Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1940 — Page 15

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YESTERDAY: Molly develops growing Interest in the Reynolds cameo, finally asks Johnny to urge Jean to sell it, Molly Is using the pin to keep Andre Masters interested in her work. She astonishes Johnny by telling him she'd like the pin as a wedding gift. ‘I'm going to take you up on that marriage | bid.”

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CHAPTER EIGHT MOLLY IN Johnny's arms whispering that she loved him and would marry him as he had asked her to, sent his senses whirling.

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about her, made everything pos- 0 are Syndicate, Tne. S Saag ah MIELE © Th ir will give it to us for a “He's the new rookie . .. I'm teaching him the business!” : NGA Err HIM A, wedding present. We won't need to buy it. And if there's anvthing| MOLD EVERYTHING to that luck legend, we needn't even worry about that, Jean and 1 are so nearly brother and sister that the Reynolds luck has probably diffused after all these years.” “You're sweet, Johnny,” Molly maid, stroking his face. “Don't worry about the luck, vou funny Irishman, Things are turning out wonderfully. Now don't forget to ask Jean-—right away. She'll be at the theater tonight.’ He walked back down Cottage St. > ; ARwWave toward his garage, almost in 8 » dream, Molly was going to marry him. After this summer she would say farewell forever to the theater! | W Bd & . Te) 9] / $ He re SOM ould ene ROW YOU'RE BACK 1 PRINTED) [ 1 RECKON LITE CRURE ANAS

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sandwiched between rehearsals as| their romance had been? | When Johnny came backstage at %:30, Jean was already there. She had on a smock, splattered with grease paint ‘Hello, Johnny.” She hardly Jooked up “I came to talk to vou,” he began, | wondering how he should start Away from Molly, the task of] asking Jean for the cameo seemed | difficult. “Isn't that the Carstairs | coffee service?” Jean nodded. “But I told Miss | Bessie I'd be personally responsible for it |

Johnny had an opportunity to { ! . Jook around. He whistled. “Are vou | . . yy Dod SLUaeD, BUT IM AWFULLY ONE MORE THING -- WELL -- A FORTUNE ? on going to be personally responsible | | COPR. THO BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TM. REG. U, § PAT. OFF. i : E EXTRAVAGANT | KNOW THIS TELLER SAID I'M ’ Ww ’ for all the other Cape Cod antiques | e —,§S, NOUD WATE J | LIKE oo s' WiLL DISCOURAGE MH TER TO 8E 4 jie! oe you've got in this barn? Isn't t ™ h : 4 Nir Duntrons hunting moard? and | “Now don't get panicky on your frst soloist keep your feet on the | | 6 wr Wir | War NA EEw oY | JEALous oF the Meltons' Sheraton table? What | ground and you'll be okay!” PO A LOTSA . ' VEARS ! gill on earth are you {hinking about?” | i a TE £ WA SPIRIT ; “Listen to me, Johnny Regan” 1 FUNNY BUSINESS oe : Jean's eyes fashed—"I've put up with just about all I'm going to from vou. I let you boss me around ell my life. Now I'll thank you to mind vour own business, I've done! a pretty good job of minding mine.” Two spots of pink appeared on her cheeks “If you're talking wmbhout Molly vou can retract anything detri-| menta! you've thought. She's a good | actress Didn't you read. her| PX hF 2, notices?” I] “f : : ——_ | Jean almost snorted, “Who could on ‘i 5 hea % help it? She waved them around : 5 EASY, THE PILOT. like American flags. And it's gone [JC re Ini A LIES ON THE . to her head completely. The whole | P= FLOOR UNCON ~ cast is pretty sick of her. Upstage, | . § x px + SC\0US. ALONE cutting in on lines. I doubt if Mr Pon | 7 A HM AT THE CONTROLS Ear] ever gives her another part.” * smadtrs by? J Lats Ln SITS HELGA WOLFE, 8 wu = A 3 7 3 ; i WHO HAS NEVER THE WORDS came with such "WM } FZ 7 | Ge 3 ] T FLOWN SO MUCH pent-up fury that Johnny thought | oh Z 4 AS A KITE BEFORE, she was glad to hurl them at him. | : VV bean . B TRYING DESPERNow is the time to tell her, he de- i ¥ Jf oF ATELY TO GET cided. “Oh, well,” he tried to sav : WY KING fe E THE_HANG OF casually, “it won't matter whether ’ THINGS he does or not, This acting is just i " v, Ne ie | or

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He thought he heard Jean gasp. SN, | at. ‘ : y ARIAS LINC. TM, BEC | ‘ F Wy ’ A, Tig rr ra ey | > Ce KRITTS © SURE, I KNOW HIM sum idl » Ho Ho! "Tie pep BATS en! 1 TOOK thought she had Andre Masters in | . NICE FEUA | IF YOU WAS DROWNING, YOU HAVE THE WRONG THE RED BATS § THAT JOB MYSELE ONCE, AND THEN IL eh 5 J Mas § \ come. 1940 8 WEA SERRE Wd \ : MED BE THE FIRST To THROW YOU OPINION OF HIM, MISTER. » NOW THATS JUST ORrREW THESE WHBKERS SO FOLKS me i: : , AN ANCHOR. HE GST US A JOB TAK- INE ~==-oe- VERY WOULDNT KNOW 1 WAS THE OnE [/ He Is Strictly business, Johnny ING CARE OF THE RED LEASANT WORK » LI. Jo Te Mis YO, BATS AT PETERSBURG / 1 STOPPED IN AND if that means anything to vou.” Rg Ba © yep jie ' MONS Jean continued to rearrange the THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson F ~

