Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1941 — Page 20

PAGE 20 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941 ABBIE AN' SLATS —By Raeburn Van Buren OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

THE CAPTURE OF KEWPIE GANT ABOARD THE HOLLYWOOD-BOUND TRAN Kl A SHOWGIRL! How RAC: | 77 cTen, MY TOAD- FACED: Vow 77777 ARS CREATES GREAT EXCITEMENT "= [TTS ; INATING' YOURE THE FIRST | If THAT SWEATER YOu JUST SRrOLED ji ATTY THAT Thr THE ONE AST UNDERSTAND IT, ONEOF YOU N\./ SINCE WE'RE SUCH A TERRIFIC ONE VE EVER MET-SOCIALLY 15 FULL DRESS CLOTHES TO OLD BAD fh ['y ¥ WHO WIS SoH FLASHED A COMPACT MIRROR INTO TEAM=LET'S INTRODUCE OURSELVES \BACK IN PHILADELPHIA, My 7¢ NEWS BURKE !wen IT'S KEPT ME word! i | IN THE DRAFT, HIS EYES BLINDING HI\=ANOTHER TO EACH OTHER. /M ESTER BRODLEY- | PARENTS WOULD NEVER /$ DEFROSTED WHEN T WAS SO Jil —— SLUSGED HIM WITH A HEAVY ASHTRAY-/ JUST A NEW YORK SHOW-GIRL BOUND /PERMIT ME TO ASSOCIATE RAGGED I HAD TO CARRY MY “% AND THE THIRD GRABBED <5) FOR HOLLYWOOD TO TAKE A CRACK / WITH SUCH PEOPLE || [| NICKELS IN MY MOUTH ww IF YOU RIS GUN TERRIFIC TEAM £1 EG AT PICTURES ee I A [2 WANT LAUGHS, GO FALL IN A MAN1 7 ry _ HOLE! — ONE J | re MORE FAST ONE FROM You AND I L} HASH - BROWN A NOUR EARS /

§ MY NAME |S KATIE THORN. | THERE ISN'T ANY'M ON MY WAY TO HOLLY= | THING VERY SPECIAL BUT I'M ON MY WAY IN A PICTURE "0H, | | WOOD, TOO TO BREAK ABOUT ME, I'M BECKY TO HOLLYWCSD T00 IVE ) NO-THERE'S NOTHING INTO PICTURES GROGSINS. IVE NEVER | | BEEN SELECTED TO SPECIAL ABOUT YOU IL {BEEN IN A SHOW-AND IM STAR IN PICTURES BECKY -=EXCEPT EANDER CERTAINLY NOT IN den THAT YOU'RE STARTING] | | 15 STOPPED SOCiETY~ 4 ee IN WHERE WE HOPE || | coLD v

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By EDITH ELLINGTON --- AFTER D' PICTURE

TUESDAY: Bee sees the make-believe | 0 / SG : ) = ei = 1S OVER-- YOU PEOPLE world she has learned to love crashing. | = 3 E . 3 2 ARE GONNA VOTE AN' She blames Clarence for calling in po- | £ > § A hes gr ; DO DECIDE WHO WAS D' lice. The morning papers confirm that ‘ 5 Aad AS 23 A 2% = A _— | ! ) BEST ACTOR

thought. Anxiously she waits as Toby and Vera read the news, Surely they will recognize her. When they do not, i she decides they have known her all | the time, that they are just waiting to [| see what she will do, {

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX “WHAT'S THE matter with you Bee?” Vera asked, as Beatrice rose = from the table. “Jittery?” There J 3 AR : =R 11 was such matter-of-fact affection inf = 1 her tone, such serene absence of ’ . E gas |

undercurrent, that Beatrice knew at : once she'd been wrong. These girls / = RED RYDER

had not the faintest inkling of = Ba BOY THAT WAS . ; , MOE With T° HORSES , suspicion. sae RED. Close! RENT = R LITE BEAVER = TM CIRCLIN' She must compose herself! She = RYDER THROUGH T° Ny AROUN' BEHIND - went into the bedroom, taking the : NICE ING, 0 : 4 CROWN OF J, \J of THAT WILLS “33 tabloid with her. “Why don't they ; see?” she asked herself. “There I am, and—" she looked into the| mirror, “There I am again!” But something in the mirror ar-{ THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson rested her. She examined the face| meme i A — : on the front page : “It is different.” She stared hungrily into the mirror. “I'm thinner, that's what | it is. I—I've lost that superior, | snobbish look. And—and I'm not} y glamorous any more.” { ve D+ > (5 reelf AN », 4 / Se r- “1 e PLT REDS MY J0US ENEMY In the photograph, she had been | p : ky D > rami wpa fit. y 4 AE A ESCAPES ,POLINDING THE DUST AHEAD

