Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1940 — Page 2

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BROADWAY NIGHTS By AXEL STORM —h sim »««•’« i"'———

NEW YORK—Broadway had bajdiy had ume to digest ita ' Christo.a." turkey before two other turkey* were offered It— J B f’riewtley’e "When We Are Married", and Paul Vincent Carroll’s "Kindred." And if you don’t think they’re turkey* you re not In agreement with your correspondent. It’s a curious thing about these Englnh plays. They’re not food ana they're not bad They're wail -taged. and usually superbly acted. In the case of the Priestley effort, the acting wa* uniformly good, the direction excellent and the «ettmg a worthy one Everything wa* good except the play, and we come to the usual plaint—the play could have been improved. All It needed was a bit of bolt tightening, a bit more of good writing and good dialogue, and it might have run on *< a tecond-rater at the Lyceum, for »ome time. A« it i», the; Lyceum Theatre Is now looking for a tenant, and such f.ne people a Aluon .Skipworth and Estelle Winwood are looking for other roles. It’s entirely Mr. Priestley’* fault. His premise was that tne minister who had. twenty-five year* befoie. performed a triple wedding ceremony, wu not authonied to Join the »iy youngsters in holy wedlock. But everything turn* out all right because the registrar was present, and if the wedding wasn’t the McCoy *o far as the church vent, it was okay with the state. Then Mr Priestly fell fiat. He had ample opportunity to do something in the third act. but didn’t, vh, well, it docen't matter much, does it» As regard* Mr. Paul V incest Carroll, ni» argumrnt is that the hope of the world lies in its ar’Tfiit*. hut he rake* such a windy

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11 case of It that one wonder* if ! the artist is preferable to the i am-raiciug totalitarian. If e'er . there wa* a mortal sin in casting . it was committed when Wallace . Ford was given the role of the i obscure painter who fathered th* . fiddler that wa* to carry on the seed and fire of the art*. la I contrast, Arthur Shields, the fid- . dier, was so exiellently and un- | deniably the Inch artu-t that he , might well have turned phih* tine from sheer di»gu*t. A long and wordy proogut preceded the two acts of th* play. Th* ghost* nt the artist: forebears appeared before hue and told him to carry on. carries on with hi* fat and youth ful servant, and when the inevitable happen*, he d«dg< • a shilcllagh wedding by drinking poison. But it takes a lot of words and a lot of ncar-poetry which never seems to con's out of its confusion and confoundI ment. The play itself, after the prologue is disposed of, settles down into something understandable, but peters out with a fix* when the forebears appear, this tin,* with the poiion-drmking father, and the fiddler moves the grocer’s son out of his ambition t* become a member of parliament But Mr. Carroll misses the boat when he permits an anti-climax tu rob h>* me. -age of its power. "Kindred" is talked to death, but will probably hang on for a couple of months. If it does, it will not be due to Mr. Carroll'* efforts, but to the work of Mme MacMahon, Barry Fitzgerald Haila Stoddard, Mr Shield" and Aideen O’Connor. Harry Youn, does right well as the gre-er grocer's weak son. A pretty poor holiday -how ng, these two plays, but there’s b>4ter in th* offing

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SYNOPSIS At Miracle Mes*. the Douglas ancestral estate near Mexico, a girl named Lola await* the return of her fiance. Jack Douglas, after an absence of six year. Lol* s* t»« adopted daught- • of Jack's Aunt Ines. Her friend. Alison Neale, owner u i th* neighboring ranch, hope* Jack is the leader they are waiting for to fight the raiders. In an adobe up the trail two men also discuss Jack's return. "If you re wise you won’t let Jack Douglas live two day* once he come* back. Baker" (one of Jack’* riders) “is telling the world what will happen when Douglas come* back.' say* one “It’» time 1 mad* an appointment with Baker.” th* other replies Next day. a* Jack ride* along the Verde Road with hi* companion. Ed Paxton, th* latter pull* him into the *h*dow of a mesquite barely an instant before a band of horsemen come tearing around the bend ’’Raiders!" Paxton exclaim*. “Some rancher will find himself out of lu< k tomorrow.” The marauder* usually station guards along the way to ward off pursuit so. shortly after, when a lone rider arrive* on the acene, Dougla* believe* it to be on* of the guards and make* a flying tackle only to discover his victim is Alison Neale! CHAPTER HI Too taken aback to move, hand* •till pinning her shoulders, Dougla* gazed blankly into those gray, resentful eye* until again the irate voice rouse-1 him. "If that * al! settled, Paxton, you might a»k your athletic friend to git off my chest.’ "But pardon—” Jumping to hi* feet. Douglas raised the girl upright. .“I regret —1 cannot tell you—” He brushed the brown sand from her shoulder*, and in spite of himself he laughed. For a moment the girl seemed to struggle with her anger, then turning her back on Douglas, she spoke. "1 wa* riding behind a band of raider*. This isn't helping my chances of tracking them. Ed " The burly man shook his head. “I'm sure sorry, but maybe it's just a* well, ,Mie« Neale. No use to track them on a night like tonight. One* tlwy quit the arroyo this wind’ll wipe out their trad.*’ "But they're or.ly a few minutes ahead." She made a gesture of angry disappointment, "it's the best chance we've ever had to find out which way they go.” Importunately she laid hr r Lai. I on kb arm. “Cogp along with me, Ed. W e can't mi»s a chance like this." But Paxton shook hi* head. ■"There’s a right way and s wrong way to go after that bunch of killers. My idea of the wrong way i« to ride I out over the de «rt on a <haw that I would end up in a volley of :ifl> i shot* and twenty of 'em on our i tM'vk “Oh, our precious neck*!" The girl flung anjrily away. "The one way to stop th.se raids is to find out • here they go. You've s ! that y<ur-elf. Now. with a chance like' this you start worrying about your j neck." Paxton ignored tire thrust. "la it yet too late?" Itougl*« urged. "I should l>e honored tu nde with the rr.iorita.” Paxton's disgusted voice interrupted. "(th, for lord’s sake let’* ail get down tu ««rth — you're on the border now. I happen to know thi* gang. I've tracked 'em and I've swapped s.hot* with 'em. It'* all rank foolishness to s'art out now with horse* tlial'vr already done iwtnty miles—and without a* much a* a aawed-o!? shotgun.” The tall man glanced at the other’s hoi-ter. "Why du you carry that revolver—for ornament?" Ed Paxton’s anger was near the bursting ;m,ii. “Luten. Eveiyon* if tho' laulci* packs a high pow-

