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An Albert Payson Terhune Reader
An Albert Payson Terhune Reader
Albert Payson Terhune wrote hundreds of stories showing an understanding of the hearts and souls of dogs. The 27 stories herein, meticulously reclaimed from their 1910s and 20s pulp magazine sources, demonstrate Terhune’s equally perceptive insightfulness into the minds and motivations of human lives, in a way that is still touching, relevant, and humorous today. Includes all original illustrations.
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575 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 31, 2015
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Albert Payson Terhune
329 books75 followersAlbert Payson Terhune (1872 - 1942), a local author of some fame, wrote numerous adventures about Collies, most notably, "Lad, A Dog", "Sunnybank: Home of Lad", and "Further Adventures of Lad". Sunnybank, his home on the eastern shore of Pompton Lakes in northern New Jersey, was originally the home of Terhune's parents, Edward Payson Terhune and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune. Later as his home with his wife, Anice Stockton Terhune, Sunnybank became famous as "The Place" in the many stories of Terhune. Much of the land once constituting the Sunnybank estate was lost to developers in the 1960's with the house being demolished in 1969. Fortunately though, the central 9.6 acres was preserved through the dedicated efforts of Terhune fans and dog fanciers, and is now Terhune Sunnybank Memorial Park, administered by the Wayne Township Parks Department.
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July 10, 2021
I love Albert Payson Terhune's dog stories and I also adore his short stories. Yes, they are dated but that does not mean the subjects or the stories less poignant! I love older stories and only endure modern ones. At the end of the reader, it listed the stories and dates which I included below but under the spoiler section, I give the storylines so do not read that unless you want to spoil your read! Reader beware!❌❌ The last 2 stories are in the comment section, there was not enough room here. I love the cover art.
+“The Blizzard Juggler Argosy, January 1911 How a Big Snow-Storm Was Turned to Account in a Small Town Cut Off from City Connection.
+The Coney Island Riddle Top-Notch, September 1911 : Age seems unable to wither the charm of the world’s greatest seaside playground, or custom stale its infinite variety of wonders. So the author, in choosing Coney Island for the stage of this drama, hit a high place in ever-green popularity. You’ll meet bewilderment as you share the adventures of Arthur Dallam—a bewilderment springing not from the whirling, whisking, bumping, thundering, whispering, flaming and darkling “attractions,” but from the lost-and-found chase that is the soul of the story.”
+“The Justice of the Sands The Red Book, July 1914 We feel that Albert Payson Terhune is rapidly becoming one of this country’s premier short story men. His vividness in writing is in a class by itself. This story takes you into the desert with a Yankee man-hunter, and actually makes you feel the stifling waves of heat of the setting.“
+The Shrimp The Red Book, September 1914 He was a shrimp physically, but a giant mentally and a demon in love—the man around whom revolves the latest story from this brilliant writer.
“Deadlock,” by Mr. Terhune, the story of a man and a woman faced with the most difficult decision in life, will be in the October Red Book, on the news-stands September 23rd.
+Her Faith in Mankind The Red Book, January 1915 The story of the girl who believed what ninety-nine per cent. of the women in the world believe.
+At $32 Per The Blue Book, February 1915 An exciting battle in a world-old war, that of the sexes. The woman wins and loses—and wins again?
+In His Wife’s Name The Red Book, August 1915 Do you tell your wife your business secrets? This is the story of a man who did not. It is the most unusual of the many unusual stories
+The Other Man The Red Book, November 1915 “How often one hears of the man who has said, “But I love you so much I will teach you to love me.” Can it be done? Mr. Terhune here tells, in the letter of a man who has said it, the story of one effort
+The Unbaited Trap The Red Book, December, 1915 She had forced back the moss-covered old scruples that threatened to engulf her new ideas of freedom. She had forced them back, after an all-day battle. And now she was here—here in this dim-lit Lovers’ Lane of a tea-room, waiting to hear Archer Dunne tell her again that he loved her; that she was the One Woman; that she was a Wonder Girl; that she was his adored Lady of Mystery. This teaser for the first Lad story appeared at the end of The Unbaited Trap.
