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NOVEMBER, 1942 November, 1942 Vol. 19, No. 1

THE MAGAZINE OF RADIO ROMANCES

CONTENTS

/ GOTTA PATE, MOM WHERE ARE YOU, DEAREST? 13 • ••I have to have Nox- He had to learn the truth before his soldier's leave was up zema for my Powder Base 14 — it gives such a smooth, WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY? bridal home-coming! long-lasting foundation; as This was her a night cream it helps WAIT FOR TOMORROW 16 smooth and soften my skin Begin reading this thrilling novel of a girl's heart-breaking problem — helps heal externally- 20 caused blemishes. LOVE IS FOR KEEPS Zelda suddenly realized the cruel thing she was doing LET YOUR HEART DECIDE 24 / OOTTA SHAVE, Now she was free to find love DON'T / ? ROAD OF LIFE—IN LIVING PORTRAITS 27 By special request—the people of this exciting radio drama YOUR HAND IN MINE 33 ... I can't do without Nox- Tragedy put Marie on the right road to happiness zema. It helps soften my ONE LIFE TO SHARE 37 tough beard, gives me a swell, The real life romance of Bill Stern, NBC's ace sports commentator cool, comfortable shave; and my skin doesn't feel tender PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY 40 marriage and sore afterward! Peggy chooses the memory of love rather than a broken BIG SISTER 42 Presenting, in portraits, the people of a famous radio story 'HIS" FAVORITE DESSERT 44 Kate Smith's special recipes to add perfection to your dinner

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// I may as well Work Overtime HOBBIES FOR -I never Have a Date!"

By DAVE ELMAN

Master of Ceremonies of the popular Hobby Lobby program, heard on CBS every Tuesday evening at 8:30 P.M., EWT, rebroadcast at 9:00 P.M., PWT.

CAN'T all take up arms WEagainst the Axis, but everyone can help in supplying our army with all the finest fighting equipment they've got to have to win this war. I know of no better—or more effec- tive—way of getting these materials to our sons, brothers, friends and fel- low Americans, than by the regular purchase of War Stamps and Bonds. And I'm speaking particularly to you people who want to buy war stamps and bonds but haven't the means with which to purchase them. ". Susie: . . so run along, Terry. your Terry: "Susie! What a dull night life for a Why not adopt a hobby for the dura- Keep tion which will help you get the date with dark and handsome! I'd just as pretty girl! If I told you what dims your money for war stamps and bonds? soon stay and work as sit at home alone!" glamor—you'd have scads of dates!" Odd? But not a bit! Take for instance little Bobby Ro- sengarten, of New York City. Bobby recently appeared on Hobby Lobby to lobby for his hobby of collecting junk. He called himself a "junko- logist" then, but now he's working for Uncle Sam! Bobby tours the city collecting junk . . . metal, paper, rubber, etc. The little fellow sells his collections and uses the proceeds to buy war stamps. I know makes beautiful ob- A man Susie: "An underarm odor girl—me! Why, "Pretty clothes and hair-dos don't mean jects out of ordinary pipe cleaners I bathe every day." much if underarm odor steals the show! . . . the kind you buy in any five and Resolved: Each day it's a bath for past per- dime or tobacco store. He twists, Terry: "But why expect your morning turns, cuts and pares the cleaners to bath to last all day! I play safe, with Mum! spiration—Mum to guard the future!" suit his purposes. Then he paints the cleaners in vivid colors and distri- butes them to his friends. His price ... a 25c defense stamp and up! I think you see what I'm driving at —making a hobby pay for your war savings bonds and stamps! But here are a few more things you can do: Do you own a movie camera? All right, when you show your films charge ten cents admission to your friends—they'll love to see them- selves "candidly" cavorting or you traipsing in Bermuda or points East. If you're lucky enough to be making colored movies, you'll have an easy time packing 'em in. How many of you women put up preserves every year? Couldn't you jar a little more than usual and dis- tribute the extras to friends for a MUM HAS the advantages popular girls want ^^scwtt*^ stamp? in a deodorant! Speed! Takes only 30 sec- If your son has a really super rail- onds. Safety! No risks to sensitive skin, even road outfit, let the neighborhood boys (and grandads) come in one by one after underarm shaving; won't harm clothes. of afternoons to race the trains to Certainty! Mum clinches bath freshness, not by their heart's content with the toll tax stopping perspiration, but by preventing odor going to Uncle Sam. whole day or evening. Guard your charm These are only a few of the many for a druggist's today! Mum possibilities for raising money through —get Mum at your your hobby towards the purchase of TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF war savings bonds and stamps. If you PERSPIRATION want any help with your hobby, drop me a line in care of the Columbia For Sanitary Napkins — Gentleness, safety, dependability Product oj Bristol-Myers Broadcasting System in New York. —make Mum ideal for this important purpose, too.

NOVEMBER, 1942 By KEN ALDEN

Professor Kay Kyser warns singers Dick Haymes, Benny Goodman's singer, is the proud daddy of a baby Trudy Erwin, Dorothy Dunn and boy. Ditto for Charlie Spivak's ar- Julie Conway not to cut their Col- ranger, Sonny Burke. * * * lege of Musical Knowledge classes. Bostonian Frances Wayne is Left, Ginny Simms and Dave Rose Charlie Barnet's attractive new vocalist. rehearse their Tuesday NBC show. THIS CHANGING WORLD: Louis Armstrong returns to the big record manufacturers Pianist Carmen Cavallaro will en- movies for a part in MGM's "Cabin THEworked overtime turning out large his orchestra and try to woo in the Sky.". . . . Lionel Hampton's hundreds of new releases before Duchin fans now that Eddy is in the band is celebrating its second anni- Petrillo's record- Navy. Another ivory-tinkler, Frankie music czar Jimmy versary at California's Casa Manana ing ban went into effect. This action Carle, composer of such hits as "Sun- ballroom. . . . Hal Mclntyre has added insures record buyers plenty of new rise Serenade," now has a financial the four Lyttle Sisters. . . . Willie months, and they interest in Horace Heidt's orchestra purchases for many Smith, hot out of Jimmy Lunceford's and is getting featured billing. Inci- won't feel the effect of the edict until sax section, has joined Charlie Spi- 1943. The ban was ordered because dentally, Carle turned down an op- vak's reed retinue. . . . Claude Thorn- portunity to take over Duchin's union officials believed the juke boxes hill will appear in the Paramount leaderless crew. were putting too many musicians out technicolor film, "Calgary Stampede." of work. * * * * * * . . . Vido Musso, now leading Bunny To The Colors: Buddy Rich, Berigan's old band, used to play saxo- They say that Tommy Dorsey has Tommy Dorsey's top notch drummer, phone for Benny Goodman, Harry patched up his differences with joined the Marines . . . Three Woody James, and Gene Krupa. The band brother Jimmy and wife Mildred but Herman men, Mickey Folus, Walter is now in the midwest. is feuding with bandleader now he Nimms, and Sammy Rubinwitch, en- •;;.* %. * Teddy Powell. . . that the reason * * * listed in the Coast Guard . Johnny Glen Gray told me Houston, has his Casa Loma band finally decided As reported, Frank Sinatra has left Long's singer, Bob been hire girl vocalists after ten years Dorsey's band to sing solo. drafted. to Tommy * * » doing without them was because Another important vocalist change of Shore was expected east at theater managers insisted they were finds Ray Eberle set to sing with Gene Dinah summer's end but will stay in Holly- a necessary part of any stage show. Krupa, and a newcomer, Skip Nelson, * * * wood to appear in the Eddie Cantor taking Ray's old job with Glenn Gould gets that big break film. Morton Miller. * * * he starts a coast to * * * this month when sponsored show on Mutual for Mark Warnow has announced his Bandleaders Skinnay Ennis, Sam- coast my Kaye, and Horace Heidt leave a wine company. engagement to socialite Dorothy Mc- * * each other confidential notes when * Gowan. Decca's "Holiday Inn" album fea- * * * following one another on theater turing Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire Canada's best known orchestra tours. * * * is the record buy of the month. Al- leader, Luigi Romanelli, died at the As this pillar predicted, Les though "Be Careful It's My Heart" age of 56, victim of a heart attack. * * * Brown's band is moving into the is the current tune winner from the Sam Donahue's new band did well major leagues. Right now the troupe film, it will be "White Christmas" enough at Glen Island Casino to win is playing its first important Gotham that will stay longer in the ears. 6 a return engagement this Fall. date, New York's Hotel Astor. Continued on page RADIO MIRROR LOOK AT ME NOW. . .

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Nature gave you soft, calists are Marjorie Lee and smooth hands and skin — the Pat Marshall—both brunettes. baby's skin you envy. If they harsh, discolored, un- become hardened victims of his tongue-lash- lovely, it's not nature's fault <— ings don't take the verbal blows too it's your own for not giving seriously. They know that in a few them the care they deserve. minutes he will cool off and have them laughing over a new magic Chamberlain's Lotion is an manipulation. ideal aid to keeping your Himber has most of his fun when hands and skin soft, smooth, his band is playing in a hotel spot. This gives him more time. Right lovely — the very way nature now he's playing in New York's Essex intended they should be. House and broadcasting over Mutual Chamberlain's is clear, gold- Dick Himber's a successful and CBS. Next month the band goes en—a lotion which dries with bandleader—but he'd much to Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel. After that engagement comes convenient quickness. Buy a rather play practical jokes. lengthy road tour which leaves no Chamberlain's Lotion today! time for comedy. Use it. You'll welcome the aid Broadway's crop of song pluggers THE CLOWN PRINCE the favored of it gives you in keeping hands are recipients most of NOT an optical illusion if you Himber's gags and almost any night and skin as nature meant them IT'S happen to see two Richard Him- you'll find them gathered in Lindy's to be. bers. One you know as the red- restaurant planning retaliations. headed dance band veteran who The most celebrated Himber stunt pioneered in swing strings, rolled up came when he invited a number of a baker's dozen of network programs, the song pluggers to his hotel suite. and can be as serious as a dramatic He planted a microphone in the radio, serial heroine when conducting his and a recording machine in the ad- band. The other Himber is the roly- joining room, ready to pick up for poly practical joker of Tin Pan posterity any of his guests' remarks. Alley and amateur magician. These remarks were all uncompli- Though this split personality has mentary when Himber failed to make brought the bandleader's friends, an appearance after keeping them business associates, and office staff a waiting an hour. good deal of confusion, it has been a Later on he called each one into source of relief to the hard-working the next room and played back the former kid violinist from Newark, recording. New Jersey. "Outside of a tribe of Indians, never "I'd go nuts, if I didn't have some did I see so many red faces," recalled fun away from the bandstand," Him- Himber. ber explained to me between demon- But one night Himber was on the strations of a trick water glass he receiving end. A trap was set at a invented. "Leading a band is tough broadcast. As the "on the air" sign work. Late hours and arduous one flickered, Himber tapped his baton night stands can really develop a and what followed was a weird col- hamber oin nasty character." lection of off-key notes. Himber's / So when Himber goes into one of round face nearly exploded. Then Jot on his rare temperamental tirades, the came a roar of laughter as one of the RADIO MIRROR wags adjusted the studio clocks. They had all been set ahead five minutes, and the band wasn't on the air. I bring Himber has been playing profes- you Four Aids to sionally since he was thirteen. His father, at the time doing very well as a real estate broker, decided to Beauty in move his family from Newark to One Single Jar! Chester, Pa. His violin-crazy son ob- jected strenuously. "Gee, pop," Dick argued, "instead of getting me nearer Broadway you're moving me farther away." The elder Himber extracted a fifty dollar bill from his wallet and said, "All right, son, take this, try your luck and if you don't find a job come home." Dick's father expected the boy to come back the next week a sadder and wiser youngster. He didn't come back at all. He headed straight for Broadway, rented a room for $3 a week, and, violin under his arm, sought out the king of jazz, Paul Whiteman. Dick, who looked much older than thirteen years, got past the doorman and hat check girl at the night club where P. W. was playing. "Listen, sonny," Whiteman said, "you're too young. Come back when you get your long pants." The lad finally got a job in a Coney Island beer garden, singing and play- ing for $15 a week and all the hot dogs he could eat. Dick believes that experience is responsible for his extra weight. This led to better jobs until he landed in the pit orchestra of the Paramount theater. But when Rudy Vallee's unit replaced the pit band, Dick was unemployed. Instead of bearing a grudge against Vallee, he went backstage to compliment the rising young Connecticut Yankee. 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April San Antonio Rose sings with the Golden West Cowboys on WSM's Grand O/e Opry, and spends her leisure time looking for new cowgirl costumes. Shoves O'Neills, long-run daytime Dallas and Oklahoma City. She has THEserial which has been off the air been with Golden West Cowboys as a for the last few months, will re- regular feature of the WSM Grand turn soon if suitable network time can Ole Opry for the past two years. Talc be cleared. Most of Rose's leisure hours are • * * spent in looking for new cowgirl cos- Jack Benny's first program of the tumes and new songs. The costumes, new season, October 4, will come from she says, are easier to find than the New York, the next three from ser- songs. Whenever she gets the chance vice camps. Seems Jack's changed she goes in for outdoor exercise, and his mind about not broadcasting be- is equally fond of horseback riding, fore an audience of soldiers. swimming, bowling and fishing. * * * All the talk in The Goldbergs serial Maybe you didn't notice the differ- about "Sammy" going off to war was ence, but ever since the Aldrich strictly on the level. Alfred Ryder, Family returned to the air after the who has played Sammy for thirteen summer vacation the part of Henry years, was drafted and inducted into has been played by Norman Tokar. the Army. The broadcast which de- Ezra Stone, who created the role, is so picted Sammy's farewell at the sta- busy in the Army that permission to tion actually took place in New York's broadcast is no longer being granted Pennsylvania Station. to him. The new Henry is red- headed, freckle-faced, and has al- NASHVILLE, Tenn.—It doesn't ways sounded so much like Ezra Stone make any difference whether you're that up until now it hasn't been very listening to San Antonio Rose sing on easy for him to get radio jobs. the air, or sitting there in the studio * * * audience watching her. In either If your girl has the right kind of case, you get the infectious joy of her name you can tell her you love her million-dollar smile; because some- in spite of censors. Alex Dreier of how Rose just has the knack of mak- NBC proved this while he was the ing people feel good. network's correspondent in Berlin. In private life, San Antonio Rose is He was engaged to his childhood Mrs. Eva Nichols McCall, wife of Sgt. sweetheart, Joy Leathurby of Cali- James McCall of the U. S. Army. fornia. Wanting to let her know he She's twenty-two years old, and was was thinking of her, he used to in- born in Richland, Missouri. corporate her first name into every CHERAMY perfumer She began her broadcasting career eight years ago in Columbia, Missouri, Men love "The Fragrance of Youth" and her travels have taken her to By DALE BANKS MIRROR 8 RADIO —

She's the Yankee Network's new singing discovery—Ruth Owens of the Yankee House Party program. broadcast by using some such sen- tence as "The High Command an- nounces with joy." P.S.—Alex is 55 back in the United States now, and IS SO SATIN -SMOOTH Joy has become Mrs. Dreier. * * * The people of radio were shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Eme Palmer, beloved actress whose Unnecessary to let Pathetic Dry specialty was playing sweet little old Skin Wrinkles come too soon ladies—in other words, playing her- self. Her most recent regular air part was that of "Mother" on the CBS af- Takes no time to have complete smooth- ternoon series, Mother and Dad. skin care every day— if you use the new Charme Allen took the role after Miss Palmer's death. Jergens Face Cream! * * * This is a clever new face cream—made BOSTON—Everyone around the Yankee Network is pretty excited by the same skin-scientists who make over the new singing discovery, Ruth that lovely Jergens Lotion. Owens, who is heard every day on the Yankee House Party program over Jergens Face Cream both the Yankee and Mutual net- works. (1) cleanses swiftly, exquisitely The station isn't half as excited, (2) helps soften your skin however, as Ruth's father in Leo- (3) makes a silken powder foundation minster, Massachusetts. Ever since "EVERY NIGHT" Care for Dry Skin (4) acts as a Night Cream, so helpful she made her network debut on last with Jergens Face Cream. against worrisome dry skin. June 15, there has been a serious dis- Cleanse expertly Remove the cream. Then apply a light, ruption of work at the Boutwell A "One-Jar" Beauty Treatment! You'll Printing Plant of Leominster. The all-over film of this new cream and leave love your fresh, younger look when you printing plant is owned and operated on all night. Admire your fresh, smooth, by Ruth's father, and every morn- younger-looking skin next morning. use Jergens Face Cream every day. ing at 11:30 the presses are stopped for a half hour while the whole force listens to the boss' daughter. How- ever, the plant isn't engaged in de- fense work, so Ruth isn't running ALL-PURPOSE. ..FOR ALL SKIN TYPES afoul of Donald M. Nelson. Ruth was born in Leominster and has commuted from there to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston for the last six years. It was l at the Conservatory that she first at- J tracted the attention of Yankee's tal- l!ac^ ent scouts, and all the winter before her first broadcast she was carefully coached in radio technique in the FOR A SMOOTH, KISSABLE COMPLEXION WNAC studios. Continued on paae ?n NOVEMBER. 1942 IN WAR-TIME

By DR. GRACE GREGORY

QUESTION about it, the NOWAACS and the WAVES look stunning in their uniforms. So do all the other volunteer services. The wise leaders of our war effort are well aware that a woman's per- sonal appearance affects not only her own morale but the morale of every- body within eyeshot. England learned that same lesson early. When a chief of women's war work was appointed, the first thing she demanded was an adequate supply of becoming cosmetics for the girls, and well fitting uniforms. This country is certainly not going to have to stint us on our cosmetics and toiletries. So far, the only reduc- tion has been a slight one in the be- wildering assortment of lipstick and nail enamel shades. Well, why not? A cutting out of shades which are un- popular, freakish, or not generally Claudia Morgan, star of the Thin Man series heard Wednesdays over becoming will still leave us with plenty of all types of beauty aids. NBC, never relaxes in her beauty regime even in these hectic days. It's not unpatriotic to buy your needs if they're on the beauty coun- ters. The fact that they are there, is Just one thing Uncle Sam asks of Even for the face washings that are proof that the government has sanc- his pretty nieces; make the most of not at bath time, use the rich lather tioned their manufacture. You prob- what you have. Soap, for instance, of treatment. Your face needs plenty ably have heard that glycerine, an which there is no lack. Soap is your of good mild soap to clear out the ingredient that's used in hand lotions, most basic beauty aid. pores. Consider how much it has on is needed for war work. For this rea- For a beauty bath, fill the tub with it by the end of the day. The dust, son you feel you can do without hand warm, softened water. If you have for one thing. lotions. However, modern chemists some fragrant bath salts or other soft- How are you to select your soap? have discovered substitute ingredients ener to give you a sense of luxury, For mildness, of course. But all the which are even more beneficial, and so much the better. good soaps are mild, nowadays. The are being used instead of glycerin. While the tub is filling, give yourself important thing is to select one that Therefore, you should feel free to buy a lively soap facial. It is a marvelous you personally like, that seems to suit and use your favorite hand lotion. picker-upper. Use cream or lotion your type of skin. What about metal compacts and lip- first, if you like; but all the good soaps Remember that practically all the stick cases, you ask? They use metal are mild enough for a baby's skin. blemishes, such as blackheads, white- needed for the war. Yes, and for that Take a cake of your favorite soap in heads, and even more serious skin reason they are no longer being manu- your two wet hands, rub it gently conditions go back to clogged pores. factured. But if you still can find them back and forth to form a foamy lather. Hasty, careless washing is not enough. on the counters it means you can Now apply the lather to your face, Think of each wash as a facial treat- have them—as long as they last. neck, and chest. Pat it in smartly. I ment of the utmost importance, and do not mean pat it in gently as you think of your bath as a ritual of re- do your cream or lotion. This time laxation and refreshment. the idea is stimulus. It's just as im- portant to stimulate your skin as it WfHILE we are on the subject of is to soothe it, so pat until you feel ™ war-time beauty, do you know a healthy glow. that some of the greatest beauty ex- Now for the relaxing in a tub of perts in the country are putting out warm water, softened and scented boxes of matched make-up at in- with your favorite bath preparation. credibly low prices? It takes time to Make a rich lather of soap on your experiment until you find what goes washcloth, and wash yourself all over, with which, and devise your own a bit at a time. Pay special attention make-up kit. War workers, and all feet, are being (which covers about to your which probably other workers f

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RADIO MIRROR 12 Was this girl who left a trail

of scandal wherever she went

the sweetheart he had known

years before? Hemustlearn the

truth before his leave was up

WHEN you've been a soldier in Uncle Sam's Army for six months, a two-day leave is a mighty im- portant thing. So when Jeff Hurley and I were notified that the next two days were ours to do with as we pleased, we looked at each other and said almost in unison—"Let's go to New York." We were only thir- ty miles away, so getting there would be no problem. Jeff is a happy-go-lucky Southern boy whose idea

of the most fun . in the world is to walk along Broadway and see how many girls he can talk to between 42nd Street and Columbus Circle. He loves the bright lights and the crowds and the corner fruit stands, and he was chortling with glee as we boarded the train from camp that Saturday morning. "Oh boy," he told me as we stretched our legs out on the seat opposite us, "are we goin' to have us a time!" But I had something else in mind. I had reached a great decision. "The first thing I'm going to do when we get in town is look up Susie," I said. "Susie?" he asked. "That Susie Brown you're always talkin' about?" "Yep," I told him firmly. "I've made up my mind. I'm going to find Susie. I know she's in New York, and I'm going to find her. And you're going to help me." "Aw Chip," he moaned, "what do you wanta go lookin' up that old girl for? There're lots better things to do in New York than huntin' for a girl you used "Where Are You, Dearest?" by Gwen Jones, is based on "Look- to go to high school with. Shucks, she might be fat ing for Susie," an original radio play by Carol Warner and Fifi Garbat, first heard on the Columbia Workshop over CBS. and funny-lookin' by now." Continued on page 55 13 NOVEMBER, 1942 .

COULDN'T sleep. I listened to of the world's censure. Perhaps I the clack of the wheels on the this fear had its roots in some track and felt the steady sway childhood incident, long vanished of the train and I thought that even from my memory while only its this was wonderful and delightful. effects remained. I don't know. Mrs. Sam Clarke! It's ridiculous, But it was there—an unreasoning I told myself, ridiculous and insane terror of having other people and marvelous. misunderstand my motives, my Gently, so as not to wake him, thoughts and actions. I knew it I touched Sam's cheek with my was a weakness in me. I didn't fingertips. He stirred and sighed know it would come close to de- 3» in his sleep and I smiled into the stroying my whole life. darkness. In a way, now, I was almost glad What a fool I'd been. All that Sam and I hadn't known each other wasted time! better during the year just past. I was thinking of the last school It was more exciting this way. We year, a whole year, almost, during had wasted time, yes, but now we which I had watched Sam Clarke were finding each other all at once, 'V4 covertly, admired him, longed to in a rush. know him, and yet had let every In a rush. I almost laughed aloud. opportunity slip by. The speed of a meteor was more Still, thinking it over, I didn't like the rapidity with which things see how I could have acted any had been happening to me since differently. After all, we were both I'd boarded the train yester- • i ' teachers. I have always felt that day afternoon to start on my one of the first duties of a teacher vacation. is to win and keep the respect of I hadn't felt happy then. I had her pupils. And I knew that in order been depressed and tired. I had no to do this, I couldn't afford to give family to visit and the loneliness anyone a chance to gossip about me. and dullness of two months on my I couldn't give my pupils any cause cousin's farm wasn't a pleasant to smirk behind my back and talk prospect. Besides, only that morn- about my "crush" on the athletic ing I had heard Sam Clarke was coach. Nor could I have let the not coming back next year. He was two teachers with whom I shared staying in his home town to take a house suspect that I was interested over the job of Superintendent of in him. There might have been the school there. rivalry and jealousy, and they I had just sat down in my seat would have led to unpleasantness. by the train window, when some- - Of course, I was forced to admit one spoke to me. now, there might have been no "Miss Gould, is this seat taken?" gossip, no secret laughter, no re- I looked up into Sam Clarke's sentment between me and the other friendly brown eyes. I shook my two teachers with whom I lived. head and he sat down next to me. But ever since I could remember "Your name's Delia, isn't it?" he I had been afraid of criticism, afraid asked. I nodded, but now I smiled, too. "I think I'll start calling you that right away," Sam went on. *.« '• "Now, Delia," he said, "would you i mind telling me why you've been avoiding me all year? Are you en- ?" Fictionized for Radio Mirror by Caroline gaged or something— • i Hoyt from the original radio play, "Home "Oh, no!" I found myself saying Tomorrow,'' by Cameron Hawley, first much too quickly. heard on Armstrong's Theater of Today, Saturday at 12:00 noon, EWT, over CBS. Sam Clarke laughed. "Good," he

14 This was her bridal home-coming! Delia

should have been giddy with happiness,

laughing as Sam was laughing. She tried

desperately to shake off the terrible feel-

ing that she had no right to be here

said. "That makes it so much wanted to keep the sound of his Sam's eyes crinkled up. "You easier for me." rich voice in my mind. I wanted to feel that way, too? Then—" Sud- And I fell in with his mood. At memorize every word he said. denly, before I knew what was least, I thought, he was joking and Then the conductor was walking happening, his arms were around it seemed harmless enough, although through the car, shouting, "Chicago me. "Now, I won't let you go," he I did feel a twinge now and then, in five minutes!" whispered. "The only thing to do thinking how wonderful it would Time to start saying goodbye. I is marry me." be, if he weren't. I laughed with looked at Sam Clarke and I saw I tried to speak, but he stopped him. We talked and talked. I tried that he was not laughing now. my words with a kiss. After a very hard to print every last little "Look," he said suddenly. "I moment that was like blindness and thing about him on my mind so it know this is all of a sudden, but fainting and flying all rolled into would never fade. I wanted to re- I can't just let you walk out of one, I caught my breath and pulled member for always the way his my life like this." away from him. "What will all brown eyes crinkled up when he I wasn't sure whether I should these people say?" I whispered. laughed and the habit he had of laugh or cry. "I know," I whis- Sam grinned. "Who cares what brushing back his dark hair. I pered. they say?" Continued on page 66

NOVEMBER. 1942 15

S ^^ebeengiddywUhhappiness hU8hinS asSam Ploughing. She tried desperately to shake the off terrible feel- ing that she had no right to be here

COULDN'T sleep. I listened to of the world's censure. Perhaps I the clack of the wheels on the this fear had its roots in some track and felt the steady sway childhood incident, long vanished of the train and I thought that even from my memory while only its this was wonderful and delightful. effects remained. I don't know. Mrs. Sam Clarke! It's ridiculous, But it was there—an unreasoning I told myself, ridiculous and insane terror of having other people and marvelous. misunderstand my motives, my Gently, so as not to wake him, thoughts and actions. I knew it I touched Sam's cheek with my was a weakness in me. I didn't fingertips. He stirred and sighed know it would come close to de- in his sleep and I smiled into the stroying my whole life. darkness. In a way, now, I was almost glad What a fool I'd been. All that Sam and I hadn't known each other wasted time! better during the year just past. I was thinking of the last school It was more exciting this way. We year, a whole year, almost, during had wasted time, yes, but now we which I had watched Sam Clarke were finding each other all at once, covertly, admired him, longed to in a rush. know him, and yet had let every In a rush. I almost laughed aloud. opportunity slip by. The speed of a meteor was more Still, thinking it over, I didn't like the rapidity with which things see how I could have acted any had been happening to me since differently. After all, we were both I'd boarded the train yester- teachers. I have always felt that day afternoon to start one of the on my first duties of a teacher vacation. is to win and keep the respect of I hadn't felt happy then. I had her pupils. And I knew that in order been depressed and tired. to I had no do this, I couldn't afford to give family to visit and the loneliness anyone a chance to gossip about me. and dullness of two months I couldn't give on my my pupils any cause cousin's farm to wasn't a pleasant smirk behind my back and talk prospect. Besides, only that morn- about my "crush" on the athletic ing I had heard Sam Clarke was coach. Nor could I have let the not coming back next two teachers with year. He was whom I shared staying in a house his home town to take suspect that I was interested over the job of in him. There might Superintendent of have been the school rivalry there. and jealousy, and they I had just sat down in would have led to unpleasantness. my seat by the train window, Of course, I was when some- forced to admit one spoke now, there might to me. have been no "Miss wanted to keep the sound of his Sam's eyes crinkled up. "You gossip, no Gould, is this seat taken'" secret laughter, no re- rich voice in my mind. I wanted to feel that way, too? I looked up into Then—" Sud- sentment between me and Sam Clarke's the other friendly brown memorize every word he said. denly, before I knew what was two teachers with whom eyes. I shook my I lived head and he Then the conductor was walking happening, his arms were around But ever since sat down next to I could me car, shouting, "Chicago me. "Now, I remember Your name's through the won't let you go," hi I had been Delia, isn't it'" afraiO of criticism, he five minutes!" whispered. "The only thing afraid asked. I nodded, in to do but now I smiled oo Time to start saying goodbye. I is marry me." 'I thmk I'll start calling ''"'~ you looked at Sam Clarke and I saw I tried to speak, but he stopped 3Way '" "? Sam we"t on. laughing now. my words with a kiss C •NNow, , that he was not After a Delia," he said, CTCC»^ "would you "Look," he said suddenly. "I moment that was like blindnei mind telling me why you've sudden, but fainting and flying avo.ding been know this is all of a all rolled Into F,cl,on,,ed me all year? for Rod.o Mirror by Are you en- let you walk out of one, I caught my breath and Caroline gaged I can't just pulled Hoyl from the ono.nol ,odio or something—?" ploy. "Home j}«mbe r this." away from him. "What will all Tomorrow I0 , always the way his my life like by Comeron Howley. "Oh no!" I first found myself own these people I h.ord on saying eyes I wasn't sure whether I should say?" whispered Arrmfrong, Theoter of much ">J""S crinkled up when he Todoy too quickly. 'aughed So.urdoy o» 12:00 noon, and laugh or cry. "I know," I whis- Sam grinned. "Who cares what EWT, „,., CBS Sam Clarke the habit he had of laughed. "Good," rushmg they say?" Continued on page 66 14 he back his dark hair. I pered. 15 " "

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DON'T believe in mental telep- love. Three years is too long to hold breath catching in my throat so that 1 athy or anything supernatural, your love down to safe, discreet my voice squeaked a little. "And but just the same I was having limits, if you're young. Now I was you hear their wings rustle." a hard time concentrating on my twenty-three, and Bruce was twen- "Not wings," Bruce said. There work that morning before Bruce ty-five, and I was sure that we'd was something breathless about his walked into my office and told me been wrong to wait so long. voice too. "You've put me in the the news that was to toss our lives But what could we have done? I wrong class, Jan. I'm just a humble into such an upheaval that they respected Bruce for his sense of member of the ground crew." never would settle down again into honor and obligation, and I agreed "Bruce!" I sat down at my desk, the pattern we had dreamed for that maybe our marriage wouldn't too weak to stand. I looked up at years. have the breaks it deserved if we him and saw that his eyes were I was sitting before my typewriter tried to live in a small apartment shining with a different kind of in the little office that Station with his younger brother Jamie. My brilliance from their usual clear WUVG had assigned to my boss for salary plus Bruce' s salary in the blue. "Bruce—have you—you're preparing his program which you broker's office where he worked not saying you've gone and— Oh, know as the Counsel of Common wouldn't swing the kind of place you're not— Sense. My notes were neat as usual, we'd have needed while Jamie was He gave a funny little chuckle. "I propped up before me in a good still in high school. But now Jamie have and I am," he said, his cheeks light, yet the curlicues of my short- had graduated. He had a job in a flushed. "I enlisted a while ago and hand simply would not resolve shipyard, earning his own living, now I've been accepted. I'll be themselves into the worried ques- and after all these years we had our called up any day." — tions of Dr. Dale's clients and his chance. Or did we? It was 1942. "Bruce—and you didn't tell me calm, well-rounded sentences of Bruce had a draft number and it It was just a whisper because my advice and reassurance. My eyes would soon be up. You couldn't voice wouldn't come now. It was kept getting out of focus so that I blame him for hesitating about mar- all I could do to keep that hotness would see instead the sand-blond riage. But I began to feel some back of my eyes from turning into close-clipped head of Bruce Mac- new and awful doubts. Suppose tears. Dougall above his stocky strong Bruce was really not so eager, way "No, I didn't." His voice was shoulders, and his blue eyes that down deep, to marry me? earnest and reasonable but his eyes were always clear—sometimes too Do you wonder I couldn't concen- were pleading in their intensity. "I clear; you knew, looking at them, trate on transcribing nice common- figured, why get us worked up over that there was no chance of com- sensible answers to other people's something that might not pan out promise with what he thought was problems? I got up and walked after all? Time enough to talk about right. back and forth in the office, stopped it when I'd passed the tests and Like the way he felt about our and stared out the window over the everything was set. Besides, it marriage. I'd have married him blue harbor where once some men works out all the same in the end, three years ago, almost from the had dumped some tea and started time we met. I'd have walked right the first war for the freedom that into those arms of his the minute I Bruce would have to fight to hold. looked at him, I think, and been But I wasn't thinking of history and content to stay there, no matter I wasn't seeing the rusty scarred what went on around us. I was tankers that came bravely plowing sure Bruce wanted me there, too, across that harbor now. I was see- but it was a long time before he ing Bruce MacDougaLTs solid, fresh- told me so. Maybe too long. But I colored face and going back over my just waited, knowing his kisses memory to try to find the love there would make up for any waiting. that I wanted to believe. And they did! Funny that the door opened right But after that the waiting was then and he walked in. worse. Kisses aren't enough, after "Talk about angels," I said, my a while. And pretty soon the wait- ing begins to do something to your

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"Dearest," he whispered, holding me close. "I never wished anything as

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little time there is left—together."

with me in the draft anyway— But I was hardly listening, and his voice trailed off, as if he hadn't paid much attention either to the quiet, sensible words he said. "Bruce—" I kept on whispering his name. "Bruce, you're not—not really going—" I had thought about it, I had faced the idea for a long time, but now—with him standing here big and solid, I knew what it would mean, for the first time. Something might happen to that body while he was away, something that would mean he never would come back again. Suddenly I couldn't bear it. I couldn't let him go! "Yes, I'm going, Jannie," he said in a strangely gentle voice. One of his hands came up from the desk and he touched my ear with his forefinger—a tiny, delicate touch you wouldn't expect from that big hand. "You knew I'd have to go some time." "No, I didn't!" I stared up into his face and my hand went out to seize the flannel of his sleeve and hold on tight. "I didn't know it would be this way—you walking in here and telling me that you were going to go. When we had never had a chance to be together— I hadn't meant to say that, but the words had just come. For a minute I was shocked and afraid that Bruce, with his habitual re- serve, would be repelled. I didn't dare look at him. But suddenly his arms were about " " " — —

me and he had drawn me up againsl was almost a groan. "For me it won't marry me. You needn't. If him close and he was murmuring would be worth it. Worth anything. you won't, I'll just go along with against—my hair. "Jan—Jannie, But for you—think, Jan, you'd just you, wherever you go, whatever you dearest " His voice was choked as have to stay here and wait. Just say. Like one of those camp follow- if it hurt him to say the words, be- plug along, waiting, maybe years ers in the books. And there isn't cause he wasn't one to use expres- No, Jan, I won't tie you up like that a thing in the —world you can do sions of endearment easily. "Jannie, for God—knows how long. I tell you about it. Honey " I was laughing do you think I don't wish we'd had I won't now,- with the tears pouring down a little while, anyway, to be hap- But I knew right then that I was "honey, you're stuck with me!" py?" winning. Something about his voice, I don't think he knew that my "Then let's not wait any longer!" maybe, the unsteady huskiness of tears were soaking his collar and I cried out suddenly, wildly. "Let's it, and his breathing and the way his jacket. I don't think he knew any- get married now!" heart was pounding again in his thing except that my body was there solid chest. More than anything, I against his own, and it was his. In T> RUCE pushed me away from him knew by the way he kept insisting. that moment I belonged to him. roughly, stood me off to stare He was not trying to convince me, But it had to be that moment that he into my face. "Jan," he said won- was trying to convince himself. Dr. Dale arrived at the office. . deringly, his voice slightly hoarse, The more he talked, the more I his eyes unbelievably bright. "Jan, knew he wasn't certain. I looked do you know what you're saying?" up at the sweet curve of his mouth "Yes," I whispered, above my and the blood beating red in his racing, uneven breaths. "Oh, yes, I cheeks, and I said, "Darling, don't know. I know we've waited three bother. Don't keep on saying you years, and it's been too long! We should have married and had this time together, had our happiness, ^nd maybe babies, and then you wouldn't have had to go at all!" "Jan," he reproached me gently. "Jan, you know I think I ought to go. I've got to get in this thing and do my share." "Yes." I sobered up then, a little. He was right, he was always right. "I wouldn't want you to feel any different. I want you to be just the way you are. But—Oh, Bruce, I want youl" I hardly knew what I was saying, the tears were wet on my face and on his, and my words just came with the tears. We had never talked this way before. His arms tightened then as if they'd crush me, his heart was pounding against my shoulder with a crashing beat. "Dearest," he whispered against my lips. "My love, my dear, I never loved you before the way I do this minute. I never wished for anything as hard as I'm wishing now that we could do what you say, have what little time there is left—together." "We can!" I protested urgently. "We can— But he was shaking his head, his mouth sweet and smiling still but his eyes that clear blue I knew so well. "Jan, you know I wouldn't do that to you— "Do what to me?" I asked fiercely, my arms holding myself tight against him. "Give rhe the happi- ness I've been waiting for all this time? Let me have what every girl wants, to live with the man she loves?" / began to feel really ashamed He set his teeth and spoke almost for Bruce. His solid face was grimly. "That's just it," he said. completely expressionless. Why "The better it is while we have it, the harder it will be to give it up." did he have to be so boorish? His voice came so hard now that it

18 I heard his step, the outer door experienced as Dr. Dale's! You could the way he ought to, to Dr. Dale, opening, and there was a little blank tell he knew exactly what had hap- and now he just made some kind of few seconds when I knew he was pened, by the very tactful way he mutter meant to be respectful but very carefully putting away his did not seem to look at us, but set- accompanied by a dark, uncom- expensive, immaculate white Pan- tled his spectacles on his nose with fortable frown, as I eased him to the ama hat. In that time Bruce and I a much too business-like frown and door. Dr. Dale was too smooth for separated, our hands dropping riffled through his papers so elabor- Bruce, I guess, too fluent with his empty to our sides—terribly empty. ately. It would have been funny if words, and any man who isn't very I had never felt such an aching anything could have been funny to articulate himself distrusts those ." sick sense of loss, such a miserable me right then. "Mmmm . . he who are. "The darned old mealy- slow deflation from the glorious murmured with a great pretense of mouth," Bruce whispered in the cor- ridor. let tension of the minute before, as absent-mindedness. "Oh . . . Good "Don't you him start hand- when we stood there trying to get morning, MacDougall. Excuse me ing you any of his common sense." our breaths and make our hearts if I seem to plunge into the mael- Funny, Bruce said that, when the quiet down to normal, hoping Dr. strom of duty. You see, these days same thought had just come to me. Dale wouldn't notice our emotions. are busy for those who make even a "Why should he?" I asked, and gave What a hope, under a glance as feeble attempt to offer common him a quick kiss on his rough shaved sense to a world so sorely in need cheek just before the elevator door of it." opened. "See you after work." His His benign voice lifted slightly, eyes were suddenly very bright and waiting for the laugh his little jocu- happy as the door clanged shut. larity was meant to evoke, and I But I felt queerly nervous as I gave it. Bruce never could respond took my notebook to Dr. Dale's desk and sat down. I waited, dreading his first words like a guilty child with a teacher. I smoothed my skirt and lifted my hair from my hot neck so that the breeze from the harbor could cool my damp skin. I held my Ups together, tensed against what Dr. Dale might say. We were good friends, close friends, Dr. Dale and I, the way a secretary and her boss must grow to be in years of working together. I laughed to myself, sometimes, at his funny, school-teacherish way of talking, but just the same I admired him deeply for his truly unselfish wish to do good in the world. Not everything he did brought in such high returns in money as his radio program. He interested himself in other causes, making speeches for different kinds of war relief and serving on committees to help refugees and other people made homeless by the war. He was ex- actly right for this benevolent role.

