fyrsonals
r , Hied?? k" Mon<Uy' f"
^"Teones"*. to enter
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V stein hM returned
ffj, to""1* '" l,ni0"' S'
u i visrt l"
p?i c^"T. -
I
j tfrs Rov Al,i90n and
*' illison have returned from
h Sue A"1 . ,r tig
* i. is' stay i" IlaxesMiie.
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Phl. McCulloi.:, of Franklin,
at Hooper'S
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PuriTll, Ot St. Louis, is
Mrs. Doyle Al
,Pnfr A I lev, at their home here
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Al,ha Dickinson has returned.
^ "home in Freemont, after a
yiss Ruth Oliver, at her
f (0 *'*
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, ^ Mrs. A. M. Simons at
ut|? presentation of "Bohem
ia " during tirumi Oj>era week,^
ijkvillf- '
Doiinld Allison and Jimmie
jf of Atlanta, have been spend
", !>? days here, quests of Mr.
jk a. 0. Allison.
...
pu.k Wilson, Charles Cand
jr^ and Parson Kineaid, ir., have
the Kann School, at Swan
<? :?$
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B, George W. Candler, of Mur
j j pirst ot Dr. and Mrs. C
yier Ht their home on Main
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^ Ruby Hicks has arrived from
m and is i" charge of the mil
find ready to wear department
W Paris.
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* Jessie Allison and her friend,
i Helen Blair, ot Asheville, are
fog their vacations at Miss
r'i home, in Indiana.
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i# Elizabeth Moody left Friday,
Pender county, to resume her
iu first grade teacher in the
lii Consolidated High School,
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r and Mrs. C. W. Tilson and Mr
I Mrs. A. J. Dills are spending sev
kn on a trip through Virginia,
in Washington, I). C.
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P-Lstelle Mauney, county supcr
r of schools in Cherokee, is vis
its* Jewell Swain and studying
*ls in the Jackson county school
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' Phil R. Whitley, of Wendell,
I list week end with his sister,
Dowlas Bain. He was aeeom
rfhome hy his father, Mr. R. B.
?v, who has *]>eiidiug some time
and Mrs. Rain.
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Jiji'l Mrs. Pryor Stillmon hav?i
to their home at Pleasant
|k after a visit to Mrs. Still
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wild.
r,? weompaiiied them home'
fisit. *
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Misalrene Oliver has gone to High
Point, where she will again be a mem
ber of the faculty of the city schools.
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Miss Carolina Rhodes left Mon?
day, tor Greensboro, 'Where she will
re-enter Greensboro College for Wo
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Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Curry, Miss
Virginia and Mr. Cecil Ctirry spent
the week end.- here with friends.
Returning Monday to| tWr home in
Lynthbnrg, Va., they were accom
panied as far as Marion by Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Curry and| Miss Bess Curtis.
P. T. A. WILL ENTERTAIN
The Parent-Teacher Association will
entertain for the teachers in the ele
mentary and * high schools, on next
Tuesday evening. The party will be
held in the high school auditorium
and the parents of all the children
in the two schools, as well as 4he
teachers, are invited.
GIVE BUFFET SUPPER ?
FOR BRIDE
Misses Sue McCulley, Ruth Wilson,1
Mary Alma Wilson, and Margaret
Sherrill were hostesses at^the McCul
lcy home, last night, at a buffet sup
per and handkerchief shower, com
plimenting Mrs. Avery Cunningham,
a recent bride. A color scheme of
green and yellow was employed in
the flowers used, as well as the col
lation served. The list of guests for
the affair included, besides the guest
of honor, Misses Leah Nichols, Blanch
Ray, Mary Candler, Lucy Bell Fisher,
Mary Enloe, Dorothy Moore and Miss
Elizabeth Cunningham, of Franklin;]
Avery Cunningham, Dick and Felix
Potts, Herbert Ray, Stuart Bowman,
Marshall Hampton, Ralph Sutton,
Buddy Hines, Tom Porter and Lee
Barnard, of Franklin, Earl Higdon,
Bud Whitener and Frank Winkler
were invited for dancing, which folr
lowed the buffet supper.
