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JULY 2. 1942 rxzaa&nxsza A f /jjfjluiKmwb (3? J SYNOPSIS Despite Leonard Borland's protests that his bank account is ample, though the contracting business in New York is dead, his pretty, opera-struck wife Doris resumes her "career," interrupted by her marriage at 19 and the birth of two children. Borland knows her avowed purpose, to bolster the family income, is just another subterfuge. Hugo Lorentz, her teacher, always around, irritates him. After Doris gives a Town Hall recital. Cecil Carver, opera singer, phones Borland. At her hotel, Cecil says Doris has a good voice but lacks style. Cecil is to sing for war veterans but hasn't the words of certain song. He sings it and she says he has a fine baritone voice. Cecil knows of Doris liuough Lorentz, says Hugo is hopelessly in love with Doris, and that Doris tortures every man she gels in her clutches. Leonard ought to wake her up by giving a recital, she says. "Go Get vour sett a triumph. Hurt her where it hurts.'' Cecil demands payment for lessons?kisses. He pays but declares he loves his wife. He spends much time with Cecil, making good progress. Doris tells him Jack Heighten is getting her an engagement in a movie palace. Cecil, on tour, wires him, he sings upstate recitals, makes a hit and she gets him an engagement with an opera company. Again he is scared stiff but manages to hold his own. A performance of "L Boheme" is on, and Parma, the tenor, is speaking. CHAPTER VII "Make 'em dolce. Make 'em nice, sweet, no loud at all. No big dramatic. Nice, a sweet, a sad. Yeah?" Parma begged. "I'll do my best," Leonard said. "You do like I say, we knock 'em over." So we went out there and got through the gingerbread, and he threw down his pen and I threw down my paintbrush, and we got out the props, and the orchestra played the introduction to the duet. Then he started to sing, and I woke up. I mean, 1 got it through my ho/iH tb.lt tvthnn that enirl ho meant doice. Ho sang as though that, bonnet of Mimi's were some little bin! he had in his hand, so it made a catch come in your throat to listen to him. When he hit the A. he lifted his eyes, with the side of his face to the audience, and held it a little, and then melted off it almost with a sigh. When he did that he looked at me and winked. It was that wink that told inc what I had to do. I had to put dolce in it. 1 came in on my beat and tried to do it as he did it. When it came to my little sob, I put tears in it. Maybe they were just imitation tears hut they were tears. We went into the finish and laid it right on the end of Mario's stick, and slopped out the tears in buckets. Buckets? We turned the fire hose on them. It stopped the show. They didn't only clap, they cheered; so we had to repeal it. That's dead against the rules, and Mario iried to go on, but they wouldn't let him. We got through the act, and Parma flopped on the bed for the last two "Mimi's" and the curtain came down to a terrific hand. We took our first two bows, the whole gang that were in the act, and when we came back from the second one, Mario was back there. Cecil yelled in my ear, "Take him out, take him out!" So I took him out. 1 grabbed Let Everybody Know 10 Percent of You; I AT LEAS 11? The attractive red, white and bl the new yardstick of patriotism in nation. With the slogan, "Everybod jing the country, patriotic Americans Government's appeal for funds wit! ' 'home which displays the "ten perci ^Victory for America and the United ifcjfcuted through local War Savings 1 SPfli&iti James M. Cain w* ' him by one hand, she by the other, i and wo led him out, and they gave i him a big hand. too. That seemed to fix it up about that missed cue. It was a half-hour before I could | start to dress. I went to my dress1 ing room and had just- about got j my whiskers pulled off when about (fifty people shoved in from outside, I wanting me to autograph their proi grams. I obliged, and signed "Logan Bennett." Then I washed up and met Cecil, and we got a cab and went off to eat. We went to a night club. It had a dance floor, and tables around that and booths around the wall. We took a booth. We ordered a steak for two, and then she ordered some red burgundy to go with it and sherry to start. That was unusual with her. She's like most singers. She'll give you a drink, but she doesn't take much herself. She saw me look at her. "I want something. I?want to celebrate." u. K. with me. Plenty all right. ' "Did you enjoy yourself?" "1 enjoyed the final curtain." "Didn't you enjoy the applause after the O Mimi duet? I brought down the house." "It was all right." "Is that all you have to say about it?" "I liked it fine." "You mean you really liked it?" "Yeah, but 1 hate to