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wK/4n thts fwzt:
Coiisuclo, „ beautiful gypsy airl
unu loans to dance. is loved bn the
Dummy, a deaf mute, and Unrcn
' /l 5 despises her mother. Avion, hut
,t ! ond 01 her father, Girtza. Moron
tempts ('Ontario ivith n hune din
u.ond and she agrees to marry him.
r,ut on hrr wedding dan she boards
a tram for Xric York- on which are
Stewart Machinin', theatrical
producer: Doug, his secretary, and
B.V. a friend Consaelo hod danced
lot them jo daps previously tvhen
fht\> private car had Iwcn waiting
*.i a railroad siding in town. Doug
takes the gypsy into Stewart's cor
9ttua,t U lepraph s his publicity
mo*nt and also his friend, TjOuise
hr i not to mrrt th „ trni)l ’
Corisy. ■> throes he, arms around
In \> a- York a series of pul.
HL<ity stunts prepares Consuelo for
hei <1 hut in the rallies. Grands
„at h her everywhere she goes
/A<'»V CO OX w ith THE STORY)
* 'I I U’TKR ?2
H ' UKSTAG K was a cold ugl>
i'!.!. <■ and the irteat dark house, with
i- unv after row of seats, was like*
,i ;'h.»M. Uonsueln was given a dress- \
•lip room and on the way back from
i pai ed in trout of a door with a
t oki -Lit upon it. At her question I
•he learned that this was Louise
t, Vji’rt loom. L VHle, premiere I
Uot* of Che hollies
’1:1-: :♦ Was lio-loitering" backstage:
«ti .oi the vtil Dalstrom brought ■
l.' i m Introductions were made to
it,** 1 ■ -- manager and dance direc
u*r She was asked to stand on the :
t . . *• >ta**e and light,* were played on j
, rl ' ls vsu ~ tiresome. The orchestra '
1 : •< > psy dance to play J
Pa • ■ i and they did not seem to be !
able to :et the tune to suit her. She!
v, ~s asked this and that. She was!
-rai ra at by the stage bands and
i ucio.:. members of the show and
th u- was no friendliness m their at- j
tiiaues She was taken away as!
qok 1.!> as possible. Not yet had she'
dan'ecl tor any of them. The sup-!
poseu tryout before Goldberg which I
had given iiei i lie contract, had been j
* farce.
ftie had not seen Stewart.
Once Hong had come up to her ■
end pressed her hand in friendly
fashion ‘Don't let 'em get your
goat. kid. it's all in a day’s work, j
rlns fussing 1 around. Keep your head
and you'll get along' tine.''
Now as she stood by the window
end looked down, it all seemed like ,
a dream. Nothing was real yet. I
I oinoi row she was going to try out :
"ith the music. She wished that she :
might go and find a brook and a\
tee* and sleep there all night first.,;
I’eti. ips it would be different on that'!
great barren stage when the silver:
dollars came rolling to her feet, then J ,
|<eihups its depressing atmosphere ]
would vanish.
*1 here was a knock on the door and i ;
*nn answered it. She came hack i !
into the room, a box in her arms.
••For you. mi*s." She placed the l
box on th.e to bio.
• Ymsiielo wont over to it. It was
a long white box tied with an on-hid
alia bow. She slipped the ribbon
ort and winding i» aliout her waist,
bed the bow again. Then she opened
the box. Two dozen American Beauty!
loses stared up at her. A cry of;
delis tit lett tier lips and site caught i
the !o\ely flowers up in her arms and !
buried her l’a- >■ in tiieir fragrance.
"Ann. Ann. have you ever seen
anything like these? Roses more
perfect than any that ever grew be-!
foie' ’ She picked up a small enve- ;
lope aud opened it. Inside was a 1
c«rd from Stewart. It said: “You're
•cms tine, gypsy girl. Keep it up.” j
The red lips pouted.