+Lucrezia Borgia: The Much-Married Siren Ainslee’s, March 1916 : What makes the super-woman? Is it beauty? Cleopatra and Rachel were homely. Is it daintiness? Marguerite de Valois washed her hands but twice a week. Is it wit? Pompadour and Du Barry were avowedly stupid in conversation. Is it youth? Diane de Poictiers and Ninon de 1’Enclos were wildly adored at sixty. Is it the subtle quality of feminism? George Sand, who numbered her admirers by the score—poor Chopin in their foremost rank—was not only ugly, but disgustingly mannish. So was Semiramis. Here are the stories of super-women who conquered at will. Some of them smashed thrones; some were content with wholesale heart-smashing. Wherein lay their secret? Or rather, their secrets? For seldom did any two of them follow the same plan of campaign"
+The Fear of the Job The Red Book, March, 1916
+The War Bridegroom The Blue Book, July 1916
+The Cheat The Red Book, August, 1916
+Eugénie, Empress Of The French Ainslee’s, September, 1916
+The Unknown The Red Book, February 1917
+When the Devil Was Sick The Green Book, March 1917
+The Girl of the Night-Court The Blue Book, September 1917
+Money Thrown Away The Red Book, September 1917
If your husband were untrue, would you want to know it? Or would you prefer happiness at the price of being deceived? A baffling question, presented in a very unusual story of the sort Mr. Terhune writes regularly for The Red Book Magazine.
+The Girl in the Crowd The Blue Book, October 1917
+Don Quixote McGraw The Blue Book, Febraury 1918
+The Wallflower Saturday Evening Post, February 1, 1919
+Twice-Over The Blue Book, May 1919"
The story of two men who were very handy with their fists, and of a strange love-affair, and of a most peculiar fight—an absorbing story, such as only Mr. Terhune can write.
+The Actor-Man The Blue Book, July 1919
A MOST amusing story of one of mankind’s quaintest activities—amateur theatricals. Mr. Terhune well knows how to present the humorous side of life.
+The Yaller Dog Country Gentleman, March 6, 1920
+Sheer Weight The Popular Magazine, April 7, 1921
Con Vedder sure would have had a ring “champ” in The Big Fellow—if only the latter had not been so keen on auto trucks
+Watchful Wasting The Popular Magazine, August 7, 1921
+The Clean-up The Red Book, November 1922"
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The Coney Island Riddle
Arthur Dullham is told not to turn around and listen to instructions if he wants to prove himself to his boss, Mr. Barham, the head at a law firm where Arthur just started his clerk job. He is told to go to Cooney Island at 9 pm and deliver a package to a man. Arthur leaves early and finds a pal in Bat Shayne who helps the police and Mr. Barham deliver the package to the police, some ex employees robbed Barham looking for Arthur's help in bringing the package without the police who were looking at the thieves without proof. Arthur indeed gets a promotion from thwarting the theft.
The Blizzard Juggler
Mallock has being working for Cauldwell as a salesman and looking for partnership which finally his boss agrees if he makes double amount. Across the street the other seller is outselling him until a blizzard comes which makes a miss shipment come to favor Mallock and bringing with it a partnership.
The Justice of the Sands
Blake being rescued in the desert by bedouins but soon finds the law looking for him from the money he stole at the bank where he was working. Blake feels protected until he tells the money is on him, the camp goes after him but finds the paper worthless. Belden takes him back to America to face jail.
The Shrimp
A doctor rents an island with his wife and a man working for him named Alan. The doctor is small and Alan is stronger and larger. Hera, the doctor's wife has fallen in love with Alan, seeing him in a better light than her husband who always looks worse next to him. He challenges Alan to courage about one will take the poison and Alan is upset having taken it in his food, he says he gives up his love for Hera but must have the antidote so he has no courage and Hera sees this.
Her Faith in Mankind
Lida finds out that Mr. Surles is not looking for a proposition but a secretary, lectures her on those novels that suggest that. He likes actress not workers. He does give her money for her sister's operation.
