Show incidental MUM charam dederick ikic N THE supper room of the em 1 bassy hotel new years eve fes J tIvIt les were in full swing at tables encircling the dancing floor gay groups dined and made ready to welcome the new year tear and danced between courses to the music of the orchestra with a modernistic discord the band finished an encore fox trot and stanley allen alien and barbara langford returned to their little table for two behind a potted palm in a secluded nook well sald said stanley in a businesslike manner 1 11 I suppose you have your schedule of new resolutions all made out and sworn to do you think I 1 need to make any new resolutions this was asked archly teasingly 1 I certainly do I 1 stanleys Stan leys reply was emphatic you have one very bad habit that irritates we me beyond words without that babs you would be absolutely perfect 1 thank you kind sir she said babs mocked and may I 1 ask what that bad habit Is that Is devastating the whole countryside dont pretend you know well enough please verify then now look here stanley said as he drew geometric figures with a pencil on the tablecloth during this current year which Is about to come to a close I 1 have proposed to you just twenty six times an average of once every two weeks your bad habit Is JI q A V 14 V e P I 1 I 1 1 I 7 11 1 I move to lay the question on the table that you have refused me every time you should do something about it for every refusal as a you call it barbara reminded him there has been a proposal which makes your habit just as bad as mine in fact worse because you started yours first and mine was a natural consequence you mean unnatural consequence stanley corrected her well anyway barbara argued it if you will swear off your bad habit I 1 wont have to do anything about mine she glanced at him without raising her head and the mischief that looked up through her long curved lashes gave stanley a little start starl suddenly ho he said in the meantime I 1 move to lay the question on the table to be taken up right after this dance i lie he opened his arms to her as she arose 1 I second the notion motion she said carried about half way around the floor stanley spoke into the little ear so close to his face now you are just where you belong ills his a arm rm tightened just a little around her as lie he said it do you mean hero here at the embassy b a a 9 yr r more perverseness the orchestra stopped tor for intermission and the couple returned to their table stanley using a spoon tor for a gavel rapped lightly on the table the house bouse will now come to order and we will take up the previous question once more and for the last time this year will you marry me babs A soprano singing the vocal interlude with piano accompaniment while the orchestra went out for a smote smoke was wag singing 0 promise me there approved stanley nodding toward the music platform incidental music even the lady la is trying to help me out 1 barbara smiled but turned pensive the singer concluded her solo golo and began another yes said barbara slowly and she Is trying to help mei me too the second song was wag 1 I surrender dear stanley reached over and gathered barbaras hands into his own do you really mean it are you saying yes tes yes stanley arose glowing come lets go he said this Is I 1 no place for a newly engaged couple A trip to the check room then out under the canopy at the motor entrance stanley asked the footman to order his car As it came up they entered and the footman closed the door with a thank you sir air A happy new year P the chauffeur may have been listening but being discreet he be never mentioned it anyway had he been listening and his hearing perceptive he might have taken the sound of a kiss in the tor for a signal tor for the tha long blue car rolled away into a wonderful new year filled with golden promise tor for a young couple very much in love and as the car turned a corner there floated boated from the supper room of the embassy the compelling waltz strains of kiss me ale again more incidental music said bald stanley softly and played up to it completely ely D 1933 western newspaper union |