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Own Version of Jokes, ‘Miss Petri Reports.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Indianapolis’ “roa lady” ° of the stage,

ning | Miss |

. Helene Petri, and her travel- | ing conmpaniyn, a personable]

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Carin terrier, “Musky, home from London

for what she hopes

vacation.” Miss Petri's Mrs. Pennsylvania-st, is going to and keep Helene frome this but ‘from heard of the latter's enthusiasm for the stage, we feel sure she will be- ~ getting back to the boards after a rest. It’s been two last was home.

mother,

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with the New Yor k Repertory Com- |

pany on Broadway plays including “Bury “A. Lady Detained Stand,”

, Private ‘Herndon. ”

the Dead.” I'll Take My Hicks,” “Angelo

London’s Laughter L ight

For four months before

turn to. -Indianapelis Helene had

one of the leading roles in Jest!

Season's hit burlesque wood, “Boy Meets Girl,” don engagement Londoners ~ weren't as to the play's rather bawdy comedy tactics as American audiences, The lines A which Indianapolitans guffawed fell a little flat in the foggy «until Producer George Abbott rewriften them and cut certain porItions. Then it turned out to be quite | successful. Attired In a natty suit trimmed in

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gray traveling royal blue, Miss| aBy English customs or accent! rasn’t particularly about English food. “It's too starchy,” just Yorkshire pudding and Yorkshire pudding until it ‘runs eut your ears.”

She | enthusiastic she said. “It's more | ‘almost |

Enjoyed Country Week-Ends

“What I liked {London customs,” actress,, "were Maidenhead. like English countryside. thatched roofs! brou glit ‘one could.”

about the | smiled the local | my week-ends in| And I would certainly

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Save the King” formance. The theater in “Boy Meets Girl” was presented was built in 1§70, Miss Petri said, and | contained old-fashioned stage con- | struction, which kept the players running about on a 15-degree incline. Although the “old home town” looked pretty good to the traveling Thespian, we have no doubt that Helene will be hopping back to Broadway when the new season's greasepaint begins to get in the air.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY ] JUDITH HOWARD has been engaged to STEPHEN FOWLER for four years. She wants to. be married and keep her Job in a business office but Steve will not hear to this. Judith meets Steve for lunch and they go the familiar arguments. Judith points out that her friends, VIR: GINIA and BOB BENT, are happily married, ‘though both have jobs. Steve refuses: to be convinced. Finally Judith threatens to break the engagement. | ,* Steve, realizing she is in earnest, asks to come to her apartment that evening to talk the matter over. He comes and a short time later Bob and Virginia | arrive, with their friend, TOBY LYNCH. Steve and Toby have an argument and | the evening is- awkward for every one _ Steve remains after the others have He begs Judith not to break the engagement, but she remains firm. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

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| er with Steve—and she didn’t care to!

be hampered by Bob in her questioning. Sit down,” Judith invited. { “You've time to have a cup of cof-| fee with me.” * “Thanks, darling. And Ill take on a piece of toast, too. I rushed so to get Bob away that I'm afraid She took .the proffered cup, searching | Judith's eyes. “Well, what happened. The other smiled. “Nothing at all, He left right after you | did—and I didn’t change my mind.’ 1 “Good!” exclaimed Virginia. She | Joosed a mock sigh. “I was scared | to death you'd give him another chance. 1 was trying to stay here | longer than he did, but finally I saw that h&d caught on to my scheme.” Young Mrs. Bent stirred | her coffee in silence for a moment. Then, looking up at Judith, she] said, “Did Steve tell you what he did | to Toby Lynch last night?” a = = UDITH nodded. “Terrible, wasn't i" “Well . . . Bob seemed to think | that Toby had it coming. But you | know how Toby is—always opening | his mouth before he thinks. If] you ask me, I think it was stupid | of Steve.” | ‘Judith Howard's | gaze met her | “Stupid? Per- | haps you're right, Virginia. But | when a gal has had her good name | defended it's hard for her to think | of it as stupid.” “That,” said Virginia in her most eynical fashion, “is a lot of banana | oil, and you know it. No gir] nowa- | glays gets -all excited about a man lets his arms fly |

her re- |

in its Lon-

receptive | {

City i had | -

{at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory {of Music for the opening of : : { annual school year today. «Petri didn’t appear to have acquired | {the 1935-36 figure of 1700 persons, | both adults and children, is expected i by { music school registrars, will

{until 5 p. m. daily.

to build myself a cottage on the | ; i Vand Virgil

have |

TODAY IS OURS

| time!”

| way Judith was taking the finish of { her affair with Steve Fowler.

