Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1928 — Page 10

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THIS HAS HAPPENED SYBIL THORNE, Boston society girl, is preparing on shipboard for a mad marriage with RICHARD EUSTIS, whom she has known exactly five days. To make' matters worse. Sybil is really enlaced (in a rather indefinite fashion) to CRAIG NEWHALL, a wealthy young bachelor, who loves her devotedly. It was to reach a sane decision regarding marriage with Craig that Sybil, accompanied by MABEL. BLAKE, a social worker, had left Boston for a “peaceful" trip to Havana. On the boat she meets Eustis, who begins immediately to make love to her and finally—though he detests marriage—has begged her to marry him. Swept off her feet by his impassioned ordor, Sybil seems to forget Craig and consents—on the spur of an insane moment—to be married by the ship’s captain. Mabel is to be maid of honor. The first mate will be bast man. And all the passengers arc to witness the ceremony. In tears Mabel dresses for the mad event and helps Sybil into her gray georgette—her improvised little wedding gown. NOW GO ON WITH THE WEDDING

CHAPTER XVII THERE never was a wedding like it. “You know the old ingle. Miss Thorne,” cried Mrs. Parkins. “ ‘Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.’ i hope you remembered. It would be dreadful luck if you didn’t.” “Goodness, everything I have on is old. Oh, my ear-rings—they’re new. Rich gave them to me for a wedding present. Has anybody anything blue?” The professor from Wellesley looked embarrassed. >• “My garters are blue,” she admitted. “Great! May I borrow them?” “Why. surely. Miss Thorne. Just a moment.” And the modest lady repaired to the privacy of her stateroom. She was back in a moment. “And here’s a little handkerchief. I wish I had a nicer present.” “Bless your heart! It’s sweet.” Unconcerned Sybil slipped on the garters. “There—that’s blue and borrowed all at once. Where’s my bridegroom?” In a moment Richard was there. A rose in his buttonhole. Lighting cigarets one from another nervously. “We tossed up to see who’d be best man—John or the first mate. Mr. Hawkins is it.” Hawkins smiled and shook hands with Sybil. “I’ve been congratulating this lucky devil,” he said, indicating Rich with a nod. "He’s a most fortunate man.” Sybil was breathless. “You all say such nice things!” she exclaimed. Then the captain came up. “Two of the boys,” he offered, “could furnish a little music if you’d like. ‘Here Comes the Bride,’ rendered .with violin and harmonica.” Mrs. Parkins, when the musical 6ailors appeared, became mistress of ceremonies. “You boys come over here,” she directed. “Miss Thorne and Miss Blake next the further rail. The oichestra up there. And Captain Hanna stand here, please. “Now, when the music begins, Mr. Eustis and Mr. Hawkins walk up this way to the Captain. And Miss Thorne and Miss Blake round that way. The groom and his best man will reach the altar first. This deck chair here is the altar. Wait right in front of it, you two, for the bride. Will we hive a rehearsal first?” “No. no,” protested Sybil. “Rehearsals are ghastly things. Let’s be natural.” “Cocktails In my cabin afterward.” announced the Captain. “Everybody invited. Ginger ale for the ladies who prefer it. Are we ready? Let’s go!” St tt tt “T RICHARD, take thee, Sybil—” J-, “I, Sybil, take thee, Richard —” “For better, or for worse. For ticher. or poorer. In sickness, and in health. Till death do us part.” Oh, the solemnity of it! The inevitability—till death do us part! Even Rich was pale. "She looks like a little frightened angel,” whispered Mrs. Parkins to Mrs. Jones, and wiped a tear away. “The poor sap’s scared to death,” chuckled one peeping sailor to another. “And, brother, that girl’s a humdinger.” tt tt „ a “T PRONOUNCE you man and A wife.” It was over. Rich was kissing her. Rich, and everybody else. The j captain and the best man, and John ■ Arnold and the minister. Even I Father Finn, and all the ladies. Such excitement! Breakfast in the saloon. And cocktails in -the ; captain’s cabin. And Rich with his arm around her every minute. “We’ll cable your folks, darling,” j he had suggested. “Oh, not yet.” she protested. 1 “There’s lots of time. Suppose we don’t tell any one until we get home. I think it would be lots more fun. One ought to tell people things like marriages and deaths sort of gently, you know. Lots of tact. Nothing sudden.” a tt tt PRIVATELY Sybil was thinking of Craig. By and by, she could think of some way of letting him know. Some way that would not hurt him too much. Not now, anyhow. She couldn't have a happy minute if Craig was being miserable. “All right,” conceded Rich. “You’re the doctor, Mrs. Eustis.” Then there were good-bys. “So glad to have known you.” “Hasn’t it been wonderful!” “Perfectly wonderful!” “Who’d have dreamed of such a thing!” “Good-bye . . . Good-bye . . You’ll look us up, won’t you?” “Good-bye . . . Good-bye . . . You lucky fellow, Eustis! Good-bye, Mrs. Eustis.” “Mabel’s in our stateroom, Rich. I’ll have to run down for a minute. You be getting your bags ready, dear. The captain said he’d have a car for us.” In the stateroom Sybil found poor Mab cramming things in bags, and shedding futile tears. “Don’t know what I’m blubbering for,” fehe announced definantly. “Weddings always get my goat AWFUL sentimental for an old gal.” She dried her eyes. “Will, Missus, when do we meet again?” Sybil embraced her wildly. “Mab, I want to ask you a favor. Please don’t write home a single word about Rich and me. I don’t want a soul to know, till I tell them myself.” , ,