XT IS voice was deep and softly resonant and his figure in his beautifully tailored suits was firm- ly rotund. His face was as pink and smooth as a baby's, perfectly bar- bered, and he always brought into the office a pleasant fragrance of bath soap and talcum powder and freshly laundered expensive linen. But today I felt an unreasonable wish to get away from him. I wanted to rush out of the room be- fore those quizzically pursed-up lips of his should open and he should start to speak to me. And I wished, very much, that I hadn't told him, long before now, so much about myself and Bruce. He was a long time beginning. Usually he had no trouble finding words, having studied the letters at

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"For me it won't marry me. You needn't, almost a groan. if heard his step, the outer door experienced as Dr. Dale's! You could the way he had drawn me up against was won't, I'll just go along I he ought to, to Dr. Dale, me and Worth anything you with a little be worth it. nening, and there was blank tell he knew exactly what had hap- and now he close and he was murmuring would you, wherever you go, whatever just made some kind of him think, Jan, you d just you when I knew he pened, Jannie, But for you— few seconds was by the very tactful way he mutter meant to be respectful but against my hair. "Jan— wait. Just say. Like one of those camp follow- have to stay here and carefully putting away his did not seem to look at us, but set- accompanied by dearest— " His voice was choked as ers in the books. And there very a dark, uncom- waiting, maybe years— isn't immaculate white Pan- tled his spectacles be- plug along, expensive, on his nose with fortable frown, as I eased him to the if it hurt him to say the words, that a thing in the world you can won't tie you up like do In that time Bruce and I a much too use expres- No Jan, I — ama hat. business-like frown and door. Dr. Dale was too smooth for cause he wasn't one to tell you about it. Honey " I was laughing God knows how long. I our hands dropping riffled through his papers so elabor- Bruce, for - separated, I guess, too fluent with his sions of endearment easily. "Jannie, — now, with the tears pouring down I won't to our sides—terribly empty. ately. It would have been funny if words, and any isn't very think I don't wish we'd had empty man who do you that I was "honey, you're stuck with me!" But I knew right then never felt such an aching anything could have been articulate to be hap- I had funny to himself distrusts those a little while, anyway, voice, I don't think he knew that Something about his my of loss, such a miserable me right then. ." " winning. sick sense "Mmmm . . he who are. "The darned old mealy- Py? huskiness of tears were soaking his collar and , » maybe, the unsteady deflation from the glorious murmured with a great longer! sl ow pretense of mouth," Bruce whispered in the cor- "Then let's not wait any his jacket. I don't think he knew his breathing and the way any- minute it, and of the before, as absent-mindedness. . . suddenly, wildly. "Let's tension "Oh . Good ridor. "Don't you let him start hand- I cried out again in his thing except that my body was there heart was pounding when we stood there trying to get morning, MacDougall. Excuse me ing you any of his common sense." get married now!" I against his own, and it was his. chest. More than anything, In if I solid our breaths and make our hearts seem to plunge into the mael- Funny, Bruce said that, when the kept insisting. that moment I belonged to him. knew by the way he down to normal, hoping Dr. strom of duty. You see, these days same thought had just come to me. RUCE pushed me away from him to be that quiet D not trying to convince me, But it had moment that are off to stare He was Dale wouldn't notice our emotions. busy for those who make even a "Why should he?" I asked, and gave roughly, stood me himself. Dr. Dale arrived at the office. he was trying to convince hope, under a glance as feeble attempt to offer him a quick into my face. "Jan," he said won- What a common kiss on his rough shaved talked, the more I hoarse, The more he sense to a worid so sorely in need cheek just before the elevator door deringly, his voice slightly looked knew he wasn't certain. I of it." opened. his eyes unbelievably bright. "Jan, "See you after work." His the sweet curve of his mouth you know what you're saying?" up at His benign voice lifted slightly, eyes were suddenly very bright and do beating red in his and the blood waiting for the laugh his little happy as the clanged "Yes," I whispered, above my jocu- door shut. cheeks, and I said, "Darling, don't larity racing, uneven breaths. "Oh, yes, I was meant to evoke, and I But I felt queerly nervous as I on saying you bother. Don't keep gave it. Bruce never could took notebook to Dr. Dale's know. I know we've waited three respond my desk and years, and it's been too long! We sat down. I waited, dreading should have married and had this his first words like a guilty child time together, had our happiness, with a teacher. I smoothed my skirt ^nd maybe babies, and then you and lifted my hair from my hot neck wouldn't have had to go at all!" so that the breeze from the harbor "Jan," he reproached me gently. could cool my damp skin. I held "Jan, you know I think I ought to my lips together, tensed against go. I've got to gel in this thing and what Dr. Dale might say. do my share." We were good friends, close I, "Yes." I sobered up then, a little. friends, Dr. Dale and the way a He was right, he was always right. secretary and her boss must grow "I wouldn't want you to feel any to be in years of working together.

different. 1 want you to be just the I laughed to myself, sometimes, at way you are. But—Oh, Bruce, I his funny, school-teacherish way of want you!" talking, but just the same I admired I hardly knew what 1 was saying, him deeply for his truly unselfish the tears were wet on my face and wish to do good in the world. Not on his, and my words just came everything he did brought in such with the tears. We had never talked high returns in money as his radio this way before. program. He interested himself in His arms tightened then as if other causes, making speeches for they'd crush me, his heart was different kinds of war relief and pounding against my shoulder with serving on committees to help a crashing beat. "Dearest," he refugees and other people made whispered against my lips. "My love, homeless by the war. He was ex- this my dear, I never loved you before actly right for benevolent role. the way I do this minute. I never wished for anything as hard as I'm TTIS voice was deep and softly wishing now that we could do what resonant and his figure in his you say, have what little time there beautifully tailored suits was firm- is left—together." ly rotund. His face was as pink and "We can!" I protested urgently. smooth as a baby's, perfectly bar- "We can— bered, and he always brought into But he was shaking his head, his the office a pleasant fragrance of mouth sweet and smiling still but bath soap and talcum powder and his eyes that clear blue I knew so freshly laundered expensive linen. well. "Jan, you know I wouldn't But today I felt an unreasonable do that to you— wish to get away from him. I "Do what to me?" I asked fiercely, wanted to rush out of the room be- my arms holding myself tight fore those quizzically pursed-up against him. "Give me the happi- lips of his should open and he should ness I've been waiting for all this start to speak to me. And I wished, time? Let me have what every girl very much, that I hadn't told him, wants, to live with the man she long before now, so much about loves?" myself and Bruce. He set his teeth and spoke almost He was a long time beginning. grimly. "That's just it," he said. Usually he had no trouble finding "The better it is while we have it, words, having studied the letters at the harder it will be to give it up." home and decided on his advice. His voice came so hard now that it But today Continued on page 74 19 !

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As she listened to the muffled voices in the next room, Zelda

shuddered, realizing that she had led herself and the three

people she loved most in all the world to the brink of tragedy

HE world won't let you get myself, to seek to repeat for a sec- tation. His away with making the same mis- ond time a cowardly escape which had broke* ." take twice. . . had been no escape at all— before, hac I could almost hear my father It had started the spring before, play, a mc saying it as he used to when I was when I met Dwight. I remember got to knc a little girl, his smile gentle, but that it was April, with a pale, watery "Rain Still his eyes very grave. "No, Zelda, a sunlight promising flowers and all other first mistake is just—well, just a green grass somewhere ahead. I to the topi mistake. But if you do the same was doing fairly well, earning my We met! fool thing again, it's a habit—and living partly by typing manuscripts cocktail pa| the world deals hard with people for other people and partly by sell- other at o| who make a habit of fool things!" ing manuscripts of- my own, mostly the hostess Yet there I was, making a mis- stories for children's magazines. I room to take and making it for the second had an apartment with a terrace thought, "( time. No mere "fool thing" this, which compensated for the three noticed onj either. It was a cruel, monstrous flights of stairs it was necessary the dark, thing I was doing, deliberately to climb to reach it. My younger his ears, th| wrecking the lives of three other sister, Marcia, called Miggs by at his ej people, to say nothing of my own. everyone ever since I can remem- Then I loc I stood pressed against the door ber, had just added a bright spot that laught| of Dwight's study, past the point to my life by coming to stay with fine lines of being ashamed of eavesdropping, me while she went to business welled up listening to Miggs' anxious young school. overflowed! voice, to Dwight's kindly, wise one, If life was good before I met mouth, to s| answering her. I felt as people must Dwight Foster, it was just about in his wine who are trapped by fire—pressed- perfect afterwards. Not that I fell Actually, he was neither young ncjjj ih upon, smothered, helpless and in love with him—he was just a old. He had reached that pleasarj hopeless. And so ashamed of my- friend, a perfect, delightful com- age of just-past-forty, when a ma self, so terribly ashamed! panion whose every word was is settled but not "set." Oh, I could be forgiven for the worth hearing, and with an easy I found myself telling him a- first mistake, I suppose. That was humor to spice the words. He was a about my ambitions, about the re'j weakness, a weakness in me that grand person in himself, and be- jection slips which formed the large found me unable to face facts, to sides, he was exactly what I wanted part of my mail, about the iderj look life in the eye, to call my to be, had achieved exactly what which seemed so wonderful as ideq

emotions by their right names. But I wanted to achieve; he was a and which, somehow, turned flat an i to indulge that weakness, to lie to writer of firm and established repu- dull as they went on paper. I fell

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Dwight' s hand slipped into mine. "What about us?" he whispered to me. "Can we be happy too?"

not as if I'd known him all my life He was wonderful about helping but as if I'd been waiting to know me with my work, too, putting his him, as if my world hadn't been sure literary finger unerringly on quite round until he came along. what was wrong with a story, It wasn't long before Dwight be- showing me how a fresh turn of gan to drop in at our apartment phrase would perk up a dull para- quite regularly. Sometimes he came graph just as a fresh white collar to dinner, sometimes took Miggs and perks up last year's black dress. me to a play or a concert, sometimes Miggs liked Dwight and enjoyed just sat on the terrace with us, his friendship as much as I did, it seems to me to be almost blue drinking coffee and talking the kind although Miggs and I are as dif- sometimes, that my eyes are as gray of good talk that makes you feel ferent as day and night. She was as fog over the Hudson, that I'm that the world is a fine place in just nineteen then, cute as a bug's nine years older than she. We're which to live. We spoke of books and ear, with very curly hair the color completely different in tempera- music and pictures, of anything and of honey, and, surprisingly in con- ment, too. Miggs is a come-what- everything. Sometimes Dwight told trast, eyes so dark a brown that may-er, with a bubbly little laugh us stories about his son, Tommy, of they're almost black. It's hard to and a way with men. She, Dwight whom he seemed to be very proud. convince people that we are sisters. said, was pink champagne, and I It was hard to believe that Dwight It's not only that my hair is black was still Burgundy of good vintage. could have a son old enough to and done smoothly into a knot on It was because Dwight felt that have finished college. my neck, that my skin is so white Miggs ought to know more young

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As she listened to the muffled voices in the next room, Zelda

shuddered, realizing that she had led herself and the three

people she loved most in all the world to the brink of tragedy

M. HE world won't let you get myself, to seek to repeat for a sec- tation. His "It Began In Spring" away with making the same mis- ond time a cowardly escape which had broken sales records a year ." twice. . . take had been no escape at all— before, had been made into a stage I could almost hear father It my had started the spring before, play, a movie. Then, when I first saying it as he used to when I was when I met Dwight. I remember got to know him, his new book, a little girl, his smile gentle, but that it was April, with a pale, watery "Rain Still Falls," was elbowing his eyes very grave. "No, Zelda, a sunlight promising flowers and all other books aside in its climb first mistake is just well, just a — green grass somewhere ahead. I to the top of the best seller lists. mistake. But if you do the same was doing fairly well, earning my We met at a mutual friend's fool thing again, it's a habit—and living partly by typing manuscripts cocktail each the world party, and we took to deals hard with people for other people and partly by sell- other at once, Dwight and I. As who make a habit of fool things!" ing manuscripts of my own, mostly Dwight's hand the hostess brought him across the slipped into mine. "What about Yet there I was, making a mis- stories for children's magazines. I had us?" he whispered to me. take room to introduce him, I "Can we be happy too?" and making it for the second had an apartment with a terrace I had time. No thought, "Oh, he's old!" But mere "fool thing" this, which compensated for the three noticed of gray in either. It was a cruel, only the wings monstrous flights of stairs it was necessary the dark, close-cropped hair above thing I was doing, deliberately not as if I'd to climb to reach it. My younger known him all my life He was wonderful about helping his ears, the netting of wrinkles wrecking the fine but as if lives of three other sister, Marcia, called Miggs I'd been waiting to know me with my work, too, putting his by at his mouth-corners. people, to say nothing of eyes and him, as if my own. everyone ever since I can my world hadn't been sure literary finger unerringly on remem- I knew I stood pressed Then I looked again, and quite round against the door ber, had just added a bright until he came along. what was wrong with a story, spot put those of Dwight's study, past the that laughter, not age, had It wasn't long turn of point to my life by coming to stay before Dwight be- showing me how a fresh with fine lines laughter which of being ashamed of eavesdropping, there — gan to drop in at perk a dull para- me while she went to business our apartment phrase would up welled up in his eyes first, and then quite listening to Miggs' anxious young school. regularly. Sometimes he came graph just as a fresh white collar voice, overflowed to reach his sensitive to dinner, to Dwight's kindly, wise one, If life sometimes took Miggs and perks up last year's black dress. was good before I met teeth answering her. mouth, to show a flash of white me to a I felt as people must Dwight Foster, play or a concert, sometimes Miggs liked Dwight and enjoyed it was just about face. who are in his wind-and-sun darkened lust sat I trapped by fire pressed- perfect afterwards. on the terrace with us, his friendship as much as did, it seems to me to be almost blue — Not that I fell young nor ih upon, Actually, he was neither drinking coffee I are as dif- sometimes, that my smothered, helpless and in love with him— and talking the kind although Miggs and eyes are as gra$ he was just a old. that pleasant hopeless. And so ashamed of my- He had reached ™ good talk that makes you feel ferent as day and night. She was as fog over the Hudson, that I'm friend, a perfect, delightful com- man self, so terribly ashamed! age of just-past-forty, when a that the world then, cute as a bug's nine years older than she. We're panion whose every is a fine place in just nineteen word was is settled but not "set." Which Oh, I could be forgiven for the to live. We spoke of books and ear, with very curly hair the color completely different in tempera- worth hearing, and with all lirst an easy I telling him music ment, is mistake, I suppose. That was found myself and pictures, of anything and of honey, and, surprisingly in con- too. Miggs a come-what- humor to spice the words. re- He was a about ambitions, about the rything. brown that may-er, with a bubbly little laugh weakness, a weakness in me that grand my Sometimes Dwight told trast, eyes so dark a person in himself, and larger found me be- jection slips which formed the ^stories about almost black. It's hard to and a way with men. She, Dwight unable to face facts, to sides, he was his son, Tommy, of they're exactly what I wanted the ideas said, look life in the eye, to part of my mail, about °m he seemed to convince people that we are sisters. was pink champagne, and I call my to be, had achieved ,. be very proud. exactly what as ideas S hair is black was still Burgundy of good vintage. emotions by their right names. which seemed so wonderful hard to bel >eve that Dwight It's not only that my But I wanted to achieve; and coi!u to indulge he was a and which, turned flat wa have smoothly into a knot on It was because Dwight felt that that weakness, to lie to writer somehow, a son old enough to and done of firm and 1- nav established repu- dull as paper. I V' « finished that my skin is so white Miggs ought to know more young 2U they went on college. my neck, «""°* IUD10 """MBO, 1942 21 — —

people that we met his son. My out. Tommy was a taller, and, of learned to peel potatoes his edu- sister had gone to the movies with course, younger edition of his father, cation begins here and now." a girl from school one night, and with a close cap of dark brown They got along well, Tommy and Dwight, pouring himself another hair which was just as his father's Miggs, but more like brother and j cup of coffee, asked lightly, "Zelda, must have been before the gray sister than like a boy and a girl what's the matter around here? crept in. His eyes were a bright, who, by all the laws of nature, Miggs ought to have the young clear blue, full of the joy of living, ought to fall in love. I had a strange fellows trampling each other in the and he held his handsome head feeling, watching them that first crush. Hasn't she any boy friends?" proudly. Laughter came easily to night, but it was quite a while be- i him; he had the gaiety which only fore I was able to put a name LAUGHED. a combination of youth and easy to that feeling. Somehow, some- [ "She had plenty, back home. But she's only been assurance can bring. where deep inside me, where that here a little while, you know. Hardly "Look what I brought you," fire had kindled, something stirred time to make friends in a strange Dwight called to Miggs that first as I watched them together, heard place. And my friends—well, they're evening, and he came in with their ceaseless, amusing banter, lis- older." Tommy, who was blushing a bit tened to their amiable bickering and grinning to prove that he wasn't, "I'll have to bring Tommy about anything and everything, behind him. around," he said. "This is a situ- saw how they touched each other ation that needs remedying, and old I started forward to greet them, easily and unawarely, as children Dr. Foster prescribes large doses of and then something stopped me, as do, without the disturbing, unbal- surely if a young Tommy Foster. He's been as hand had been laid ancing sensation of, "I am a woman; on my shoulder, and I stood stock in Washington—he's doing a re- you are a man." still, looking at Tommy. For the search job for the war effort that Suddenly I knew what it was. life of me I couldn't have told you makes me mighty proud of him "Zelda Manning," I accused myself, what that sensation was, but it but he's due home in a couple of was "you're jealous — you're jealous! there. Excitement, days." breath-held You're jealous of those two because waiting, a shy desire, like a child's, "How old is he?" I asked. they're so gay and carefree, so to run and hide when there's com- "Twenty-two. And if I do say so young! You're jealous because pany. Heaven knows, I'd seen a so, he's the handsomest lad you've they're having all that you missed." lot of young men in my time, but laid eyes on in many a moon. And it was true. I felt as if I'd this wasn't just any young man. He's still kid enough to want to grown old without ever having been This was Tommy, and there was be on the go every minute, but young. In high school I'd been magic in his smile, in his voice, in he'll settle down." The laughter both shy and studious, a combi- his eyes. It was as if there had lighted Dwight's eyes. "He's really nation guaranteed to scare off the been, all of my life, a fire laid deep a good joe, as Miggs would say. boys. College might have been dif- inside me, waiting for Tommy Fos- And so he is—he takes after his ferent, but father died and I had ter to come along and set a flame mother." The laughter died, and to leave, to come to the city, to go to it. Dwight's face became still. to work. I'd met an editor an older Miggs, self-assured as only Miggs — "Tell me about his mother," I woman—and through her, her can be, covered my silence by tak- urged softly. friends, all older, too. Somewhere ing possession of Tommy with, one "She's dead," he answered briefly, along the line I'd entirely skipped hand and the steak Dwight had but I had known that, and waited the stage my sister was going brought with the other, and carry- for him to go on. After a moment through, the stage of silly, mean- ing both off to the kitchen. "You he did. "We were married young ingless jokes, of laughter that two can write the Great American much too young, I suppose. Mar- comes without prompting, of skirts Novel," she called back over her ried without any sort of future to and sweaters and flat-heeled shoes, shoulder. "If Tommy hasn't yet bank on. She had to work hard, of jalopies, of nut-fudge-goo sun- Ethel did, to help me make ends daes at the corner drug store. And meet in those days. Perhaps she I felt cheated. I was old, yes, worked too hard—anyway, Tommy without ever having been young, was just ten when she died. Since and even the men who came to then I've been—tried to be, anyway see me—I looked at Dwight with —all that both a mother and father bitterness—were old enough to have should be to my son." grown-up sons! Life had somehow His hand, resting on the arm of contrived to steal its happiest mo- my best terrace chair, had tight- rpents from me. ened into a fist. I put mine over it The strength of that feeling shook briefly. "I'm sure you have," I told me, left me empty, as if I were him, and I was sure. There could a hollowed -out shell of myself. be no finer, kinder man than Dwight "You're a fool," I told myself Foster in the world. shakily, "you're a fool! Why, he's He looked up. "Don't be so sol- only a—only just a kid. You're emn, Zelda—it's all long gone. Look, twenty- eight years old—old enough I'll bring Tommy around soon. Sup- to know better! Besides, he wouldn't pose we were to turn up on your look at you." I tried to smother doorstep with a steak Thursday the new fire, to thrust it deep into night.. Would you cook it for us?" the place where women keep their "Thursday will be fine," I assured secrets that they don't like to ac- him. knowledge, even to themselves. But "Love is for Keeps" was adapted for Thursday was fine—it was won- the smoldering was there, ready to Radio Mirror by Doris McFerran -from derful, and so were all the evenings burst into flame again each time the original radio drama, "Against after that when Tommy and his the Rules," by Dena Reed, broadcast Tommy spoke to me. father came to see us or to take us over Station WBEN, Buffalo, N. Y. In the next two weeks we went

22 RADIO MIRROR out a great deal, the four of us. Sometimes together, sometimes in pairs because Dwight said that he couldn't keep up with Tommy's pace - that - kills running around. Too, Dwight liked to do different things from those that Miggs and Tommy did. They went dancing, or sat through double feature horror movies, or saw the lighter musical comedies, or just went bus-top or ferry riding. Dwight and I had seen many plays that spring, and gone to many concerts, and we kept on doing those same things. But now they had lost their flavor for me. The lines of the plays seemed flat and lifeless; the music sounded dull and off-key. And I kept finding my- self wondering what Tommy and Miggs were doing, how they felt about each other. Was he falling in love with her? Was she falling in love with him?

^HE a"hswer to the second question was perfectly obvious. She was. Miggs was radiant. But with Tommy it was differ- ent. I'd told myself that Tommy wouldn't look at me, but it soon became apparent that he would. I suppose there's always something glamorous about an older girl, some- thing which intrigues and excites a young man. He did look at me. At first I thought it was my imagi- nation, my wishful thinking. And then with a surge of reckless joy of which some small part of me was just a little ashamed, I acknowl- edged that he was beginning to look at me in the way a woman wants a man to look at her. I was like two women in those days—two women who quarreled bitterly. Part of me was falling in love with Tommy, and yielding to it with a joyous abandon. Part of me scolded, told me I was a fool, warned me over and over again of Being with Tommy was fun, and I need- the futility of falling in love with ed fun! I kept telling myself that so I. a man much younger than I was just having a postponed fling. One night Dwight and I had planned to go to a concert. Tommy wasn't coming over; Miggs was out, catching up on some sadly neglected knowledge flowed through me, and My laugh sounded high and false studying with one of the girls when I looked at Tommy I knew in my own ears. "All right, let's from school. But when the doorbell that he felt it, too. Hastily I dis- do something foolish, Tommy." rang, there was Tommy, alone. engaged my fingers. It was a beautiful night, because "Dad's going to be tied up," he "Of course. Have you the con- that night I thought I had learned explained. "Some mix-up over the cert tickets?" to be young again. We rode on an movie rights to 'Rain Still Falls,' He nodded. "Yup. But Zelda— open-topped bus. We strolled along and he's conferring all over the Zelda, let's not go to the concert. the crowded streets in the heart of place with a big shot from Colossal Let's do something fun—how about the city, feeling a warm glow as Pictures." He grinned. "I'm his it? Know what I'd like to do? I'd we watched the soldiers and sailors proxy. Okay?" like to shake some foolishness into with their girls. We tried our skill He held out his hand to me, as I you. Honestly, you might as well be with the "Get a Nazi" machine guns. had often seen him hold it out to someone's old maid aunt, the way We drank coconut milk. Then we Miggs. I took it, and knew that I you talk and the way you act. You're went into a little, noisy tavern, and could not possibly capture the too pretty for that. You're the love- danced to the music of a juke box. brother-sister feeling, the touch of liest woman I've ever known," he Miggs woke up when I turned hands which means nothing. "I am added, a new seriousness coming on the light in our bedroom a woman; you are a man." That into his voice. Continued on page 61

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Now that her decision was made, a strange, ecstatic shiver ran through Tina, a

shiver of release and liberation. She was free to find happiness, to find love

YOU'LL think I was terribly he said, "Thank you very much." ing desperately to sound forbidding silly. You'll say it's scatter- Deliberately, he placed the tray and austere—"hasn't much point, brain Tina Martin, running two on my table and sat down beside has it?" ways at once and never making up me. I was upset because I hadn't He nodded gravely. "I'm afraid her own heart about anything. expected him to take it that way you're right." Maybe I'll say you're right, too. at all. "It wasn't an invitation," I I went on eating. After a pause But I had to escape that night, for gasped. "I simply didn't want you he asked, "Do you come here often?" a little while, to get away from to upset the tray." "No." everything—Vern, and all the talk, "But you were the cause of it," "You wanted to get away from even from Moms and Dad. Oh, I he answered quietly. "Because I people—to be by yourself?" knew Vern was an exceptional was looking at you, you know." "Yes." young man. Solid and forceful and "I'm afraid I do." I tried to "And what do you do, most of —as Dad always says—bound to sound very cold and distant, the the time? Work?" make his mark, never you fear. I way Moms sounds when she's an- "Why—no. I gave up my job, a was lucky to be marrying him. noyed with Dad about something. few weeks ago, because I'm going The wedding was only a short It was a little difficult because to be—" time off and we'd been planning well, because he was grinning. I stopped. There wasn't the slight- to spend the evening going over I know. You can't just like a est reason to answer his questions, arrangements. It wasn't to be a big man, all of a sudden, because he to tell him about myself, or my wedding—my parents couldn't have happens to sit down at your table plans for marriage. I wanted to, afforded that sort of thing. But all in a cafeteria. But I did. in a way, but I knew I shouldn't. his relatives and all mine would be It wasn't his looks, either. In You don't talk over your life's there. Cousins and aunts and peo- looks he couldn't hold a candle to story with a stranger. ple you hardly ever see except at Vern. Neither did he have that ag- He was looking off into distance, weddings and funerals. I had to gressive way that made you so sure lost in thought for a second. Then get away from the talk about them, Vern was going ahead. He seemed he went on, unperturbed, "I clerk, where they'd stay and who would a little scared, in fact, as though you know. Radio department. All be with this one and all that. Only he realized he was saying things kinds of radios. But that's only for for a little while. Only for a few he didn't have the right to say. But a little while now. I've enlisted in short hours stolen from time. there was something about him, the air corps. Soon as it comes I'd been shopping and I didn't something in his manner. He was through—but I don't want to talk go home to supper. I felt like a tall, and his face was pale and with about myself. What I really want truant, even wicked, but all I had his dark eyes he seemed almost like to know is who you are, why you in my pocket was fifty cents and all a poet or maybe an artist. came here —tonight? Haven't you I planned to do was stop in at the I turned away irom him quickly any friends cafeteria on Sumner Street and and devoted my attention to dinner. "Naturally, I have friends," I an- have dinner alone. Not a terribly After a moment he said, "I see swered hotly. Then, afraid I might exciting adventure. But it's funny you're having clam chowder, too." have hurt him, "Why—haven't you how you can be alone in a crowd I glanced up, regarding him any?" of people, completely and utterly coolly. "Yes." He shook his head. "Not many. alone because no one knows you "Nice and hot, isn't it?" What's your name?" and you know none of them. "Yes." I debated replying to that and My thoughts were miles away "But rather a damp night out." at last I said, "It's Tina." and I hardly saw the man coming I couldn't help smiling and he "Mine's Stan." toward the table until he was close smiled back and there was some- It was foolish—but the more he to me, holding the tray in a pre- thing electric about it. It's awfully talked, the more I liked him and carious manner. I was sure it would hard to describe. Only I sensed it, liked the things he said. It was spill and I said, "Better sit down whatever the force was, drawing us perfectly insane and incomprehen- with that, don't you think?" together. And I was terribly afraid sible. We'd quite finished our din- His lean face broke in a smile he did, too. ner and should have left long ago and his dark eyes sparkled as "This conversation—" I was try- and we sat there, instead, talk-

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ing. At last I said to him, "You know, That's about how much sense it cared for him, in a certain way, I haven't any business talking to you All the made way home I was be- and he would give me the kind of this way." rating myself in no uncertain terms, life I wanted and help Moms and "I know, Tina," he agreed. "A And when I got home, Moms and Dad. lovely girl, talking with a strange Dad and Vern took up I where You see, we were pretty poor. young man. If it were anyone else left off. Dad had given up his job as fore- but me, I'd be worried." Exactly what had I been doing? man at the factory because of ill He had such a proper tone. I said, Where had I been for dinner? Vern, health and we were living on the "You're not—very strange." with his usual so-certain-of-himself few dollars we had saved up. That air, strode up and down the room, was all right as long as I was work- gUT you are—very lovely, Tina." talking to me in a tone you'd use ing and bringing in my share. I'd He eyed me critically then. on a ten-year-old, promising me given up my job a week before "Maybe that's it. Maybe it's all a that after I was married he'd help because Vern didn't want me to snare. That glistening hair and those me to find myself, to attain emo- work. Vern's real estate business blue-green eyes and the red lips— tional stability. was growing swiftly and he'd be "Stan!" I said his name almost Moms and Dad joined in with him. able to take care of me and Moms without realizing. "You talk as if Dad sat there in the easy chair, his and Dad, too. So even though I as if you'd known me for ages." white hair mussed and his square didn't love him as much as I should, He was suddenly serious. "Per- chin thrust out a little and his eyes it didn't matter, because he was haps I have, Tina. I mean I feel worried. — going to bring so much to all of that way. Isn't it odd, that's what "Tina Tina where have you — — us. I was grateful and I knew I everybody in love says— been? We've all been upset, won- shouldn't think of anyone else and He stopped short. I could feel my especially not heart thumping, and he was staring Especially not a boy named Stan. at in incredulous me wonder. Only the trouble was, I did think "Of course," he went on, hur- about him. It was two days until I riedly, stammeringly, "I didn't— would see again. — him I kept remem- mean, I haven't—it really bering the dark eyes, the twisted "Of course, I understand what dA)e*t Montk grin. Telling myself it wasn't im- you mean," I said. "You didn't portant, that I didn't have to be mean— In Living Portraits: afraid to see him again. And we were looking at each But I should have been afraid, other. Looking at each other and because in the several times I saw afraid to speak because we both The people of Sandra him after that, my whole universe knew, both realized. I began to seemed to change. Oh, we never feel almost terrified. I'd stepped Michael's exciting put it into words. We talked mostly into some magic circle. What was about books and movies and things happening was unreal, impossible. serial drama like that. But I did tell him about I remember trying to think very myself—and about my coming mar- clearly, telling myself that the emo- AGAINST THE riage with Vern and he said he tion running through me was only hoped I'd be very happy. because he was new and different STORM I learned about him in those and perhaps exciting, but it didn't meetings, too. He'd had to go to mean anything, it couldn't. But I in the December work after he left grammar school, also knew I had to get away from but he'd studied at night and read him, as quickly as I could. RADIO MIRROR on the side and now he was working I said, "This is really—wrong. as a clerk in Sutton's Department I've got to go. I can't— Store and going to night school, "You're frightened, aren't you, learning the technical side of avi- Tina?" he asked softly. "You're ation. His parents were dead and frightened because you feel the he hadn't many friends, and his in- same thing I do." come didn't allow him to lead any "Stan—maybe you're right. I dering if anything had happened. strenuous social life. don't know what it is. I do know Really we were, you know." I've got to go home. Now." He smiled at me a little. Moms HPHE third time we saw each I couldn't say I wouldn't meet was looking at me too, gray eyes other, we couldn't seem to say him again. I knew I should have reproachful. I felt I had to tell them goodnight there in the crowded cafe said goodbye and walked out of his something and I finally admitted with the tall, stoutish lady named life and forgotten him. Yet when part of the truth—that I'd wanted Rita hovering over us. Rita ran the he pleaded with me to see him to be alone a little while, all alone cafe and seemed to consider herself again, I couldn't say no. He sug- to myself. godmother to all the customers. gested a cafe, a small, out-of-the- Moms surprised me then. She said I let him take me home that night. way place he said was delightful, perhaps she understood, that per- We stood in the hallway of the and I heard myself promising to haps she had been something like apartment house to say goodbye meet him there. that herself, long ago, before she and, somehow, our arms were It was as if someone else were married Dad. It was curious how around each other. speaking, as if I were two persons. she halted in telling me that, how "Tina—you know, don't you?" I was standing off and watching this she and Dad looked at each other I swallowed hard. I couldn't an- other girl make a date with a man and you could almost imagine they swer. He leaned down, pressing his she didn't know and was terribly had some secret understanding. lips against mine, drawing me to attracted to and I knew that other That night, when I went to bed, I him. I closed my eyes, trying to girl was being foolish and yet I kept repeating to myself that Vern hold tight to my emotions. The didn't blame her. was fine and loved me and I really warmth of Continued on page 70

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JAMES BRENT, M.D., has never lost the high ideals of service with which he entered the study of medi- cine, but he has learned that fulfilling them in practice isn't as easy as discussing them in theory. Jim's brilliant work as an intern at City Hospital brought him to the post of surgical assistant to Dr. Reginald Parsons, Chief of Staff. Then his career suffered a temporary setback when he was shot through the hand in a quarrel with his brother. Thinking his injury was permanent, he went to Pine Cone Ridge, where he met Dr. Thompson and Sylvia Bertram, who were instrumental in curing his obsession that he would never operate again. Eventually he returned to City Hospital to become Parsons' successor as Chief. Jim once planned to marry Mary Holt, but they were unsuited to each other. Later he was engaged to Carol Evans, and although they quarreled and broke the engagement, they are still deeply in love. (Played by Ken Griffin) 28 RADIO MIRROR , DR. REGINALD PARSONS, former Chief of Staff at City Hospital, is a proud, arrogant man. It was this arrogance that led to his resigna- I tion from the hospital. Parsons, years ago, was the husband of Helen Gowan. Later, he married Sylvia Bertram, but that marriage, too, ended in divorce. He is a brilliant surgeon but in any crisis

it always happens that he is his own worst enemy. It was his jealousy of Dr. Brent which lost him his position as Chief of City Hospital. After Jim's return to the hospital, when Parsons was proved wrong in his prophecy that Jim's hand was permanently in- jured, the relations between the two were never quite as friendly as before, and slowly grew worse until Parsons took issue with Jim on a matter of hospital policy, was defeated by the governing board, and resigned, leaving the post of chief of staff open for Jim. He is now only a wreck of his former self since he has per- mitted his innate craving for liquor to get the better of him. (Played by Reese Taylor)

CLAUDIA WILSON was brought to City Hospital suffering from a ruptured appendix. From the very first there were puzzling aspects to her case, and Dr. Brent and Doc Thompson became suspicious of her aunt and uncle, her only relatives. When Claudia showed, during convales- cence, no desire to leave the hospital, Jim lost no time in investigating, and discovered that she was a wealthy girl whose parents had been killed eight years before. Since then she had been kept in strictest seclusion by her aunt and uncle, while they squandered her money. As a result of her treatment, Claudia has become timid and mentally immature. Thus Dr. Jim's problem of bringhig her back to health is partly a psychological one. (Played by Sarajane Wells)

29 SYLVIA BERTRAM (left)—cold, cal- culating, with a subtle and clever mind —is day supervisor of nurses on the third floor at City Hospital. She first entered Jim Brent's life when he fled to Pine Cone Ridge, convinced that he would never operate again. She chose to marry Dr. Parsons because she thought he would be more successful than Dr. Brent. But this union was terminated by divorce. Since then, Sylvia has worked at City Hospital, devoting herself to attempts to domi- nate Dr. Brent. It was she who per- suaded Jim to pursue the dispute which ) led to Dr. Parsons' resignation. If Sylvia had her way she would destroy all of Jim's fine humanity and send him ruthlessly on his way to the top of his profession. Unfortunately for her, Jim is not always easily led away from what he knows is right. (Played by Lois Zarley)

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HELEN GOWAN STEPHENSON, right, was a nurse in City Hospital when Dr. Brent interned there. She has had a tragic life. Her first ma~riage, to Dr. Parsons, ended in divorce after the birth of a son whom Parsons turned over to friends, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stephen- son, to raise, refusing to tell Helen where the baby was. It was only when the boy was brought to City Hospital as a patient that Helen saw him again. Later, Mrs. Stephenson having died, she married Tom and they were ideally happy until his death in a motor accident. Now Helen lives entirely for the boy, although he refuses to recognize her as his mother. She is constantly sending gifts to him at his school. (Played by Muriel Bremner) 1

also a doctor. She tji«i thew le met Dr. Jim Brent through her brother Bill, "™ CAROL EVANS first tha a Carol's feeling for Jim grew stronger she realized of Sam Martin, whom she had never loved. As resumed her maiden name. Most o < her life divorce was the only solution. After this divorce she have fostered her naturally d^«tion and Carol has been used to wealth and luxury, but they «^ keep his ideals th is more interested in seeing Jim now, a mature woman, she ^ Jim. bitterly resents Sylvia Bertram s effortsZZtTfntLZjZ'to advise This, more than mere jealousy, is why she so (Played by Louise Fitch) 31 NOVEMBER, 1942 II SALLY BARNETT, night super- visor of nurses on the third floor of City Hospital, is as unlike her daytime colleague, Sylvia Bertram, as possible. She's gay, friendly and forthright in all her dealings with others. Naturally, she is very popular and everyone, from doctors to other nurses, likes to drop in and chat with her when she's on duty. It's never been any secret that Sally's feel- ings for Doc Thompson went deeper than mere friendship, and everyone was glad when he over- came his shyness and proposed. Now that they're married, they should make a very happy couple. (Played by Viola Berwick)

