Talking Picture Magazine (Jan 1933 - Jul 1934)

March. 1933 TALKING PICTURE MAGAZINE Page 7 iu;ui girl, I'hi. All iluiing her visit Zuura woiulcrcd about (he strange man, antl when she was calletl one day to lielp the man's youngest chiKl, liobby. she had an opportunity to learn more of the story. Zoura, a New S"orlv nurse spending one of her infrequent vacations with her brother, a Nome doctor, was astonished by the neatness of the liouse. the collection of tine books, and the soft intelligence of the man's wife, and her heart ached as she saw the child could not live. But when the man, summoned from the mines, came in and lifted the child with an infinite pity and tenderness, and comforted his little wife, Zoura wondered the more. Two nights later Bobby died and alter doing what she could, Zoura, who was leaving for New York found the man sitting hopelessy alone. It was then, very softly, that he told her his story. Bob had been a prominent New York lawyer whose life was absorbed in his sister Coleen. Soft and gentle, she inspired a protective attitude and it wasn't until Bob fell in love with Nora, a fascinating woman, that he had negected his sister. It was then she had fallen in love with Bill Graham, and when Bob frowned on the match she reminded him in a hurt voice that she didn't think Nora was the wife for him, but she didn't interfere. Troubled by her attitude. Bob said no more and shortly after, Coleen and Bill were married. Absorbed in his own affair. Bob took for granted that Coleen's happiness was genuine, but as he was leaving on his honeymoon, Coleen murmured as she kissed him that she hoped his marriage would be more happy than hers was. It was a great shock to Bob and as he clung to her the guests laughingly called to Coleen to stop detaining the bridegroom. Even Nora teased Bob about his perturbation and when he returned to his practice. Bob was the more concerned by the knowledge that Coleen was going to have a baby and now that she needed Bill most he rarely came home nights. Important cases and worry about Coleen kept Bob away from home and always Nora would assure him that she understood and besides she spent her time shopping and at her mother's. Then one night Bob came home and before his shocked brain could register the disorder, clothes strewn about, house dark, he found Nora's note telling him she had eloped with Bill. Anguish at the realization that he would never hold Nora's body again blinded him for a moment, but the discovery of Coleen's heart breaking acceptance of her desertion just when she needed her husband most, broke Bob up. He never left her for a moment but though he reasoned with her always she hoped that she and her baby would die, and the doctors shook their heads. When Bob heard at last that Coleen had gone and the baby lived only a few hours, he dashed madly from the house and wandered for hours distrait. A chance headline reporting a gold strike in Nome gave him a direction and drawing his money from the bank, he dazedly booked passage for the gold city. There he drank himself ill and when he tried to eat his stomach collapsed. The kindly Doctor took care of him but as soon as he recovered he made his way to the saloon and began another siege of drinking. Remembrance of Nora drove him mad and he sank lower and lower. When he recovered from one of his debauches he found that Ula, a little half-breed Esquimau who had been studying school teaching had found him lying in the street and to save him from freezing to death had taken him to her house. Bob laughed sardonically when in a frightened voice she begged him not to drink so much, but when a letter that Nora had written was forwarded to him, telling him she had discovered her mistake and wanted to return to him, Bob seized Ula in his arms and refused to release her until the frightened little halfbreed promised to marry him and save him from his divorced wife. But married, Bob gave scant attention to his wife and youngsters until one of the frequent illness of his youngest child, Bobby, awakened him to his own neglect. The doctor's grave explanation that the child's weakness was a result of its father's bad living, and the added information that the uncomplaining Ula was slowly dying from the climate, brought Bob to his senses. Thereafter his tenderness to the adoring little Ula was marked. He had at last thrown off Nora's hold. Two years later when Zoura returned to Nome, she found Bob recovering from the death of his wife, and preparing to take his two children to New York with him to re-establish his law practice. Holding Zoura's eyes with his own, Bob asked if sometime in New Y'ork he couldn't look her up, and she softly answered, "Y'es." APE MAN Max Lechner File No. 9231 WHEN Dr. Stone invites two brother savants to witness the birth of a human child from the mating of two experimental apes, he brings down upon himself a storm of protests but he has sworn his fellow scientists to secrecy. Y'ears later the pertly pretty Bella is chiding two friends, Jack and Larry, who are continually fighting over her. She reminds them that they are to keep training regulations and the trio grown suddenly serious discuss the difficulties the Alma Mater is going to have in the track meet. When the coach comes up Jack sarcastically suggests that he ought to get Tom Stone out for the team. Larry is chiding Jack for being jealous of Bella's friendship with the honor student when Tom himself comes up, sensing that he has been under discussion. Bella, realizing the sensitive lad has been hurt, walks off with him and he explains to her that all his life he had been brought up sheltered from all outside contacts by his