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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942
THE DELTA* COURIER
PAGE THREE
Mjzaarstnaage
CHAPTER X
Synopsis
bu James M. Cain
•7 ** W-N'U • RELEASE
| November. When the first day of : knows all about smoke. He gets
December came, it crossed my j that every day. But a guy that
l islation reducing speed limits to
40 miles an hour.
It was made clear in the order
Ab: "Yes, she even believes
] the parrot taught him to swear."
When Mrs. Berg’s expensive
UBERTY LIMERICKS
i curbing the supply of gasoline new fur cout was delivered to her j
! that this was done entirely be- home, she fondled it ecstatically
| cause of the transportation prob- ^or a time, and then looked sad
lem and not because of any
shortage of oil. It is expected
for a moment.
"What’s me matter?” inquir-
Drspite Leonard Borland’* mind it was funny no bills had ' can come out of the bull pen
• ay* that he *hould give
and finish a ball game, that’s dif-
ferent. When he heard that he
WASHINGTON
here that this step is preliminary ed her husband. Aren t you i
to the rationing of gasoline, satisfied with it.'
"Yes," she answered, "but 1!
which would be preferred by
WASHINGTON, D. C., March many dealers since they do not fe«l sorry for the
24.—The shock of our naval like to impose their own make- that was skinned.
DlffNJt BORPJ
protest > hi* pretty opera .truck been forwarded to 1110. On the
wife resume* her singing career, third I found out why. When I
After *he give* a recital at Town came downstairs in the morning
Hall, Borland i» called up by and crossed the lobby, the clerk
Cecil Carver, an opera singer. J called for me, and he had my
He sings a song for her and she check in his hand, the one 1 had With just those three operas, ne posjtion to all political and sel- place in the East, however, is be
says he has a fine baritone voice, given him for my next month’s couldn’t make it three times a fjgb actions here which can. be lieved already to have reduced
week, because they weren’t giv- i interpreted as interfering with consumption by most 20 per eent.
ing "Traviata” on a weekly j our all-out war program. The President’s request for
The rush of investigations state laws regulating speed of
poor thing
quit worrying, and began to l^y 1 disuster in the Pacific has done shift methods of rationing. The
it out what I’d have to do. 1 he even more than the Pearl Mar- voluntary reduction of the use
hitch came over the guarantee. bor attack to arouse angry op- of automobiles which has taken : . /***. ^ .. . jin i
With just those three operas, he position to all political and "* *- " 1-------— u~ ’ 1 A * 1 ‘N°
"Thanks,” said Mr. Merg.
Debit: "Ah—you remember
rent. It had bounced back. I
recital to wake up his wife. She blinked at it, and I knew' then
teache. him, demanding kisses as why there hadn’t been any bills. | schedule,
payment. He makes good progress Doris was paying her own bills, up "Trovatorc,” "Lucia,” and j started immediately following the automobiles, in order to conserve
and she gets him an engagement | The money Was in a joint ac-
Ile wanted me to get
said 1 would he indebted to you
forever?”
Credit: "Yes."
Debit: “Well, I wonder if you
could extend it a few weeks?’’
“Aida,” and then later "Don
with an opara company. He makes count, in her name and mine, and Giovanni,” they would revive it
good. A movie audience gives
Doris the “bird.” Broken spirited
she tells Leonard she loves him.
Doria learns about Cecil and de-
cides that it wasn’t business that
kept him out of the city. There is
a scene at Gwenny Blair’s cock-
tail party and Gwenny, to smooth
she had drawn every cent of
out, started an account some-
where else, and there I was.
charges of Robert Guthrie that the huge rubber supply which is
certain industrialists were doing on the 30,000,000 motor vehicles 1
if they thought I was right for | everything possible to resist cion- of the country, will be acted up- j
it. | verting their plants to full war on quickly by most state gover- |
I said I couldn’t get up that J production, is typical of the nors. Most all states which have j
I said there must be some mis- ] many roles by the end of the i present attitude.
take and I would see him
afternoon. I went out,
hustled over to Newark and bor-
rowed $300 from a manufacturer
a low governing the speed limit
matters over, laughingly suggests | of power shovels We had done
that Leonard sing. He does and business with. I got back just in
Doris is furious—he is so good.
