THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933,
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
the bridge and then we're
prac-
H.W.CORLEY
1933
SHEILA SHAYNE, 18, whose parents weretically there. "I'll take you home wali-known vaudeville actors, is in New York whenever you say. Please come looking for jsh, Shella is a dancer,
spite of the fact that she has spent af most her entire life on the stage her am bition is to marry and have home like -bone-nte lina seen in amall towers in which
she played.
ho had hours notice she is hired to
Pan Alley" to rehome, There she morta
The evening was over. Sheila Had hung away her last costume, had wiped off the last vestige_df]": make-up, had shoved bet little hat
down over her head carelessly, into disarray. Oh, yes, this was bus, take the place of DABY GLEASON. -wearily. In spite of Miss Kilcoyne's better than waiting for a other dancer, who has sprained an ankle. Shells goes to JOE PARIS office in "Tilinament and friendly ministra crowding aboard and swaying, lumbering along across town, then TREVOR LANE 15 DICK STANLEY, both tions she ached in every joint.
Still, most of the company would down Fifth Avenue. rich. Lane anka Bheila to dance at a party he is giving but she refees, knowing that go back to town on the bus. That after day of rehearsing and the performsmennt walking at the other end of ance that night she will be too tired
She go to the theatre and there meets the trip. Phil Short had offered PHIL SHORT, an old acquaintance to see her home. There would bo abow begins and Ebeit wins appladse with
Buddenly she discoverable crackers and milk-coffee for the bar dauging. Stanley in the audience.
venturesomest the little restau- rant on the corner
Ma Lowell's rooming house. They would all talk shop. Shefla loved to talk and listen to talk of the theatre.
CHAPTER VIII "You aren't angry with me for coming, are you?" Dick asked pleadingly.
Sheila's voice was level. "Angry? No. But you shouldn't have done it." Now that she knew he cared enough to want to see her again she could seem casual. Her heart exulted but no one, seeing her would have guessed that,
"I thought you were giving a party to-night," she went on "Hamlet with Hamlet left out! Why aren't you at home entertain- ing your guests?"
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Dick » had waited hardly Ave money, you see. Of course, I'm nutes when Sheila-a diferent not starving, but MI existed on Sheila-appeared. In what seem what was. truly mine-tnat is, Ji very snort time, sne had what I carp-1 probably would be, anged amazingly. A smarter, My father gives me an allowance, nore sophisticated brush to her rather grudgingly, because. I'm air. Pendulous earrings, sway-not following him in his business ng as she moved. Brighter lips.in Fall River. Oldest son, you Her figure exquisite in an in- know. He'll never forgive me, I xpensive evening gown that had suppose. Bat-" and Dick's eyes earned the adjective "smooth" shone- "I want to write! Trevor when displayed to other roomers at. was lonely. He's my cousin, you Aa Lowell's.. How would that know, and he asked me to bunk dress compare with the gowns with him. Here I am." worn by Stanley's dubuante Friends? Sheila vaguely hoped the lights at the penthouse would ue soitly flattering.
"I suppose you are one of our best and hardest working little play boys," she hazarded, as "How did you know where to with a deft motion Dick Stanley and me?" Sheila naked curiously-headed the ear across the park "Paris mentioned Bailey's thea toward Trevor Lane's apartment tre. Don't you remember? I house. icoked it up in the telephone Не seemed surprised. "I? way. Hardly! I'm a hard worker-that directory and asked the
is sometimes I am. The difficulty Simple enough!",
is, I do hard work which for the moment, at least, wins no acclaim or results."
Yes, it had been simple. But behind that simple deed lay the wish to see her again. He had not forgotten her in the whirl of
".. other interests.
Or if she preferred she might ride back to town in a smooth- rolling car such as this boy would Dick left her at the door. "I
at the drive around the block," he said drive. If only everyone party would make her as welcome as he helped her out, "and be back as Dick Stanley. Then her lip in 15 minutes to pick you up. Is
suddenly. The men, of that all right? Time enough?". curled course, would make her welcome. The women would treat her coolly. "I ought to get some sleep," she began uncertainly.
"But you can sleep tomorrow! Hamlet with Hamlet left outl That was an odd remark for all call for you whenever you say chorus girl to make. This little and drive you out here for the per- dancer in a cheap suit and tiny hat formance. Maybe you'll lunch with that had obviously seen wear con-me first." tinued to surprise him.
"Breakfast," she corrected, with- "Oh, Trevor's there," Dick re-out committing herself. Lunch was sponded easily. "Besides I came to a rare thing when Sheila was get one of the guests. One of the working. A late breakfast and din- most honoured guests, if she will ne-ner were all s had time for. cept the invitation." His eves Stanley laughed delightedly. mocked the humility in his words "Breakfast, lunch and dinner! All but his voice was pleading. Then three if you will. Just say the he changed his tone as Sheila's at-word-but do come to the party! I'll take you home, you can dress "Please come along and sing in a jiffy and we'll be there in ad your song," he urged. "Dance, too, time. We could have been at your if you will. but sing anyway! house, wherever it is, by now if Those dances you did in the show you'd agreed earlier." were knockouts!"
titude did not soften,
Sho found herself gently urged. The girl's smile showed that she toward Dick's car, a smart road- was pleased. "I'm glad you liked ster parked on the farther curb. skimming them," she said conventionally. Prezently they were
Dick Stanley moved nearer. noigelcosly along the street lend- "Then you'll come?" He lowered ing to the bridge. The air, warm his voice. "I have my car. It for so late at night, gently caress- won't take us 15 minutes to crossed her checks, blowing her hair
"Plenty," the girl assured him. Instantly she was gone. The dark door seemed to swallow her. The car moved slowly to the corner.
"Song writer?"
"No. He laughed.
But you aren't so far off. The fact is, I'm writing a play. The great Ameri- can play! I work afternoons and Sunday mornings."
"Tell me about the play," Sheila responded uncertainly. Poor boy didn't he know that everyone wrote plays? The trick was to sell them!
"L
Dick laughed. "Oh, that! It's still in the early stages. But I've put in a lot of thinking on it?""
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They entered, the little gilt cle- vator which bore them swiftly tá the top of the apartment house. where Trever Lane had his pent- house. Kato, the Japanese boy, admitted them.
Sounds of merriment issued from the living room. Someone, a professional Sheila decided in stantly, was playing the piano. As she slipped off her wrap in the silken bedroom there was a burst of applause, a murmur of voices. Talking, laughing, gaiety. But "A play!" Her eyes widened. even here Sheila could sense the "But you have money. I thought,difference between this party and' only poor men wrote plays,"
"Starvation in a garret, eh? Well, starvation in a penthouse isn't much better." Treyer has the
those to which she had most fre quently been invited, parties of professional people. Here
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