The Three Hortons Pn By FANNIE HURST +8 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ({WNU Service) IMBLE - footed, nimble - witted, were the Three Hortons, and thelr long bookings on wide vaudeville circuits testified to it. The Three Hortons were a cheer ing part of any bill and almost in- variably second only in importance to a headliner like Friganza, Brice or San Francisco. There were patter was as 1 dancing. Alicia outpattern but not spouse, from the Winstead Horton, who could fling him- self in a bridge from maternal to pa- ternal shoulders, and sing in a choilr- soprano that had captivated his audi- ences from he had toddled on stage hands balancing unsure feet. All that cha stead was grown, father Beatty had developed a tendency and had been obliged to cut out the soft- shoe work, and Alicia, while she still made up to something of the old daz- ling blondness and was adorably cute in her flip line of patter, was never- heless to the relentless of her audience to the extent hs it they simply did not want the “young stuff” from her any longer. Alicia, in rather severe togs and a slight comedy make- up, was getting nd that, days, by doing the young matron sort of thing, and to a point making her audience like it. Dut the fact of the matter was that by the time he was eighteen, and his parents were In their forties, Winstead, si was carrying the act. And carrying It ing contortionist, character and ventriloquist Horton, whose soft-shoe could her age of seven on, Beatty iimble as his Horton, who outdance and, the days with lifted was nged now. Win- his gouty subject eve arou these gle-handed, A fly- for comic, a baffling and a soft dancer who seldom failed to get his six re- calls, the Horton act ly rested on his slim young shoulders Not that anything of the kind was ever admitted in the confines of the Horton family, however achingly Beatty or Alicia might long since have realized it to themselves. Regularly, the Three Hortons heid confab for the refurbishing of their act; periodi- cally rehearsals were called, changes inserted, songs revamped and costumes freshened for each and every one of the three of them, with emphasis on the requirements of each, Beatty's nudiences wanted his surefire bom- bardment of patter; Alicia's wanted * her's blond and graceful; Winstead's wanted him the flying, dancing, vocal young devil, The Three Hortons, Up to the bit ter end, until Beatty's patter began to crack in his throat, and Alicia's ankles to twist and turn as she danced, there was no out-and-out admission on the part of the older Hortons that they were finished. The situation racked Winstead and tore at the very withes of him, They were such a gallant pair in his eyes; the dudish, rakish, old Beatty who would limp to the wings from his dressing room, with his face made up into a grin and irts of pain through his ankles fire; the prank- ish dear-beyond-the-telling, Alicia, whose role in life was to pamper ev- eryone except herself, from her hus- band and son down to the most ob- scure performer on the bill. To see them slowly disintegrate, to see a mer- clless public grow cold to them, to be- hold the hurt In the eyes of his father and the bewilderment on the face of Allcla was pathos beyond the telling. Not but what they gloried In the ris- ing success of their son, and stood back with thelr faces perspiring and thelr hearts hurting from exertion and something else, for him to take the honors for the act, but there came the time when there was simply no easing the fact, for the two of them, that they were finished. Managers were clamoring for Winstead, and for years had been tolerating the presence of the older pair for the simple reason that he would not book without them. But the time had come when It was apparent even to Winstead himself that there was imposition in any long- er asking for bookings for the older pair. Beatty was winded almost be. fore he reached stage, Alicia, poor dear, no longer had the stamina. Strangely, this realization dawned, nearly simultaneously, upon the three of them, sparing Winstead the almost unbearable pain of telling them their hour had struck. “We're finished, Beatty,” Alicia an- nounced to her husband one evening, as they sat around trying wholeheart- edly to discuss plans for a next sea- son's act. “What's the use beating around the bush? They don't want us. We're dead weight around Win. stead’s neck, Let's face the music” It was with a sense of what seemed positive relief that Beatty capitulated. Actually, his old face seemed for the first time to allow Itself to fall Into the luxury of wrinkles, “1 guess you're right, Allela, done.” There was not any money scare. Winstead, of course wonld see to that. and besides the Hortons, Beatty and Allein, simple-lliving, simpleminded folk, had put by their little penny. It was fear of Winstead that lay In thelr hearts. This boy, never out of a ron! tracks, suddenly alone on voice solo singing, 3 ft-shoe ee #1 1 Three practical- commie, the da 1k Hike We're road! Fear of Winstead bad _—-————— I squatted - on : thelr old chests. both of them, ever since the shadow