DR. RALPH THOMPSON, usually known simply as "Doc," has none of the polished suavity you'd expect to find in the resident physician of a great hospital. He's homespun, quietly humorous, and the possessor of a salty, realistic philosophy. Doc became Jim Brent's fast friend when the latter was in Pine Cone Ridge, and when Jim had the oppor- tunity to install Doc at the hos- pital as resident, he lost no time in doing so. Now Doc has become a valued member of the staff. Very little gets past his shrewd and knowing eyes, and he has pretty accurately taken the mea- sure of everyone with whom he has come in contact. He is com- pletely loyal to Dr. Jim, although there are times when he cannot entirely approve of his actions. (Played by Sidney Breeze) 32 —

He patted my hand. "Remember, what- ever you want—I'm working for you."

wHEN Eddie came to the that ladder. I had to climb so high Rudy Scallare happened to walk dressing room door and told me his that nothing could ever drag me in for a sandwich late one night. agent friend had stopped off in back to the life I hated. He stood there in the doorway Chicago on his way from Holly- That was the way I thought of watching me tidy up, listening to wood just to see our act, I knew it—I see now how wrong it was. me sing to myself. I didn't even that this was my big chance. For Instead of dreaming where my know he was there. six months I had been singing at voice would carry me into fame Dad didn't try to make me turn the Clover Club, learning every- and money and success—I kept down Rudy's offer of a job in one thing I could from Eddie, who was thinking of how I'd be getting out of his night clubs, though I could a dancer and master of ceremonies of the poverty and drudgery I had see he didn't care for Rudy's looks. there, and now it seemed to me I'd known all my life. I couldn't forget I didn't either, for there was some- learned all he could teach me. It the stacks of unwashed dishes at thing hard about him that scared was time to take the next step up the little Home Plate Diner which me, but I looked at the camel's the ladder. And I had to go up I'd been helping Dad to run when hair topcoat he was wearing and

"He travels fastest who travels alone" the old adage says. But it took a tragedy to show Marie that lonely travelers almost never find the right road to happiness a

the wonderful tailored suit and was wrong with him, with his custom-made shoes, and I knew dancing? Of course, I was learning he could back up his offer. That enough about show business to was all I cared about. I had to get know that anybody might go broke away from the Home Plate. And and have to fill in with almost any Dad didn't try to stop me, though kind of job till they got another my leaving would make it hard good engagement. Especially Eddie, for him to keep the diner going. because he never let anything stop He wasn't one to clip anybody's his monthly check to his mother, wings. money which also took care of the "It'll just be for a little while," kid sister still in High School. But I told him. "When I begin making taking a job and staying in it were money, you can retire and never do two different things. An agent had another lick of work, just sit in the auditioned us once before and sun all day." nothing came of it. Eddie must have some weakness in his work JJE had it coming, I told myself, that I wasn't experienced enough he deserved everything I could to see. But he'd been swell to me, do for him, after all the years he'd I owed him a lot, and I wouldn't slaved for his family. Now I was leave him till I'd paid it back and the only one he had left, and it then some! I'd stick with him till was up to me to come through. we were both in the big time and And with something big, nothing I wouldn't leave him till I was sure simple like going on using my two he'd get along all right without me. hands to help him wait on cus- But then—on my own—nothing tomers and wash dishes in the Home could stop me. I'd hit the heights! Plate Diner out on the highway This was all mixed up in my among the bleak dunes east of heartbeats as I looked up at Eddie Wher Chicago. Oh, no! It had to be some- standing there in the doorway of there thing spectacular, something worthy my dressing room, smiling the cute, hands of my dreams. funny little smile that always sort chin, Ed But there was nothing very spec- of quivered around the corners of pretty tacular about those six months at his mouth so that you couldn't "Oh,

j the Clover Club—nothing except quite figure what he was thinking.. eyes ai my stage fright every time I went "Let's hear your first number," that I out and stepped into that spotlight. he said in that gentle, kind voice him I don't know what I'd have done if that always put confidence in me. and Eddie Rogers hadn't been there from "Just take it easy now, and don't thin ar the start. All that saved me was I told talk- bristle forget what you about I his endless patience, his coaching ing the verses." Willi in my songs, and teaching me sim- So I stood there looking into "Sur ple dance routines, working me into Eddie's eyes that were half-closed "It's his own acts, showing me how to and thoughtful so they were just you gc do everything from walking to bright blue gleams between the what breathing, none of which is as sim- thick dark lashes, and I sang to remer ple as it looks before you try it him. I sang my dreams of taking I'm under the glare of the spotlight. Dad into peace and sunshine, free Anc I worked hard for him, terribly forever from stacks of cheap ham- room hard. I had to. With Eddie, every burger and endless piles of greasy leavinl tiniest detail had to be perfect if unwashed dishes in the pitiful little queer .| it meant going over it one thou- Home Plate Diner. thing sand times. I began to see why his When I had finished, Eddie came me. own steps clicked off the way they over and put a hand on my shoul- him did, so that it seemed as if his feet der. It felt good, so strong and was just danced of themselves, as if firm and—well, friendly, just the enougl his slender body was a puppet being way Eddie himself was. You could vancef jerked on invisible strings, with count on that hand, just as you And his legs all loose, but every careless could count on Eddie himself, to see for step so true that hearing his toes you through anything. You on the floor made tears come to "Now is the night," Eddie said, One my eyes, like symphonic music. his voice sort of husky with excite- man. I wondered, times like that, why ment. "It's Ellsworth Lane him- and t| Eddie had to stay in a third-rate self, for once an honest guy. With so it place like the Clover Club. What him you can break up that word trave 'agent' and it still spells him— But maybe it was just because 1 gent." there never had been anything per- Adapted by Hope Hale from the broadcast I laughed sort of absent-mindedly. sonal between us that Eddie's queer, drama "Chicago Story," Eddie was always cracking that almost sad little smile as he said way, keeping himself in the groove those last words seemed to upset for his master of ceremonies role. me. I felt scared, terribly scared. I couldn't think of anything now With him gone out of my dressing but the fact that tonight could mean room it seemed as if my voice had everything to me. gone too. I didn't see how I could

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Eddie lay there on the sidewalk, his face a terrible gray under the street light. I forced back a scream and managed to hail a cruising taxicab.

go out there and stand in the spot- you are. Don't try to hide it with shouldered figure of Rudy Scallare. light and sing. My fingers shook a lot of make-up and those red His black beady eyes were run- as I tried to hook the simple little dresses that make you look like you ning over me with that examining white organdy dress Eddie had are masquerading as the Queen of look that always scared me because made me buy for our new act. Twelfth Street. We want the cus- it seemed to see too much. "Hey, When I had it on, I looked into tomers to see you tonight—just as what's the idea of not wearin' the the mirror and I didn't feel any you are—just as I see you " And red dress I bought you?" he asked better. My ash-blonde hair looked he'd broken off with a sort of em- angrily. pale and colorless. My eyes were barrassed chuckle, shrugging in a "Eddie—Eddie said I had to wear big but there was nothing glamor- way that would have made me this for our new act," I faltered. ous about their gray-blue. My lips want to kiss him if I had been in- "Since when is Eddie boss?" Rudy were not lush and provocative and terested in kisses, which I wasn't. asked, biting hard on the dead Eddie wouldn't let me smear on the cigar that was always between his lipstick to make them look that t>UT remembering his words thick red lips. "Since when do you way. What I saw in the glass was didn't help. I needed him right take that hoofer's word for what a timid little schoolgirl in a white there in person to reassure me. And my customers want?" dress, and I knew I'd act the part. just as I was wishing it, there was a "But he worked out this act just I told myself that was all right. knock on the door. Before I'd had to fit my personality," I argued Eddie had said over and over in time to remember that Eddie would weakly. "He said every detail had his patient kind voice, "Your only be busy right now with the show, to be just right tonight, because there's an agent out there to chance, Marie, is to be yourself. the door opened and I felt a pang — see Your shyness is part of the sweet of disappointment—and of fear. us pure quality that makes you what In the mirror I saw the heavy- "I know," Rudy grunted. "But

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with his was wrong with him. the wonderful tailored suit and .learning Of course, I was and I knew dancing? custom-made shoes, business to That enough about show he could back up his offer. go broke that anybody might was all I cared about. I had to get know in with almost any away from the Home Plate. And and have to fill they go another Dad didn't try to stop me, though kind of job till Especially Eddie, it hard good engagement. my leaving would make stop never let anything for him to keep the diner going. because he his mother, his monthly check to He wasn't one to clip anybody's the also took care of wings. money which School. But sister still in High "It'll just be- for a little while," kid were job and staying in it him. I begin making taking a I told "When agent had do two different things. An money, you can retire and never and auditioned us once before another lick nf work, just sit in the must nothing came of it. Eddie sun all day." work have some weakness in his wasn't experienced enough E had it coming, I told myself, that I II he'd been swell to me, he deserved everything I could to see But a lot, and I wouldn't do for him, after all the years he'd I owed him I'd paid it back and slaved for his family. Now I was leave him till stick with him till the only one he had left, and it then some! I'd the big time and was up to me to come through. we were both in leave him till I was sure And with something big, nothing I wouldn't right without me. simple like- going on using my two he'd get along all own—nothing hands to help him wait on cus- But then—on my heights! tomers and wash dishes in the Home could stop me. I'd hit the Diner the highway This was all mixed up in my Plat* out on speak, but just at Eddie When I didn't sat bleak dunes east of heartbeats as I looked up among the before the mirror with my the doorway of there Chicago. Oh.no! It had to be some- standing there in smiling the cute, hands clenched into fists under mm thing spectacular, something worthy my dressing room, always sort chin, Eddie said, "You want succesjrj of my dreams. funny little smile that corners of pretty terribly, don't you, Marie?^ But there was nothing very spec- of quivered around the couldn't "Oh, Eddie!" Tears came into mjt tacular about those six months at his mouth so that you thinking. eyes and my throat tightened so the Clover Club—nothing except quite figure what he was number," that I couldn't talk, couldn't tell; my stage fright every time I went "Let's hear your first voice him the dreams that choked me, out and stepped into that spotlight. he said in that gentle, kind I just stood gazing at Eddie's if confidence in me. and I don't know what I'd have done that always put don't thin ardent young face below the Eddie Rogers hadn't been there from "Just take it easy now, and talk- bristle of brown hair. "Will I— Mm start. All that saved me was forget what I told you about will I be all right?" his endless patience, his coaching ing the verses." into "Sure." He patted my hand,! in my songs, and teaching me sim- So I stood there looking going to go over OK. When ple dance routines, working me into Eddie's eyes that were half-closed "It's go out there, you just sing for his own acts, showing me how to and thoughtful so they were just you want out of life. And do everything from walking to bright blue gleams between the what you remember, whatever you want, breathing, none of which is as sim- thick dark lashes, and I sang to taking I'm working for it too." ple as it looks before you try it him. I sang my dreams of then he slipped out of my undei Mi.- glare of the spotlight. Dad into peace and sunshine, free And cheap room on his light, graceful feet, I worked hard for him, terribly forever from stacks of ham- very of greasy leaving me feeling suddenly hard I had to. With Eddie, every burger and endless piles was the closest to any- Unlesl detail had to be perfrri ii unwashed dishes in the pitiful little queer. That said to it with shouldered figure of Rudy Scallare. thing personal he had ever go out there stand in the spot- you are. Don't try to hide it meant going over it one thou- Home Plate Diner. and want red His black beady eyes were run- Goodness knows I didn't light fingers shook a lot of make-up and those I his finished, came me. and sing. ..,,,.! i began to see why When I had Eddie My what he make you look like you ning over me with that examining off the way they over put a hand on my shoul- him to be anything but as I tried to hook the simple little dresses that own steps clicked and scared me because I had masquerading as the Queen of look that always as if his feet It felt good, so strong and was with me—all business. white organdy dress Eddie had are did, so that it seemed der. too much. "Hey, the ad- Street. We want the cus- it seemed to see of themselves, as if firm and well, friendly, just the enough trouble handling made me buy for our new act. Twelfth just danced — idea of not wearln' the our boss. to see you tonight just as what's the his slender body was a puppet being way Eddie himself was. You could vances of Rudy Scallare, When I had it on, I looked into tomers dress I bought you?" he asked to look out just as I see you—" And red jerked on invisible strings, with count on that hand, just as you And I knew a girl had the mirror and I didn't feel any you are— business. broken off with a sort of em- angrily. his legs all loose, but every careless could count on Eddie himself, to see for sentiment in show better. My ash-blonde hair looked he'd said I had to wear Number chuckle, shrugging in a "Eddie—Eddie step so true that hearing his toes you through anything. You had to think first of pale and colorless. My eyes were barrassed for our new act," I faltered. over any that would have made me this the floor made tears come to "Now is the night," Eddie said, One and never get soft big but there was nothing glamor- way on •Since when is Eddie boss?" Rudy held true, him if I had been in- like symphonic music. his voice sort of husky with excite- man. The old maxim still ous about their gray-blue. My lips want to kiss nu eyes, asked, biting hard on the dead the gender in kisses, which I wasn't. I wondered, times like that, why ment. "It's Ellsworth Lane him- and truer if you changed were not lush and provocative and terested cigar that was always between his travels fastest who Eddie Eddie had to stay in a third-rate self, for once an honest guy. With so it read: "She wouldn't let me smear on the "Since when do you his words thick red lips. place like the t'lover Club. What him you can break up that word travels alone." lipstick to make them look that remembering BUT right take that hoofer's word for what just because way. didn't help. I needed him 'agent' and it still spells him— But maybe it was What I saw in the glass was per- me. And my customers want?" anything a in person to reassure gent." there never had been timid little schoolgirl in a white there out this act just Adapted by Hop. Halo queer, there was a "But he worked Eddie's I was wishing it, I laughed sort of absent-mindedly. sonal between us that dress, and I the part. just as tho bcoodco.l knew I'd act fit my personality," I argued from sai door. Before I'd had to smile as he I knock on the drama "Chicago Story," Eddie was always cracking that almost sad little told myself that was all right. would weakly. "He said every detail had to upse remember that Eddie lint hoard on Lin- way, keeping himself in the groove those last words seemed Eddie had said over and over in time to the show, to be just right tonight, because coln Highway ovor NBC, terribly scareo. his right now with for his master of ceremonies role. me. I felt scared, patient kind voice, "Your only be busy agent out there to see ipomored by Shi nolo. felt a pang there's an c door opened and I I couldn't think of anything now With him gone out of my hance, Marie, is to be yourself, the — ^^"ln» and of fear. us if voice "our of disappointment— but the fact that tonight could mean room it seemed as my shyness is part of the sweet "I know." Rudy grunted. "But t 1 heavy co" mirror I saw the everything to me. gone too. I didn't see how 1 Pure quality what In the that makes you 35 1UUM0 •""*" " " " " " — " " — "

don't think I'm worrying. If this a crazy feeling that he could hold in the midst of a tough day or a don't come to any more than that me here, he could imprison me for wild night, and kept .your heart last audition you had with— one of life, no matter what I tried to do from beating for a minute— ? Well, those Eastern wise guys about it. folks, if you did, I bet that vision "But that's just the point," I in- "I mean we ought to get married," was something like what you're go- sisted. "The last time I was wear- he said. "You and me tied up tight ing to see right now— ing a red dress and singing a torch with a preacher and a Bible and My knees were shaking and my song. Eddie says I shouldn't try to all the other props. Oh, yes, a ring!" hands were icy, my throat so dry I act like other night club singers.— He laughed loudly in my ear. "How knew no sound could come through. He says I have to be myself do you like that, me forgetting the Still, somehow I was moving my ring!" feet into that terrible glare of light, CWEET sixteen and never been I really shrank away from him doing the simple little gliding step kissed, huh?" Rudy smiled now; from his body and the thought that Eddie had taught me. Then scornfully, but as he said the words, of marriage to him. my hand found Eddie's strong one his smile changed so there was no "What's the matter, baby?" He and the orchestra played softer and scorn anymore but something else didn't seem bothered, he still smiled. softer till they were just the faint that always scared the wits out of "I may not be a prize for looks, but delicate accompaniment Eddie had me. He came closer and put his I've got something better. Some- drummed into them to give a back- hand on my shoulder. "I guess thing that would buy you anything ground for my voice. Then Eddie's that's not so far off at that, Marie," your little heart desires." hand tightened on mine and I knew he said. He bent over so that the Right then I wasn't thinking what I had to sing, and somehow I fumes of his half-smoked cigar that could mean, how it might mean started in: made me feel faint. "You're a nice another way to climb up from my girl, Marie, and I may be getting past and take an old man out of a "Here's a little bit of long ago soft in my old age but what you've hard life into the sunshine. I wasn't Here's what happened when got is good enough for me. And even listening to Rudy. All I wanted the earth was young I'm boss in the Clover Club— was to get his hand off my shoulder Here is dawn, daybreak and "But Rudy, don't you want me and his swarthy smiling face out sunrise to have ambition?" I pleaded against of my mirror. Here is the song of love as the implication of his words. "You "Rudy," I said quickly, "Thanks pagans heard it sung!" wouldn't want me to stay all my for asking me. It's—sweet of you. life in the Clover Club, would you?" But I can't answer you now. I've I could feel my voice grow Rudy kept smiling that same way, got to get ready for my act— stronger, my hand in Eddie's, as I his face round and bland, above the "O.K.," he said, his smile still un- went into the chorus with him, his heavy jowls that were always changed. "Think it over. The offer eyes smiling into mine, his feet freshly shaved but queerly blue- stands—for a while— moving firmly in a rhythm that white with the powder that never There was a sort of threat in the carried mine along, and his voice covered the dark stubble. "Maybe tone of his last words, but I tried clear and strong talking the words not right here in the Clover Club, to put it out of my mind. I had with me as I sang them: baby," he said softly. "But—well, other things to think of tonight! under my management, say ..." With my watch in my hand I "There was no word for love The significance of his words sent walked up and down humming my But there was love! shivers through me. song, then I went out to stand be- There is no need of words, "But I've got to get away," I said hind the screen that hid me from If there is love!" almost desperately. "I've got to the tiny dance floor where Eddie make good, get in the big time, go was trying to get the patrons into I don't remember the rest of our places— a mood for paying attention to our act very well now. I don't remem- He kept on smiling as if I had act. I thought he'd never reach ber whether people stayed quiet or been a little kid that didn't know my cue. It was a hard job he was whether they talked. I was looking what I was talking about. "Honey," doing, he always said he lost more into Eddie's eyes, borne along with he said, "you'll never go any place weight introducing an act than he him on his strong hand, and I was where you'll have things as soft as did doing his dance. Tonight he had conscious only of the knowledge right here with Rudy. You'd be a to get them very quiet, with Ells- that he and I had to finish this act smart girl to take the contract —I'm worth Lane out there and with in a blaze of perfection that would offerin' you—because it's for life such a different sort of thing to put make Ellsworth Lane know he had "For life?" I stared at him. over. What I had to offer, Eddie to take us out of the Clover Club "Rudy, what do you mean?" I had said, was too subtle to carry over and into the big time, away from a lot of raucous chatter and scream- the drudgery of the Home Plate ing. He had it fixed with the cap- and the frightening hands of Rudy tain so that there would be no Scallare. clatter of dishes and trays. But I It was over at last. Somehow we had the feeling it would take more had finished our final chorus and than Eddie could do for me to put dance. I don't remember what sort me across of hand we got at the end, or how "Did you ever get a vision, folks?" I got back to my dressing room. But Now it was coming. This was the there I was before my mirror staring part of Eddie's patter that was at my reflection, studying my face meant to lead up to my entrance. as Ellsworth Lane must have studied "Ever wake up suddenly in the it tonight under the spotlight, judg- night and see a sight that took you ing me coldly for the appeal I back a million years? Ever think might make to audiences who would of something, sort of see a picture pay good money. I sat there frozen that stopped you cold in your tracks in suspense, Continued on page 48

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"We'd never be happy together,"

she said—but they are. Here's

the real life romance of Bill

Stern and a girl who knew

when it was folly to be wise

IF ONLY his mother didn't keep By Adele Whitely Fletcher while we're at Charlevoix. Her reminding him about Harriette father and I are cousins. That makes May, Bill Stern thought, this vivid the color and excitement of a her—let me see—is it your second would be a perfect vacation. It was big football game for millions of lis- cousin or your first cousin once re- the evening of the Fourth of July, tening ears, as he does these fall moved? I never quite know . . . and two whole weeks of leisure Saturdays. But Bill had, as they Anyway, it doesn't matter. Her stretched ahead of him. The lawn say, been around. Back in New father brought her up—her mother of his uncle's country place fell York, he was stage manager at the died when she was born. He's away to a wooded lake, and on the Radio City Music Hall, and beautiful spoiled her a bit, I imagine." shore of the lake people were set- girls were no novelty to him, since Bill had said —suspiciously, "Yes. ting off fireworks which bloomed the Music Hall Rockettes are just I imagine. Well like gigantic flowers in the dusk. He about the most beautiful girls in the "Although I must say," his moth- sighed in deep content. world. When he was on vacation er went on, "she was charming the But then his mother remarked, he honestly didn't care whether or last time I saw her. So well-bred— "Harriette will probably drop in this not he even saw a girl—or so, at any Bill groaned. His mother had evening," and Bill's sigh stopped in rate, he said when his mother first asked him to be nice to girls she mid-air and became a grunt instead. brought up the subject of Harriette described as "well-bred" before. Bill Stern didn't have the fame in May. And he'd never liked them. "May- those days that he has now. He "She's really a very lovely girl," be," he said, "I'd better turn right wasn't NBC's crack sports an- Mrs. Stern had said defensively, around and go back to New York nouncer, and he had yet to make "and I want you to be nice to her and my dear little Rockettes. They're

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pretty, at least. I don't think I can Bill liked her low voice, her slow wine cards at the Stork Club. take a well-bred second cousin, smile, her ease. He was charmed He tried hard that night to per- Mother." because she was completely without suade Harriette to marry him. But To which Mrs. Stern, after the affectation; because she was as sim- she refused—firmly. way of mothers, paid no attention. ple and casual with her ^-father's "This is your life," she said when And now it was the evening of servants as she was with the men of they were bound for her hotel in Bill's second day at Charlevoix, and wealth and influence they enter- a taxi. "It suits you perfectly. But —as his mother had predicted tained at dinner and over long it wouldn't suit me. I have no gift Harriette May was coming across week-ends. for quick, facile friendships; for ac- the lawn. He liked the clean line she made cepting people instantly because one when she dove off the high board. facet in their personality happens TJLUE, green and golden stars, "That's how I fell for you," he to attract me, not caring about any- from one of the Fourth of July declared as they swam back to the thing else. I couldn't exist day after rockets, fell against the sky behind float together. "Right off the deep day, night after night, in the glare of her. Bill saw that she was small end." the spotlight. and graceful. His trained eye no- "You have terribly nice eyes," she "I'm not criticizing your life, Bill; ticed her simple brown chiffon gown, said, "but they do give you away, or you. I see what a grand, exciting her chartreuse slippers. And as she you know. They're always laugh- life it must be for anyone who is came closer, smiling, he saw she was ing ..." adapted to it. I can see how dull that luminous golden tan which "For the last two weeks, maybe," any other life would be, by com- blondes get to make their hair he said, adding significantly "For parison. lighter and their eyes bluer. the last two weeks I've been way "But marriage means sharing life. That was only the beginning. over on the happy side." We couldn't! Can't you see that?"

She always wore simple chiffon She lay on the float in the sun. He couldn't, or wouldn't, see it. gowns in the evening. By day she She cupped her little face in her But, nevertheless, he had to let favored linens—sky blue, yellow, or hands. Her blue eyes were level Harriette go away, steel himself lest moss green—with little cap sleeves and laughing. "You sound like an she come back with a diamond on and sharp low V-necks and white advertisement," she mocked. He her finger. belts and buttons. She had a white couldn't get her to take him seri- He watched her at the rail of her sharkskin bathing suit and one of ously. big ship, waving, with his purple Navy jersey with a sailor collar with Then, in what seemed no time orchids on her slim shoulder, while three rows of white braid and white at all, he found himself in his car the stretch of water between her stars. with his mother, headed Eastward. ship and the pier grew wider. De- She had simple chic always. All the way home he was quiet. His jectedly he walked off the pier, Every day, every night she and mother, who never had known him hailed a cab, started uptown. Then, Bill were together. They drove. to be quiet before, guessed what had suddenly, his heart did a back flop. They walked. They talked. They happened. She wasn't sure she He remembered her eyes and voice swam. They skyrocketed all over liked it, because her son's life was when she had been making her little the three lakes in the corner of built up on irregular hours and ir- speech the night before. Her eyes which Charlevoix was located in the regular habits—not at all the sort hadn't been cool and level. They speed boat he hired; white wings of of thing a girl of Harriette's back- had been protectively downcast. foam rising behind them. She drove ground would take to. But, wisely, Her voice hadn't been cool and that boat too, as effortlessly as she she said nothing. casual. It had been urgent, emo- drove the big family car, the sta- And two weeks later Bill wrote tional. In a flash he knew she cared, tion wagon, the gardener's Model asking Harriette to marry him. a little anyhow. T, and her sleek gray convertible. He had thought of nothing but her He stopped the cab to send her a since he had left her. Rehearsing radiogram. "Understand there are the in a couple of hot, high-pressure glam- Bill Stern, ace sports commentator, Rockettes a new routine he is on NBC daily at 6:45 and Satur- had found himself remembering the our boys on board," he told her. days at 10:00 P.M., EWT, and also way her slim brown hand had looked "Don't let them steal my heart. B." brings you descriptions of top loot- with her big sapphire winking on it Every letter he wrote after that ball games during the Fall season. was . . . Breakfasting at Reubens on a proposal. He also proposed scrambled eggs and Canadian bacon regularly over the telephone. That at five o'clock in the morning, be- was the year the telephone company fore going home to bed, he had declared an extra dividend. Eight- found himself remembering her een months after they met at habit of slipping her slim heels free Charlevoix, when her father died, and wiggling her brown and white he fairly implored her to marry him. slippers on her toes. "Don't urge me now, Bill," she He proposed to her in person said. "I might take what you'd call when she stopped off in New York a 'run-out powder' on the loneliness the following spring, en route to ahead—and say yes. That wouldn't Bermuda. They went dancing at be any good for either of us." El Morocco and the Stork Club. The "All right, Baby," he told her. hosts at both places were warned "I've reached the place where I'd be in advance that Bill would settle glad to take you any way I could get for nothing less than their best table. you. But for the time being we'll Stars of the radio and sporting file this away under 'Future Discus- " world, the stage and screen, came sion.' over to say hello. News photog- It was six months after that, at raphers snapped them against the about the time Bill went over to zebra striped lounges of El Morocco NBC as sports commentator, that he and again holding the unmistakable crashed. It Continued on page 81

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would never see or speak to Carter again; and Sam Young's answer was to punch Carter's father in the nose But Peggy, no matter how hard she tried, couldn't forget Carter, and several weeks later she was lifted to the heights of happiness when he came to tell her that he'd talked to his family, and that they were not only reconciled to having Peggy as a daughter-in-law but wanted her to come right away to visit them in their Chicago home!

IT WAS hard to believe, but it was true. Peggy Young squeezed Car- ter's hand and pressed her back firmly against the cushion of her seat. The vibrations of the plane's twin motors were a background fbr Carter's voice. Carter was happy. He was excited, too. He jumped from one thing to another, laughing at himself a little. He spoke of the future, of their wed- ding —he wanted a quiet one—and their house and what they would do evenings. He spoke of his mother and father. He was so sure of everything. Peggy was content with listening. She watched his quick, alive face and the smile in his dark eyes and she wished they were not in such a public place, because she wanted suddenly to kiss the corner of his mouth where his lips turned up- ward in the beginnings of a grin. It seemed so strange to feel safe like this. But Carter's certainty that his parents had changed their minds In exciting story form by Madeline Thompson, read the adventures of Pepper Young's Family, the radio serial had done so much to quiet Peggy's by Elaine Carrington, heard daily at 3:30 P.M., EWT, on fears and doubts that all the pain NBC and 2:45 on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. and loneliness of the past few months seemed far away, as though they had happened in another THE STORY met him at a U.S.O. dance without world to another girl. at first knowing anything about his "We're almost there," Carter said. \/f ANY years had passed since background. As Mrs. Young foresaw "Look—over there, darling. You Mary Young had married Sam when she learned about the ro- can see Lake Michigan." Young, but she still hadn't forgotten mance, Carter's parents bitterly op- Peggy's heart jumped. She the raptures and pains of first love. posed their only son's love for such glanced out of the plane window Surely that was why she was so an "ineligible" girl—but she couldn't and saw the glittering mirror of the tender and sympathetic when Peggy, foresee that they'd express their lake, far away, and the mass of her daughter, fell in love with Car- opposition so bluntly as to send a spires and roofs sticking up from ter Trent. Carter was the son of a lawyer to buy Peggy off. Peggy's the ground. Somehow, however, wealthy Chicago family, and Peggy answer to that was to swear she she knew that the sudden quickness

Was it better for Peggy to have only the memory of love than the bitterness of a marriage tha 40 RADIO MIHROR of her heart did not come from this. At the last moment, she realized she didn't really feel so safe, after all. The stewardess came along the aisle and pulled down each window shade. It was a wartime measure, she explained, to keep the pass- engers from seeing Army and Navy planes on the field as they landed. Moving blindly through space like that gave Peggy an empty feeling inside. At least, she hoped that was what caused it. Then the droning of the motors slowed down, died away. They were there! In another moment, Carter was helping her from the plane and they were walking toward a long, shiny limousine. Just as they reached the car, Mrs. Trent stepped out of it. Peggy watched Mrs. Trent hug Carter and kiss him happily. And Peggy was ' relieved. Mrs. Trent was small and her face looked gentle and sweet. Her hair was almost white and softly waved and her eyes were very blue and young looking. "So this is Peggy Young," Mrs. Trent said. She drew Peggy to her and kissed her on the cheek. "I'm very happy to know you, my dear. And I hope you will like us." "Sure she will," Carter said gaily. "It was swell of you to come down to meet us, Mother." Mrs. Trent shook her head at him with mock reproach. "You don't think I'd let you come home with- out a welcome, do you?" She pulled them toward the car, an arm about each one. The chauffeur had got their bags and stowed them in the front seat. Peggy relaxed in the back seat. She felt really free of doubt now. Mrs. Trent was nice. She was friendly and kind. She loved Carter, Peggy could see that. Somehow, Peggy was sure his mother would do any- thing for Carter's happiness. It was a pleasant drive, through the streets of Chicago, out on the Shore Drive and along the edge of the lake. Feeling confident and happy, now, Peggy was able to watch the Continued on page 82 seemed doomed from the start?

NOVEMBER, 1942 . W&Z

Presenting Ruth Wayne, the lovely heroine of radio's famous drama, and Dr. Reed Bannister, who loves her

RUTH WAYNE'S sweetness and charm make one DR. REED BANNISTER has been in love with long time, but was prevented overlook the strength of character which has shown Ruth Wayne for a his love his deep loyalty to itself in the trying days since the news came from telling her of by that her Army husband had been lost in action. her husband, Dr. John, who was his best friend. (Played by Nancy Marshall) (Played by Arnold Moss) 43 Friday on at 12:15 P.M., EWT Big Sister, sponsored by Rinso, is heard Monday through CBS No matter what comes before

it on the menu, this cran- berry orange pie will con- vince the whole family that the dinner has been perfect.

For quick and easy pies use the packaged pud- dings for fillings, as in the chocolate pie

and tarts at the left. Below, this molasses chiffon pie needs only a little brown sugar as

its sweetening agent.

we ran a favorite recipe 2 tbls. flour WHENcontest in the Cooking Corner Vs tsp. salt 1 cup corn syrup one correspondent told us a bit Vz cup orange juice advice handed down in her family of Grated rind of 1 orange from mother to daughter for genera- 1 tbl. melted butter tions. "No matter what else you Peeled orange slices cook, if you will make the dessert your husband likes, he will forgive Wash cranberries and run through and forget anything else wrong about a food grinder. Combine with sugar, a meal." flour, salt, corn syrup, orange juice Molasses Pecan Pie A good dessert won't excuse poorly and rind and melted butter and cook Pie pastry for single crust cooked meat and vegetables, of together, allowing to come to boiling % cup butter course, but it is true that most men point once. Cool and pour into baked V2 cup granulated sugar look forward to. the dessert course. pie shell. Just before serving, garnish 3 eggs, unbeaten Orleans type molasses And since many men mention pie as with peeled orange slices, allowing % cup New 1 cup sliced pecan meats their favorite dessert, here are a one slice per serving, and top each number of pie recipes for you to add slice with meringue made by beating Cream butter, add sugar and cream to your files. 1 egg white until stiff and beating in together. Add eggs, molasses and Two delectable pies are made with slowly 2 tablespoons corn syrup. lemon juice and beat with rotary egg cranberries and since cranberry beater until mixture is well blended. season will soon be here I'd like to Cranberry Raisin Pie Add pecan meats and pour into start off with cranberry orange pie Pie Pastry for double crust pastry lined pie plate. Bake at 450 and cranberry raisin pie. 3 cups fresh cranberries degree F. for 10 minutes, reduce heat *£ cup raisins 350 degrees F. and bake for 30 cup sugar to Cranberry Orange Pie % minutes more. 1% tbls. flour 1 baked pie shell % cup corn syrup 4 cups fresh cranberries % cup hot water Molasses Chiffon Pie 1 cup sugar Grated rind Vz lemon 1 baked pie shell V2 cup New Orleans type molasses Combine cranberries and raisins. V4 cup brown sugar Mix together sugar and flour and stir 3 tbls. ground chocolate BY into fruit. Combine corn syrup, hot 3 eggs water and lemon rind and mix with V3 cup milk other ingredients. Pour mixture into 1 tsp. cinnamon KATE SMITH nutmeg pastry lined pie plate and cover with V2 tsp. RADIO MIRROR'S y4 tsp. ginger second crust. Bake at 400 degrees F. FOOD COUNSELOR V4 tsp. salt about 45 minutes. 1 envelope plain gelatin Listen to Kate Smith's You probably noticed that corn 14 cup cold water daily talks at noon syrup plus very little sugar is used as a 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten and her Friday nighl sweetening of the above recipes. Now Variety Show, heard here are two other delicious pies Beat egg yolks slightly and combine on CBS, sponsored which rely on molasses as a chief in top of double boiler with molasses, by Genera/ Foods. ingredient. sugar, chocolate, Cont'd on page 65)