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cle around the decanter. “It apparently means something to her,” Se apm she said with vehemence. “I haven't | || ABOUT ONE- Ee seen that girl make a move since h OF I've known her that didn't further WEI her own campaign a league or two. 8oDY EIGHT Though 1 can't for the life of me ) S MADE Affe see how marrying you could help | BLOOD... her. No money. No job.” (1 AND A PERSON IN Johnny felt as if she had slapped | || SOOD HEALTH CAN 7 The 8 Ny him, but he answered with control. | || LOSE ONE - THIRD ; S ’ WR y 7 IH ’ “Get nasty. I'll get a good job and | | OF HIS BLOOD \ Zar | 7 4 i ee FRR MAE 16 SET Rave it won't be with the Reynolds Ad- | [ 77 NX OUIR, WANDS / MIND WOU, vertising Agency. I might remind NE Z : SICTANCE OR = you that it wasn't too long ago that = ? stan ToT, vou regarded me as a fairly safe |™ R— - \ SACI = ‘marriage bet’ yourself.” gOOG TT She shrugged. “I'm trying to \ . - forget 1 was such a fool, but seetng you makss it doubly difficult.” It hardly seemed the perfect opportunity to ask Jean to sell him the cameo, but he had promised Molly. He took a deep breath. “Jean,” he said, “I didn't come back stage for a fight. I came to ask a favor of youu I want to give ; Molly an engagement present, and IF ALL THE what she wants most of all is the CORR. do BY Nea gtRvice ne. cameo. . . . Won't you sell it to REGUS. Pn Rss . - me?” / J ry / Y ee nm ¥ Ww » HANDLED IN A SINGLE ad nl Eo sida.” = a SOME ») ee Soe mon, HOW WOULD SADIE f| | THOL SA STAT Vi JEAN DIDN'T answer for a min- YEAR WERE PLACED BROOPLEBERRY ITS BEEN BERRY // MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD GROOPLEBERRY || EXPRESSES ROMANCE UNDER A ute. Johnny had thought he heard END TO END oH My \/ THIS 16 GAY - lor ROSEMARY / YEARS BINGE’ | PULL= BUSINESS REASONS | LOOK N LIGHTS 1] DIAMOND STUDDED SKY-S0F T a sob; he'd expected to see her eyes | : THEY WOULD REACH SWEET STARLIGHT, I'M THRILLED \ JI CORNERS | SAW OTIS. | LEEZE 7 | | SADIE HAS CHOSEN A-BR- | JUST NASTY. WORDS - AND THE THROB OF fill up with tears. He knew that she | = | AROUND THE SALLY // ABBE TO MEET YOU KNEW HE HAD ONE THATS HOW 72 Il GYPSY VIOLING / GAY STAR~ was thinking of their own wedding | 1 DAUGHTER-- SHED RE LIGHT 7 iv'8 LIFE 2 118 plans. Oh, why did Molly want that | : A ABOUT 15 NOW-BUT n" cameo, of all things in the world? o ™ N HER NAME WAS ) But the eves that Jean turned to | - : > SADIE “= him were not tearful, but defiant, | . { . “and what would you use for|

money?” Johnny was amazed at her an-|

swer; it was so unlike what he had | RAGHTE expected. OL CAN BURN “You'd well it then?” Johnny said | YOURSELE WITH PRY ICE. “T'o be perfectly honest with you, I| had some sort of notion you'd be altruistic and give it to me for q wedding present. I don't know of anvthing I'd rather “You mean that Molly would

A a \ \ rather have,’ Jean said. “Well, If “So she won't even sell it to sou, Molly opened her meuth to ™- qe . won't sell that cam2o and I won't ‘her precious Johnny! Well, of all/swer him, but no sound came. [i 9 give it away, so go and tell your |the mean, grasping things I ever| There was a crash. A flood of % friend Duse that.’ heard of. She doesn't care about it smoke curled down the stairway. ; i He went down the stairway intolor she wouldn't have lent it to me| Someone screamed: a) MRL omni j 1 PRU 11] ill hi \

Molly's dressing room so readily.’ ‘That old lamp turned over. The| | u When she saw him in the mirror,| “She does care about it,” Johnny kerosene ignited, Get out! The| Ju§ yf CREAMED she swung around and asked, “Well, | corrected her. “That hadn't any-|whole place is on fire!” \ - AY what did Jean say? Have you asked [thing to do with it. It's a family (To Be Continued) ; Moos . —— . E her?" heirloom; I can see her point per- en, ] : “She said, ‘No dice,” fectly.” (AN "events, nalts snd ohiraciets In ‘this — Ns

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ANSWER-—-Wrong. The Sensation is that of burning. Actually it is a quick-freezing process that takes place.