The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1932 Page: 3 of 8
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The Three
Hortons
86
By FANNIE IilJRST
.© by HcClnr* Nfw«j>ai>pr Mymllcnt*. >
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f IMBUE • footed, nimble - willed.
Ware the Three Horten*, a'nd
tlieir long booklnga on wide
vaudeville circuits test Hied to
tt. The Three Horton* were a cheer-
ing part of any hill and almost In-
variably second only In Importance to
m headliner like Erigauza, Urlee or San
Kra«<;i»co.
There were Beatty Horton, whoa*
patter wa* aa nimble *■ hi* soft shoe
dancing Allel* Horton, who could
output tern hut not outdance her
spouse, and, from the age of *• .-.It no,
Winstead Horton, who could Ming talm-
mdf In a bridge from maternal to pa-
ternal •boulders, and oing in u choir
•Ofirnno that had captivated hi* audi-
ence* from tbo day* he had toddled
on stage with lifted hand* balancing
•unsure fact.
All that waa changed now. Win-
stead waa grown, bla father Beatty
had developed a gouty tendency and
had been obliged to cot out the aoft-
*hoe work, and Alicia, wblla she atilt
made up to something Of the old das-
atlng hlondne** and waa adorably cute
In her dip Hue of patter, wt* never-
theless subject to the relentless eye
of her audience to the extent that they
simply did not want the “young tnitr*
from her au> longer Altela, In rather
seveio tog* and a slight comedy make
up, t ax gelling around that, these
day*, by doing the young matron sort
of thing, and to a point making ber
audience like It. But tb# fact of the
i»*tt«r waa that by the time he was
eighteen, and hi* parents were In their
forties. Winstead, single-lm tided, wa»
carrying Ihe act.
And carrying It brilliantly. A Br-
ing cwbtortloufat, vole* for comic,
character and solo singing, a baffling
ventriloquist and a soft shoe dancer
who seldom failed to get his six re-
call*. Hi* Three Horton act practical-
ly rested on hi* sltm young shoulders.
Not that anything of the kind waa
ever admitted In the confines of the
Horton family, however achingly
Beatty or Alicia might long since have
realised It to themselves. Regularly,
the Three Horton* held confab for
the refurbishing of their act; periodi-
cally rehearsals were called, change*
Inserted, songs revamped and costume*
freshened for each and every oua of
the throe of thorn, with eutpbaai* on
the requirement* of each. Beatty'*
oudleme* wanted hit sure Bre bom
hanlmeot of patter; Alicia's wanted
her'* blond and graceful; Winstead's
wanted him the flying, dancing, comic,
vocal young devil.
The Three Horton*. Up to the bit-
ter end, until Beatty** patter began to
crack In bis throat, and Alicia’s anklet
to twist and turn aa *l>e danced, there
•waa no out-and-out admission on tha
part of the older Horton* that they
w*ro finished
The situation racked Wlmtead and
tore at the very withe* of him. They
were such i, gallant pair In hit eyes;
the dudlab, rakish, old Hearty who
would limp to the wings from his
dressing room, with hi* face made up
into a grin and I ha darts of pain
through til* ankles like Hre; the prank-
ish dear beyond-the-tolllrg, Alicia,
whose role In life was to pamper ev-
eryone except herself, from ber bns-
feand and son down to the most ob-
scure performer on the bill. To see
them slowly disintegrate, to see s mer-
ciless public grow cold to them, to be-
hold the hurt In the eyes of his fsther
and the bewilderment on the face of
Atlcla was pathos beyond the telling.
Not but what they gloried in the ris
Ing success of their sou. and stood
back with their face* perspiring and
their hearts hurting from exertion and
somothing else, for him to take the
honors, for the act. but there came
the time when there was simply no
easing the tact, for the two of them,
that they were finished. Managers
were clamoring for Wlmtead, and for
ye»r« hud been tolerating the presence
of Ihe older pair for the ilrople reason
that he would not book without them.
But the time had come when It w»t
apparent even to Winstead himself
that there was Imposition In any long-
er asking for hooking* for the older
p.lr. Beatty was winded atmoat b«-
r-.-e he reucheij siege. Alicia, poor
th r. no longer had the stamina.
torangely. thl* rpalliation dawned.
s<*» ly stmulteneomdy, upon the three
of them, sparing Winstead the almost
..ftp (treble pain at telling them their
boar had struck.
"We're finished. Beatty." Allele an-
nounced to her husband one evening,
a* they sat around trying wholeheart-
edly to discus* plans for a next sea-
son's art. “What'a the use heating
oround the hoslit They don't want
«s, We're dead weight around Win-
stead's neck. Let** face the muatc."