RADIO MIRROR 44 INSIDE RADIO -Telling You About Programs and People You Want to Hear SUNDAY MONDAY UJ Eastern War Time Eastern War Time News 8:00 Blue: News Blue Texas Jim 8:00 NBC Organ Recital U ZK 8:00 9:00 Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 8:00 9:00 NBC: Show Without a Name u s Blue: The Woodshedders 2:30 15 CBS: School of the Air 8:00 9:00 CBS: The World Today 8:00 9:00 Blue: World News 8:45 9:45 CBS Hymns of All Churches 9:00 News 8:00 NBC: from Europe 8:30 9:00 10:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 8:15 9:15 Blue: White Rabbit Line 8:45 9:15 J5 : H <:BS: Stories America Loves 8:15 9:15 NBC: Deep River Boys 9:15 10:15 Blue News 9:30 10:30 CBS: Honeymoon Hill NBC: Words and Music 9:30 10:30 Blue: Hank Lawson's Knights 9:30 10:30 NBC: Help Mate 9:00 10:00 CBS: Church of the Air 9:45 10:45 9:00 10:00 Blue: Fantasy in Melody CBS: Bachelor's Children 9:00 10:00 NBC: Radio Pulpit 9:45 10:45 Blue: Chaplain Jim — U. S. A. 9:45 10:45 NBC: Young Dr. Malone 9:30 10:30 CBS: Wings Over Jordan 10:00 11:00 CBS: Clara, Lu, 'n' Em 9:30 10:30 Blue: Southernaires 10:00 11:00 Blue: Breakfast at Sardi's 10:00 11:00 NBC: Road of Life 10:00 11:00 CBS: News 10:15 11:15 CBS: Second Husband 10:00 11:00 Blue: News 10:15 11:15 NBC: Vic and Sade Blue: Sunday Morning Revue 10:30 11:30 CBS: Bright Horizon 10:30 11:30 Blue: A House in the Country 8:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: Invitation to Learning 10:30 11:30 NBC Against the Storm 8:30 10:30 11:30 MBS: Radio Chapel NOT JUST A RADIO SHOW . . 10:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 10:45 11:45 NBC: David Harum 10:45 NBC: Olivio Santoro The Army Hour, on NBC every Sunday 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC: Words and Music 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: John Daly, News afternoon at 3:30, EWT, is more than a 9:00 11:00 12:00 Blue: News from Europe 9:15 11:15 12:15 CBS: Big Sister 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC: Sunday radio program. It's a military mission. Down South 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent CBS: Womanpower Everyone concerned with getting the show 9:30 11:30 12:30 Blue: Farm and Home Hour on the air thinks of it as something very 9:45 11:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle CBS: important and deeply vital to the welfare 10:00 12:00 1:00 Life Can Be Beautiful 9:30 11:30 12:30 Blue: Radio City Music Hall 10:00 12:00 1:00 Blue: Baukhage Talking 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC: Emma Otero of the nation and of the war effort. It 10:15 12:15 1:15 CBS: Woman in White 12:00 CBS: I'll 10:00 1:00 Church of the Air doesn't aim to inspire listeners—but it 10:15 12:15 1:15 MBS: Find My Way 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC: Robert St. John 10:15 12:15 1:15 Blue: Edward MacHugh does. Its main purpose is to tell America 10:30 12:30 1:30 Blue: Josef Marais 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Vic and Sade 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC: Silver Strings what the Army is doing. 12:45 1:45 CBS: The Goldbergs 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Spirit of '42 Probably no other radio program ever 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 11:00 1:00 Blue: Blue 1:00 NBC: Light 2:00 Theater was so difficult to broadcast. The Army 11:00 2:00 of the World 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC: Sammy Kaye 12:30 1:15 2:15 CBS: Joyce Jordan, Hour picks up voices all over the Girl Interne 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: St. Louis Opera from 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC: Lonely Woman 11:30 1:30 2:30 Blue: Yesterday and Today world, and to weld them into a fast- 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: We Love and Learn 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC: University of Chicago Round 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC: The Guiding Light Table moving, perfectly timed show is an engi- neering 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Pepper Young's Family 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: Columbia Symphony problem bigger than any ever 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: John Vandercook tackled before. Just to make things more 2:00 3:00 CBS: David Harum 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC: Music for Neighbors difficult, many of the preparations must 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: Prescott Holiday 12:15 2:15 3:15 Blue: Wake Up, America 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC: Mary Marlin 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Upton Close be conducted in deepest secrecy. If Gen- 12:15 2:15 3:15 CBS: News 12:30 2:30 C: The Army Hour eral MacArthur, for instance, is scheduled 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:30 2:30 3:30 CBS: Columbia Concert 1:00 3:00 e: Sunday to say a few words on the program, all the Orch. Vespers 12:30 2:30 3:30 Blue: Men of the Sea 1:30 3:30 4:30 CBS: Pause that Refreshes plans must be transmitted in code—since 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 1:30 3:30 4:30 Blue: Toastchee Time 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC: Right to Happiness 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC: We Believe it certainly wouldn't do to let the Japs know he would be in a certain place at a 1:00 3:00 4:00 Blue: Club Matinee 2:00 5:00 CBS: The Family Hour 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 5:00 Blue: Moylan Sisters certain time. 3:15 4:15 CBS: Victory Begins 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC: NBC Symphony 1:15 at Home The Army plans the program, but much 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas 2:15 4:15 NBC- Music of the Americas 3:30 CBS: Giants of the "get-it-done" work is performed by 1:30 4:30 of Freedom 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 2:30 4:30 5:30 Blue: Musical Steelmakers (Oct. 4) 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: The Shadow a civilian named Wyllis Cooper. Maybe 1:45 3:45 4:45 CBS: It's Off the Record 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Britain to America you never heard of Wyllis, but the Army 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 4:00 CBS: Are 2:45 CBS: William L. Shirer isn't the first you've enjoyed 2:00 5:00 You a Genius Hour show 4:00 5:00 Blue: Sea Hound 6:00 2:00 3:00 5:00 CBS: Edward R. Murrow because he was the man behind the 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC: When a Girl Marries 3:00 5:00 6:00 MBS: First Nighter 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC: Catholic Hour scenes. Primarily, Wyllis is a writer. He 2:15 4:15 5:15 CBS: Mother and Dad 2:15 4:15 5:15 Blue: Hop Harrigan CBS: Irene Rich wrote the fantastic Lights Out stories you 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 3:30 5:30 6:30 CBS: Gene Autry used to hear at midnight, and many 2:30 4:30 5:30 CBS: Landt Trio 3:30 5:30 6:30 Blue: Drew Pearson 5:30 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 3:30 5:30 6:30 NBC: The Great Gildersleeve another top-notch program has come from 2:30 4:30 5:30 MBS: Superman 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue: Edward Tomlinson his typewriter. Just now he is devoting 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: The Bartons 4:45 CBS: Ben himself full-time to preparing the scripts 2:45 5:45 Bernie 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: Our Secret Weapon 2:45 4:45 5:45 Blue: Secret City 6:00 7:00 4:00 MBS: Voice of Prophecy for the Army Hour and helping see them 5:00 CBS: Daly, 4:00 6:00 7:00 Blue: Your 3:00 6:00 John News Blind Date 5:00 6:00 Blue: Don Winslow, 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Jack Benny through long hours of preparation to the 3:10 5:10 6:10 CBS: Eric Sevareid 4:15 6:15 7:15 CBS Time Out for Laughs point of broadcasting. 3:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 4:30 6:30 7:30 MBS: Stars and Stripes in Britain Wyllis, who describes himself as "a fat 3:30 5:30 6:30 CBS: Keep Working, Keep Singing 6:30 7:30 CBS: We the People guy looks like a poor man's Alex- 8:30 6:30 7:30 Blue: Quiz Kids who 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC: Fitch Bandwagon ander Woollcott," spent nine months be- 6:45 Blue: Lowell Thomas 3:45 5:45 6:45 NBC: Bill Stern 5:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: World News fore taking over the assignment of writing 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue: Earl Godwin, News 8:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC: Chase and Sanborn Show The Army Hour in familiarizing himself 4:00 6:00 7:00 Blue: Major Hoople 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Fred Waring s Gang Gibbs and Finney completely with all phases of the Army's 7:30 9:30 7:30 CBS: Blondie 8:00 7:30 8:30 CBS: Crime Doctor operations. He was a civilian corre- 6:30 7:30 Blue: The Lone Ranger 8:00 7:30 8:30 Blue: Inner Sanctum Mystery spondent and observer with all Army 4:45 6:45 7:45 NBC: H. V. Kaltenborn 5:30 7:30 8:30 NBC: ONE MAN'S FAMILY maneuvers, and lay in Carolina mud, rode 5:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: Vox Pop 5:45 7:45 8:45 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 8:00 7:00 8:00 Blue: Earl Godwin. News tanks in Louisiana, and tried out every .MBS: Cal Tinney 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Eric Sevareid 9:15 7:00 8:00 vehicle in the list from jeep to bomber. 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC: Cavalcade of America 6:00 8:00 9:00 MBS: Old-Fashioned Revival 8:15 7:15 8:15 Blue: Lum and Abner 9:00 8:00 9:00 Blue: Walter Winched He still travels around the country a lot, 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: GAY NINETIES gathering material for the program, but 5:30 7:30 8:30 Blue: True or False Blue: The Parker Family when he's at home he lives in a New York 8:30 7:30 8:30 NBC: Voice of Firestone 5:30 7:30 8:30 MBS. Bulldog Drummond 6:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: FRED ALLEN (Oct. 4) with his wife and three dogs. 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Jimmie Fidler penthouse 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Cecil Brown 8:30 9:30 NBC: American Album of In the first World War, Wyllis was in 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: LUX THEATER Familiar Music the Army as a bugler, was wounded on the 6:00 8:00 9:00 Blue: Counter-Spy 6:45 Blue: Dorothy Thompson 6:00 8:00 9:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter Somme, gassed in the Argonne, and served 9:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: The Telephone Hour 7:00 CBS: Take It or Leave It 7:00 Blue: Goodwill Hour with the Army of Occupation in Germany. 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Spotlight Bands 9:30 NBC: Doctor I. Q. 7:00 MBS: John B. Hughes Because of the secrecy which, of neces- 6:30 8:30 7:00 NBC: Hour of Charm 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: Lady Esther Serenade 7:30 CBS: They Live Forever sity, surrounds many of the arrangements 7:00 9:00 10:00 MBS: Raymond Clapper 7:30 NBC: Joe and Mabel for Hour, you're apt to hear 7:00 9:00 10:00 Bliu Raymond Gram Swing The Army 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC Contented Program 8:00 CBS: News of the World surprise personality on almost every 8:00 NBC: Dance Orchestra a 7:15 9:15 10:15 Blue Alias John Freedom 8:34 NBC: Author's Playhouse broadcast. 7:30 9:30 10:30CBS: Columbia Workshop

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9:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 8:45 9:45 CBS: Thus We Live 9:00 Blue: Clark Dennis 8:30 9:00 10:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 8:45 9:15 CBS: Stories America Loves 9:00 10:00 Blue: Clark Dennis 9:15 Blue: News 8:45 9:15 10 15 ( US Stories America Loves 9:30 CBS: Honeymoon Hill 9:15 10 .15 Blue; News 9:30 Blue: Hank Lawson's Knights Help Mate 9:30 10 SO CBS: Honeymoon Hill 9:30 NBC: 9:30 10 30 Blue: Hank Lawson's Knights 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 9:30 10 :30 NBC: Help Mate Blue: Chaplain Jim U. S. 9:45 — A. 12:45 9:45 10 :45 CBS: Bachelor's Children NBC: Young Dr. Malone 9:45 9:45 10 45 Blue Chaplain Jim U. S. A. 10:45 10:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor 9:45 10 :45 NBC: Young Dr. Malone Blue: Breakfast at Sardls 8:00 10:00 8 00 10:00 11 :00 ( BS Clara, Lu, 'n' Em 8:00 10:00 NBC: Road of Life 8 00 10:00 11 00 Blue: Breakfast at Sardi's 8 00 10:00 11 00 8:15 10:15 CBS: Second Husband NBC: Road of Life 8:15 10:15 NBC: Vic and Sade 8 15 10:15 11 :15 CBS: Second Husband 8 15 10:15 11 :15 NBC: Vic and Sade 11:30 10:30 CBS: Bright Horizon 8:30 10:30 Blue: A House in the Country THE BOY FROM INDIANA... 11 00 10:30 11 :30 CBS: Bright Horizon 10:30 NBC: Against the Storm 8 30 10:30 11 :30 Blue: A House in the Country Herb Shriner is unique because he's a 10:30 11 :30 NBC: Against the Storm 11:15 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:15 10:45 11 :45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 8:45 Blue: Little Jack Little comedian who never tried particularly to NBC: David Harum 8:45 10:45 11 :45 Blue: Little Jack Little get either on the air or in the movies. By 10:45 11 .45 NBC: David Harum 9:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks the time he made his debut as the Har- 9:00 11:00 12 :00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 9:00 NBC: Words and Music monica Humorist of the Camel Caravan 9:00 11:00 12 00 NBC: Words and Music Big Sister 9:15 11:15 12 :15 CBS: Big Sister (CBS, Friday nights at 10:00, EWT) he 9:30 CBS Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 11:30 12 :30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 Blue Farm and Home Hour was already an established night club and 9:30 11:30 12 :30 Blue: Farm and Home Hour 9:30 11:30 12 .30 NBC: Ted Steele Our Gal Sunday vaudeville performer. He also had a 9:45 11:45 12 45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday CBS Life Can Be Beautiful complete radio career, neatly tied up and 10:00 10:00 12:00 1 00 CBS: Life Be Beautiful Blue Baukhage Talking Can 10:00 forgotten, behind him. 10:00 12:00 1 00 Blue: Baukhage Talking 10:00 NBC Air Breaks Herb was born in Toledo, Ohio, May 29, 10:15 12:15 1 15 CBS: Woman in White 10:15 CBS: Woman in White 10:15 12:15 1 :15 MBS: I'll Find My Way 10:15 MBS I'll Find My Way 1918, and was raised in Fort Wayne, In- 10:15 12:15 1 15 Blue: Edward Mac Hugh 10:15 Blue Edward Mac Hugh diana—the state he has as much trouble 10:30 12:30 1 30 CBS: Vic and Sade Vic and Sade forgetting as Bob Burns has in forgetting 12:45 1 45 CBS: The Goldbergs 12:45 CBS The Goldbergs 10:45 12:45 1 45 NBC- John Vandercook Arkansas. He always loved to play the 12:45 NBC: John Vandercook 11:00 1:00 2 00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 11:00 11:00 1:00 CBS: Young Dr. Malone harmonica, and while he was still in high 1:00 2 00 NBC: Light of the World 11:00 1:00 NBC: Light of the World school he performed on it in an amateur 12:30 1:15 2 15 CBS: Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne 11:15 1:15 2 15 NBC: Lonely Women 12:30 1:15 CBS: Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne show. A radio official heard him and in- 11:15 1:15 NBC: Lonely Women 11:30 1:30 2 30 CBS: We Love and Learn vited him over to the studio. He arrived 11:30 1:30 2 30 Blue: James Mc Donald 11:30 1:30 CBS: We Love and Learn 11:30 1:30 2 30 NBC: The Guiding Light 11:30 1:30 Blue: James Mc Donald in time to make his first broadcast at the 11:45 1:45 2 45 11:30 1:30 NBC: The Guiding Light CBS: Pepper Young's Family age of sixteen on a program called Hoo- 11:45 1:45 2 45 Blue: Jack Baker 11:45 2 45 11:45 1:45 CBS: Pepper Young's Family sier Hop, which was on a full coast-to- 1:45 NBC: Betty Crocker 11:45 1:45 Blue: Jack Baker 2:00 3 00 CBS: David Harum 11:45 1:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches coast CBS network. Slightly dizzy with 12:00 2:00 3 00 Blue: Prescott Holiday 2:00 CBS: David Harum success, Herb gathered six boys around 12:00 2:00 3 00 NBC: Mary Marlin 12:00 2:00 Blue: Prescott Holiday 12:15 2:15 3 15 CBS: News him, all to his 12:00 2:00 NBC: Mary Marlin taught them how play 12:15 2:15 3 15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:15 2:15 CBS: News favorite instrument, and became the 12:30 2:30 3 30 CBS: Russian-American Festival 12:15 2:15 NBC: Ma Perkins proud leader of the "Harmaniacs" Hot 12:30 2:30 3 30 Blue: Men of the Sea — 12:30 2:30 3 30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 12:30 2:30 Blue: Men of the Sea Hoosier Harmonicists. 12:45 2:45 45 12:30 2:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 3 Blue: Joe Rines Orch. The Harmaniacs and the local radio 12:45 2:45 3 45 NBC: Right to Happiness NBC: Right to Happiness studio became mutually enamored of each 1:00 3:00 4 00 Blue: Club Matinee 1:00 3:00 Blue: Club Matinee 1:00 3:00 4 00 NBC: Backstage Wife 1:00 3:00 NBC: Backstage Wife other, and in no time at all the boys were 1:15 3:15 4 15 CBS: Victory Begins at Home 1:15 3:15 4 15 NBC: Stella Dallas doing ten programs a week, followed in a NBC: Stella Dallas _; 1:30 3:30 4 30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:30 3:30 CBS: Highways to Health short time by personal appearances. They 1:30 3:30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:45 3:45 4 45 CBS: It's Off the Record toured Indiana and Ohio, but eventually 1:45 3:45 4 45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 1:45 3:45 CBS: It's Off the Record there was discord in the ranks, so Herb 2:00 4:00 5 00 CBS: Are You a Genius 1:45 3:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown took his troupe back to Fort Wayne, where 2:00 4:00 5 00 Blue: Sea Hound 2:00 4:00 CBS: Are You a Genius 2:00 4:00 5 00 NBC: When a Girl Marries 2:00 4:00 Blue: Sea Hound the boys all found honest work, and went 2:15 4:15 5 15 CBS: Mother and Dad NBC: When a Girl Marries 2:00 4:00 on to Detroit alone. From then on, his 2:15 4:15 5 15 Blue: Hop Harrigan CBS: Mother and Dad 2:15 4:15 5 15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 2:15 4:15 solo, 2:15 4:15 Blue: Hop Harrigan act was a and gradually he added 2:30 4:30 5 30 CBS: Landt Trio 2:15 4:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life comedy to it 5:30 5:30 5 30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 2:30 4:30 5 30 MBS: Superman 2:30 4:30 CBS: Landt Trio Herb did a good deal of traveling. Once 5:30 5:30 Blue: Jack Armstrong 2:45 4:45 5 45 CBS: Ben Bernie 2:30 4:30 MBS: Superman an Australian vaudeville booker took him 2:45 4:45 5 45 Blue: Secret City 2:45 4:45 5 45 NBC: The Bartons 2:45 4:45 Ben Bernie "down under" for six months. Returning, CBS: 5:00 Daly, 2:45 4:45 Blue: Secret City 6 00 CBS: John News he played in theaters up and down the 5:00 6 00 Blue: Don Winslow 2:45 4:45 NBC: The Bartons West Coast and gained considerable fame 3:10 5:10 6 10 CBS: Eric Sevareid 5:00 CBS: Frazier Hunt 5:00 Blue: Don Winslow as the guy who didn't want to go into the 3:15 5:15 6 15 CBS: Hedda Hopper 3:30 5:30 6 30 CBS: Keep Working, Keep Singin 3:30 5:30 NBC. Engineers at War movies. Then, for his present sponsor, he 9 3:45 5:45 6 45 CBS: The World Today 3:45 5:45 CBS: The World Today began a tour of Army camps as master of 6 45 Blue: Lowell Thomas Blue: Lowell Thomas touring Caravan 3:45 5:45 6 45 NBC: Bill Stern NBC: Bill Stern ceremonies on the Camel stayed in this job until he went on 8:00 6:00 7 00 CBS: Amos *n' Andy 8:00 6:00 CBS: Amos 'n' Andy —and 4:00 6:00 7 00 Blue: Scramble 4:00 6:00 Blue: EASY ACES the air last July. 8:00 6:00 7 00 NBC: Fred Waring's Gang 8:00 6:00 NBC: Fred Waring's Gang It isn't easy to classify Herb—he's part 4:15 6:15 7 15 NBC: European News 8:15 6:15 CBS: Glenn Miller and part musician, a combina- 4:30 6:30 7 30 CBS: Report to the Nation 4:15 6:15 Blue: Mr. Keen comedian 6:30 7 30 Blue: The Lone Ranger 4:15 6:15 NBC: European News tion of Will Rogers, Bob Burns, and Borah 4:30 6:30 7 30 NBC: Neighborhood Call NBC: How *m I Doin' Minnevitch. He's better looking than any 4:45 6:45 7 45 NBC: H. V. Kaltenborn 7:00 8 00 CBS: KATE SMITH 5:00 7:00 CBS: Thirty Minutes to Play of them, though. Twenty-four years old, 9:00 8:00 7:00 Blue: Earl Godwin, News 8:00 7:00 8 00 Blue: Earl Godwin, News 8:30 7:00 NBC: Coffee Time he stands six feet one and a half inches, 9:15 7:00 8 00 MBS: Cal Tinney 7:00 8 00 NBC: Cities Service Concert Blue: Lum and Abner weights 170 pounds, and has very light 5:15 7:15 8 15 Blue: Gibbs and Finney eyes. 8:30 7:30 CBS: Death Valley Days brown hair and blue 5:30 7:30 8 30 Blue: Those Good Old Days 5:30 7:30 Blue: America's Town Meeting solos are gypsy 7:30 8 30 NBC: INFORMATION PLEASE 9:00 7:30 NBC: ALDRICH FAMILY Most of his harmonica with a consuming 5:55 7:55 8 55 CBS: Cecil Brown 5:55 7:55 CBS: Cecil Brown music, which he loves records and 8:30 8:00 9 00 CBS: Philip Morris Playhouse 6:00 8:00 CBS: Major Bowes passion. He collects gypsy 8:30 8:00 9 00 Blue: Gang Busters 6:00 8:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter harmonicas; right now he has about three 6:00 8:00 9 00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 6:00 8:00 NBC: KRAFT MUSIC HALL 6:00 8:00 9 00 NBC: Waltz Time hundred of the latter, including one an 6:30 8:30 CBS Stage Door Canteen 6:30 8:30 9 30 CBS: That Brewster Boy 6:30 8:30 Blue Spotlight Bands inch long which is very hard to play 6:30 8:30 9 30 Blue: Spotlight Bands Double or Nothing 7:00 9:00 CBS The First Line 6:30 8:30 9 30 MBS: because there is always the danger of 9 Plantation Party 7:00 9:00 MBS Raymond Clapper 6:30 8:30 30 NBC: 7:00 9:00 Blue: Raymond Gram Swing swallowing it when he takes a breath. 7:00 9:00 10 00 CBS: Camel Caravan Your Navy 7:00 9:00 NBC Rudy Vallee his comedy material, 7:00 9:00 10 OOBlue: Meet He writes all own 9:00 10 001NBC: People Are Funny 7:30 9:30 NBC March of Time 7:00 drawing equally upon personal observa- 7:30 9:30 10: 30 Blue: Manpower and the War 7:45 9:45 CBS: Mary Small a vivid imagination. 8:00 10:00 11 00 CBS: Mark Hawley, News 8:00 10:00 CBS: Mark Hawley, News tion and

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SATURDAY Your Hand in Mine r.f.i War Time Continued from page 36 (US The World Today Mini-: Ntwi hardly breathing, all my nerves we were now a business property of NBC: Newi straining for that knock on the door. his. Of course he'd look at me in Why didn't it come? What could that calculating way, measuring my 8:30 NBC Dick Lelbert 8:30 Blue: I ..is Jim be happening out there? If Lane had chances against the competition. Oh, liked us, he surely wouldn't have de- he was polite, he didn't stare at me 8:45 (IIS Adelaide Hawley this long. It must he had in It 8:45 Blue: News layed mean any rude way. was just a feeling 8:45 N H( News turned us down and Eddie hadn't the in the atmosphere—or rather a feel- heart to come and tell me. The fear ing that was not in it! There wasn't 8:00 9:00 (US: Press News 8:00 9:00 Blur: Breakfast Club became a certainty as I sat there wait- the spontaneous jubilant cordiality I 8:00 9:00 NBC: Show Without a Nairn ing and when at last I heard the knock had expected. No matter how I told I could hardly make my throat open myself I was being silly, I couldn't 8:15 9:15 CBS: Caucasian Melodies enough to say the words, "Come in." stand it. I got up and said, "Well, I 8:30 9:30 CBS: Garden Gate The door opened after what seemed guess it's time for me to change and an hour, and I saw Eddie's slight figure go home." 9:00 10:00 CBS: Youth on Parade gracefully They 9:00 10:00 Blue Andrlni Continentales moving into the room. His both stood and looked at me. 9:00 10:00 NBC: U. S. Navy Band face was white and I wanted to Eddie seemed to be waiting for Mr. scream out, "Eddie, don't tell me! I Lane to say something. When he 9:30 10:30 Blue: Billy Moore Trio 9:30 10:30 NBC: String Serenade can't bear it!" didn't, Eddie said with a little chuckle, "Yes, you'd better get to bed, NBC: Nellie Revell 13 UT he was speaking and his voice Marie. We'll be seeing Mr. Lane at *-* 8:00 10:00 11:00 CBS: News was as quiet and gentle as usual. crack o' dawn, at his hotel, where 8:00 10:00 11:00 Blue: Servicemen's Hop "We've done it, Marie." we'll put our names on the dotted 8:00 10:00 11:00 NBC: The Creghtons Are Coming That was all. I thought there ought line." He made some joke, I guess, CBS: God's Country to be more. Skyrockets going off, but I don't remember it, because of flags waving, choruses doing dances the clouded doubtful look on Mr. 8:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: Let's Pretend and shouting out the news to the Lane's face. I got away as fast as I 8:30 10:30 11:30 Blue: Little Blue Playhouse 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC: America the Free world. We had put it over! We were could. headed east, into fame and fortune! Rudy was waiting for me in my 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: Theater off Today 9:00 11:00 12:00 Blue: Music by Black Away from Home Plates and even dressing room. 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC- News Clover Clubs, forever! "Eddie, I can't "Came to invite you to a party, NBC: Consumer Time believe it," I finally gasped, and man- tonight, baby," he said genially. "A for 10:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Stars Over Hollywood aged to stand up and face him, hold- big one, being thrown me at the 9:30 11:30 12:30 Blue: Farm Bureau ing to the make-up shelf for support. best joint on the South Side— 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC: Ilka Chase He said in that same quiet voice, This was exactly what I wanted to 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS: Country Journal "Well, it's true. Come out, Marie, get away from—and now I could! 10:00 12:00 1:00 Blue: Vincent Lopez 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC: Whatcha Know Joe and meet Mr. Lane." I sat down at my dressing table and He took my arm and I needed it to started to cold-cream my face. "I'm 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Adventures in Science 10:30 12:30 1:30 Blue: Al and Lee Reiser help me get out to that table. afraid not," I told Rudy in a voice 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC: All Out tor Victory Eddie introduced us, Mr. Lane took intended to be light and easy. "I have CBS: Symphonettes my hand, and I sat down with them. to be up early, so I'm going to walk But I still didn't feel as if the scene right around the corner to my little 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Off Men and Books 11:00 1:00 2:00 Blue: Paul Lavalle Orcti. was real. There was something wrong room and go to bed." 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC: U. S. Marine Band about the way Mr. Lane looked at me, "Many a girl's said that and 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: Brush Creek Follies studying me. Even Eddie's bright talk changed her mind," Rudy said with didn't seem quite right. He seemed to unbroken calm, his shrewd black eyes 12:00 2:00 3:00 Blue: Canadian Air Force Band be trying too hard to give this occasion fixed on me. "Especially when the 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Paul Lavalle Orch. the festive, celebrating atmosphere it boss says so." 12:30 2:30 3:30 CBS: F. O. B. Detroit ought to have. It must be my nerves, 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC: Charles Dant Orch. I thought, playing tricks on my imag- NOW was my chance to give him the 1:00 3:00 4:00 CBS: Hello From Hawaii ination. big news. "I guess you won't be 1:00 3:00 4:00 Blue: Club Matinee "Will have a drink, Miss long, Rudy," I said. I 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Pan-American Holiday you my boss very Barnes?" Mr. Lane asked courteously. had thought it would be hard to 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: Matinee at Meadowbrook "Orangeade, please," I told him and sound gentle and sad about it, but it 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Three Suns Trio made my lips smile. wasn't. Somehow I wasn't getting any at saying the words. It 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: News, Alex Dreier Eddie grinned me and turned thrill out of eagerly to Mr. Lane. "See? That's ought to be a high spot in my life, a 7:45 5:00 6:00 CBS: Frazier Hunt the 3:00 5:00 6:00 Blue: Dinner Music what I mean. That's Marie. Like I turning point, a milestone, taking 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC: Golden Melodies told you, there's a quality there that big step from my first job right into CBS: Calling Pan-America could be put over. A little purity for success, release from drudgery for a change—youth, decency. It would Dad and me— But I couldn't quite 3:30 5:30 6:30 Blue: Jesters be a sensation in those night spots if get the feeling. 3:30 5:30 6:30 NBC: Religion in the News — we could get it across Maybe it was the look in Rudy's 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 3:45 5:45 6:45 Blue: Edward Tomlinson "Mmmmm ..." I didn't catch what eyes that spoiled things. He wasn't 3:45 4:45 6:45 NBC: NBC Orchestra Mr. Lane answered, but he turned shocked, he wasn't even surprised, at 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: People's Platform back to study me with that apprais- the news. In fact, it didn't seem to be 4:00 6:00 7:00 Blue: Message off Israel ing look that bothered me. I told news to him. 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Noah Webster Says myself it was only natural. In a way "Maybe not," Rudy said. "Maybe 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Tillie the Toiler 4:30 6:30 7:30 Blue: Swap Night NBC: Musicana 4:30 6:30 7:30 3ftO*O»OfrO*O6O»O»OeO4O*O«O0O«O»O#O»O«O*O0O»OeO»OtOtg«O(g NBC: War in the Air

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5:30 7:30 8:30 Blue: Danny Thomas 8:00 7:30 8:30 NBC Truth or Consequences RAY HEATH ERTON—whose band you hear over the Blue network Hotel in New York. Ray is a short, slight young CBS: Eric Sevareid from the Biltmore man from Long Island, who began earning money by singing 9:00 CBS: YOUR HIT PARADE 9:00 8:00 when he was five years old. He was going with his parents on a 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: The Green Hornet 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: National Barn Dance steamer to Virginia, and made $4.27 singing for the customers his family discovered what he was doing and put 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: Grant Park Concert in the bar before 6:30 8:30 9:30 Blue: Spotlight Band a stop to it. As he grew up, he continued to sing, but only for his heard him and CBS: Saturday Night Serenade own amusement. Then, one night, Paul Whiteman offered him a job. After being with Whitemau for a while he was 7:00 19:00 10:00 Blue: Prescott Variety Show 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC: Bill Stern Sports Newsreel soloist on different radio shows, featured singer in a Broadway hit, and now, finally, boss and vocalist of his own dance band. 7:15 9:15 10:15 NBC: Labor (or Victory iais»o*e»e«s»o«e»o«o»o«e«o»s«e»o«o»e4s*e«e«o»o«o»s»Q4 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC: Ted Steele Variety RADIO MIRROR 48 " " "" —

you won't be smart enough to stick where you're wanted." "Where I'm wanted!" I stared at him, my throat tightening. "Rudy, 0h n IB understand," I told him Com you don't «$ urgently. "We've got a contract, Eddie and I. Both of us. I guess Mr. Lane wouldn't be likely to give us a contract if he didn't want me." Rudy still smiled. "Some unlikely things happen in this business, baby," he said significantly. "And you hit it right on the nose." "Rudy, stop trying to scare me!" I cried out desperately. "You don't know what Mr. Lane thinks! You can't know everything." "Maybe not everything," Rudy said calmly. "But almost. If my wait- ers didn't have sharp ears they wouldn't be working for me. It's my business to know what goes on in my place, especially when it means losin' a hoofer the Clover Club wouldn't have been able to —keep for two weeks except for a fluke I wasn't listening. I was staring into his swarthy face and whispering, "Rudy, what did he say? Tell me, what did Mr. Lane say?" I felt as if I knew already. "According to my report," Rudy an- swered cheerfully, "Lane said he'd take Eddie on a double contract only if he couldn't get him any other way. Eddie says that's correct. Lane gives him a lecture about draping a woman around his neck, especially a woman that doesn't belong in show busi- ness— "Oh!" I caught my breath the way you do after you've been struck. Then I gritted my teeth. "Go on, Rudy." "That's about all." Rudy said, watching me shrewdly, "Lane just kept on arguin', and pulls that old crack about him— travelin' fastest that travels alone Marjorie Bell acts on the Arm- "Wait." This was enough. "Rudy, strong Theater, tell me something. Is that true, that Matinee at Eddie could go faster without me? Meadowbrook, and other shows. Is he better than I am?" Rudy laughed. I don't think he cruel laugh, exactly, meant it to be a BELL, this month's was made at the age of thirteen in the the truth MARJORIE but it cut right through me, Radio Mirror cover girl, is a Hollywood Bowl. Three years later over and cut through me. He came very pretty young lady who she went on the air for the first time, put his hand under my chin. "Kid, it would just as soon not be so pretty. in an interview with her father who knock sure takes a sledge hammer to If that sounds crazy, remember that had a twice-weekly program on a facts into a stage struck dame. Look, acting is a crazy profession. Los Angeles station. baby, don't get me wrong, you know Marjorie's ambition is to be a good ' Her dancing ability came in pretty I I'm all for you. But do you think actress, both in radio and on the stage. handy for the next four years. It got could afford to keep a girl like you But she has discovered that when a her a job with the Disney studios, singing in my club if I didn't have pretty girl, smartly and neatly dressed, where she was the artists' model for some real first-class talent to even walks into a producer's office his first the dancing figures of Snow White the score? Like this Lane guy, I fig- thought is that if she's so good look- and the Blue Fairy in "Pinocchio." ured the harm you did wasn't too ing she probably can't act. "Really," She even modeled for the dancing steep a price to pay—for keepin' Eddie Marjorie says bitterly, "the only way hippopotamus in the "Dance of the in a joint like this to impress most of them is to come in Hours" sequence of "Fantasia," al- "Oh!" My head dropped on my looking as dowdy and unattractive as though in this case it's only fair to arms, and I was sobbing. I didn't possible. Then they think, 'This girl point out that it was just her move- know quite why, at first. But slowly, looks so awful she must be intelligent, ments that were copied, not her figure. with the tears streaming hot down and if she's intelligent she ought to In between chores at the Disney " over my hands, my eyes burning with be a good actress.' studio she acted on a Saturday-morn- the mascara, I realized what was So far, Marjorie's career has pro- ing children's program on a Los breaking my heart. It wasn't the gressed to the point where she is heard Angeles station, toured the Pacific knowledge that I had been kidding practically every Saturday noon as Coast in a company playing Noel myself about my career, though that one of the players in the Armstrong Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," and humiliation stung me fiercely. No, it Theater of Today, over CBS. Of finally came to New York with a was the thought of Eddie being so course, you hear her other times too. vaudeville troupe. sweet, helping me all these months Like all radio actors and actresses, As proof of how serious she is about with his endless patient kindness—and she is apt to bob up in a "one-shot" being a good actress, Marjorie studied me taking it and never letting myself on almost any dramatic program, day drama with Maria Ouspenskaya, the even think how I felt about him. or night. On Junior Miss, for instance, wonderful old lady you've seen in so Now I knew. I knew I loved him. she was in the dramatized com- many movies. Since she's been in the But it was too late. For of course I mercials. east, Marjorie has made one summer- couldn't sign up with Eddie now. I Her real last name is Belcher—she's stock appearance and is now waiting couldn't hang on to his coat tails and the daughter of Ernest Belcher, well eagerly for the theatrical season to hold him down to my speed. He known West Coast ballet teacher, who start on Broadway. She says she can't travels fastest who travels alone! has trained many dancers for the think of anything better than being I lifted my head and wiped the mas- movies. Marjorie's own dancing debut on the air in the day and on the stage Continued on page 50 —of course she learned to dance! at night. NOVEMBER. 1942 49 " " " "

cara out of my eyes and saw Rudy's white sick stare that followed me. "The Personality-Foot himself on face in my mirror, still smiling. But The place where Rudy's friend was our trail!" Rudy laughed amiably he had taken the cigar out of his giving the party was one of the big- and moved his hand in consent. He mouth and he leaned over now so gest and noisiest places I had ever was in a generous mood. that his thick lips were close to my seen. It occupied the whole second I said, "No. No, Eddie, I don't feel ear and said, "Marie, honey. Don't floor of a square block, and it seemed like dancing—" Oh, I didn't dare! take it so hard. It isn't like you had at first that it was solidly filled with But Eddie had taken my arm in a to go back to the old man's hash brassy blondes and that all of them grip that hurt. I didn't dream his house. Don't forget my offer still knew Rudy. They gathered around slight body could hold such strength. stands." him like bees around honeysuckle, I found myself out on the floor with I don't know how sane I was in that clamoring for champagne. him, held against his solid slender- moment, but I thought I was thinking "Rudy, don't leave me out," I said, ness, moving in time with his lithe very fast and very straight. And I holding out my glass. graceful feet, swept into the rhythm ." reached a conclusion that seemed "Say . . His beady eyes gleamed. of the waltz the band was playing. It suddenly the only way out of the "Now, this is how I like to see you, was wonderful and terrible all at ." impossible spot where my crazy kid. Sort of friendly . . once, too wonderful and too terrible. dreams had landed me. I said, "Rudy, "Naturally I'm friendly to you," I Eddie said, "What's got into you, look. How about this party? Do you told him after I'd downed a swallow Marie? I don't get this at all. You still want me to go?" of the sharp, stinging, fizzy stuff. I don't love Rudy Scallare." held my glass out again. "One good I said in numb stubbornness, "I'm HE said, "What do you think I've drink deserves another," I said going to marry him." been waiting for?" inanely, trying to laugh up at him. "You're not." Eddie spoke in a I said, "All right. I'll go. Shall I "That's my baby," Rudy said, pour- tight, low voice, so that I could tell wear the red dress?" ing with the half-smoked cigar held his teeth were clenched. "Now you He took the cigar out of his mouth between two fingers that sparkled tell me why you're letting him think again, the most extreme gesture he with big diamonds. you will." could make to show his pleasure. "Rudy," I said quickly when I had "I'm letting him think it because "That's the stuff, baby," he said. "You the second glass down. "Rudy, do you it's true," I insisted. "Please, Eddie, know I like a woman in clothes that mean that? I mean, do you still want don't cross-question me.— It's my busi- hit you in the eye." me to—to marry you?" ness why I'm doing it "All right, Rudy." I put my hands "Marie, baby!" Rudy took the cigar "It's mine, too." I wouldn't have on his shoulders and pushed him out of his mouth and peered into my thought Eddie could talk in that fierce gently to the door. Might as well get face. "You mean you've finally got furious way. His arm was around me used to the touch of him, the smell wise to where you belong? You're tight, so tight my ribs ached and I of that cigar— But even as I told going to sign up under my manage- loved the pain. myself that, I felt sick. "Give me five ment for life?" see why," I said with all minutes, Rudy," I said weakly. I wished he wouldn't rub it in that 1 DON'T strength. But a great big hope I dressed with hands that shook. I way. I said, very loud, "That's what my coming in me, weakening me, knew now what I had to do. The only I mean, Rudy. I've seen the light." was up faint. thing that would fix things for Eddie "Marie!" A low voice spoke above choking me, making me "Because I've made it my business," —and for Dad. If I could just keep my my shoulder. "Marie, have you gone Eddie said. "Didn't I make you my mind made up, slip out without hav- crazy?" partner? You can't run out on a ing to talk to Eddie. I looked up and somehow I was not But he was waiting outside the surprised. Eddie was standing there partner, Marie." The hope collapsed with a miser- door of my dressing room. "What is staring down at me, his eyes dark inside me. It was just the this?" he asked angrily. "What's with horror. able plop contract he meant. "You're better Rudy telling me about you going off Rudy was hardly aware of us; he Eddie," I said dully. somewhere with him to a party?" was standing up to make the an- without me, "Everybody knows it only hurts your I saw there was no use trying to nouncement to the table and they act to have me in it. You were just put anything over on him. I said, were all shouting responses. being kind— "Why not? Doesn't my old boss rate I looked down, away from Eddie's "Kind," Eddie laughed. "Sure, I one final celebration?" I tried to make blue eyes, and sat there gazing at my was just being kind, the way a man my tone flippant, off-hand, and maybe glass, concentrating on not feeling usually is, when he's trying to get I overdid it, for his thin face looked sick at the knowledge that Rudy was himself a wife— as shocked as if I had slapped him. beside me, blandly jubilant, and "A wife!" The hope came up in But I didn't stay to look at it. Rudy's Eddie's blue eyes on us both. Then I I guess the champagne hand was dragging me out the side heard Eddie say, very quietly, to me again, and coming on top of too much that had entrance of the Clover Club. I Rudy: "Mind if I have one last dance happened tonight did something to thought I would never forget that with Marie?" my control, but there I was dancing with Eddie and laughing and crying all at once. Still I tried to protest through my tears. "Eddie, you mustn't. Remember, he travels fastest who travels alone— Eddie's fierceness came back and his arms tightened around me so that I felt real pain, joyous wonderful pain. "Suppose I don't care about traveling so fast?" he asked almost angrily. "Isn't it up to me if I find the scenery better going slower? How about it, Marie?" I didn't have a chance to savor this perfect moment. For I felt Eddie's body tense against me and I saw that he was no longer looking with that warm loving intensity down into my face. He was staring back toward our table and my eyes followed his. Rudy was standing now and the generous smile had gone from his face, leaving an expression that scared me more than any I had ever seen him wear. It froze me so that I couldn't move. "Oh, Eddie," I gasped. "Rudy might do something terrible." "Come on!" Eddie started dancing Honoring Mutual' s Double Or Nothing program for its series of salutes to the me toward the door. The crowd was United Nations, Fred Sammis, Executive Editor of RADIO MIRROR, presents thick, but it was harder for Rudy to force his bulk through the dancers Walter Compton (left) with a scroll. Announcer Alois Havrilla is at right. than for Eddie Continued on page 52

