Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1940 — Page 15

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LABELED HIM SCRAM, JA FRANKFURTER ; anon’ LAYER OF WAXED PAPER!

| b: i RUN LIKE FOR SHORT! HIS FULL \; FOR THE : t 7 . 3 RS 2 : r Jf N ’ . OA OE ARAB lid. RE PE aalisl oy Vg P You ¢ (@ PEDIGREE MONICKER wy WINTER'S HAY/ ‘ Tess shoppe, lives on a barge. y ¥ # = EA . oo 5 ): Ng co : - eee Bl REAL FANCY AS Jf rich Irishman, in love with Marie.” © || ~& | SN a % TIT, SCRAMWOLD PERCY A | RYAN—Leader of the’ truck- Be ROSEBERRY-GYP /

~~ TOMMY ers fighting Marie's father.

LYNDA MARTIN — Society debutante, wants to marry Dan.

i BAPTISTE LA PORTE—Marie’s father, owner of a fleet of barges.

: CHAPTER ONE " MARIE LA PORTE was putting on her hat to go home when Paul Varnet stuck his head in the dressing room. The other models had already left. « “Lynda Martin wants an evening gown, Marie.” He eyed her critically. This was her first week in his store. ; “Slip on that red satin.” <TR + Fashionable New York, respect- ERE : / SR ANS SA able and otherwise, flocked to : or ( A WX NZ we. AIA / SSE Varnet’s glittering 57th Street spe-|[ . Niki 5 { : Sey NS ~ ; rt = = sag 7 tialty shop. He was exactly what h hooey $50 re { tatutdl 2 NS 5S = 7 NNN i ; = % WNT

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Lynda Martin had money. : ~All afternoon long Marie had been depressed over the idea of returning to the South Street barge where she lived. Why did her father want to stay on the. boat anyway? she asked herself. With the barges he owned he had money ‘enough to live ashore. Now that she was growing up why couldn't she have a real home like other girls? She’d heard her mother nag her father often enough about it. : hi whole soul was in revolt as | ; ¢ 3 : / ; Lt A Oo ap a e moodily dropped her hat on a : : : m= : “ Cool 1960% United Peaters Syndlente lnc, CP chair and began undoing her dress. ; : RS, E She wished she might be stepping OM! IVE GOT A NOW HE Sr hl BUT SECONDS LATER, out tonight in the scarlet gown she \ ) Fl VISIOR._MuST BE | |SLIPPIN' THIS = TY S 5 HANDS REACH TO UN was putting on; to the Stork Club, ; : : EF / WAY--- HIDIN’IN| fl DELOW DOOR VS i SF DOOR = FROM THE INS! or El Morocco, perhaps, with some HE'S LETNN TH | NJH SHADOws? | [f ol handsome and exciting boy. ° Tommy Ryan could never afford | to take her. Besides, he had to run his truck. When you're head of a one-man business you can’t leave it, ‘he always told her, She reproached herself. What a disloyal girl she was, not even married tof Tommy yet and already wishing she was going out with another boy. ” ” 2

SHE WALKED SLOWLY out to the showroom. Another te and she was parading back d forth in front of Lynda Martin, the

flaming red evening gown wrap- a ; 2 - ping its scarlet length about her ; : : Z Tm

