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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1952-06-13, Page 74 r. 0 TTILT 0 JAMES M. CAI N "Don"t give Me that fppllA .'tQ i' again, about loaning things oter, I've i'ollawed.ber! I've followed 11e;r in the newspaper*. I kaon every place that she's sung, sines -h• wan in all those places!" J. -Veen, k A euttl4g tr$nn to asmootl% Wags over. "We. Bees laad, will you 'believe me *ten 1 say .I've never Meant a tliitzg to. yelp husband?" People were looking now and try - Tot ot to PecQDo; "MTS:, C ever do0F t, believe ycu." x ' Cecil. closed her eMea, opened thorn again, -grabbed for the ,onsk lest thing site +could say; "W9 saw Quito a e were It .440,4# o eropera (Continued Oen 'IA§ W4141. RELEASI • CHAPTER X arsenals Despite Leonard' Borlantre pro" tests that hfa bank =emit is :: } sled :iDodds ramp Pas, the 60 sear oldnmmJq wide:reputation for quids *wilts. Dolts) Gine, Pills help stimulate tele fadneer to normal adion--help you feel ,Yeller, orotic batess play bettor. Yaw an domed onDoan, 164 ample, though the contracting business in New York•is dead, bis rpr$ty, opera-atruck wife Doris 'resumes her "career," Interrupted by her marriage at 19 and the birth of two children. Borland knows her avowed purpose, to bolster the family income, is just another subterfuge. Hugo„ Lor entz, her teacher, always around, irritates him. After Doris gives a Town Hall recital, Cecil Carver, opera singer, phones Borland. At cher hotel, Cecil says Doris has a good voice{ but lacks style. Cecil is to sing for war veterans but hasn't the words of a certain song. Ile sings it and she says he has a fine baritone voice. Cecil knows of Doris througih Lorentz, says Hugo is 'hopelessly in love with Doris, and that Doris tor- tures every man she gets in her SEAFORTH MONUMENT WORKS OPEN DAILY —• PHONE 363-J T. PRYDE & SON ALL TYPES OF CEMETERY 'M ItORIALS Enquiries are invited. Exeter Phone 41-J Clinton Phone 103 NOTICE TOWN OF SEAFORTH All Bicycles in the Town of Seaforth are required to be licensed • • Licenses may now be obtained at the Clerk's Officer and must be secured by June 30, 1952. NOTICE! Town of Seaforth All persons in the Municipality owning or harboring dogs must purchase 1952 License for same on or before June 18, 1952. Licenses will be issued from the Treas- urer's Office in the Town Hall, or by the Tax Collector, H. Maloney. After that date summonses through the court will be issued to the owners or harborers of dogs not having licenses. ALL DOGS MUST WEAR TAGS clutches. Leonard ought to wake her up by giving a recital, she says. "Go get yourself a triumph, Hurt her where it hurts." Cecil 'demands pa nwent for lessons -- kisses. He pays but declares he loves hie wife. Ile upends much time with Cecil, snaking good pro- ' grese. While she is on tour she wires him, he sings in upstate re- citals, make* a hit and she gets him an engagement with an. op- era "company. Again he makes good and tearfully 'Cecil, telling him she loves him, says he can now bring Doris to his feet. He refuses a new contract. A movie audience gives Doris the "bird." She says she's no good and that she loves Leonard. Cecil says a final good=bye to Leonard, warn- ing him Doris isn't "licked," then meets krim unexpectedly with Doris at Gwenny Blair's cocktail party. ' About a minute after that Doris saw Lorentz, sitting there in a cor- ner with his arm around Cecil, both of them being gay for a little knot that was gathered' around thein. I talked along about what a terrible mob Gwenny always had at her parties, but she didn't seem to hear me. She kept watching them. She must have crossed eyes with Lorentz, because he bounced yap and crossed to us. "Doris! Hello, Mr. Borland. Come on over, you two. We want Doris to settle an argument. Which is worse, a Ger- man tenor . singing 'Trovatore' or an Italian tenor singing 'Lohen- grin'?" "I would have thought you would have come over." "Why, Doris! 1 have" "A little belatedly, I would say." "You disappeared! I've been watching my chance'" "Or for somebody, perhaps, who would .be more of a credit to you?" "Stop it, Doris. She's an old friend. Now come on over and set- tle the argument- It's deep and we want a real opinion." He went back. I felt myself get- ting etting thick in the collar. "I thought you were through with Hugo." "I am, but this is a matter of manners." "'How about me looking silly?" "You?" "Yes, me. A husband does look pretty silly when his wife picks, a jealous row with another man right in front of him." "Jealous? 1 jealous of Hugo?" "You sounded like it." They came over, then, Doris in- troduced ntroduced me, Cecil said we 'had met and didn't look at me. They went on with the argument. With Cecil smiling at her, Doris was herself again. She won the argu- ment, with an imitation of a Ger- man lady who used to sing Brunne- hilde pinch-hitting in "Traviata," as a big favor to the management. Pretty soon Gwenny went to the middle of the room, began stamp- ing her foot, and, as soon as the mob got quiet, said. Cecil' was go- ing to sing. But when Cecil went ,over it wasn't Wilkins who took the piano, it was Lorentz. She sang the Titania song from "Mignon." I had it all the more, this feeling that I wanted to get Doris out of there, With that singing going on there was as much chance of that as there would he of getting a mouse away from a piece of cheese. After the "Mignon," Cecil sang a little cradle song that's been writ- ten on Kreisler's "Caprice Vien- nois," and then she came over to Doris. "How was I?" "Marvellous. I never heard you better." "I thought I was a little off, my- self, but they seem to like it, so it's all right. Do a duet with me, Mrs. Borland?" Doris didn't have to .he told how decent that was. It was letting her right into the big -league park. It was treating her as an equal, and she took Cecil's hand and gave it a little sha.ke. "How about `La Dove Prende'?" Cecil asked. "Oh, not that! I only know the first part, and—" "Then I'll sing the second. Come on." Wilkins took the piano, and they started. It was pretty terrible, Mo- zart has to be sung to the beat, and I think I told you about Doris' idea on rhythm. I saw Wilkins look up, but Cecil dead -panned, and they went on. Doris could have sung it backward and that pair would have carried her through. It got a band, and they had a whis- per, and did the "Barcarolle" from the "Tales of Hoffman." That was a little more Doris' speed, and a little more that mob's speed, too, so it went over big and they came over to me. Doris' face was all aglow. Cecil laughed, and turned to her. "Well, how was the support?" "I never knew there could be such support." "We showed 'em." "Even if you do try to steal my men." It wasn't supposed to he a dirty crack. It was just meant for a little gag, something that Doris had to get out of her system; then she could forget about Hugo and really be friendly. Cecil winced as if she bad been hit with a whip. Then she looked me straight in the eye, the first time she had all day. "Leonard, why did you Ile to me?" "I didn't." "You did. You let me go to her, you swore you hadn't said a word, you—" She tried) to bite it back. It wasn't what I said, it was the look on Doris' face that stopped her. She knew, then, what Doris had really .meant, but it was too late. Doris looked first at Cecil, then at me. Then she gave a little rasp- ing laugh. "Ob—so that was what you were doing in -Rochester, and Syracuse, and Columbus, and Chica- go, and-" SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 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