“fool, to send tne a letter T can '
aardly read. Why does he leave me
alone like a dog? Am I not good!
enough for him now? I am a rich |
typ c y. book at my clothes. Look j
at niv jewelry. I have a woman to
• Nash in> body for me. People gather j
fciound when they see me on th*-i
street. I am a dancer at the Oold
oerg Follies." Site w'as boosting,
naif to Ann. mostly to herself. “I j
otu T ht io he good enough for him !
now."
'■?> broke off » rose bud and stuck '
d into tier hair and wei,t back to!
•■be window. Why hadn’t the whit* !
w j-h
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g -he. •
Sk« bathed her feet in the fountain.
man brought the flowers instead of
sending them?
She could not think of him long;
i She went into the bedroom, and pulT
| ing out the dresser drawers, laid the
| lovely things one by one on the floor
I Lingerie of lace that brought a blush
to her cheeks, that no gypsy had
seen before. Skirts and blouses that
looked more like a gypsy than her
own clothes had. But with all of
these things that were, so fine she
left the finest of them all in the bot
tom of the last drawer and it was
the shawl the Dummy had painted
for her. Thrown carelessly beside it
was the diamond ring and these were
the only things that linked her to the
gypsy camp now. Even her thoughts
had been so full that she had not
thought of it or of Marcu or Girtza
or the Dummy.
She slipped off her clothes and into
a nightgown of chiffon and lace and
drew on a aegligee of softest velvet.
She picked up the satin slippers that
Stewart had given her. They were
her only pair, for with all of her
clothes she was still barefoot. She
did not realize they were keeping her
“gypsy”. She squeezed her toes into
the slippers and like one walking on
eggs paraded up and down the room,
swaying her hips and slouching her
shoulders as she had seen g'orgio
women do. She sat down in a chair,
crossed her legs, anil pulled up the
bottom of her skirts.
“No thank you. I don’t care for
any dessert, but T will have a cig
aret.”
She went throuch the motions of
accepting a eigaret and lighting t.
She inhaled deeply and blew imagi
nary smoke rings into the air.
‘•Really, my friend Alt Blaokmire.
I think you have deserted me like ;i
woman with 10 children. I am ready
to do whoopee!”
She threw back her hr <1 then and
laughed.
“I shall be like the gorgio women.
He will want me then and will not !
leave me alone like a dog!”
The next morning at dawn Con
suelo was up. She dressed and, tak- j
ing an orange and an apple from the
basket of fruit, slipped out of the !
suite i>t rooms, leaving Ann sound
asleep. She talked with the elevator!
boy and because sh*- whistled !
through her tooth and held on to his!
arm when the elevator went fast. !
the boy took her up to the top floor j
three times and down—zooming
down—as fast as the elevator would
go and the girl shrieking with de- j
light.
It was the frantic rings of the l
nielit clerk who finally stopped them.
She lelt the hotel then and wan
dered out into the street. There was j
no one to stop her now and she !
skipped along and paused to look in
tile shop windows and munched the
apple and spat the skins out. The j
people who were abroad at this early!
hour of the morning were not inter-j
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I ested in the gypsy so she wat norths
stopped nor followed.
She tried to imagine that the great
i high buildings that flanked i.otr
j sides of her were the trees of a forest
' and thai presently she w ould come
! to a brook and bathe her feet and
dance on the moss and perhaps the
J Dummy would be there watching
, her.
She stopped in front of the theater
Goldberg's Follies. There was noth
ing about it that made her think ot
| a marble palace or a high hill. Di?-
j appointment crept in. She went up
and looked at the pictures and the'e
| were not as many of her as she had
• thought and they were not as promi
nently placed as she had expected
j This woman. Louise L'Y'iile, had
j three times as many pictures. From
jail sides of the foyer they looked at
j her. Here was one of just tier h< ad
j an.l it, was done in color and her h ar
was the purest yellow- and her eves
the deepest blue and her lips the
brightest carmine and she was heatj
j tiful.
< 'onsuelo stared at this picture
It stood almost as high as she and
j - s he looked around and the ones o[
| her were no more than a foot big.
I Now it seemed that her dream was
far away and she felt that this
; blonde-haired woman was standing
j in the marble palace in her stead.