“Aren’t you ging to tell your mother, Sib?” “No—not yet.” Isn’t Rich going to tell his people?” “Not for a while.” “Well, I guess you’ve the right idea.” Mabel was thinking about Craig, too. “You needn’t worry about me, honey. I’m a regular Mason when it comes to keeping a secret. Where are you and Rich going?” “The Seville—and we want you to have dinner with us tonight.” “My little friend John going to be there?” “Not unless you'd like to have us ask him.” , “I should say not! All right. I’ll be there. Lord knows what I'll do till dinner time.” “I suppose you’ll go to the Pasaje, as we planned?” “Yes. I’ve persuaded Mrs. Jones and Alice to go there, too. They say the hotel employes don’t speak any English. I’d feel so stranded all alone. Probably the Joneses are better than nobody.” “I feel awfully, guilty, Mab —leaving you like this.”

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Tony crying, and even as the tears blinded her she knew that she must not—she must not. Someing must make Pat stop. He wanted to tell everything. He'd forgotten her, forgotten that this listening person was his daughter. Pat did not see her tears. He was in a world far away from the log on which he sat with his daughter anu chum. “So we were married.” he went on, “?md the years were mighty sweet, but they were hard, too. It was one thing to find burdens lighter after long years of caring for mother and the children when I had just myself to keep, and it was different again with a pretty woman creature who had to have things nice. “Then you came along, Tony, and there was ■' * boy who didn't stay long with us. “Peg was so sweet and wonderful in those years, Tony—never a word of complaint, though her friends fared much better than she did —always a smile and hug at night and always thankfulness in her heart. “But I wanted things for her, Tony. I promised myself as we were married that I’d have things for her. Then we got the money and oh, I don’t know, Tony, the girl she was just wasn’t there any more to give things to.” But Tony knew that it was more than this that hurt—it was the fact that the Peg of today could never again be content as was that Peg of yesterday—that she now scorned and despised and tried to forget that humble past in the house on Myrtle St. where the only wealth

BERT COLLINS HAS A FINE DANCE ACT Mr. ,Davey of Two Daveys Cracks Wise About Everything on Earth, hut the Effect of Radium on Iceberg. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN NOW days a dance act must either have extreme novelty in presentation or just commonsense showmanship hooked up with ability. Bert Collins has the elements of good commonsense showmanship and ability on his part and those other five dancers associated with him. In his act called “Good Ship Song and Dance,” Collins invites the audience to go to various countries on his boat to witness national dances. All of these dances are done much better than I have discovered in the average vaudeville dancing act.