{ ginia told herself. {so she'll be as fit as a fiddle and | ready for love—a new one.”

| wasn’t near Judith's.

{and carbons and begin anew.

| told her.

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POLIS TIMES

Local Booking Advanced

| find the latest Fred Astaire-Ginger | being show; | later. C

! for Astaire-Rogers’ Film

A shift of Circle bookings (for reasons known only to showmen) will

Rogers tune and terpsichore movie

at the local theater the week of Sept. 11 instead of a week

- A solo‘ dance in blackface by Mr. Astaire, the presentation of the

{ new dance “Swing Waltz,” | lights of the coming film. { Viefor Moore and Helen Brode- | rick, both stage musical veterans, | | are teamed as comedy partners, the | | well - meaning but embarrassing | .{ match-makers who attempt to get {the hero and heroine together. Eric | | Blore, Betty Furness and Georges | | Meaxa are also in the cast. | <A glittering aerial night club of |

and seven of Jerome Kern's tunes are high-

| mirrors and chromium, moored to the tower of Manhattan's highest | skyscraper, is one of the numerous | settings in the production. It was designed by John Harkrider of “Great Ziegfeld” fame and'is the spot where Astaire and 24 dancing tgirls go through the blackface number.

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Conservatory

Term. Is s Begun

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: Increase in Students Seen 3

as Registration Opens. Preparations have been completed the

An increase in enrollments over

conservatory officials. Evelyn Green and Stanley

Mrs. Norris, j be in charge of enrollments frém 8 a. m.

' Four additions have been made to the faculty for the new year. They include Mrs. Fannie Kiser Rosenak, who will head. the department of | harp; Mrs. Jane Ogburn Bruce, { dramatics; Austin E. Coggin, piano, Phemister, voice. Registrations for private lessons will be received each day this fall. { Group instruction in music, drama and dancing will begin today and Sept. 8. The collegiate department, affiliated with Butler University, will open registration Sept. 10-11. Classes in this - department will | begin Sept. 14 and continue on a schedule similar to that of the university. The conservatory will offer instruction at four locations this year. | They are the north branch, 3411 N. | Pennsylvania-st; Metropolitan { branch, 106 E. North-st; ‘and the tmain campus, 1116 and 1204 N. Del-aware-st. The latter location houses the conservatory administrative offices.

Three of the outstanding male stars in movie

circles, ‘starred with a youthful

debutante in cinema

ranks, are principals in “The Road to Glory” which

has been secured for the ‘Lyric Sept. 11.

and Lionel Barrymore are seen

Theater the week of

In the top photo is shown June Lang, heroine of the movie war story.

Warner Baxter in the center photo,

and Fredric March, the hero, below.

rush now to make the office on

Virginia was well pleased with the “The

is good,” Vir“In a month or

patient’s condition

But at the office Virginia's desk Busy with her own work, she didn't see how many

times Judith Howard stopped typing |*

{and stared into space. She didn't { notice how many times Judith | stopped her busy fingers to make erasures, or to snatch out the sheets

Steve telephoned just before noon and asked her to lunch. “I—I can’t (do it,” Judith faltered. “Ive some extra work to do.” “Then I'll call you tonight,” Steve

“It won't do any good, Steve.” “I'm ‘willing to take the chance.”

