Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

DO Picture Show, April 23rd, 1921. "LEAVE IT TO ME" (Continued from vntie 18 ) Hatlcss, and in evening dress, Dicky flew to the parage and jumped in hi* car, while the other guests followed. The car with the sack had got a start, but Dicky rapidly overtook it, and when it reached the pier Dicky was not a hundred yards behind. The ^cenpants of the ■first car, seeing they could not reach the launch with the sack, swung it in the sea. " Leave it to mc ! " shouted Dicky as. without a moment's hesitation, he jumped in the water after the sack. He brought it to the surface, after a desperate struggle and the other guests, who had launched a boat, pulled him in. But when they opened the sack they found, not Tom Burroughs, but all the wedding presents. It was a very much bedraggled Dicky that returned to the house. He left the other guests to explain what liad happened while he wandered around the house in search of Tom. As he stood in the bedroom where he had left Tom dressing, he noticed an inner door. Dicky went tip to it and tried it. The door was locked but he soon forced it. And there, on the floor, gagged and bound, looking up with au agonised expression, was Tom Burroughs. " You leave it to me ! " shouted Dicky, as he ran downstairs, determined that Madge should know tint he alone had found the missing bridegroom. The second after he had left the room, Bed Healcy darted in. Picking up Tom in his arms he rushed him into another room and then shoved in Steve Holmes, also gagged and bound. He slipped down the back stairs with Tom. The reception room was empty and Red Healcy shoved Tom in a big chest, getting inside with him. till the coast was clear. Upstairs Dicky was looking blankly at the bound form of Holmes. " But it was Tom I left here a minute ago ! " lie protested wildly. Madge muttered something about the delusions of drink, while the guests unbonud Holmes and listened to his story of how lie had been attacked by Red ncaley's gang while he was guarding the wedding presents. Sili-ii) Ij everybody filed down stairs. Nobody paid the slightest attention to poor Dicky, and that unhappy man slunk away and sat down on the very chest in which Bed Healey had put Tom. Presently Dicky heard a sound, then another, apparently coining from the inside of the chest. Slowly Dicky opened the lid. Swiftly Bed Healey sprang out, but not so quickly as Dicky's fist shot out. Bed Healey made a game fight, but in his then desperate mood Dicky would liavc been a match for a dozen crooks. When at last Bed Healey bad had enough fighting and the guests had got held of titan, Viola looked into the room. Dicky saw her and went up to Bed Healcy. " You get those letters -back from Miss de Vcrc and there will be nothing slid about the robbery," he whispered. Then he went to Tom and told him what he had done,. While the guests were congratulating Dicky, Tom quickly arranged the deal for the letters and also saw that Red Healcy and Viola got clean away. The parson was brought back and this time the wedding ceremony went off witnout a hitch. When it was over Dicky found himself alone with Sladge. He led her to the chest and they sat down. Madge, if you only knew what I have gone through you'd promise to marry me," he said. "There's a lot of explaining for you to do before 1 consent," replied Madge. " Something has got to be done," thought Dicky. Stooping swiftly, he picked the girl up in his arms and put her in the chest. "There you stop till you promise to marry mc," he whispered, as he closed the lid. Silence from below. Then a muffled voice. " I'll never marry you now." " I can wait," said Dicky. " It's more comfortable on the top of the chest than inside. " More silence. Then Madge's voice. " Dicky, when shall we get married ? " " Leave it to me ! " cried Dicky, as he pulled Madge out of the chest and kissed her. (Adapted by permission from incidents in the Fox fi'm, featuring William Russell.) Would you like to win a Rei\ Silver Chain Handbag given by WALLACE REID ? If so see this week s "GIRLS' CINEMA." Cut Tcmorrow. Price 2d. IN THE DRESSING-ROOM I AM sure that if it were not for flic various sports in which I indulge, I should never be able to go tlirougli half the amount of studio work that I do. . Acting for the films may be very exciting — and I just love it — but it is" not half so strenuous as some people seem to imagine. Of course there are times wtien one "is cast for a part which necessitates all kinds of hairbreadth escapes end breakneck gymnastics, and when this part is being rehearsed and played, I will admit that — like every other screen actor — I am only too glad to get home and rest. The activity of such parts are quite enough " sport " for anyone. But film acting is not "always like this. Health-Giving Sport. WHEX a play with simple drawing-room scenes is being enacted, an enormous amount of one's time is spent hanging