Doris has gone home, and Leon-
ard is staying at a hotel.
time to get in the bank, so I
could cover that check before
they closed; then went back and
rces,
r to
1 in
t the
ntle-
i our
l my
this
store
ir to
i im-
wel!
hroat
lost
> quo
t the
:actly
our-
illion
shall
vince
war,
peo-
I quit kidding myself then. I
knew I’d give anything to have
it back, what I had pulled at the j
party that afternoon. It wasn’t i
brave, it wasn’t big, it was just
plain silly. I had made a jackass
of myself and put something ter-
rible between me and Doris. I
began thinking of her, then, and
knew that it didn’t make any
difference what She had done to
me, or anything else. I wanted
so bad it was just a terrible
tie, wanted her worse than
ever. And here I was; I had no
wife, I had no home, I had no
kids, I had no work, I didn’t
c-ven have Cecil. I had just made
a mess of my life. I think I hit
an all-time low that night. 1
never felt worse. I couldn’t.
The next clay I took a suite at
a hotel in the fifties. I took it
by the month. I didn’t hear
vT,
too, and—1
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told the clerk it was all right, 1
had drawn on the wrong ac-
reading^the^Tciety^pages^f^r*” j c°unt’ and he coukl Put il Rusticana’ pnd ‘Pagliacci,’ the home.”
that ! winter if I had to sing three j Mr. Guthrie, a $1 a year War permit faster than 40 miles an
and | times a week, too. | Production board executive in hour. There are only five which
So then he had a different . charge of textile, clothing and now limit speed to 40 miles an
idea: “All right; we’ll say ‘Lucia’ leather goods division, resigned hour or less—Connecticut, Massa-
and ‘Trovatorc,’ but get ‘Pagliac- bjs office because, he said, rep- chusetts, New York, Rhode Is-
ci’ up by next week, and then we resentatives of those industries, land and South Dakota. In ad-
can put you on three times. \ ou berth within and without the dition to new state speed laws, it
see, ham and eggs is once a week, \VPB had blocked his efforts “to is also expected that greater en-
j effect a sufficient supply of ma- forcement of speed laws will
terials to meet the requirements , immediately be invoked through-
] of the war effort.” out the country.
“I took,” said Mr. Guthrie, | During the month of March
\ “what I considered to be a de- ’ the government took in more
drive stand against the indeciis- , revenue than in any other month
ion, the resistance and the pro- . in the history of the country—
1 crastination o|f representatives ! largely as a result of the- income
of the affected industries now i tax payments from 23,000,000
working within the WPB. I felt | taxpayers. Although it is esti-
that we could no longer afford mated that income tax payments
! the risk of ‘too little or too late.’ during the month totaled $2,-
For these efforts I was labeled .750,000,000, even this huge
‘hostile to industry.’ ” j amount seems almost insifnifi-
Donald Nelson, WPB head, be-j cant compared with the present
gan an immediate investigation ; war costs of over three billion
as did the defense investigating { dollars a month,
committee of the senate. Com-
menting on the situation, Sena-1 ports indicate that those in the j
tor Herring of Iowa, member of, lower income groups are partic- .
the committee, said: “Although I ularly anxious to make sure the1
know nothing of the particular government gets the full amount
matters complained about by Mr. ; which they owe and there appear
Guthrie, I do know there are to be quite a few cases of people
men in the War Production board paying more than they are asked j
who are apparently working pri-, to, or making a contribution I
“Ham and eggs. ‘Cavalleria 1 marily for their bosses back . when they weren’t required to
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"I'm looking lor the Leonard Borland who sang with the American
Scala Opera Company under the name of Logan Bennett.”
‘What is?”
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couple of days, and she was in. j ^
Every time 1 saw her name I saw j
double bill. ‘Pagliaccd’ you can
I went up to my suite and get up quick. After the ‘Pro- ] major shake-up
I had $75 logue,’ which I suppose you know,
T cimhton’s On the singing, I counted my money
trap One day over what I had deposited in the | you have almost nothing to do,
bank. My expenses, over the ! just two real scenes, not over 10
never opened my
it guy showed up at the office by
» u„ lrent look $170 a month I was paying for minutes of actual singing alto- . set-up found to exist in hia board,
the name of Horn. He kept iook * t -gether. Then we can—” 1 .....* ^
‘Oh. All right, then.”