of this day of their retirement had begun to cast itself across the circuit, He was such a child, Winstead was. A help- less, confiding genius-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 tips. No good at watching himself agalnst colds, to which he was subject. It took all his mother could do to keep after him effectively with mufflers, rubbers and precaution about drafts. No good at eating well, His father was forever giving him the second helpings of food without his even knowing it, stacking his plate when his attention was diverted and then in- sisting that he eat. “But I have you slip some plate?” “Nonsense, Eat, I say!" Imagine a boy like that, off-In-the-clouds fellow wl had to think much the creature phases of life, off sudden. ly by himself on a circuit. It hurt the heart of Alicia so that she erled most of her nights. It threw such a dread Into Beatty that his efforts to pretend to Alicla that all was well were pathetic to her almost beyond en- durance, Well, it had to be faced and the sooner the better, The Hortons pur chased for themselves the inevitable chicken farm in New Jersey, that ha- ven of all Sood retired vaudevillians, and Winstead, bewildered and a little frightened with his released, began re- hearing a new act with a young girl with the stage name of “Yvette” whose singing and dancing had attract ed the iration of the Three Hor- tons, It was a whirlwind turn of fast, amusing young-blood talk, really ex- quisite and highly diverting soft-shoe and toedancing, and some pretty duet singing that marked them for almost instantaneous SUCCess, After a tryout In Newark, Winstead and Yvette were booked over a forty- week cycle and the pair Hortons settled down to what gallant they could muster. ster they did, d seem that with the strain a thelr life-time of years on the circuit, Beatty and Alicia were destined to fall apart like the proverbial shay. Bad health set In for both al- most the month after retirement. old palr were nearing the final turn in th It was quiet and pea beautiful In a way, Sweet, down to it, Didn't on my eaten, father, more potatoes a helpless, 10 had never for himself about ad: the. letting elr road. come right and vigorous. brought dread to the heart——Wi who had been so habled. His first visit home after the forty weeks brought peace to the heart on that score. He and Yvette had come hack to the farm to be married fs a tumnaltoous little thing. bridge from horizontal the neck of Winstead and start whirling She Is young, vivacious, beautiful and a whirlwind for making Winstead toe the mark. Rubbers! Let him try to venture out on a damp day without them. Appetite! Let him try to skip that glass of fresh cream with his lunch. Money! Yvette holds the 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, Dogs With Titles The amazing history of Pekingese has been told by Mrs. A. ©. Dixie who spent a long time in China. A thou sand years ago these small bundles of trouble were worshiped as symbols of Buddha, and Invested with the highest titles an emperor could devise. They were created princes and dukes, They were granted gigantic revenues, They were Honored with literary degrees. To steal one was to run a certaln risk of enjoying that death known as the “Death by ten thousand slicea™ To day the Peke ls guarded with some thing of the same stringency, but In Tibet and not In his native birthplace, China last her hold on him when the Summer palace In Peking was sacked in 1860, and an English general | brought a “sleeve dog” home In his hat as a gift to Queen Victoria, Britain's Red Tape The sleepy little village of Upper Tean, between Uttoxeter and Stoke-on- Trent, is where the government ob- tains its red tape. OfMicialdom ties it. self up with tape from Upper Tean, It also uses the same tape to tie up the parcels of restrictions which go to make Britain what It is. Old women with kindly faces turn out tape by the mile. It falls In cascades from the looms and, on the floor, great piles of red tape may be seen. There 1s 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 one commemorated In Westminster abbey is Sir Godfrey Kneller, portrait artist from the time of Charles II to George 1. Still queerer, Kneller's dying words were: “By Gd, T will not be buried In Westminster,” To make absolutely certain he designed his own monument and pald 815,000 for the stone and work and chose a spot In Twickenham churchyard. But due to a dispute of Iils widow with Pope over the rights to this plot, Kneller was burled in the abbey in spite of himself, THE ————E——— 5 Jf AStHONLA ND is enjoying the thrill of a new enthusiasm, It's for open lacy mesh effects, If you please. Seek Ing shoes, hoslery, gloves, dress goods, ing and afternoon suits, sweaters, or a millinery, handbags, or “what ve you" In shops, you will be remind every in every way that open mesh effects are “it” Some of the woven so open feeling they surely even blouse, ha Teg or ony materials are and lacy one has a are knitted or Often these "meshy” weaves up with touches of hand to fini them off. At any rate, if madam or mademoiselle as pirés to follow In the