Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, May 15, 1947 LAST LOVER BY TfeZíet Ju lia M c F a rla n « , who*« husband. Rleb ard. disappeared In W orld W ar I. tea»- In i ber Io raise two rh lld re n . K ir and JU1. Is startled when 25 years later, during the second w ar. he return» and tells her he Is using the nam e o l C aptain M a rk e y . Ric m arries Sandra C alv ert, a divorcee whom R ich ard knew to he ol had reputation She a rrives a t the (a rm Io Uve and recognises a picture ot Rich ard a t that ol M a rk e y . She and Jill q u arre l and she dem ands (18.804. Th at night C ap tain M ackey a rriv e s , telling J ill, who does not know who he Is. th a t he Is taking Sandra Io Klc. He tells J ill about the daughter he lost and she tells him about her la th e r. Sandra refuses to leave w ith him . “ÏJüllti SEW ING CIRCLE PATTERNS doo( U erA atife, ^ 2 roch fat Ie rim j fo r n u n n ie r for lightness. "One of her dangling adorers—she used to collect them the way a honeysuckle gathers bees Just remember that, Jill, if she gets tough on you You tell her that one of her last lovers came— in fact I believe I was the last.” "Before my father, of course. I'll tell her. Captain Mackey, I ’ll tell her that her last lover came to call And I do thank you for concerning yourself with our family problems. I know that my mother would like to thank you. too." "Just give me a kind thought now and then, w ill you, Jill? J’ll need it, where I'm going." He heard Sandra's feet on the stairs and bent down quickly and kissed Jill on the cheek. "That’s for my own daugh­ ter,” he said, huskily. J ill stretched • herself quickly on tiptoe and drew his head down and kissed him on the mouth. "And that." she whispered, "is for my father! Good-by. Captain Mackey." Sandra came, dragging her bag down, looking small and somehow er before we ran Anish repairs. De­ STAGE SCREEN itoniO pends on how fast they get the stuff to us. So I divided the gang up K rle.isrd bv Wentern N fw iu .iiw r Union. as watches for the plane, and the By IN E Z G K K H A K I) test of us struck out for town, and I UC1LLE WALL, the golden- lust as I was asking that sleepy cop 1 haired actress who has jlown there on the main comer where a place called Buzzard's H ill played the title role in “ P o r­ was, there were your mother and tia F aces Life” since its in- ' Mr. Patterson pulling out of a park­ ception in 1940, differs front ing spot, and tfle cop took me over many radio a c tre sse s—M er­ to the car. Talk about my lucky cedes M cCam bridge, for in­ star! Here I a m !" stance—in preferring radio to "And we have twelve hours, any­ the theater. "Radio has made citi­ way," J ill jaid happily. "Come zens out of actors," she said the down when you’re ready. Spang. other day. "We used to live in a | Mother's getting something for you trunk; now we cun have homes of I CHAPTER XX to eat." our own." She knows; she was in They sat around the kitchen ta­ "A ll right," she snapped, harshly. ble while Spang devoured scram­ "what's the payoff? There is one. bled eggs and warnied-over biscuit I suppose? You didn’t come here " I f the C.O. could see me now,’ out of the goodness of your heart. he said, "he’d swear I smashed that Rod Mackey!" oil line on purpose! He’d give me a He looked at J ill and smiled one- long lecture and remind me of those sidedly. fellows on the other side who bring "She doesn’t trust m e!" he the big babies in on two engines and drawled. "She thinks there’ s a one of those on Are. and all that catch in it." stuff." . "Maybe she has had some disil­ "You didn't have the English lusioning experiences,” J ill said. " It Channel under you," Dave said. could be that she hasn’t always “ Oh, I'd put up the routine argu known the right sort of people." ment. I was trying to save an ex "Never mind the kind of people pensive plane and an expensively I've known!” Sandra cried, hoarse­ trained crew for the air corps. They • 2-20 ly. "A t least no tricky heel has concede that you're right, usually, LUCILLE WALL Hound-Yoked Frock ever fooled me yet. Just tell me but they have to get you on the de­ the gag, that’s all. I hate blunder­ PRETTY round-yoked frock fensive first, just to see if you've Jane Cowl's road company for a ing into things I suppose the Ges­ for nil your summer activi­ got the spirit to defend your deci­ while, and had several seasons on tapo has been abroad, and right ties. Four buttons fasten each sions, probably. Is there one more Broadway before she took to radio. now is the dramatic moment to pro­ shoulder, a narrow belt circles drop of coffee in that pot. Mrs. Mc­ Married to Louis Hector, she goes duce the fatal papers? If you'd your waistline neatly. Use a Farlane?” to the theater often, but loathes night only given me one more day. Rod bright all-over flower print und se* 'T i l squeeze the handle hard, clubs. Her one great dread—that Mackey! One more day, and a very how many compliments you gath­ Julia smiled at him. Then she she ll sneeze while on the air. elaborate m ilitary reputation might er! Easily Laundered Dress looked unhappily at Jill. "We're ---- * ---- have gone crashing down in some frightfully rude.” she said. "Jill, Alan Hale ("Cheyenne,” Warner CCALLOPS edge the diagonal very dirty ruins! But you knew I Patlern Nn HL.H la for al/t-n 12, Id. we should have asked Sandra to Bros., is his latest* thinks the movie 16. 