Talking Picture Magazine (Dec 1930-Oct 1932)

May, 1932 TALKING PICTURE MAGAZINE Page yi what the cause is. Once, Nick catches Dora looking across the table in a curious way at John, and suddenly he realizes that it is his fraternity brother who is alienating her affection. But Nick only redoubles his attempts to please the woman he loves. When Dora begs her mother to permit her to get an automobile, Mrs. Wilson, surprised by so impossible a request, refuses, but Nick takes a good portion of his savings and in an effort to regain Dora's love gets a Uttle run-about for her. Nick is happy m Dora's renewed protestation of love. One day, however, waiting for John in his room, Nick is startled by a letter in Dora's handwriting. He tells himself that it is none of his business and that he has no right to read another's mail, but jealousy impels hun to read the opened letter. To his intense grief, he learns that Dora has written John telling him that now that she has a car they can go oif, safe from prying eyes. As he walks slowly out of the room, little Grace rushes to him and begs to be told what the trouble is. He pats her head, and says nothing. In her own room the girl, only sixteen, weeps because Nick considers her a child. Dazedly packing his things, Nick leaves the house and everything that reminds him of Dora. A few weeks later, he comes back, somewhat less broken by the loss of the girl he had thought he loved so intensely, than he expected himself to be. Greeting a surprised Dora he renews his offer of marriage, now that the grief of the discovery has been mitigated somewhat, and he can think calmly about the matter. But Dora insolently tells him that since he was so ready to believe rumors, — rumors! — she is not willing to spend the rest of her life with a suspicious man. Moreover, she loves John! Wincing, Nick tells her to be very certain of John's love before taking his marriage for granted. Angrily, Dora tells him she can manage her own alfairs, and Nick does not remind her how closely affiliated his own were with hers. As he is leaving, he sees Grace sitting on the stairs weeping. As he sympathetically stops to inquire the cause, she hastily tries to remove the evidences of her weeping, and as he speaks tenderly to her, she sobs out her love for him. Amazed, he looks at her for the first time. She tells him that she is running away, she can't stand this any longer. At length, Nick convinces her that she is too young to do anything rash. She finally promises to stay on, and Nick acquires the habit of calling to find out how she is progressing. Soon he realizes that he loves her. When, after two years, he realizes that she still loves him, moreover, he finally summons up sufficient assurance to ask her to marry him, which she does. John, as Dick warns, leaves Dora when he tires of her, and it is a broken Dora who sees Nick marry little Grace who has grown into a beautiful woman. marry him does he remember. And then, indignantly, he informs her father, that he has changed his mind about the garage money. And although he has to borrow a dress from his sister-in-law for his bride who has only overalls to wear, he takes Jill from her miserable surroundings. As he takes the curly haired girl into the city with him, to be married, he discovers that her grandparents have relented and have settled a sum of money on her, which Mike has concealed from her, hoping to get it himself. Thwarting his plans, Jill and her husband are able to get that garage, and in each other's arms find happiness. LOVE BARGAIN Emma Sankey Bargerstock File No. 7014 PLOWING her field, Jill stops as her new neighbor speaks to her from his field. He introduces himself as Carl Hall, and after exchanging pleasantries about the weather, tells her that his invaUd wife and he would love to have her visit them. Regretfully Jill answers that her father doesn't Hke her to visit. Jill's mother had married Mike Brandon against the wishes of her family who consequently disowned her. Moreover, her husband's brutality had sent her to an early grave, not before, however, she had given Jill an education despite her husband's protests. Almost immediately after the death of his pretty young wife, Mike had started paying court to the widow Perry. Jill laboring in the fields all day also keeps house for her father and the hired man, and even were she to the taste of the country bumpkins, which she is not since she is slim and imaginative, Mike Brandon would have been sufficient to keep off all suitors. Therefore Jill looks forward to the few words she exchanges over the fence daily with Carl, and when his wife makes some cookies for the sheltered girl and Carl gives her some kittens which she has to hide from her father lest he drown them, her gratitude knows no bounds. One day, however, Mike sees Jill speaking to Carl, who having given her some cool water which he has brought in a thermos flask, is explaining the workings of the thermos to her. He orders his daughter in the house and accusing her of foul things leaves her shivering as he goes to call on the widow before going to the bank. As he asks the widow for her answer, she tells him that she won't marry him while he has a daughter who is growing into a spinster, while her own daughter two years younger is already engaged. Mike goes into town his mind turning on this new problem. Meanwhile, Carl's brother, Don has called to see his relatives. While there he has heard about poor Jill and still incensed by the story, proceeds into tow-n to ask the bank president to lend him some money by buy a new garage, taking his old garage as security. Regretting that he can not do so, the president is compelled to refuse and Don walks slowly out. Mike having heard the conversation, stops Don and says he thinks he can loan him the