Talking Picture Magazine (Jan 1933 - Jul 1934)

Page 10 TALKING PICTURE MAGAZINE October, 1933 she brings it to him. Surprised at her thoughtfuliiess. he accepts it and as he smacks his lips he exolainis it is the best lemonade he ever tasted. When he sniffs it, Rose playfully asks him what he expects to find in it, and laughing at his own suspicions, John downs glass after glass until when Edna comes home she find her handsome bridegroom in a stupor. Rose helps her get John to bed and plays upon her imaginati9n by telling her that no woman can ever be happy with a drunkard. The unhappy bride weeps and when John wakes up with a splitting headache, she accuses him of so many things that in a temper he leaves the house. Rose again pretends sympathy and at last Edna agrees that she ought to go home to her mother to teach John a lesson. Meanwhile, when John returns contritely to beg Edna's pardon for losing his temper. Rose tells him a nagging wife is a terrible thing for any man, and that it's just as well that Edna is getting a divorce. Divorce has never occurred to John and he sinks heavily into a chair. However, Edna changes her mind, comes back to John and finds Rose liovering over him, kissing his head. In her fury she drives the girl from the house, and while Rose, dignity scattered trudges forlornly to the station, miles and miles away, John and Edna cling to each other and beg for forgiveness as they start life anew. ONE WOMAN Ramsey L. Reed Drama File No. 10280 PEOPLE have always told Marie she is too beauKiful ever to have to work and when Ray Wilton holds her in his arms and tells her he can give her the pretty clothes and furs she should have, Marie marries him. When she returns to her family to show her diamond studded wedding ring, her parents try to hide their misgivings and question her about her husband's work. Only her brother Claude whom she has always adored, defends her, and cries out that anything is better than this hand to mouth existence. It is Claude who takes her back to her little apartment and admires the clothes Ray has bought for her. But when, that night, Marie is held tightly in her husband's arms, she asks him what business he is in. Ray covers her face with kisses and tells her not to worry about such matters. A few days later Ray comes home hurriedly to order Marie into his car, and as he drives crazily to the outskirts of the town, frightened by his fierce expression she begs him to slow down. "And be caught by the cops?" he sneers, and cowering against the cushions of the car, Marie's heart sinks. The next few days are spent in hiding but at last Ray is caught and sentenced to prison for using Ihe mails to defraud. He takes his term philosophically, but Marie, weeping as she tells him she is going to have a baby, promises to wait for him. Returning home she finds her parents heartbroken for her brother Claude has disappeared, leaving no clue. At length Ray is freed, and promising to reform he takes Marie and the baby back. For a time they are forced to stint as Ray seeks employment, but at length, rebelling, he begs her to borrow ■money from her folks and when Marie refuses, loses his temper. Later, he retvirns and burying his face in her lap, begs her to forgive him, telling her how much he loves her. A few days later, however, he comes home excited about a racket he has developed, and when Marie refuses to help him, he sullenly excludes her from his consideration. When Marie sees him in animated conversation with a cheap looking woman, her last luve for him dies, and she returns home to her people. She finds them agitated over a visit from a woman who claims she is Claude's wife. May. The woman had brought a year old baby which she claimed was Claude's and with a sob story and some faded snapshots, begged Marie's parents {or money. They, bewildered, had given her a bill and asked her to give them time to think. Now she was begging them to give her money to hire a detective to find Claude. Marie, certain that this woman must know Claude if she produced pictures recently taken, sends her in search of the boy and they find him, starving and shamefaced, in the park. Whe'n they bring him home he tells them he has never been married, that he had fallen iu with Ray's gang_ and had been ashamed to return home. When May returns, telling her sob story, she is confronted by Claude himself, and attempting to escape is arrested for blackmail. She is the same woman whom Marie has seen with her husband and the whole idea was Ray's. Ray begs jVlarie to forgive him and when she sues for divorce, he tries to kidnap the child given into Marie's custody. Claude, however, prevents him, beats him severely, and warns Ray that if he ever shows up again he'll be turned over to the police. It is on a trip abroad, to forget, that Marie misses Sonny, and finds him talking to a smiling man, Gordon Ross, and as Marie's eyes meet his, a new era begins. SINNING HUSBANDS Garabed Toumassiam Melodrama File No. 10295 DESIRING a wife to give him sons, James a young barber of Aleppo, in the north-eastern part of Syria, journeys to his native home in Turkey, and weds Mary, a widow's daughter. The young couple return to