uncle, Dr. Stone. Because of his ugliness he has ucvci' known kindness from any but Bella ami the Doctor, aiul it is the former who iniluces him to develop himself physically. At the track try-outs, Tom is a sensation but when he returns to his uncle's home he confesses he has been troubled by dizzy spells and continuous pains. The scientist examines the boy, and a much agitated Dr. Stone explains to his comrade. Dr. Cobb, that what he has dreaded is coming to pass. The athletic workouts plus the girl Bella are awakening animal instincts in the brilliant boy strong enough to deform his body. Gravely Ur. Stone explains to the boy that his father was not normal and unless Tom gives up all excitement there is the danger that he may inherit his father's characteristics. At college, Tom's sudden decision to quit when the college is depending upon him arouses a furore and taunted by Bella, Tom enters and wins a contest. Exhaustion overtakes him in the locker room and when Jack maliciously tries to 'bring him to" with a pail of ice water, Tom, reverting to an animalistic state strangles him to death and sinks back into a coma. The unaccountable murder is hushed and it is assumed that the prostrate Tom who does not suspect his own culpability, was a victim too of a maniac. Bella working in a professor's laboratory learns through a telephone message of an autopsy to be performed on Jaclv. The horrified girl unwittingly upsets an inflammable liquid which soon sets the laboratory on fire. Screaming she rushes from the room, but all escape is cut oft. From the tower room she cries for help and when she has been given up, Tom rushes to an adjoining roof, scrambles up the flag pole and swings to the flammg building. Badly burned himself, he carries out the unconscious girl. Lying in the doctor's house he wonders why his banaages are not removed, but overhears Dr. Stone explain that in everything but brain Tom has changed into an ape. The last desperate remedy of Dr. Stone is to reduce Tom's brain to that of an animal. Bella calls, Tom's keeper bungles in his job and Tom kills the man. When Bella enters she retreats horrifiedly from the mouthing beast. Tripping over the prostrate body of the keeper, she strikes her head in falling, and Tom lifting her in his arms is overpowered by desire for her. He places her on a couch but as his hand reaches toward her he is shocked by his own hairy paw and turns to get help for the injured Bella. Dr. Stone entering the roona sees the bodies of the keeper and Bella and mistaking Tom's inarticulate cries fears that Tom is advancing to attack him too. He shoots and Tom dying, murmurs, "Help . . . Bella . . . injured." But Larry is already at the injured girl's side while Dr. Stone holds Tom's body in his arms. LADIES IN LOVE Isaac I. Stutler File No. 9508 ARRIVING in China to attend in person to his father's rice exporting business, Tom meets for the first time in many years, his father's partner Mike Logan, and is astonished to find that little Blanche Logan has grown up into a lovely blonde young person. On their fathers' rice plantation, Tom sees Blanche constantly and learns that since their childhood she has been cherishing the idea that someday they will be married. Tom is somewhat dismayed to find that Logan shares the hope too, and when they sail for home. Tom and Blanche are engaged to be married. Jack, one of the ship's officers who sits at their table, falls in love with Blanche, but dares not speak since she is already betrothed. At the same time, while on deck watching some of the passengers play quoits, Tom assists May, one of the passengers to take a splinter from her finger, and as their eyes meet, Tom realizes that this is the girl he loves. However, it is not until a terrific storm rages and the ship strikes a reef that things begin to happen. In the confusion, Tom, Blanche and May find refuge in the same boat and drift out to sea, while Jack, running to Blanche's stateroom to save her life finds her gone, but her father caught under a fallen beam. Jack rescues the elder Logan and their lifeboat is picked up by one of the ships summoned by the S.O.S. When the survivors are counted it is found that only Tom, Blanche and May are lost. Jack, in his anxiety for the girl he loves charters a plane and scours the high seas in his efforts to find her. Long after everyone else has given the trio up for lost, Jack continues his search. Meanwhile the three in question have brought their lifeboat to an island and after many futile attempts and volunteering of all the information they have ever gleaned about castaways, the trio get a fire started by rubbing dry twigs together. Tom guards the two girls while they sleep, but Blanche realizes that Tom and May love each other. As the days pass and hope of rescue seems dimmer, Blanche feels that she has no right to keep the other two apart and when she overhears Tom tell May that they must protect Blanche, the little blonde girl vanishes into the woods, and falls into the hands of savages who had thus far been kept oft' by the castaways' bullets. Tom and May are horrified and leaving May the one gun with instructions to use it rather than fall into the cannibals' hands, Tom sets out and in the dead of night rescues Blanche from the clearing where she is being held by the Prince who has won her as his spoils. Carrying Blanche in his arms, ITom returns to May with the savages on the trail. May's fire is discovered by Jack and when he lands his plane he terrifies the blacks and rescues the trio. Several weeks later two happy pairs kneel at the altar and the scene dissolves as Tom seals May's lips, and Jack kisses the fragile little Blanche. THE