about the studio, waiting for scenes to be fixed up, or for the -weather to be at the necessary state. It is at this time that an energetic person squirms at the inactivity, and longs for a little health-giving pastime. That is why I spend every spare moment playing golf or tennis. And although it is the order of the day to ride about in your car out here, I am never happier than when I dress in my sports rig-out and go for a lone tramp. It is perfectly wonderful how refreshed and well 1 feel, and how merrily my work goes along the next day. Dress for Comfort. BUT — and this is a really most important but — I could not possibly get the amount of benefit that I do from my walking and sport unless I were suitably clad. To go out walking in thin, high-heeled shoes, or to go golfing in a frock, would be agony to me. And it is because I appreciate my pastimes so much that I give a great deal of my attention to the selection of my sports " rig-out." An Ideal Outfit. {HAVE always favoured the suit of tweed for sports wear. That is why I am so pleased that this type of coat and skirt has again be-1 come popular. True there were times when tweeds were mostly \ of a very drab order, anil could 1 hardly be appreciated by one with an eye for beauty. But nowadays they are so charming ('Jj as to be even nicer than materials for the more dressy costumes. As a matter of fact, I have always favoured a combination of black and white for my tweed suits. I find this makes up so much more * smartly, and that I can wear any scarf or hat with the suit that ; * may take" my fancy at the ff moment. Yet 1 have recently been cajoled into selecting some of the pretty colour combinations that are so fashionable. I have selected for you my favourite outfit for sports wear / — by tfiis I mean the coat and skirt for walking wear. Then if you wish you can don the same garments for golf, just taking off the smart coat, and No. 29,395. revealing the neot little woollen \ neat sports jumper beneath. By the way, outfit chosen the hitter might lie of liaiid byPriscilla knitting, with bands of crochet Dean, inlet. But to return to the costumo. This is of black and yellow tweed, the black taking the form of a fairly large cheeked design upon the lemon background. 1 do not favour a very brilliant yellow. Tliis i« a little too conspicuous for -walking wear. But the combination is distinctly smart and personal, especially if your hair happens to be dark. Although 1 find it quite becoming to mv fair tresses. Sports Clothes C-hos?n :: by Priscilla Dean :: With or Without a Belt. THE coat is a simple straight affair — I prefer it like that — although on some girls it would perhaps be better with a patent leather belt fastened round to take in the ftdnesfi. But look — the coat is not so plain as it may at first appear ; the front is cut in one with the lower part of the side of the coat, and this gives acharming style to the coat. The lower part also forms a Docket, which is fastened down by abutton and buttonhole. The skirt is quite plain. I think that any decoration upon a sports skirt is absolutely out of "place and unnecessary, unless it takes the [ an of capacious pockets, which are more han ly than ornamental. And at the -foot it is just of s width to give comfort. I've got a pretty big stride when I get going, and for this reason -l generally demand that the lower seam of my skirt be left open a little at one side, and arranged to fasten with button and buttonholes, so that I can unfasten them when I find the skirt sagging around my legs, as it life a habit of doing after much walking,. My favourite hat for sports wtflr is also depicted upon the sketch of a suit, and shows n 'cosy little pull-on of brushed wool. It ha . a soft crown of yellow brushed wool, and a brim that turns up all the way round, displaying an underlining of alternate stripes of black and yellow wool, a tassel of the combined wools being allowed to hang jauntily from one side of the brim. My outfit is not complete without a cosy scarf of soft, -wool to correspond with the colours of my suit. A Tennis Coat. BEFORE I finish telling you of my ideal sports outfit, I must not forget to mention the invaluable sports coat, which I prefer in the brightest colours of the day. In tliene shades they give such a happy-go-lucky appearance to the wearer, and ave so handy to slip over the white tennis frock. The little sports coat I have had designed for you is of stockinette, with patch ( pockets, and tie over belt. The lorg ' scarf has stripes running through it at 'the ends to match the ribbon bands upon the neat little cap which can be worn throughout the game, and thus prevent ends of hair becoming straggly when the game becomes heate.l. Priscilla Dean. You can obtain patterns cf the costume and coat on this page in 22, 24, 26, and 28-inch waist sizes for one shilling each, from "Picture Show" Pattern Dept.. 291a, Oxford Street, L o ndon, * W. !.