Both men of the act, as well as the four girls, are good individual dancers and their ensemble work is

about as good as I have seen in many moons, especially their military tap drill done at the close of the act while the orchestra plays one of the crack march tunes of Sousa. Both the melody and way Collins puts the members of the company through this tap drill gets the au-

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Miss St. Claire dience so worked tsp that a most honest ovation was given the dancers when I was present. And another fine quality present in this act is the thought that each one is doing her or his best because they want to please only with their best. In other words this company works. Generally, I find all kinds of. fault with an actor who directs conversation and fun remarks to members of the audience as they come into the theater. Somehow or other the remarks of Mr. Davey of the Two Daveys seemed to be so much up to the minute that his wise cracking got over with a bang. It is the way he puts it over that counts. Once when a male customer took his seat, Davey said to his wife and partner, “Go back and put on a shorter skirt another man is present.” All of this wise cracking is kept up while Davey proves that he is a juggler with a strong comedy mind. He cracks wise all the time and his stuff is to the point. The St. Claire Sisters and O’Day have a bicycle act. The sketch called “Three Prevaricarions” or “The Prevaricator” has been seen many times in this city with differ-

Verdict of the Stage

LYRIC—Bert Collins has a dance act and dancers associated with him that he can be justly proud. A real act. Mr. Davey of the Two Daveys cracks wise while juggling and wins. Good, smart fun. MUTUAL—ReaI burlesque with all the comedy and peppy dances wanted is true of “Naughty Nfties.”

“Oh, that's all right. Every girl for herself.” “Well, well see you every day, anyhow, dear. And if you’re lonesome you can move over to the Seville.” “Yes I can! I didn't grab any little boy friend to pay my bills. Run along, Sib. Don’t you worry about! me.” a tt a NIGHTS in Havana are soft anu warm, and of a swooning sweetness full of glorious, fascinating odors. Strolling along the Prado, Sybil clung to Richard’s arm, and lifting her face, felt the heavy exhilaration of stars and moon and tropical fragrance. Until Rich, shattering the ecstasy of the sensuous night bent to whisper in her hair. Then she drew away as though he had hurt her. (To Be Continued) (What was it Richard whispered 1 to his bride? In the next chapter Sybil stands face to face with horror—and on her wedding night.)

was the love of husband and wife and child and simple little pleasures shared in happiness together. “Peg and I aren’t in step anymore, that’s all,” said Pat. “I hate myself for it, Tony, but I find myself devising ways to keep away—but it’s the way things are, just the same. "So I guess I’m becoming a stepper,” said Pat severely, his eyes on the ground. “Mademoiselle phoned me several months ago about her French class, said she had a list of the families of all the girls she had in school and I went to see her. “She got to asking my advice about investments, and she bought some of the accessory stock. I watched it for her and she’d phone me to know how things were going, and now, Tony, I see her all the time. “Wonder if I’m bad. Tony? If you put it in black and white that Pat Tarver, with a good wife who stuck by him through lean days, and with a beautiful daughter and a nice home and everything a man could ask for, is trotting around with a beautiful French woman, it wouldn’t sound good at all. But somehowe I dop't despise myseif so much. She— But Tony could stand no more Peg’s eyes were before her. bewildered blue eyes left as token of her beautiful girlhood. “Pat, tell me everything, how far have things gone—what are you goingto do—what will become of Peg?” Pat looked at Tony. “That’s it—l don’t know—yet. And I’m afraid, Tony. It’s so easy to find yourself gone for good.” (To Be Continued)

ent casts. Old as it is, it still gets the laughs. Manley and Baldwin impersonate a cabman of the old horse days and a bartender in an act called “Two Great Men of the Past.” Not so strong. Nick and Gladys Verga offer “Out in the Rough." Mildly amusing to me, but the audience gave them an ovation. Joe Boganny’s Comedians work out the comedy element in an acrobatic act. Now at the Lyric. LOOKING OVER ° NEW BURLESQUE SHOW With a chorus of peppy and lively girls, neat and attractive costumes, pleasing song numbers and excel-

lent setss “Naughty Nifties,” at the Mutual this week, is all a modern burlesque show should be. “Buttons” Fares, chief comic, with the help of Charlie Greiner, injects plenty of broad humor into the show, humor that isn’t a bit hard to laugh at, and that counts. “Naughty Nifties” is an admirable ex- 1

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