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Contimied jrom page 50 thing to see Eddie dance again, to feel back here to this dreary life." to slip in and out among them on his the choking joy that used to tighten "Is it dreary?" Eddie asked quietly. agile feet. my throat as his toes tapped out their His eyes held mine, steadily, waiting The captain stopped us at the door, intricate rhythms. for my answer, as if he really wanted and by the time Eddie had made a But how much worse, I've thought, to know the truth. "Have these six hurried explanation the music had Eddie himself must feel! For the first months been dreary for you, Marie?" stopped and Rudy was almost up to few weeks after Eddie was up and "Why, Eddie—" My lips faltered. us. He reached the door and got to around on crutches, doing what he They weren't saying what I wanted the head of the stairs as we ran down. could to help us at the restaurant, them to say. "Eddie, it hasn't been His hand was in his pocket men- sitting behind the cash register and dreary! Why, Eddie, all this time acingly and I never heard such threat giving the customers the jokes and I was washing dishes and waiting in a voice as when he said, "Stop patter that makes them crowd into the on tables I thought I was just right there, Rogers. Or you'll never Home Plate just as they did at the working hard to keep from thinking, have a chance to —wish you'd kept Clover Club, I used to wonder how he but Eddie—do you know, Eddie—I away from my girl could stand it. How could he smile, why, I've been liking it!" We were at the landing then, mo- how could he think of jokes? He chuckled, and there was a gay mentarily behind an ornate pillar. It wasn't till nearly six months light in his eyes. "Se*e?" he asked. But the rest of the stairway was com- after we'd come back, a day in April, I shook my head. "No, I don't see, pletely exposed to Rudy—and his when something happened that sort Eddie. Besides, what difference does pocket. Eddie stopped and whirled. of tripped me up into talking about it make about me? It's you that There was a window behind us and things I'd never meant to. counts. You're the one that had the with a lightning swift motion he had Eddie came down from his room talent, the life before you. What it up and got me on the sill. "I'll drop early and he swung into the restau- about you?" first," he said beside me, "and as soon rant, using his cane in a way that "Well, what about me?" he asked as I land you jump. I'll catch you." made him look more swaggering than quietly, "Look at me and tell me what limping, so cocky and proud, it made about me." IT WAS dark down there and if I'd tears come to my eyes, and yet I I looked at him as if my eyes had -*- had time I might have tried to per- didn't feel sad, somehow. suddenly been opened and I saw for suade Eddie not to jump. But he had Dad looked up from the cash regis- the first time that there was some- leaped before I could speak. I heard ter and smiled at him in that sort of thing different about his face. Some- his feet thud on the pavement of the shy, loving way he had whenever he thing good that had not been there areaway and his low voice, sort of looked at Eddie, and got down from when we were working at the Clover strained, gasping, "Come on." And I the stool. "All right, all right," he Club. He wasn't tense and thin and jumped. said, "you needn't tell me to get go- taut-looking. His face was firm and It was farther smooth and there down than I ex- was a look in his iC«O»S«Q»O«0»Q4O40«O»O»0»e40«0«O»0tO(0«O«C*0»0«O»04e» pected, but his eyes —peace, it strong arms seemed like. "Ed- caught me so that die. I can't believe I didn't feel much &OAA rreiuLo lo- you like this life!" shock as I hit the He said, ' 'You've concrete. I started got it, honey. I off, but he grabbed JOSEPHINE ANTOINE—the Metropolitan Opera star who's sing- like it, and so do me. "Help me, ing on the NBC Carnation Contented program, Monday nights you. We like a life Marie," he whis- on NBC. Josephine is entirely American, in spite of her foreign- that means we're pered. "Quick, let sounding name. She was born in Boulder, Colorado, and never doing something me lean on your once went out of the United States to study music. Her lovely together, some- shoulder. Some- coloratura soprano voice was first heard at the Metropolitan thing worth doing. thing's happened What's dreary — in 1936 when she was twenty-one, but before that she'd won the —my leg Atwater Kent award and had sung in operatic productions of about feeding peo- Somehow I con- the Juilliard School of Music. You've also heard her many times ple that need to trolled ray terror on the air, first on the Palmolive Beauty Box shows and later as a eat to do jobs that and we got around frequent guest star. She's brown-haired and not very tall. have to be done? the corner to the What's dreary street on the op- •^•^©•©•©•©•©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©e©«©«©»©*©a©#©4©©oa «©*©$©3© # about working posite side of the with someone you block from the main entrance. We ing. I know when I'm not needed." love? What's dreary about planning were out of range of danger for the He took the newspaper from under and figuring so that we can go on moment. But Eddie was sinking the counter and tucked it under his and build and work together—with down, and he lay there on the side- arm and I watched him make his way your hand in mine—always?" His walk, horribly relaxed, his face a to the back door. Outside he looked eyes were really shining now. He terrible gray under the streetlight. up at the sky and straightened his led me to the little office behind the I forced back a scream and man- stooped shoulders and sort of shook cash register. "See here, honey?" His aged to signal a cruising taxi. "Get his body the way a dog does when it hands were trembling as he drew away quick," I gasped to the driver feels the warmth of spring. Then he some blue prints out of the drawer. as he helped me get Eddie in. settled himself in a chair and started I guess I was still dizzy and stupid to read the paper, but I saw his eyes TF we can turn the living quarters from the champagne, but there was close and his gray head bow more back there into an addition that just one thought in me; one stubborn and more, and he sat there dozing. will take care of ten more customers certainty. If Eddie needed someone "Eddie," I whispered, "come and we can have enough help so you can to look out for him, to take care of look." stay home and keep house. If we him, it had to be me. I had to take He came to stand beside me. make it big enough to handle twenty him home. I told the driver how to "Look," I breathed, "isn't it funny? more, we can start buying a house for get to the Home Plate Diner. I always used to dream of fixing you to keep. And if there's room for little Well, maybe it was wrong. Maybe things so Dad could sit in the sun. forty more, we can give you a Eddie would have made a better re- And now, to look at him, you'd—think more to do—at home—say taking care covery in the hospital, so that his leg my dreams had all come true of a baby would have been limber and free and "Haven't they?" Eddie whispered, Even his calculations didn't go be- both agile again, instead of stiff the way it his lips almost against my ear, his yond that. It was far enough for give the is now. I don't know. The doctors breath soft on my cheek. His arm of us. Far enough to me say—and maybe they're just try- was tightening around me. wisdom it had taken a long time for I ing to comfort me, now that it's too "What do you mean?" I turned and me to learn, but wisdom that would late to change anything—they say stared into his face. There was a light never lose, now that I had it. I knew the damage was all done right there in his blue eyes that stirred me and now that it was not the outward on the spot, when he stood with a made me feel weak and soft, so that things that make a life humdrum and broken leg and caught me in his no matter how I tried I could not dreary or glowing and wonderful for arms, and kept going with me till he really make things seem bad to my- it is the inner purpose, the reason had me out of range of Rudy Scal- self, when I said the words. "Eddie, what you're doing. I had loved my lare's drunken jealousy. how could my dreams have come work, as I would love any work, be- it for Eddie. And, Oh, I hope I didn't do wrong! true? I've not only failed myself, but cause I was doing Sometimes I've thought I'd give any- wrecked your career and dragged you with Eddie, I always would. RADIO MIRROH 52 — / CAN USBANDS BE RIG T AFTER ALL ?

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Where Are You, Dearest? Continued -from page 13

But as far as I was concerned it ber of excuses you can think up for was settled. Susie Brown wasn't the doing what you want to do! girl I had left behind. She was the Jeff was against the whole idea. girl who had left me behind. Three He kept saying there were better years ago she had left our home town, things to do than look up a girl I kissing me absent-mindedly on the hadn't seen for three years, but the ear and tossing another popcorn into more abusive he got the more deter-

! her mouth as she climbed on the train mined I became. It was suddenly a ;

' for the big city. That was one thing burning necessity. I just had to find about Susie—-if you didn't like pop- Susie! corn you'd better stay away from : her, because she ate it by the pound. WE got off at Pennsylvania Station it al- ! It used to irritate me and was and I maneuvered Jeff into the

I ways one of the things we fought 8th Avenue Subway. "She used to live about not that it did any good, in a boarding house on West 86th [ — because she just kept on eating pop- Street," I told him. "We'll go up people, though. I corn. It's funny about there first." that popcorn- I Since she'd been away, We finally got to the address on

1 eating habit of hers seemed to me West 86th Street—I checked it with to be one of the most endearing things an old letter of Susie's the last one j — eating , in the world. I even took to she'd ever written to me as a matter i it myself! of fact—and I rang the bell. A Susie wrote to me a few times when regular old battle-axe of a woman she got to New York, but her letters came to the door and practically were just like Susie—kind of absent snapped my head off when I said I minded and rambling. They never I was looking for Susie Brown. I really said anything except maybe "Nobody here by that name," she j — she'd seen a good movie or met a said, and started to close the door.

I nice girl or made friends with the "Wait a minute," I yelled. "She of the lion house at the Cen- here. See?" and I I keeper used to live

I tral Park Zoo. She never once said showed her the return address on she missed me or would like to see Susie's letter. me, and it made me pretty unhappy She peered near-sightedly at the because Susie was my favorite girl letter. "Humph," she grunted, "may-

I in Senior Class the year before she be her name's in the forwarding book. left. I'll look." And she closed the door in our faces. 1 REALIZE now that it was mostly Jeff grinned at me. "Neighborly my fault. I had never tried to un- old sort, isn't she?" derstand Susie. She had an adven- I shrugged my shoulders and we turous spirit and I always tried to both waited. Pretty soon the door Washed 119 Times quell it. I wanted to marry Susie opened again and the old lady stuck some time and I had an idea that her head out. "Well, there was a any wife of mine would have to be Susie Brown left here two years ago. Luncheon Cloth Is the kind of person whose whole world No forwarding address." was bound up in her home. I was "No forwarding address at all?" I Unfrayed; Fresh too young to know then that some- asked, crestfallen. times a woman can be interested in "Hold on," and she ran her finger dozens of different things and still down the notebook she held in her Laboratory Starch Tests be a wonderful wife. I was selfish, hand. "Only address— is a night-club too. I wanted Susie all to myself. on 52nd Street 'The Last Drink' it's Reveal Link-Starched Linen I resented it when she read so many called. Humph! I remember her books and took art courses and talked now. Might know she'd end up like Retains New, Fresh Look about wanting to travel and see the that. Girl had no manners. Used world. I didn't understand that her to eat popcorn all the time—even restlessness was mostly curiosity at the supper table. Humph!—ciga- You'll be proud of your LINIT- about life and the world in general. rette girl in a night club." starched table linens! This different She wanted to know and see and do I pounded Jeff on the back. "Hear everything. It was inevitable that that, Jeff?—She used to eat pop- laundry starch gives them such a she should go to New York, and corn all the time. That's Susie all proud finish, such luxurious, gleaming after she had gone I was sorry I right" smoothness ! linit makes even every- hadn't been more understanding Jeff pretended to cough violently. day cotton table things look and feel about it. "Thanks, Ma'am," I said to the old Well, her letters kept getting lady, and pulling Jeff along bodily, like linen, linit helps fine fabrics re- scarcer, and pretty soon they stopped, started for the subway. I was excited. sist laundering wear. except for an occasional post-card I'd be seeing my Susie pretty soon! Free ! The helpful "LINIT laundry showing a scene of the Statue of With Jeff protesting every step, we chart". Write Products Sales Liberty or Grant's Tomb, with got off the subway and found "The Corn Susie's unreadable scrawl on the back. Last Drink" night-club. Co., 17 Battery Place, New York, By that time I had gotten on my high The head-waiter came rushing up N. Y., Dept. LC-11. horse and told everybody I didn't to us with a big smile, but when he her. out we were looking for a care about not hearing from found ALL GROCERS SELL LINIT And then the war came and I got cigarette girl named Susie Brown, the into the Army and things went along smile faded and he shook his head. so fast that I didn't even have a "Never heard of her," he said. chance to think about Susie. Except But I insisted. "I know she used nights sometimes, or when I saw to work here." somebody eating popcorn. "How long ago?" he asked. And then this two-day leave came "Two years ago." along and all of a sudden I decided He shrugged his shoulders and I wanted to see Susie. After all, smiled a little ruefully as he told I told myself, I hadn't seen her for me that two years was almost a life- three years, and she had been my time as far as most night-clubs are Drink" had best girl, and I'd like to know that concerned. "The Last PENETRATES the FABRIC she was getting along all right, and changed hands three times in the besides I didn't know anybody else last two years, he said. PROTECTS the FIBRES in New York. It's amazing the num- "Well, hasn't anybody in this whole

NOVEMBER, 1942 55 place been here longer than two pered. It just didn't add up right, a long beard and a beret. years?" I asked. somehow. Whatever adventurous "That must be Old Adam," Jeff He thought a moment, then his ideas Susie had ever had she was said, and we walked over to him. face brightened. "The cook's been basically a sensible person with both He was pretty vague about Susie. here for three years. Wait a min- feet on the solid ground. It wasn't There was a girl, he said, that Julian ute— I'll get him." And he hurried to like her to dye her hair and change Scott once painted. She had long the of back the club. Pretty soon her name. And it certainly wasn't red hair that fell over her shoulders he came back with a white-capped like her to fall in love with a drunk- and a white unsmiling face. She chef in tow. "This is Andre," he en artist and marry him after know- never talked, and she always carried told us. "Maybe he can give you ing him for only a few weeks. I around a small black monkey some information." couldn't understand it. And that wherever she went. That didn't So we talked for business a while with about her not getting ?.long sound like Susie to me, but when I Andre, well but didn't seem to be getting with the other people who asked him if she ate popcorn and he anywhere at first. worked at the He didn't re- night club. Why, said she did, I knew it must be. member any Susie Susie Brown Brown, he said. was one of the friend- "Do you know where she is now, liest I described her to him—brown eyes, people I've ever known. Every- sir?" I asked him, and was startled brown hair, medium height, turned- body back in Oakdale was crazy when he turned on me angrily. about up nose, sweet smile, but it still her. Walking down Main "Go away," he said thickly. "Leave didn't jog his Street with Susie memory. was almost like a the past alone. The Village has its "She was from Oakdale, Indiana," parade. Everybody she'd meet wanted ghosts—don't disturb them." I finally said to stop and talk to her. desperately, "and she The whole I hastened to assure him that I was thing just had a dog named Cracker." didn't make sense. a friend of Susie's and wanted to help Jeff shuffled his feet then and them if they needed help. coughed He re- LIE wrinkled his brow thoughtfully. apologetically. "C'mon, lented then and told us what had Chip," " "There was a girl here once from he said, patting me on the happened. Julian Scott had been a shoulder, Indiana, but her name wasn't Susie "we may as well get goin'. friend of his, Old Adam said, so he With Susie married Brown. And this girl's hair was red and every- knew exactly how it was. Julian ." thin' . . and her smile wasn't so very sweet. was not a successful artist. He drank As a matter of fact, she didn't get But what Andre had just said about too much, for one thing. He couldn't along very well with the rest of the sending them a little food now and seem to help himself. And when then suddenly help. She had kind of a mean dis- hit me full force. Good he would try to sell a picture and position." couldn't he'd go over to Angelo's and "Doesn't sound much like Susie," try to drown his desperation in I said doubtfully. whisky. Susie just sat at the table "This girl's name was Sue LeBrun," with him and watched him ruin his said the chef. "That's something like life. When he couldn't drink any Susie Brown." more she would take him home. And "But that red hair and that mean then, one night, Julian shot himself. disposition ..." I started to say, It was the old story, Adam said—it and then Jeff interrupted me. had happened before and it would "Did Sue LeBrun eat popcorn all happen again. the time?" he asked Andre. For six months after that, Susie sat Andre threw up his hands. "Did "We cannot have all we want if our in their old room in the Village and she eat popcorn! She ate it all the soldiers and sailors are to have all hardly spoke to anyone. People time, and not only that, but she was they need." would try to talk to her, but she the first cigarette girl in a New York —Franklin D. Roosevell just stared at them and turned away. nightclub to sell popcorn!" Then she went to the 43rd Street Jeff and I solemnly shook hands. Hotel, and never came back to the "It's her, all right," I said, and turned BUY Village again. back to Andre. "She must have Old Adam shook his head sorrow- dyed her hair. But what we want WAR fully and then turned his back on to know now is, where is she?" us in an unmistakable gesture of dis- Andre looked at me sympathetically, BONDS missal. We walked quietly out of the for a minute, then he waved an arm little restaurant and stood on the side- at some murals on the wall. "See walk for a moment, blinking at the those paintings?" street lights. We said we saw them all right. "Gee," said Jeff, "your Susie sure You couldn't help seeing them—they Lord, maybe Susie was starving! had her troubles." were splashed from floor to ceiling in Maybe that husband of hers couldn't dazzling colors. even pay the rent. Maybe she was I NODDED my head and without a "Well," Andre went on. "Those sitting all alone in a garret some- * word we caught an uptown bus and were painted by a young artist named where with nothing to eat. Even if got off at 42nd Street. Walking Julian Scott." she was married, I wanted to be around the corner to the 43rd Street We couldn't see where that fitted sure that things were all right with Hotel, we decided we'd spend the into the story, but Andre went on her. All I wanted now was to see night there and ask about Susie in talking. her with my own eyes and know the morning. Jeff was inwardly It seemed that Julian Scott was a that she wasn't in any trouble. writhing at not getting over to Broad- starving young painter who had made It was a little difficult to persuade way, but it was late by then and we a bargain with the manager of the Jeff that we still had to find her, but were both tired, and he sensed my night club to paint murals on all the after some grumbling and arguing he unhappiness about Susie, so he didn't walls for free food and drinks. He came along with me and we got on say anything. I was in a turmoil was more interested in the drinks than a Sixth Avenue bus and headed foi over the whole thing. Poor Susie! in the food, Andre said. One day Greenwich Village. We found 23 All those things to have happened he was in the kitchen and he saw Macdougall Street and knocked at to the gay little happy-go-lucky Susie—or Sue LeBrun, as she was the purple door. Imagine! I said Susie I used to know. It didn't seem then calling herself. It was a case to myself—Susie Brown from my possible, yet there it was. And I of love at first sight for both of them. home town, living in a Greenwich clenched my fists as I realized how "And," Andre finished, "she mar- Village studio with a purple door! wrong I had been ever to let her go ried Julian Scott and they went to The door didn't open, but a window away from me. Well, it won't happen live in Greenwich Village. 23 Mac- upstairs was raised and a woman's again, I told myself grimly. This i dougall Street. I remember, because head appeared. We asked for Mrs. time I'll find her and let her know I used to send them a little food now Julian Scott and she shook her head. how I feel about her. Maybe it's and then—just in case." Then we asked her if she knew of too late—maybe she's forgotten all My head whirled and I felt a little a Sue LeBrun or a Susie Brown. She about me, but at least I can try. sick. My Susie married to a painter didn't, but she told us that if anyone I didn't get much sleep that night, and living in Greenwich Village! I would know, it would be Old Adam, and got up the next morning early, didn't know what to think. I just who could probably be found at An- more determined than ever to find \ stood there dumbly, staring at Andre. gelo's, around the corner. her. Maybe she was right there in Susie—married! She might at least So we went to Angelo's and there the hotel! Maybe even in the next j have waited a little longer, a small in a corner of the room at a little room! I routed Jeff out of bed and ! reproachful voice inside me whis- table by himself sat an old man with together we went down to the desk to 56 RADIO MIRROR J — —

talk to the woman clerk. She was a hard-bitten lady with a sharp tongue and flashy platinum blonde hair. "Susie Brown?" she repeated when I asked. "The nearest name to that we've ever had here was Susannah Brownell. Could that be the one?" "Might be," I told her, "she's had a lot of names." "Did she have hair the color of mine?" "No ma'am—Susie had red hair, last I heard. But she had a mon- key." "Well, this girl didn't have a mon- key, but she did have a Pekingese." I could hear Jeff behind me groan at that. And then I asked my ace question. "Did this Susannah Brow- nell eat popcorn a lot?"

THE woman behind the desk gave a snort of laughter. "I'll say she did, soldier—she devoured it. Even had the Peke chewing on it." "It's Susie, all right," I told Jeff. "Poor kid, trying to run away from her troubles by dying her hair and changing her name." "Troubles, my eye," the woman in- terrupted, "that girl hit the jackpot. She struck it rich—at first, anyway." "What do you mean?" Jeff and I blurted out together. And I added, "This girl I'm thinking of had just lost her husband—he shot himself. May- be it isn't the same one after all." "It's the same one, all right. I know all about the poor guy. But after she got here she didn't waste any time mooning about it. My hus- band helped get her a job as a show I have a family to raise and girl at the Zero Hour Club and she a home to keep ship-shape. started to brighten up right away. And then it happened—like the I'm learning First Aid and train sweepstakes!" ing for Ambulance Duty. And "What happened?" "She breezed out of here one night I've got a part-time job that like Lady Vere de Vere going to the makes our budget a better fit opera. All dressed up in ermine and wearing an ring as engagement It's exciting and completely satis- big as a rock. She was with a dark foreign-looking guy with a wolf- fying . . . but it takes a bit of doing. hound." I've had to learn new ways—and quicker ways Jeff said "Wow!" under his breath. I couldn't say anything for a minute. —to get through the endless household tasks that use up I was stunned. so much time and energy. "Do you happen to know where they went, Ma'am?" I asked finally. For instance, I've just installed the Fels-Naptha Soap System. "I sure do, brother. She went to a penthouse on Park Avenue—and I I use this wonder soap to clean bric-a-brac, to brighten told my husband at the time that I'd silver and flatware and for all sorts of time-killing cleaning change places with her any day in — the week!" chores that keep a conscientious wife 'tied down.' "Well, thanks very much. I guess we better be getting along." My precious silk and Nylon stockings last longer But the woman leaned back in her Soap System and they're chair and started to laugh. "Wait under the Fels-Naptha — a minute, soldier," she was obviously easier to do. I wouldn't trust my baby's things enjoying all this very much. "You with any other soap. As for the family wash haven't heard the half of it yet. Wait'll I tell you what happened!" I've just whisked through that Jeff and I leaned against the desk and I'm off to another and waited. The story she told us was almost unbelievable, but she said round of traction splints it had been in all the New York and pressure points. papers and was surprised that we hadn't even heard about it. The dark foreign man was a Prince, she told us—Prince Mikaloff. Whether the title was real or not, people didn't Yes, I'm a busy woman bother to find out, but he said he was a Prince and he lived like a Prince, and thanks to Fels-Naptha Soap so everyone accepted' him at his word. And that made Susie a Princess. She I love it! got to be known around town as the Princess Susannah, and she and the Prince went everywhere in regal splendor. They were always at the Golden baror Golden chips. FELS'NAPTHA banishesTattle-Tale Gray" opening nights of new Broadway

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shows, they were well known at the Even I used to spend most of my best night clubs, they were invited time pouring out my troubles into her to all the fanciest society parties. willing ears. It was my turn to help And Princess Susannah was loaded her now. And, feeling that she really This tampon down with emeralds and diamonds needed me, a great love for Susie and matched pearls that the Prince Brown welled up in my chest. It had given her. caught me in the throat and almost And then the blow came. The choked was really me. I whirled on Jeff then. your idea F.B.I, caught up with the Prince one "Listen, Jeff, Susie Brown is the day and pretty soon the whole town girl I love, and I'm going to find her was buzzing with the news that Prince and help her out of this mess she's Mikaloff was a famous international in if it's the last thing I do. And jewel thief. He had spent most of if you don't come along with me, his life in Europe, but when things you're just no pal of mine, that's all. got too difficult there, he had come Now—are you coming or aren't you?" to the United States where he evi- Jeff was startled, and blinked a dently intended to settle down and couple of times, then he laughed and enjoy his ill-gotten gains. His life put up his elbows as though to ward here had been very respectable. He off a series of blows. "All right, hadn't bothered to ply his trade in all right, I'll come. Gee whiz, I didn't New York, which was one reason the know you felt that way about her." police hadn't suspected him. "Well, I do," I told him, and we asked the nearest policeman where TT was tough on Susie. The scandal the precinct station was. He told us, * reverberated from newspaper head- and pretty soon we were talking to lines to society columns. And not the desk sergeant. only that—the police naturally He didn't want to give us any in- thought that Susie was the Prince's formation at first. He said the case accomplice and arrested her, too. was closed and he was glad of it They didn't have to stay in jail long. and he didn't want to have anything The Prince arranged some sort of more to do with it. I had to tell bail, and they went back to Park him the whole story—even to showing Women have always longed for the kind Avenue while they waited for the him Susie's last letter to me. Then of freedom internal protection makes trial. It was right about then that he shook his head dubiously. "She possible today. That's why tampons were the Prince was murdered. must have changed a lot since you first made. But it was because modern- My eyes were popping out of my knew her, Buddy," he said. "She's minded women like you wanted a bet- head at this point. I looked at Jeff a pretty hard character. We had a ter tampon— that Meds were made. Yes, and his face was perfectly blank. lot of trouble with her here. She wouldn't cooperate all. this tampon was your idea because . . . Of course, when the Prince was at Are you murdered, the woman went on, they sure you want to look her up?" arrested Susie again and things really I managed to control my temper You wanted real looked black for her. It wasn't until and said, "Yes, sir." an underworld character who was "Well, if it's only on account of that * protection! £*~*& being held on another charge con- uniform you're wearing, I guess I fessed that he shot the Prince be- better tell you. But I think you're cause the Prince had doublecrossed gonna be sorry." He thumbed through him that Susie's name was cleared. some papers on his desk. "She's at The woman stopped talking then 12 Henry Street." and looked at the two of us quiz- zically. "Some girl, eh boys? Did SO we started our search again. Jeff you say she was a friend of yours?" was being very quiet, just trudg- I nodded dumbly, and she went ing along beside me doggedly—prob- That means quick, sure absorption! So on. "Well, that's all I know about ably thinking plenty but not saying Meds designed an exclusive "safety cen- her, but I guess that's plenty." a word. I was certainly thinking ter" feature — to make absorption fast "Do you have any idea where she plenty. I hadn't done so much con- is now?" I managed to ask. centrated thinking about Susie and sure! Meds — made of finest, pure Brown "You might try the precinct sta- in all the time since I'd first known cotton— hold more than 300% of their tion. Maybe they'd know." her. I didn't care how she had weight in moisture! "Thanks," I told her, and we changed—I was convinced that Susie stumbled out of the hotel. Jeff was the most important thing in my ...combined with comfort! leaned against a lamp post when we life. I'd find her and tell her so. got out on the street. "Whew," he Furthermore I didn't believe all Meds were scientifically designed—by a gasped, "this is gettin' too much for the things the police sergeant and woman's doctor. So comfortable, you me. I don't think I can stand much that woman at the 43rd Street Hotel hardly know you're wearing them. Meds more. We're beginnin' to remind me had implied. Susie just couldn't have of Dick Tracy. From Princess to changed so completely. She never eliminate bulges, pins, odor, chafing.Each murder suspect in one easy jump." could be a hard character. Susie Meds comes in an individual applicator "I know it," I said worriedly. was the kind of girl who would spend —so sanitary, so easy to use! Things like this just didn't happen a whole afternoon playing jacks with to people—at least not to people the little kids next door. She was ...at no extra cost! from Oakdale, Indiana. Then I re- the kind of girl who was always membered that this was New York bringing home stray puppies and kit- Meds cost less than any other tampons and almost anything could happen tens and finding a good home for in individual applicators! So, try here. "Let's get over to the police them. In her casual off-hand way Meds—the tampon designed for you! station," I said to Jeff, "and see what she was the kindest girl I had ever we can find out." known. She just wasn't the awful BOX OF 10— 2Si BOX OF 50 — 98j< "Look Chip," said Jeff mutinously, person all these people seemed to "I'm gettin' sick and tired of this think she was. chasin' around from one place to I was so wrapped up in my thoughts another. Let's forget about this that we were in front of 12 Henry Susie character and ease on over to Street and Jeff was shaking my arm Broadway and have a little fun for before I realized that we had reached a change. We haven't got much more our destination. Meds time. C'mon, Chip." But when we knocked on the door, But suddenly I realized that Suzie somebody told us that Susie had was probably in trouble by now and moved to Orchard Street. And when needed me. She had never needed we got to the address on Orchard me back home. She was the girl Street, we were directed to Amster- The Modess Tampon who took care of everybody else dam Avenue. By this time, Jeff was somebody was always running to her nervously looking at his wrist-watch. for help or advice about something. "Gosh, Chip, we haven't got much

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more time." "I know it," I said, wiping the per- spiration from my forehead, "but I've just got to find her." At the Amsterdam Avenue address, they said she had moved just last week to 480 Livingston Street, and JUL uotc i*v olQVC I promised Jeff that this Ziovei would be our last stop. We wearily got on A the subway again and went down to Livingston Street. Walking along Livingston, looking for number 480, we noticed a crowd Ann of people gathered in the street down Rutherford and George Montgomery the block. We wondered what it was all about—until it suddenly oc- featured in the 20th curred to me "My gosh, Jeff, I bet i ' Century-Fox picture, that's 480 Livingston." "Orchestra Wife." "Could be," said Jeff without much Want such soft ro- interest. mantic hands? "But that's where Susie lives!" "That's right," he said, and we quickened our pace. I thought, what's happened to her now? And then I saw a couple of fire engines drawn up in front of the house, and there was smoke coming out of one of the up- stairs windows. Jeff and I pushed our way into the crowd. "What's happened?" I asked one of the bystanders. "Just a fire," he said, "won't last much longer. They've just about got it out." "Anybody still in the house?" I asked him. "No, they got all the people out a long time ago." "Happen to know where they went?" "How should I know?" he asked exasperatedly, and turned back to watch the firemen.

THEN my eye caught something down at the end of the block. I nudged Jeff and we started down the street on the double-quick. It was a little popcorn wagon, and I had a hunch. We pulled up short in front of the wagon, and the little man who was pushing it looked up at us with a friendly grin. "Popcorn, Mister?" "Yeah, I'll have a bag—make it a couple of bags." And then while he was filling the bags with popcorn, I asked him as casually as I could if he'd noticed a blonde girl around the neighbor- hood in the past week who bought a The romantic stars in Hollywood cultivate lot of popcorn. He chuckled at that this "dream girl" softness in their hands. and said he certainly had. His busi- ness had doubled since she moved to They use Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1 Livingston Street. You protect the rose-leaf smoothness of "You don't happen to know where with Jergens; this lotion helps pre- she is right now, do you?" I asked, your hands trying to keep my voice steady. vent common-looking rough, chapped hands. "Sure. She's probably down at O'Connor's having a coke—she spends Of course! It's like professional care for a lot of time there, reading books your hands. Many wise doctors aid hard-used and drinking cokes." skin to divine softness with 2 special ingredi- "Where's O'Connor's?" ents, which are both in Jergens Lotion. 10)4 "Two blocks down—on the other Ann Rutherford's Adorable Hands. Ann side of the street." to $1.00 a bottle. Notice Jergens Lotion protects the confiding softness of her — "C'mon, Jeff," I yelled, and we gal- hands by using Jergens Lotion. "The sim- leaves no sticky feeling. Give your hands loped off. ;" "Forty-five minutes to go," he plest, loveliest hand care," she says. "Hollywood's Hand Care use Jergens Lotion panted. We turned into O'Connor's, which was one of those old-fashioned soda fountain places with the little marble topped tables and the wire chairs with the curled backs. There was also a lending library and some magazine stands in the place, but I only half saw them. My eyes were filled with FOR SOFT, ADORABLE HANDS a girl sitting all alone at a little table in the back of the store. A blonde girl with a green hat, sitting with her back to us.

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And now that we'd- finally found back. Maybe I can give you a tip." her, I suddenly was afraid. We stood stock still in amazement I walked over timidly and kind of and then hurried back to her table. stood there for a minute. Then I "I don't know why I bother to do cleared my throat and said tentatively this," she said half angrily, "but you —"Susie?" might try the Consolidated Insurance The girl looked up, and I got the Company in Poughkeepsie. That's biggest shock of my life. This girl where your Susie Brown is." wasn't Susie! My eyes widened and I stared at her. "How do you my mouth must have fallen open. She know?" looked me up and down coldly and "I used to know her a couple of then said, "Yes? What do you want?" years ago. We both lived in a room- I shook my head to clear the cob- inghouse on West 86th Street. She webs away. "Oh. ..." I said, "I'm used to eat popcorn all the time. sorry—I'm looking for Susie Brown. That's where I got to liking the darn Uh—I thought you were Susie." stuff." She laughed shortly and ges- "I am Susie Brown," she said in a tured toward a bag of popcorn lying harsh, almost rasping voice, "but I on the table. certainly don't know you." Jeff and I were both speechless. "The Susie Brown I'm looking for," We stood there looking at her, word- I was still floundering, "is from Oak- lessly, with our minds going around dale, Indiana." in circles—at least mine was. She I looked at her for a minute, trying glanced up at us. "Well, now you to figure out what to say next. She know where she is—go find her, why was certainly a girl who had been don't you?" and she started reading around—it showed in her face. Her a magazine that was spread out in mouth was getting a little hard and front of her. there were definite lines in her face. I finally found my tongue. "Look, She must have been beautiful just Miss," I said, "I don't want to intrude a few short years ago, but that beauty on you or anything, but we've been was fading quickly. Her hair was a through so darn much in the last two brassy color that got darker near the days, I wonder if you'd do us a favor roots. Her fingernails were blood and tell us how come we got you red and not very well kept. All in mixed up with the Susie Brown I all, she was everything that my Susie know?" was not. She looked up at us again. "It's a long story and I don't intend to go SHE noticed my scrutiny and grew into it. But I will tell you that Susie isn't a little uncomfortable under it. Brown my real name. When "Well," she said, "I'm not the Susie Susie left to go to Poughkeepsie, I you're looking for, so why don't you took her name for reasons of my go away now?" own." Fails to "I suppose I may as well. ..." I "But what about the forwarding Face Powder That To a started to say, and then just to check address the woman on 86th Street Color-Harmony Give Your Skin up on a few things, I asked her, "By gave me — the 'Last Drink' night- the way, did you ever know anybody club? Did Susie get the job there touch of warm MEN THRILL to the by the name of Julian Scott?" or did you?" how does you Xth skin. But She winced at that, but stared me "I did. And probably they got my streaks and blotches forwarding address the skin look? If straight in the eye and said, "None of when manager powder mar the color- of 'The Last Drink' was checking the in your face your business, soldier." face-a precious references I gave him." She laughed harmony of your Jeff had come up to the table and you forever shortly. "Susie had excellent refer- rnomen'may be lost to was listening to our conversation. He ences!" out a bit ot put his oar in then, "Did you ever THIS TEST. Press TRY against a hear of a guy named Prince Mikaloff? "Well, gee, thanks Miss," I said. present face powder your .of Do you know of a night-club called "I guess we better be going now." those little streaks Xrro?. See 'The Last Drink?' Did you used to I couldn't keep the let-down sensa- fate, he 11 notice raw color? Sure as have red hair?" tion inside me from creeping into when you want him them ..just She leaned back in her chair and my voice. you. to notice only glared at us defiantly. "Listen, you try FOR NATURAL color-harmony, guys, I don't have to answer any of JUST one more thing, soldier," she Bouquet Face Powder. Its your questions, see? You're probably said and for the first time in our Sshmere so for harmony reporters in disguise. Well, I'm tired conversation, her voice softened a color is blended show. Seeded, of talking to reporters. I've got little, "if I were you I'd get on up natural no flaws can men love. nothing to say. Now go on, get out to Poughkeepsie in a hurry. I think with the "fragrance too, of here. Leave me alone." your girl's waiting for you." She Shades of Color. In "We're not reporters, honest," I as- sighed and turned back to her maga- 6 Ravishing r-«* generous 10* and largo sured her. "We're just soldiers and zine. "I always kinda liked that toilet good* counters. 111 drug and we're looking for Susie Brown. I Susie," she said in a low voice. happen to be in love with her and Dimly I realized that Jeff, almost I have to find her. That's simple dancing in impatience, was holding

enough, isn't it?" out his arm and pointing at his i But her lip curled. "I don't care watch. "Holy cats, Chip," he urged, who you are or what you want. —You "we gotta get out of here! We've , annoy me. Now beat it. Go on only got fifteen minutes left." I I My shoulders drooped and turned let him tug me toward the door, ! away wearily. This was the end, but I hardly realized what was hap- then. We had come to the final blank pening. Relief and happiness were wall. I'd never find Susie now. boiling around so fast inside of me Jeff came up behind me and put his that I felt as if I might explode. And arm over my shoulder. then, suddenly, I was as calm as could "Don't take it so hard, Chip. We'll be. Dreamily I watched Jeff signal J

find her somehow." a taxi, and I sat beside him all the i Cashmere Bouquet I tried to grin at him, but it was way to the station, not saying a word. a pretty bad imitation. "We'll never Because it was enough, just now, j find her now. She's just vanished to think that Susie was in Pough- into thin air. I'll probably never see keepsie, and that she'd never forgot- Face Powder her again." ten me, and that after all it wouldn't And then we heard the girl's voice be so very long before I could get A Member of Cashmere Bouquet — J, again. She had evidently been myself another two-day leave. And the Royal Family of Beauty Preparations watching us and had heard what we that leave I wouldn't spend looking had said. "Okay, soldiers, come on for Susie. I'd spend it with her.

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Love Is for Keeps Continued from page 23 Can twins be divorced ? much later that night, and she tried to laugh with me as I gave her an account of the evening's foolishness. But there was a strange combination of amazement and hurt in her eyes. I wouldn't let myself take notice of it, wouldn't let anything spoil the remembrance of the fun I had had. "He's in love with you," Miggs said slowly, and her even white teeth caught her underlip. "Don't be silly," I said. "It's not silly. Tommy's been mak- ing calf-eyes at you from the moment first you." There was a bitter- he saw The Davis Twins, United Air ness in her voice that I had never Lines Stewardesses, tell how heard there before. Pepsodent Tooth Powder "Don't be silly," I repeated, trying came between them. to believe what I was saying. "Tom- my's just—just a child. Tonight was fun, but I'd go crazy doing that sort of thing all the time." But I lay awake for a long time that night. No, I wouldn't admit that I was in love with Tommy. I wouldn't face that fact. But I drew a split hair line of difference, admitting that may- be I was falling in love with him. Dwight's troubles about the motion picture contracts continued, and he sent his proxy often after that. Then he went out of town, leaving Tommy with instructions to "keep an eye on the girls." But after that there was no pretense that Tommy came to see Miggs; that I was only secondary. I selfishly left Miggs to shift for her- self and monopolized every moment of Tommy's attention.