Moments passed and she did not
! move, only her eyes had narrowed
until they were almost closed and her
heart beat more rapidly and her
hands were tensed.
Presently she left tire theater and
walked on. There were people com
ing on the streets now and they
turned to look at her as she passed
hut she did not see them. She no
longer looked in the shop windows
but walked as one in a dream or one
concerned with deep and puzzling
thoughts. The one central point In
the vortex of her thoughts was thlc
woman, this blonde Louise L'ViHe.
For a long way she walked and het
feet hurt fiom the hard cement.
There were more people now and the
streets were becoming alive with
| cars and taxis and crowded motor
buses. Then ahead of her loomed
I green trees and grass. She began to
' run and. in her gladness, she was
almost crying that here in this great
| city of New Y ork should be heavenly
: greenness.
j She bathed her feet In the roua»
tain and threw herself on the .erase
| and looked up at the leaves and the
i sky. Never had the trees seemed so
j good to her. She forgot about the
golden-haired woman; about this
mad New \ork; about the lovelv
olothes that were hers; the jewelry,
and the promise of dancing. What
was it anyway in comparison with a
good tree? She closed her eyes
breathing in the fragrance of the
earth.
(jo nr. roxnxri:o>
Middle-Grounders Likely
To Decide Revenue Bill
(t'ontiuied from I’agfl One.)
another, believe that the state can
not properly maintain its divisions
without the tax; and the middle
prounders, those, who are not defin
itely committed either for or against
the sales tax.
Os the three divisions, there is hut
little doubt but that the middie
grounders have a plurability. None
of the three groups, it is thought, has
a clear majority. Hence, it will he
necessary for both the pros and the
antis to recruit, strength from the
middle-grounders. The middle-ground
ers are without leadership and can
not he counted on to vote en hloc for
a program. More likely is the pos
sibility that they will divide on vari
ous issues presented as a part of the
sales tax fight. There is, for example,
Representative Barker, of Durham,
who is a middle-grounder The anti
sales taxers will find in Mr. Barker a
friend on the question of chain filling
station taxes. In fact, Marker will
offer on the floor of the House the
same tax schedule for such concerns
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Having qualified as Administrator,
of the estate of Mary 0. Crudup, de
ceased. late of the County of Vance,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate to exhibit
them to the undersigned at his home
in Henderson. N. C., on or before the
18th day of March, 1936, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar to same. All
persons indebted to the estate will
please make immediate settlment.
JOHN B. CRUDUP,
Administrator of the Estate of
Mary C. Crudup.
i This 18th day of March, 1935.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1935.
Entire Communications Field
Coming Under A. T. & T. Dominance
Telegraph, Radio Feel
Grip of Monopoly
This* the fourth of a series of
articles on the world’s largest cor
poration—the America* Telephone
and Tele grp h company—which is
to he investigated hy the new fed
eral communications commission.
By BLAIR BOLI.ES
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington. March 18.—The Amer
| ican Telephone and "Telegraph Co. to-
I day holds a Sword of Damocles over
! a jittery telegraph industry.
Control of equipment developed by
its 3.000 research scientists has hrough
I the A. T. and T. much business once
headed for Western Union and Postal
: Telegraph companies.
| Other equipment developed at great
; cost with telephone users’ money in
| the expensive Bell laboratories has
j given the A. T. and T. a clutch oh
\ the radio field.
Nearly a Fifth
| In 1032. when the operating rev
! enues of the legitimate telegraph com
panies in the United States totaled
110 millions the A. T. and T. did 20
million dollars worth of telegraph
business as a sideline.
According to Walter M. W. Splawn,
! interstate commerce commisstoner,
; who mdae-a detailed investigation for
\ the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce into holding corn
! panics:
“It seems that congress will have to
! take notice of the fact that the tele
phone monopoly migh atequire and
| absorb the telegraph industry.’’
j Capt. S. C. Hooper director of naval
communications, warned congress:
“It is important that our eommu-
I mentions policy should be one which
insures competition between telephone
! and telegraph.”