These charges may lead to a ! form for payment of taxes on
in the organiza-1 incomes of less than $3,000 prov-
tion, for there is no doubt here j ed very popular, the great ma-
that’ Mr. Nelson will “yank out I jority of tax payers in that group
by the roots” any uncio-operative j using the nev form.
J
ing around kind of puzzled at j the suite, were about $50
the drafting room, and in a ■ week, not counting club dues and
minute I asked him pretty sharp other things I couldn t stave off
what he wunted.
Congress has now raised the
A tightening up of all the weak j national debt limit to 125 billion
I links in the vast government or- j dollars in order to make it pos-
sible
“You’re Mr. Borland? * Mr.
Leonard Borland?”
"Yes, I’m Leonard Borland.”
________________ , You’ll need a coach. I rec- j ganization is being carried on (sibie to put through
i very long. I was just about a ommend Siegal. He’s a good man, J continually and although there |"wai appiopriations.
week and a half from the bone , WOrks with us.”
yard, and I began to feel it again, [ «pjnej pn take him. When do
that thick rage against Doris and we gtart’?»»
additional
At the
| are undoubtedly many changes ' present time the government debt
needed, it is generally agreed that $G3,COO,000,000 and by the end
the war program is now being di-
the way she treated me. It would
“I’m looking for the Leonard gujt her fjne> j kneW) to have
m
er.
Borland who sang with the Amer-
ican Scala Opera Company under
the name of Logan Bennett. Any-
way, I hear he did.”
“Where did you hear that?”
“I was in Pittsburgh last
week. I heard it from a friend of
mine. Giuseppe Rossi.”
"Well? What of it?”
He knew then he had the right
and kept looking me over.
I’ll tell you what of it. I’m con-
nected with this new outfit that’s
giving opera over at the Maxwin
Theatre, and—”
"Not interested.”
"I need a baritone.”
“Still not interested.”
"If you’re as good as he says
you are, I could make you a pretty
nice proposition. I could offer
you $125 a night say with three
appearances a week guaranteed.
That’s a little more than Rossi
was paying you, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, quite a little”
“Well—will you think it over?”
“No.”
“I got a couple of good tenors
and another one coming. I got a
couple of sopranos I think are
comers. But in opera you’ve got
to have one good baritone before
you’ve got a show.”
'fYou certainly have.”
“All right, then, I’ll come up a
‘Next week. Get ‘Pagliacci I
up by then, and then later we can j Harbor
rected with much greater effi-
j ciency that it was before Pearl
work you in on the others. But
we want to bring you out in
‘Rigoletto.’ That makes you im-
Orders curbing the civilian •
supply of countless products are J Mrs. M. R. Humphreys! of Pe-
going out thick and fast as are , ™n Gap, route 1, is a patient at-
those putting ceilings on prices. | Janes Clinic and Hospital.
me corning on my knees to her,
begging for money. I walked
around the suite, and after a
while something in me clicked.
I began to think about Horn and I ^
the Hippodrome and his $150 a
niKl‘t' , , „ , lin. ,.Ml. hack in tne same oio groove. *| problem of major considera-
Next day he called up. Mr. found out then how much Cecil | ^ two m0’t iniportant
Borlan<1' had been giving me for nothing. , developmcnts in regard to this
“Yes-” . _ i Do know what that blnl i recently were the order of the
“This is Bert Horn again. Re- j too? He charged me $25 an | War Production board cutting by
member?” hour, and I had to have him ever - 2Q per cent thc amount 0f gaso-
“Oh, yeah. How are you?” j day. I had to borrow $200 more j ljne t(j b<J delivere,| to service
“All right. Listen; my other in Newark, and It was an awful sUtions in the East and the
tenor got to town last night. Fact | crimp in my $000 a week. But, I president.s roquest for state leg-
of the matter, I stole him off at that $450 was nothing to be i __________
Rossi. Guy by the name of sneezed at. ) I didn’t expect. Then he laugh-
Parma. You know him?” j I asked for a rehearsal on i ed. Singers, they’re a funny
“Yeah. I sang with him.” ; “Rigoletto,” with three or four | breed. They’ve got what you
“Listten; if you’re as good as of the choristers. In the scene might call a rudimentary sense
he says you are, I might raise before the courtiers there was I 0f humor, in the first place, and
the offer. I might up the ante 1 some stuff I wanted to do, and I J they’re awful proud of
■ of the fiscal year, even with new
heavy taxes now being planned, it
will probably rise to nearly $95,-
000,000.
