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'AGS FOUR Tfca CnZGON STATESMAN; -CslcnOrcjcn, Tuesday llernb-' pc-ber 8, 1235 i i . - Founded 1151 - , . i ; .. "... - - ; - - Wo Favor Sway Us; No Fear Shall AiceP. v Prom First Statesman. March 28. 1S51 Chakles A. SPRACUl Sheldon T. Sackett ; - Editor-Manager. : m Managing-Editor . fe. : ,THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. , . ,-'.. Member of the Associated Press H '"-- The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the vm tor publ!c-ak Uoo. of s:l news dispatches credited to It or sot otherwise credited to . ' . this paper. .. , ' - . x : Progress on the. Capitol CAPITOL construction began on Friday, a year to the day ' s j since the reconstruction commission met to organize. Act- , nally, construction work began nearly two montns Deiore, when work on the excavation was started. Since there have . frequently been criticisms over delays in-getting the work go ing, it is well to review the accomplishments of the commis sion. ' i : ' h. ft. ': r: ' In the period of a year the commission of nine had to get acquainted with each other and With their task; had to decide on methods of procedure ; select a technical adviser; carry on an architectural competition in order to get the best design possible for the state ; and then wait for the architects to com plete their finished plans. Through all' this time the commis- sion had to cooperate with PWA, as it is a joint undertaking; had to listen to a great multitude of interested citizens be cause it is a public work; and, had t6 confer jtvith ljeads. of many state departments in order to satisfy their require ments, au imngs considered, me commission nas maoe excel lent progress. The wait of nearly nine months from the time of the fire to their, appointment is not chargeable to the commis- - Sion. . ".v-:. I - m "- . - : H": : i ' The only other building of nearly equal cost was the Pub lic Service building in Portland. That was built by a private corporation, without any necessity of saiisfying legislators, a dozen bureaus, and the public at large, plus the artists. It took II months from the time the site was (-purchased until con struction began, jit was only nine months for the capitol when dirt commenced to fly ; and only a year until thetmilding con tractor started work. So the progress has been reasonably rapid. t , I ' . I ; " :- PWA has of course been a prod, because the government wanted jobs to bexrovided. Their requirements could not have : been met had not! the architects, Trowbridge & Livingston and Francis Keally i had .a. large and experienced organization equipped to turn put the finished plans in the space of about four months." f . V s 'r Considering the impediments to speed in public work, and the handicaps of so many advisers and so great divergence of opinion, the capitol commission is performing well ; and it is a safe prediction that the finished work will be one in which the whole state will take pride. J . N j Boss Pendergast Retires IT is rare that a political boss voluntarily retires at the peak of his success. That is what Tom Pendergast, political dic tator of Kansas City, and Missouri too, for the time being, announces. His dynasty continues however, since he says he is turning the job over to his nephew, James. Old Tom prom ises, however to be on hand as "adviser", which means that the final decisions will continue to be made by him. The Pendergast machine is one of the tightest now in operation. Even" the Kelly-Nash machine in Chicago wasnft able to defeat the incumbent district attorney, or to oust Hor ner as governor Tammany is out of power in New York, and . glad now to get the distribution of extra postoffice clerks for the Christmas rush, from Jim Farley, as a patronage divi-j dend for sunnort in the last election. Pendercrast is the actual ' , njuiica.i uuss vi mo ciijr uu cuunij, wim sill uuaiuuu iiai, tened out. . " . -4 i j ' ., Pendergast) has followed the conventional pattern of Doss es. He makes "his" out of construction contracts), being owner of a readi-mixed concrete company and part otner of a con struction company. These concerns not only get public con tracts, but are ho doubt; favored in sub-contracts from other . contractors. Politics is potent in the construction business, es 1 pecially if there is a good working alliance with the labor bosses. It is easy enough to raise one's eyebrows over a boss, and to spurn him as a thing of evil. But the boss must be able to give people something they want if he is to survive ; and Pen dergast seems to haye been competent as a political manipu lator and fixer to have built up the machine he