Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

LASSIC might have known. Men dont help a Oman except for pay.” “And do I get my pay ?” Thresk asked. You’ve been honest with me, now I'll be )nest with you. I cant marry you — I’ve )t a wife or two living, and besides I’ve /orn off the marriage habit, it doesn’t it my temperament. But I'll be good to lu, and I've got money, you can have iything you want.” Stella Ballentyne touched the rose ray with absent finger tips. "There is [Other man — ” she said slowly, “there is always another man, from the time land I were tiny children. His name is Ick Hazelwood — but his father was am:ious for him, and sent him away from 2. He is in politics now, and of course ;ould never marry him — but I’ve always i/ed him and I always shall.” Harry Thresk felt baffled as tho a door id been shut in his face. The set of his w tautened and unnoticed lines sprang 't in his cheeks. “You’re going back to igland?” he asked roughly. “You’re iving India?” !“Yes, oh yes !” she panted, “this terl)le, terrible land ! Corruption wreathed ith roses! Smiling sin! And always k temple bells ringing — ringing — ” fEngland. England with the mists over 12 lush green meadows, English larks lling above, English daisies and daffo's. England and sheep bells and the ies of the children on village greens. iigland and the kindly English faces and ; voices of her own countrymen like isic in her ears. Stella Ballentyne ved among the well-remembered scenes lidly, as a spirit might that had died ce it had known them, grateful for the ding of the fresh winds and the salt 5ts on her fevered soul. The neighbors who had known her en she was a little girl greeted her jiply, as tho no dreadful years had come ween them, and she knew they could ; have heard of the thing that had resed her and sent her home from exile, r grandfather’s house was tenantless d she had it opened, cleaned and made : dy for her. From the old window 'ere she had often knelt in her little Ihood she could look out across the J.’n of the Hazelwood estate with its ;'itury oaks and hedge run wild. The ► brick house was shuttered and forin. She heard that Dick, nov/ a mem>■ of the House of Commons and •iken of with hushed breath as a possible Ip me minister, was coming down for a J nth’s rest before the summer was gone. Hore that time, she told herself, she fluid have made some definite plans and ^gone. f '-ach week she assured herself — “Next Ipk I will go.” But still she lingered, king life glide by her like a tranquil Ifer that had left her stranded in this p backwater of peace. And so in the p.rse of time the shutters of the silent tt'ise next door were flung open to the Si, and one golden morning she looked Ol of her window to see a tall, lean Siire in white flannels leaning negligent ( Sixty -/ive) i WANTED— Railway Mail Clerks Men— Women, 18 to 35 $1100 to $2000 Year Common Education Sufficient o® Sure Pay. 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That was the experience of one of our writers in Seattle, Washington, a few weeks ago 'I'iic Ihc-atfr was dark. .Suddenly the S|X>Uiglit was turnerl on the stage. A beautiful girl, accompanied by the orchestra, started singing a ballad that .srt the heart-stnng.s of the audience throbbing— full of tenderness and love. At the end of the song came a big ex^rience'**’u\e'\vritei^3aid^''^*’*’ comiielled to repeat the chorus twice before the audience would let her go. In tilting of this "No one can imagine how proud I was as I sat in my seat and heard Mr. Friedman’s beautiful music and my lyric sung by the performer on the stage. The congratulations of my friends on the way my song was received, were worth more than money can buy.” Why Don’t You Write the Words for a Song? ^ I*" Simple liuiguage as If you were telling it to a good friend. Read over a few words and manner in which they are written— look around for new Ideas and songs. The public lookout for something new. 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