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HE was glad when Virginia suggested that they telephone Bob and plan to stay downtown for dinner. It would help her to forget | Steve, “Bob might like to bring along Jerry Macklin, He's in Bob's office, and you'd like him, Judith.” * Judith shook her head. “I'd rather he wouldn't, Virginia. I don't gquite | { feel up to meeting any one now.” “Just as you say, darling. But 1

REEL SHORT

Gertrude Michael has been men- | tioned for the coveted role of “Scar- { lett” in. the movie adaptation of | |

| “Gone With the wind.” ... Johny

| Beal is thrilled over his new role |

{in. the musical, “Round the Town, | in which he sings and dances. i During his recent trip to .Wichita | to in a charity baseball game, | | Gen¢ Raymond spent more money | on phone calls to Jeanette Mac- | Donald than he did for the rest of | trip. . . Whén William Wyler drives | | to the * “Dodsworth” set where he is | | directing the movie of that name | he has his chauffeur bring his mo- | | torcycle in case he feels like going | home on the two-wheeler.

CROSBY

'S AMBITION Bing Crosby is ambitious to be

short stories which he doesn't be- |

| lieve good enough for publication, !

be so sure,” Judith . “Come on, we'll have to |

but isn't discouraged. Now he’s at | work on a novel;

| ple in the car. {end her eyes encountered a young | couple’ oblivious to the world—a | young couple so patently in love { that for each of them nothing, no | one, existed except the other. | suppose Steve and I ‘must { looked like that,” | suppose that some time or other

He has written several | ;

want you to know I'm not going to let you stay in mourning indefinitely.” The trio met in a little Italian restaurant which was a favorite of Bob's. There they struggled with spaghetti in fascinating and unbroken strands, -while the Bents- did their best to keep Judith's spirits high. Aided by the delicious food and the carefree atmosphere of the place, they succeeded fairly well. - “How about a movie?” Bob suggested. “You and Virginia go,” Judith said. “I'm a little tired. And after all this food I'm afraid I'd go to sleep in the theater.” “Sure you'll be-all right?” Virginia wanted to.know when Bob left the booth to pay the check. Judith smiled. “Of course!”

5 = ® UT although the street car was filled, Judith felt somehow lonely without Bob and Virginia. Or was it the Bents she missed? Wasn't it Steve Fowler for whom she was lonely? §$teve who had somehow been with her always, and now had been sent away? Judith wondered, tried to analyze her own strange feelings. He had said he would telephone tonight: and as Judith remembered this she realized that if Steve failed to keep his promise she. would be - disappointed. She would wonder why he hadn't kept it. “Women are’ such fools,” she thought bitterly, and tried to divert her mind by watching the peoBut down at the far

“1 have she thoyght. “I some disillusioned girl must have watched us just as I am watching these two now.”

She was glad when the car

| reached her street, glad when she

| could flee to the privacy of her own room. Once there she bathed | her face and hands, then tried to read. But although she followed the words, they meant nothing,

| meant no more than if the pages

had been blank. Suddenly the | sending Judith's throat.

telephone rang heart into her Without thinking, without

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The “Bunker Bean" Stars in another grand comedy! "GRAND JURY" With Fred Stone, Owen Davis, Jr., Louise Latimer

self-debate, she took up the instrument and answered. It was Steve. = = 2 - 1 been trying to reach you for the last hour,” he said. “I had dinner downtown with Bob and Virginia.” “Still writing your rules of conduct, are they?” asked Steve bitterly. Judith caught her breath. “It won't do any good to be angry, Steve. Why can’t you make it easy for me? I-" “Make it easy for you to throw me down Not on your life! Judith, I'm coming over. I'm going to have this out with you if it takes all night.” “But, Steve, I've told you how I feel. There's simply no use—” With the realization that he was no longer on the wire, Judith’s voice trailed into silence. Slowly she replaced the instrument in its cradle. Steve Fowler was coming to convince her again, as he had so often convinced her in the past. And she mustn't let him. She mustn’t--Quickly she got up from the telephone chair, snatched her hat and coat. In another moment she was racing hurriedly along the sidewalk. She wished now that she'd accepted the Bents’ invitation to the movie. But she could go alone to the little neighborhood theateg near the apartment. That would be her haven of refuge. Perhaps when Steve found no answer to his ring -he would understand, at last, that she had made her decision for the last time. 2 8 =»

II the pleasant half-light of the neighborhood movie house she found herself confronting the excitement of an African hunting trip

of an adventurer who trapped wild animals for zoo§. She was relieved that the plotless reels were unconcerned with the problems of men and women in a realistic world.

