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When Daphne Brett took her younger sister, Jennifer, under hand in an effort |

te launch her on a successful career in New York, difficulties immediately arose between the two, Jennifer resented any such interest and promptly defied Daphne, She planned to elope with Tucker Ainsley, wealthy playboy, and would have, had not Daphne stopped the affair, And before that, Jennifer had made a nlay for the affections of Larry Smith, brilliant young architect "with whom Daphne was in love, After Daphne had prevented her elopement with Tuck, Jennifer became sulJen. For a period of more than three months the sisters scarcely spoke to each other, * sending Jennifer on vacation to an ex-

elusive shore resort. And the plan ap- ‘risen to her feet and bent over the tral she rang up Larry.

parently worked, for when Jennifer returned she had lost her old bitterness, it seemed. Laughing, she got off her train in New York to tell Daphne that she had met the great theatrical producer, Gordon Herzberg. Daphne was thrilled, too, since the theater was her first love, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

hs ET me go and tell him, He's waiting in the boat house. Oh, this news will mean more to him than anything else I could possibly tell him.” Jennifer stopped and glanced hastily at the blue-covered papers in her hand. Daphne, sitting cross-legged on the floor, said, "No! A thousand times No! Look, Jennifer, youre only going to tell him that the boss has changed his mind about firing him. He isn't your lover! You aren't going to tell him he's been left, a fortune and the word oh is not in the script. Take that transcendent light out of your eyes. Now come back to the right entrance and do it again.” ” » ” ENNIFER looked dubious for a «J minute and then did as she was told. “Much better,” Daphne pronounced. “And you're letter perfect in your lines, There's only one other little thing: When you get to the door, open it with your hand. Don't make a complete turn

with your back to the audience when |

you open the door.” Jennifer blew out her breath and slipped off her negligee. “Daphne, you're wonderful. Hoadley”—Hoad-~ ley was the director of “Apple Blossomes,” the Herzberg “asked me where I'd picked up that piece of business with the teacup yesterday.” “It's fun, isn't it?” Daphne said wistfully. » ” ” RAND fun. You know, I guess the reason I never made a success of anything else was because I always wanted to be

And then Daphne broke the ice, |

left |

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|“YPUT I can’t. I have my work here and . . .” “You'll have your work here when | you come back, Miss Brett. This | account means a great deal to us. | The company has doubled its appro- | priation in the last year and, if this trip is the success we anticipate, it | will be more than doubled next year, | Also, in addition to your salary, you |are to receive a bonus which will | mount considerably since you are to | receive a percentage of the sales. | Mr. Hammer mentioned $2000 as a bonus...” Two thousand dollars! | “Oh, Mr. Johnstone!” Daphne had | desk toward him, “Of course, I'll do lit! When do we begin?” | She would make all her arrange- | ments for copy and tickets and accommodations in the next three | days, he said, and she could expect |to be back in New York by the {middle of November.

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WO thousand dollars! Two thousand dollars! Yes, please, | let me talk to the art department. Mr. Jones are the layouts finished for the Journal ads on the Georgian Creme account? Two thousand dollars in the bank will make it possible for me to marry Larry. Miss Blake will you make out a production order for the Tuesday Blade, | 300 lines on two columns? I won't ‘ever have to worry about Jennifer if T know that money is there. Jennifer will do well in the theater but, at best, it is hazardous financially. Six weeks of rehearsal and sa show | can close overnight, but with $2000 in the bank, I would never have to

, worry and never have to use Larry's money. I beg your pardon, Mr, | Brown, I didn’t hear what you were | saying. | At last, Daphne gave up. She | simply couldn't think of anything | else. The $2000 theme dominated | her thoughts. What was two months | out of her life when it meant the | end of the rainbow? “I have some errands to do, Miss | Thornley,” she told the telephone | operator at 4 o'clock. “If anyone is looking for me, take the message.” | “ 4% # { WENTY minutes later from a | telephone booth in Grand Cen-

“Hi, my gal! Where have you been!” Larry was fairly booming | into the telephone, “I've been calling you for the last 10 minutes. I've got exciting news for you.” “But, Larry, you don’t even hear {what I'm saying. I'm trying to |tell you I have exciting news for you. I can't wait to tell .. “ud “No matter what it is, you're to drop everything when young lady. It's]

| going | you hear this I news!” Daphne gave up then. “All right, selfish! I'm on my way home now. Come up as soon As you can.” “I'm sorry I have to give you $2000.” she said to the trolley car | | conductor and handed him a dol- | lar. | “Huh?” he asked. “Oh, excuse me,” she said and | | had to look out the window to | | keep from laughing out loud at | herself.

