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fIVESIMWEEI© Fiinous imi: 'Romeo and Juliet a feud of centuries sweet daughter of the ( / I Capulets meets son of Montagues, and from their S-' ' fatal destiny flames tragic love so flashing bright ... no creeping years may dim this legend of golden youth from Shakespeare's quill. Romeo sees Juliet, and instantly they love. Swiftly fol lows terror, passion's glory ... designed most cruelly by • fate inhuman. From marble balcony dear words of mur mured longing to Romeo below/ thence speed they to Friar Laurence’s cell for marriage rites. An hour of love ... an unsought duel, where Romeo's rapier draws life's red Rood from Tybalt's heart . . . then banishment for Romeo. Comes noble Paris, to set his marriage day with Juliet. She all trembling, desperate to stay this unnatural marri age. What recourse now? By courage more than women know, she lets Row along her throat a harmless potion, whose charm is death's cold imitation. Fast Ry the woeful tidings. Romeo, half mad, lent wings by dark despair. . . races to the vaulted tomb of Capulet . . . finds his Juliet upon a silken bier in false death's pal lid mockery. “Here's to my love!" A jeweled vial is tipped: true poison enters those sad lips. O, Juliet, awake! Yet no —wake not. Dream on foreverl Her eye- Section of THE POST-PRESS EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA Sunday, Dec. 6,1036 Entire issue copyrighted I?3A by Five Star Publishing Corporation. Reproductior without permission prohibited. Great Britain rights reserved lids part, to gaie upon her lover, husband . . . out stretched in death unsimulated,- to kiss, be kissed, no more. One fierce decision now! His gleaming dagger presses straightly to her breast. Now fold her arms about his form, to seek in death fulfillment life denied . . . "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." *’*'< Wtiimm