has in Jackson county.; Eventually the people may wake up to the fact that they pay too heavy a price for what the boss gives them; but it takes a vast amount of effort to convince the masses of the - need of reform, if they have been given free barbecues or oth er signs of favor. - - ' ! s Bits for . t .1 Breakfast By K. J. HENDRICKS "Refined and cultured f 12-8-3 1 neighborhood" of .Oregon ' lUta penitentiary: this." la camlcal, but Is no joke: "Shadows" is the name of the monthly paper published at. by and if or the Inmates of the Ore con state penitentiary past, pres ent and future, 'and j for such others as are interested. ' .1 Hechanlcally. lt Is yery rood. Editorially, it la high class. It edltdr Is Hugh D'Autremont, in years cone by a Salem boy. He has been in his present status a long time, , and his work In Shadows" shows he is out - of step I with the "new freedom of expression." that is the one made np largely with cuss words and nam' of things and actions that were) not , mentioned in decent society a generation or so ago. . t Snort Sentences" is the sue- gestlfe heading of a department in . tae December n n m b e r of Shaiows." In that department this paragraph appears: u e were mildly rebuked in a letter! from Aj B. O.. Portland. for filling to blue pencil 'a con siderable amount of profanity. Shade ws, unlike many magazines, is noi edited with any particular, class of people in mind. So. we beg your pardon . and i tolerance if we offend occasionally. Any way, a. is. u.. your letter set us to thmklng, no mean accomplish ment in itself, and we decided to miresugate some or the pop ular magazines, to see lust how much I latitude their editors al lowed! contributors in the war oi -use new xreeaom of exDres- sion" iwhich we're heard existed 1. Wb crlUcally examined that most popular nlckle weekly, the one which has the publisher's picture on both the editorial page ana tne lull-page adrertisement of his radio broadcast. : we found that this wonder- man Uad developed a 'unique edl torial I technique. S Seems he edits to the people. We diubt it, at least, we hope not, fr his publications are full of 'bigods.' Then we challenge his right to call his subscribers THE PEOPLE. But, not wishing to be hasty. we carried our research further. ana laoxea into tne big maga zines. We We Slug, InlerD , a rating the New .By MARK SULLIVAN 4. i ' ! ceptlon of - government Well,' If the wofld 1m determinef to hare dictators, maybe the hereditary ones are as satisfactory as the opportunist ones., Kaiser Wilhelm could have been no worse than Hilter and some i of Wilhelm's predecessors were indefinitely bet ter than Hilter. Dictatorship mod ified by the amenites of royalty, modified by popular regard for hereditary monarchy, might be better than the raw. entitles of Hilter, Mussolini and Stalin. Dic tatorship, achieved by birth may be better than dictatorship v ach ieved by demagogy and maintain ed by forcev ' - -;: 3-S" , " . However, all this Is pretty spec ulative. I warn the reader to rei gard It as" no more weighty , than an attempt to write something on the only topic , that, apparently, people want to read about. , New York Hearold-Tribune Syn dicate. . "":' t - TVASHlNaTON, Dee. 8 Every body .else is writing about It, so why not me? For that matter, no excuse is needed. The fact is, on this sunny Dec ember day every person I meet Is talking abont pne topic. Be cause nobody talks! about, any thing else, X can a o t r- celebrate about anything else.! ' Not In a - Mark 8aai 1 o n g memory, not even- during the i great :. war, 'nor in other periods t h a t we thought t portentous, can I .re call a time -.wile nv one subject so exclusively absorbed public at tention, so universallyY provided the materials of private conversa tion, so' feverishly, occupied the puoiie , ana semipubllc functlon- aires concerned. For the last half hour I have been trying to get the Washington correspondent of the London Times, Sir Wilmott Lewis, on the telen&one. Tha line Is busy. . - f . i- Not that there is anvthinc new to say about it. But I recall a phrase I once read in an . essav that seems pertinent I think it was coined by Lord Chief Justice Hewart "Obedience to the Un enforceable."- It has application to mug uawara ana his problem. I say "His" problem. But thai is one of the difficulties If "ha nad managed to keep it his own prob lem, he might -have had less trou ble and the' world less to tal about. The time for Mm to face it and settle it was in the! beginning. Had he done so he would be hap pier "In the inn of decision man sleeps well." But in every decision there are two requirements: To do the right thing and to do it at the right time. At the right time, which, was long i ago. the problem, while difficult, was still simple. 