Sim dy 2 the 4 Sl mek 7 A LE : EVER, on THE BEACH THAT The eyes of the two girls me : vn ! : OU'RE STAYING AT THE and clashed. There was curlosity ding—dhien all the gitis will be clear profi! | DOWN To THE SWANKMORE HOTEL ! 4 n Marie’s dark ones. was the . BEACH /! ; q first time she had seen the debu- FLAPPER FANNY : ; : tante whose picture had been on ) ™ : os so many society and rotogravure : LE v ab : ee — WE pages. | : AR : a : hs : & WON'T {3 Just 17, Lynda was the only \ : A i =a 5 SAY A child of James. Martin, the newly - #4 /\ Ee) WORD! rich grocery chain store head. Her : ; LL I. mother was dead. She lived a life |] - 4 E : ban ns : CA Ye : N~ 3 8 of hectic gaiety. This much Marie a fz. IL 17 . ; knew. She recalled that she was y A) 4 : : supposed to be engaged to Dan eal fo b : br) ELL A HE ~C 3 a Donovan, whose father also was » ; 5 \ J Trt Rs” : ] 3 rich. ry FQ - : J : Sa ete) 7 » : hp > “Lynda’s . preiey” Maxie thought & | aN - sais, Rr | (fem =————Sigumi 5 : es, ? hy | *But what a disconten ace fo] we ( nS s M0 at TE TUT) CET] OKAY. i) (TWO THINGS ARE NECESSARY. With all that money and yet she : Bb ) na Rs | 20" 4 WELL TRY Te To 2E To HUD Tian fives’; look 2s If she had & goed oY NH Ji A LADDER, bh ¢ er / SECOND, SHUT YOUR EYES TO fay Sa. WhiEhs: “She. Wav ihe NL \ 4 : YOUNG LADY, Kam % i ; 2 \_ PL AVOID THE SMOKE. CAN 400 : oy ik i == TR i te ", : : : REM 2 beautiful, But what a life, always |E ; : AA AL ARS ou / J C3 hl . : EMEWBER showing off clothes you never get ! : & chance to wear.” .. Varnet took credit for discovering Marie’s beauty, but it was reallymJohn Powers, head .of the agency which supplied Varnet with models, who had: picked her. A few pointers on how to walk and a how ito show off clothes and Marie was wearing a $22.50 Seventh Avenue special so that it looked like a $225 Paris original. 4 a \ 2: | a Her hair was blue black and her / BE / ; 5 3 al Bk ; : eyes liquid velvet. She had a love- ; a ~ . — ah J : I Hi <r Z BY NEA SER No Tab wwe | Fw areescare — ¢ PT WELL, we Lynda M rti Pirouetting sl i oi ¥ GETTING OUR FILM AT Z R BoOvS UT WE. GAVE OUR WORD ynda Marin, etting slowly, sk EC HALF PRICE FROM YOU. FT RIOT SCENE TO USE_THE to show the lines of the dress, her| “You want a new car. That’s fine. You must think I can go out on MR: SLAGLE, BUT DO we ™ AND LET HM LITTLE TERMITE, scarlet-clad figure mirrored itself the streets an’ just pick up a good wooden box an’ four wheels HAVE TO USE THAT LITTLE IS T™ PLAY IT! SO 1 GUESS WERE in the amber glass side walls of the the same size.” ‘ , HECTOR, IN OUR STUCK WITH Him! salon. ; Varnet strolled casually across| THIS CURIOUS WORLD . By William Ferguson the white plush covered floor. “I'm S20 >

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for the day,” he apologized. : . .Lynda raised a petulant face. “I a, : TAKEN FROM 7 A <9 didn’t know till this afternoon that : - ; AN AFRICAN wv : 3 TI. ZA I was going to the particular dine jf 7 ELEPHANT, Zz = | ( 1 LUI Zyl ner I want this dress for. But I| RK ; AN ARE USED ON JO) Ti SA can’t wear red. ‘Imagine that shade| La THE ELEPHANT Rn 2 - 3 with my yellow hair!” ; PAINTING ON © “Of course not.” Varnet drew up : : THE W/ Ss a chair beside her. “This shade is SK CY OF VAL only for our salon. I see you in 7, - a mysterious, provocative, filmy| § LL) Re black. Then the dress will justify| F 3 / its name, ‘Adventure.’ There's just 3 Wy 4 vi & , \

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enough of the little girl in it for Gn) % bY ! | you. Your youth, your beauty—" MTS J : Lynda’s blue eyes widened. “Why ' that’s just what Dan Donovan said = os i | : os he was always looking for and never ok ; : pve: x | i finding—adveénture. He’s going with ; po | Lt me to this party.” : : at of Abruptly conscious of Marie, she became more formal. “I'll take the dressw but I must have it by the end 3 the week.” : / - Marie, standing rebelliously by, : i A > y { Xx)

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watched Lynda as Varnet led her to the elevator. The girl's delicate features, the arrogant shortness of her upper lip and her smooth, honey yellow hair, irritated her. «I forgot to ask you how much that dress was, Varnet.” Lynda’s assured tone floated back to Marie. Three hundred? All right, send the bill to father.” : : ” = 2 . A CHILLY. MARCH wind was|blowing through 57th St.. when]. : Marie left the Shop a 7:50. na SEEN ing herself against it, she RT @, VE E co ON _toward the subway. The downtown SSE I~ gg ig mw 4

trains had only a scattering of pas- S sengers. South Ferry, the station Zola sieNsS/

where she got off, was even rhore deserted. But she lost hey sarhier resentment when she breathed® the fresh, salty air from the bay. Eager- ANSWER—Aries, ram; Taurus, bull; Leo, lion; Capricornus, goat.

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