METHODIST SOCIETY
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
The Methodist Missionary society
will meet next Wednesday afternoon,
with Mrs. Annie Tompkins and Mrs.
C. Z. Candler will be the leader of
the program,
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DEPARTMENT OF CLUB v I
TO MEET MONDAY
The Literary Department of the^
Woman's Club of Sylva, will meet
next "Monday, Sept. 9, in the Cham
ber of Commerce Hall, at 3:30. All
members are urged to be present. If
you didh't join, come Monday, and
join at the first meeting of the year.
Mrs. Douglas Bain, Chairman.
SYLVA WOMEN ENTERTAINED
IN BYRSON CITY CLUB MEE7
'At a meeting of the Woman's Club
of Bfyson City, which was held in
the parlor of the Methodist church,
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs .Billy Davis,
district president, and Mrs, Walter
Jones, district secretary of the fed
erated elubs, were guests- of honor.
An elaborate program was present
ed, anij Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Jones
made talks. km
TOO HOT
t
to clean
Thoroughly:
Are these stifling days so exhaust
li-g that you slight your cleaning.
iV?f efficient cleaning methods
N tuubuiacnsoiYie, too wearying
ta toy ?oitidA to endure. Par
tHuliily *hcn the can get the
d&bctit dcancr m?de
'Tki Hoove/ - (of a down
yajmcot of only 86.2$.
2?^hotw f uf a No
*Wi? trial. Allow
MODEL
700
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for old cleuM* .
^he hoover
ft SEATS ?? ?i it Sweep' **
tylva jupply Co.
baptist society meets
? with mbs. john r. johes
*^The Baptist Woman's Missionary
Society met yesterday, at the home
of Airs. John R. Jones, the Naomi
Schell Circle being hostess J
Circle Number Four, with Mrs. I
H. Powell leader, was in charge of
the program, and Mrs. Powell and
Mrs. H. E. Monteith led the discus
sion of the subject for the month,
which was "Woman and Her Re
sponsibility in the New World". The
Bible study was led' by Mrs. J. T.
Gribble. A feature of the program
was a solo, "When They Ring Those
Golden Bells," by Mrs. Mary C. Brin
son. During the social hour which
followed the program and business
session, a salad course with iced tea
was served.
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GIVE SHOWER FOR BRIDE
Mrs. Avery Cunninngham was th<
honoree at a miscellaneoous shower,
given by Miss Ijeah Nichols and Miss
Hicks Wilson, at the home of Miss
Nichols, on Saturday afternoon of
last week. A color scheme was per
'fectly carried out in all details of the
affair, an umbrella, with pink am
green streamers, suspended over the
attractive tea table, holding th.
j "shower", which contained man\
lovety and useful gifts, for Mrs. Cup.
ningham, a young bride. A bride'
| book, filled with reeipes, written b
the guests present, was also presente
to the guest of honor. An ice course
j in the color note of pink and green
and pink and green mints were sen .
ed. Those present were Mcsdame
Averv Cunningham, Walter .Tones
Misses Mary Candler, Sue McCulley
Mary Alma Wilson, Ruth Wilson
Nell Cowan, Hattie Cross, Pauline
j Miller, Margaret Sherrill, an<f Miss
es Virginia Cleveland and Florence
Bellingei,) of Atanta.
MRS. RHODES GETS VERDICT
Mrs. J. C. Rhodes was awarded
verdict of $5,000 against New York
Life Insurance Company, in the fed
eral court in Ashevillc, today. Mrs.
Rhodes bruoght suit against the Com
pany, seeking to recover $10,000 on
a double indemnity policy on the life
of her husband. The face of the pol
icy was for $5,000. The company re
fused payment, holding that Rhodes
committed suicide. The jury decided
that Rhodes shot himself accidentally,
and gave her a verdict for the facc
I of the policy, eliminating the double
I indemnity.
Mrs. Rhodes won a similar suit
against another company, in the su
perior court of Jackson county, a fe\*
months ago. ^
Julius H. Barnes is to be Chairman
if the Board of a nationwide fruir
jnd vegetable growers' cooperative
marketing organization, the United
Fruit' G owers of America, with a
capitalization' of $50,000,000. The or-/
tanization will work in harmony with ,
ne Agricultural Marketing Act and:
h accordance with the policies of the
Vederal Farm Board. 1 .