'There were two things: There was love, and there was the crown. The king could , take the lady and let the sceptre go, count ing the crown' well lost, or he could do the opposite.! Trying to keep both, he is in 'the dilemma that mortal man has butted his head against since he first in vested adage. He is trying to have his. cake and eat it too. He can not very well do both. American novelist Sinclair Lew is, among! some hundred million tne king an open letter. Inviting ucwucuw uuuaic mm: -jjaria, come over Here. Ten Years Ago r December S, 11928 ; ; John Porter and Jim Smith, county commissioners, will Inspect the Buena Vista terry today. , v Joseph Kellar, one-time state parole officer,, conferring with governor' today, rumor he was be ing considered for office, of war den of state penitentiary; Dr. G. E.. Prime re-elected pres ident of Salem Rod and Gun club. Twenty Years A30 December 8. 1914 ' Mrs. .W. Carlton Smith, Salem singer, plays important i comedy role of Juanita In The Dictator." Salem lodges to stage the big holiday fun ,f east, at the' Armory soon, unique and free. ; Mrs. Franklin A. Con. cultured N. Y. woman, sells jewelry and clothes to hunt for missing hus band, spends week in Salem, po lice keep wires hot. Santiam Rebekahs Stage Elections - Early Christmas Present . J 1 yp'l I .... : Sweepstakes on i-ove by ; Blay Christie . - 1 Life's Variables THOSE who think it possible to establish a "planned econ omy" do well to study the factor of human variables. And for example there is the case of King Edwardj His love: for .Mrs. Simpson threatens the stability of' the (British empire. Who would have thought that a bright girl from Baltimore would make the commonwealth quiver to 1 its foundation atones? Yet that has happened. Not in centuries has there been such a "constitutional crisis in Great Britain. All be cause of the unpredictable straying of human affections. Hel en of Troy upset the Greek world for a decade. Beauteous Mrs. Simpson: has upset the British world, though she nobly expresses willingness to efface herself . to help Edward save the throne and empire. i t . - Charting the future of. the human race is quite impos- . sible. One cannot tell when a powerful mind, like Lenin or Mussolini will flash across the sky and change political and so- cial orientation. One cannot tell when a lone woman . (Kip ling's A rag,1 a bone, and a hank of hair ) may through the kindling of the love passion, release kinetic energies of un foreseeable strength Recall Carlyle's remark on the dying Louis XV: "Do the five hundred thousand. ghosts of Freneh- ' r V J l in.:. i j. m t l - a. -v i bee, that thy harlot might take revenge for an epigram, crowd round thee in this hour?" ; k n ; . The point we iire developing is simply this, that there is no master-mind able to channel the flow for the future of . free people. There are too many variables. Besides the natural ones of wind and weather, there are the other equally natural ones of variations in the human animals, their changring choices, their whims, their passions, their perverseness. This doesn t mean that no attempt should be made to plan ahead, or to direct social development. But whatever plans are adopt ed must include, many "expansion joints", allow for correc tions or alterations. . x. t 1; Railroad Renewal ' " REVIVING railroad business is being reflected "In orders for new equipment. There was one year, 1932, when not a single new locomotive was ordered of the engine-builders by an American raliroad. This year the orders for locomotives and freight cars and new passenger trains run into the tens of j millions of dollars.' Even the roads in receivership are getting court approval for purchase of new rolling stock. : . Experimentation with the new lightweight trains is jus tlfying.orders for additional ones, and there are many chan ges in design as a result of the lessons of experience. New streamline trains are being built to replace the tJity of San Francisco" and "City f Los Angeles on the run between Chicago and the coast. They wilj be diesel powered ; of 17-car length, including the three power cars. r : u I . . - - - Diesel faces competition from steam. Babcock & Wilcox, famed boiler-builders, are developing, in -cooperation with other firms, a "steamotive an engine with a powerful steam SPfJr ore Powerful for its size than diesel units: The Union Pacific is reported as interested in the steam development as were shocked. wouldn't, want our Uncle no's lived a comparatively snexterea ure in tne nary, to read tne 'quality magazines. "He