“He'll never he satisfied till he tries it—he used to be an oil well driller!”

finished, assured, the glittering | [ROR /- A DECREE OF OF HIM 1OWARD MAVERICK.

product of a deft hairdresser’s art, | J HEN 2Y Yi 4 ( / oe — AS . COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF a& superb masseuse, a gifted modiste. | > “And now, in this store dress, with | [§ LE WASHINGTON TUBBS II —By Crane my hair all wrong and my chin so ; — FROM THE TIAE f pointed and circles under my eyes| (§ ide = [am GOOD LUCK, OLD [ WELL, GO AHEAD! KISS EASY GOOD BVE AND GET (TOVER | SO IM TO DOUBLE « « « NOW I'm just another girl; Ij 4 UNTIL Ly MAN. REMEMRER WITH! BUT YOU'LL BE SEEING HIM AGAIN IN A FEW DAYS FOR A MAN WHO'S SCHEDULED haven't had a facial in weeks. I've| [8 y A HE ATTAINED THE JR THAT CASTRO'S LIFE, AND N- ; — y atl TO BE ASSASSINATED. used up my expensive lipstick. I've 4 Q FR ot AGE OF J POSSIBLY THE SUCCESS OF $, : ¥ WELL, WELL! given up mascara, lashcream, fresh- | 2 : SEVEN TELEN, OUR HEMISPHERE DEFENSE ‘ ; J . ener pads when I lie down. . . ol AR > nals, TO PRACTICE WITH PROGRAM REST IN VES,

Her eyes smarted. “I've changed. SBOWAND ALLO SUH. I'm not me any more.” hi BR NN AS A OELFAEINSE She knew a bewildering stab of | Kyo LY RELA RA 770/N/. loss. Then she thought, “Toby's | right, it's easy to be beautiful when you have lots of money.” She understood now the savage] resentment of the girls in the store! r = : { . 7, / iT 1a 97 7, sgains; the well-fed, rested, expen-| CaN VOU NAME THESE ; 2 YY 2 EL ‘ge gar. Nh sively furred customers who swept : oY hey J 4 ye oT through the main floor. She under- | ves EAhlLEes <2 7 05H Ah % i HE stood why they said, “What's that ] 1 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO dame got that I haven't?” | 3 : ; we A ll mr No, Toby and Vera had not been | >

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have noticed some fleeting re-| semblance, but probably even that | > - - ' = Z f was fantastic. When you lqoked at | (ou, LET THEM IF IT KeepPs ON, ENGLISH [ Now 1 ASK Ou, MAN «= MORSELS! Beatrice Huntington Davenport's GOOD eve ALONE, HENRY === WILL BECOME A DEAD You --- DOES IT TELL THEM THE AND ILL EAT ANYTHING

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picture, you simply didn’t think of | . THEY ENJOY TALKING LANGUAGE s++00. IM IN ] MAKE SENSE FOOD 15 READY! THAT DONT BITE ME Bee Davis. IS A CONTRACTION OF $7 Soo HOO 7 THAT way / FAVOR. OF A RETURN 2 THAT GENERALLY FIRST !/ “I'm Bee Davis. Just another | NS GoL BE WITTY PEONY 7. - TO SANITY / BRINGS THEM OUT .

retty, hard-working girl. Any girl.” | Ll /” ’ OF ANY p ge y & jo i of Z THATS NO LINCONSCIOUS

» n uw J — 3 REAM - <== SHE WAS VERY SILENT, going | : {1 , 5 S aN Sp YY | S / 3 YOU CAN SA to work with Toby. On the subway, , every third person was Yeading | about the kidnaping. Yet no one looked up from the paper to catch | a fugitive likeness in the face of | ANSWER—1, spinach; 2, turnips; 3, beets; 4, cauliflower. the girl across the aisle. “ y “- . . | & > » J Wer ght, ey Wig Mr. might fail him, for a while. Miss him. “Then I'll leave the store and w 0 [N\ SE And Cloma 2 a1 | Dane would care, I know she|{go to Mr. Weeming's office. . . .” 1 a FA P those girls and men I played around | Would! And Getzie. And Miss|sticking this out another day. Even ° » J al with. They'd recoghize me. The Ryan.” [She played with the thought of 8 . way they 3 J00w ne after I'd been| In six short weeks, she hadjone little day was suddenly BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES —By Martin rough some wasting illness. . . .” Se . . a. Framans omc oe ates Sana se "or Yt In the store, everybody was talk- | ade 3 alm place for herself Tt presions, . ou! e——— NEW L RANE Vou WELL AF You oo, A o..! WE'LL TELL. : ing about the kidnaping. Even Miss Many hearts. “I had no money, no, A man came into the department. OH. HERE COMES SEEN JEFF ? 3 SS Ae ee A} Dane joined in. “It just goes to job, nothing but the clothes on my|A heavy man in a brown suit who Fio55%E ¢ ~- MAT TRE MANOR show you. being in i no bed of back. Airy don’t know Whore I stood beside a dummy in a lace Se WILL YOO , DEAR 4 roses. I'm glad Mr. Huntington's|came from, or anything about me.|gress and surveved the department not alive to go through it. He |BUL they ie pis Pe me." | with shrewd, VoIed Vs vay thought the sun rose and set in| Ow wonaeriu : 8 Jere were! «he's looking for me!” The huthat girl.” |people in the world who could]