18 and 20 Sl/e 1*. 3J» yarda oí 39 closing and handy pocket on Inch. wouldn't have had time to prove come down." industry is much improved. Back in this delightfully cool daytime anything, didn't you? You worked lo d a r lo r t o a r r o p r n i tho l i n i m i i The comfortable wrup- F A Henil "Sandra?” Spang repeated sharp­ 1909, when he broke in, he had to dress. S H IO N . In r lu d e d a ro a p a r la l fa a h la n a fa s t!" around style makes it easy to ! ky M’»"b beaauiiii; ly. "Sandra Calvert? She's here?" do outside work to get by on what J J ., j» « » ho m e. I t t i p a tte rn p r in te d In sid e lbs "What on earth is she talking :r. Tie the book, za «ente. wear, a joy to launder, he earned by writing, directing and "She was married to Richard," about?” J ill demanded of the cap­ Send your order to: Julia said. "She came today, or I starring in one picture a week for bow jauntily on the left side. tain, her eyes bewildered. • • • Lubin. For the past several years guess it's yesterday now. Ric was "She’s displeased with me, J ill,” Pattern No. 81S2 cornea In sizes 12. 14, ! S F W IN G ( IR C I .F P A T T F R N O F P T shipped off somewhere and he sent he’s lived very well indeed on what 16. 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14. 3>, yards I 709 he said, blandly. " I happen to know Mission SI., San Fran cisca. « a llí. he makes by appearing in three or of 35 or 391nch. her home to us.” KneloM 25 cenia In colna for each a few facts about a divorce our pattern dealred Sandra once got in a little smelly Spang was looking at J ill with a four films a year. Patlern No -Size. town called Piedras Negras, in troubled face, but Jill had jumped Paul Whiteman is set as master Mexico. Back in 1927, I think, Nam e, up-and stood frozen with consterna­ tion. of ceremonies on the first full hour, wasn’t if, Sandra? Or was it '29? Address She bought the divorce cheap, the "Dooley!” she cried. " I was so coast-to-coast network recorded mu­ way you buy things in Mexico, excited over seeing Spang that I sic program In radio history. In other words, "The King of Jazz” cheap stuff you wouldn’t look at in forgot to tell you! Sandra's gone! Swim English Channel who grew into "The Dean of Mod­ this country, and she didn’t look too ’’Gone?" Julia repeated incredu­ ern American Music" is going to You may give an inexpensive carefully at the divorce. And of Nearly one hundred persons lously. “ Jill, you weren’t—you be a disk jockey. His 23 years as paint brush the beveled edge of a have tried to swim the English course after she married Lieutenant didn't—” “ And that,” she whispered, a conductor have given him won­ more costly one. Dip the brush iffto channel, but only 11 women and 14 Colonel Calvert, and then collected for my father." “ I didn’t do anything," J ill insist­ derful material for the stories he’ll glue and let it harden. Then lay considerable alimony from him. and men have succeeded. Only one it on a flatsurface and shape with person has crossed it in both di­ now that she’ s married into the Mc­ frightened. She said, "Well, good- ed. "She got rather nasty after tuck In between the records. a sheet of* sandpaper. When the rections. A woman crossed it first. Farlane family, she’d like to forget by. Jill. I suppose this makes you you left, and we exchanged a few acid remarks, but noth’ing was se­ beveling has been completed, the divorce and never hear anything very happy indeed.” Hollywood's costliest location trip rious. Then suddenly this officer wash out the glue. about it again." is over, and Director Ray Nazarro "N o." J ill shook her head "No. came for her. He is a captain at —•— "You mean—the divorce wasn’t It doesn’t. It makes me a little Ridley Field, Dooley, and it seems is home after spending $310.406.268 For substantial buttonholes, first any good?" J ill asked. "But if it SMALL FRY by filming scenes for two months In in­ sick. Sandra, if you want the truth. he knew Sandra in Hawaii and other make a row or two of machine wasn't—” flation-torn Shanghai, for Columbia's places. I met him when I went I don’ t like you very much, but I "He doesn’t know a thing about hate having it end this way. Good down there. He said, he used to "Assigned to Treasury," starring stitching around the spot where i