FRIDAY NIGHT
Boss Barton in
"PALS OF THE PRAIRIE"
SATURDAY
Bill PattOn in
"OUTLAWED"
Fourth Chapter of
"PIRATES OF THE PINES"
WEDNESDAY !
Ranger, the dog, in
"FURY OF THE WILD" ?
Sixth Chapter of
"THE FATAL WARNING"
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JOST ? On Sunday, Sept 1, between
j Sylvn and Cullowhee, * a pair of
- black silt iu pumps, from Cinderella
Shop, AHlicville. Return to Journa
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COL LTJSK PASSES
?"
Col. V. S. Lusk, oldfest member of
the North Carolina bar, Confederate
veteran, Republican leader, and one
of Western North Carolina's most
prominent citizens, for three quar
ters of a century, died, this morning
at 8, 60 o'clock, at his home in Ashe
vilY*, at the age of 94. . .
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TO GRADE HIGHWAY 88
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Work of grading Highway No. 28
between Highlands aud the intersec
tion of 28 and 106, in Cashier's Val
ley, will get nnder way this week, ac
cording to information from thai of
fice of the State Highway Commis
sion. . . '
OAJftDOT THANKS
We wish to express our apprecia
tion to our good neighbors and friends
for their many acts of kindness and
sympathy during our recent groat
bereavement. . ^
MRS. HARRY R. HASTINGS
MRS. T.H.HASTINGS f and -Family
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Seventh Instalment
What Happened Before
Remember Steddon comes West to avoid
revealing the result of an unfortunate love
affair to her father.
The Rev. Dr. Steddon, a clergyman of
kind heart but narrow mind who attributes
much of the evil of the world to the
"movies" and constantly inveighs against
them. Mem, her lover Elwood Farnaby
having died in an accident, at the advice
of Dr. Bretherick, gives her bad cough as
an excuse to get to Arizona and from there
writes home that she has met and carried
"Mr. Woodville," a wholly imaginary per
aon. Later she writes again to say that her
"husband" has died in the desert. She
takes a job as a domestic to avoid being a
burden on her parents. A fall prevents her
becoming a mother. In Arizona she had
met
I Tom Holby, a leading man in a motion
picture company, and through him gets the
opportunity to play a part in a desert
drama. With the company is
Robina Teele, a Star, fond of Holby and
' Leva Lemaire, an extra woman. After
her accident, Mem becomes friendly with
lira. Dack, a poor wcman of Palm
Springs. Arizona, and takes an interest
In her bright little son.
Terry Dackt> who has a great gift of
mimicry. Inspired by a letter from Leva,
Mem plans to go to Los Angeles to take
a job in a film laboratory.
She gets a job in a film laboratory, but
loses it She meets a Mrs. St^rgs from
her home town, who talks of the evils of
the movies and says the stars are forced to
sell their souls. Mem then learns her
mother i? coming to visit her. Mem ia
worried about her finances.
Now Go On With the Story
Well, she would sell what God
had made of her for what man
knight make of her!
At the studio she had met the
casting director, Arthur Tirrey. It
was he who said to this one or
that one, "Here is a part; play it,
and .the company will give you so
much a week."
He was the St. Peter of the movie
heaven, empowered to admit or to
deny. He was the man for her to
*eek, He had seemed a decent
enough man, and he had looked at
Mem without insolence. But you
can never tell! ?
^ Mem studied jierself a long while
in the mirror, "since her eyes and
her smile must be her chief ward
robe, her siren equipment. She
practiced such expressions as she
supposed to represent invitation.
They were silly and they made her
rather ill.
She reached Tirrey's office and
found him idly swapping stories
with his assistant. He spoke to
her courteously, motioned her into
his office, closed tbe door, and took
hi* own place behind his desk.
The telephone rang. He caljed
into it: "Sorry, Miss Waite; that
part has been filled. The company
couldn't make your salary. ^ I
begged you to take_.the cut, but you
wouldn't. Times^ are hard and
you'd better listen to reason. Sorry.