(To Be Continued)

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INITIATIVE—By Walter Guedel

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NAR. STEINER was kindly, benevolent—and crooked as a

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as a private detective — “inquiry | agent,” he called himself. His staff consisted of one-~Ned Childers, of- | fice boy. Ned held his job for two reasons | —first, because he was not very bright, and secondly, because he was a good listener. That is to say, Ned was physically able to stand for as long as 15 minutes and listen to one of Mr, Steiner's private office lectures, discourses dear to the heart of the orator, Ned always listened, never interrupted, but absorbed about as much as a piece of cast iron,

He was established in Los Angeles |

tody on a charge originating in the | Bast. * = 8 | HE paper went on to say that, | i at the time of his arrest, Mr. | Gallagher was in the midst of | preparations for a sea voyage, It | was further stated that he had dis- | played vicious resentment upon be[ing disturbed, but that the resent- [ ment, strangely, seemed directed | not toward the arresting officers, [but toward a person or persons un- | known. | As Mr. Steiner laid down the | paper, there was bitterness in his {soul and, as he wended a slow way | homeward, there settled over him a pall of bewilderment that con- | tinued throughout a sleepless night.

In the morning, came solution.

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FLAPPER FANNY

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937

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“I suppose Aunt Sarah gave you the usual lecture,

Fanny?”

“Sure. But if it's a rich aunt, you listen—her money

talks.”

(DINOSAURS ARE EXTINGT, | AND HAVE BEEN FOR CENTURIES! BESIDES, A DINOSAUR NEVER

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On a certain Tuesday afternoon, | Ned Childers appeared in Mr. Steinsuch a lecture was in progress. The er's private office, his eves bright. setting, the characters and the lines | = °° : ’ Cris | were the same as usual, but on this | “Mr. Steiner, IT been Weltisg to Ss a

particular occasion, Ned was strain. | tell you, but I forgot. ing his mentality in an effort really | that letter you sent me to mail, the

to grasp what was being said. | other day, and the good advice you | gave me. I thought vou'd be glad to . an = | know that I used the good ad-| | vice.” { | Mr. Steiner was interested and ALLEY OOP said so. Ned continued. “Well, Mr. Steiner, on the way to the postoflice, I kept thinking of your advice and

in the theater, only I didn't know it. Up at Dennis, we'd all been to the theater one night and after we came home I was doing a scene from the show and I didn't even know that Mr. Herzberg was the great producer.” “It's hard work, Jennifer, if you really love it, I think you've a future and your part, while it is small, will show what you can ao. Remember that sleep is an important part of your job. So, how about getting to bed? Mr. Johnstone wants to see me at 9 tomorrow morning and I want to look fresh.” “Maybe he's going to give you a raise,” Jennifer offered. “That isn't the way it's done. I hope it doesn’t mean trouble.” “Speaking of trouble,” Jennifer said behind a vawn, while her alert eves measured her sister, “Tuck is back. I'm meeting him for cocktails tomorrow.”

but | | HIS remarkable change of attitude was directly traceable to | Ned's mother. That morning, Mrs. | Childers had delivered to her off- | | spring a preachment on his general | chuckle-headedness, and had given 'him a dire sample of what would | I thought—reasoned—that because happen to him if he didn't “snap you told me it was important that jout of it.” Hence, Ned was trying | the letter get mailed that day, you to do so, | must want it to get it to New York Today's office lecture was drawing | as soon as possible. That was to a smashing close. | pretty good reasoning, don't you “And so remember, my boy,” de- | think? claimed Mr. Steiner, “that while! “And so, when I got to the postother factors may be important, | office, I stepped out fearlessly and there are two chief qualities, the | —er—took the bull's horns and put | possession and exercise of which are | another 3-cent stamp on the letter {absolutely essential to success in life. and sent it air mail. I thought {One of these is the ability to rea- | you'd be glad, Mr. Steiner, that I ~ ELAN ir \ A Wy son and the other is—initiative.| took the initiative.” 3 Sl Wn = Er TR ge A wy RE yas (A Gr 2 NAb : ‘ | xT "T1937 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T.M. REG, 11. 8 PAT. OFF, J

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ALLEY OOPS DINOSAUR HUNTING EXPEDITION ENDED WHEN DINNYS HEADLONG CHARGE ABRUPTLY BOGGED DOWN.