t ! ” snapped Sandra. "He's bluff­ luck, anyway. And good-by again. know you, Dooley. His name was Dick Powell and Signc Hasso. Those the buttonhole is to be. —•— ing. Trying to force me to do what Captain Mackey." astronomical figures resulted from Captain Roger Mackey.” To make picture nails hold in ' he wants me to do.” the rates of exchange; at one time Julia gripped the edge of the ta­ " I may write to you soon—I may plaster: Bore a hole with a gim- i "Unfortunately for you, my dear have something to tell you," Sandra ble. She would not let her legs one American dollar was worth let, then fill with plastic wood. In- 1 $6.600 to $17,500. girl. I'm not bluffing. I have, to said grimly. crumple under her. she would not sert nail and let dry before hang- j quote you, the fatal papers. Now, if I let herself cry out. ing the frame. Captain Mackey picked up her you don’t mind, I ’d like to get start- ! Howard Washington, once a red­ —•— Spang said. “ Old Cyanide! So ;e ed. I ’m still in the army. I ’m still bag and took her arm brusquely cap in New York's Pennsylvania came here, did he?” To keep a gilt picture or mirror under command. And it’ s getting and hurried her out At the door rtation, plays the part of a baggage- frame from drying or cracking pat * ' he turned and looked back at Jill, a "You know him. do you?" Dave late long look Then he flicked a little asked, moving around the table to toter in "Wallflower," and does all a little lemon oil on gently once "A ll right. I 'll go,” she said, "but right between pictures too; he oper­ draw the younger eyes away from ates the shoe shine parlor at the or twice a year. Do not rub. not with you. You can take me as Spang made—and went out. Julia while she got hold of herself. Warner studio. far as a bus station. Well, you can Keep old pieces of fine, soft J ill sat limp and shaken when the "Yes, sir. he was a personnel o l relax now, Jill. I'm taking my ob­ wool. They make excellent difct- car had roared off down the drive. fleer at the field. Not very popular noxious person out of your house. Jan Miner, "Ann Williams” on the ing cloths. She wondered w-hat would happen with the men, when I was there." You won’t be degraded any more. — •— CBS “ Crime Photographer,” thought most folks know to Sandra now. But women like "He said at first he was going to she wasn't pretty enough to be an You—you poor, blind little fool!” If the paint job is to be inter­ Sandra always got along. They take Sandra to Ric,” J ill explained XELLOGG'S* best ! get the actress, so she studied stage de­ rupted for several days, or if a She whirled away and went knew their way about. She stopped ORIGINAL KELLOGGS CORN pounding up the stairs. J ill sat bothering about Sandra then, for “ and then when she refused to go. sign; one role in summer stock new shade of paint is required, the he sprang some Mexican divorce FLAKES IN THE WHITE, REP, changed her mind And her first down abruptly. brush should be thoroughly Dave’s car had turned in at the I she’d had on her—it seems Ric was audition in New York landed her ANO GREEN PACKAGE. cleaned in a solution made for that "1—wish you'd stay until Mother gate, and she heard voices—two her third husband, Dooley—and this at CBS. purpose or in turpentine. gets here,” she said, faintly. “ She’ll men’s voices—it couldn’t be— REGULAR, OR FAMILY SIZE. Captain Mackey said he was quite —•— be disappointed at not seeing you. She flew to the door and across sure the Mexican divorce wasn’ Billy Williams, radio singer (he It is less difficult to thread a And—is it true about Sandra's di­ the porch They were getting out j legal and that she wasn’t married was featured with Sammy Kaye's vorce? That it wasn't legal or of the car, and Dave grinned at her ! needle if the thread is cut diago­ to Ric at all. She was pretty bad band), night club entertainer and re­ nally. something?” and said, “ Here’s a dirty looking ly frightened, I could see. She tried —•— "Her name happens not to be j tramp we found downtown, Jill. He to keep Captain Mackey quiet with cording artist, makes his screen de­ Leaves steal the nutrition from Sandra," the Captain said. "Her , was asking the police how to get some vague threats or other, but he but in Columbia’s "Smoky River name was Hattie Schoeffle when she out to Buzzard's Hill, so we just made her go. I ’m so sorry you Serenade." He’s on leave from CBS carrots once they are pulled from was married to a boy named Bor- brought him along. Ever see him be­ weren't here, Dooley. He said he where he has his own program, the ground. Clip leaves when car­ "A Bouquet for You." rots are pulled out of the ground. dine, in Kearney, Nebraska. Then fore?” was an old beau of yours. —•— she tired of him and got into bur- i She said anxiously, "Aren’t you Steam chopped onions in butter lesque. and after that into