Aleppo, and the early months of their marriage pass hapuily. James' business prospers, and his father, dying leaves him a small fortune, which enables hira to buy a more luxurious home, and entertain lavishly. One of his friends, Joseph, has a beautiful young sister, Jane, whom James admires, but she is in love with John, a poor cutler. Aware of the advantage that a marriage between Jane and James would be to him, Joseph urges his friend to divorce his wife, but he replies that his Christian religion will not permit him to do this, and, angry because he cannot be free, James drinks heavily. Returning home in a drunken stupor, he often beats his devoted Mary, but she bears the punishment without complaint, praying that his love for her will return. One night he is unusually cruel, and she cannot restrain her cries, which attract the attention of a kindly neighbor woman, to whom she sobs out the story of her husband's brutality. The neighbor woman tells John, who sends Mary with Peter, his younger brother, to Anna, the wife of a winemaker. James and Joseph, in an intoxicated condition, come here to look for her, but Anna hides her under a basket of clothes. John then takes the young wife to Father Thomas, at the monastery, and he brings about a reconciliation between Mary and her husband. The two go to the cottage of his friends, Peter and Paul, for a vacation. All is well for a few months, and Mary's happiness is complete when she tells her husband that she is to have a child, but he once more longs for Jane, and securing her brother's promise that he may have her if he can dispose of Mary, resolves to kill his wife. Inviting James to the house, he orders Mary to prepare a feast, and slips poison into her glass of wine. Soon she is seized with pain, but he quiets her, and tells her he has summoned a neighbor woman who will help her. She loses consciousness, and James and Joseph strangle her, but it is believed that the poor woman may have been killed but it cannot be definitely proved, as it is thought possible that she died of a fall, as there is a scar across her temple which might have been brought about by a fall, and her condition often caused her to faint. Charges against James and Joseph are dropped, as there is no definite proof of their guilt. Apparently overcome by grief, James attends the funeral of his wife, garbed in the apparel of deep mourning. A few days later, he prepares to wed Jane, despite her tearful protests that she loves John. Her lover attempts to take her away, but is captured and imprisoned for this plan, while executing it. The wedding day approaches, and the unhappy Jane is dressed in white, and led before the altar for the ceremony, when a stranger stops the proceedings, and states that he sold James and Joseph poison just before Mary's death. An investigation is begun; her body is examined, and it is discovered the child she carried is black with poison. Joseph is sentenced to life imprisonment, James to exile, and John is released, and granted permission to make Jane his wife. KILLER Ethel Hallmark Drama File No. 10380 AT dinner in the home of Judge Drew, most prominent citizen of the sleepy little college town of Winslow, Jane, the petted daughter is receiving a lecture. Her brother. Tom, goodlooking and ultra collegiate whistles at his father's urging Jane to think about her future more, and forget about Clancy Moran, who is just a penniless fortune hunter. Jane flies up in Clancy's defense, and when the Judge complacently suggests that anyone of Tom's friends, Horace, Paul, Jack or Edgar would be preferable to Clancy, Jane explodes, dismissing Horace as an overgrown baby, Paul as a self-conscious football star. Jack as one who knew only too well that he was most popular boy at the school, and Edgar, as an over-studious prig. Tom starts to protest, but Jane flies out of room, and her mother helplessly urges them to regain their tempers. The following evening the ball the Judge is giving in honor of Jane's birthday is in full swing. As usual all Tom's friends are cutting in on Jane, but it is Clancy who swings her off the dance floor and into the garden. They are in close embrace when the Judge discovers them and sending the rebellious Jane inside, draws from Clancy an admission that although he loves Jane he is penniless. The Judge orders the boy from the grounds and tells him if he attempts to come back he will be run out of town. As Tom goes he sees a figure dart into the shrubbery, but preoccupied as he is, he goes on. That night a stealthy figure lets a rope ladder down from the roof of the Drew home, enters Tom's room, and swinging an axe crashes it into the sleeping boy's skull. Tom's unearthly scream brings his startled family to the scene and the murderer escapes with uncanny agility. The Chief examines the body, pronounces it murder, and explains that he can only estabhsh a police net waiting for the murderer to return to the scene of his crime. Later, when Clancy tries to slip in to see Jane, he is caught and at the hysterical charge of the Judge is held as the murderer. Only the vigilance of the authorities save Clancy from lynching by the mob. The following night, however, while