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crNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1948.
| '2, BY WILLIAM IRISH |
Copyright by William Irish-—Distributed by NEA SERVICE, IN
THE STORY
rime, 1880 Place, New Orleans
Louis Durand, 37,'a well-to-do
pachelor, has been corresponding
with Miss Julia Russell, whom
pe has never seem:He has pro
posed marriage and she has ac
cepted, According to her piciure,
Miss Russell is dark-haired,
crong-featared and no longer
young. Durand goes down to the
dock to meet the boat that 1s to
pring her from St. Louis. He is
qumfounded wher: an exquisite
young blend creature introduces
herself as Julia, She explains her
little deceit by saying she didn’t
want him to fall for just a pretty
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- Five persons gathered il a sol
emn little conclave about the
pulpit. Four facing it, the fifth
occupying it. Four silent, the fifth
speaking low. The first two of
the four, side by side; the sceond
two flanking thme.
“And do you, Julia Russell,
take this man, Louis Durand, to
be your lawful wedded hus
band—
“To cleave to, forsaking all
others—
“To love, honor and obey—
“ For better or for worse—
“ For richer or for poorer—
“In sickness and in health—
“ Until death do ye part?”
Silence.
Then like a tiny bell, no big
ger than a thimble in all the
vasiness of that church, but clear
and silver-pure—
“l do.”
“Now the ring, please. Place
it upcn the bride’s finger.”
Durand reaches behind him,
The best man produces it, puts it
in his blindly questing hand. Du
rand brings it to the tapered
point of her finger.
There is a momentary awks=
wardness, Her finger measure
ment was taken by a string,
knetted at the proper place and
sent enclosed in a letter. But
there must have been an. error,
leither in the knotting or on the
ieweler’s part. 1t balks, won't go
on.
, Le tries a second, a third time
clasping her hand tighter. Still
it resists.
Quickly she {licks her {inger
past her lips, returrs it to him,
edge moistened. The ring goes on,
ebbs down it now to the base.
“lI now pronounce you man
an dwife.” ‘
~ Antoine’s rushing ail alighti
toward its nightly rendezvous
with midright; glittering, glow
ing. mirfored; crowded with cele
brants, singing with laughter, siz
zling with champagne; sparkling
with half-a-thousand jeweled gas
flames all over its ceilings and
walls, in kFowers of crystal; the
gayest and best-known restau
rant on this side of the ocean;
the soul of Paris spring enchant
ed from the Delta mud.
The wedding table stretched
lengthwise along one entire side
of the room.
He was in suitable evening
garb now, and a quick trip to a
dress shop (first at her mention,
but then at his insistence) before
coming on here had changed her
from her costume of arrival to a
glorious ~ creation of shimmering
white satin, gardenias in her hair
and at her throat. On the third
finger of her left hand the new
gold wedding-band; on the
fourth, a solitaire diamond, a
husband’s wedding gift to his
wife, token of an engagement
contract fulfilled.
And her eyes, like any new
wearer’s, stray over and over to
these new adornments. But
whether they go more often to
the third finger or to the fourth,
who is to detect and who is to
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say?
Flowers, wine, friendly laugh
ing faces, toasts and wishes of
well-being. The beginning of two
lives, Or rather, the ending of
two, the beginning of one.
“Shall we slip away now?” he
whispers to her. “It's getting on
to twelve.,”
“Yes. One more dance togeth
er first, Ask them to play again.
And then we'll lose ourselves
‘{,Vlm,’,Wt coming back to theta
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The house was empty, waiting.
Waiting to begin its history,
which, for a house, is that of its
occupants. Oil lamps had been
left lighted, one to a room, by
someone, most likely Aunt Sa
rah, before leaving, their little
beaded {lames, safe within glass
chimneys, winking just high
enough to disperse the darkness
and cast an maber glow. The
same blend of wood shavings.
paint, and putty, spiced with a
dash of floor varnish, was still ir
evidence, but to a far lesser de
gree now, for carpets had been
laid over the raw floors, drapes
hung athwart the window cas
ings.
Someone had brought flowers
into the parlor.
A clock had been wound up
and started on its course, ‘
Everything was ready.
A house, waiting for a man
and his wife to come and claim
it.
The resonant, cuplike sound of
a horse’s hoofs drew near in the
stillness outside, came to a halt
on a double down-beat. Axles
creaked with shift of weight,
then settled again. A human
tongue clucked professiorally,
then the hoofs recommenced,
thinned away into silence once
more, :
There was a slight scrape of
leather on paving stone, a mis
chievous little whisper, like a se
}cret tcld by one foot to another.
A moment - afterward a key
turned in the outside of the
door,
They stood there revealed in
the opening, Durand and she.
Limned amber by the light be
for them in the house, framed by
a panel of night sky sanded with
stars behind them and over theirl
heads They were motionless, as
oblivious of what jay beforei
them as of what lay behind them.(
Face turned to meet face, hisi
arms abcut her, her hands or
his shoulders. ‘
- Nothing moved, neither thay
nor the vpen-dogred house wait-f
’ing to receive tgzm. It was onei
of those moments never to be
captured gaain.
The kiss at the threshold of
marriage.
| (To Be Continued).
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By 808 THOMAS
HOLYWOQOD, Nov. 6 — (AP)—
What's funny in the movies?
You might answer ‘“nothing,”
but the question is not directed at
you. I'm asking Preston Sturges,
a man who gives the impression
of being slightly mad as he directs
and writes very funny and very
successful movies (“The Great
McGinty,” “Miracle of Morgan’s
Creek,” etc.)
“It don't know what’s funny,”
Sturges answers indignantly.
“When a humorist tries to analyze
humor, he ceases to be a humor
ist.”
Ben then he admitted some
trade secrets:
“As white light contains all col
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situation contains all the emotions.
.See the fun, and you are a
humorist.
“Reversing the customary re
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can fiction and the standard vil
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sult was my play, ‘Strictly Dis
honorable.”
Sturges h-. sume rules for box
office appeal, and 1 think you'll
find they give interesting insight
for U. S. films:
A pretty girl is better than an
ugly one. s
A leg is better than an arm.
A bedroom is better than a liv
[ing room.
~ An arrival is better than a de
parture.
A birth is better than a death.
A chase is better than a chat.
A dog is better than a landscape.
A kitten is better than a dog.
A baby is better than a kitten.
A kiss is better than a baby.
A pratt fall is better than any
thing.
Sturges will demonstrate just
about all these axioms in his cur
rent film, “The Beautiful Blonde
from Bashful Bend.” The last tru
ism wiil be well illustrated. Betty
Grable will be seen in one of the
most glamorous prat falls of all
time.
Recently I wrote a column re
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depression. Many movie minds[
protest that such news is bad pub
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“It Happened One Night,” “Thel
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epics of the war boom could holdl
a candle to them.
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1948 Expenses
ATLANTA, Nov. 6.—(AP)—
Expansion and equipment of the
State Highway Patrol cost an
additional §5250,000 during the
1948 fiscal year, State Auditor B.
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Total expenditures by the De
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pared to $1,717,470 in 1947 and
$923,342 in 1946. The number of
empleyes was increased from 304
‘in 1946 and 286 in 1947 to 336 in
11948,
) Personal services cost $596,564
and subsislence allowances for
patiolmen were $232377 Sun.
plies and materials cost $164,556
and cquipment replacements $71,-
397.
An additional cost last year
was the installation of two-way
radio equipment in all patrol‘
cars and a tower. Total cost of
the radio installation was $99,-]
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