“At $32 Per”
Amy makes $32 per week and her boyfriend makes $25; he proposes to her but she refuses talking about not being a slave and liking her life not wanting less, he tells her that she will come to him someday. She starts to miss him after months and knows she loves him, sends a note of where are you. Then her company is bought out and she loses her job, Karl comes to see her and she is ready for love.
In His Wife’s Name
Beiser was 56 working with stocks and not earning as much as he would like, he has dreamed of ways to make a fortune through stocks and finds his chance and makes $125,000. He returns the bonds and finds a fight to pick with work, he resigns. His wife is not very bright but talkative and he thinks of a plan so she will not talk, he tells her of a company that by his long savings has made money but can not keep it longer invest. He puts the money in his wife's account, so it looks like an inheritance. After weeks of worry he becomes very ill and speaks of money in his delirium. His wife hearing her husband's worries looks to help him and invests in the company that her husband pretended to invest in and after he recovers and is happy to live, his wife tells him of her help which causes death by heart attack.
The Other Man
Miles Hegger loves Mildred madly but she does not love him. She loves Clive Ruyter but after they fight, he goes abroad for 2 years. Clives is better looking and wealthier compared to Miles. Miles marries Mildred hoping she will love him overtime and he begins to think she loves him. Miles sees Clive on the street and invites him to their flat, so he can see how happy they are and it seems Mildred was glad after the dinner. Miles' job has him travelling for one week but Mildred is not wanting him to go. When arriving at the train station Miles' co worker feels better so he can take the trip and Miles decides to go back home with presents to surprise his wife. He hears voices of Clive telling Mildred that they can leave and find their love again and don't worry about Miles and how he will feel. Mildred tries to protest but her love for Clive makes her weak. They soon see Miles who remains cool and shows the cowardness of Clive by his fears and then thinks this was a trap by husband and wife. Mildred sees the two men in comparison and after Miles hits Clive, he hurries out. Miles then see he has gained his wife's heart. They have 3 boys and Miles' luck is better.
The Unbaited Trap
Joan and Hugh are home bodies happily married until they start hanging around the worldly Dunne set who both try to engage them in affairs until Joan wakes up and decides an affair is not right and thinks to tell Archer that it is off but hears her husband thinking he is talking to Archer's wife break his affair with Archer's wife. The Dunnes must have known they were trying to trap the Vedders.
Lucrezia Borgia:
The Fear of the Job
Anne and Wyane are in love and work in the same office, they are both promoted to Mr. Raeburn's office and look to be married in 6 months but after Raeburn looks to have an affair with Anne, who told him besides not doing that to another woman's husband, she is marrying Wayne. Raeburn does not care, if she plays her cards right, Wayne will not lose his job. Seeing all against her and dicating his demands, she sees no hope and looks to have him sign the paper, laughing at this he does. Then in trying to get away from him, she causes his buzzer to ring bringing many to his office, whereas Anne mails the letter to herself to copy and tells her boss. So her demands of not firing Wayne hold true and Wayne is offered a better job elsewhere unaware of what Anne had to deal with their boss.
The War Bridegroom
Jim has being savings for 17 years and after a drunk tip from his boss, Watts, decides to play Wall Street and wins. His life is no longer as relaxing, he still works but enjoys less, Molly his wife as a new set of friends and is rarely home. Watts sees Jim's prosperity looks to audit him and is happy, one of his best employees is not an embezzler. He also tells about the troubles with stock trading and how it wil lose it and also he saw Molly with people who look to blackmail husbands. Jim is cured and is out of the market looking like he lost all and tells Molly, who is very loving but Jim wants him to still keep her plans tonight but tell her friends about losing their money. Molly returns early and tells Jim about the criminal type people she had no idea, her eyes are open. His broker told him that he sold and he has a large amount. The couple are happy.
The Cheat
Mark's daughter, Gracia has been engaged to his friend's son but Gracia breaks the engagement because she is keeping company with a no good wealthy man. He is supposed to be engaged to a rich widow and Mark finds a way to drive him away. He intreputs the couple and starts talking about his treatment of cheats and his carrying a gun. A card game is called and if Mark wins Dorrance has to leave Chicago forever but if Dorrance wins he has to marry Gracia. Dorrance says he lost and leaves but Mark finds out that his daughter dealt him a winning hand that he did not want to claim.
