THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.
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would be Roscoe's band, Lottie AHEILA SWAYNE, 18, whose parents werBlair and the other specialty num well known "vanderiam antors, New York woke for a job. Shalin is a danger. In spite of the fied that she has spent moel bar wire it's on the stage bera bilion to marry and have a bansa Like those som kam is small towns ly whit
abe bar played:
On a few hours" motion she is hired to
bara. Perhaps she knew some of them all ready. Hadn't she heard somewhere that Phil Short was with Roscon now? He had played the saxophone with a radio orches
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1933
cream
preciated her quick work in learn-ror-lined. A wide board at right. ing the routine and that he recog-angles ran along the walls and. formed the dressing tabies. nized her as a trouper.
At the door of the dressing room Chairs were act at intervals in. Roscoe, who had caught up with front of it their backs hung with her, confirmed Bill's rather sketchy cretonne pockets. Some spaces ideas about her salary:
were empty, others crowded with "We'll need you for six weeks paraphernalia of the profession- anyhow," was his comfortable as powder puffs, curling Irons, pow
der cans, rouge and cold surance, "Maybe longer. De- pends on how the kid's ankle be-pots, ting of cosmatics, even spools haves. Then maybe I can work of thread set in orderly rows.
Lottie, who was "dressed, like a you in with my other band."
That's great, Roscoe. About Watteau shepherdess gone Zieg- the other band, I mean. I'm sorry feld," as she expressed it, sat in a rocking chair working at some em- Make the place of DAISY GLEASON, antra" on a commercial progamme, great," was his greeting as he about Daisy."
break." He broidery and chatting affably with ether dament, who as aprained an ankle. Yes, she was certain Phil would wiped a perspiring face and fuck-"Yeah. Tough Shells come to JOH PARIS' ace in be there.
ed his handkerchief into a pocket waved behind him toward a dres the feminine member of a kid act Pan Alle to rehosres. There she traveta
Sheila hoped the other dancers before helding out a hand in greeting room. You're no prima who had not, Lottie later confided THEVOR LANG and DICK STANLEY, both
donna, I hope, Sheila. Have to (rather needlessly), been rich Lane anla Sheila to dance at a party
Lattie greeted Sheila languidly would like her and not regard bering. with that suspicious jealousy so "Sure," he went on, "I know Bill put you in with the rest of the for almost 30 years. frequently shown other members phoned you wore coming, but girla.".
He regarded ber anxiously and and presented Miss Kilcoyne who of their own terpsichorean band. there's many a slip between Bill's The Dancing Doyles were nice. say-so and a personal appearance Sheila's heart leaped. Then he smirked and bobbed her curis in The ride to Jackson Heights in though. She had met them on a at the thertre. It's great to see did regard her as somebody and what was meant to be a nursery
was apoligizing for placing her in curtsey.
Out in front, Sheila reflected, you." the subway was tiresome.. Sheila bill in Atlantic City.
Roscoe, a rather fat, harrassed-
Sheila smiled and passed along. an unstarred room! had practised all day, hardly stop
"That's all right, Roscoe. More Miss Kilcoyne might seem to a not- too-critical audience "cute." High ping for lunch, her muscles be-looking young man with a baby Roscoe, whom she scarcely knew coming more painful as the hours face, and pleasing smile, met her by sight, had greeted her as an fun anyhow during the waits."
He breathed a trife easier.falsetto baby voice, curls, large, blue-lidded eyes, vacant stare and progressed. She knew that a dan-at the stage door with a great old friend oras indeed she was
Al- a life-saver. By to-morrow night "Bill said you were a `trouper."
susay swing of her brief starched cer already known as a success shout of relief. Roscoe was would never have consented to fill ready dressed for the act. Els he would probably call her "sweet
With this compliment ringing in skirts. The act probably was a in this way after weeks without careful tle and beautifully cut heart." That wouldn't mean any
clothes bespoke a successful scathing either. Roscoe would never her cars Sheila "pushed the door dud. Most of them were.. Miss practice.
attempt to get fresh. His friend-open and entered the dressing Kilcoyne, apparently reading Miss
(Continued on Page 10.)- Of course there were few dance Bon.
"So you
got here! That's iness showed simply that he ap-room. It was long, wide and mir-
be giving but she refness, knowing that after a day of robeersing and the perform
Kion that hight obe will be too tired.”
CHAPTER VI
instructors like Brady. This Sheila understood. Brady had been patient and she had intelli- gence and talent but no one, not oven Brady, could turn out a really finished number in so short a time. Next week some time-Bill had been rather vague about it-thera would be another lesson. Threa routines for $50 was his price and Roscoe had probably not over- paid him for rushing Sheila through the paces.
Her muscles did ache fearfully. If she had bad the money to spare Sheila would have taken a cab. She did not have the money and her little overnight bag, with make-up and a book to read during waits, stood at her feet in the subway car where fare was only a nickel
"Maybe I should have gone to Mr. Lane's party after all," Sheila thought ruefully. "Seventy-five dollars is a lot of money. And he - said I could sing "
But she had not telephoned the number Dick Stanley had left for her. Neither had he called back to remind her that the opportunity was still open. He might have done that She had hardly expect-' ed it yet was. disappointed" he- cause he didn't.
Well, $75 is $75 but a job is a job, too. And, for a while at least, Sheila had a job.
She had three numbers-the little eccentric dance. för which Bill had trained her so ruthlessly, a tap dance during which his well- ahod foot and Timmy's head had nodded briek approval," and a sing- ing number the steps for which Bill had said might just as well be improvised.
Daisy's costumes might be a little short but they would do. Sheila had brought her own base, her own slippers. No, there was nothing she had forgotten.
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Leaving the subway she took a trolley car and after making two transfers arrived at the theatre door. It was barely six o'clock She had time to eat and make up, to say nothing of resting a little. She would have time also to be come acquainted with the other members of the company.
There
A kid
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