admit it, but I really liked it. That was the prettiest music I heard all night." The sherry came and we raised our glasses, clinked, and had a sip "Leonard, I love it." "You're beter at it than in concert." "You're telling me? I hate concerts. But opera?I just love it, anc i if you ever hear me saying again ! that 1 don't want to be a singci | you'll know I'm temporarily insane I love it! I love everything about it the smell, the fights, the high notes the low notes, the applause, the curtain calls?everything." "You must feel good tonight." "I do. Do you?" "I feel all right." "Is it?the way you thought ii would be?" "1 never thought." "Not even?just a little bit?" "You mean, that it's nice, and silly and cockeyed, that I should be liert with you and that. I should be ii opera, when all God intended mi . for was a dumb contractor, and thai it's a big joke that came off just the 1 way you hoped it would, and 1 1 never believed it would, and?something like that?" "Yes, that's what I mean." "Then, yes." "Let's dance." We danced, and 1 held her close and smelted her hair, and she nestled up against my face. "It's gay isn't it?" "Yes." "I'm almost happy, Leonard." "Me, too." "Let's go back to our little booth I want to be kissed." So we went back to the booth anc she got kissed, and we laugher about the way I had hid front Mario and drank the wine and ate steak. 1 had to cut the steak leftlianded, so ] wouldn't joggle her head, where i seemed to be parked on my righi shoulder . . . We stayed a second week in Chicago and I did my three operas ovei again, and then we played a week in Cleveland and another in Indianapolis. Then Cecil's contract wa: up, and it was time for her to gc back and get ready for the New York season. The Saturday matinee in Indiana You're Investing r Income in War Bonds iue window sticker, pictured above, is the War Bond drive throughout the y every pay day, ten percent," sweepon the home front are rallying to their i which to help finance the war. The art" sticker is doing its share toward Nations. The stickers are being disChainnen. V. s. Ti?twry Dtfortmt WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVEt ;.VOV..v 2MK polis was "Faust." I met Cecil in j the main dining room that morning, j around ten o'clock, for breakfast, and,, while we were eating. Rossi came over and sat down. He didn't have much to say. He kept asking ; the waiter if any call had come for ; him and bit his fingernails, and pretty soon it came out that the guy who was to sing Wagner that after, noon wouldn't come to the theatre, [ on account of a writ his wife would serve on him if he showed up ihere. > and that Rossi was waiting to find ! out if some singer in Chicago could ! I come down and do it. His call came j through, and when he came back he ; said his man was tied up. That j meant somebody from the chorus j would have to do it, and that wasn't ]so good. And then Cecil popped out: "Well, what are we talking about, with him sitting here. Hete, baby; here's my key. There's a score up in my room. You can just hike yourself up there and learn it." "What? Learn it in one morning and then sing it?" "There are only a few pages of 1 it," Cecil said. "Faust is in French, isn't it?" I . said, hopelessly. "Oh, dear. He doesn't sing French." But Rossi fixed that part up. He . had a score in Italian and I was to learn it in that and sing it in that, with the rest of them singing i French. So the next thing I knew , I was up there in my room with a score, and by one o'clock I had it learned; and by two o'clock Rossi had given me the business, and by three o'clock I was in a costume I they dug up, out there doing it. l That made more impression on them than anything I had done yet. . You see, they don't pay much alten, tion to a guy who knows three , roles, all coached up by heart. They know all about them. But a guy who can get a role up quick and go out there and do it, even if he makes a few mistakes, that guy can really be some use around an opera com. panv Rossi came to my dressing room after I finished in "Traviata" that night and offered me a contract for the rest of the season. He said Mr. ! Mario was very much pleased with i me, especially the way I had gone in > on Wagner. He offered me $150 a t week. 1 thanked him, and said no, He came up to $175. I still said no. [ He came up to $200. 1 still said no, - and asked him not to bid any higher. as it wasn't a miosiinn *>f mim. I ey. He couldn't figure it out, but after a while we shook hands and that was that. , That night Cecil and I ate in a quiet little place we had found , where we were practically the only customers. After we ordered she said, "Did Rossi speak to you?" "Yes, he did." "Did he offer $150? He said he . would." "He came up to $200." 