Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1939 — Page 18

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Want Beauty By LOUISE HOLMES

i < || CAST OF CHARACTERS Hl es SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles med of being beautiful.

BE , TREMAINE — He liked Susie's "waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. Lal «. JEFF BOWMAN — His chief concern ‘was to make Susie as beautiful as she - wanted to be. |B : Yesterday—Susie decides to go to Riv- | ‘ertown, but she is apprehensive. Meanwhile, Dick is overly atentive. Susie's success may mean something te him In | California! - '

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

ICK declared his love in a hun- - dred ways as he and Susie {lhummed along, the car gobbling up the miles and swallowing them with zing ease. And Susie knew that oubt was past by the tightening of her nerves, by the mad thudding pf her heart. The rapturous sensaon almost succeeded in crowding ut memory of Jeff, left standing ike a slapped child, in the lobby. - ost, but not quite. Carelessly “she had wounded Jeff, her best friend,. and Susie knew what it eant to be neglected and thought--lessly scorned. ~" She told herself that Jefl’s telegram had been from Edna, that she was returning from her honeymoon,

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"dent state of mind. She told her-| ; Cr : 3 += self that she would find an oppor- oN : . : pt # tunity to call him before the day, . BY | Se ~~ ended and apologize for her rude-| i. : 1 2 ‘ness. Only half satisfied, her mind kept going back to the picture of him in the lobby. He remained in! : -the way of her happiness, blurring + it, discoloring it. = They stopped for lunch in a thriving Wisconsin city, lingering to talk, PROMINENT YOUNG MAN. , every word, every silence, every ] BY SUPERIMPOSING NEGATIVE glance and gesture significant in a : NO.,1 UPON NEGATIVE. NO, 2 (SEE, thrilling new way. ABOVE. ) HE. PRODUCED PHOTO=-

RIVING on Dick scoffed at the barren fields,, the naked trees and dirty ditch snow. Suzanne ~_-should see California. Perhaps she would see California, eh? This remark was accompanied by a glance = at her profile. It was a serious Ne _ profile. : : Wl = Dick went on to describe the Oe

-Jand of his adoption. \ { 74; X 4 a “Fun all the time,” he elaborated ; \ ( 7 3 &— 1 NC 2 {/ 7 : es Ez \ boastfully. “Any kind of fun you | : ; ! ; 4) . CB, -K 5 4 : A " S \ =-want, ocean, mountains, desert, gE : Ra 2h RR h, ) N/a ; = 7 NS \ Th

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you go up to the gym!” ‘By Clyde Lewis

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YEP-- MY UNCLE HARRY LATE! SAYS IM A AMERICAN, So ) | [I LATER SRY | RE BLOOD IN ME VEINS! WN“ / aE. ou, 2. INDIAN ?

UGH --- ME BIG CHIEF SLUGGO --- HEAP DANGEROUS /

You HAVEN'T GOT TH' RIGHT KIND OF A NOSE FOR A INDIAN - THEY HAVE BIG ly SHARP ONES.’

snow—all in a day's time—swell, ; 2 = S simply swell.” = Se EEE % 7 SL ag | at == || | = .- “What about your job?” Susie a J k i J : . ; A &E ne i X > / < RES i

.msked. Not a word had she heard concerning Dick's . building. A 4 0) ERAMIE- % po, / BUSI rMIAL ER :

in 4 COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, “You and your bird's nest soup!”

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= He hedged. “Nobody really works in California. Too much going on.” It was well, he admitted to himself, -. that Suzanne had the ability to ~ make money. They must live well, © do everything. No doubt she would . be a celebrity in no time. Again Dick expanded with a pleased smile. . __ It was almost 4 when Susie reg- ~ istered at the Rivertown hotel. At _ the hotel she was not recognized, even her name, Suzanne Lambert, .. brought forth no comment. En- ~ couraged, she went to her room, = unpacked her evening gown and freshened up a bit. : i “Yau are Suzanne,” she told her . - reflected image in the mirror. | " “Don’t-let anyone tell you different. : Susie is dead. She died in Harker's! | . gymnasium. Suzanne — Suzanne—" ‘She mumbled the name as she ap-! + plied lip gloss in the way she had been taught.