Eugénie, Empress Of The French
The Unknown
A Blue Lagoon scenerio where a girl 14 & a boy 15 are shipwrecked with a 45 year old professor. He left when a ship came and the boy and girl not around because they were far away. The professor tells the captain he was lying about the children. He could have stayed with the children and told the captain to come back with another boat but the reprehensible coward left them alone. With regards to leaving them on the island what would happen if they had children. They could be sheltered and try to be brought up by learning, not giving them a chance. They are older than the Blue Lagoon couple and it really is not fair. Craig the father of the girl is happy that the captain left them. What if another boat was to come along and rescue them? It would be far better to get it over with and give them a chance.
When the Devil Was Sick
A reverse ending to the couple in poverty to wealth losing their love but with the aid of a friendly doctor intimidating illness were there is none. The couple regains their love but when told the truth that Dick is not ill. The first sight of the widow he thought he loved and his telling his wife that he must get back to work and she to her activities and the man who tried to make love with her. Are they serious? Or are they joking? I wonder.
The Girl of the Night-Court
Titus Gerry goes to the city and having a drink meets a girl named Hulda who is quite different than the other girls, she is truthful and honest. An orphan and with lot of bad luck but Titus decides he must marry this girl and after the cops came for the girls, he married her and improved his business and found a true partner.
Money Thrown Away
After reading a book about husbands cheating and the neighbor talking about all husbands cheat, Lois wonders about her husband's late nights and trips, so she has a detective agency follow him and send back the report which when she receives it she can not open but burns it. She decides she must trust her husband.
The Girl in the Crowd
A switch board operator listens in on calls especially to two lovers and talking about another man, who we find out later she is married & he is her husband. When Daisy finds out the woman is married, she is disgusted but then starts to think maybe the husband is cruel. After mixing up the lines, the husband hears his wife talking to her lover which Daisy denies and tries to protect the lovers. She sees the woman and man, who both are far from romantic figures and it seems more mercenary in their ideas. The wife sees the lover abandon her after the husband is to cause trouble and the wife regrets her actions. Daisy alters the phone records to help the wife. They both learned their lessons. No listening and no cheating. Daisy changes her job.
Don Quixote McGraw
Daniel Greene is a wealthy business man whose wife died soon after their son, Rolf is born. Rolf was friends with Con McGraw, whose father was a worker at the factory. While Rolf was away to school the friendship was lost, until after Rolf is told not to come back to school and his son working from the bottom. They became friends again and when Rolf's letter tells of him marrying an actress, the father was upset and will disown his son but from the help of the young bride and Con who set the old man straight, money and power means little to them, that Dan saw he was wrong.
The Wallflower
At a dance a girl and boy wallflower talk about the reasons that they are that way, shyness and lack of interest in others. John being in advertising decides that Mary should learn to cook so that men could enjoy her and conversations which would encourage dancing at the next party. It works and being so active towards Mary helps John forget he is shy, which brings girls his way. Both are no longer Wallflowers but then Mary sees she cares for John but he seems aloof, until he tells her why would he better her but for himself.
Twice-Over
Phil and Graeme box at the club and become friendly. Phil introduces his friend to his rich fiance Eve. The three are friends but when Phil most go out of town for 3 months, he is happy is friend came call on Eve while he is gone. Graeme wanted to tell Phil about his professional boxing days on a ship but after he had made lots of money, he had to stop because if his weak heart. Phil hears from Eve's lawyer about Graeme trying to swindle innocent Eve and he comes home early, which surprises Graeme and Phil hits him cold. The doctor pronounces him dead and Phil had explained about a swindled deal he had with him but after he heard he killed Graeme, he ran so Eve would not be pulled in to court. Phil starts the boxing water circuit and months later, he sees the dead man his opponent, when Graeme saw that Phil has been in training, fear struck him dead from his bad heart. Phil is able to return to Eve and with some wealth too, which was a worry for him.