d be shocked. S "Wei would not want that man who tbirlce has walked back from the electric chair to read them. "He"a really get shocked t "Quality" magazines cost con siderable money, and, having lived in prison so long, where money Is almost non-existent, we had rather lost contact with life as it is lived nowadays at least as it is reflected through the pages ef many magazines. We4 are glad A. B. G. fished us one of our stupor, and In spired pur research. . We don't mind the money it cost. I "It Was well spent. "We had no idea we had been living in such a REFINED AND CULTL RED NEIGHBORHOOD. "Wei were so proud." If tbje editor of Shadows would consult the readers "on the out side trho have had the abdom inal fortitude to finish some of the laitest and most ponular books, (the ones getting high mon ey prises, ror Instance, be would. be further shocked and willing to endure longer the aheltered life in his present "refined and cultured neighborhood." Like "Honey In the Horn," for instance. In which the sky is the limit, ftlso the deepest sinks of perdltien are not too low; for the sadistic, rotten, befouling slush covering its pages, from cover to cover. And fa every particular libelouly 1 misrepresenting the neighborhood in which Its events are represented to : have taken place. Or like "Gone With the Wind." the woknan author ef which knew all the cuss words and suggestive language possessed by the old South-4-and used them freely to- getnerJ evidently, with many from other sfectlons not familiar In the old Soith. So it ii not surprising that a man who has spent a tew years in the Oregon j penitentiary has lest out on modern use in the public nrlnts of smut; mud, filth, and billings gate that the ancient fishwife never ai much as dreamed of. Four-H Cooks Produce . - Candy For Student Body Sal at Hazel i Green HAZEL. GREEN. Dee. 7 The 4-H cooking club, "Five Kitchen Maids, I met at the home of the leader, Mrs. W. H. WUliamson Friday to make candy for the student Jbody sale at community duo meeting. -The camp cookery ciun aiso meu -. The- cr fleers of earns cookery club are): Leader, Mrs. La Roy Van Cleave; president, Jean Ru therford! secretary, Andrew Za oara. And assuring him that in America tv B.w.3 m . .wt&ug iua a nun Has a rlgjht to his own private lfe." Sure! Bat a king is somethnr more thin a man. Being a kins is a special job commonly consider ed, even! in these days, a good job. Taking it involves certain obliga tions. A British king must live np to certain duties, affirmative and negative, certain performances and abstinences. Some of these obligations are in the area of the nnenforciable and are therefore the more. obligatory, upon every person and much more upon . a king. It is obedience to the unen forceable that makes the world go round, keeps society a going con cern. All of ns practee it. as a rule unconsciously and Instinctive ly. Men "do the decent thing." They practice courtesy, consider ation, self-restraint, respect for the feelings of others, regard for the standards of others, charity for the needs of others, and many additional virtues for the breach of which there is no prison term on any" statue book. Even in the area of the so-called enforceable, of formal law, most of ns submit not because of the threatened force but because of sense of right. For one man who refrains from stealing because of fear of Jail, ten thousand refrain because of inner standards of decency. I think the essay ; which I cannot now fully remember made the point that that civilization Is the highest in which the largest area of rule la unenforceable, the smallest area is written into sta tue. One of the considerable num ber of things that are amiss in the world is the increasinr dis position to rely updn force. t6 try to enforce the. unenforceable, to pass a law." True, David Edward can renort that he didn't "take" the job It was wished on him, by Inheri tance. But he did take it. in the sense that If he didn't want it he could have declined it, let it pass to his younger brother, in fact, he did -take" the Job, and is about to make his' taking for mal, through the ceremony of cor onation. Conspicuously, rather flsgrantly. he f strrinc to take the crown and have the lady too. However, perhaps we can brinr this excursion! Into royal romance back Into the more austere field of government which is the naval province of this column. Consider the effect of the alternative out comes. , Suppose the kins abdicates. That would be a triumph for tra dition, a yielding to convention. As such it would be a step In the direction opposite to that in which the world Is moving. It might make for stability, for con. servatism. ' ' ' Suppose