Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

The Talkie Murder Mystery \Continued from page 7S] to such lengths to gain publicity. They advised Fishbein to get down to business. Jerome Kearney was reassured by the newspapers and went on the lot that morning. He worked all day, although half-heartedly, for his mind was on something else. If it was not for the fact that he was afraid of being called a coward and made fun of, he would have throv/n up the job. That night he and his wife went to a party in Beverly Hills. The fun lasted until about one in the morning. Kearney drove home, let his wife out in front of the house and drove the car into the garage, which was quite a good distance behind the house. Mrs. Kearney undressed and went to bed. She wondered what was taking Jerome so long, but assumed that he was down in the living room, reading. The following morning she got up at the usual hour and went into the adjoining room to awaken her husband. He was not there. His bed had not been slept in. Mrs. Kearney became alarmed, called the servants and ran all through the house shouting her husband's name. He was not to be found. Suddenly an idea came to her. Perhaps he had driven off again last night after they had come home. She ran out to the garage to see if the machine was there. It was. And slumped over the wheel was Jerome Kearney. He was dead. In his head were four bullets. {To be continueiJ] Dear Dead Days {Continued from page S7] "Understand what, mamma.''" "Sex, darling." "1 don't tliink," announced DeLacey, "that I shall care for Sex." YET, twenty years later the world was to applaud him in Passion's Plaything. Life was like that, thought DeLacey Lefkowitz. We are but so many words, and Fate is the Edgar Guest who puts us in such queer places. When DeLacey was twelve he met a girl. He would have thought she was a neat number had he known about that sort of thing. "My mother," he told her, "thinks God brings babies." The girl laughed. DeLacey did not laugh. He ran home. Fifteen years later she was to sob at Ashes of Ardor, starring DeLacey Lefkowitz. Life, he thought, was also like that. Ten years later DeLacey met another girl. She talked of Love. He wondered what Love was. He wondered about Sex. "My mother," he told the girl, "thinks — " "Never mind," said the girl. NEXT day they were married. DeLacey wondered about God. The girl introduced him to her father, who owned a moving picture company or something. He gazed dreamily at me across the dimlylit drawing room. As he spoke he puffed languidly on a slender Russian cigarette. "That is ail. Miss Barefax," he said. Had I been awake I could have told DeLacey Lefkowitz that his slender Russian rigarette was about to burn his finger. If You Want a fob SI or a Hobby tiiatRcfrs WhereYou andl^pYom Well cmbeYour QmEouis OwnBoss learn Illustrating O END for our free catalog "A Road To Bigger Things." Leam how former Federal School graduates now earn larger incomes. See the work and comments of the fifty famous artists who have contributed to the Federal Course in Illustrating. Opportunities in drawing have never been better. Art is a vital part of today's business. Successful magazine and newspaper artists are making fine incomes. Advertisers and pubUshers are paying large sums annually to those who are trained in Modem Art. Think of the money paid to artists for the illustrations in this magazine alone. The Federal Course includes illustrating, cartooning, lettering, window card illustrating, etc. TEST YOUR TALENT FREE Why be content with a small income at routine work if art training may offer larger possibilities? Many people have a talent for art and do not realize it. That is why we enclose a test chart with our catalog. It finds out your ability. Fill out the coupon now. It may be the beginning of an art career which will enable you to earn a good income. FEDERAL SCHOOL 9870 Federal Schools BuUding OF ILLUSTRATING :: :: Minneapolis, Minnesota Federal School of Illustrating, PtIi 9870 Federal Schools Building, UjU IVIinneapolis, Minnesota. fffi PJease send me free book *'A Road To Bigger Things" and y-ni Standard Art Test. Name Age Address -OccupatioT. 89