The Actor-Man
Len loves Viva and they are to organise a play for the war drive. When the lead male has broken a leg, they enlist Viva's beloved favorite actor who she finds out is older and different and has a middle age 30's wife, who helps out. When the actor looks much younger her heart goes out to him and upsets Len because he loves Viva but when Viva sees the middle age wife is actually a famous actress. Viva is tired of actors.
The yeller dog / mongrel has so many good qualities and should never be abandoned. The mad dog scare is discussed again. Lad is mentioned briefly. I loved the opening where a soldier thought dead, the yeller dog knew he was not and finally soldier moved.
Sheer Weight
A boxing manager finds a strong man lugging boxes and hopes to make him a champ but the young man makes it clear he is only there to buy a special expensive truck. After fighting a kind of scoundrel and winning, he is buying his truck and quitting boxing.
+“The Blizzard Juggler Argosy, January 1911 How a Big Snow-Storm Was Turned to Account in a Small Town Cut Off from City Connection.
+The Coney Island Riddle Top-Notch, September 1911 : Age seems unable to wither the charm of the world’s greatest seaside playground, or custom stale its infinite variety of wonders. So the author, in choosing Coney Island for the stage of this drama, hit a high place in ever-green popularity. You’ll meet bewilderment as you share the adventures of Arthur Dallam—a bewilderment springing not from the whirling, whisking, bumping, thundering, whispering, flaming and darkling “attractions,” but from the lost-and-found chase that is the soul of the story.”
+“The Justice of the Sands The Red Book, July 1914 We feel that Albert Payson Terhune is rapidly becoming one of this country’s premier short story men. His vividness in writing is in a class by itself. This story takes you into the desert with a Yankee man-hunter, and actually makes you feel the stifling waves of heat of the setting.“
+The Shrimp The Red Book, September 1914 He was a shrimp physically, but a giant mentally and a demon in love—the man around whom revolves the latest story from this brilliant writer.
“Deadlock,” by Mr. Terhune, the story of a man and a woman faced with the most difficult decision in life, will be in the October Red Book, on the news-stands September 23rd.
+Her Faith in Mankind The Red Book, January 1915 The story of the girl who believed what ninety-nine per cent. of the women in the world believe.
+At $32 Per The Blue Book, February 1915 An exciting battle in a world-old war, that of the sexes. The woman wins and loses—and wins again?
+In His Wife’s Name The Red Book, August 1915 Do you tell your wife your business secrets? This is the story of a man who did not. It is the most unusual of the many unusual stories
+The Other Man The Red Book, November 1915 “How often one hears of the man who has said, “But I love you so much I will teach you to love me.” Can it be done? Mr. Terhune here tells, in the letter of a man who has said it, the story of one effort
+The Unbaited Trap The Red Book, December, 1915 She had forced back the moss-covered old scruples that threatened to engulf her new ideas of freedom. She had forced them back, after an all-day battle. And now she was here—here in this dim-lit Lovers’ Lane of a tea-room, waiting to hear Archer Dunne tell her again that he loved her; that she was the One Woman; that she was a Wonder Girl; that she was his adored Lady of Mystery. This teaser for the first Lad story appeared at the end of The Unbaited Trap.
+Lucrezia Borgia: The Much-Married Siren Ainslee’s, March 1916 : What makes the super-woman? Is it beauty? Cleopatra and Rachel were homely. Is it daintiness? Marguerite de Valois washed her hands but twice a week. Is it wit? Pompadour and Du Barry were avowedly stupid in conversation. Is it youth? Diane de Poictiers and Ninon de 1’Enclos were wildly adored at sixty. Is it the subtle quality of feminism? George Sand, who numbered her admirers by the score—poor Chopin in their foremost rank—was not only ugly, but disgustingly mannish. So was Semiramis. Here are the stories of super-women who conquered at will. Some of them smashed thrones; some were content with wholesale heart-smashing. Wherein lay their secret? Or rather, their secrets? For seldom did any two of them follow the same plan of campaign"
+The Fear of the Job The Red Book, March, 1916
+The War Bridegroom The Blue Book, July 1916
+The Cheat The Red Book, August, 1916
+Eugénie, Empress Of The French Ainslee’s, September, 1916
+The Unknown The Red Book, February 1917
+When the Devil Was Sick The Green Book, March 1917
+The Girl of the Night-Court The Blue Book, September 1917
+Money Thrown Away The Red Book, September 1917
If your husband were untrue, would you want to know it? Or would you prefer happiness at the price of being deceived? A baffling question, presented in a very unusual story of the sort Mr. Terhune writes regularly for The Red Book Magazine.