Good-by!"
This was a discouraging back
ground for Mem's siren scenario.
But she determined to carry out
her theory and, in all self-loathing,
adjusted herself in her big chair to
what she imagined was a Cleo
patran sinuosity. She thought of
her best lines; secretly twitched up
her skirts and thrust her ankles
well into view.
She turned upon Mr. Tirrey her
most languishing eyes, and tried
to pour enticement into them as in
to bowls of fire.
She pursed her lips and set them
full. She widened her breast with
deep sighs.
Tirrey seemed to recognize that
she was deploying herself. He
grew a Jittle uneasy. But he was
as polite to Mem as if she had been
Robina Teele.
"What can I do for you?
"I want a chance to act."
"What experience have you had?"
he asked.
Mem was suddenly confronted
with the fact that all actors must
offer themselves for sale ? not the
pretty women only, but the old men,
too, and the eharacter women.
Actors are much abused for talk
ing of themselves. Few of them
do when business is not involved,
but when it is they must discuss
the goods they are trying to sell.
Shoe merchants talk shoes; railroad
presidents, railroads; politician's, pol
itics; Clergymen, salvation. Each
salesman must recommend his own
stock and talk it up.
So Mem had to grope for ex
perience and dress her window with
it. And she had had so little she
lied a little, as one does who tries to
sell anything:
"I was with the company that
Tom Holby and Robina Teele
played Jn. I took the part of an
Arabian women. Mr. Folg*', the
director ? er? praised my ? er ?
W?Well. he knows," said Tirrey,
"but hes not with this company,
y/\ii lmow. Have we your name
' and address and ^a photograph out
side in our files?"
' "No." . . . ,
"Well, if yqu'll give them to Mr.
Dobbs, with your height, weight,
color' of eyes and hair, and experi
ence, we'll let you know when any
thing occurs. Til introduce you to
Mr. Dobbs and h?? "
He moved toward the door to
escape from the cruelty
seize his arm in a fierce clutch.
She tried to play the vampire as
she had seen the part enacted on
the screen by various slithy toves.
She drew her victim close to her,
pressed tight against him, and
poured upward into his eyes all the
venom of an amorous basilisk.
"I'll pay the Price! I know what
it costs to succeed, and I'm willing
to pay. I'll do anything you say,
be anything to you. You can't re
fuse me 1"
She could hardly believe her
own ears hearing her own voice,
though with pride in the acting she
was going to give her a chance!
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The next morning found Mem
at the studio betimes, borrowing
mascaro and advice from Mist
Calder. )
Claymore was waiting for her
when she came from the women's
dressing rooms. SJw was daubed,
smeared, lined, powdered, rouged,
mascaroed, and generally calci
mined* for duty. Her heart was
beating in alternate throbs of fear
and frenzy. Her feet were at the
brink of the Rubicon.
Gaymore haH provided a camera
'111 paythe price. IH do anything you say. You can't refuse me."
was doing lifted her from the dis
gust for the role.
He looked at her without sur
prise, without horror, without even
amusement, but ? also without a
hint of surrender. His only mood
was one of jaded pity.
"You poor child, who's been fill
ing yotfr head with that stuff? Are
you reajly trying to vamp me?"
The crass word angered her:
1 I'm trying to force my way to
my career, and I don't care what
it costs."
Tirrey's sarcastic smile faded :
"Sit down a minute and listen to
me. A little common sense ought
to have told you that what yoiive
been told is all rot. Suppose I
were willing to give a job to every
pretty girl who tried to bribe me
with love. . Do you know how
many women I see a day ? a hun
dred and fifty on some days; that's
nearly a thousand a week. And if
you won me over you'd still have
to please the director and the man
agers and the author and the public.
How long wbuld our company keep
going if we selected our actresses
according to their immorality?
"Forget this old rot about 'pay
ing the Price.' Tell Mr.^ Dobbs
your pedigree and we'll give you
the first chance we get, and no in
itiation fee or commission will be
charged. How's that? A little bit
of all right, eh? You're a nice
child, and pretty, and you'll get
along."
