Talking Picture Magazine (Oct 1929 - Nov 1930)

Page 12 TALKING PICTURE MAGAZINE January, 1930 EX LIBRIS Ralph Weir BOB MORE is a young college graduate of the usual athletic type. He is employed in the offices of a large advertising concern. Boyish, exuberant, he is always on a hair-trigger, and is perfectly willing to follow wherever adventure beckons. As the story begins, he is making a hurried dash to the Public Library of the large city in which the action takes place, in search of a few items to be used in a new advertising campaign. He dashes up to the reference room, and as he rounds the corner, bumps into a pretty girl who is emerging with her arms full of huge books. He apologizes, and after a second look at the girl, offers to take them wherever she is going. The girl, in a spirit of vengeance, leads him up and down stairs and corridors in a most roundabout manner, finally ending up in the children's room. Bob tries to engage her in conversation and finally is successful in making an appointment with her. Bob drives Ned's car for the date and on the way home he notices they are being followed. Finally they are stopped and under the pressure of revolvers are forced to accompany the hold-up men' to an isolated farm house, where he and Sally are confined in one room. It is apparent to Bob that, being of the same build as Ned, he has been mistaken for him and that they are connected with gamblers who desire to see Ned out of the International Polo Match. With Sally's help, Bob carries on with the delusion. Late the next dav they are released. When the men insult Sally, Bob attacks them and he and Sally make their escape to the car. After a few hours of sleep he is much better, and a shower and the change into evening clothes comoletes his recovery. He takes a taxi down to the Rock home. As he sits in the library enjoying a cigarette, Mrs. Rock comes in. She upbraids him for his neglect of them, but adds that he has atoned fully by the events of the night before. Bob finally sees a large portrait of a girl, and crossin'g over to it, sees that his suspicions are true, — it is the same Sally. As he holds the portrait, she comes in. He is too disconsolate to say anything. She comes over to him. She asks him if her reception has made any difference. He makes a non-committal answer, and she goes on to tell him how she has always heard so much about Bob More from Ned that she wanted to meet him. They are locked in each other's arms as Ned comes in. Thev do not see him, and he turns around and walks out again, scratching his head in bewilderment. THE JUDGE'S DAUGHTER A. John Armstrong §IDNEY MORGAN, graduate of law college, is with his chum Jack Williams. They speculate as to what the future holds for them. While on a fishing triD they meet with Nellie Andover and her father Judge Andover. At a picnic this friendship is renewed. Sidney is introduced to Mr. Peterson, District Attorney and makes a connection with him, while Jack left to seek his fortune in the West. In the course of his duties Sidney is called upon to solve the mvstery of a murdered woman, found in front of Judge Andover's estate. McCabe. detective, is sent for as well as the coroner. While the search for evidence is going on, there is a discussion going on in the house of Radcliffe Wilson, not far from the home of Judge Andover. A knock was heard on the door of Wilson's home an'd Verne Lerdy enters, flustered. Lerov admits that he has killed the girl. Wilson has his lawyer Mr. Grey defend Leroy. McCabe is suspicious of Wilson and summons him to court. Sidney obtains a verdict of murder in the first degree against Leroy. McCabe appears in Sidney's office and explains that he believes Wilson and his gang »re the counterfeiters sought by the Government. Through Brown' and Dodge, friends of McCabe in St. Louis, they trap Wilson, who commits suicide rather than face trial. Sidney's fortunes are on the increase. Peterson has died. New clients have sought his services. Colonel Coddington of the Interurban Traction Company retains him to helo place the company on a paying basis. The Colonel's daughter Inez falls in love with Jack. Jack is retained to take care of the engineering improvements of the road. Jack invites Sidney to soend the week-end at his uncle's estate in Texas. While at the home of Jack's uncle a lawyer arrives and tells Mr. Williams that a judgment has been placed on his prooerty. Sidney is asked to ha^dH the case. Mr. Williams explains to Sidney that a gang known as the "Lone Ranchers" had some say about the property. Sidney, returning home, informs McCabe of the activities of the gang. Sheridan, the leader of the gang, is well known by McCabe. McCabe, with the aid of another detective, enters the home of Sheridan as a messenger of Radcliff" Wilson, telling them that he was ordered by Wilson to collect some monev. As the money was produced from Sheridan's pocket, McCabe saw that it was counterfeit and arrests him. All members of the gang are brought bv McCabe to th» county iail for safe-keeping. Sidney is elected District Attorney and later Attorney General of the State. Mr. Coddington died and as Inez was the only one left Judge Andover suggested that she come to live with Nellie. Judge Andover wanted Sidnev to run for higher office at election time, but Sidney declined because