"We're typical twins, I. being with Tommy was fun, and Athalie and Look alike, "Even when we dressed alike, people began to OH, dress alike, share the same problems of mistaken know us apart. My teeth became twice as bright as I fun! I kept telling needed my- identity. We've always been together every- on my twin's . . . thanks to Pepsodent ! It was easy to self that, willing myself to believe thing. . . except once. the 'divorced' That was time I tell who was who . . . but not for long. Athalie had that I was just having a postponed my twin . . . for test purposes only. I switched to enough of our trial separation. So she switched Pepsodent Tooth Powder. Athalie right fling, especially when I saw the hurt went on to Pepsodent, too. And is she glad ! Nothing but using in Migg's eyes. I just gave myself up another well-known brand." Pepsodent for us from now on." to having the kind of fun I'd never had before. But Miggs' face reproached me, Davis twins confirm laboratoryproofthat nagged at me like a guilty conscience, although she never said one word in protest. In vain I told myself that Pepsodent Powder makes teeth it wasn't my fault. Could I live Tommy's life for him? Could I make him love her, even if I wanted to? TWICE AS BRIGHT Besides, young hearts are fickle Miggs' would mend. And then, with a stab, I had to admit that Tommy's was a young heart, too. Would it tire of me? Was I letting myself in for a terrible blow? Because I knew that these things INDEPENDENT LABORATORY could well be true, I still wouldn't TESTS FOUND NO OTHER, admit that I loved him. I just put off DENTIFRICE THAT COULD thinking about it, crowding the un- pleasant thoughts into the back of my MATCH THE HIGH LUSTRE mind, filling my head with minute- PRODUCED BY PEPSODENT. to-minute thoughts without troubling about the future, giving myself up BY ACTUAL TEST; PEPSODENT wholly to the time-filling business of PRODUCES A LUSTRE ON having fun. We danced late into the night, we went to an amusement TEETH TWICE AS BRIGHT park, we lay on the beach in the sun, AS THE AVERAGE OF ALL we rode horseback—all the silly, OTHER LEADING BRANDS! lovely things I'd never done. One afternoon Tommy brought me back to the apartment after a ride in the park. "I'm going home to change," he said, "and come back to take you to that Russian place for dinner. We'll have a swell time— He turned to go, and then suddenly he had swung around again, and For the safety of your smile... caught me close to him, buried my use Pepsodent twice a day... face against his rough, man-smelling tweed riding coat. His mouth was see your dentist twice a year NOVEMBER, 1942 61 ! —

close to my ear, murmuring the phrases for it —words are my busi- things I'd half-hoped, half-dreaded ness, but they all seem to have de- to hear. "Zelda, you darling, you serted me now. But dear, if we missed darling! We always have a wonder- each other so, why should we go on ful time together, don't we? You can't missing each other?" keep me at arm's length any longer, For a moment I wasn't sure what honey. Zelda, my beautiful!" he meant. It seemed incredible after His arms released me, his hands our easy friendship, with never a cupped my face and tipped it up to mention of love, a hint of marriage. his. Then my mouth met his, as if But it was true, and he was offering it belonged there, in the kiss I'd me more than he knew. He was of- dreamed about. In a moment we were fering me escape from the emotional apart again, and he was laughing ner- tangle in which I'd involved myself. vously, looking as if he had done He was offering me a substitute for something he hadn't meant to do. loving Tommy. He was offering me a The blood pounding in my ears, my way out. I didn't stop to think that it throat, I fled into the apartment, wouldn't be fair to him. I didn't stop across the living room, into the bed- to think that this was the coward's room. He loved me—Tommy loved way, running away from a problem, WHENEVER I REACHED for that laxative bottle, me! And now I had to admit it, even hiding from it instead of facing it Betty would scream and run away. She hated the to myself. I loved him. He'd ask me and fighting it out. I only knew that taste of the stuff and it upset her something awful to marry him, and we'd dance and this was blessed, sweet relief, It was just too strong! and I ferry-ride our way through life. We'd cried, "Oh, yes, Dwight—yes!" be happy—we'd be young! I lay quiet THEN I TRIED some- in his arms then, full of thing else. But Betty peace, not letting myself think of raised a rumpus every SUDDENLY I sat down, feeling as a anything. I wouldn't have to face time I her gave a child must feel when its balloon the dreadful alternative of saying no dose. To make matters breaks. Because I knew it wasn't so. to Tommy or marrying him knowing worse, the medicine Marriage wasn't one long dance, one that I was making a horrible mis- didn ' t do her any good. take. I wouldn't have to face It was just too mild! continuous ferry ride. It was com- any- panionship, and sharing troubles, and thing, not even the risk of another raising children, and sitting quietly of Tommy's kisses. side by side, not even needing to talk. Dwight and I were married, very And I couldn't have those with quietly, a week later, with Tommy Tommy. Already I was weary of the for best man and Miggs for maid of merry-go-round I'd been riding, and honor. I had filled the time between I knew that Tommy was going to with shopping, with buying the pale keep on riding until he caught the yellow dress I wore, the broad- brass ring, years and years from now. brimmed green hat with its gay I got wearily to my feet, dragged crown of yellow flowers, with buying off my riding habit, began to cream a gray-and-scarlet suit for going my face, smoothing with an anxious away, a filmy white nightgown and ONE DAY MY NEIGHBOR suggested Ex-Lax! I finger the new little wrinkles which negligee trimmed with white lace. gave some to Betty and she just loved its fine all- had lately found their way into the Somehow, Tommy didn't seem as chocolate taste. Ex-Lax works so well, too... not corners of my eyes. Not enough sleep. crushed as I had expected him to be. too strong, not too mild — it's just right! I was bone-weary, much as I hated And when he kissed the bride it was to admit it, from trying to keep up a brotherly, impersonal kiss. As for Ex-Lax is effective — but effective in a with Tommy's pace-that-kills run- Miggs, she was radiant once more as gentle way! It won't upset the children; ning around, as his father called it. she walked out of the chapel with us, won't make them feel bad afterwards. Looking toward the door, I saw her arm tucked through Tommy's. No wonder people call it: H that Miggs was standing there. She We went to Dwight's cabin in the must have heard what Tommy had Catskills for our honeymoon—three said to me, guessed at that wild kiss, peaceful, serene weeks, in which I for her face was white and set, her began to recover from Tommy as one eyes were clouded. "I've got to go recovers from an illness. Naturally, like any effective medicine, Ex-Lax out," she said briefly. "You'd better By the time we got back and moved should be taken only as directed on the label. get something on. Dwight's home, into Dwight's house on Long Island, and he's on his way over." I felt settled and secure, as a woman I felt as if the cool rains had come must who has been married for years. after a hot, humid day as I dressed The days went by so rapidly and yet EX-LAX and waited for Dwight. He was so so smoothly that it's hard to sort them 10 c and 25 c at all drug stores wise, so good; surely just talking to out and remember them, one by one. him would help me to think straight- Tommy was there, of course—his er, to sort out the jumble of emotions laboratory was in the house and he that was tearing me apart. did his work there—but protected by Presently he came, looking as he the armor of Dwight's constant com- softer always did—a handsome man with a panionship, busy with the work we knowledge of the world about him. had started to do together, I felt the We sat down together on the ter- old fire dying away to embers. The race. "You're getting thinner," he weeks, the months, slid by. said, cocking an eyebrow at me. "And there are circles under your eyes. ONE afternoon I sat on the terrace, stronger ^A^^%M Been working too hard, or has that just basking in sheer laziness, as son of mine been leading you a Tommy came up from the garden. He merry chase?" started to speak to me, but whatever "Both, I guess," I told him. Im- he might have said was cut off by a pulsively, I held out my hand to him. hoarse cry from the direction of the "Dwight, I've missed you. I didn't long flight of steps which led down to more realize how much until I saw you the water. come in, just as always. It seemed The next hours are a confused j it seemed, somehow, to send life back jumble in mind. I remember absorbent my j to normal!" running beside Tommy to the stairs, | He took my hand, and his eyes and seeing Dwight lying in a crumpled

his voice were suddenly different. heap, like a bundle of old clothes ; "I've missed you, too—more than I with no man inside, at the foot of liked to let myself think." He moved them. I remember Tommy damning SITROUX he closer to me, holding my hand be- the loose stones of the steps as tween both of his. "Zelda, maybe this sprinted across the lawn to call the going down the SIT-TRUE" I IbbU tb isn't the romantic way to do this. doctor. I remember Maybe I ought to get down on my stairs somehow, kneeling beside AT 5 & 10* - DRUG & DEPT. STORES knees. And I know I haven't the right Dwight. I remember my husband be- ; RADIO MIRROR 62 ing carried back to the house, smiling one-sidedly but reassuringly in spite DEDICATED AMERICA of the pain. I remember the doctor rubbing his hands together and say- ing, with satisfaction, "Nice, clean break—left leg. He'll be up and able to hobble about before you know it." My world was bounded by the four walls of Dwight's room for the next few days. I read to him, talked to him, found new roots for our pleasant "to- getherness." As the doctor had prom- ised, he soon was able to sit on the terrace in the sun, his leg in a cast. At lunch that first day that he was downstairs he reached across the table and squeezed my hand. "Now that I'm no longer strictly crippled, you've got to stop this business of fussing around me like a cat with one kitten, Zelda. You haven't stirred outside the house since I fell. Tommy, you're the man of the house tem- porarily," he went on, "and your first assignment is to take Zelda to the tennis tournament this afternoon. She has been counting on it for weeks, and I'm not going to have her miss it." "Why—" Tommy began, uneasily, but I interrupted him. "Dwight, I'd much rather stay here—with you. I don't want to go to the tournament." "Nonsense," he said, smiling. And suddenly, with a shock like that of an icy finger drawn across my spine, I knew that it was nonsense. I did want to go to the tournament—with Tommy. And while, in a sort of panic, I examined that knowledge and saw all its implications, Dwight was going on, "Not another word out of either of you—get along!"

IT was amazing, and frightening, * how easily Tommy and I slipped back into the old routine, after that. Because the fire was still there, you A Lesson They're Eager to Learn see. It hadn't died. And it flamed again, burned high. The days slid by, one like another, and yet so different Ooon these new mothers will leave the hos- tective measures at home. Keep visitors from those peaceful days with pital where their babies were born. Now away from baby. Don't let them fondle or Dwight. Weekends, Miggs came out, they are watching a nurse demonstrate how kiss him. And do as hospitals and doctors and the three of us went around to- to care for a newborn infant. She teaches recommend—anoint your baby with anti- gether, but during the week it was them many vital lessons that hospitals have septic oil every day until he's at least a Tommy and I alone and happy. At — learned about scientific infant care; and year old. Use the oil also after every diaper least, I was happy, with a kind of most valuable of all, she gives them a new change. Be sure the oil you use is antiseptic. burning, bitter happiness, because I understanding of the importance of pro- Look for the word "antiseptic" on the label. had fallen into the old habit of lying tecting babies against harmful germs. Don't be satisfied with anything less. Re- to myself again. member that the essence of baby care is But I was troubled, too. I wondered Largely because of the progress which protection against harmful germs. if people were talking about me. Did medical science has made in its never- the neighborhood gossips chatter ending war on germs, this year more than And, of course, have your baby examined among themselves about the way 100,000 U. S. babies will live, who would by your doctor regularly . . . that is Rule Tommy and I danced at the taverns have died at less than one year of age had No. 1 in infant care. / on the highway, paddled about in the they been born 20 years ago. f -f path of the moon on the lake, the Nowadays hospitals maintain almost un- Why do almost all hospital nurseries use foolish, childish fun we had at the believable vigilance in guarding infants Mennen Antiseptic Oil? Because it is anti- nearby amusement park? against harmful germs. Only a few spe- septic. No other widely-sold baby oil has I But put those doubts aside, be- cially-assigned nurses are permitted in the that important quality. If you want the cause I wanted to. It silly, I told was nursery, and they must wear sterile masks, best for your baby, at only slight extra cost, myself; I was a married woman, caps and gowns. Even the doctor does not use Mennen Antiseptic Oil. There is no being taken around little a by my enter; he examines babies in a special room, substitute for antiseptic care. stepson while my husband was un- and he too wears mask, cap and gown. baby is older and you use a baby able to go out with me. When When baby is nursing, the mother's bed is powder, follow this guide: Mennen Baby And we did have fun, Tommy and sheet, and her covered with a sterile feeding Powder, too, is antiseptic —a health aid, not I. I lost all the settled feeling those breasts and hands are sterilized. A limited a mere "cosmetic!' Made by special "ham- first months of being married to number of visitors is admitted to the merizing" process, it is finer, smoother,

Dwight had given me. I forgot > how mother's room, only during certain hours; more uniform in texture than other leading tired keeping up with Tommy had and they are asked to stay away from the baby powders. Also it has a delicate new once made me, forgot sick I how had bed, to prevent transfer of germs which scent. Most important, Mennen Baby sometimes been with myself for try- might later come in contact with the baby. Powder is antiseptic. ing to play at being a youngster when aid in protecting baby's skin I knew that I was a grown woman. As a vital against germs, practically every hospital Slowly, worse doubts came to me, now anoints the baby's entire body with Pharmaceutical Dkision as the fire burned higher, as the ex- antiseptic oil, daily. This helps prevent im- citement of being with Tommy grew petigo, prickly heat, pustular rashes, diaper TH*msnnsnco stronger stronger. I and Had thrown that germ infection plays rash. It is known jV. — Toronto, my life away? Could everything pos- Newark* /. OnL a part in these common skin troubles. sibly be the same again, once Dwight was able to walk again? Mothers should continue hospital pro-

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And yet, with Tommy there was only to show me a good time, swept ! something lacking. seemed away by his emotions little, always He a per- | to hold himself in restraint, to keep haps, but not meaning anything seri- /lw — Hair Rinse me at arm's length. I put my finger ous. And I, like a schoolgirl, thinking on it one September afternoon as I I was in love with him, mooning over

barely watched him and Miggs come up him and hiding from myself behind 1 from the tennis court. They were Dwight. Dwight, who had trusted J chattering away fifteen to the dozen, me, who had thought that "every- Gives a Tiny Tint and then it came to me. They looked thing worked out that time." This so right together, those two. They was the man I'd wondered if I'd made belonged. a mistake in marrying! Oh, no—the And there was more than that. only mistake I'd made was in ever, Removes Tommy and I had nothing to talk for one minute, thinking that! My about. We had nothing to say to each mistake had been in fearing to face this other, because actually we had noth- life, in running away like a coward. ing in common. I was just six years It was then that I remembered my dull older than he, but in interests, in father, saying, "The world won't let long-time plans for living a life, in you get away with making the same film ambitions, we were a generation mistake twice, Zelda." apart. For that's what I had been doing I had a sudden sharp desire to be deceiving myself again, ready to hide with Dwight, to cast my burden on behind Dwight and my marriage to him now, as I had before. He was so him. Making the same mistake twice. 1. Does not harm, permanently wise, so kind—all unwittingly he had I caught my breath sharply. Maybe tint or bleach the hair offered me a solution before. Per- this was the one time—the one time in haps he could help me now. I must a hundred times when Father's 2. Used after shampooing — your — give my marriage to Dwight a chance, maxim wasn't true. Maybe this time hair is never dry, or unruly at least, I told myself. I wouldn't the world would let me get away 3. Instantly gives the soft, lovely think about Tommy and me. I'd go with the same mistake twice, if I effect obtained from hours of and talk to Dwight—talk about acted quickly. We were headed vigorous brushing.. .plus a tiny books with him, listen to music with straight for tragedy, all of us, Dwight, tint — in these 12 shades. him, as I hadn't done for so long. I Tommy, Miggs and I. Dwight's faith 1. Black 7. Titian Blonde felt tired, sick of myself. in me would not have lasted forever; 2. Dark Copper 8. Golden Blonde a very little more time and the 3. Sable Brown 9. Topaz Blonde 4. Golden Brown 10. Dark Auburn precious love that had sprung up be- 1%/fY hand was on the knob of his 5. Nut Brown 11. Light Auburn tween Tommy and Miggs would have 6. Silver 12. Lustre Glint L" study door when I heard Dwight's been crushed, withered. But if now voice, and something in it which 4. Golden Glint contains only safe today, this minute—I could face the stop. "Tell about it, certified colors andpure Radien, made me me facts and put things right for these Miggs," he was saying. all new, approved ingredients. three people I loved so much and Then Miggs' voice, thick with tears, had made so unhappy. Try Golden Glint...Over 40 million answering him. "Oh, Dwight—I'm so Yes, loved—for I knew that it was packages have been sold. ..Choose miserable!" Dwight, it had been Dwight all along. your shade at any cosmetic dealer. His voice full of the gentle was Tommy was like a new toy, some- Price 10 and 25^ — or send for a kindness I knew so well, the tolerant thing to play with, but Dwight was . wisdom. "Tell me about it anyway." FREE SAMPLE the real man, the man with whom I Golden Glint Co., Seattle, Wash., Box 33G6-JJ "It's it's Tommy and me. Oh, —— wanted the oneness, the togetherness Please send color No. as listed above. Dwight " the words were tumbling that only the true companionship of over—themselves in their haste to be marriage to the man you love deeply said "I love him. I love him so and truly can bring. much, and he loves me!" Almost before I knew it I had left Outside the door I caught my the door, was running out to the breath. Tommy was in love with my GOLDEN GLINT side garden. "Tommy," I called, little sister, and I had been too ab- "Tommy—come here!" He hoisted sorbed in having fun to know it! his length out of the lawn chair and I could hear Dwight chuckle. "As hurried across to me. see, that's nothing to cry far as I can "What the dickens is the matter?" over, Miggs." "Just come with me," I cried, and voice, him, very Her answering was I took his hand to urge him along. small. "But—Zelda." ^\\//x\\i// Without preliminaries I opened the "Yes, Zelda." Dwight's voice was door, pushed Tommy forward. even. "Tommy, there's your girl. She's "Oh, Dwight—Tommy feels that miserable, but you can make her <& ^//iw^/iwv she's in love with him, and he doesn't happy. Ask her the question you know what to do. As long as things want to ask her!" stand as they are, he can't ask me to marry him. Oh, I'm sure it isn't so 'T'HE question went unasked, but Zelda couldn't be so foolish!" -*- there was no need for it. Miggs' shaking his I could picture Dwight face lost its hurt. Tommy made a head. He sounded very grave. "I was strange, strangled noise in his throat I thought it Recall afraid of this, Miggs, but and swept her into his arms as if she'd to see if it wouldn't work itself these two important blocks best been no heavier than a kitten. They out, die a natural death. Look, dear. looked so young, so terribly right to- of sterling silver. They are wonderful woman. Your sister's a gether. But it didn't hurt me. All I for inlaid at the backs of bowls She's young—perhaps too young felt was a warm happiness for them, me—but she's not a child. She's and handles of most used a terrible concern for the wall of been having the kind of fun she strangeness I'd built up between my- age. But spoons and forks missed when she was your self and my husband. fundamentally she's a well-balanced for more lasting beauty. I went to stand beside Dwight. As grown-up woman. I still hope that clearly as if they were printed on a things will work themselves out, for page, my thoughts, mixed up for so all of our sakes. You see, I knew long, sorted themselves out. I knew about this before. That's why I hur- that I was no more a child than ried home from that trip of mine, Dwight was, but that some women remember? Tommy had written that £ EDWARDS have their puppy love affairs when HOLMES he and Zelda were having—a whale they are in their teens, and others, of a time, as he put it, but that he was like myself, don't fall a victim until INLAID afraid that she was taking it too seri- STERLING they're way past the ordinary puppy ously. But it worked out that time, SILVERPLATE than this love stage. I'd had my puppy love af- no finer Miggs, and I think it will work out fair at last, and it was over, and I again." Copyright 1942. Iniernatrono. Silver Co., Hotmei & Edward! free of it. face burned. Tommy, meaning was 0tTt*rOA,Mtnd«n,Conn.lnCanado.TheT Ealon Co.. Ltd.. °Reg. U S Pat OR My RADIO MIBHOB 64 Dwight's hand slipped easily into mine, as if there had never been a wall between us. "What about us?" CONSTANCE IUFI HUHN he asked. "Do you suppose we can Head of the House of Tongee manage to look as happy as they do?" The hot, oppressed fear was com- pletely gone, now. "What about us?" Dwight repeated, and I realized that he was afraid. I looked down at him and saw that his eyes were troubled, realized that it was for me that he was worried, afraid that I was not happy, that I had made a sacrifice. "Remember how the garden looked this morning after the storm?" I asked softly. "The flowers had been beaten down, and the paths were muddy little rivers, but when the sun came out everything was as it had been before, but just a little brighter, a little fresher, a little cleaner." His hand tightened in mine, and I knew that he understood—Dwight, the kindest, wisest, most understand- ing man any woman was ever lucky enough to love and be loved by!

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What Will People Say? Wa^um. Continued from page 15 Chicago was just a blur. I re- "Oh," I said, although it wasn't membered taxis and the license bu- quite clear to me. Sam was frown- D0NTCU1 reau and a dash into a florist's for ing. "What's the matter, darling?" flowers and the funny, fat man who I asked. married us and beamed like a nice Sam smiled hesitantly. "I wonder CUTICLE! friendly sun and his wife, who wept if it wouldn't be a good idea to wire and sniffed through the ceremony. ahead to Mr. Weaver?" He looked REMOVE CUTICLE THIS Now, I'm going home, I thought, uncomfortable. QUICK, EASY WAY... USE a real home, with my husband. I "Sam, are you afraid?" I asked. turned and put my face close to Sam's "Are you afraid he'll disapprove and on the pillow and Sam, in his sleep, —and maybe not let you take the TRIMAL fumbled for my hand and held it. job?" "Oh, no," said, (PRONOUNCED TRIM-ALL) Sam but he didn't F AWOKE with a start and it took sound very certain. Don't let ugly, rough cuticle spoil -* me a moment to get over the fright "Well, then, what is it?" of staring up into a man's face. Then Sam bit his lip and his the appearance of your nails . . dark eyes I remembered. Sam was already looked miserable. "It's—well, I don't Get this remarkable cuticle preparation dressed. know— You see, Mr. Weaver's right away. And you'll soon understand "Well, Mrs. Clarke," Sam grinned daughter, Ruth, and I— why thousands of are adopting women down at me. "Don't you think it's "Sam!" this new way to nail beauty, that elimi- time to get up?" He leaned down and "No, no, Delia!" Sam said insistent- nates dangerous cutting. • Here's all you do: pulled me into his embrace. ly. "It's nothing like that. We're Wrap cotton around the end of manicure "Oh, darling," I said into the rough not in love, or anything. It's just stick. Saturate with apply TRIMAL and tweed of his shoulder, "you're not that Ruth and I have been running to cuticle. Watch dead cuticle soften. Wipe sorry?" around together ever since we were it away with a towel. It's simple! It's easy!- Sam held me so tight I could hard- kids. It just occurred to me that Complete with ly breathe. "No, no, no," he said maybe people in town have expected Manicure Stick fiercely. that — and Cotton "I'd never have forgiven we'd—well—you know myself, if I'd been fool enough to "And that's why Mr. Weaver gave worry about conventions, yesterday. you that job," I said, "so you and Now you're mine—for always—and Ruth could be married." I could feel nothing else matters." Then, almost something inside me going to pieces. as though he were a little ashamed "Oh—Sam!" of his outburst, he touched me awk- "Now, darling," Sam said. "Don't wardly on my bare shoulder. "Get be silly. I tell you there was nothing dressed, darling. Breakfast is being to it." served." "Yes, but everyone expected you When we were seated at a table to marry her, didn't they?" I asked. in the dining car, Sam looked up, "What if they did?" Sam asked. suddenly, from the order he was "You know how people are— writing out. "I never thought of it," Yes, I thought, I know how people Trimal Laboratories, Inc. he grinned. "I don't even know what are. All my old fear of other people's 1229 So. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. you like for breakfast, Mrs. Clarke." thoughts welled up in me. Sam and I laughed and told him what I'd Ruth were their friends. I was an like. But, while he finished writing outsider. I was an intruder, who the order, I couldn't help thinking had taken Sam away from one of that there were lots of things we their girls. didn't know about each other. "Darling, don't look like that," Sam "Sam," I said, "shouldn't you wire pleaded. "I love you and you're my GIVE A ahead to anyone? I mean, isn't there wife and nothing else matters." someone who ought to know about "But we've got to live with these us—?" people—the rest of our lives, maybe," "No," Sam said. "Didn't I tell you I said. "How can we—if—if they I'm an orphan?" hate me?" PARTY I shook my head with a smile. Sam sighed a little impatiently. Chill and thrill your "But you must have friends, darling." "Delia, they won't hate you. They'll guests with Hallowe'en Sam grinned. "I have friends, like you, as soon as they know you." fun that's different. all right, I guess. I know everyone His voice lost its edge and he pressed Have a Ghastly Ghost in town. Needsville's small, darling. my hand. "Don't worry any more, Party! Free instruction It's so small that everyone Delia. I was a fool to mention it." leaflet makes decorating knows everyone else." But I didn't think it was nothing. easy . . . gives ideas for games and eats, too. Listening to Sam describe Needs- I knew what small towns were like. Clever, spooky settings ville, with its one main street and I couldn't get it out of my mind that for a complete and scattering of houses and the two Sam had no right to take that job, shuddery party are in- churches and the school and the now that he'd married me. expensive to make with string of tiny lakes off to Dennison Very Best Crepe Paper and Hallowe'en the North train slowing Cut-Outs. At stores everywhere. and the farms to the South, I realized THE was down. My that he was very fond of this place. heart began to beat furiously. I was Easy Instructions— For Home or Hall And I wished that I could share really frightened. Suppose there were those things with him, that I could people at the station to meet Sam, to 2)«B»i»»», Depl. Y-145, Framingham, Mass. know Needsville as well as he did welcome him home? Suppose Ruth I Send me FREE Instruction Leaflet: "A Ghastly Ghost Parly" and love it as much. were waiting? talking, afraid," I whispered. Name Sam was now, of some of "Sam, I'm I the people. "Old Mrs. Judge Pur- Sam caught my hand and pulled I Address chase," he was saying, "she'll probably me to my feet. He kissed me long I City State For Interesting Guides on other call before anyone else. She's to and hard. "Now, let's have no more J Dennison-Cratt I subjects, check below and enclose 5i for each. society what Mr. Weaver is to every- of this nonsense, Mrs. Clarke." ID Craftwork D Flower MaMlna Dn ParlyPrtrtti TablesTnhl D Gay Decorations thing else." Still, I hesitated before stepping "Who is Mr. Weaver, dear?" I asked. down from the train. I glanced "Well, let's see—how can I explain quickly up and down the platform. A loose leaf that's a lost leaf him?" Sam knitted his brows. "He There was no one in sight but an Is the last leaf that you'll lose. sort of runs everything, I guess. He's elderly in dungarees. After this, gummed reinforce- man blue ments the one who. gave me the job of "Hi, Sam Clarke!" the elderly man Are the guardians you'll choose. Superintendent of the High School." cried happily, running toward us. USE DENNISON Of course, the Board voted me in, "Certainly didn't expect you." but they wouldn't have, without his shook hands cordially. "Hello, GUMMED REINFORCEMENTS Sam say so." Roy. It's good to see you again." 66 RADIO MIRROR — .

He put his arm around my shoulders. "Roy, this is Mrs. Clarke. Delia, this is the most useful person in town, Roy Peck. No matter what you want done, you call on him." Roy Peck whistled softly with sur- prise and I knew this was the be- ginning. JrH^^f "Well, Ma'm," Roy Peck said, "I'm sure glad to meet you. This is some surprise, Sam. Shoulda let us know." "You'll all know soon enough," Jk Sam laughed. "Roy, please bring our baggage over to the house, will you?" "Sure," Roy Peck said. He grinned first day on the job . . . broadly at me and walked off toward YOUR and your confidence has his hand truck. "Come on, darling," Sam said. He done a blackout. You wonder took my hand and squeezed it. "Well, if you can stick it out . . . you've passed the first acid test. Roy Those other girls — they work ^" '-.•' is pleased." day after day — do their shopping I couldn't say anything. I wished tt: "° Sam weren't so sure of himself. To during lunch hours me, it had not seemed that Roy was even give evenings to war work. - — pleased. Surprised, yes—and shocked. They must have "difficult days," too! in And I had a horrible suspicion that But they're so sure of already telephone wires were hum- ming in Needsville. themselves — laughing and £__ I scarcely saw the road we were wise-cracking. Discussing dates (when walking. We turned a bend and came you're thinking of breaking yours). to a picket fence. gate. There was a Then the girl nearest you Sam stopped. [ggyj strolls over to be helpful ... and you "Here we are, darling," he said softly. "Welcome home." begin to talk. Funny, isn't it, I looked ahead with a start. It how you'll confide in a stranger? was a smallish, white house with "But you're not different," she green shutters and rambling roses says . . ."it's just that you haven't climbing all over one side of it. It was beautiful, well kept and charm- learned about Kotex sanitary napkins ing and peaceful looking. It was as simple as that . . Suddenly, Sam swooped me up in his arms and laughed gayly. He started through the gate and up the path to the house. Kotex is made for girls who must keep going in comfort every day! and their in stride! THIS was my home-coming, I For girls who take their work — play —

thought. I should have been giddy Why? . . . Because Kotex is made in soft folds, so naturally it's with happiness and laughing, the way less bulky . . . more comfortable . . . made to stay soft while wearing . Sam was laughing. But my heart A lot different from pads that only "feel" soft at first touch. couldn't come up to it. I tightened my arms around Sam's neck and Your self-confidence need never miss a beat! For Kotex wished that everything were different. has a new moisture-resistant "safety shield" to give added protection, I wished I could forget that there an extra margin of safety. And flat, pressed ends that was Ruth Weaver and her father and keep a girl's secret safe! the job and everything else. I wished at last, understand why more girls choose Kotex desperately that I could shake off this Now, you terrible feeling that I had no right than all other brands of pads put together! to be there, at all. Once inside the house, I felt easier. Sam led me from room to room. Keep Going in Comfort It had been furnished with loving Vfex care and artistry and all the fine antiques had been carefully polished -with KOTEX*! by Roy Peck in Sam's absence. "Sam," I said softly, "it's the loveliest place I've ever seen. It's the kind of a house I've always dreamed of having." "See?" Sam grinned. "Dreams do come true." He kissed me tenderly and, in his arms, I forgot all my fears, my worry. The doorbell rang sharply. "That'll be Mrs. Judge Purchase," Sam said. "Sounds just like her, that ring." WHO'S A GIRL TO ASK about It all came rushing back. "Oh, what to do and what not to do, Sam!" I whispered. "Not yet. I can't start seeing them yet!" on "difficult days"? Send for The bell rang again. "Looks like the new FREE booklet "As you'll have to," Sam chuckled. "Just One Girl To Another". . . it give your hair a quick going over, gives the answers to your inti- darling. I guess I mussed it. I'll let mate questions! Just address her in." P. 0. Box 3434, Dept. MW-11, My hands were trembling as I. Chicago, and get copy FREE! pulled the comb through my hair. I heard Sam greet the visitor happily and then I heard the booming, authoritative voice saying, "What's (•Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) this I hear about you coming home with a wife, Sam Clarke? Where is

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she?" I wanted to run away. not go on like this, living in our "Delia!" Sam called. own little world. I took a deep breath. My knees Actually, I myself began to find it *«2SW little I were shaking a as went down strange that after Mrs. Purchase's call, the stairs and into the sunny, lovely no one else came to visit us. And room to face the scrutiny of a heavy- thinking about it, I began to be sure set, white haired gray benched" woman, whose that this was their way of showing i^ eyes went over me swiftly. me I had no place in Needsville, in * ««t cold. But "Well!" Mrs. Judge Purchase said. its life. They were got worry, not even going Ref I bowed, feeling awkward and un- to satisfy their natural Mom knows how curiosity to happy, as Sam introduced us. Mrs. about me. get J, . ttj e f ,_ iows li'ifp Purchase moved heavily toward a Finally, I spoke to Sam about it. i chair and sat down and I wondered He pooh-poohed my ideas. "They're £"* « shape. miserably what we should talk about. thoughtful," he said with a smile. I almost cried out in a panic, when "I guess they think we need a few TINEnghtnow' Sam started for the doorway, saying days to get settled and they don't he'd call into town for some ice want to come barging in on us." cream, or something. And, when I realized what Sam "This is a surprise," Mrs. Purchase was going to do, I was almost sorry Why ANTIPHIOGISTINE ? Because it's known said flatly. "Funny, Sam didn't let I mentioned it to him. Sam was going that moist heat in the form of a poultice us know about it." to give a party—a homecoming party! is of definite value in relieving these "I—it happened very quickly," I symptoms— cough, tightness of the chest, stammered. I tried to smile, but my HP HE thought of that party was a muscular pain and soreness. And ANTI- face felt stiff and cramped. * nightmare to me. Even before it PHLOGISTINE, a ready-to-use medicated "Only yesterday, I asked Mrs. began, I was nervous. I watched the poultice, furnishes this valuable moist heat Weaver when Sam was coming home clock and, as the minutes passed and for many hours — longer than ordinary and she said they didn't know," Mrs. no one rang the bell, I was sure none preparations. It gets heat directly to Purchase went on calmly. "Seems of the thirty people Sam had invited affected areas without fuss or bother. For to me she could have warned me." would come. I wandered from room best results apply ANTIPHIOGISTINE early! I glanced toward the door, wishing to room, straightening the plates and As a poultice, applied comfortably hot, Sam would hurry back. I felt myself silver on the buffet a hundred times blushing. "I don't think could ANTIPHLOGISTINE is effective for Sam and wondering how I would ever win bruises, muscular aches and sprains. have let anyone know," I said hesi- these people over. Get ANTIPHLOGISTINE today! tantly. "You see—we—well, —we only And then they started arriving and decided yesterday afternoon it was worse. I couldn't remember Both of Mrs. Purchase's eyebrows all their names and I couldn't help slid upward. "Humph!" she blew out. seeing how differently they talked to Antiphlogistine "Now, that's just like Sam—impul- Sam and to me. I tried to tell myself (PRONOUNCED ANTI-FLO-JIS'TEEN) sive," she said. that it was because they didn't know back and I caught his me, that, perhaps, they were shy, but ALWAYS KEEP m Sam came A TUBE HANDY f hand frantically, as he sat down be- it didn't help. I did my best. I smiled FOR «•• side me on the sofa. I have no idea so hard that my face hurt and I stood EMERGENCIES how I got through the next half to one side while Sam's old friends hour. I was constantly aware of Mrs. clapped him on the back and toasted A product of The Denver Chemical Purchase's eyes boring into me. him. Manufacturing Co., New York, N. Y. Finally Mrs. Purchase pulled her- "Where's Ruth?" someone asked. self to her feet. I jumped up and "Oh," Sam said, "she'll be here. shook the hand she held out to me. I talked to her." "I hope you will be happy—very My heart froze. I had had no idea happy," Mrs. Purchase said, a thin that Sam had invited Ruth. I was sort of smile stretching her lips. horrified. "Thank you," I said. "It was kind I realized that the man I was stand- of you to call." Tears were hurt- ing with was saying something. "I'm ing my eyes, as I watched Sam go sorry," I said. "What did you say?" to the door with the woman._ "I said it was lucky Sam got that I was a little annoyed with Sam. job," the man said. I stared at him. How could he have missed that tone, "The job of being Superintendent," that almost threatening tone? As if he said. Mrs. Purchase had actually said, "Just "Yes," I forced myself to smile. you try and be happy!" "Sam's always wanted to settle down here—and—and now he can." SPENT the afternoon exploring my "That's what I meant," he said. I new home, learning to know it, fit- Somehow, I excused myself and ting myself into its atmosphere. By ran upstairs to my bedroom, locking evening, when the night closed in the door behind me. So that was over us and shut us into a small, why they had come, all of them! They safe, charmed circle of lamplight, I had come to watch my meeting with was happy. Ruth. They had come to show me After dinner, we sat out in the that they could handle me and dis- garden for awhile. My head on Sam's pose of me. They had come to make all, that 'HEN your baby suffers from shoulders, I listened to the steady it clear to me, once and for I didn't belong, never would belong. teething pains, justrub a few drops cricket sounds and the soft whisper of in leaves and I wished I sank down on the bed. I was of Dr. Hand's Teething Lotion on the wind the that somehow this garden and house shaking with anger and hurt and I the sore, tender, little gums and and Sam and I could be whisked to couldn't keep back my tears any the pain will be relieved promptly. some far off place, where we knew longer. From somewhere deep in my Dr. Hand's Teething Lotion is no one, where we owed no one any- memory that silly old proverb, "Marry the prescription of a famous baby thing. My happiness was deep and in haste, repent at leisure," came mind. specialist and has been used by strong and wonderful and I wanted into my that. Suddenly, I stood up. I wouldn't mothers for over fifty years. One to keep it like Almost as if he sensed my feel- wait until they had destroyed Sam's bottle is usually enough for one ings, Sam did not urge me, push love for me and my love for him. baby for the entire teething period. me into meeting his friends right I could leave right now. I could away. For the next three days, he go before they had done all their DR. HAND'S seemed contented and happy, just damage, before they had worn me being around the house with me, down with coldness and ostracism TEETHING LOTION taking me for walks down the road and pointed remarks and dislike. I toward the lakes and showing me his knew I couldn't face a life like that. I Just rub it on the gums favorite haunts as a child. I was knew that no matter how much we grateful to him and it only occurred loved each other now, Sam and I Buy it from your druggist today to me at odd moments that we could would be driven apart in the end. I RADIO MIRROR 68 "

could not fight a whole town and Ruth sat down next to me and smiled my silly fear distort things so com- hope to win. shyly. "Yes," she said, "forced. You pletely that I had mistaken every Frantically, never stopping to think see, Daddy sort of gets set in his ideas friendly gesture, every sign of delight how I would get out of the house and, I guess, he's always wanted me for condemnation. I had been so with all those people there, I began to marry Sam. It didn't matter very sure of what all these people would throwing my things into suitcases, much to him that neither Sam nor think about me that I had n* crumpling them in any old way. I I wanted that. Daddy always said stopped to find out what they really stopped. Someone had knocked on we'd get sense, after awhile. Well, did think. My silly obsession had the door. it just didn't work out that way. And twisted everything into its opposite. "Mrs. Clarke." It was Roy Peck's Daddy began to suspect that I was in I, myself, had created a situation, voice. love with Ted—that's Roy Peck's son where there wasn't any. —and he didn't approve of that, at My eyes fell on the hastily packed WASN'T going to answer him, but all. 1 So last month, he wrote Sam that bags. With a sick feeling, I realized it occurred to me that Roy could he could have that job as Superin- how close I had come to wrecking help me get away. He could take tendent. And then Daddy warned me. every chance of happiness. I had al- my bags out the back way. I wiped I was to behave like a decent girl most run away, leaving Sam, leaving my tears away and opened the door. and marry Sam when he came back the way open for Ruth's father to Roy Peck looked odd in his dark and not to see Ted any more and silly carry out his plan. suit. He grinned hesitantly. "I saw — things like that. As if I could stop "Will you help me, please?" I you come upstairs and seeing Ted, especially now, when he's asked Ruth. "I've got to put all Then I saw the girl. Before I had going into the Air Corps in a few these things back. I —I wouldn't want a chance to close the door, the girl weeks." Sam to know what a fool I've been." had stepped inside and closed it be- "Then—it's all right?" I asked. hind her. "Of course, it's all right," Ruth IT only took a few minutes to hang "I'm Ruth Weaver," she said. "I cried. "It's wonderful! You don't * up the crumpled dresses and put asked Roy where you were before know how happy I was, when Roy things back into the lowboy. Then, any of the others saw me." told me Sam was married. Don't you a quick dash of cold water to hide I stared at her. She was small and see? Daddy couldn't force me to the signs of my tears and a dab fragile and lovely. Her eyes were marry a man who's already married." of powder. bright blue and smiling. She put out "But he was angry, wasn't he?" I "I look awful," I said to Ruth. a hand. asked. "And he must be annoyed "They'll see I've been crying. What "I want to thank you," Ruth Weaver about the job, too." will they think?" Then, suddenly, I said. Ruth laughed happily. "It doesn't realized I didn't care what they would ?" "Thank— I whispered. matter. Daddy couldn't take that job think. Somehow, I knew I would Ruth Weaver laughed delightedly away from Sam, now. Everyone in never again worry about what people and hugged me spontaneously. "I town is on our side. Mrs. Judge would think. That kind of thing want to thank you for marrying Sam. Purchase hasn't been speaking to caused too much agony and heart- If you hadn't, father might have Daddy for months, now, because of break and life was too short, too full forced me to marry him." Ted and me." of wonderful, exciting things to miss "Forced?" I asked. I sat down "And I thought she didn't like me, any of them because of such fear. suddenly on the edge of the bed. I because of you," I whispered. I I smiled at Ruth and put out my knew I was going to cry again, but, wasn't really talking to Ruth, any- hand. "You'll never know what this time, it was because I had been more. I was beginning to see the you've done for me," I said. "Let's such a fool. enormity of my stupidity. I had let go down to the party."