A. T. and T.'s intrusion into the tele
graph ate.nft stems from its inaugtr
! ration of leased wire service and its
invention of the teletypewriter ex
| change.
These “private lines services” at
tract large organizations which other
wise would be the leading supporters
of the telegraph companies. Chief a
mong these clients are press associa
tions. the U. S. government, markers
and general business groups.
These Bell telegraph services in
j 1329 when then ation’s business was
at its peak embraced 1,100.000 miles
of circuit. Western Union and Pos
i tal domestic wire facilities total 4,-
300,000 miles.
Teletypewriter exchanges, which
link all teletypewriters, today num
ber 5.600 stations, grossing $200,000 a
month.
| graph, deep in the red. to protest to
| the ICC:
“The Bell Telephone company is
carrying on an irregular telegraph
business at the expense of the regular
telegraph companies.”
In Direct Telegraph Field
Moreover, the Pacific Coast Tele
phone and Telepgraph company, an
iA. T. and T. associate, operates a
I straight telegraph business in the five
far western states.
; The inventive results of Bell’s
' heavy expenditures for science and re
! search has also made A. T. and T.
indispensible to the radio industry.
A. T. and T. itself operates 27 point
to point ra<o telephone stations while
its wire channels are necessary to
broadcast companies to connect their
stations.
For Airplanes Too
A. T. arid T. manucatures radio
equipment for planes for communica
, tio'n with weather stations and land-
I ing fields.
Terminal facilities and services us
ed by radio stations are leased from
A. T. and T. Rental charge for each
as he offered in the finance commit
tee. His proposal he estimates will
! yield more than twice the amount
anticipated from the chain filling sta
tion tax schedule as now written in
the revenue bill.
On the other hand, it is not believed
; that Mr. Barker will vote for all other
■ proposals advanced hy the antis. There
are many members like Barker. Rep
: resentative Rouse, of Kinston, is an
, other. He will vote for the treatment
of stock dividends as normal income,
i yet no one believes that Representa
tive Rouse will go the entire distance
: to which the antis will attend to lead
, the legislature.
Thus, when the revenue bill is voted
on section by section the antis and
j the pros alike will pick up strength
from the middle-of-the loaders op.
some proposals, will lose on others.
1 The fight on the sales tax will there
by be clouded by side-issues and will
doubtless resolve itself into a squab
ble over the retention of the present
; levy of thre per cent. Few observers
believe that the antis will he success
ful in eliminating the sales tax. Their
opportunity lies in reducing the levy.
I perhaps to two per cent. It is be
lieved, however. that if the lower
i house reduces the levy to two per cent
that the Senate will again raise it
back to three, prolonging the strug
gle.
j Because the antis .will he forced to
' recruit strength from the middle
! grounders and on each issue as it
; arises, not one political writer in the
! capital will predict junking of the
sales tax.
; That many of the antis are also ad
j vocates of increased school appro
! priations is an open secret. Dr. Mc
! Donald himself is one of the staun
! chest school men in the legislature.
Faced with the problem of either re
j ducing school appropriations from the
present figures in the appropriations
hill or retaining the sales tax. it is
■ believed that many of them will de
sert the tax fight.
The strategy* of the anti-sales tax-
J ers in gaining consideration of the
i revenue hill ahead of the spending
bill is substantially this: they will
make a serious effort to insert new
taxes and increased levies in the
revenue bill; and, failing in that, they
: will, when the appropriations bill
comes to the fore, vote for the sales
tax in preference to cutting appropria
tions.
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PAGE THREE
POLICE COMMISSIONER
SOLVES CROP
MYSTERY
The reason some crops are weak and
poor when on the other sid° of the
fence they are thick and luxuriant has
been solved to the satisfaction of Police
Commissioner B. W. Walker of Barn
well, S. C. He says good crops are
always grown when American nitrate
of soda is used, because of its high
nitrogen content and purity.
According to Police Commissioner
Walker, farmers-who use American
nitrate of soda are helping themselves
j by following Dr. Charles II Hetty's
recent advice of “Southern fertilizers
for the Southern farmer.”
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