"THE RIVER OF ROMANCE."

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 45, 17 April 1930, Page 5

"THE RIVER OF ROMANCE."

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY April 23rd and :24tk.

At the ,age of twenty-one Charles *'Buddy" Rogers, son of a Southern family, returns to his Mississippi home from Philadelphia, wheTe he had been living since, a child. He falls in love ■with June Collyer, coquettish ward of Ms father, Henry B, Mary Brian, June's younger . sister, falls in love with Buddy. At jfche party £iyeja apropos the engagement of Budsy, and June, Walter McGrail, former loved of June, shows up with »Ms brother. They have just been released from gaol for killing a man in a feud. McGrail leaves on another man- hunt before the engagement is announced, but returns the next day to elajm June. Hearing of, the events of* the previous evening lie swaggers out to Buddy and challenges aim to a duel. Buddy, unfaimi-* likr with the Southern, code, laughs; off ihe challenge. His father judges Buddy as a coward and so do all the others Except Mary, who is not in sympathy jwitoi the Southern code.

Buddy is driven away because of his stigma of cpwariice. He goes to Natchez, and there meets Wallace Berry, owner of a gambling saloon. Fred Kohler comes to the hall. He is the most feared bad man in the lower Mississippi. Buddy gets into a scuffle with him, and with a luck break knocks •Mm out. Buddy then assumes the name of Colonel Blake,'and Berry adds "Notorious" to the front of it. In the meantime June has married Mc- ■ Grail. It is a year from the day of banishment that Mary is celebrating her coming out party. Berry 'a-nd Buddy arrive the same night. ' The story has a wonderful finish.