footsteps of fash fon, an openwork knitted or mesh-fab- rie gown on the order of the up-to-the moment models pictured Is Inevitable for midseason and spring. The good-looking spectator sports dress which you ede to the left In the Mustration Is of bright orange woolen in a knitted patterning which looks very much like allover lace, Its smart tal tored handling adds “class” The coat repeats the white accent which occurs in the yoke of the dress a whole fox skin forming the collar. The swanky shoes enter into the color scheme most beautifully. Observe that they are very smart openshank sandals made of exquisite orange toned kid. Accord lig to the style program a big vogue is In promise for dainty footwear of finest kid in very lovely coloring. Black, tangerine and white 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 slenderizes at the hipline and flares at the hemline Is one of the outstanding features of the model. The surplice yoke of white mesh is also voguish. woolen are made ish The kid opera pumps, and abbreviated for black. A chain match the hose trims the sh depth Jackets of y type or of vels yutstanding in the jacket are In motif in gray beige to oes. Waist ever , corduroy or velveteen are new modes, nly for the dress rics are scoring a » making of the blouse loose woven effects rage. In this connection mention should also be the Ia blouse lapareill and other Paris dr skers, which is hand sted of coarse mercerized crochet ith the tri suil- hese the {est made of ns per Sel CNR ceroch cotton and new suits, Another use of French sqn hand crochet or of the materis simulate these effects is that of mak ing of them the deep yokes and sleeves such as top frocks this season, in contrast or of like color, worn w fashionable So popular ha work noveliies become, shops are that Include gloves, scarf and bag, of matching mesh material, black, white or bright colors, % the theme of open some of displaying accessory sets Likewise, latest to the flair for open chie shoes footwear plays ur mesh In that uitra Beauty Talks ORL DUNCAN Famous Beauty Expert About the Coiffure ONY, Madame X In there wants her hair pleated,” a beauty op- erator was saying to the hairdress Ing specialist, should not have the marcel, ment.” A look glanced in of recognition the dire in X. He knew her. And he marcel her halr., With gesture he added “A have it look so hard, so set, make her face look older, Then will at the musicale “Tony, he set my halr today.’ No, let George do it!” It Is so surprising to the en still «elis to the reut and arrange year or two ago, conducive to a ns of refused to an fe marcel her hair, she Ben self-game he they wore a fashion is 80 for the be Ask any number of Tonys who have studied coiffurcs as a science and applied it as an art and they will tell you that waves to look natural should swirl in and out, this way and that. Waves need not be uniform, each the same length or width or depth. Fashion favors individuality and softness. Uneven gths peed pot an when change tter, and ink omnt an. Unst } af wave ler pearancp » different, womed as iirdresser w to follow your you happen to worn for years, or if you In- on a too-set marcel which gives an obvious and unnatural look to the head and a hard look to the face, don't blame the halrdresser. On the other hand, If your halr. dresser asks you for suggestions when you ¢« to him request for a new and in- igement, grab your and run. Don't to politely gay thank youn. Don't stop until you other establishment ifure artist ition and a flair for individual arrangements, a well § 4 you go instruct th R81) ions have me with the &t on slop style of soft, one that will bring st is YOU and even enhance the beauty of your halr, » » » Wrinkles Not Fashionable ITH fash ful, with ions so eternally youth- emphasis continually wrinkles are defi And If there is one skin V others it Is wrinkles, be the result of squinting, a sign of scowling or similar emo ional strain, they may signal “shoes Lines may at all leading btooteries. Not only are in street colors and summer in a series of delicate color ings designated by stylists as “water ily shades.” These include such de jectable tones and tints as pink petal, water lily green and other as fascinat- ing colors. (® 1912 Western Newspaper Unlony VELVET IS SMART FOR SPRING WEAR Many velvels are popping up here and there in the shops One of the most effective sults for formal wear combines a white velvet Jacket with a black satin skirt. The velvet of the jacket Is the new dull surface variety, and very smart, Short velvet evening wraps are to take the fashion trenches by storm | this spring. They are being shown In | every conceivable color, 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 ermine. A standing white ermine collar Is finished by a black velvet bow, like a windsor tle Spring Suit Must Have Jacket to Be Success You must have a jacket with your new spring frock UW it Is to be a grand success. Of course, the jacket is gome- times a long coat, especially when it comes to the ensembles that are so liked just now. But it is jackets and nothing but In the evening, when