vaude- Reunion W ith George Sanders played opposite pleased. Dooley? I thought you’d or margarin until tender. Use as ville, and a few years ago she be relieved to find she wasn’t here Edna Best in his first stage appear­ seasoning for mashed potatoes. showed up in San Antonio and at­ Spang Gordon ance in London, and opposite Made­ any more." —•— tracted a young Major Calvert, who line Carroll in his first American J ill gave a choking little cry and "Yes, I ’m pleased." she said, Before storing away your ga­ wanted to marry her. So she got flung herself at the tall figure in the film, then with both of them in RKO'g faintly, "but I ’m sorry Sandra went this quick divorce in Mexico and greasy flying jacket. To hold your loose uppers and low- "Escape" and in its radio version of loshes, turn them inside out and away when I was not here at least lL '’« “ f® »H day—and dunk them in a tub of warm ï ï i yî ! - ï « y ° d î î , ’ y fort.,b didn't bother to discover that the “ The Theatre Guild of the A ir.” "Spangl" * am aalnf dls- to say good-by.” soapy water. Scrub them with a SSLarieiC,1l .’, î S ? y„ . S ï AZE- Not » official who signed it hadn’t taken He caught her and held her tight. powder) 0TA ZE Is pleaaant-to-use “ Odd that Mackey concerned Acce’p’ “ Ä a ^ Ä * ’ ' brush, then rinse and dry them & his oath of office yet, or remember He kissed her gravely on the mouth. Bob Hope's broadcasting dates in away from heat. Next season they himself about R ic," Spang said that she'd been married as Hattie "Pure dumb luck!” he said. "M ay be, of course, that he was the East are set: May 27 from Phila­ will not dirty your shoes. Schoeffle. and divorced as Sandra "Just a routine flight—my naviga- j somehow involved with the Calvert delphia, June 3 from New York, June Laverne—mere legal details but tor had to get some more hours in 1 woman.” 10 from Boston. Then he'll take a quite important." the air, and right over this town the j vacation—he says; plans to go to " I ’ m glad." J ill said. " I t ’s a doggone oil line busted! Glad to ' D ooley Receives South America and Europe with his nasty thing to say. but I ’m glad." j see me. J ill? " J family. “ Oh, Spang!" She shivered hap­ A Message "W ill you give your mother a pily "You did come back!” message from me, Jill? ” “ Oh, no!” J ill protested quickly Milo Boulton, who recently ob­ "O f course. But they should be “ How about turning the man loose ! " He isn’t that sort ot person, Spang, served his fifth anniversary on the here any minute.” so he can wash his face?” Dave ' Not that sort at all- And Sandra "We, the People” series, along with "A soldier's time is not his own, ' teased. "You’ve got grease on your bated him. She told me so. She Musical Director Oscar Bradley, re­ you know. But you can tell your I chin and your nose, too, J ill.’ didn’t really want to go with him. called fondly that he had to rush mother not to worry about Rich- i “ I know Spang must be tired and I got the feeling that she was some­ from his own wedding reception to ard. 1 think he’ll come through this hungry," Julia said. 'T i l see what how scared I think he knew more audition for the post. business all right. I think he has can be found in the kitchen Get about her than he told me. He left | R ig h t in th e m ix in g b o w l. good stuff in him, in fact I ’m sure some clean towels. J ill.” a message for you, Dooley. He said L IG H T fro m Ih* O» ODDS AND ENDS—Pbil Hanna, of it. He’s his mother’s son." to tell you that you weren’t to worry J ill led Spang upstairs to the CBS baritone, it organizing a tennis L ig h t fro m th e o v e n - . th a t's bathroom. about Ric. that Ric was going to tournament for radio stars. . , . Benay An O ld Reau "Sorry I ’m such a mess," he said, be all right. He talked about his V enut as wearing $10,000 worth of P e rfe c tio n in b a k in g . . . th a t's pulling off the oil-soaked flight daughter that he lost, and I told him her own jewels in "Repeat Perform- ! Game to Call ance"—and collecting rental from the w h y m illio n s o f h o m e -b a k e rs jacket, "but I worked an hour on about my father, and then he said “ I ’ll tell her. But what shall I that line before I gave up and de­ I was to tell you that your last studio for same. . , . Janis Paige has a new home, a new dog, a new car, a p re fe r C la b b e ' G irl. tell Mother about you?” cided we had to wire for some spare lover' came, Dooley. He said he couple of paid-up annuities and a star­ He smiled, slowly, and that same parts — lucky they had that little was quite sure he was the last— ring role in "Cheyenne”—and says all look of far places, of things long re­ landing field out there, wasn't it?” I before my father, of course. Qoo- she needs to make her completely hap­ membered, of bewildered loss came "Aw fully lucky you didn’t have i ley' you ,00l<