Show OLIVER f TWIST by Arrangement Arrangement Arrangement Arrange Arrange- ment With Jackie Coogan Coogan Coogan Coo- Coo gan Productions from the Screen Version of Charles Dickens Dickens' Fa Famous Famous moua Work Released I Iby by Associated First Na Na- i I Ii By WALTER ANTHONY Chapter II TEARS AND MOURNING And thus taken into the ahe berry entourage Oliver learned earned how life ended lle before ore he really had learned the way it should begin Tears and mourning were easy for him to disclose and assume for of such had his life been fabricated Thus he proved a great comfort to Mr even though the worthy Mrs 1 resented the now contented it itself itself itself it- it self with something like gratitude on the leavings of the family table twice removed removed once once from the n he table of the and once from the table of Noah and Charlotte For Noah being naturally resentful of Olivers Oliver's obvious superiority of mind and spirit and vain of his own superiority physically constituted himself the Loys Loy's tormentor and dail daily aggravated the miseries miseriE's of the lads lad's lads life by impositions recklessly cruel But nut one day young Noah bi bigand big bij and bully that he was overstepped the bounds of safety Little Oliver was laboriously scrubbing the stone floor of the basement in which the cooking was done and Noah was seated at the table watching with amorous gaze the tho ungentle Charlotte Charlotte Charlotto Char- Char lotte lotto as she attended to the preparations preparations preparations prepa prepa- rations for the next meal The question of Olivers Oliver's dubious e was one ono that Noah liked most to dwell upon with ever in increasing Increasing increasing In- In creasing malice Hey who WUI your mother I dont don't know Sir my mother is la dead said Oliver pausing at his work Dead huh commented Noah a sneer on his face good thing she he is b. is Ill I'll bet she a bad t Crimson with fury Oliver started I r up the heavy drenched cloth in his hia I hand hl In size he compared with Noah as David to a Goliath He lie hit hu his Ill enemy quite as all squarely with the sodden rags the weight of which toppled the unsteadily poised Claypole who chair and all all fell to the floor his head somewhat fortunately fortunately for for- for Oliver submerged in inthe inthe inthe the water that filled tilled the tub that the smaller boy had bad failed to move In Inan Inan Inan an instant the maddened Oliver raging within was upon the helpless help less Noah What might have happened happened hap hap- Js to a problem for prophets but fortunately for Noah Charlotte voiced her fears in such luch lusty manner manner man man- ner that appeared forthwith That worthy gentleman snowing knowing owina more of the business of emba embalming 4 bod bodies than of truth took circumstantial evidence for fsr what the sputtering pole Clay nde it worth and consigned Oliver to the c hole coal al hol beneath the sidewalk left him there with the terror in information that on the morrow back to t the e Workhouse hed he'd got EOJ Bad nad as were his circumstances with Mr 1 they were better better better bet bet- ter than they were at the Workhouse Workhouse Work Work- house reflected reflect the forlorn Oliver who though he had not the ironical wit to voice the fact yet dimly realized realized realized real real- that it was better for him that Upper picture shows bow Fagin Falin Lon Chaney Chancy instructing attracting Oliver Twist Jackie Jackl Coogan in iD the gentle art of picking pockets pocket lower left shows bow Oliver asking kine for more and aDd lower lowr right i is I. a alikeness likeness likened of Oliver Olier Twist a at de de- depicted depleted b by little Jackie Jackl I he stay at berry and attend others others' funerals than go back to the Poorhouse and straightway attend his own own I Ilie He lie would have been more than ever convinced of the righteousness of this conclusion had he be known that Mr Bumble ensnared quite as aa much of the Widow Corney's Carneys nap ery cry silverware and personal be belongings be be- longings as al of her ample self sell had boldly proposed and had been not at all to his w. own surprise enthusiastically enthusiastically enthusiastically accepted Wh Why not notT Nature in her most evil moods had never c contrived a pair of such lach exquisite min fa hypocrisy cruelty If It Oliver's Olivers zeal real to escape the Workhouse as had bad been quickened bythe by bythe bythe the knowledge of t th the e union or er malignant malignant malignant ma ma- influences at the Poorhouse it might have been given pause could he have known that a at aS the very time of f his midnight Cogitations cogitations cogitations while seated on the pile pUe of coal that sprawled over