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‘Now you’re talking. Come on so I really hit the deck, so when | People think they’re soft. Well, ,
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over.
He came, and looked me over
again and the place over again,
and then he laughed and shook
his head.
“You play?” I asked.
“Some kind of way, yes.”
“Come on up.”
They told me to come over to
the theatre.
When I got there, I walked
out to lhe middle of the stage,
let out a couple of big ones, and
it felt pretty good. I stuck out
I took him ujp on the third ^ my chest. I thought how 1 was
floor, where the piano was, and putting it over on Doris and how
opened the windows and shoved 1 I wouldn’t come begging her for
the “Traviata” area in front of ] anything.
through. I think he wanted to
look me over. I showed them
How’sa old
Him. H. pl.y.d H »d I It I Th. eductor. «»uv Schultt
When I got through, he nodded, was at the piano, and we went
“Guess they weren’t kidding me.’
We went down again, and he
got down to cases. “How many
roles do you know?’
“Three.”
“Just three?”
“Mnreel Germont, and Rigo- went over and shook hands
outdoor sport aoout u.at Ma ’ h„r rol but j «Hello, boy, hello.
That was walking around th# letto. i ang out •,
, • „ i fn/di it wis a ninch-hitting job and T kid? lie said,
opera house hoping I d sec Cec 1. , wa‘ ' r hoard opine. How’s yourself?
A couple of days after that I did wouldn t know it >f ! ,l() R gay; .J ,W(.11 ,
see her. I raced back to the ot- it.
fice as fast as I could get there “What role wa8 it.
“Wagner in ‘Faust.
JUL ill i\ V»IS S.VJ *--- — -
tel.
Knew she wouldn’t be. I hat in
b ^ I H." j jus lik,’ you ,lo 'em now,
Then” for ^wcek I stuck .t my i. by hh.n, pow!-.low„ he w, ju.t
That made the same
sion on him it had on the others.
impressario, he’s a
what I said when you came in
here. I appreciate what you say.
I’m grateful to Rossi, but I’m junt
not interested.”
The idea of singing made me
sick. He went, and I put on m;
hat and engaged in my favorite
outdoor sport, about that time
It comes from the belt,
and it takes plenty of chest, to do
it right.
I got up, and laughed, and he
and Schultz and I went out and
had a drink . . .
The afternoon of the perform-
ance I put off lunch till three
o’clock, and then went out and
had a good one. I came back to
the office and vocalized my
voice. I came up quick, and felt
good. I was beginning to get
nervous. They all get nervous,
hut this was different front what
how I wanted them to heave me. \ I had felt before. It had a little
and after a while they got it so j tingle to it. I felt I was good. I
it suited me. When we quit, I | walked up to the hotel and it was
saw Parma in the wings, and about half past four. I lay down
and got a little sleep.
It seemed funny to be putting
the make-up on without Cecil
bobbing in to give me the
double O, but I got it in place,
do this scene. Alla baritones and put on the funny clothes, and
I don’t tun for bedroom, make little i tried my voice. It was still up,
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Lj^ptel. They said she wasn’t in. 1 ring French, hut iney lei » if,. r „„,i „„,i,l,,l “Tho
desk, hoping she would call back.
She never did.
Italian. They shoved it at me why he don’t get in. Look like looked me over, and nodded. “The
the morning, I sang it that lie must be weak. Ought to fight, contracts are ready.”
‘ ‘ ' “You get them with you?”
then, pow!—down he go, just “My secretary’s bringing them
impres- j like this!” over. I’ll be in with them after
He threw his shoulders at me, the show. How do you feel?”
and I went head over heels onto “I feel all right
...... , j..qi been An opera impressario, ne s » ,,
U-l^ you wt in the list p.rt of little like » be.eb.ll m.n.g.r. He the floor. It -M one ft.,, fell
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