1 "What did you say?" I "I said no." , "Why?" t "I'm no singer. What would I be [ doing trailing around with this outL fit after you're gone?" t "They play Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh before they swing west. I could visit you week-ends, maybe oftener than that : I?I might even make a flying trip - out to the coast" j "I'm not the type." ? "Who is the type? . . . Leonard, let ' me ask you something. Is it justj because his $200 a week looks like chicken-feed to you? Is it because a big contractor makes a lot more I than that?" "Sometimes he does. Right now he doesn't make a dime." "If that's what it is, you're making a mistake. Leonard, everv thing has come out the way I said it would, hasn't it? Now, listen to me. With that voice, you can make money that a big contractor never even heard of. After just one season with the American Scala Opera Company, the Metropolitan will grab you sure. It isn't everybody who can sing with the American Scala. Their standards are terribly high, and very well the Metropolitan knows it. Once you're in the Metropolitan, there's the radio, the phonograph, concert, moving pictures. Leonard, you can be rich. You?you can't help it." "Contracting's my trade." "All this?doesn't it mean anything to you?" "Yeah, for a gag. But not what you mean." "And in addition to the money, there's fame." "Don't want it.' She sat there, and I saw her eyes begin to look wet Then she said, "Oh, why don't we both tell the truth? You want to get back to New York?for what's waiting for you in New York. And I?I don't want you ever to go there again." "No, that's not it." "Yes, it is . . . I'm doing just exactly the opposite of what I thought I was doing when we started all this. I thought I would be the good fairy and bring you and her together again. And now, what am I doing? IY THURSDAY?BOOMK. N. C. Wishing Well George ?. Takemnra, landscape artist from West Los Angeles, builds ? rustic washing well at Tflanzanar, Calif., a War Relocation authority center, where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. I'm trying to take you away from her I'm iliet a She looked comic as she said it. and 1 laughed and she laughed. Then she started to cry. I hadn't heard one word from Doris since 1 left New York. 1 had wired her from every hotel 1 had stopped at, and you would think she might have sent mc a post card. There wasn't even that. I sot there, watching Cecil and trying to let her be a home-wrecker, as she called it. I knew she was swell; I respected everything about her; I didn't have to be told she'd do anything for me. I tried to feel I was in love with her, so I could say let's both stay with this outfit and let the rest go hang. I couldn't And then the next thing 1 knew I was crying too . . . We hit New York Monday morning. I put Cecil in a cab and went on home. On the way, I kept thinking what I was going to say. I had been away six weeks, and what had kept ine that long? The best I could think of was that I had taken a swing around to look at "conditions." When I got home I let myself in. carried in my grip, and eailed to Doris. There was no answer. I went out in the kitchen, and it was empty. There wasn't a soul in the house. (Continued Next Week) MEAT Total meat production in the United Stales during 1942 is expected to be the largest on record, and the national goal oi 21,700,000.900 pounds may be reached. BOONE DRUG COMPANY Boone, N. C. Watch Repairing Your watch needs the very best attention, if it is to give you the dependable service you should expect from a modern timepiece. Drop by our store, and let us check up on your watchand put it in first class condition. We use only the best materials and our workmanship is guaranteed. WALKER'S Jewelry Store rz ?n ? X What Ofou. &tuj. With WAR BONDS * The 155-millimeter gun is the modem version of the old "GPF" of World War I days. It has a range fifty percent greater than the old gun, heaving a 95-pound projectile approximately 15 miles. It is capable of high road speed and each one costs $50,000. Arsenals of America are working at terrific speed turning out this long range, effective weapon for our armed forces. You and your neighbor working hand-in-hand in unity can make possible the purchase of an adequate number of these guns by buying War Bonds. Put 10 percent of your income in War Bonds to I help reach your county quota, .every | pay day. Red Cross Postpones lis Annual Roll Call Washington.?The Red Cross has postponed its usual November roll call and has combined it with a war Eund drive to be conducted in March, 1943. Chairman Norman H. Davis has announced. The action had the full approval of President Roosevelt, who wrote Davis that "the nation can look forward to the month of March, 1943, as Red Cross month." Davis said the decision to make a combined drive followed requests that the Red Cross reconsider its policy of not participating in combined campaigns. He emphasized that the Red Cross would not change this policy but, in view of the need to conserve manpower and effort, had decided to combine the two drives next March. "With the pressure of wartime work I feel the Red Cross has made a wise decision to combine the November roll call with its next war fund campaign in March. 