NOW! 25e to 6

LAST OF THE MOHICANS

—ANPD— . ‘Final Hour”

New Show Season! ~

JOAN CRAWFORD

ROBT. TAYLOR FRANCHOT TONE

“IHE GORGEOUS HUSSY"

with LIONEL BARRYMORE // James j

STEWART ‘Clarence BROWN

Bu} this feature of the program was too soon finished, and she did not fare so well with the next picture on the double bill, young love, with a boy who looked oddly like Steve, and with a girl who might have been Judith Howard. Before it had been 10 minutes on the screen, Judith fled. She felt sure that by now Steve would have tried the apartment and taken his leave. Tired now, both with natural fatigue, and the strain of nervousness, she hurried on in the darkness. But half a block from the apartment building she stopped suddenly, Steve stood in the entrance way, impatiently smoking a cigaret! Obviously he had been waiting there for some time; and just as obviously he intended to wait longer. : Angered, Judith turned and retraced her steps, keeping to the outside of the w&lk so that Steve might not glimpse her. Her mind, too filled for wariness, let her step down heedless from the curb. She heard the scream of brakes, the sound of tires clutching crazily. Twin rays from headlights blinded her momentarily—and then she saw a huge black roadster smash headlong into a fire hydrant not 20 feet from wherg she stood.

(To Be Continued)

It had to do with |

R. SMEDLEY-KERR'S horse whinnied and stopped short, nose to nose with another horse bound in the opposite direction along the dusty trail. The second rider was Chase, who ran ‘the sugar mill. “Hello, S. K. Heard news?” “All news is bad in this infernal country.” Mr. Smedley-Kerr cast a sour glance over the endless stretches of dry, sun-scorched savannah. “What is it now?”

“Typhoid fever. Twenty of my men are down—for keeps! It'll reach your neighborhood next, I guess.”

“Typhoid!” Mr. Smedley-Kerr's face paled. “Can’'t—can’t it. be stopped? What is the cause of it?” “Up-country rains. The Rio Tigre flooded its banks and is bringing all sorts of filth into this district. Doc Amberly tested the water yesterday. Says it's so full of typhoid germs, it nearly crawled off the slide of his microscope. As for stopping the epidemic—nothing doing!” Chase shrugged his shoulders. “Where are you headed for?”

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AN MARCOS. An errand for my wife.” “You'll be crossing the Tigre, then. Watch out you don't get absent-minded and take a drink!” Mr. Smedley-Kerr winced, and rode on. y Death! Disease and death! He shivered. Presently, he drew rein, took a small flask of brandy from his pocket, and swallowed half the contents. Mingled with his new fear, was an old, sullen hatred. He hated this tropical pest-hole. He hated his present occupation and mode of living. He hated the natives. But most of all, he hated the rich

the bad

1 woman whom he had married for

her money. In his straitened circumstances, her wealth had seemed like a.gift from the gods, but now he realized that the marriage had been a mistake—the gravest blunder in a life already full of blunders. How could he have foreseen that she would want him to work? He, a Smedleyv-Kerr! With the New York social season in full swing, to drag him down here to assist her in the management of a beastly sugar property left by her first husband!

HE Tigre, when he reached it, was turgid, muddy, with a suggestion of evil in its murky flow. He shut his eyes as he put his horse to the shallow ford. At San Marcos, he attended to his errand, then turned homeward, accompanied by a fat black fly which buzzed persistently about his ears and refused to be driven a Did h!

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| flies carry typhoid germs?