It wna with a sense of what teemed
positive relief that Beatty capitulated.
Actually, Ma old fake seemed for th*
fir*! time to allow Itaelf to fall Into
the luxury of wrinkle*
“I guess yyu'r* right, Alicia. Wo'ra
d»*>«'.''
There wo* not any money scare.
Wltnrtfwd, of rourne would see to that,
and hostile* the Hortons, Beatty ond
Alicia, almple-llvlng, slmole-mlmled
folk, had put hy thetr little penny.
It wag fear of Winstead that lay In
their heart*. This hoy. never out of
track*,, suddenly atone on
I fear of Winstead
squatted on their old cheat*, both of
them, ever since the ahadow of this
day of their retirement bad begun to
cast Itaolf aero** the circuit. He was
such a child, Winstead was. A help-
less, oonfldlng genlua-like fellow. No
good at money, for Instance. Had to
have It handed to him every morning.
So much for taxicab. So much for
lunches and little luxuries. So much
for dps. No good at watching himself
against cold*, to which lie was subject.
It took all Ills mother could do to keep
after him effectively with mufflers,
rubber* ami precaution about drafts.
No good at eating well. Hie father
was forever giving him the second
helping* of food without Ida even
knowing It, stacking Ida plate when
Ida attention waa diverted aud then In-
stating that he eat.
“But l have eaten, father, Didn't
you allp some more potatoes on my
plater
'Nonsense, Kat, I say!"
Imagine a boy like that, a helpless,
off-ln-the-clonds fellow who had never
had to think much for himself about
the creature phases of life, off sudden-
ly by Idmaelf on t circuit. It hurt
the heart of Alicia *o that she cried
moat of her nlghta. It threw such a
dread Into Beotty that his efforts to
pretend to Alicia that all was well
were pathetic to her almost beyond en-
durance.
Well, It had to be faced aud th*
sooner the better. The Horton*’ pur-
chased for themselves the inevitable
chicken farm In New Jersey, that ha-
ven of all good retired vsudevlllihiis.
and Winstead, bewildered and a little
frightened with hi* released, began re-
hearing a new set with s young glri
with the stage name of "Yvette,’’
whose singing and dancing had attract-
ed th* admiration of the Three Hor-
ton*.
It waa a whirlwind torn of fast,
amusing young-blood talk, really ex-
quisite and highly diverting *oft-*ho«
and toe-dancing, and some pretty duet
singing that marked them for almost
Instantaneous succesa.
After * tryout la Newark. Wlnatead
and Yvette were hocked over a forty-
week cycle and the pair of the older
Hortons settled down to what gallant
resignation they could muster.
And muster they did. except It ac-
tually did seem that with the letting
down of the strain and exc!teme,nt of
their life time of year* on the circuit.
Beatty and Alicia were destined to fall
apart like the proverbial one-hoss
shay. Bad health set In for both al-
most the month after retirement. An
old pair were nearing the tlnul turn
In their road.
It waa quiet and peaceful and even
beautifut In a way. Sweet, come right
down to tt. growing old out of a youth
that had been an long and tumultuous
and vlgorou*. It wa* Winstead that
brought dread to the heart—Wlnatead,
•be had been eo bnhled.- -
HI* first vlalt home after the forty
week* brought peace to the heart on
that acore. He and Yvott# had come
back to the farm to he married She
la a tnmnltuou* little thing. Dance*
like a whirl and can fling herself tn a
horizontal bridge from Hie neck of
Wlnatend and start whirling.
She la young, vivacious, beautiful
and a whirlwind for making Winstead
to* the mark. Rubbers! I«t him try
to venture out on a damp day without
them. Appetite! Bet him try to skip
that glass of fresh bream With hi*
lunch. Money! Yvette hold* th* purse
strings and doles out to him as If he
were a child.
There Is nothing left for Alicia and
Beatty to dread about the twilight,
Dog. With Tills.
The amasing h'atory of Peking***
hs* been told by Mrs. A. 0. Dixie who
spent g long time In flhlna. A thou-
sand years ago these small bundles of
trouble were, worshiped as symbols of
Buddha, and Invested with the highest
title* an emperor could devise. They
were created prince* and dnkes. They
were granted gigantic revenue*. They
were honored with literary degree*.
To steal one wa* to run a certain risk
of enjoying that death known m the
"Death by ten thousand slices." To-
day the Peke 1* guarded with some-
thing of the same stringency, hflt In
Tibet and not In hi* native birthplace.
Chinn last her hold on him when the
Summer palace In Peking was Hacked
In 18lk). and an Engllsli general
brought a “sleeve dog" home In hi*
hat aa a gift to Queen Victoria.