it would deprive him of being close to his lovd ones. On the first of the vear we find him with a orivate practic-. for which he had been longing all the time. This brings him nearer to Nellie and arrangements are made for a double marriage, with Jack and Inez as the second couple. THE SNOW QUEEN Katherine Bartels ISABELLE THORPE is the secretary of Morton Crane, prominent New York attorney. They are on board the OWERA returning to New York and the scene of action takes place two days off shore. Isabelle is wholly dissatisfied with her position. At first the prospect of a trip to Paris had thrilled her, but there had been little time for leisure of any sort. Morton Crane was literally a slave driver. Only her mother's need makes her stick to her job, for she had contemplated leaving once the ship docked. Riobert Crane is in love with Isabelle. There is a masquerade aboard ship and Isabelle, dressed as the Snow Queen, attracts the attention of all. During the ball the jewels of Sonia Crane are stolen. The mystery is heightened by the fact that Isabelle has given in to temptation and has taken the precious stones from Sonia's cabin, but a sudden realization of the deed forces her to return them. While returning them, the vase in which they are hidden is overturned and Bob enters the cabin to find Sonia at the scene. During this excitement a proposal is made Isabelle, by an artist on board to have her pose for him when they dock, and Isabelle accepts at once. She conveys this acceptance to her employer. Bob, meanwhile, believes Isabelle responsible for the robbery. Sonia has announced the theft of her jewels to her father. Bob volunteers far amateur detective work and sometime later, he recovers them in Isabelle's room. He asks her for the balance of the jewelry, which has not been recovered. Subsequent developments reveal that Bee Graves, girl companion of Sonia, has stolen the jewelry and placed part of it in Isabelle's stateroom, hinting to Sonia that a search of Isabelle's quarters might be interesting. Bob learns of this from Sonia and rushes to Isabelle. While in her room the artist again calls on Isabelle, asking her to meet him one day earlier. From the conversation Bob is led to believe that he has made a proposal of marriage. "He's an artist," she replied promptly, feeling ashamed of her last remark. ''He wants to paint my portrait and have me wear the costume I appeared in at the masquerade. If you think he's in love with me. you're wholly mistaken. He's in love with my costume — with the snow queen!" "With the snow queen?" Bob exclaimed, his grey eves looking straight into hers. "I can't blame him for that. But don't pay any attention to him," he continued seriously. "Listen to me instead, for I have a double claim. You see I'm in love with both of vou!" EVE Edna Stevens EVE DONOVAN is employed as a domestic in the Monroe household. Left by a desperate mother upon the door-step of a home in a fashionable section and later going from the foundling home to an orphanage, the time comes for her to leave and with the help of Miss Sawyer, a matron, a position as nursemaid to Mrs. Dabney Monroe, a woman of prominence and immense wealth, is obtained for her. Edith Monroe, pale and patient-faced, is slowly nassing away and perceiving her husband's infatuation for Berenice Mercier, a pianiste of some distinction. — accentuated by a dinner-party given in Berenice's honor, she attempts to thwart her husband in a course which she knew would be fat^l to him. She thought of her children too, a->d finally drew up a new will, the strangeness <"»f which was lost upon her sickly, single-track mind. Briefly she stipulated that a year after her death a marriage of convenience was to be enacted between Dabney Monroe and Eve Donovan. In return for this obligation. Eve would receive an ample inheritance besides a prominent r-am— a future secure against financial and social complications. In the event that Monroe refused to comply with these reauirements. he must forfeit the fortune to Eve and the children. After his wife's death, and after a disillusioning discovery that Berenice preferred the continuance of a liaison in luxury to marriage with him in comparative poverty, he decided to follow the oath of the least resistance. He arran'ged with his elderly aunt, a kindly woman of seasoned sophistication, to take Eve abroad for a year. Eve overheard him tell her with a grimace of distaste, "Polish up my diamond in the rough." Accompanied bv the children, thev leave for Europe. A vear later they return, and Monroe is thunderstruck at the change in his affianced. The obscure little nurse-maid could not possibly be the same apparition" of loveliness leading his children across the gang-plank. Their wedding was quietly solemnized the following day. Monroe, to test Eve's wings and society's attitude concerning his unknown wife, gives a huge ball in her honor. There she meets Lord Andrew Henderson1, an idling philanderer, and uses him as a tool to make Dabney suffer as his wife had suffered before him, for Monroe is now in love with Eve. A compromising situation unfolds, and Dabney finds her alone, obviously awaiting her lover's return. He denounces her violently. "Perhaps I have avenged your wife a to-night." "But you are my wife," he cried, She pushed him gently from her and said my dear, — even Eve Donovan has her price. must start all over again and woo her. much at least she has a right to demand on her own account.