in prison another alarm is raised, police cars race out with sirens screaming, and Clancy learns that Paul, a classmate 'of Tom's has likewise been a victim of the axe murderer. Bitterly he asks the authorities if they believe that he committed that crime too, and when Clancy, in deep thought develops a theory, he induces the jailer to let him slip out that night and prove it, lest the whole town be wiped out by this murderer. Clancy proceeds to the home of Jack Smith, most popular boy at the college and states he believes he will be the next \ ictini since the others have been the two most prominent boys at the college. Shuddering Jack agrees to Clancy's plan to let Clancy await the murderer, and Clancy paints a dummy head to resemble Jack. That night the murderer enters, buries his axe, and with a mad giggle prepares to leave. Clancy jumps for his throat, but the murderer slips out like an eel and escapes. On the roof he is cornered by the police but as he attempts to run down his ladder he falls and the body is identified as Edgar Mills, most studious boy of the class, who had gone mad with envy of the wealthier and handsomer boys and was killing them all. Clancy is freed and offered a position on the detective force, and the Judge, at first blustery, accepts Clancy in his son's place. THE GLEANERS Ermina Gerlough Drama File No. 10347 FROM the wreckage of the crashed plane a man groaned as he feebly shooed off a vulture. Despairingly his eyes searched the war torn field of grain and as he saw two small figures slowly move, a cry tore from his parched throat, then oblivion settled down over him. When at length he opened his eyes he saw two women one old and one incredibly young and lovely. The one called Gran explained it was a wounded soldier, and the younger reached for his pulse and asked. "How did you come to be here?" Irritably, Robert St. John snapped, "Don't you see the broken plane? Must you ask stupid questions now?" and the soft voice replied, "I'm. sorry. I did not see. I am blind." The grandmother hurried toward the hut they had claimed as their own and returned with some water and a blanket. Cynthia explained that her father had come to a physician's congress and when the war broke out he remained on the staff of one of the hospitals. Cynthia too had enlisted as a nurse. Then one day while her father was out, a bomb had wrecked the hospital. Cynthia had lost her sight and her grandmother, who had been visiting that day, had led her until they had come to this deserted hut and managed to exist by gleaning grain from the downtrodden field. Using the blanket as a stretcher, the women carried the groaning soldier to their hut and made him comfortable on the one cot. During the night Cynthia relieved Robert's burning forehead with her cool hand but the next morning at dawn she and her grandmother left to glean. Rain fell, and cold set in, but each day saw Robert's strength slowly return. It was one day when he was alone that Robert realized his bandages were part of Cynthia's skirt and realizing how she must be in need of outer garments he determined to leave and bring help for them. Discouraged, Cynthia begged her grandmother to return home and as the old woman distinguished the tracks of a car they hurried back. But Robert was gone and Cynthia, falling down at the side of his bed wept bitterly. Two figures stood in the doorway — American soldiers come for Cynthia and her grandmother. Between them they led the weeping Cynthia to their car. The war was over. A shipload of soldiers had arrived in Hoboken. To a fellow captain Robert St. Johns explained he was going to look up an old lady and her blind granddaughter. If they returned they must be in want. Proceeding to the address that Cynthia had given him, Robert realized the neighborhood was a magnificent one and when directed to Dr. Blair's mansion he stared perplexedly. "Sure," the gardner replied to Robert's questioning, "Dr Blair was overseas, and he has a daughter Cynthia, but she is not bjind." It was late afternoon and Robert sat down puzzled to wait. Embarrassed, he watched the Blair car, driven by a uniformed chauffeur pull up. It was the old lady, now a white haired dowager, who recognized Robert and Cynthia incredulously ran toward him. After she has introduced him to her father she explaineci that a specialist had restored her sight. But now that Cynthia was rich, Robert turned to go and it was only when her soft arms held him and she pleaded that if he loved her he wouldn't let her money come between them, that Robert believed with her, that he could build planes, and make good, and his lips held hers. THE OVERLAND TRAIL Ann Delmac Western File No. 10343 WITH eyes turned toward the pioneer west, Mr. and Mrs. John Thorn and their six year old daughter Betty join a wagon train on the Overland Route. At Cheyenne they stop and Jim Day, notorious gambler, catching sight of Mrs. Thorn, decides he wants her. In his saloon he arranges a friendly game of cards but when Thorn declines the drinks he is offered. Jim aranges to have him shot as he is leaving. The wagon train moves on. too slim in numbers to revenge Thorn's murder, and Mrs. Thorn, ill from