Britain’. Red Tape
The sleepy llltle village of Upper
Tean. between Uttoxeter and Stoke-on-
Trent la where the government ob-
tain* It* red tape. Officialdom tic* It-
self up with tape from Upper Tean
It also use* the same tape to tie up
the parcel* of reatrtrtlon* which go to
make Britain what It I*. Old women
with kindly faces turn out tape by the
mile, ft fall* In cascade* from the
looms and. on th* floor, great pile*
of red tape may be seen. There' t*
enough tape to trip up the nation when
handled with the cunning dexterity of
Whitehall:—Montreal Herald.
Dying Request Denied
Though England has produced great
painters, oddly enough the only on*
commemorated In Westminster abbey
IS Sir flodfrey Kneller. portrait artist
from the time of Charles II to George
Still queerer, Kneller'a dying words
were: "By O—d, I will not be buried
la Westminster." To make absolutely
certain he designed hi# own monument
and paid 115,000 for the stone and
work and cjw>»* a spot In Twickenham
churchyard. But due to a dtapub
Ms widow with Pope over '
Latest Frocks of Lacy Open Mesh
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
The Peel’s Let
John Masefield, the poet laureate,
■aid to an American Interviewer in
London:
“The liner* nowaday* all advertlae
their steerage as 'college cabin,'
“Our new Third Claa* College
Cabin," you read, "arranged exclu-
Mvely for ministers, students, pro-
fessors, research workers, etc.
"These advertisement* leave out
poets. Poet* aren't even up to col-
lege eabln."
Mr. Marsh laughed and ended;
“Poets are bora, not paid."
rj'ASlIloNI.AXD 1* enjoying the thrill
» of a new enthusiasm. It's for upeu
lucy mesh effects. If you please. Seek
ing shoee. hosiery, gloves, dress goods,
sports frocks, evening und afternoon
gowns, wrii]«, suits, sweaters..,or s
blouse, millinery, hundbags. or “what
have you” In shops, you will he remind-
ed every day In every way that open
roeah effects are “ft."
Sonic ot the woolen materials are
woven so open and lacy one hat a
feeling they surely are knitted or
crocheted. Often these "meshy” weave#
are made up with touches of hand
crochet to flnlgh * them off. At any
rate, If madam or mademoiselle as-
plr , tn follow In the footstep" of fash-
lor an openwork knitted or mesh-fnb-
rlc gown on the order of the up-to-th*-
moment models pictured Is Inevitable
for mldsenson and spring.
Th* good looking spectator sports
dress which you see to the left In the
tllnstrstlon Is of bright oeaoew-woolen
In s knitted patterning which look* very
much like allover lace. It* smart fal-
tered handling add* "claa* " The coat
repeat* the white accent which occurs
In the yoke of the dress, a whole fox
akin forming the collar. The swanky
shoe* enter Into the color scheme moat
beautifully. Observe that they are
very smart open-shank aandals made
of exquisite orange toned kid. Accord-
ti g to the style program a big vogne
la In promise for dainty footwear of
finest kid tn very lovely coloring.
Black, tangerine and W hite are clev-
erly combined In the early spring
street costume shown to the right.
The open square-mesh material Is In
tangerine. Its many-gored skirt which
(tenderize* at the hlpltne and flares at
the hemline I* one of the outstanding
features nf the model. The surplice
yoke of white mesh Is also vogulsh.
VELVET IS SMART
FOR SPRING WEAR
Many velvets are popping up here
aud there In the shops.
On* of the most effective suit* for
formal wear combine* a while velvet
Jacket with a black sarin akin. The
velvet of th# Jacket te the new dull-
surface variety, and very smart.
Short velvet evening wraps are to
take the fashion trenches by storm
thla spring. They are being shown In
every , conceivable co|or. from black
and white, through the pastels, to the
bright jewel tones.
A black velvet coat for spring wear
has barrel sleeves starting to flare at
the elbow, and gathered Into a tight
cuff of white ermlqe. A standing
while ermine collar Is finished by s
black velvet how, like a Windsor tie.
Spring Suit Must Have
Jacket to Be Success
You must have a Japket with your
new spring frock If It la to be a grand
success Of course, the Jacket la some-
time* a long coat, especially when It
ronnw to the ensembles that are to
liked juai n«w Rut It tt Jacket* and
nothing' hid In rhe evening, when the
younger set, alnm*! to a girl, slept out
wearin* some sort of Jacket, however
brief, with her frock.
Mostly the Jacket* are of the same
material aa the frock, and what they
lack In length they make up In chic.
But to PM back to the frock with Its
coat, that does not match In color nr
material ami yet manages to aho# that
It is the aoul-mnte of the accompany-
ing frock.