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DERN THAT GUY! I TELL YOU, PAPA, / YOU LEAVE HE'S NOT TO BE TRUSTED. HE'S DANGEROUS. HE'S LIABLE T0 UPSET THE APPLE CART.

Nowe My CHANCE: WHILE Fi WASH 15 AT LUNCH, I CAN 288 By Sylvia] (ul Altes THOSE REPORTS 4 HE'S PREPARING FOR OLD McKEE.

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: HEAR, THE TTA © id I . ME ALL THAT TRIPE ' PPEFORE joining Dick she called x ABOUT CLASSICAL. Mr. Jeff Bowman, Harker’s ad- MUSIC AND THEN

Ea eZ ** vertising department, Chicago, After LI 27574 € HAD THE NERVE To 1 GO OVERBOARD FOR ; a short wait during which she or. 1 Tien CUE A SWING | ITHE Cs THIS TROMBONE !

ah ex, ; _ realized how very badly she wanted 4 8 sa BN MR td i 8) ha ~ z : | if 2) us ho \ x oo a - A po, 2/. i

Tue HECK WITH Lu M C/! FIRST 1 GET ual SWIPED, : J IT! I "WONT re : AND IT SOURS ME ON andl WEAR A DERBY HAT =eew POPULAR MUSIC ! THEN : E EV =! IT MIGHT - RS IND’ ME OF A

to reach Jeff, she was told that Mr. Bowman was not in. = ‘Dick, meanwhile, had visited the .-fraternity house, shaken hands with a dozen boisterous brothers, and as- = sured them that he and his “drag” ~. would be on hand for the dinner

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' dance. ~~ He and Susie walked to the Waffle ~ “Shoppe, students’ turning to look . after Susie, noting her smart fur ~-vcoat, extreme off-the-face hat, | matching purse and shoes, and, * more important still, her indubitable|

.-way of wearing them. = EY the Shoppe, Susie saw THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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“You know who 1 mean—she’s always trying to look like a movie star.” “Oh, yes—the one who glamours for attention.”

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\ of course.” She smiled into his eyes, wait- * ing. He returned the smile, not * comprehending. 5 3% ““I'm psychic,” she told him. “I'll © v reconstruct a day for you, a day {Blast spring.” At his interested : &7iod ‘she went on. “One day last Z£gpring you came in and sat on She inclined her head

4% now presided over by a white-coated boy. One thing Susie instantly saw. . + Two pictures of herself, newspaper ~— prints, framed together. All at once

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“0y He gave a startled|,. glance as she said Susie. . ~ “You told her you were sorry for something that had happened

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‘+11 eyes suddenly became the light of recognition. “My God,” he mut- = tered. ; Susie continued evenly. Strange that her quivering anxiety should | have vanished. “The waffle girl gave you a graduation present. It was a tie chip—" “#1 know,” he broke in, a queer look about his mouth. “Turquoise with a lion on each side—" “Yes, it cost the girl $10. Have you ever worn it; Dick?” He appeared not to hear the question. He was staring at her, astounded, only half believing. “Look, now,” he said, intense,

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IT a : COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. g ANSWER—This statement is from an ancient proverb. It was

strained. | “You're not trying to : sell me that you are—that you are usie.” He was ready to-laugh; not quite sure if it were funny or.not. 5 “Can’t you see ‘it,

‘In a way J can. Your eyes, I yays thought you had nice eyes, nd your cute little nose, it used to k like a button—” He leaned ck, regarding her delightedly. He as thinking of Susie in relation to Hollywood, the place of miracles. he led the field in miracles. “How'd do it—how’d you ever do it?”

an answer to her prayer, the letter she wrote to John Harker. Dick kept ejaculating, “But it’s unbelievable—it’s unbelievable!” He sounded pleased. While they ate waffles, Susie finished the story of her fight for beauty, ending with, “I'm not really beautiful at all, ‘Dick. It’s simply that someone showed me how to

the most of any good ones.” “But your figure, Dick interrupted.

Bhe told him, the longing to be 1s, the newspaper ad

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minimize my bad features and make :

first used in these exact words by Algernon Sidney, in the 17th Century.

wife gave me this figure,” Susie told him. “Ten weeks of endless exercise, 10 weeks of starving—" She exhaled a long sigh of relief. Dick

wasn’t shocked, his eyes were even |

more ops2nly admiring than they were before,

(To Be Concluded)

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