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< <unny Don’t you feel py is a husband. . . . Dick Powell’s old
again into his eyes. He reached for some spare parts along, too, wasn't ! we<1?”
"Rogues’ Gallery,” starring Barry Sul
Jill's hand and held it.
it. Spang? Or you'd have had to i
"Too many things have happened livan, will replace the Phil Harris-
"Just tell her that an old’ beau fix whatever it was and go on." | t0 Dooley all at once,” Dave said Alice Faye show lor the summer. . . ,
Jack Carson has a better deal on his
came to call,” he said, striving
"Be noon tomorrow or maybe lat- |
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