"Z 3'=......... “
Plaid Ginghams
Another gouthern fttshfim that will
bear watching la th# shirt made Just
Hke a man'*, of brilliant pinided gfng.
ham. These are worn with trouser*
or with tpnrts skirt* ami nave a ebb
all their own,
HIGH WAISTLINE
By < urn IK NICHOLAS
The kid opera pumps, knitted turban,
and abbreviated fur Jacket are In
black. A chain motif In gray beige to
match the hose trims the shoes. Wulsf-
tiipth Jackets of every type of flat fur
or of velvet, corduroy or velveteen are
outstanding In the new modes.
It Is not only for the dress entire
that ineah fabrics are scoring a tri-
umph. hut for the making of the suit-
blouse these loose-woven effects are
the rage. In this connection mention
should also be made of the latest
blouse ns per Schiaparelli and other
1‘arie dressmakers, which Is hand-
crocheted of course mercerized crochet
cotton und worn with the new spring
suits.
Another use of french square-mesh
hand crochet or of the materials which
simulate these effects Is that of mak-
ing of them the deep yoke# and ateeves
such aa top fashionable frocks thla
season, tn contrast or of like color.
So popular ha* the theme of open-
work novelties become, some of the
simps are displaying accessory sets
that Include glove*, aenrt and hag. all
of matching mesh material, either In
black, white or bright color*.
Likewise, latest footwear plays np
to the flair for open mesh In that ultra
■•hit- shoe* made of Suva cloth (open
mesh that looks like lace) are showu
at nil leading hoot cries.
Not only are the now-so-vogulsh
mesh and lace-effevt fabrics sponsored
In street colors ami In vivid shades,
but they are apropos to spring and
summer In a aerie* of delicate color-
ings designated by atyltsta as "water
Illy shades." These Include such de-
lectable tones and tints aa pink petal,
wnter lily green and other aa fascinat-
ing colors.
rah. 1*U Wsstsrs NmHW Onion.!
The built-up waistline la Important
this season. This smart Muck and
white chrek wool stilt achieve* the de-
sired silhouette via a skirt which In
brought up high over the Mouse, The
lining and the htfuae are u vivid green
crepe. Kven 'when there l* a licit, the
newer skirts are mode th look as It
they extend above it,,, oorm.n ytat-
tine by means of felts a rut vsrtoox
tuber elevet
Unusual Request
One of the strangest requests ever
made In a will la contained in that of
Miaa Rosalie Blcknell Babcock, aged
seventy, of Mngfield. Hurrey, Eng
land, who died last .Inly, leaving £47.-
793. Mis# Babcock directed her ex-
ecutors to have the oil painting at
her lute father burned before h*r fw
neral and that no one should be al-
lowed to copy It.
Hard to Please
‘1 hem *he Ivan left her husband,
ft'hat waa the trouble?"
“She said ahe couldn’t eland It to
live with a roan who couldn't think
up as many way* of makiugf money
as she could of spending tt.”—Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
David waa a manly boy and Job
wa* a holly man.
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If It Happsasd Today
Part*, about to leave Greece, ha*
deckled to take Helen with him. Mak-
ng sure that Monelau* ha* gone t*
the link* for th# afternoon, be steal#
up to Helen's room.
"I love you,” he cries. “Ely with
me to Troy!"
“I wish 1 could,” sigh* Helen, “but
f Just know I'd never find k barber
In Troy who could siting!# toy batr
properly."
So Part* goes off to Atlantia and
marries a inermald whose balr Is al-
ways kept In curl by the dampness,
and the Trojan war la averted —
Kansas City Star.
• Mrnthul.tum |
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p an ioMpsnatvs and valuables
aid to a good complexion.
K Jan and lubea,
30c.
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The Handy Can Opener
This ta a simple nnpatonted 4#v»cn for
opening tin cans. It is mad* of tool
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far I*.SO. Send to
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MACK MvCOI.LOIKiH
Something of a Paradox
"What became of tils wife?”
“He stopped away frtm home so
much thut ahe deserted him."
Surround yourself wl'li lots of good
company if you are a worrier. Theu,
you’ll forget to worry.
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to bapaMaCaiaraad
iBeaarr W Gr.j aadfadad Hat.
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W1 tile—Pa. what'a a neutral xonet
Pa—The kitchen, when your moth-
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Reform yourself and It helps yow
neighbor to reform—and In the beat
way.
DON’T BLAME THE WASHER
FDR THOSE DINGY CLOTHES
-it's THE SOAP
-TRY RINSO
OH, THAT'S THE
SOAP WOMEN
WRITE ADOUT
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