+The Girl in the Crowd The Blue Book, October 1917
+Don Quixote McGraw The Blue Book, Febraury 1918
+The Wallflower Saturday Evening Post, February 1, 1919
+Twice-Over The Blue Book, May 1919"
The story of two men who were very handy with their fists, and of a strange love-affair, and of a most peculiar fight—an absorbing story, such as only Mr. Terhune can write.
+The Actor-Man The Blue Book, July 1919
A MOST amusing story of one of mankind’s quaintest activities—amateur theatricals. Mr. Terhune well knows how to present the humorous side of life.
+The Yaller Dog Country Gentleman, March 6, 1920
+Sheer Weight The Popular Magazine, April 7, 1921
Con Vedder sure would have had a ring “champ” in The Big Fellow—if only the latter had not been so keen on auto trucks
+Watchful Wasting The Popular Magazine, August 7, 1921
+The Clean-up The Red Book, November 1922"
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The Coney Island Riddle
Arthur Dullham is told not to turn around and listen to instructions if he wants to prove himself to his boss, Mr. Barham, the head at a law firm where Arthur just started his clerk job. He is told to go to Cooney Island at 9 pm and deliver a package to a man. Arthur leaves early and finds a pal in Bat Shayne who helps the police and Mr. Barham deliver the package to the police, some ex employees robbed Barham looking for Arthur's help in bringing the package without the police who were looking at the thieves without proof. Arthur indeed gets a promotion from thwarting the theft.
The Blizzard Juggler
Mallock has being working for Cauldwell as a salesman and looking for partnership which finally his boss agrees if he makes double amount. Across the street the other seller is outselling him until a blizzard comes which makes a miss shipment come to favor Mallock and bringing with it a partnership.
The Justice of the Sands
Blake being rescued in the desert by bedouins but soon finds the law looking for him from the money he stole at the bank where he was working. Blake feels protected until he tells the money is on him, the camp goes after him but finds the paper worthless. Belden takes him back to America to face jail.
The Shrimp
A doctor rents an island with his wife and a man working for him named Alan. The doctor is small and Alan is stronger and larger. Hera, the doctor's wife has fallen in love with Alan, seeing him in a better light than her husband who always looks worse next to him. He challenges Alan to courage about one will take the poison and Alan is upset having taken it in his food, he says he gives up his love for Hera but must have the antidote so he has no courage and Hera sees this.
Her Faith in Mankind
Lida finds out that Mr. Surles is not looking for a proposition but a secretary, lectures her on those novels that suggest that. He likes actress not workers. He does give her money for her sister's operation.
“At $32 Per”
Amy makes $32 per week and her boyfriend makes $25; he proposes to her but she refuses talking about not being a slave and liking her life not wanting less, he tells her that she will come to him someday. She starts to miss him after months and knows she loves him, sends a note of where are you. Then her company is bought out and she loses her job, Karl comes to see her and she is ready for love.
In His Wife’s Name
Beiser was 56 working with stocks and not earning as much as he would like, he has dreamed of ways to make a fortune through stocks and finds his chance and makes $125,000. He returns the bonds and finds a fight to pick with work, he resigns. His wife is not very bright but talkative and he thinks of a plan so she will not talk, he tells her of a company that by his long savings has made money but can not keep it longer invest. He puts the money in his wife's account, so it looks like an inheritance. After weeks of worry he becomes very ill and speaks of money in his delirium. His wife hearing her husband's worries looks to help him and invests in the company that her husband pretended to invest in and after he recovers and is happy to live, his wife tells him of her help which causes death by heart attack.