five thousand dollars. After seeing both garages iMike makes his proposition— he will advance the monev if Don will marry his daughter. Then Don realizes the daughter is the poor girl his brother was talking about, and determined to help her if he can, he pretends to consider the proposition. Arriving, Don is introduced to Jill as she is carrying two heavy pails of water. He helps her and realizes now what Mike has meant bv saving that the reason he couldn't marry her off is that she isn't husky enough for country taste, — the girl is lovely! Having gotten an opportunity to see a lot of her he finds himself falling in love with her sweetness, utterly unspoiled, forgetting the proposition of the loan Only when he determines to ask her to SUNSHINE HAVEN aldil ; Jacobs Groff File No. 7080 WHILE John Druxdale, a splendid figure of a seventy year old man, sits musing before his fireplace, Richard Carlyle, his nephew and heir, leans across the piano at the other end of the room and asks Sunshine to marry him. Hesitantly she refuses, asserting that she is not certain of her love. Richard disconsolately goes to bed, and John Druxdale asks Sunshine to remain. Telling her that his physician has informed him that his heart is so weak he may drop off any moment, the financier tells Sunshine that she is not really his daughter. Aghast, Sunshine listens as he tells her how nineteen years ago he was sitting on the beach at Lake Michigan when a young man asked him to hold a baby while he took a swim. Consenting, John had waited long hours and after a searching party had been called in, he had taken the infant home, supposing that the father had been drowned. But in the baby's^ clothes had been pinned a note telling him the baby's name was Sunshine and entrusting the reader with the bringing up of the child. Sunshine cries out with the shame of realizing that far from being the daughter of one of Detroit's most prominent men, she is a nobody whom John Druxdale had taken in knowing full well what others would think of the fact that he suddenly admitted he had a little child. That night, John Druxdale dies. Richard repeats his proposal but now Sunshine continues to refuse to marry him, thinking herself an illegitimate child. The will leaves fifty thousand dollars and an envelope containing a locket with the picture of her father and her name Sunshine Haven to the girl, and most of the rest of the estate to Richard who tries in vain to dissuade Sunshine from going to New York, There she has her voice trained and receives an o.fter to go on the stage. Becoming infatuated with Louis Talbert, a wealthy playwright. Sunshine ignores the warnings of her friend Dixie, who however, does not explain she has once been infatuated with him herself, and has grown to hate him through bitter experience. Once Sunshine is kept waiting by Talbert and through the efforts of Dixie, the girl discovers that he has been out with a chorus girl, and is revoltingly drunk. Dixie seeing the way Sunshine looks at a picture she has of Richard tries to get her to return to him, but Sunshine sadly refuses to go now that she is nameless. Meanwhile, Richard, suffering the pangs of unrequited love, reading of Sunshine's stage success and being too proud to ask her again to marry him, suffers a nervous breakdown and his plant goes through bankruptcy proceedings. In the hospital, Richard calls ceaselessly for Sunshine, and a visiting doctor from Europe is consulted. As he hears the call for Sunshine, he starts. Dr. Sanborn orders that she be sent for immediately. At home, Dixie reads of the failure of Richard's plant and his illness attributed to it. Sunshine, immediately goes to him. She hears the doctor sending a telegram to her as she enters and fearing that Richard is dead, almost faints. The doctor escorts her to the patient who is overjoyed at seeing her. As they clasp each other, the doctor murmurs that they have a father's blessing, and exnlains that he, at the death of his wife had left Sunshme with Druxdale, having no way to take care of her, being out of a job, discouraged and broken-hearted over the loss of his wife. He explains that he worked his way on the boat to Europe and through great effort and privation finally completed his medical studies and became famous under an assumed name. And Sunshine changes her newly found name, to which she has a perfect right, to Richard's. THE FALSE WITNESS Jess G. Lantz File No. 7048 Robert, causing him to turn over. The policeman who rushes to the scene of accident, compares Robert's face with that of a man wanted for murder, and arrests him on the charge. So Charlotte's father is obliged to prosecute Robert for the murder of a poor old woman, Catherine Mosley. Robert tries in vain to explain that he is innocent, but that he has a twin brother who may be guilty, for meanwhile Lyle has come out from seclusion and taken his brother's post at the newspaper oftice, admitting that he is Robert Garfield and that he has a twin Lyle, who has always been a scoundrel. And so it is that both twins claim to be Robert, for every one knows that Robert could never have done such a thing. At the trial, it is again a question of which is which, for it is certain that one is guilty. As a last resort, Charlotte, Robert's wife is put on the stand and asked to identify her husband, and great is her embarrassment and regret, for even she cannot tell them apart. Finally, after harried weeks, a little urchin with tear-stained face and ragged clothing, a boy of about ten, makes his way to the judge's desk and tells him he is Ted Mosley and he saw his mother's murder. He saw his mother take a knife and stick it into the man's stomach so that it must have gone through the clothing and made a scar on the skin of the murderer. Then the man grabbed the knife