d es hb : . |miliation of being trapped before “Did you ever see her?” Beatrice lake a lone girl to their hearts. | go ended the masquerade herself

asked. that way! “1 was poorer When I crushed her. She shrank behind a “Once, when she was a little girl. [Was rich,” she thought. ‘rack of dresses. “I must get out of He took her through the store. She ® 8 4 {here!” had on a white bunny coat.” | BUT SOONER or later, if the! But Miss Getz. bumping into The coat had been ermine. Be- papers kept on printing pictures, | her, said, “Look at that.” The man atrice remembered it sharply. She'd there'd be one picture that must had taken out a tape measure. been 10 years old. check. Beatrice knew that. Despite “They're going to put new carpet After an hour or two, Budget| the difference, someone must see. down. First thing we know, they'll Fashions settled down to the busi-| Besides, the government men are pe modernizing all over. . ..” Her ness of selling dresses. Beatrice Searching for me. They'll trace me. tone was thoughtful. When they'd waited on customers, and at the|Tney have ways. Theyre so clever modernized upstairs, they'd shoved back of her mind there was a at finding people!” _ |her down here. Now where could numbed wonder. Suppose she'd! She had to call the hunt off. This she go? really been kidnaped? Who would | R28 Der last morning in Budget| pgeatrice oa her hand, in| [OSCA om Lint THE x PRESENCE Te [Ive SEEN SHINO mE has: iY WELL, ALL RIGHT, Pn SO % > oF ” | . “ ’, aan ) Rs » are a, ay gh Moi She looked at Miss Ryan, who | a toro Cy of relief. “Don't worry, HERE IS DEFINITE JAKE WITH : GONNA TRACK. THAT a RE WE MAY WISH TO RETURN

: ob ; PROOF WE ARE IN ( ME, AS LONG BOO Back to Mimi Frothingham!” jmust stop work next month. “I'll|™ Anthony was standing at the To SOME TIME-ERA | AS BOOM IS YOU MEAN Ba Fey SOW) MARI THIS, SPOT SO To ne TWENTIETH

1 THE MAGIC /, EAN, Mr. Weeming might care. He|som jor of tome ones and a crib wrapping desk, watching the men OTHER THAN 1941 | HERE Too! [| BELT AWAY (“TRIED ZHE | AGA : % fet land lots of things. : FROM HAS GOT Noon was fond of her, beneath his con- | : «pq | Measure for the carpet. Beatrice : p al. “B 1 1562" | She looked at Miss Betz. I'll went up to him. “First I heard CLEOPATRA. TS stand disapproval. uv ho else >” arrange that pension.” | Ven up . No one. No one at all. The store| But she grew cold, looking at| “Yes” he ripped out. “First I wouldn’t change. It would go right| Anthony. “Will it mean the end of | y Pred hk on the way Bruce Sheldrake and our love? Must it? Oh, how can 1|heard, lop, Bub Miss Dane just ex the trust company wanted it to go.|explain to him? How can I show |Rlained it, They Ts redecorating the “Yet, if I disappeared as Bee|him that I had to do it?” Ic \Spermen iB ey a use my Davis—" her eyes sought An-| She'd never go back to Clarence, al |S . as ny thony’s, and he smiled at her over|ng matter what happened! “I don't nly it has been reborn as the the head of a woman he was talk-|want to even see him! All I want Merchandise Inanagers bright liting to. “Why, Bee Davis is more|is Anthony! Oh, how will 1 te Ye brain child! important than Beatrice Daven-'him?” (To Be Continued) port! Toby would miss me, and| In a little while, she'd be sit-

Vera. Even Terry's loathsome wit |ting across the table at lunch with (Al Ta alasters in this