the king follows the other course, takes the crown and the lady both, that would involve apparently, resignation ' of the cabinet and a general election in England. Suppose he 'gets away with it," suppose the People aun- port him. That would mean a very bizarre thing. It would mean In crease in the prestige of the crown, decrease in. the authority of cabinet and parliament. It would be a step'toward that personal government which is now spreading everywhere. Measurab ly, the king would make an ad vance toward the absolutist eon- $15 Above Quota to Red Cross MILL CITY, Dec. 7 Santiam Rebekah lodge has elected the fol lowing officers: Mrs. Frank Tay lor, noble grand; Mrs. Susie Hay nes. Vice-grand; Mrs. Otto Geert sen, secretary, and Mrs. Andy Holthouse, treasurer. Other offi cers will be appointed before in stallation. It was decided to hold a: dinner at the next meeting, also a social evening of cards. AU members are asked to bring donations to this meeting to be sent to the J. O. O. F. home in Portland. The Three Link club will give "500" party in the hall the night of December 19. The Ladies' Aid of the Presby terian church will hold the an nual bazaar in the Dawes .hall Friday. . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sause are the parents oi a 7H pound baby son, born in the Stayton hospital Sunday. Honor Birthdays ' The Happy Hour club held a dinner at the home of Mrs. Clara Ellsworth in honor of the birth days of Mrs. J. Plymale and Mrs. Otto Geertsen. The afternoon was spent with sewing. Those present were Mrs. Henry Baltimore. Mrs. W. J. Robinson, Mrs. Ed Haynes, Mrs. Otto Geertsen, Mrs. S. Jen sen, Mrs. Mary Hendricson, Mrs. Charles Sullivan. Mrs. O. H. New man, Mrs. J. Plymale, Mrs. Ed Bertman and the hostess. Mrs. E.. Ellsworth and guest, Mrs; Alfred Ward. ;-' Mill City raised $65 for the Red Cross drive, the quota being ISO. Mrs. Herbert Schroeder was chalr- CHAPTER XVIII "Just because he's handsome and popular and .people like him even If he's lost his money, you have to hold It against him!" Genevieve had smiled unpleas antlya smile i which spoke vol umes. "Insteld of hanging about his apartment and wasting: time, you should have had your hair sham pooed after the four days 'on the train." Diana could have retorted that it was her mother's fault they had waited that she herself had sug gested leaving but what ood would it do? :" "I can shampoo my hair right here. She. had retired into the bathroom and locked the door. But she had kissed her mother goodnight. Tired as she was. she could not have slept, otherwise. . Now, at half past six In the morning, she tiptoed out of the droom, for fear of waking Gen evieve, and set the coffee pot on the electric stove in the kitchen ette, and had her bath. "" t Genevieve , was up and In her dressing-gown " when Diana em erged. They breakfasted together. Generieve fried bacon and eggs. and made the toast m the electric toaster. "Ought I "to wear slacks te the studio, mother? Or would that seem too casual?" "Certainly It would. The pink sports suit, darling-." It had been bought, extravagantly, for Gene vieve. It was a very pretty suitand had been made down for Diana by the nimble fingers of Bella, the Italian maid, ii "I see you set your hair nicely last night." Diana's hair was nat urally curly, which was a bless ing. : i 4 Diana chatted with her mother as she dressed. Awake. Genevieve looked much less fatigued. She had put a touch of rouge on her Mrj Mrs. C. C Porter and Swan as solicitors. CMdren's Home To Get Donation man, with Mrs. W. W. Mason. Mrs. Lee Morris, Mrs. Leroy Dike. I cheeks. aarK "e - - w. . - . . Mrs. John I 'At ze minutes after seven. Ro ger arrived with his car, Generieve had evidently renent- ea her tirade last night concerning .mm. she spoke pleasantly to Ro ger, offering him a cup of coffee, which he accented, although he ! said he had already breakfasted. cahuenga Pass, with its saffron hills and bright foliage and 'bright er signboards, was radiant as they aroye ny. - 'Excited, Diana?" lie slipped an arm abont her for a moment. 