and— Ted ran. Lyle's lawyers refuse to believe this story and won't have the two men stripped. They say it is a clever frame-up and ask the boy why, if this is true, did he wait so long to help find the man who killed his own mother. The little boy answers between his suppressed sobs that he wouldn't tell because he was afraid that it would convict Robert Garfield and Robert Garfield was the only man in the world who was ever kind or good to him, who paid their rent and bought them food and clothes and gave him a job as errand boy for the paper. Then he had read that there was a twin brother, and he knew that the killer must have been he, and he remembered the knife of his mother and thought that that would make an identification possible. "But", asks the doubting attorney, "you don't mean to say that you care more about Robert Garfield than your own mother— that vou would love him even if he killed your mother?" And the little boy burst into tears, crying that he does love Robert Garfield more, that his ma never did anything but beat him and use all their money to buy dope, and that he knows anyway that Robert Garfield couldn't have done it, and he begs the judge to see if one of them hasn't a scar on the stomach. The judge grants the child's request, and Lyle, knowing there is no use in pretending further, confesses that he killed Mrs. Mosley because a long time ago she had taught his wife to use dope and he had sworn revenge. But Robert is released immediately. He goes back to his paper and Charlotte comes back to him, and they take little Ted Mosley to live with them. ROBERT GARFIELD. Editor of The Morning Mail and a universally loved and respected man, allows his twin brother, Lyle, to live in a secret apartment of his large suburban home. When, however, he decides to marry Charlotte, daughter of the District Attorney, he tells his brother he must get out, Lyle says that he is working on a scientific experiment which will be finished in a few weeks, and Robert gives him permission to stay in hiding. Immediately after their marriage, Charlotte is called away to see her dying mother in Chicago. Returning unexpectedly soon, she decides to surprise Robert and goes out to his home. Thus it is that Robert, coming home from the office very late that night, finds that his brother has been impersonating him and that Charlotte never knew the difference. When he walks into the bedroom now with all his winter outdoor clothes still on. she is amazed, having just seen Lyle leave the room a moment ago in a smoking jacket. Confused beyond understanding, she dresses hurriedly while Robert pursues the escaped Lyle, and has fled to her father's home when her young husband returns. Jumping into his car, Robert starts after her at high speed. The roads are extremely slippery due to the ice, and another car skids into TAINTED BLOOD Louise Sn File No. 7110 SEEING Benita, a lovely young girl selling violets outside an English dance-hall, Tom Hawkins, a New York producer desires her. He tries in vain to gain the girl's confidence, but not until he realizes that she is ambitious to get on the concert stage with her truly fine voice, can he approach her. She does not doubt his sincerity and he thinks that in gratitude for his promises of a stage career, she will give herself to him, but Benita is proud. However, when he pretends that he loves her, he turns Benita's head and she promises to marry him. Hawkins goes through a mock ceremony with her, hut when he discovers that she is to bear a child, he decides that the farce has run long enough, and without a word deserts her, and she is left alone at the birth of her child, Benita. her hopes dashed, with only a bleak future beckoning before her, decides to commit suicide, but on Waterloo bridge discovers a boy about to take the same desperate course. Forgetting her own intention, she draws him back, and together thev walk the foggy streets telling each other their misery. Victor is a young lawyer who, penniless, has been' jilted by the girl he loved. Together they try to reclaim their lost lives. And strangely enough, their fortunes begin to pick up. Benita finds employment singing in a music hall and she induces an admirer to give Victor an almost hopeless case, which he wins. Later they are married and Victor adopts Reed, as his own son. Meanwhile, Benita becomes a well-known singer and receives a contract to go to New York to appear on the metropolitan stages. Taking Reed and Victor who has become a fairly well-known barrister, with her, she goes. However, she is recognized by Hawkins who begins to blackmail Benita on the threat that he will expose to her son his illegitimacy. Fearing a disclosure at the moment when Reed is engaged to a charming girl of fine birth. Benita allows the scoundrel to make demands of her for large sums of money without telling her husband, fearing that if Victor learns that Hawkins is bothering her, he will do Ho ethii ething with jealousy, Hawkins stops Reed as he is leaving a supper club, and bluntly tells him that he is not Victor's son, but is illegitimate. Reed threatens to knock down the drunken fellow, but something about the way Hawkins advises him to ask his mother if it isn't true, makes him desist. That night, he questions Benita, and with a low moan she tells him the whole story. As she tells of the false marriage and the desertion. Reed's fists double, but when she mentions Hawkins' recent persecution and his promise to keep his story secret if well supplied with money. Reed dashes out. He finds his father and threatens him direlv. if ever he annoys his mother again, but Hawkins s'till drunk pulls out a revolver. Reed grabs it, and in the scuffle shoots his father. He is brought to trial and defended brilliantly by his stepfather who secures his acquittal.