“I can’t stick this much longer!” he cried suddenly, almost hysterically. “I've got to get out! Somehow! I've got it . He halted as he came again to the Tigre. He dismounted and seated himself on the bank. He lingered there, pensive, his gaze fixed on the

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO

“Sing, Baby, Sing’’ with Alice Faye and Adolphe Menjou at 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30.

CIRCLE

“The Texas Rangers,” with Fred MacMuriay and Jack Oakie at, 12:28 3:36, 6:44, and 9:52. Also “Grand Jiry with Fred Stone, at 11: 25, 2:33, _ 5:41 and 8:49.

KEITH'S

“Broken Dishes,” a comedy presented by Federal Players, Curtain

at 8:15 LOEW'S “The Last of the Mohicans’ with Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Heather Angel, at 11:11, 1:51, 4:34, 7:17 and 10. Also “The Final Hour” with Ralph Bellamy at 12:51, 3:34, 6:17 and 9

LYRIC

“Follow The Stars,’ on stage, with Vie Oliver and vaudeville at 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30. Also ‘‘Star For Ton ight" with Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, at 11:40, 2:20, 5:10 8 and 10:20

ALAMO “O'Shaughnessy’s Jackie Cooper. “Also * er’ with Keon Mayna AMBASSADOR “And Sudden Death, with Randolph Scott and Frances Drake. Also ae White Angel,” with Kay Francis.

OHIO

“Under Two Flags,” with Claudette Colbert and Ronald Colman. Also “Private Detective No. 62,” with William Powell.

Boy.” with Wiaeny Troop-

MISTAKE

BY ARMSTRONG LIVINGSTON Daily Short Story

noxious flood. Presently, the eutilly noxious current of his thoughts went to the document his wife had shown him a few days after their wedding. Her will, bequeathing everything to him—outright! He finished his brandy and sat looking from the empty flask to his hand to the river and back again. At last, he rose, went to the water's edge and knelt. Very thoroughly, he rinsed the flask, lest even a drop | of alcohol remain to frustrate his | purpose, then filled it to the brim | and screwed its cap tight.

T= get out of all this!” he whispered huskily. He had not been home an hour, lounging with a book in a cool corner of the patio, when he heard a familiar, swinging step. His wife, trim and immaculate as always, was returning from her daily tour of the cane fields. She tossed aside her hat and kissed her husband affectionately. “Whoosh, it's hot! Me for a shower! Get me a lemonade, Johnny dear. Bring it to me yourself like a good boy!” She strode away, alert, competent. Her physique, the very way she carried herself, were an affront to the man who knew himself a weakling. Mr. Smedley-Kerr ordered the drink and when a servant brought it and left, he took out his flask. A” momentary qualm stayed his hand, but it was a twinge of cowardice, not compunction. Then, his nerves steadied.’ It was so safe! In an epidemic of typhoid, who would suspect murder? Or who, suspecting it, could prove the fact? He tilted the flask and trickled some of its lethal contents into the lemonade. . .. Chase’s prediction proved true. Typhoid came to them, taking heavy toll of their laborers. With its coming, horror rode with Mr. SmedleyKerr by day, terror slept with him by night. He could eat or drink nothing without inward shrinking. When he went with his wife to visit the sick and-dying, he suffered untold tortures. 2 "

ND she? Calm and collected, utterly fearless, she moved on her errands of mercy untouched by the misery she assuaged. Any other man must have admired her, but her husband saw only her superb vitality and Her apparent immunity to infection—and cursed hem bleakly. The end of the first week forind his flask empty of the Rio Tigre water; he replenished it. The second week drained it again, yet his wife continued radiant with health. Meanwhile, his gwn gnawing fear increased day by day. He knew that, should he be stricken by the dread disease, his chances of recovety were exactly nil. Lack of stamina, and a constitution weakened by past excesses, would sign his death warrant. Yes, if he should catch it— Abruptly, he did. There came a morning when he could not rise from the bed he was never to leave again alive. It was then his wife's composure at’ last deserted her. Wild-eyed, distraught, she rushed to his side, dropped to her knees in anguish. “Oh, Johnny, Johnny, what have I done! This is my fault—all my fault!” :