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She comes from a musical family, on the air—or so the story runs. If TIRED, RED-EYED and first sang at a church concert the decision is favorable the shiver- when she was three—or rather, she and-shake dramas will replace Are was supposed to sing then, but didn't. You a Missing Heir on CBS. LOOK AWAY! Her mother, accompanying Ruth on + the piano, was seated so she couldn't CHARLOTTE, N. C—It wasn't more see the little girl, and she couldn't than a few days after his arrival that understand why the audience was Charlie Walters, WBT's newest an- -IN SECONDS) Yes, you can soothe laughing. Not until she'd played the nouncer, was as much a part of the eyes that feel drawn and tingly from number all through did she discover station as the oldest-timer there. close work, glare, dust or late hours that Ruth had decided not to sing. Maybe it was because in his com- in a few seconds! Just drop 2 drops Instead, she'd pulled her dress over paratively brief career Charlie had of eye-gene in each eye. Almost im- her head and just stood still. been a part of quite a few radio stu- mediately comes a feeling of soothing After that, Mrs. Owens decided to dios. Born Charles Henry Walters in relief. Glance in a mirror and you'll make a piano player out of Ruth, but Augusta, Georgia, see that your eyes actually look he jumped straight that plan failed too, when a teacher from the Academy of rested, bright and clear, too! Richmond stalked indignantly out of the house, County to a newspaper job as reporter EYE-GENE is an eye specialists' for- declaring, "No one can play a Chopin and feature writer on the Augusta mula. No other lotion has the ex- sonata and keep her mouth open at Herald. From there he went on to IBk elusive ingredient that makes it the same time." So Ruth went back to the Nashville Tennessean, and in yfil so effective in so short a time singing, where an open mouth is an Nashville he got his start in radio, on Stainless. Inexpensive. Atdrug, asset, not a liability. She sang in the station WSIX as announcer and gen- department and 10£ stores. church choir, and still sings there eral handy man. every Sunday. His next port of call was station She is also heard every week-day WGRM in Grenade, Mississippi, where morning on the Yankee Network, he held the title of program director teamed with tenor George Wheeler, and also did ninety per cent of the whom she credits with much of her announcing and handling controls. success because of the microphone Charlie says it was WGRM that made technique he has taught her. him a radio man through and through. From Grenade he climbed the lad- 2 DROPS Good news for shudder-fans—may- der rapidly, passing through WHBQ CLEAR, be. Lights Out, the prize example and WMC in Memphis and on to of all horror broadcasts, will be WRDW in Augusta, his home town, SOOTHS IN back on the air about the time you before coming to WBT. SECONDS! read this if the CBS network will take Charlie is a family man—or almost. it. The Lights Out stories are so The WBT staff is waiting eagerly for very very frightening that network him to pass out the cigars with the officials are afraid of putting them announcement, "It's a boy!"

LEARN Let Your Heart Decide ILLINERYhoME Continued from page 26 • Design and make exclusive hats under personal direc- tion of one of America's noted designers. Complete mate- his lips were against my own lips. I I wished I could cry but I couldn't. rials, blocks, etc., furnished. Every step illustrated. You make exclusive salable hats right from the start. We struggled and drew away from him. And the next night, when I was teach you how to start profitable business a in spare time. — to meet Stan again, I went out to a Low cost and easy terms. Expert milliners are in demand. "Tina—you Free National Placement Dept. Send today for particulars. "Stan, it's wrong. You mustn't. I show with Vern instead. LOUIE MILLER SCHOOL OF MILLINERY I didn't I honestly didn't 308 N. Michigan Avenue, Dept. 37 Chicago, III. mustn't see you again." know, I think he wanted to understand, know, whether or not I was doing to be calm and reasoning, and so did the right thing. But the next morn- I all I. But I knew we couldn't, knew it ing, when talked with Moms, my OOO was impossible, as long as we saw doubts ended. Dad's illness was much each other. It was better to break worse than we had guessed. He off harshly, cruelly, because the needed months of rest and proper wounds would heal in time and then diet and care and it would cost more give I'd be forgotten and over with and money than we had. Vern could it to us, Vern would help care for him. oft/bur Stan could—meet someone else. And Stan? Stan the clerk, Stan Funny thing. He'd kissed me just ENfuJ who was leaving soon to join the air Favorite Pfiefo once. Yet it hurt to think of his kiss- corps and would be thousands of ing anyone else. Send Any Photo For miles away? It had been a wild knowing it over I still had Beautiful 5x7 Inch But was dream, an adventure in never-never ENLARGEMENT— to say that I'd meet him again, know- Your Original Returned land, it was exhilarating and sweet ing in my heart I wouldn't, knowing Just to get acquainted, we will as candy but it was all wrong. I would stand him up. If I told him HSi make and send you FREE a I smiled at Moms across the break- beautiful PROFESSIONAL I wouldn't see him, he'd have insisted n Hollywood Studio Enlargement fast table and told her not to worry, other. of any snapshot, photo, kodak we had a right to see each He'd that Vern and I would make sure picture — print or negative — to to heart. It was 5x7 inch size. Please include hold on to me, my Dad had the best medical care in the of eyes, hair and clothing \ color better to hurt him, to let him think for prompt information on a world. He'd get well soon, we'd see i ' natural, life-like color enlarge- anything about me he wanted to 1 to it. mc-nt in a Free Frame to it, then, table dresser. anything bad. He'd get over patted hand. "You , set on or Your Moms my

, original returned with your FREE PROFESSIONAL quickly. mustn't worry about us, dear," she Enlargement. Act quickly — So I promised we'd meet once more, said; and then, "We've—we've got a f limited. Please enclose lOcfor the cafe. I said goodnight return mailing. Mail photo NOW with coupon below. down in surprise for you." HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS and started upstairs. As I went up, I There was a certain wistfulness in 7021 Santa Monica Blvd., Dept. 463. Hollywood, Calif. turned and saw him watching me. the way she said it. I looked at her MAIL COUPON TODAY I told Moms and Dad I'd been to questioningly. with a girl friend. I hated "I know we haven't money to buy HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS, Dept. 463 the movies 7021 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. to lie. But what was the use of tell- you a real bride's dress. But Dad and Here is picture or negative for my Free Hollywood Enlargement. ing them? It was over now, over for I have put aside a few dollars. It's Color Eyes _ Clothing. D I am enclosing 10c for return mailing. Offer good only in U.S. good and all. I wouldn't be seeing for you—a going-away costume." him or keeping that date. I reminded Moms and Dad, putting aside that myself of that as I undressed. Then money to buy me a present, putting Addres: I climbed into bed and my heart was it aside even when they needed it Town _ like a sharp stone in my breast and themselves. And now they needed it

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more than ever! "I'm thrilled, Moms," I said. "But —I can't let you do it. I just can't, not with Dad— Are you sure of your Put FRESH #2, the new But I knew her heart was set on it. present deodorant? double-duty cream "No, Tina," she said, in that firm tone Test it. Put it under this arm. See which means she's made up her mind, under "this is our one real wedding gift to this arm. which stops perspira- you. We'd like to give you more but tion — prevents odor well, we've counted on this and — — better! nothing is going to interfere. Besides, there's a wonderful sale down at Sutton's Department Store." Panic swept through me. Sutton's. Sutton's, the store where a boy named Stan was working. A boy I didn't want to see because I was afraid to see him, afraid of my own emotions. "We don't want to go there, Moms. It's a very expensive shop, and hon- estly, much as I'd love it, I don't think we ought to spend money on clothes. Honestly, Moms. I— "Tina!" There was rebuke and hurt in the way she said my name. "Tina, there's the sweetest suit there. I—I saw the picture in the paper. I want you to have it, to wear away with you— There wasn't any use protesting. I said, "All right, Moms. I'd—I'd love it." I never thought I'd tremble just to walk into a department store but I did then. I kept looking around me, even when we reached the dress de- partment, wondering if he'd be near. But naturally he wasn't. We found what we wanted. It was a pretty suit and I was pleased with it. Moms was paying the girl and I was wondering why it felt so strange to be close to him like this, even though he didn't know it. And then I heard someone calling my name and I whirled. It was Stan. His dark eyes were excited. He stood there looking down at me. "I caught a glimpse of you going up in the elevator," he said. "Tina why didn't you show up last night? What was the matter?" Moms was listening. I said, "Moms, this is—this a friend of mine—Stan tUe pf\E s h a*id Mu jpdwA Colton. This is my mother." Moms bowed politely. She had that we'd-better-be-going-now look. Stan said, "I've got to have a word with PUT FRESH #2, under one arm— put your present you, Tina. Now." deodorant under the other. And then . . . THERE was urgency in his tone and my own heart was pounding. 1. See which stops perspiration better. We feel sure "All right, Stan," I said. that FRESH #2 will! walked over to the window and We 2. See which prevents perspiration odor better. We're he tried to take my hand but I drew sure you'll feel complete underarm security with it away and warned him my mother was watching. FRESH #2. "What does that matter?" he asked 3. See how gentle FRESH #2 is— how delightful to under his breath. "Tina—what was use! Never greasy, gritty, or sticky, FRESH #2 wrong last night? I was worried sick spreads easily — smoothly! —afraid something had happened." I had to steel myself, to let him 4. See how convenient FRESH #2 is! You can use it know this was the finish. I drew back just before dressing— it vanishes quickly! my shoulders, lifted my chin, looked won't rot even up into those dark, expressive eyes. 5. Revel in the fact that FRESH #2 — this. "Stan " I tried to make my voice delicate fabrics. Laboratory tests prove distant "something has happened. — MAKE YOUR OWN TEST! If you don't agree that FRESH To me, I mean. Maybe it's just that I #2 is the best underarm cream you got back my senses. I don't know. It y^^jp^^ have ever used, vour dealer will gladly /» Guaranteed by^i isn't any use, Stan, trying to pretend. V Good Housekeeping, your full purchase price. It's no good, you and I. It's wrong refund and we both know it." "What's wrong?" he demanded. "Loving you? Or your loving me? Is FRESH #2 comes in three that wrong?" sizes— for extra-large jar; Loving me—or my loving him. He 50f< for generous medium jar; had put it into words and now I was 25fi for handy travel size. F^SH denying those words, saying to my- and 10f£ self it wasn't so and couldn't ever be so. • PERSPIRATION PREVENTS ODOR "Let's not argue, Stan. It's over NEW DOUBLE-DUTY CREAM REALLY STOPS

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now and there's nothing anyone can do about it." I was proud of the finality in my e&xuc tone. It was incisive, cutting like a How Nationally knife into what we had known, what- Seafi ever had held us together. He was looking at me now, puzzled. "It OH& doesn't make sense, Tina, your talk- Advertised Brands } ing like that. It isn't you. I— &^eaat He halted. Moms had come over and was standing beside me, looking GUARD and GUIDE fa726^ into our faces. "I don't like to break up your chat, dear," she was saying. "But it's get- MARY ANDERSON, lovely — Your Dollars... star of Paramount'* ting late and "Bahama Passage." I glanced at Stan. He said, "I'll be at—at Rita's tonight, if there's—any- thing else. If you don't come, I'll the Glover's Medicinal System know it's all settled." has made a hit His eyes were somber. Moms in hit-making When the maker of a product Hollywood seemed to study him and then she advertises that product—he holds You, too, can enjoy all the benefits of Glover's said, "Well, I think we'd best be Medicinal System for your hair! You'll be de- going." it under the glaring spotlight of lighted with the results! Moms didn't talk much on the TRY Clover's-/* T OUR CXPENSEI public view. Over a hundred thousand men and women have way home and when we reached sent their names to us. Now Uncle Sam asks us to the apartment she went straight to cooperate by not overtaxing mail facilities. But you her room. There was a phone call can still try Glover's at our expense — just get the says, in effect, and I heard her talking to Dad. It He "Here's what regular size package at your drug store. If not sat- worried a little because I isfied, we will refund the full purchase price im- me knew I have to sell—examine it—con- mediately. If your Druggist is out of stock, send he'd gone to see the doctor and at sider its name and address, enclose 25£ for TRIAL SIZE last I went to her room to ask her value in terms of your of Glover's famous Mange Medicine and GLO-VER what it was. She was sitting on the Shampoo. GLOVER'S, Dept. 5511, 460-4th Av., N.Y. dollars and cents buy it if you bed, her face tired and worn. She agree it's better than the one Try Glover's with mas- looked up when I came in and said slowly, Tina—tell me about him." you're now using." sage, for DANDRUFF. "About him?" ITCHY SCALP "The boy in the store. Who is he?" I tried to pretend but it was no Most advertised products are and EXCESSIVE use. I should have guessed Moms FALLING HAIR would find out. And at last I had tried and used by millions. Thus nothing to do but pour out the whole —millions must be satisfied. story, even though it seemed pre- posterous, even though I couldn't understand it myself. She listened in Because advertised products are silence. When I was finished, I sat • GLOVE R'S • usually the biggest sellers, makers down beside her. "It's over and for- gotten, Moms. I know it's hard to of those products can afford con- understand, but— stant research and study to see stood up, walked away from SHE that their products are what you ENLARGEMENT me, over to the window. "Maybe I FREE Just to get acquainted with do understand, Tina." — want—as you want it. new customers, we will beautifully enlarge "Moms, you do? But one snapshot print or negative, photo or "You see, I went through almost picture to 8x10 inches—FREE—if you en- close this ad. (10c for handling and return the same experience." When you travel, you meet your mailing appreciated.) Information on hand Moms. My Moms. It was so hard old friends -through -advertising tinting in natural colors sent immediately. to think of her being silly, losing her Your original returned with your free en- over her heart. largement- Send it today. head wherever you go. They're wait- GEPPERT STUDIOS, Dept. Des Moines, la. "Long ago," Moms said. "I guess 446, ing for you from California to I was about your age. I was going to marry a very fine young man. He Maine—equally fresh and good hadn't made much success yet but in both places at once. everyone was sure he would. Then I blemishes met another boy, at a dance. He was fines and terribly attractive, Tina, and likable 'When, Next month Druggists every- and filled with such insane dreams." "Another boy?" where will especially price and "It wasn't unlike the situation display hundreds of your old you're in. Except for one thing." "You were smarter. You didn't let friends -through- advertising. off with you, the your heart run way Druggists will call this "NA- I almost did." She shook her head. "That's just it, TIONALLY ADVERTISED Tina. I did let my heart run off — BRANDS WEEK." Here is a with me. Just that." — Use hampden's powder "You mean, it was Dad chance for you to stock up—and <§rm i =- base making the other boy. I broke my before "He was renew old brand friendships. I up, to five soft radi- engagement and your father and ran away and were married. The ance to your complex- man I was to have married—well, ion. Keeps make-up he's very wealthy today." fresh. In 5 "tints," to I looked at her, unbelieving. I could match your coloring, picture her in my mind, something BE SURE AND VISIT YOUR like me, only dressed in those funny, mood or costume. old-fashioned clothes. And losing her LOCAL DRUGGIST DURING heart to—to my Dad. Losing her NATIONALLY ADVERTISED heart, just as I had been about to POLUDrV-BflSE lose mine. 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then. People were different and so was life. Today—today a girl would be foolish— She nodded. "You're right, Tina. offa Watch The Fiqure! It was foolish then, too. I've never regretted that decision. But I'm not trying to make up your mind. Only I want you to be sure. Vern is a fine IT'S EASIER TO BALANCE /VvV 6UDGET boy, as fine as they come, and he since i use KceeNex. t/ssues But marriage isn't just one FOR HANKIES DURING COLDS.' WHAT loves you. SAVE ON person loving another. It's two peo- ONE WEEKS LAUNDRy 6UXS ME A MONTHS SUPPLY OF/CZ.£r£7V£X./ ple, loving each other." I kissed her on the cheek. "Moms (from a letter by B. M. W., Atlanta. —you're sweet. I've thought about it, Ga.) too. Lots. And then this morning, when I heard about Dad, I knew, knew for sure— "Tina!" I'll never forget her horri- fied look. "Tina, you mustn't think like that. Marrying Vern—because he can help Dad! Don't you see that would be worse for your father and me and everyone?" "But Dad needs us," I insisted. "He needs care, medical care, Moms." "Yes, he does," she answered quickly. "And he's going to get it. We've hospital insurance, you know, and this afternoon Dad went to find out if he could use that insurance for the treatment he needs. That's what the phone call was about, Tina. But that doesn't matter. You can't base your marriage on—money or any- thing like that." "But Moms— "What's more," she went on, "the doctor said it wouldn't take as long as they'd thought. Dad'll be well, he'll have his old job back, we'll be all right."

I COULDN'T speak. I was so glad for * Dad. And I was thinking about Vern, how Moms had always liked him, always said he'd make a good husband. But now she didn't want me to make a mistake. That was love, her love for me, wanting me to be sure. I smiled at her. "Moms—you're wonderful. I don't know how to thank you. I don't think any girl in the world ever had a mother who understood her so well. Only—I don't KLEENEX think I—understand myself." Moms seemed to guess what I was Serva-TissueBox AFTER SHAVING I USE KC£-eT/Ve?X TO feeling at that moment. "Of course, DRV M/ RAZOR. IT HELP5 KEEP BLADES don't what girl ever saves r/ssites- saves Money you understand— FROM RUSTING. ..SAVES TOWELS ! does, Tina? Why, it isn't stylish for BECAUSE IT 5ERVES OP JUST ONE (from a letter by a girl to her heart not know own — POU6LE TISSUE ATA TIME i H. S. P., White Plains, N. Y.) even while she's walking up the aisle." I was to have dinner that night (*T. M. Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) with Vern at his house. His parents were having friends in and we were going to play bridge afterwards. I dressed carefully. I wanted to NEW SOiM**"^ make myself as attractive as I could. Ugly pimples, blemishes and itching Mtft*** The .mart styling, ^ skin rashes, impetigo, ringworm, eczema, craftsmanship that has made Bast ian I wore the lemon yellow dress be- externally caused, often Quickly relieved the quality leader for 4S yew! YET by new medicated TALLY SOAP, Tally INEXPENSIVE PRICESI Catalog how* over 300 designs in iterling cause it was bright and gay and that Soap must show as much as 50% im- silver, and gold plate on sterling. was what I wanted to be. I ran in provement or money back. Ask for Tally Soap at chain, drug and department BASTIAH BROS. Dwt 62, Rochester; N. V. and kissed Moms goodbye and hur- stores everywhere. ried out. But hurrying couldn't keep me from thinking about Moms and Dad and their story. They had done the right thing, of course. And perhaps I was doing a terribly wrong thing to marry Vern. Because I didn't love him, didn't believe I'd ever love him. We'd known each other since we were The X-Ray shows how outgrown shoes injure kids, our parents had always talked baby feet. Better buy correct but inexpensive about someday we'd WEE WALKERS and get a larger size often. how be married, Ask your baby doctor. Infants' Department and yet, now it was so close of these low-profit stores. Birth to size 10. I couldn't ever love really. W. T. Grant Co. S. S. Kresge Co. J. J. Newberry Co. him, G. R. Kinney Co. • Now, at home, you can quickly and easily tint telltale H. L. Green Co. Charles Stores Co. Metropolitan Chain Stores, Inc. I. Silver & Bros. That was the truth I'd learned be- streaks of gray to natural-appearing shades from lightest — McCrory Stores Schulte-United F. & W. Grand cause of Stan. blonde to darkest black. Brownatone and a small brush size scale with pamphlet on does it or your money back. Used for 30 years by thou- C D C C « Correct It — rf*EE. — care of baby feet. Write would mean making his life un- sands of (men, too) Brownatone is guaranteed women — Moran Shoe Co., Dept. happy and mine, too. It would mean harmless. No skin test needed, active coloring agent is F. Carlyle.lll. purely vegetable. Cannot affect waving of hair. Lasting years of emptiness, for both of us. does not wash out. Just brush or comb it in. One applica- Not just one person loving another, tion imparts desired color. Simply retouch as new gray Moms had said. But two people, lov- appears. Easy to prove by tinting a test lock of your hair. 60c and $1.65 (5 times as much) at drug or toilet counters ing each other. The way Stan and I on a money-backguarantee. Get BROWNATONE today. FOR Wee WALKERS

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Stan and I. Two people loving each other. I couldn't deny it, even if I'd wanted to. It was welling up WHY WE MUST FIGHT within me, unquenchable. loved We Here is the shameful evidence! Here at last

other. . each We would always love gripping . . dramatic . . . shocking—is col- each other. lected the undeniable proof! Proof that for- ever damns those who craftily planned the A strange, ecstatic shiver ran gargantuan explo- through my body. A shiver of re- sionwhichis lease, of liberation. I was free, free to rocking the world today. Here in find my happiness, to find my love. graphic picture Curious, how you follow your language is the in- heart. I hadn't really meant to, but side behind-the- scenes lowdown now I found myself so close—only a on the real reasons block away from that funny little why war has final- restaurant. ly come to the U. S. — to you! Stan would be there now. Doubt- Here in | revealed less very gloomy and downhearted k all its stark, ugly

\ nakedness is the and disgusted with the world and fr Forget"blue days" ever existed... try \ ,\ chain of events especially with me. ,& forged with dia- Holly-Pax. Beyourown true.confident I could call Vern from the restau- ^ bolic skill—a step- self with these extra-small tampons. rant. It would be hard on him, per- by-step picture story of the birth They're so comfortabley ou hardly Icnow haps, at first. But Vern got along. and growth of ag- He'd find someone, someone closer to gression. Here for you're wearing them! Dainty, invis- the woman he really wanted. you to see are the reasons why you are at war. Why now we must fight. 250 ible Holly-Pax are easy to use; no ap- gripping I didn't run. Maybe my feet moved pictures. Price only $1.00 postpaid. Get plicator is required. In convenient, somewhat faster than an ordinary your copy today. economical packages for 10c, 20c walk—but it was still a walk. BARTHOLOMEW HOUSE, Inc. I pushed back the door and saw Dept. RM-11, 205 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. and 59c at all stores. Try this modern him there. His back was to me and sanitary protection today! he didn't see me. I stood behind him a moment and the stoutish Rita saw OLD LEG TROUBLE and an expansive smile lit up her me Uasy to use Viscose Home Method . Heals t many old leg sores caused by leg congestion, varicose veins, P0ISED...RELAX face. ^ swollen legs and injuries or no cost for trial if it Stan was saying, "All right, Rita. fails to show results in 10 days. Describe your WITH HOLLY-PAX 1 trouble and get a FREE BOOK. Might as well get me something to R. G VISCOSE COMPANY 140 Nortn Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois J eat. Make it ham and eggs and I coffee." Jmaomq! /n/uJw/utq! \Z\fK I walked around the table, drew HemcLnZu:! out the chair and sat down. I looked PHOTO Rinc 20t at him and tears were in my eyes, ANY PHOTO OR PICTURE of Sweetheart, RelativeB or Friendi-rionc but I was trying to smile. reproduced perma nently in this beau- just at as if tiful onyx like ring Holly-Pax Stan stared me, he featuring the New ^m /m f> Magnified Setting! Will last a lifetime! Inde- J*» Send for free booklet: Box H-16D were looking at a miracle and then 48-^W%. structible! Waterproof! Enclose strip of paper "New Facts You Should Palms Station he said, "Tina—Tina you're here for ring size. Pay postman plus a few cents (Eipertlfpaintrt — postage, you__send j=ash_ we^pay ^postage. if i 25e ertra) Know about Monthly Hygiene" Hollywood, Calif. really you— Canadians: Send Money Order! (Photos Returned) Photo Movette Ring Co., Dept. C-23, 519 lainSL.Cir innati.O. His dark eyes looked into mine ANY PHOTO ENLARGED and he knew the answer because I couldn't keep it hidden. 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Take advantage of this amazing of I offer now. Send your photos today. Specify size wanted. order ham and eggs and coffee," STANDARD ART STUDIOS said. "Better make it two." 100 East Ohio Street Dept. 1S52-P. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Stan reached out across the table and his hands closed tightly over Asthma Agony mine. STOP CORN Curbed First Day Wait for Tomorrow For Thousands of Sufferers MISERY! Choking, gasping, wheezing Bronchial Asthma at- Continued from, page 19 tacks poison your system, ruin your health and put a load on your heart. Thousands quickly and easily pal- he looked at me over his glasses until liate recurring choking, gasping Bronchial Asthma symptoms with a doctor's prescription called Mendaco, I I could not stand another thought now distributed thru drug stores, to help nature remove minute of suspense. I wanted to tell thick strangling excess mucus and promote welcome him to keep his mind on other peo- restful sleep. Mendaco is not a smoke, dope or injection. Just pleasant tasteless tablets. Iron clad guarantee- ple's problems and leave mine alone. money back unless satisfactory. Mendaco is only 60c He began to dictate at last and I at druggists. drew a deep sigh of relief. Once we'd SIMULATED "ROMANCE DESIGN' swung into the morning's routine, I thought, I was safe. But suddenly he DIAMOND RINGS was holding out one of the letters Doctor's Fast Relief Costs oo to me. "Maybe you'd better read this EACH But A Few Cents one," he said, "before I answer it." Don't suffer! Dr. Scholl's Of course I had read it, the day Zino-pads instantly stop tormenting shoe before. But today the round, school- friction; lift aching pressure; relieve your girl writing leaped up at me and misery mighty quick. Thin, soft, soothing, made me catch my breath. cushioning. Prevent corns if used at first Mate sign of sore toes from new or tight shoes. "Dear Dr. Dale: Separate Medications included for remov- My boy friend and I have been Bridal Pair NO MONEY ing corns. 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on his next leave and I know I could get a job near his camp on account of help being short every- where. We figure it's now or maybe never, but my parents say of marriage. (^/H^|u£ ROYLEDGE that's an N.G. type makes Wish you'd tell me which is right, ." or them. . . us Qur kitchen look.. I felt my cheeks flush hot as I bent over the letter. I knew now that he had just been following his usual ALERT / practice of putting people off their guard so that they would say what was on their mind. But it somehow made me mad that he should use his methods with me. I said belliger- efficient/ ently, "I've read it, Dr. Dale. Are you asking me what to answer?" He smiled his kindly smile that made my defiance seem silly. "Yes, my dear. Suppose you tell me." "All right." I kept my voice stout. SMART / "I'd write that girl to go ahead and take her marriage while she can." Oh, I was in for it now! Dr. Dale sighed and drew the letter back. After a moment he said quietly, "After all the examples you have seen here, modern/ Janice, of unnecessary trouble and pain caused by rash and thoughtless action, I am surprised that you can so blind yourself to your own good common sense." I held my lips tight shut, hoping HALT! Put your shelves on dress parade with this gay, stop if I answer. he would did not thrifty shelving. It goes up in double-quick time, folds and He waited a second and went on. "I holds without tacks. Keeps have always thought that your intel- shelf surfaces dustless, and trims the ligent young mind was learning and edges with charming, colorful effects. No laundry! No curling strengthening itself as we worked to- edges! No extravagance! No reason to have a dull, bare shelf gether here, so that you would be anywhere sure to build your own—life upon the in the house. Get Royledge, in decorator- rules of common sense designs... 9 feet for just 6tfl

Sold at 5-and-104, neighborhood and dept. stores CAN hardly describe the hypnotic I effect of Dr. Dale's calm, confident tones. I suppose it was this magic that made him such a successful min- ister and gave him the audience of SHELVING millions who listen each week to his Kouledq e broadcasts. I knew now that I didn't dare let him talk to me a moment 9 "" 6< longer or I'd be lost. I cried out, "Dr. Dale, don't you see that the old rules don't work any more? We've been using common sense for three years to build a foundation for our mar- riage. The result is that we have Be Yovly Own the foundation and no marriage!" "Better none than an unsound one," Dr. Dale said calmly. MUSICI "I don't believe it!" I forgot cau- tion and respect in my urgency. "We Teacher were meant to marry, or why did God give us the feelings that make Learn at Home us want to?" by wonderful improved method. Simple A, B, — a child in that as C He smiled a way sobered can learn it. Your lessons con- me and stopped my wild outburst. sist of real selections instead of tiresome exercises. When "That's very eloquent, my dear, but you finish one of these delight- very mature. Love, like any fully easy lessons you've added not a new "piece" to your list. You read real notes, too—no plant, can grow best where the soil "numbers" or trick music. Method is so thorough that some of our 700,000 students are band and orchestra has been cultivated with conscientious LEADERS. Everything is in print and pictures. First you • Remember this: care and knowledge. I know you will are told what to do. Then a picture shows you how to do it. Then you do it yourself and hear it. In a few short Home paring or "whit- months you become a good musician the life of every not want to give it less, when you — tling" your corn removes Home paring or party. have taken time to study the problem only the top— leaves the "whittling" corns FREE Print And Picture Sample removes only the objectively." He dropped his voice core in your toe to act as a top—leaves core You may quickly become a fine player through the U. S. (A) in toe. in such a way that it put a period School home study method. Mail coupon for Free Book and focal point for renewed de- to the sentence and did not invite a Free Print and Picture Sample which explain all. Please velopment. But medicated mention your favorite instrument. Instruments supplied reply. He picked up the letter and when needed, cash or credit. Blue-Jay helps relieve pain, before I could think what to say U.S. School of Music, 3061 1 Brunswick Bldg. , N. Y. C. remove corns as shown in he had started dictating. the diagram. Blue-Jay costs U. S. School of Music, 30611 Brunswick Bldg., N. Y. c. young friend," very little—only a few cents "My dear he began. I I am interested in music study, particularly in the But Blue-Jay of instrument checked below. Please send your free illus- to treat each corn—at all medication "Be assured my deep sympathy _ trated booklet, "How to Learn Music at Home," and loosens corn so It I the free Print and Picture Sample. drug and toilet goods with your problem. wish that I may be easily re- - Piano Saxophone Banjo counters. moved.* could give you the assurance that Violin Mandolin Ukulele | Guitar Trumpet Other Instrument I suspect you want, to give support _ Accordion Trombone *StubborncasesmavTequiremorethanoneai/plicallon. to your own emotional longings. But I am afraid I shall have to tell you position BLUE-JAY that the your parents are Street REG.U. S.PAT. OFF. taking is based on more thoughtful City BAUER & BLACK CORN PLASTERS experience of life than you may per-

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haps realize. They are indeed giving you the Counsel of Common Sense, I Learned the but perhaps I may add some facts VITAMINS that we who deal with thousands of problems like yours have found to be AT A PRICE true. Marriage, to thrive, requires a Glory of Mary's stable home environment. It cannot EVERYONE CAN AFFC put down deep roots and sustain itself on hit-or-miss meetings, • snatched Love... hours of sensual indulgence, followed by days of doubt, fear and loneliness. A healthy marriage, too, must bear m fruit, but that possibility is denied «t* you at this time. Do not delude yourself that your loneliness would be assuaged by the presence of a child. Every charm of your baby would make your heart cry out the more for its father." Less than your newspaper My pencil broke in writing these ...less than two sticks of words, but Dr. Dale went on so sum that's the amazing low quickly that I hardly had time to cost of GROVE'S Vitamins. snatch another one. "My dear," he Unit for unit, you can't buy continued, "please save yourself the finer quality vitamins. Po- unnecessary pain a wife must tency guaranteed! OVER JO WEEKS ex- SUPPLY $1 perience in waiting for letters that 3 Highly Essential Vitamins may never come, the suspense and the JustoneGROVE'S VitaminCapsuIe gives your fear that your husband will write no daily protective requirements of all three— more because he is dead. Or—as many essential vitamins A and D plus famous Bi wives may find even harder to bear . . . necessary vitamins to help maintain body —that he may come home changed, resistance, strong bones, sound teeth, healthy developed by intensive experience, appetite, steady nerves, vigor, vitality. Don't alienated to a wife who has lived a risk a deficiency of these three all-important static, empty life, grown only older vitamins, A and D plus vital Bi. Today, start, taking GROVE'S Vitamins. and thus less attractive. Many hus- bands will return from this war bound to strangers whom they would no -"ppTfr longer choose for wives." XJ E gave me only a moment to catch *-• up with the flow of his mesmeriz- ing voice, and then concluded, "Con- 7^"^ sider the man you love as well as your- self. Surely he has a right to go forth \T, J5R0YES AFTER I free to put his whole heart unreser- Vitamins vedly into his glorious task of fighting freedom's war. By making a wise de- cision now, by helping him stick to HOSIERY REPAIRED the path of sanity and common sense DIVORCED HER! Silk, Nylon or Rayon. Send only 25c you will be serving not only your and 3c stamp for each stocking. Ex- cellent work. THRIFTY HOSIERY 25c happiness and his, but also your SERVICE, 325 So. Wells, Dept. 175, Chicago. country's welfare." "You've everything a man could ask for Dr. Dale's confident, bland sentences in a woman, Mary," I had murmured, "a mtilING NEW INVENTION were unanswerable in their logic, wife and a sweetheart, a companion and frightening in their warnings. I had a friend. You have shared my most been so sure this morning. Now I cherished moments. But now I need some-

thing more . . . WASHES DISHES was sure of nothing. I felt physically Janet Estes!" weak as I typed out my letters. IN JIFFYIWi, The day dragged, yet the time for For Janet was my new-found goddess, my date with Bruce came too quickly. soft and magnificent, glowing with youth MARVELOUS INVENTION] Strange Plastic j and promise. A dangerous flame for Washer cleans dishes like magic. Soft, pliable, ( I lingered in the office, dreading the my self-sudsing. Banishes dishwashing drudgery. starving heart . . . I her! Makes oceans of rich, foamy lather. Removes meeting. I stared at my reflection and wanted grease, egg yolk, all food stains, qnick as a wink. Leaves dishes sparkling, spotlessly CLEAN! in the mirror to see if my face showed Housewives can't believe their like eyes. Sells Here is a husband wild. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. the change in me. I was pale, but faced by two great Simply show sample: take orders from friends, loves his first neighbors, everybody. Earn Big Money Quick! pallor to my clear skin was becoming. — and second wife. Can any SAMPLES FOR AGENTS — Sample offer man, in a frenzied attempt to cling to Bont immediately to all who send name at once. My dark lashes outlined eyes that youth and gaiety, find Larue outfit of other fast-eelling Home Specialties larger than their happiness by casting MONEY—Just your name. looked usual and included, SEND NO off his loving wife to marry a younger KRISTEE CO., 441 Bar St.. Akron, Ohio 1 gray seemed deeper. I would need no woman? "For Better, for Worse" reveals eyeshadow tonight. I emphasized the the temptations, the courage, the mistakes full curves of my lips with my rouge- and heartbreaks of married life. tipped brush and took extra time to Beauti- "The Work fully told as a book-length true novel in brush my rust-red hair until it lay // November True Story. Read it and learn in smooth, live waves away from its lesson today! I Love my broad forehead, giving me a look 525 of peace and tranquillity that was AND to $30 A WEEK! Just one of the 25 gripping true false. "I'm a TRAINED PRAC- utterly stories and features of this delight- TICAL NURSE, and Perhaps it would not be false after ful November issue of True Story thankful to CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING I saw Bruce. Maybe everything would Magazine. Now a great monthly for training me, at value at only 10 cents. I into home, in my spare time, straighten out when looked the for this well-paid, dig- clear, true blue of his eyes. But when nified work." YOU can become a nurse, too! Thousands of men I saw Bruce coming toward me, his and women, 18 to 60, have studied this thor- ough, home-study course. Lessons are easy to strong, big-shouldered figure moving understand and high school education riot neces- with eager anticipation, I wanted to sary. Many earn as they learn—Mrs. R. W. of Mich, earned S25 a week while still studying. run away. He grinned and tucked Endorsed by physicians. Easy tuition payments. possessive Uniform and equipment included. 43rd year. my hand into his with a GET YOUR Send coupon now! gesture that was new to him. He said, COPY TODAY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING "Hiya, honey?" and his voice was DeDt.1811 100 E»at Obio Street, Chicago, HI. ardent, almost recklessly warm. It free booklet and 16 sample lesson pases. Please send frightened me, so that I could hardly Name A«e bear to leave my hand within the Cit»_ snug curve of his arm. ON SALE AT ALL NEWSSTANDS RADIO MIRROR 76 " " —

He said gaily, "What's your prefer- ence in eating joints tonight? China- town or the nearest diner?" I said, "Wherever you like, Bruce." ." "Hey . . He bent over to peer into my face. "What's the matter tonight? If you want to celebrate at the Ritz, come right out and say so. But I thought you'd figure the old budget needs all it can get, es- pecially now, after this morning— He broke off, hesitating, as if he wanted me to finish the sentence for him. He gave my arm a little coaxing squeeze against his side. He wanted me to say, "Of course I care about that budget. Of course I haven't gone back on what I said this morning." But maybe that wasn't true. I said, "I—I'm just tired, I guess. It's been kind of a hard day— " If he knew how hard! He didn't say anything for a minute, but I could tell he was still looking at me, studying. He said, his voice doubtful now, "Here's the Tremont Plaza, Jan." Then, as if he forced brightness into his tone, "White tile's background, but not exactly a festive DISCRIMINATING WOMEN BELIEVE THIS I guess it's not what's outside you that makes a celebration. Is it, Jan?" His voice coaxed me again. His A $1.00 BRASSIERE, ACTUALLY IT'S ONLY ^^^ eyes were waiting for mine to meet them and for my lips to say all that Catote UrdTooks, wears, gives thelieaOty of a $1.00 brassiere. he hadn't said. Designed to fit every figure type perfectly. Junior, standard, But I couldn't.