MAD BOND Joseph Sawchyn File No. 9539 THE son of wealthy Ukraiiiiui peasants, Ivan spends every spare hour away from his classes at llie L'nivcrsity studying, and the other students try to induce him to join them at their pleasures. One day he receives twenty dollars from home as a gift and he is persuaded to accomi)aiiy a group of students to the Monte Carlo, a cabaret. The gaiety and free living make his head whirl, but suddenly his eyes are fastened on a beautiful young girl who is serving cognac to the boisterous students. They all call to her, and Kitty seems impervious to the students' hands groping toward her. Ivan stares in fascination and she brings him drinks until the whole of the twenty dollars has been spent. The next morning Ivan awakens at home with a splitting headache and as he plunges his head into icy water to clear it, a kaleidoscope of memories of Kitty's silvery laugh and eager kisses passes through his mind. Thereafter he spends all his nights at the Monte Carlo to be near Kitty, selling his books and clothes to pay for his evenings. However, when Kitty tires of hin:, she ignores him entirely and Ivan, not jealous of the men who embrace her, is content just to be near her. One night he receives a telegram ordering his immediate return home, but Ivan instead goes to Monte Carlo and is dismayed at not seeing Kitty. He pleads with one of the other girls who makes him buy round after round of drinks, delighting in his agony before she finally reveals Kitty's address. Ivan waits outside her doors for hours and sees Kitty go out in a large hat with ostrich feathers. She smiles sardonically and hurries down the street with Ivan following desperately. At length, however, he loses her, and returns after hours of searching to his room. Despondently he stuffs an accumulation of telegrams in his pocket and after days of searching for Kitty he collapses. When he comes to, he is being tended by Kitty who with an unfathomable expression on her face tells him that the newspapers are carrying the story of the death of his father. She promises to go away with Ivan if he sells his father's estate and Ivan, who has always loved the spacious grounds, realizes about half of what the beautiful lands are worth and hurries from the city to the hisses of the countryfolk. He joins Kitty and together they leave the city. Ivan is helpless in his overwhelming passion for Kitty and the days with her are the happiest of his life. One morning, however, he awakes to find a note from Kitty telling him she has fled with his money. She tells him she is unwilling to see him but asks him to write. Some day, she says, she niay return. Ivan is distracted, but he dares not violate her directions and he takes teaching exams and accepts a post that no one else will take in an isolated mountain town. For five years he labors among the people who worship him and once a year he writes a letter to Kitty but receives no response. Then, one day, an automobile pulls up the dirt road and from it steps a feverish eyed, rouged Kitty. Ivan looks at her in wonder but in a broken voice she tells him that she is dying, and having given her youth and beauty to other men she has come to die at his side, if he will let her. Ivan cares for her tenderly till the end and at length returns to the continent to begin life anew. DOCTOR'S ORDERS Florence Burden File No. 9516 THE Barry Bates household is giving a party. They invite Bill Toll, an eligible bachelor. Upon being ushered into the cocktail room where the other guests had already assembled. Bill soon finds Ina Fulton because she is still wearing brown, much to his dislike. At the dance that night Ina appears in a brown tulle gown, but Bill forgets this color grievance he has against Ina when he has her in his arms dancing. A sudden dizziness overtakes Bill while he is leading Ina in a waltz. His complaints arouse no outward show of sympathy from her. Her indifference and spit-fire manner make Bill cut short his week-end stay, and the following morning he returns home. Dizzy spells come over him frequently so he goes to see a doctor. The sight of the nurse who takes him into the doctor's office makes him jump nervously. The doctor uses the stethoscope on Bill, then the x-ray, and then the fluoroscope. Bill faints under this last examination. The doctor's verdict recommends an exploratory operation as soon as possible. Discouraged, Bill asks his best friend, Vred Johnson, to come over to his home to take things over. Just as Fred advises Bill to consult Dr. Fulton, Ina's father and a great psychologist, Tomson, the butler, announces Miss Fulton who has come to see how Bill is faring. The bachelor, thinking he is going to die under the operation, asks Ina to marry him so that he can will his wealth to her. In the same abrupt, cold, business-like manner that Bill proposes to her, Ina accepts the proposition and leaves immediately to shop for a ring. She hurries to keep a hmcheon appointment with her father, and tells him all about her engagement. Dr. Fulton decides to investigate the seriousness of Bill's illness and pays his future son-in-law a professional visit. That night he informs his daughter that Bill's trouble is purely a mental condition caused by his fear of falling in love. He calls up Fred Johnson to come over to his home immediately. After Ina retires, the two men plan to cure Bill. Coached by Dr. Fulton on what to say and how, Fred visits Bill the next day and urges him to delay the operation until Dr. Fulton has given him several treatments. Bill consents to this and to giving Fred permission to take Ina out and make things more pleasant for her. Fred goes directly to the