The Other Man
Miles Hegger loves Mildred madly but she does not love him. She loves Clive Ruyter but after they fight, he goes abroad for 2 years. Clives is better looking and wealthier compared to Miles. Miles marries Mildred hoping she will love him overtime and he begins to think she loves him. Miles sees Clive on the street and invites him to their flat, so he can see how happy they are and it seems Mildred was glad after the dinner. Miles' job has him travelling for one week but Mildred is not wanting him to go. When arriving at the train station Miles' co worker feels better so he can take the trip and Miles decides to go back home with presents to surprise his wife. He hears voices of Clive telling Mildred that they can leave and find their love again and don't worry about Miles and how he will feel. Mildred tries to protest but her love for Clive makes her weak. They soon see Miles who remains cool and shows the cowardness of Clive by his fears and then thinks this was a trap by husband and wife. Mildred sees the two men in comparison and after Miles hits Clive, he hurries out. Miles then see he has gained his wife's heart. They have 3 boys and Miles' luck is better.
The Unbaited Trap
Joan and Hugh are home bodies happily married until they start hanging around the worldly Dunne set who both try to engage them in affairs until Joan wakes up and decides an affair is not right and thinks to tell Archer that it is off but hears her husband thinking he is talking to Archer's wife break his affair with Archer's wife. The Dunnes must have known they were trying to trap the Vedders.
Lucrezia Borgia:
The Fear of the Job
Anne and Wyane are in love and work in the same office, they are both promoted to Mr. Raeburn's office and look to be married in 6 months but after Raeburn looks to have an affair with Anne, who told him besides not doing that to another woman's husband, she is marrying Wayne. Raeburn does not care, if she plays her cards right, Wayne will not lose his job. Seeing all against her and dicating his demands, she sees no hope and looks to have him sign the paper, laughing at this he does. Then in trying to get away from him, she causes his buzzer to ring bringing many to his office, whereas Anne mails the letter to herself to copy and tells her boss. So her demands of not firing Wayne hold true and Wayne is offered a better job elsewhere unaware of what Anne had to deal with their boss.
The War Bridegroom
Jim has being savings for 17 years and after a drunk tip from his boss, Watts, decides to play Wall Street and wins. His life is no longer as relaxing, he still works but enjoys less, Molly his wife as a new set of friends and is rarely home. Watts sees Jim's prosperity looks to audit him and is happy, one of his best employees is not an embezzler. He also tells about the troubles with stock trading and how it wil lose it and also he saw Molly with people who look to blackmail husbands. Jim is cured and is out of the market looking like he lost all and tells Molly, who is very loving but Jim wants him to still keep her plans tonight but tell her friends about losing their money. Molly returns early and tells Jim about the criminal type people she had no idea, her eyes are open. His broker told him that he sold and he has a large amount. The couple are happy.
The Cheat
Mark's daughter, Gracia has been engaged to his friend's son but Gracia breaks the engagement because she is keeping company with a no good wealthy man. He is supposed to be engaged to a rich widow and Mark finds a way to drive him away. He intreputs the couple and starts talking about his treatment of cheats and his carrying a gun. A card game is called and if Mark wins Dorrance has to leave Chicago forever but if Dorrance wins he has to marry Gracia. Dorrance says he lost and leaves but Mark finds out that his daughter dealt him a winning hand that he did not want to claim.
Eugénie, Empress Of The French
The Unknown
A Blue Lagoon scenerio where a girl 14 & a boy 15 are shipwrecked with a 45 year old professor. He left when a ship came and the boy and girl not around because they were far away. The professor tells the captain he was lying about the children. He could have stayed with the children and told the captain to come back with another boat but the reprehensible coward left them alone. With regards to leaving them on the island what would happen if they had children. They could be sheltered and try to be brought up by learning, not giving them a chance. They are older than the Blue Lagoon couple and it really is not fair. Craig the father of the girl is happy that the captain left them. What if another boat was to come along and rescue them? It would be far better to get it over with and give them a chance.