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= ” OUR . . . fault?” he said painfully. “What do you mean?” “When I came from New York, leaving you to follow, I was so busy with other things, I never thought to tell you! I Yook it for granted you knew and would have it done! Oh, J-J-Johnny, I thought you had —of course!” “Had what—done?” “Inoculation against typhoid! Everybody has it before coming here! Oh, my dear, I thought you were safe! If I'd only known the truth, I'd have made you go away the instant it broke out!” “You would have made me go?” he repeated, not too spent to realize the irony of it. Then his tired brain grasped another implication in her frantic words. Dimly, he realized he must have made his last and worst mistake. “And . . . you? You . . . were . . . inoculated?” “Yes!” she sobbed. “Oh—yes!” THE END (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syn-

cate, Inc.) (The charadlers in this ony are fictitious)

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1936

Comedy Hit by Players Wins Praise

Federal Cast at Its Best in Amusing Piece, ‘Broken Dishes.’

What the Federal Players needed, it seems, w as a week's vacation. That, and a good play. Equipped with both, they launched Martin Flavin's amusing comedy, “Broken Dishes,” at Keith's last night, and the result was undoubtedly the best entertainment of this, their initial season.

Last week Federal Theater audiences saw the ultimate downfall of ambition, as set forth in the Haitian “Macbeth.” This week they wite ness the triumph of complete subjugation and ineptitude, when young love and a jug of hard cider are there to help. The two real heroes are Plaine

Bumpstead (Betty Anne Brown) and

the aforementioned jug, and both are on the stage when the curtain rises—one seated at the supper tae ble, the other under it. :

Mother Domineering

Elaine has a domineering mother (Ruth King) and two spinster sise . ters, Myra and Mabel (Alice Arnold and Bernice Jenkins). The girls and their poor, henpecked father (Jack Duval) have eaten and otherwise lived with the name of Chester Armstrong since the family was founded. Chester is Ma Bumpstead’s almost mythical girlhood sweetheart of 30 years ago. She never has re-= | covered - from the fact that she turned down this now rich gentle- | man for Pa, still a drygoods clerk, Pa agrees with her. He centers his entire affection in Elaine, how= ever, and when she falls in love with Bill Clark, a delivery. boy, he's inclined to take sides, meekly, against his wife. Things move merrily into Act II. Ma and the older girls go to the movies, leaving Pa and Elaine to do the dishes. She persuades her father to go to lodge, smuggles in Bill (Ned LeFevre), who proposes. Later, she gets Pa’s reluctant con= sent to the marriage and, with the kelp of Pa’s first and only experience with hard cider, the marriage goes through.

Tilusion Shattered

Meanwhile, before the ladies return from the pictures, a- stranger (Frederick G. Winter) enters from - his broken-down car and the sube

zero night. And so the curtain dey

scends with the marriage over, Ma returned, furious, and Pa, slightly inebriated, summoning courage to snap his fingers in her face. The stranger, of course, is Chester Armstrong. The final att discloses Chester as a forger, swindler, and all manner of unpleasant things. And Ma ad- / mits that he never reelly was as/ wonderful as she had brought up. the family to imagine. The dishes which have remained . like ominous, unwashed threat during the entire play, finally are done by Ma. Definitely symbolical, as the reader may see. Mr. Duvall is in excellent form for his part. Doubtless Donald Meek, who did Pa in New York, put in more of Caspar Milquetoast and less of senility, yet Mr. Duval’s doddering portrayal is delicious. The rest of the cast leaves little to quibble about. All rise right ade mirably to the occasion. And now, with a final shower of orchids to all concerned, we recommend that you have a look at “Broken Dishes.” =

HI-DE HO! WHAT A SHOW!

Ang FRIDAY

SHE WON FIRST PRIZE WITH HIM . . . AND HE WON HER HEART!

It's Gay ... It's Daring “al It's Romantic . . . And it's Destined to Be the Most De= licious Comedy 1 of the New Season!

BRADY PATRICK . DIXON Svgene PALETTE Non MOWSRAY

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