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{step forth fearlessly and take the | (Copyright, 1937 United Feature initiative, Er—ah—take the bull by | Syndicnte, Ine. the horns, so to speak.” | The characters in this story are fictitious. “What's initiative and what's a | —

ice. “I thought I laid down the law about cocktails?” “And about Tuck,

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vou?” Jennifer said pleasant smile. “Sometimes I think I'll give up, but listen, Jennifer, I've more influence with Tuck than you have and I'm going to tell him that I don’t want him seeing you.” “It wouldn't surprise me a bit if you did.” her sister “But if I were you I wouldn't try.” Daphne set her mouth in a line as straight as Jennifer's. “Let’s both go to bed. We're tired and this heat is getting on our nerves. You open in Fhiladelphia next Monday, don’t you?” » ” =

APHNE stared into the hot silence of the night, long after Jennifer had gone to sleep, until she convinced herself that Jennifer had only meant to tease her when she had taunted her about Tuck. But since she couldn't be sure that Jennifer really had gotten Tuck, she was determined to appeal to Tuck once more not to see Jennifer. She'd do it even if she had to pretend that she herself was interested in him. She made a note to telephone him and ask him to take her for cocktails the following afternoon. It slipped her mind that next day. Too many other things happened. = » » “IT down, Miss Brett” Mr. Johnstone, president of the Johnstone Advertising Agency,

waved her into a chair that was]

much too big for her. He leaned across the big desk and regarded her thoughtfully. Daphne made herself sit still and wondered if her lipstick was a little too red. “Nice work you've done on the Georgian line.” The Georgian line was the mer-

chandise of a cosmetic house, one!

of the accounts that Daphne had developed. “Oh, thank you, Mr. Johnstone.” “Hammer and I have been talking over your proposed campaign in department stores and the tour you planned in the presentation. We think it is an excellent idea.” Daphne's face lighted up with pleasure. “I was afraid the whole idea was too radical, but I am confident it would go over. Are they going all the way? I mean, will they show the moving pictures of the manufacturing, and have the fashion show and demonstration in connection with it?” “Every bit just the way you laid it out. With one exception: The company wants you to take the show on tour and manage it.”

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bull got to do with 112" asked Ned. Ack The Times

Whereupon Mr. Steiner expounded | for 10 long minutes, at the end of which Ned said he understood. Mr. Steiner wondered.

FEW minutes later, Mr. Steiner brought forth from his safe |a stamped, addressed and sealed envelope. The envelope contained a report on the exact whereabouts and Los Angeles activities of a certain | Mr. Gallagher, a report which had been carefully prepared by Mr. | Steiner for a New York client. It was a lengthy document and its | information was so unfavorable to Mr. Gallagher as to warrant the im-

mediate prosecution of that gentle- |

man by Mr. Steiner's New York client. It neglected, however. to { mention that Mr. Gallagher contemplated an early departure from the country. “Ned,” said Mr. Steiner, “go out land mail this letter at the Spring Street Station. Now, don't put it (in your pocket and then forget about it, for it is important that it be dispatched today.” As Ned departed on his errand, Mr. Steiner sat back with satisfaction. Today was exactly the proper day for mailing that report. He had promised his New York client to mail it not later than today, and Mr. Gallagher not earlier than today. Mr. Steiner's conscience | was clear on both counts.

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HAT night, Mr. Steiner did a|

bit of telephoning from the { privacy of his home, | “Mr. Gallagher,” he said, “I mailed | that report today. Needless to say, {it is honest. . . . What's that? . . . No, Mr. Gailagher, it is against my | principles to doctor a report but, of | course, Mr. Gallagher, there is no reason for concern on your part. This is Tuesday. The report will not reach New York until Saturday morning and, as your boat sails early Friday morning, the margin of | safety is ample. . . . Just so. And you may expect me Thursday evening at 6. Please be sure to have it in cash. Good-by, Mr. Gallagher.” Thursday evening at 6, when Mr. Steiner called to see Mr. Gallagher, he found him out. Mr, Steiner was annoyed. He sat down to wait. At 7 o'clock, he was more than annoyed —he was definitely worried. At 7:30, he bought a late newspaper and learned that Mr. Gallagher would not return. Mr. Gallagher, according to the paper, had that very day been surprised in his somewhat secluded bachelor quarters and had been taken into cus-

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Q—What is the nebular hypothesis? A—An attempt to explain the formation of the planets on the supposition that the matter in the solar system existed originally in the form of a vast, diffused, rotating nebula, which cooling and contracting, gradually threw off in obedience to physical laws, successive rings of matter from which were produced planets, satellites and other bodies of the planetary system. The theory was developed by Kant and Laplace. i

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