*' little "No. You That THE LITTLE MOTHER William G. Smith FLORENCE BARNES has made a promise to her dying mother to protect and be a mother to her younger brother. Florence has a lover whom she turns away to fulfill this sacred pledge. On her way to work Florence meets with an accident and is taken to the home of Jake Flood, weathy racketeer. Flood hears the story of the plight of Flo and her brother. Flo's brother is ambitious to become a lawyer, and Flood agrees to advance mon'ey required for tuition fee on condition that Flo consents to marry him. Flo, unaware that Flood is a crook, accepts his offer and becomes his wife for her brother's sake, Although she does not love him. She is unhappy as the wife of Flood but makes no complaint. Flo's brother becomes a successful lawyer and is afterwards advanced to the office of District Attorney. Flo finds out that Flood is crooked and informs her brother of that fact. Her brother talks to Flood and expresses the hope that he and his gang will keep clear of arrest, as this would cause him no end of embarrassment in his position of District Attorney. Flood, however, does not play the game but takes wild chances, intending to use Flo and her brother as his shield. Barnes is forced to overlook and cover up Flood's activities, lest his sister be exposed. Flood is captured in a raid and informs the officers that Flo, not he, is the leader of the gang. Flo is brought to court and charged by her own brother. A member of Flood's gang, thinking himself mortally wounded, exposes the frame-up and Flo is released. Flood and his gang are imprisoned. Flo's lover, whom she still loves, but had to refuse at a time when' her promise to her mother was at stake, hears the entire story in court and meets Florence again. They are reunited and their true love triumphs. Her sweetheart of old has become rich beyond dreams and as the oil magnate of southwestern United States he is able to give Florence that comfort and happiness which her years of misfortune entitle her. HILLY ALLY HOO! Mary Skidmore Rutledge THIS short covers the misadventures of James Buchanan O'Connell and his pal William Montgomery Speer. The boys are home from college for their vacation. They miss the pep of college life and when Aunt Ann tells them that someone had read in a paper about the visit of the Klu Kluckers to a neighboring church, laying a money offering on the altar and marching out again', with the congregation petrified, the boys have an idea. The platform was full at the Postrolity meeting. A bright mulatto girl with a guitar led the singing and predominated. Prayers rose and the Gift of The Tongue descended. The pastor took his place at the central table and his hearers were invited to come forward with their money contributions for the cause. Just at this time a car stopped not far outside the tent and a tall majestic looking man with iron gray hair stepped out to preserve order. He was the Chief and represented "The Law." At the same time a small run -a -bout stopped next to the church and two figures emerged. One said : ''The switchboard is right inside the door. Give me five minutes and then blink the lights so I will know you are ready." The lights gave a little blink and at once from one edge of the tent a figure was seen to advance down the central aisle. Mouths hung open the effort to see more and bodily functions ceased! "Hilly Ally Hoo!" Then the lights went out. "Amen! Bless the Lord! The Chief arranged for the restoration of lights. Brother Jackson was missing and the money box too. In the meantime the Chief and his friend Dr. O'Connell had a jolly visit together. The Chief told the lively Doctor about the episode and chuckled as he asked. "Do you want to see the tag I found on the robe? ** The doctor laughed as he looked at the little inch of tape with the red JBOC. M MARRIED BY CONVENIENCE George C. Craig R. GREENFIELD and his wife have become estranged and when he meets Stella Anderson' he falls hard. Miss Anderson was violinist of no mean distinction and somewhat of a charmer of men. Greenfield's heroism in the late war wins her sympathy and they are married. Their marriage does result in happiness. Gossiping neighbors and the cultural difference between the two causes a wedge to enter. Stella gees to a cabaret, sin'ce she is without funds and refuses to accept aid from her husband. One of her musical numbers appeals to a patron of the cabaret and he visits there regularly. Gordon Leonard, through strategy, obtains an introduction to her and they become friendly. Leonard is the leader of a gang of rum-runners, but this fact is concealed from Stella. Meanwhile Greenfield attempts, through a friend, to reconcile their friendship, but without avail. She gives the message bearer a note to Greenfield, stating that while she is not unfriendly to him, she does not bear him any affection. Greenfield makes his way to the cabaret, one evening, while Leonard is there. Leonard has sent some flowers to Stella's room and taken it upon himself to follow this up by a personal visit. A cry for help is heard and Greenfield recog Mention of the Talking Picture Magazine is the best introduction to advertisers.