'I'm divinely happy, Roger. It was sweet of you to ret up an hour earner ana come for me." She . thrilled, to his touch. She snuggled closer. "Like old times. Isn't it. Diana? Old times In the new life out here. That's what I want. She could have shouted: "And yon shall hare them, darling. want nothing better In the world than to be with yon. Ton all the time!" WOODBURN. ! Dec. 7 The Woodburn W. C. T. C. met at the home of Mrs. Emma Bldweli on Corby street Friday afternoon, Mrs. D. J. GUIaaders presiding. Speaker for the ftmwin v. Mrs. Ruth Tooze, state vice-presl-f en who gave an interesting talk on the national convention held at Tulsa, Okla.. and an out line of the work by the national president and, world president. Mrs. Tooze also sang, a vocal solo. Mrs. Lydla Lehman, former county president, and Mrs. Webb of Salens accompanied Mrs. Tooze to Woodburn and the former gave a talk orf the work of the organi zation. Devotions were led by Mrs. C. W. Hatch, evangelistic director who read the Christmas lesson, a poem, Mrs. Ida Brennan led in prayer. ; , ; It was voted to send a Christ mas box to the Children's farm home near CorvaJll. Donations for this box may. be left' at the home of Mrs. Carrie Young,. 3 Ks Toung street. Mrs. Oscar Allen, director of the farm home work here win superintend the packing and shipping of the box At the tee. or Mrs. Alice Guyer ajslst the'hostess. c T" . One of the strangest experien ces of Diana's life was to take place on. her arrival at the stu dio . . , y' . "' r; - ,. -"."-. ; ' Other people had usually con sidered her a yery pretty girl, al though vamty was not her weak neas. ' Bnt aow, amazingly, any fa vorable opinion she might have cherished as to her appearance was to be removed! -She was te be made over for the cameras. Highly skilled men and women were garnering, huge sal aries for the renovation of green horns like herself. She was te find the single diesel on the City of Portland f- given considerable trouble. : i ; ? j - i When raHroada ases amount tcTenormoua sums. Thev t trMt'MMnmm f I Waconda Community Uub that out. lumber, steel and coal; and the manufacture of their equip- Will p CaOiw3 tSigiSTi: ment arid auDDliea Drovides emnlovmpnt fnr tntsn1. R l , t w ' department la the la good news, all lthe way round, when the railroads reaHy be-; I waconda. Dee. t Mm. a. n. j Mr. Kayser looked like bby am, as xney nave tnlS year, to renew their Plant -and equiD-1 r wiu enteruus memoers joira wno naa cropped out of the . . . " ' -r i je vreAfa AAntwiMiiita aiaa i renfi sas whA t vv w a ment. And just to think, on Nov. 4 oeoele -wer asklnr mm. VThmt will yon have te print In your naner. now that election la Mir". Mrs. Simpson has at least done this: rotten the Roosevelts off the I iroat pages. of the Waconda community club at her home Wednesday, Decem ber S. This win be an all-day meeting with club- luncheon at noon. The date has been advanced : because of elapse of two weeks between previous club dates. - family nest prematurely. He flut tered about her, craning his thin neck np at her and uttering queer little sounds like "tcht tch!" . . : There were two male assisUnts with him "who stared at her silent ly, critically.-. Kayser's clucking changed Into wordsJ "Those- eyebrows will all have to be pulled out," he snap ped. y J - "All of ithem?" gasped Diana, amazed. . j r.;- . :!... Y0s. The line's Incorrect. We'll 'get ai much better effect for the cameras by painting them at an angle running towards the temples." r '.. . - He (came close np to her and stared into her eyes. "You'll have to hafe new eyelashes.?' He took a step backward, screwing np his face as ; his gaze went lower. "Brown, her chin's too short. It's entirely out of proportion to the rest of her face. See that?", . i TJai," said Brown. He nodded. "Mouth's too wide, and it droops to the left." Brown said laconically. LIp- stlck'U lift It." The; third man stepped -suddenly forward after staring solemnly at Diana. He looked at Mr. Kayser, raisin f his eyebrows, and. putting nis nana to the left side of his face, j " ; ; "You're right,' Stelnman. Her face 14 lopsided." Then to Diana: "We can lift the left side by rais ing the eyebrow higher than the right one, and fixing the left cor ner of your mouth with a lift of the lipstick." j Thought Diana: "I must be hideous, and never knew it! Isn't this dreadful? How on the earth had the stu dio scout ever engaged her? She grinned nnhappHy. . feeling like a j monster. Was this an age guessing contest? "Not bad, not so bad." mur- muredj Mr, Kayser, rubbing his tiny hknds together. "Fairly nice teeth, Jin fact. But remember not to smile so broadly when you're in ironc qi tne camera." -mere was a silence. Then he added. brusquely: "Your. hair's too aarc, we oetter make yon blondel" "Please no. I mean. If it's pos- sibm mot to change it " stam mered jDIana, but they paid no at lention. f . er skin's good. Call Miss lioiaen. . Bearing a tray with a dozen dif. ferent jshades of powder on it. and a variety or pots and little boxes, at iss uoiaen came In. - - t ' "Alii the eyebrows out. Miss Golden;. And she needs artificia eyelashes. Get going, will yon?" Diana went into an inner room with Miss Golden. .-" In three-quarters of an hour she was transformed.