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It was like an answer to prayer when I heard the voice beside us. "Miss Janice—good evening— It was an arresting sort of voice, low and vibrant, shaded with the carefully but incorrect accent of an educated foreigner. Even though I had heard it only briefly on the few occasions when Ferenc Vildar had come down from the Short Wave department to drop in on Dr. Dale, I was inordinately glad to hear it now. I would have been glad to hear any voice that would give me an escape from the scene I had been dreading. "Bruce, you know Ferenc Vildar, WIPE AWAY DRIED-OUT don't you?" I said, turning a little to let Bruce see the slight, lithe figure CUTICLE GENTLY WITH leaning on the railing of the bridge beside us. "You know, he makes one CUTEX OILY CUTICLE of those foreign broadcasts every REMOVER night for which our station is so famous." It sounded inane in my own ears, and Bruce only muttered a Don't make your cuticle sore by few graceless words in acknowledg- ment. I the gathering gnawing it. ..don't encourage hang- hoped darkness hid his frown. nails by cutting it. Use Cutex Oily But Ferenc did not seem to notice Cuticle Remover and wipe away dead, anything amiss. He bowed with per- dried-out cuticle gently! Get a fect poise and turned to me. "You — forgive me for interrupting?" he bottle—begin today! asked. "You see, with so many peo- ple around one, there is a loneli- Saturday is "Manicure Day" look — ness—" He made a little gesture for the special display of Cutex acces- with his hands, and let his flashing sories on your favorite cosmetic coun- Used by mors smile finish the sentence. "You un- women than derstand?" ter—Cutex Cuticle Remover, Cuticle all other Cuticle "Of course I understand," I told Oil, Brittle Nail Cream, Orange- Removers Ferenc almost too emphatically to combined wood Sticks, Emery Boards. make up for the answer Bruce did not make. "There is nothing to forgive. Northam Warren, New York We were just trying to decide what to do next. Have you any ideas?" SATURDAY IS "MANICURE DAY" Most people make uncertain, useless answers to questions like that, and it was a pleasure to hear Ferenc's clear, concrete proposal. "I have passed a little cafe off Charles Street," he said. HMSEZm "Perhaps we might see if they have An enchanting perfume of irre- wine that is drinkable?" When Diamond-Dazzling Blue-White gen- sistible charm, clinging for hours "I'd love it," I said quickly, before uine Zircons from the Mines of far away Mystic Siam are so effective and inex- ke lovers loath to part. Just a Bruce could object. Maybe a drink pensive. Thrilling beauties that stand tiny drop is enough. Full size acid; full was what we both needed. cut glass and are of diamond bottle 98c prepaid or FIRE! Exquisite mountings! Write for $132 FREE Catalog. Address: C. O. D. Directions free. One Cata/otf bottle FREE if two are ordered to the restaurant I National Zircon Co. Box 124 Dept. 252 WALKING Dept. 45, Wheeling, W.Va. FREE! Huntington Station, N. Y. talked with unnatural vivacity to cover Bruce's glum silence. I was glad the lights in the restaurant were dim. Soon it would be all right, when we had sipped a little more of the cool white wine that Ferenc carefully ordered. He talked pleasantly about NO American wines, how it was a pity that our vineyards insisted on using DULL French wine names so that their products seemed a poor imitation DRAB when they could have held their own under the good Indian or Mission HAIR names of their own New York or California counties. Neither Bruce nor When You Use This Amazing I knew a thing about wines, but while I thought it interesting, Bruce sat 4 Purpose Rinse back against his leather cushioned In one, simple, quick operation, LOVALON seat, his solid face as expressionless will do all of these 4 important things as the oak paneling above him. I for your hair. began to feel really ashamed for him. 1. 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both of us and had crossed the restau- "I'm saying you gave him plenty rant to the cashier's desk in two of response. Until he turned up, swift strides. you didn't have a word to say tonight, I waited miserably for Bruce to except to veto every idea I had to speak, feeling a childish sense of please you. You were acting so guilt, and a childish resentment, too, queer I couldn't figure you out, the at his unfair attitude that made me way you'd changed since morning. feel guilty. I sat sipping my wine Then along comes this smooth foreign and looking about me as if I found job and suddenly you come to life, the dim interior vastly interesting. just like that. Welcome him as if "Too bad he had to leave," Bruce you'd been waiting for him all eve- said suddenly. I didn't look at him. ning, which maybe you had!" The words were right but the tone "Bruce, stop!" I had to put an was not. end to this nightmare. The least we "Yes," I said quickly. If I could owed each other was honesty. "Bruce, placate him, I might save our evening listen. Maybe you are right about after all from the distaster that one thing. I was glad to see him. seemed to hover over it. "He's really But it wasn't because of who he was. quite nice," I babbled. "Dr. Dale says All I wanted was to be free for a he's made the most gratifying record moment from— Oh, it's hard to ex- of any refugee he's helped. He got plain, Bruce, but I felt like I was him his job at the studio, you know." being torn in two, trying to think KEEPING I told him how Ferenc had first what we ought to decide— worked in the Listening Post, making "What we ought to decide?" Bruce English summaries of broadcasts in picked me up sharply. "About what?" PACE his own language so that if any im- "Oh, Bruce, you know!" Why must portant news or propaganda came he make it so hard? "About us. through, the transcription could be Whether we should— get married before played back and studied in a detailed you go, or wait a/£h the auw&sVuded translation. While he was working There. It was out. And it fell there they had discovered his splendid into awful, still, cold silence. Then speaking voice and started him mak- Bruce said, "I see. You knew this ing his broadcasts to Hungary for morning what we ought to do, all the United Nations. "Naturally, Dr. right. But now you don't. Is that it?" Dale thinks a lot of him," I chattered "Well, yes, it is. Bruce— I've been on. thinking about it, and—" I broke off, miserable under his cold blue eyes. Bruce said, "not so natu- "So much could happen, Bruce! AND," You Never in history has a war so urgently rally, so do you." might change, don't you see, while required so much of transportation "I?" I looked at him, appalled. you are away, and then you'd come But it was too absurd. I tried to laugh. home and find yourself tied up to . . . never has transportation responded "Well, if I do, it must be my well- somebody you wished you'd never so efficiently. known tendency to share Dr. Dale's married!" proprietary interest in his clients." "Are you sure that's what you Greyhound, carrying millions more My attempt at the light touch defi- mean?" Bruce asked, his voice scorn- passengers than ever in the past, is nitely didn't go over. Bruce just ful. "You sure you don't mean you extending its facilities to the utmost, looked steadily at me and his blue might change? You might find some- eliminating all unnecessary services, so eyes were stony cold. He said slow- one—some slick number like this for- ly, "And what kind of proprietary eigner who makes good dough to—give that every essential traveler shall reach interest does he have in you that he you a fine time while I'm away his destination promptly, without waste calls first "Bruce, listen!" you by your name?" I seized his shoul- of precious time and money. "Did he?" I parried, surprised and ders and almost shook him. "I won't at a loss. stand for that kind of talk!" There are jew new buses to be had "He did." "I'm sorry." He was apologetic, but —there is great need for conservation— His cold, suspicious voice made me not really contrite. His voice was so every coach, every scrap of rubber suddenly furious. I wanted to turn still harsh; he was striking out at on him and demand what right he had me unfairly from his own deep un- and metal, every gallon of fuel must to cross-question me in that tone. fair hurt. "I know I've got no busi- be made to stretch farther and farther. But I held to my slipping temper. ness to try to hold you to what you After all, he had the right of the said this morning," he went on, each Greyhound could not successfully man I had promised to marry, far-off word jabbing. "I should have figured have carried the capacity loads of the as I felt from him at this moment. it for what it was: a soft-hearted past midsummer season without the So I made the mistake of trying to moment in the heat of saying good- good-natured cooperation of several explain. "I don't know why he used bye to a guy going off to war. You've my first name, Bruce," I said honest- got a perfect right to cool off— million travelers. Our sincere thanks ly. "Unless, maybe, hearing Dr. Dale to every one of you! call me Janice, he forgot my last — "DRUCE, I haven't cooled off," I pro- name. It's very easy " I tried a 1J tested through tears. But hadn't familiar joke "—to forget the name — I? "I wasn't— I meant what I said, of Jones but—" How you can help when But he didn't laugh, and I knew " — " 'You meant what you said, but ' trips: too late that I should never have Bruce mocked me, and I almost hated taking war-time tried to explain. Innocence always him for his uncomprehending cruelty. looks guilty under accusing eyes. But "Okay, you don't know what you Travel on Tuesdays, Wed- once started, I had to clear this thing mean." nesdays, Thursdays. up. "Bruce," I began again, desper- "And you don't try to help me!" ately, Take as little baggage "Bruce, why are you acting I cried out at him. "If you want me like this?— Almost as if you were to decide not to marry you, you as possible. jealous couldn't find a better way to go Get trip information in He said, "Maybe I am. I don't like about it!" the that way guy looked at you." I didn't know what I had said till advance. I gasped, "Bruce, that's just silly!" we were standing there facing each Be at bus station early. "I don't think so," he said. "He's other hearing the words reverberate got plans, anybody can see that." in the ghastly silence. He was speaking rapidly now, with After a long moment, Bruce said, a rasping excitement in his voice. very quietly, "That sounds like you've "But I should think you would have made a decision now." And before had the good taste, at least, to hold I could answer, he had gone to the him off —till I was out of the picture curb and called a cab from the cor- for good ner stand and I did not even know "Bruce, what are you saying?" clearly what had happened till I felt

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myself thrust inside and heard him physical sureness of his, expressed not doubt his sincerity. "But in paying the driver and giving him my even in the clasp of his brown strong America some girls have something address. And in a few minutes I was hands over his knee, seemed un- more. Perhaps it is health, perhaps turning the corner and he was gone. expectedly comforting to me in my the free spirit. But there is a glow, Well, we had quarreled before. mood of torn indecision. a bloom that makes a far more deep That's what I told myself all that After a while he said, quietly, "I appeal." He looked at me so direct- night. There had been other even- hope I did not make bad trouble for ly as he spoke that I was curiously ings when we both seemed to feel you the other night." In his soft, moved. To keep him talking I said, that need to strike out at each other. vibrant voice the imperfectly pro- "Paris must be wonderful." I know now it was a sort of substi- nounced words—the way he said "ze" He nodded and his brown face took tute for the lovemaking we denied instead of "the"—was oddly appeal- on light and animation as he told me ourselves, but how could we know ing, and made me utterly sure that in his vibrant voice, with his correct then? And always it was over by he really did not want me to have words and appealingly incorrect pro- the next morning. He would call me, trouble. nunciation, of Paris and the people his voice contrite, and we would "You—you didn't." I wanted to he had known there who sounded argue, each trying to take the blame. cry. He did not seem like a stranger, eccentric and talented and gay. But Bruce did not call. but instead a friend with a shoulder "All that life must be gone now," good for weeping on. I bit my lip I said in one of his pauses, when he WORK does help, of course. It got and said, "It wasn't your fault." just sat looking at me with that me through two days. It was the His dark brows moved a little, simple savoring gaze. "To anyone nights that were ghastly. Sleeping his red lips twisting into a sympatheti- who lived there, the thought of Paris or not sleeping—thoughts or night- cally painful quirk of comprehension. must be heartbreaking." mares—I didn't know which was "I don't think it is usually any one's He shrugged. "What is to happen worse. The third morning I lifted fault," he said gently. "I should happens," he said so unemotionally my hand a dozen times to call Bruce. blame myself, if I did not know tnat. that I was shocked. But each time the memory of his Something that is meant to happen The phone rang then and I picked cold voice stopped me. He must always happens, and nothing anyone it up absently. For the first time have meant those vicious words he can do would change the final out- my heart did not jump with hope said, this time. Maybe his love had come." that it might be Bruce. And this never been enough, and that last "Do you think so?" I asked earnest- time it was Bruce. night had put a final end to it. It ly. "Do you, really? I have been "Janice?" he asked. He never called was up to me to let it be an end. thinking of so many things I could me anything but Jan. And even in I could take it. have said and done differently, wish- that one word I could hear a cool That was why, I guess, I was in ing I could go back and do them over. remote quality that made my heart such an odd, unreal mood on that You don't think it would have made sink even as it rose. fourth morning. I "Yes, Bruce!" I wished someone spoke eagerly. would come into •e»fi*e»s«o*e4e»e«e»o*e»oio»Q«e»e«e*o*o»o«e*o«e»e«o*e Surely, now that the office and talk we could speak and fill this si- again, we could lence. straighten things Maybe my wish &oaa rTeXiCo lo- between us. was like one of "Bruce, I wanted those dangerous to tell you—" I ones in fairy tales BARBARA LUDDY—who plays Judith Clark in the daytime serial, began, but he was which Fate grants Lonely Women. Biddy, to call her by her nickname, is one of the speaking and his in a way to make tiniest actresses in radio, being only four feet ten inches tall. clear, impersonal you wish you had She was born in Helena, Montana, and began her career as a voice drowned out thought a little singer in musical comedies as well as an actress. In 1929, when mine. "Janice, I'm more before you the stage went into a decline, her singing voice also went back going. I've got my wished. For the on her and she took what she called a "whirl" at radio, and never call. I'm going to door opened and went back to the footlights. A tragic accident almost made her Fort Scott, Illi- Ferenc Vildar an invalid for life, but with indomitable courage she fought her nois." walked in. way back to health. She prefers playing comedy to tragedy, has I felt a black- Oh, it was a per- blue eyes and brown hair, a happy nature and a quick temper. ness whirling fectly ordinary 4OtC*OtO*O»g4OtO«O«OtS»O»O«C490O«O4O«O4O»S*e0O4O»O4C4O»O«S4O4O»O»O«O4O»O» around me. occurrence. Peo- "When?" I gasped. ple were always "Now," he an- dropping in, and this was not the any difference?" swered. "I'm at the station. I'm taking first time Ferenc Vildar had been He shrugged. "For a little time, a train in five minutes." here to see Dr. Dale. He simply perhaps. But not in the end. In the I couldn't speak. He had waited crossed the office with his swift, sure end it works out as it was intended till the very last moment to call me, strides and said, "Good morning," to. That can be a comfort in many so that I couldn't see him. smiling. things." He sighed, and his eyes "Are you— there, Janice?" he asked. And all I said was, "Good morning. had a dark remoteness that made me "Bruce Dr. Dale isn't in, I'm afraid. Is there wonder what his troubles were. In "Janice, it's goodbye, I guess." anything I can do?" that moment I knew that they were But I felt different, saying it this grievous, but I did not dream how TPHE whirling had been getting bad, morning, looking into Ferenc's brown grievous! * so that I felt faint. I gripped the eyes and remembering what Bruce But his slight, graceful figure edge of my desk and tried to find had said about the way he looked at straightened suddenly and he smiled. words to hold Bruce at the phone me. It was like a thousand-watt light, his until we could say the things that He said, "Perhaps you can," and smile, the gleam of his white teeth were important in our lives. But kept on standing there, just looking and the live look that came to his I saw Ferenc Vildar rising from his at me, half smiling, as if he simply lean, dark-skinned face. He said, chair and coming toward me, his lips enjoyed the sight. "Meanwhile, there are many things tense with concern. I could not find I said, feeling a little self-conscious, pleasant left us in this world to enjoy, the words. "I don't know just when Dr. Dale as well as many things evil to forget. "I'll write when I get there," Bruce will be in. His hours are irregular, One thing to enjoy is the frock that was saying. "Goodbye, Jan." you know." you are wearing. So simple it is, I said, "Goodbye, Bruce." And I I find that subtle yellow with the "I know," he said, as if it didn't yet heard the phone click in my ear. He of your eyes and the copper matter. He sat down, then, in the gray — had hung up. dark green leather chair beside the metal of your hair " He shook his "I carved Italian table. I couldn't help dark head impatiently. could ex- With the terribly final click of the thinking how the background suited press it in French better—for your receiver still in her ears, Janice turns his dark good looks. I thought, too, taste suggests the French away from the telephone—to meet that I had never seen anyone sit with I said, pleased, "Is it true that the Ferenc's eyes and read there the just that kind of complete relaxation, French women are so marvelous?" sympathy he is glad to give. Be sure as if he held himself in such sure "In style, yes," he answered, his to read next month's continuation of control that every muscle was ready, concentrated objective tone making this dramatic story of love in today's on call, to be instantly alert. That his words compelling so that you could world—in the December Radio Mirror. RADIO MIRROR 80 —

One Life to Share Continued from page 38 incredible that this could happen to see was and understand was too great. nounced, "I have a little matter to Bill, drove as if instinct, to who by From far off came his mother's take up with you. It's solely because shifted gears as silk, voice. who smooth who "Harriette's come to see you. you insisted I belonged to one kind braked the car as if he himself were Bill." of life, you to another, and that we part of it, who could anticipate what He opened his eyes again. He saw couldn't possibly marry, that we everyone else would do on the road. Harriette distinctly this time, with haven't been married for these past It seemed to Bill there was that her arms full of bronze chrysanthe- ." two years. I don't understand . . moment in which he knew a crack-up mums. "I've decided we'll have to learn ." was coming and that the next moment, "Hello, Bill . . she said. to live with each other," she told him beneath a deep drowsiness, he was He whispered, "It was nice of you softly. "As long as we are so wretched in pain. But five days and as many to make the trip." living without each other! I held out operations had separated those two The next time he awoke, the doctor as long as you were all right; but moments. was taking his pulse and smiling when you cracked up I did too." When Mrs. Stern asked the doctor broadly. And yet, though Harriette now if her son would get well he shook "You're doing fine, boy," the doctor shares Bill's life she has never once his head and said, "We can only give told him. tried to vie with his ability to stay ." him morphine—and wait . . He out all night and be at work at nine didn't add that Bill wouldn't still XJIS knowledge that Harriette sharp in the morning. She remains J-1 have been there, even as he spoke, if wouldn't have come if she hadn't true to herself. And he remains he hadn't been made of strong stuff cared a great deal—even enough to true to himself. And their pent- or that in spite of his superb health marry him maybe—had worked a house became a happy place for no one really expected him to recover. therapy while he had slept. He saw the two of them at first and for the The telephone beside Bill's bed rang sun coming through his window. He three of them later on. For it wasn't sharply. heard the traffic in the street be- long before Peter arrived, very little, "It's Michigan," his nurse told him. low. He began re-establishing con- red, wrinkled, determined, and strong. "Miss Harriette May." tacts with life—the life he loved so They engaged an English nurse for She held the phone for him. well, the life he knew somehow would Peter. But three years of her quiet "Hello," he whispered. "Hello, Har- be richer, happier, and sweeter than influence didn't temper his lusty ." riette . . ever before. nature even a little bit. While she ." "Bill, I'm coming . . Harriette's Every day Harriette and Bill sat on was walking sedately with him in the voice kept breaking. the hospital roof in the sunshine and park one day he broke away and ." "No, don't . . he said. played a game old as love itself. It knocked down a boy twice his size. His nurse took the phone away. But might be called "When We Get Harriette woke up to tell Bill about ." he didn't hear anything she said. He Married . . it when he got in at three o'clock was asleep again almost instantly. "When we get married," Bill said, the next morning. "It just goes to He slept for a long time. When he "we'll live in a penthouse way up show," she said, "that when a girl ." wakened he thought he saw a bunch near the sky . . marries a rough neck she should of bronze chrysanthemums with one "When we get married," Harriette know enough—in the course of time white flower among them. It looked said, "wherever we live it will be —to expect ..." ". like Harriette's face finally, that white Heaven." . . another rough neck!" Bill flower. He closed his eyes. The effort "By the way, Miss May," Bill an- ended her sentence for her.

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Now, she felt more hung back a little, as though she at ease about it. wanted to put off the moment of en- They went into the living room. tering the house. Peggy found Mr. Trent very differ- "Come along, darling," Carter said. ent from his wife. He barely smiled Peggy realized that Carter was when he was introduced to her. He smiling at her from the door. He had shook hands stiffly and returned to helped his mother out of the car and his cocktail, at once. Peggy was was waiting for her, his hand out. rather relieved when a butler an- "It's so big," Peggy whispered. nounced that dinner was served. Mrs. Trent was waiting in the re- Very soon, Peggy began to feel she Don't just suffer the agonizing pain, torture, itching of ception hall. "Would you like to go was sitting all alone in the middle of simple piles. 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You'll have PICTURE smiled sincerely. "Let me help you," to learn these little things, dear, so she said gently. "You rest and I'll you'll be prepared to take over some take care of everything for you." She of my duties when you and Carter had Peggy's dinner dress in her are married." hands. She shook it out. "I'll press "Of course," Peggy said. this, while you're in the bath." After that, Peggy tried to listen Rush Your Favorite After her first embarrassment, more attentively. It was still diffi- Photo or Snapshot Peggy was glad Hollis was there. She cult for her to keep track of the things SEND NO MONEY! could never have got ready in time, they were talking about. lmacine — any picture or snapshot yon relieved when Mrs. Trent send clearly reproduced on exquisite onyx- without the maid's help. Under She was like ring! Picture keeps clear and sharp for and withstands rubbing, washing and weal _ Hollis' gentle, clever fingers, how- stood up from the table. 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jar laughed and came over and 39^0 Help CARTER (Also in and 59(.- jar;) Kidneys 10c hugged her. "You're fine," he said aloud. Then he whispered to her. Buy o jar of ARRID today at any "You'd look better than any of them store which sells toilet goods. If Back Aches in a house dress." Somewhat reluctantly, Peggy gave Do you feel older than you are or suffer from Get- ting Up Nights, Backache, Nervousness. Leg Pains in, and then only because she didn't Dizziness, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic Pains, Burning' scanty or frequent passages? If so, remember that your want to make a fuss. Again, she ex- Kidneys are vital to your health and that these WAKE UP YOUR symp- perienced that feeling of not being a toms may be due to non-organic and non-systemic "Kid- ney and Bladder troubles—in such cases Cystex (a part of things. On the way to the physicians prescription) usually gives prompt and Country Club, Carter held her hand, joyous relief by helping the Kidneys flush out poisonous excess acids and wastes. You have LIVER BILE- everything to gain but he talked to his friends. and nothing to lose in trying Cystex. An iron-clad guarantee it assures a refund of your money on return of At the dance, was even worse. Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out empty package unless fully At first, Peggy was a little angry with satisfied. Don't delay. Get of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Cystex Carter, but when she thought it over, , (Siss-tex) from your The liver should pour 2 pint3 of bile juice into fH»l»i Fluk IKmii druggist today. Only 35c. she knew he couldn't help it. He your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing couldn't help being the center of at- freely, your food may not digest. It may just de- • A FREE SAMPLE friends cay in the bowels. Then gas bloats up your stom- tention. Some of his had not ach. You get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and will prove the value seen him for months. they were the world of Dr. Guild's And looks punk. all excited about his engagement It take3 those good, old Carter's Little Liver GREEN MOUN- Pills flowing freely to to to get these 2 pints of bile TAIN ASTHMATIC which seemed be an open secret make you feel "up and up." Get a package today. COMPOUND in although it hadn't even really been Take as directed. Effective in making bile flow free- relieving asthmatic announced—and curious about her. ly. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. 104 and 254. paroxysms. In use They were all nice to her. In fact, over 70 years. Eco- nomical — 24 ciga- if she had been able to relax and lose rettes, only 50e\ her feeling of being out of place, she LIKE A powder 25e"and $1.00 might have seen that she was just MINED and CUT DIAMOND! at nearly all drug about the most popular girl on the Famous WHITE Zircon gem. stores. Write today Sparkles like a diamond, costs dance floor. She would barely start for FREE SAMPLE. 98^ less! Cuts glass, resists acid. with one of Carter's friends, catalog of amazing values The J. H. Guild Co., dancing FREE Zircons set in men's Dept.D-3, Rupert, cut in. in genuine when another would and women's gold or silver rings. Vermont. Use only Once, when Carter was able to Write for your copy today I on as directed dance with her longer than two sec- When in N. Y. visit our ihtrwroomi package. KIMBERLY GEM CO., Inc. onds, he kissed her ear and whis- Dept. MF-7 S03 Sth Ave. N.YC

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pcred, "You're a hit, darling. They're appointments and undoing the dam- crazy about you." ages of her stupidity. It might take That made Peggy feel a little bet- years of misery for her, years when ter. As the evening went on, how- she would be unhappy and afraid she ever, she began to get very tired. wasn't doing the right thing. "^Blondes The constantly shifting faces made She realized that under such stress her dizzy and she couldn't keep the something was bound to happen to -N names all straight. Finally, when a her love for Carter and his for her. dance set ended, she excused herself Somehow, she knew she didn't want and went out on the balcony. that to happen. This love of theirs '&*?. She found a dark corner, well hid- was a fine thing, perfect, beautiful. It den from the terrace and from the was founded on many good things, re- French windows. She pulled herself spect for one another, admiration, into the shadows and leaned against trust, the need for one another. What the cool, stone wall. Slowly, her con- would they have left, if these things ~ * fusion and distress began to fade. She were slowly destroyed? Nothing. began to wonder whether she hadn't The decision came so swiftly and just been silly. Carter said they all clearly that she almost spoke it aloud liked her. Maybe they did. Maybe into the night. I'd rather leave him, there was nothing to worry about. now, she said to herself, now, while Peggy grew aware, suddenly, that we still love each other. I'd rather somewhere near her two girls were have the memory o± his love, than the talking. bitterness and disappointment and Try New 11 -Minute Home "I don't see how she managed it," failure which is sure to come if I Shampoo Tonight one of the voices said. can't fit myself into this way of life. "It's the face," the other one said. Specially made for blondes. Helps keep "All men fall for that sweetness act." ALL the tenseness left Peggy. She light hair from darkening — brightens ** had made up her mind. It was as faded blonde hair. Not a liquid, it is a "He must be blind," the first one fragrant powder that quickly makes a rich said. "Why, even her dress is perfect though a great weight had been lifted cleansing lather. Instantly removes the for the poor-little-helpless-me per- from her shoulders. Carter found dingy, dust-laden film that makes blonde her, still sitting on the balustrade and hair dark, old-looking. Called Blondex, it formance. Bet her mother made it takes but 1 1 minutes for a glorious sham- for her." looking out over the golf course. poo that you can do at home. Gives hair Only now did Peggy realize they Carter pulled her to her feet and attractive luster and highlights — keeps gathered her into his arms. The that just -shampooed look for a whole were talking about her. She wanted week. Safe, fine for children's hair. Sold to run away. She wanted to get away moonlight showed his face to be at drug and department 10c, stores. from the sound of their voices. But happy and tender. For a moment, frantically, they would see her, if she took even Peggy clung to him her one step. heart wavering away from the de- "Well," one of them sighed, "you cision her mind had made. Then, realizing he would suspect something Fistula Facts—FREE can't blame a girl for trying to get her hands on all that money. Who was wrong, she relaxed her hold on 40-page FREE BOOK—tells facts about wouldn't?" him. Fistula, Rectal Abscess, Piles and other "Shouldn't we be getting home, rectal and colon disorders; also related Their voices were fading. They ailments and latest corrective treatment. were moving back toward the dance Carter?" Peggy asked. Thornton & Minor Clinic, Suite H-1105, 926 "Aren't you having fun, darling?" McGee. Kansas City, Mo. floor. Peggy shuddered with shame and anger. How could they think that "Oh, yes," Peggy said quickly. "I of her? I am a little tired, though. It's been LEG SUFFERERS a long day—and exciting— Why continue to suffer without attempt- She moved out of the shadows and, Immediately, Carter was very con- ing to do something? Write today for New sitting on the low balustrade, stared Booklet—"THE LIEPE METHODS FOR trite. "I should have known," he said HOME USE." It tells about Varicose out over the rolling, moonlit fairways tenderly. "I'll get your wraps and Ulcers and Open Leg Sores. Llepe Methods of the golf course. In the background, used while you walk. More than 40 years ol we'll sneak away." He hurried her success. Praised and en- there was music, muted by distance. i around to the front of the clubhouse, dorsed by multitudes. She began to relax and her disturbed, FREE where she waited while he went in- LIEPE METHODS, 3284 confused emotions began to give way N.Green Bay Ave., BOOKLET side for her things. Dept. 50- M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to thoughts. She sat very close to him in the car It's like people from two different and when they reached the Trent thought. KNOW RADIO worlds meeting, she They home, she asked him to show her the have different standards, different AS WELL-PAID TECHNICIANS, way to her room. She knew her way, values. now, but she wanted to keep him with OPERATORS KNOW IT Peggy smiled into the darkness. It her as long as possible. If you want better pay quick, and a job with a future, was coming clear in her mind. She door, she clung to learn Radio, Television. Hundreds At her him for a I train jump their this visit to Carter's pay. Kadio has grown fast, is still growing—that's why knew, now, that long time. "I love you very much, it pays many $30, $40, $50 a week—why many earn $5 to parents had a deeper significance $10 a week extra in spare time while learning. 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Do I S CITY .STATE ! my at last. to care want to have to learn more "I hate to let you go," Carter said this Senator and that million- about with a little laugh. and running Womb*/ cm^ aire and receptions an Peggy forced herself to smile. "You army of servants than I do about Car- must," she said. Quickly, before he ter and our love? could see the tears springing into her eyes, she kissed him once more and SHE understood now, why she had opened the door to her room. She -FMORFMTTIMS ? always been afraid that she and stepped inside. Carter would never marry. But there One lamp was burning and Hollis i . tnr ambitious women have (rood m>eniii B » for •»"»' representatives was no pain in the thought now. For was reading a magazine by its light. We territories vacated by i hour5 established ir>ou have a g realized that if she married now in 'he service. „ lsilk repre- she The maid stood up. Peggy put her ran enjoy a nice ]"'"™ <-.^ nationally adver- Vou e r com- Carter she would have to become an finger to her lips and listened with sative, taking ™| s acUs. lingerie, ge *fes , new Realtex TinrSn^hTlensationai entirely new person. And even if she her ear against the door. Ever so SJSa M or toe Hffli -no sen because^ ^M^l decided that she would try to make faintly, she could hear Carter moving st herself over into someone who was away. you can trade "ails of how ,', permanent y ^U upP a equ.pmem no longer Peggy Young, but Mrs. "Hollis," she said, then, "do you 1 \,rchancT?oraavance'men" Complete Carter Trent, the Mrs. Carter Trent, think I can get a taxi?" IncDanl. MF-12, Indianapolis. Ind MfttMMhq Mills. it might take a very long time. It Hollis raised her eyebrows. "Why, might take years of mistakes and dis- yes, Miss," she said. "But I can get 84 RADIO MIRROR | " " —

you one of the cars— Peggy moved closer to her. She BACKACHE, must make the girl understand. "No —I—I've got to get away from here. And Carter mustn't know I'm leav- LEG PAINS MAY ing. Please, help me— "Sure," Hollis said. There was com- SIGN prehension and sympathy in her BE DANGER smile. "I know how you feel." Of Tired Kidneys While Hollis phoned for a taxi to If backache and leg pains are making you miser- come to the rear entrance and packed just complain and do nothing able, don't about them. Peggy's things, Peggy sat at the tiny Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need attention. desk, biting the end of the pen, trying The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess to write a note to Carter. She managed acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. They help it finally. most people pass about 3 pints a day. If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't She and Hollis hurried through the work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. sleeping house, back to the servants' These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheu- quarters and matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting down to the kitchen. up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, head- The taxi was waiting. Peggy gave aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with Hollis the note for Carter. "Don't give smarting and burning sometimes shows there is some- it to until thing wrong with your kidneys or bladder. him morning," she said and Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, Hollis nodded. Safe New Way in Feminine Hygiene used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They Only after the taxi had left the Gives Continuous Action for Hours give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney grounds tubes flush out poisonous waste from tho blood. 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and how much of it was just an effort the money, the pushing around. Now quickly. Peggy and Carter were just to talk herself into believing what I can look at my future and know it's coming inside. she was saying. own." my Peggy looked up. "Mother, I'd like Sam Young kissed his daughter. Peggy reached up and smoothed Carter to stay for dinner," she said, "I'm very proud of you," he said seri- back his dark hair gently. He caught her voice calm and even and some- ously. "I'm glad you were able to her hand and kissed it. how very different. "I may not see figure all this out for yourself. I "Darling," he said, "I need you. I him again for a long time. His outfit know I warned you —but that's not need you to work for and I'm going is being moved." the same thing. Every person has to to need your help." Mrs. Young started to say she was find out his own truth." Peggy leaned over and kissed his sorry to hear this, but there was Everything seemed all right on the cheek tenderly. something in their faces, in the surface. All evening way long, however, "Wait," Carter said. "It— it's so hard they both held their shoulders square Mrs. Young couldn't rid herself of the to explain. So many things have and proud, that stopped her. feeling that Peggy's "Of happiness and changed in such a short time." Peggy, course, dear," she said. future could not be settled quite so watching the distress in his face, felt But she stood a moment in the hall, simply as this. And, when she and her heart contract with fear. "I've watching them walk to the living Sam were settling down for the night, learned lots of things besides the fact room. They were not putting on a she had to express her doubts. that I couldn't bear to live the way show of courage. It was real. my parents want me to live." He Mrs. Young felt proud of Peggy. ¥'M afraid for Peggy, Sam," she thought * for a moment, his face very She knew many more troubles lay said. serious. "It's like this, Peggy. As soon ahead for her, perhaps, but Peggy "You mustn't worry, Mary," Sam as I met you, I knew I wanted to would be able to face them, now. said quickly. She "She's unhappy now. marry you. But I wanted to marry was no longer a child whom every But she'll get over it." you right away. I couldn't wait. Now, wind of circumstances could hurt. "Will she?" Mrs. Young whispered. I know we'll have to wait." Thinking of Peggy and "What do you Carter, mean?" "Oh!" Peggy said in a small voice. wanting them to have as much "Well time —I don't know how to put it, "Please, darling," he said. "You've alone together as possible, Mrs. Young dear," Mrs. Young searched for the got to understand. I don't want it to avoided the living room, until she words. "She's so young, Sam. I'm not be like this. But there is a world and heard Sam's voice booming in a now sure she's ready to adjust herself to it's at war and I have a job to do— almost forgotten way. She hurried something as big and important as so have you—so has everyone." in from the kitchen. this." "I know that," Peggy said. "But "Where's your mother?" Sam was "Mary," Sam reached across the why can't we be married, now, right just asking happily. space between the beds and took her away?" "Here I am, Sam," Mrs. Young said. hand. "We've got a job ahead of us. "There's no time, Peggy," Carter She eyed him curiously as he came But we'll manage it. Let's wait and said. "I wanted you to know how I toward her. Sam had changed, too, see what happens before we worry felt, how much I love you, before I since he'd gone out that morning. too much." told you this. We're being shipped "I've got something for you, Mary," This proved to be Sam said brightly, excellent advice, ___^___^^_ _^^^_^__^_ his eyes grinning because the next af- slyly. He reached ternoon, the whole TODAY EVERY FIRE into his inside thing was taken out HELPS HITLER! jacket pocket and of their hands. Car- The President of the United States of America has designated the week beginning pulled out a long- ter came back. October 4, 1942, as Fire Prevention Week. Fire is always serious, but as the President ish paper. "Here Peggy didn't have pointed out in his proclamation, every loss of life, every interference with production, a present for you." a chance to escape every loss of critical materials delays our day of victory. Mrs. Young un- from him this time. You can help your country by learning how to eliminate the folded it. "Why, He had walked up causes of fire and also to combat them as quickly as possible when they occur. Sam!" she cried. to her in the garden "It's the deed to REMEMBER TO BIT and caught her DO YOUR the house. You've shoulders firmly, PREVENT FIRE—PROTECT LIVES—PRESERVE PROPERTY bought it back!" before she even —^-——^—_^_ "Not exactly," knew he was there. Sam said. "I made "Peggy," he said. a down payment, "Carter!" Peggy cried. away—tomorrow. I don't know where though." "You didn't think I'd let you go, did we're going and I couldn't tell you, if "I don't understand, Sam." you?" Carter asked. — I did know." He caught both her "It's simple," Sam said. "Curt "Carter, I wrote you how I felt hands. "Don't look like that, darling. Bradley met a man in Chicago who Peggy said helplessly. "It's so hope- I'm coming back. I'll have something said he wanted to buy some land for less—it would never work." to fight for, something to come back a summer estate and Curt sent him "I don't care why you ran away to—you and a whole life together. to me. He bought the Coronet Lake from Chicago," Carter said. "Every- Peggy stared at him in silence. She property—all of it." thing's different, now. You've got to had never faced this fact before. listen to me." He took her hand and Carter's being in the Army had never rPHERE was an air of celebration pulled her toward the gate. "Let's go had this reality before. Now, sud- •* about the dinner table that evening. where we can be alone, Peggy." denly, it became terribly real, as real Looking around the table, Mrs. Young Even before he started the car, as bombs dropping nearby and the felt that they had much for which to Peggy knew where they were going. shriek of diving planes. feel grateful. There was only one place where they Yet, somehow, she was not afraid. We're all safe, she thought. Peggy could really be alone and feel they It was a strange feeling, but she felt is safe in her love and in her new- belonged—their own hidden, lovely strong and she felt she must let Car- found strength and understanding. corner on the lake. ter know that she had found this She watched Pepper and almost Carter spread the car blanket on the strength, that she would be able to smiled. He's safe, too, she thought. grass and made her sit down. He sat wait for him, no matter how long, He feels free to speak out and laugh down beside her and took her hand. and that he need not worry about her. and joke, without having to worry He looked down at her hand. "First, She looked him steadily in the eyes. about hurting anyone's feelings, or I want to tell you that I've broken off "I'll wait, Carter," she said quietly. starting a flood of tears unexpectedly. with my family," he said quietly. And she knew he understood how she And Sam's safe, she thought. He's "Oh, no, Carter!" Peggy found the felt, how sure she was that the future sure of himself again. He's found his words forcing themselves out of her. was theirs, when he took her into his faith in himself again. "I had to, Peggy," he said. He went arms, at last, and kissed her. This Mrs. Young leaned back in her on quietly, calmly, telling her how he was a new kind of a kiss, a kiss that chair. She was happy. All around had always hated the kind of life he held the promise of the world in it. her were the people she loved and she had had to lead, how lonely he had All this while, Mrs. Young moved knew she need not worry about them, been all his life, how he had been aimlessly about the house, fussing now. No matter what happened to shunted from one school to another, with this and that, her mind busy them now, she knew they could all from one servant's hands to another, speculating on what was happening face it. They could face it, because how he had never felt close to his to Peggy and Carter. they were together, close and loving father and mother. "Now I'm free, A car stopped in front of the house one another, ready to help one an- Peggy," he said. "Now, I'm free of and Mrs. Young ran downstairs other, ready to understand.

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