Screenland (May-Oct 1941)

y Dorothy Darrell registers fear as 1he Mechanical Man pursues her in ciced Nuts." Dotty will be rescued her perilous predicament, rest assured. | jy. "And you don't even listen. Ozzie i Harriet had a lot to do this after Ozzie and Harriet !" Betty repeated i Kingly. "The way you say it, they go i .her like ham and eggs." •kay." Terry said imperturbably. "So i got a great idea, so she's helping us t over ! So maybe it's even more than I maybe it's strictly personal." He ued then for he couldn't go on dishing , t. with Betty who had always been the I faing, carefree kind, looking as if she ! : going to cry. "He's a good guy, |," he said then. "But there's other j i in the sea." . "eah. I guess so," Betty said slowly. \K at the moment I'm not in the marlifer any other fish." at when Ozzie and Harriet came back ager to start work fixing up the gymhjtan for the new club. Betty worked as \\ as any of them, taking the pail and r from Bon Bon and somehow it helped [j heaviness in her heart, pitching in that with the others. "I've worked in iff broken-down night clubs," she hed. "But ihis makes 'em look like Stork club on New Year's Eve." Then augh died on her lips as she saw Mrs. t come in. V-.at is the meaning of this?" she ar.ded, glaring at Harriet. "You seem are forgotten dignity, tradition, evcryj, tor the sake of a gang of cheap icians. They're Lambert Tech students," net said evenly. they're nothing but jailbirds !" Mrs. rrs eyes swept the room furiously, d I insist you get rid of them immedi■"! And as for you," she looked at Bon standing there grinning, "You are harged." So, ma'am!" Bon Bon said blithely. ias resigned. From now on I is in de An' does I sizzle and swing! Yes am. I'se struttin' an' shinin' at the ege Club." ut Bon Bon wasn't the only new memoi the band. Harriet belonged now too, really belonged. For at the opening Ozzie introduced her, not only to the students, but to the radio audience as well, as his new singer. It didn't help Betty then that she was the star of the show, that it was she the students crowded into the room to meet. Not even when a whole football team, headed by a coach, marched in together and announced themselves as new students, all for the sake of Betty Co-Ed, she couldn't forget the way Harriet had looked standing there before the microphone in the new evening dress that accentuated every soft curve of her slim figure and with her eyes shining as she looked at Ozzie. But of course, the hardest thing to bear was the way Ozzie's eyes were shining too. The student membership had passed the required number, but their triumph was short-lived when Mrs. Sparr and Professor Bailey came in to announce that the final exams were to take place the next morning. It was a trick, of course. Harriet knew that. Those examinations weren't going to be any cinch. And so, long after the night club was supposed to have shut down for the evening, she kept them there in the gymnasium coaching them. "Trigonometry treats of the relations holding among the sides and angles of triangles," one of the football players read his text book disconsolately. "Now, what language is that?" Betty made a face at Harriet. "To her it's baby talk," she giggled. "If I knew as many answers as she does I'd have a mink coat and a penthouse." "Those are different answers, Betty," Terry said. "But wait a minute ! I've got an idea ! We're all musicians and we know answers they don't know. Why shouldn't we use them? Ask me something fancy, Harriet." "What were the economic factors behind the Thirty Years' War?" she laughed. "The barrel house gut bucket is to the cat's jive just as an alligator swings his skins into the groove," Terry announced triumphantly. "Why don't we just give up and get some "sleep?" one of the musicians inquired in a plaintive voice. "Then when they hand us the exams we can throw them in their faces and go home. I'm for an honorable surrender." "That's for me." The football player looked up wearily. "I'm going some place which appreciates a quarterback with twelve seasons' experience." "Hey !" Ozzie looked up sharply. "You mugs can't run out now !" "Let them go, if they want to," Harriet said. She turned and faced them. "I know it's hard, tiring, thankless labor and all I can offer in return is my gratitude. But maybe there's something more involved. Maybe there's our good old fighting spirit. Somebody is trying to put over a dirty trick and maybe we're not going to let them get away with it." Then as they didn't seem to respond at all, she sighed. "Well, maybe we'd better sign off for tonight and get a few hours' sleep." "We can get sleep some other night." Betty looked belligerently at the others. She couldn't believe it was her own voice sounding off. Imagine, her taking sides with Harriet ! 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