-- v Then came the camera test In anothejr part of the studio. Lights blazed full on her. Half-a-dozen men were holding lights - about ner. xney Kept shoutlnr stranra expressions to each other as they movea line iignis so that they fell on ner xace at , varvlnr inrtH mere, nreaa her neck!" Hlt uer. oaj me nose with the spotl "Her mouth's crooked," et cetera. At half Past nine, the itfretnr Mr. Falconer.' arrived. . : "We'll shoot the first test n. Mtaa Darlington", he aaid nlk. anUy, greeting her with -a smile. "Just be easy. Just be yourself." r uiana felt terribly nervous, how- ever. s; : . "Smile, nleaae. t. - .. - . Mjovm. over caere. stoni stA erythlng. ..--,-; .t,rv : , : The smile. It seemed. hii too artiflciaL . - . , , , It had all to be done vrr And again. And again. ' - A pause at noon for Inn, tm. ana found aer way te the commis sary. ,. - . . Roger was there. The full of interestinc-looklnr mn and women, many of them 'In pe riod costume. i - ,. ; Soger looked amazed -mt nv transform atioa la Diana. She had removed her - make-nn. bnt wore her artificial eyelashes and ! her new, tilted line of eyebrow. "ion loox-nixey-lzh!" grinning; '- ' . "If I ever had any natural con ceit, I assure yon it's been entire ly knocked but of me In the past four hours, Roger," she laughed. "But it's amazingly Interesting. I can't wait to see the tests." . "Don't be disappointed If the first ones don't turn out so well. They have to do a good deal of ex perimenting, yon know," he ex plained to her. v , Just so long as they do give me a Job. I feel as if I got my con tract on false pretense." "Nonsense! That chap back in New York spotted you at once. You'll .knock 'em all dead, Diana, once you get started." . . ' She enjoyed her lunch with him Immensely. There were several fa-' mous stars In the restaurant. De spite the costumed players who lent a fancy-dress ball atmosphere, there was an air -of informality about the "place. One went up to the counter and got one's food and carried It to one's table. Even the stars did that. "Hello there. Roger," said a male voice directly behind Diana. She ! had heard it before some- . where. She looked np. "Hello," Jerry. Diana, this is Jer- i ry Nolan, the prize wit of the stu- dio. I Jerry, this is Diana Darling- ton. She's Just arrived from New York on a contract. Sit down, Jer ry, and have a little bite with us." . ... as Jerry took Diana's hand in his and shook it heartily, remark- ing that he had had the Pleasure of a bite with her before, and now he would enjoy nothing better, but he'd! sworn by all the gods to de- ! liver a song to Falconer before ' five today, and it was a llc-saw puzzle to fit the lyric to the niu- i sic in fact, it was driving him crazy he was heading for , the deep silence and the nut factory. "That's what I caU my office." he grinned, rumpling his mop of hair. "We met on the train," smiled Diana. She liked Jerry's frank face. "'Say, when she's through to day, bring her to my place for a cocktail, Roger," said Jerry cheer ily. He nodded to-4hem. and de parted, whistling. "He's a darn nice fellow," re marked Roger, looking after him. "One of the beat. If ever anyone's in trouble, there's a real pal." "He looks nice, but he does dressi strangely," said Diana. If anything, Jerry today looked even untidier than he had on the train. "Oh, that's his little -eccentri city. He makes loads of money. I first met him on Tin Pan Alley where he'd clicked with. his first musical. He's brilliantly clever. but never swell-headed. In fact, j It's rather unique that anyonfe so successful In his line as Jerry Is. should be so modest. And he's well to his mother! She's a funny old girl. She keeps house for him out here he's cot a errand nlace wjth, all the trimmings, thouch you'd never suspect It. from his ap- . pearance in fact, he's quite a con- , nolsseur of books and nictures as well as being a cracker Jack, com poser of music, and he writes most of his, own lyrics as well." i Diana had never I heard Rorer enthuse about, any member of his own sex to this extent. She was Impressed. It took one man to Judge another. ... L . ; He must get a huge salary. I suppose?". ,- i "Twenty-five hundred a week." "Goodness! Is that possible?" "Certainly," : said I Roger. "His pictures are 'sure-fire.' as they say here, at the box-officeThere's a rumor that he may produce his own. But he's too modest to talk about It-".;:-; ....j,- It was quarter of one now. She " wan, due back at Miss Golden's. Roger , and she went across the lawns and he left her at the door et Mr. Kayser's suite. "Ill try to get off at five r" h e r e a b o ut a. I'll 'phone j du liana Diana." (To Be Continued)