When the Devil Was Sick
A reverse ending to the couple in poverty to wealth losing their love but with the aid of a friendly doctor intimidating illness were there is none. The couple regains their love but when told the truth that Dick is not ill. The first sight of the widow he thought he loved and his telling his wife that he must get back to work and she to her activities and the man who tried to make love with her. Are they serious? Or are they joking? I wonder.
The Girl of the Night-Court
Titus Gerry goes to the city and having a drink meets a girl named Hulda who is quite different than the other girls, she is truthful and honest. An orphan and with lot of bad luck but Titus decides he must marry this girl and after the cops came for the girls, he married her and improved his business and found a true partner.
Money Thrown Away
After reading a book about husbands cheating and the neighbor talking about all husbands cheat, Lois wonders about her husband's late nights and trips, so she has a detective agency follow him and send back the report which when she receives it she can not open but burns it. She decides she must trust her husband.
The Girl in the Crowd
A switch board operator listens in on calls especially to two lovers and talking about another man, who we find out later she is married & he is her husband. When Daisy finds out the woman is married, she is disgusted but then starts to think maybe the husband is cruel. After mixing up the lines, the husband hears his wife talking to her lover which Daisy denies and tries to protect the lovers. She sees the woman and man, who both are far from romantic figures and it seems more mercenary in their ideas. The wife sees the lover abandon her after the husband is to cause trouble and the wife regrets her actions. Daisy alters the phone records to help the wife. They both learned their lessons. No listening and no cheating. Daisy changes her job.
Don Quixote McGraw
Daniel Greene is a wealthy business man whose wife died soon after their son, Rolf is born. Rolf was friends with Con McGraw, whose father was a worker at the factory. While Rolf was away to school the friendship was lost, until after Rolf is told not to come back to school and his son working from the bottom. They became friends again and when Rolf's letter tells of him marrying an actress, the father was upset and will disown his son but from the help of the young bride and Con who set the old man straight, money and power means little to them, that Dan saw he was wrong.
The Wallflower
At a dance a girl and boy wallflower talk about the reasons that they are that way, shyness and lack of interest in others. John being in advertising decides that Mary should learn to cook so that men could enjoy her and conversations which would encourage dancing at the next party. It works and being so active towards Mary helps John forget he is shy, which brings girls his way. Both are no longer Wallflowers but then Mary sees she cares for John but he seems aloof, until he tells her why would he better her but for himself.
Twice-Over
Phil and Graeme box at the club and become friendly. Phil introduces his friend to his rich fiance Eve. The three are friends but when Phil most go out of town for 3 months, he is happy is friend came call on Eve while he is gone. Graeme wanted to tell Phil about his professional boxing days on a ship but after he had made lots of money, he had to stop because if his weak heart. Phil hears from Eve's lawyer about Graeme trying to swindle innocent Eve and he comes home early, which surprises Graeme and Phil hits him cold. The doctor pronounces him dead and Phil had explained about a swindled deal he had with him but after he heard he killed Graeme, he ran so Eve would not be pulled in to court. Phil starts the boxing water circuit and months later, he sees the dead man his opponent, when Graeme saw that Phil has been in training, fear struck him dead from his bad heart. Phil is able to return to Eve and with some wealth too, which was a worry for him.
The Actor-Man
Len loves Viva and they are to organise a play for the war drive. When the lead male has broken a leg, they enlist Viva's beloved favorite actor who she finds out is older and different and has a middle age 30's wife, who helps out. When the actor looks much younger her heart goes out to him and upsets Len because he loves Viva but when Viva sees the middle age wife is actually a famous actress. Viva is tired of actors.
The yeller dog / mongrel has so many good qualities and should never be abandoned. The mad dog scare is discussed again. Lad is mentioned briefly. I loved the opening where a soldier thought dead, the yeller dog knew he was not and finally soldier moved.
Sheer Weight
A boxing manager finds a strong man lugging boxes and hopes to make him a champ but the young man makes it clear he is only there to buy a special expensive truck. After fighting a kind of scoundrel and winning, he is buying his truck and quitting boxing.
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