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cred rifle, and at the first streak «t dawn they’d drop you off your hors* long befors you got within range of MJ aix-gun " Ho turned toward the girt. “I know that taking advice ain't one of your »trong points, Miss Neale, but I'd sure suggest you go back to your ranch. By daylight 1 can have a dozen of the boy* down here." "By daylight they’ll be back in th* foothills, writing you a note of thanks.” Too angry to »»y more, she mounted, and bringing down her quirt on the horse'* flank*, rode out into the night. For a long time Paxton stood looking after her. "1 wonder," he said doubtfully, "I

.4?WW ■ \k r Blj /rBBx feWWjWHi o w w > “Oh, our precious neckal" The girl flung angrily away. i

i winder just how much "he really i wanted u* to follow that band. Let's be getting home." Dougla* laughed. "So that fireeating aeftorita I* Aiiton Neale." Paxton nodded "She run* the Rambow Ran< h You must of known her father—retired army man, Colonel Neale.” At the name Douglas remembered a gray-muslached, erect old fellow who talked *0 proudly of the daughter away at school in California. Ali way* he wa* planning for her fu--1 ture, always he wa* just about to make their fortune in copper or gold or cattle. But that furtun* never I came. “What happened to him?” DougI !*• a ked. "Got killed two years ago.” “And thi* girl ataya on the 1 rancho?" "She’s owner, superintendent and foreman. Stubborn a* a prospector’* mule and too (damspoken for hi r own good, but every ona of her riders swear* aha'* the best boa* in the world. She'* out with ’em at roundups, or back on the upper 1 anges, pickin’ up stray* in the winter and tidin' herd *U through the spring (term*. When night come* ,bc pickets out her pony and roll* up in a blanket like any cowpuncher. Rut she'* fighting a losing battle. She ought to »«|| out to the copper people before she g-.e* busted.” "You mean the ranch, it doe* not do well?” "Ito well?” With incredulous wonder Paxton peered into Itougla*’ face. " The only one. who do well th' < da>» Ml*, the copper miners.

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Hasn’t your aunt wsitten you that every rancher in the relief i» Ju»t hanging on by hi* teeth. If »he hasn't told you that, what aid you come back for?" Dougla* made no reply I* w “ • question he bed been expecting, a question he would be asked many times within th* coining week*, yet strangely it was a question he himself could not fully answer, bo now he only shrugged. “It is after all my home, h* »*>d at last. The clouds were lifting, and to the south Douglas caught a dull (low of angi y red sga.bst the sky.

"The copper mine at Cobre," Patton told him. and again they rode in silence until Paxion pointed directly ahead. "Well, in half an hour you'll be back. Look!" Douglas' eye* followed the direction of Paxton's outstretched hand, and in that second he felt hia heart batt farter. Far ahead, juat beyond the deaert'a edge, a perpendicular 1 wall of limestone rose sheer and abrupt above the valley. "Miracle Me-u," men had called that lofty tableland a* far back a* memory ran; a natural fortreaa towering a hundred feet above ths valley, acct** aible only by th* narrow road cut in living iimeaume and for that reason chosen by the early master of Miracle Mesa Rancho ai the sit* of their first great eaaa. And up there, up beyond the gleaming rim of rock, wa* the low, rambling dwelling that Jack Douglas knew as home.Soon the lidar* drew reia before a wrought iron gat*. Paxton threw back the bolt, and with a quick intaka of breath Jack Dougla* rude Himml*. Y«*, it was all the same—th* lawn where ha had played, the walla ha had climbed, the daik. c ine-eocumtiered qutiina of th- hacienda. Everything the •ame, yet toxnebow vaguely changed. A peon came running from out of the Uiadow* and touched the youn* man * *urrup in the old gesture of fealty. "The master is returned," he said in the soft Spanish of the border. “I* It permitted ihat I take the master', ho'«e? Dena Inez la waiting '* ■wr.-ww »> ta out. WUOIWHM f. X 1»., M fa* (To Be tuntinuad)

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