He lifted, her from her chair and
put his arm around her as a com
rade, and slapped her shoulder
blades in an accolade of good fel
lowship.
She broke under the strain and
began to cry. She dropped back
.into her chair and sobbed. It was
good to be punished and rebuked
into common decency by the way
of common sense.
It chanced that the president of
the company ^was returning to his
office from a visit to one of the
stages. This was the man whose
name was familiar about the world.
Every film from his factory was
.labeled: "Bermond presents ?
"Copyright by the Bermond Com
pany"; "This is a Bermond pic
ture." The slogan of the company
was, "This is a Bermond year."
When Mr. Bermond heard Mem
crying, his heart hurt him. He did
not like scandal, disorder, con
fusion, orjjrief on his lot.
He went to Mem and tried to
console her. He took her hands
down from her contorted face and
forced her to look at him. Seen
through the cascades of her tears
she was strikingly attractive, ?re
pealing. # *
"Sarah Bernhardt failed in her
first play, you know, and you may
be a second Sarah some day," ha
said. " Just' -you wait 1"
Mem's eyes were filling with
rainbows. A bystander drew Ber
mond aside,, It was Claymore, a
dramatist who had had a few suc
cesses before he established him
self in the moving pictures as a
director. -v
"That girl has the tear," he said
to Bermond. "That woman you ve
given me for my next picture it
awful. - Let me take this ldd and
[give her a real -teat ~ She might
have just what we want"
"Sure! Fine! Go to \tl"
Bermond, and hastened to
i with the good pews that Jar.
man, a few men to handle the
electric lights, a property man, and
even a pair of musicians ? a vio
linist and the treader of a wheezy
little portable melodeon.
Claymore marched her Into the
scene and gave her a little of what
he called footwork.
"Go back to that door and come
forward to this spot. Shake hands
with ? er ? with your lover ? er ?
Well ? no. Let me see. That's too
simple. Let's get down to busi
ness.
"You've a ? Oh ? well, just for
instance, you've been ? er? be
trayed and your child has died and
you've been accused of murdering
it and you're now being called be
fore the judge and the jury. CDo
you get me? You're coming into
a courtroom under a charge of
crime;, you feel your shame, bat
you're innocent of the charge, yet
you're overwhelmed with guilt for
your iall, and the father of the
child is ? was killed in the war, say
? and you don't much care whether
you live or die; so you're in des
pair, yet defiant. That's a triple
lajta of emotion for you and I
doift suppose you can get much of
it over, but ? lust try to give the
atmosphere of it. Now back to
the door. Walk through it once.1*
Claymore was as much embar
rassed as Mem, for vbis invention
was not in its best working order
so early in the morning. Tie relt
as* silly as a man badgered by a
peevish child to tell a story.
But his trite plot stirred Mem
amazingly. He 'could not know
how close his random shots had
come home to her and flung her
back from the forward-looldng
artist to the lorn fugitive who had
stumbled into California laden with
disgrace.
She was all atremble and her
eyes darted, her. fingers twitched.
Claymore marveled at her instan
taneous response to his Suggestion.
There were born artists who shiv
ered on the least breath of inspir
ation and suggestion.
His first impression of Mem was
that he had found a genius, and he
fought against the obstacles he en
countered later with the zest of a
man digging toward known gold.
In a kind of stupor Mem obeyed
his commands like the trained con
federate of a hypnotist. She wetft
to the door, came in reluctant,
shamefast, doomed. She advanced
slowly till she reached the edge of
the rug he had indicated, then
halted, and with a fierce effort
hoisted her head in defiance and
braved the lightning of the judge.
She heard Claymore call to her:
"That's fine I Now well take it!"
She started back, but was checked
by the camera man's "Wait, please!"
He ran forward and shouted direc
tions on all sides for lights.
"Hit those spotsi Throw the
ash can on her- Bring up that
KliegL Pot a diffuser on that
WinfiekL Whafs the matter with
die second spot? Your carbons
are flickering. Mflcst Mike I Trira
those carbons pn the second spot!
Pull 'em I* ?
Continued Next Week
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