1943," the President said. "This will not only be a distinct saving in effort and manpower but will make possible a proper spacing of the other maj BE YOUR OWN WEATHER PROPHET?HERE'S HOW II ihe bail oil giving out weather forecasts disturbs you. you can learn to be your own prognosticator by following simple suggestions offered in a highly entertaining article by Robert D. Potter, science editor. Don't miss this timely feature in the July 5th issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY The Big Magazine Distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale at Ali /lew stands fc^victory em buy u n ited wh stat e s mf war mjtmjbonds PROTECT Y< by becoming REINS-STUREH ASSOC TELEPHONE 24 A. 25 cent fee is charged upon j< dues are in effect: Qu One to Ten Years Two to Twenty-nine Years Thirty to Fifty Years Fifty to Sixty-five years ? WATAUGA INSI All Kinds We Are Glai E. A. GAULTNEY Northwestern BOOK St / GOOD TIMES fihea Skos .4 Enjoy yourself .. show your feet a good time, too, in NATURAL BRIDGE SHOES. Scientific, cushioned arch that puts spring itsoU in your step . . . plus youthful, flattering ( . designs! i $4.95 Pair Belk-Vt BC PAGE SEVEN NOTICE OF SUMMONS North Carolina, County of Watauga; in the Superior Court, Before the Clerk. Robert Ward and wife. Eliza Ward. I vs. Robert Harnion and others. The defendant above named will take notice that a summons in the above entitled action was issued against the defendant Robert Harmon on the day of June, 1942, by A. E. South, clerk of the Superior j Court of Watauga county. North : Carolina, said action having been 1 brought in older to partition the land of Joseph Harmon deceased, and the defendant, Robert Harmon, being adjudged to be a proper party i whose interest might be effected, ! and the defendant will take notice i that a petition was filed in said _ jcause by the plaintiffs above named : and the defendant will further take notice that he is required to be and ; appear at the office of the clerk of the Superior Court for Watauga county at his office in the town of Boone, N. C? within thirty days aft! er the 2nd day of July, 1942, and : answer or demur to the complaint ' of petition of the plaintiffs, or the : plaintiffs will apply to the court for * the relief demanded in said petition. This 29th day of June, 1942. A. E. SOUTH, 7-2-4p Clerk Supeiior Court. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE North Carolina, Watauga County. Pursuani to the power and authority contained in that certain deed of trust dated October 8, 1940, by G. E. Anderson and wife. Edith G. Anderson, to T. E. Bingham, trustee, which said deed of trust is diiiy rein 4-U-. a vwi.v^u. mic unlive yi v.iu; leglStCJ of deeds for Watauga county, North Carolina, in Book of Mortgages No. 39, at page 38, and securing a certain note and indebtedness payable to the Northwestern Bank., and default having been made in the payment of said note as provided in said deed of trust, and demand of foreclosure having been made by the Northwestern Bank, and the undersigned trustee, having been substituted as trustee for and in the place of said X. E. Bingham, said substitution by the said Northwestern Bank having been duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds for Watauga county, North Carolina, in Book. 55, at page 112. will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Watauga county, at Boone. North Carolina, at 12:09 noon, on the 20th day of July, 1942. the following described real estate, to wit: ; Beginning en a planted stone in I Ed Fafthing's line, running south i44 east 3 poles to a stone corner; thence south 84 east 13% poles to a stukc in the old Boone road; thcncc .1. E. HOLSHOUSER, 16-25-4c Substituted Trustee. DUR FAMILY a member of VANT BURIAL I ATION iX4. a. A ^ . . . BOONE, N. C. fining, after which the following larierly Yearly Benefit . .10 .40 $ 50.00 ... .20 .80 100.00 ... .40 1.60 100.00 ... .60 2.40 100.00 URANCE AGENCY of Insurance d to Serve You GORDON H. WINKLER i Bank Banding to, n. a II Slip PfAn ultra smart Spectator Sportv Tic in White Caracul Kid with Turfton Calf trim. punched through Vamp and fhiie Company ONE, N. C.
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