youve a mind. Thai of them, she had to pass a strict cent close to the hairline of his forehead. Yet those first years when the headwaters of the Yellowstone, was his promise and Lew under- test, then another one, before she the wounds were raw and ugly had and the Mexican girls of Taos and stood. Hed not stray far from the was given the role; shes played in so many comedies that Goldwyn left another mark. He had never Santa Fe could not lure old Willy Little Comanche for a while. more. Lew broke camp in the dark next wasnt sure she could do it. forgotten how the girls turned from any Lew waited, smoking and feeling morning, saddled while his coffee him, shocked, and he had underRKOs "Higher and Higher, the kinnikinnick already start to boiled, and in the cold sharp gray oi stood. A sensitive nature protects itself spin his head. It often seemed a daylight he was traveling south. Sinatra picture, will have a spectacular opening: it will have its first strange thing that he had been This was the end of a month-lon- g in deeply hidden ways, and this earof one out for Nicklea Willy trail. Even the tall black beneath showing on New Years eve in 50 ly accident had made Lew Burnot, picked RKO theaters in New York city, g more than he realized, a restless few friends. But it was so, a queer, him stepped out with a and Newark, N. J. The Westchester which he and work friendship, the red mule unspoken had all loyal, and lonely man. His knowledge, Broadway to regular opening will come now was need knew he with its white tarpaulin pack trotted going been mans work, hard and dangerlater. ous and single-handeat twenty-fiv- e more than ever. behind, needing no leash. The Little Comanche had changed he had bossed three great herds "Wyoming, Willy mused across At the cutting of the Command of longhorns up the trail from Texas the fire. "No place for a man now, even more, he saw. In his absence Performance transcription for the to Dodge and Ogallala. Even the but didnt me and Bill Evans find of a year. Once a man could ride overseas audience new ranch he had established in Wybeaver a heap there that winter? down this valley through waving Shots, in Hollywood with the Nation knee-dee- p A lot can I of smart sea tell bluestem on of in this had winter risen pretty you! grass oming past al Barn Dance cast for their Para-- ' his yision as a place only for himboys was camped on the Sweetwater a horse. But Tom Arnold, like ev- mount picture, wrote their autoand the way whisky flowed that time ery cattleman in Texas now, had self. in the books which Gracie was some. stocked his range beyond its limit in graphs was There had been too little informaFields These autocarrying. tion in Tom Arnolds letter. this mad race to supply the northern He "Still a good place, Wyoming, books belong to war orphans graph wanted more, even more, perhaps, Lew said and then brought Willys demand. The bluestem had vanin the Gracie Fields orphanage in than Arnold could give. A month wandering mind back to the Little ished, never to grow again. There England; the youngsters had specialago he had mailed a letter of his Comanche. They do tell me that was left only the short curly buffalc ly asked for those names. own south from Wyoming, and late Tom Arnold is moving his Cross T grass natures last stand even this afternoon, before coming down up there. Taking four thousand long- that showing great dusty patches. ODDS AND ENDS Probably the off the rimrock, he had stopped long horns up the trail this month, all the The Little Comanche could biggest surprise for fans teeing the enough to kindle a pillar of white way to the north. And Ive a letter wholly worthless In another five Amos V Andy show for the first time is smoke into the still air. He had to trail boss for him. Thats the years. the discovery that the stars look like an At least, he thought, he had ad for what the well dressed man should whipped his rawhide coat across it proposition. But theres Clay ManGrauer, who announces on twice, breaking it. If old Willy ning, Toms foreman now, whos learned that lesson, and his own wear "South American Good Neighbor Nickle had received the letter and been north once or twice himself land in Wyoming came into the drift- had stayed anywhere within twenty and could lead this herd maybe. ,lr- -miles of the Little Comanche he Then what am I here for? I dont gm now as b;; a originai penror film . . . When Irene sweet-gras- s v d ii see that signal and know this know. Things happen in a country country, ten thousand Dunne and Cary Grant headed the cast, acres he had got control of by plas- - all tickets for the Screen Guild Players when a mans been gone a year. meeting place. r E.it the "Well, they do! said Willy. He tering his homestead entries over weekly broadcast were gone six weeks passed and the advance . . . Captured German films night's hushed silence remained un- smoked thoughtfully for a moment, every water hole and spring. The broken. By the simple process of his thin cheeks making deep holopportunity was there for a big showing the rescue of Benito Ulusso-rancas big as Arnolds Cross T. lini by A. A?1'-- ! hMights a recent pulling off his coat and boots he was lows. Then he said, Thats one issue of RKO Palhe News. (TO BE CONTINUED) CHAPTER ruffle and matching bag. You can crochet both at little cost in spar moments. Use a short yam. STAGED SCREEN Pattern 639 contains directions for Sal and purse; tutche; Ust of materials needed. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more Uma la required In tilling orders for a few of the most popular pattern number. Send your order to: sii A a. 4 , ft ,4 , 00r A Vt A v'iA Seeing Circle Needleeraft Dept It) Minna ht Sa rraneUco, Calif. 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