the younger set, almost to a girl, steps out wearing some sort of Jacket, however brief, with her frock. Mostly the jackets are of the same material as the frock, and what they lack In length they make up In chie Put to put back to the frock with its coat. that does not mateh In color or material and yet manages to show that ft ta the soulmate of the accompany. ing frock. Plaid Ginghams Another southern fashion that will bear watching is the shirt made just like a man's, of brilliant plalded ging ham. These are worn with trousers or with sports skirts and have a chie all thelr own, HIGH WAISTLINE By CHERIE NICHOLAS The built-up waistline Is Important this senson., This smart black white chnrek wool sult achieves the de sired silhouette via a skirt which Is brought up high over the blouse, The lining and the blouse are a vivid green crepe. Even when there is a belt, the newer skirts are made to look as if they extend above the normal waist. line by means of tabs and various other clavar devices i i -but to the great army of women they are ever ready to them. For a young girl feels fully forty the day wrinkle is etched under her eyes. The cause lies within you. For, while it is true that the very dry, del of en to It, uting causes of wrinkles. with the very thin, prevention, cream.” olls—~truly a “preserving mouth, on the forehead, or on the neck, or around the chin, add before your cream a very soothing and pene trating oil, “As easy as pie” is an expres- sion 1 remember children using when they mean “the easiest thing in the world.” Precisely that sim- ple are the facial treatments for erasing fine lines and wrinkles. Providing—and thereby lies the real root of the beauty secret— providing you help your beauty treatments along-—from within, Every facial expression sets the face in motion. And overwork can cause more wrinkles in a month than a dec ade's calendars combined. Time alone does not do such dam- age. Why the look of youth In a woman of fifty if the calendar were really cruel? It Is in the skin—its tone—its resistance—its ability to stand overworking., And It is in hab. fta of living and thinking. Obey the health rules and you make a fair bid for beauty. Think quiet, peaceful, beautiful thoughts and a calm, smooth exterior you will show the world, 1 am not advocating a perpetually placid expression. Too Inane—that. But allowing emotions to have free reign and to leave their traces is folly ~pictorially speaking. You have only to study your face In a fit of anger; in the depths of self-pity, worry, or the well-known bines, Everything falls, And teo oft repeated emotional outs bursts leave that old look via traces known as lines and wrinkles—hateful things—the bane of every woman's ex- (©. 1922, Dell Eyndieate ) WNT Service, Accounting for Falsehood “Aout falsehoods” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are due to the fact that some one has been too ine dolent or too timorous to ascertain the truth,"-~Washington Star. ss AHA ARN ONIN Ugly Pimples bho fon, WL fae in Li TO: ‘NIGHT 1 $i a RT One of the sirang made in a will is co Miss Rosalie Bickne seventy, of Li land, who died last 798. Miss Babcock directed ecutors to have the oil her late father burned befor neral and that lowed to copy IL. Tela aly no one shoul Nails Mend Broken Bs nes Connecting the ends of fra bones with metal nails w ] strated recently by Dr. Lorenz ler at Vienna, Austria, Dod! ter exhibited X-ray plotures method and presented a patients. One was a Ww eighty years old, walk normally. who is now i RESTFUL SLEEP for FRETFUL, FEVERISH CHILD ~ With Castoria’s regulation When your child tosses and cries out in his sleep, ns he is not comfortable, Very the trouble is that poisonous waste matter isnot being carried off as it should be, 3owels need help—mild, gentie help hut effective. Just the kind Cas. toria gives, Castoria is a pure vege table preparation made specially for children's ailments. Jt contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics. Don’t let your child's rest—and your own—be interrupted, A prompt 58 of Castoria will urge stubborn bowels to act. Then re and restful sleep! Genuine Castoria always has the name: Zour Tiden Lt mea often re Attributes of Pride One thing pride has, which no oth er vice that 1 know of has: it is an enemy to itself, and a proud man cannot endure to see pride in an other —Feltham, A city crowd Is uniform which tends to make it interesting, but a country crowd--there's where you see individuality. Many a man has acquired a repu- tation for honesty by concealing the truth about his actions, Rheumatic Pains Relieved this Quick Way If stabbing pains shoot across your back and cripple rub on ad St. Jacobs Oil Relief comes before can count 601... Relief without butne ing or blistering. This famous oil draws out inflammation and from your druggist. The Ideal Vacation Land Sunshine All Winter Long Splendid ng mountain hest type hotelsmedry ine vigorating air—clear Ty ariit nightoes California's Foremost Dosert Playground Pui v Wo NU, | N. Ua "BALTIMORE, NO. 10.1932
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