the floora floor floor- a nurse was dying at the Workhouse Workhouse Work Work- house bouse and confessing to Mrs Corney Corney Corney Cor- Cor ney now shortly to become Mrs Mra Bumble The latter had been un un- i E Y p a IS Tay o h 1 ii ti d r m r alq i A a toss Ii r r lz 4 yr sets ceremoniously torn tern horn from a tote tete a tete with her swain to attend the aged woman who lay stricken on the very bed where but a few short years ago her withered hands had swaddled the infant Oliver and had robb robbed d the young woman whose departing de parting soul had scarcely time to say hail bail and farewell to the arriving arriving ar ar- riving soul of her babe baba For the nurse was indeed con confessing teasing as best she could on the few inhalations that were left her hei herin in a world of sinI sin v vI I charge you Matron Corney Carney she whispered find Oliver I did him a great wrong I stole stele a rin ring g and a locket from rain his dying mother I pawned them though they we wethe wen the only evidence to prove who h his is la and who his father was r them theat it if it Isn't too late and restore Oli Oliver to his hla rights 1 Promise ron se me you'll do do this I cannot die in peace peace ace unless y you u do Had Mrs Mra Corney the imagination I of a dumb animal or the conscience of a serpent sh she might have been affected af- af af affected f- f by this confession and even thus tardily have brou brought ht Oliver into into into in in- in- in to the Ule haven of his hb proper environ environ- ment But fortunately or not Oliver knew nothing of all this thus as be he here reflected reflected re on his lot and contemplated a means of escape for he had ob- ob observed observed ob ob- served two items of an equation that might conclude in his release release- th the pile of coal and the hole coal-hole inthe in inthe inthe the sl si sidewalk above him He reasoned reasoned reasoned reason reason- that ed th that t where a load of coal could be put in a II boy could get out andin and andin andin in that faith proceeded to heap up the coal until its peak was as high as the supply of fuel would provide He found that by standing on the top he be could just reach to the aperture aperture aperture aper aper- ture now covered but not locked save by its own weight By ny dint of great exertion much per perspiration and some some- prayer the prayer the trilogy of causes invariably conducive to success suc sue cess cess he he managed to lift lUt the metal lid and slide sUde it over onto the sidewalk sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk far enough to permit his egress It was dawn The light of a gray day was breaking in the east Without Without Without With With- out kno knowing whither Oliver ran r ran n to- to towards towards to to- wards the suburbs of the t Ills rs was s to get away from I and the Work Work- house L Later ter hed he'd direct dil his bis course t to London to-London London Of Olivers Oliver's adventures mishaps and miseries trudging his way way towards towards towards to to- wards the city of his dreams we shall shan not write but will win be content if something said in these in inadequate made de quate terms would direct the reader to the masterwork of which this is but the poorest dilution and attenuation attenuation atten atten- and to the play picture-play which visualizes them in vivid and stirring screened images Early on oLn on the seventh morning of his toilsome journey Oliver limped slowly ito into the little town of Bar Bar- net The sun suit was rising in all its splendid beauty but the light only served to show the boy his own desolation desolation desolation des des- as he be sat sat with bleeding feet upon a cold door He lie had been sitting thus for a long time when he observed that a boy who had passed some somo minutes before had returned and was surveying him studiously Hello Bello my covey what's what th throw the therow therow row he asked in rather language Im very tired and hungry answered answered an an- Oliver frankly Ive been walking seven days Going to London Yes Yea Got any lodgings s 1 No Money loney I IThe No The boy whistled and gave cave himself himself himself him him- self up to reflection Finally he said Dont fret yourself your your- self on that score Ive I've got to be bein bein bein in London tonight and I 1 know amerry a amerry amerry merry old gentleman as 8 lives there give you lodgings for if any be he knows inter inter- daces duces you And doesn't he know me Oh Ob no not I Not in the least I Byno By Byno no means Certainly not noti For r reasons L' L li vUe be not completely com com- J revealed The Artful Deer Pods Pods- er preferred to mute make his official appearance in London after night had fallen I C To be Continued |