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Jooking for a job Shelia la a daticer. In
to marry and have
she has played.
home like
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[Dick's words. Another little dart SHEILA SHAYNS, 18, when parente ware of jealousy hot through her. well-known vaudeville actors, ts in New York Here obviously was an entertainer spills at the fact that who has spent of whom Dick approved. most bar entire lifa os the store her am- A hush fell and the girl stood thom she has won in small towns in which before thent. She was slender, On few hours' Botton she is hired not very tall, dressed in flesh-col- take the place of DAISY GLEASON, Anjoured tights and a jewelled bodien. other dancer, who has sprained an ankle. A silken fringe circled her, waist. She goes to 305 PARIS ofice In Her dark eyes sparkled in the TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY, both delicate, piquant little face be be la alving but she refuses, knowing that neath a lovely pink silk wig. She after a day of rehearsing and the perform looked almost like a small boo- air, doll. It was Frances Barton. the eccentric dancer.
Alley" to reheatua. There whe
meets
rich, Lane saka Shells to dance at, a party
ance that night she will be too tired.
Shells, go to the theatre. The show he glos and she wins applause with her dances Stanley la in the audience. He waits for her after the show and again urge har to com
Judgment she LETTER.
H.W.CORLEY
1933
done by anyone else.”
Barton and even in this monent She had always admired Frances hoped that she had not minimized the effect the other girl's talent always had on her.
It was cheap this jealous
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933.
run through the songs with him a lay or so ago."
"Dick promised me that he would try to make you change your mind," he explained to the
That was true. Only the other. kirl, with a smile. "So I took the vening at Ma Lowell's Sheila and liberty of assuming that you Timmy had had an hour of music would do us the honour to sing. Ma's blatant old parlor with its He looked across the room as heaper towers, dusty, and faded, spoke and nodded. "Joe Parists gilt framed pictures of ageless told me that you sing certain types incestors and Ma's other treas of songs' exceptionally well."
ures. How different from the room in which now stood!
Out of the style box!
HENRY HEATH
Sheila's heart leaped, again at and how hiferent, Timy o HATS for MEN
the mention of Joe Paris name. How did he know that abe sang? That Joe Paris should remember her, know anything at all about her work meant so much
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I asked Mr. Davis to come along," Trevor added, "to accom- pany you. I thought you would feel more at home."
"Blind Timmy" The words even though no one knew of it slipped out and Sheila flashed sud-| Frances was the best in her but herself. Why should she be denly, "Please don't misunder- line the originator of a dozen jealous of the interest of a young stand," she said. "It may sound routines so difficult that only a man she had known less than 14 cruel to call him that but it's his few of her imitators could follow hours? Was it really only 14 name-almost a stock in trade. them. She had been in half a hours ago that she had first seen No one ever calls him anything 'Sheila heard that ripple of dozen Broadway shows and was in Dick Stanley?
else. I'd hardly remembered that laughter. She did not turn and one now, Like Sheila, she had
his name is Davis." so she did not learn the speakers come to the party following the identity. But the words brought performance.
to Lan's party. Horsewhat against her better
CHAPTER IX
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All day long she had thought of him, not as "that agreeable a chill about her heart. "Dick's
“Mr. Stanley" at all, but as Dick. girls are always pretty," the un-
Sheila, saw Dick Stanley's "eyes Trevor Lane had thus addressed known women had said. Of course light and his smile flash. His him and Sheila had thought at the such a young man as Dick Stanley gaze was an ardent, as eager as it time that it was an appropriate must know many girls. He must had been when he had turned to-name. "be in constant demand at parties ward Shella herself. Hotly she
and dinners where there were told herself that to Dick Stanley him now. beautifully gowned,
Tall, charming, with beautifully
she was just another girl. How that delightful smile crinkling his genomed young women.
could she have been so foolish asnose, Dick was just a name. And say what you would to believe that he was interested well did Frances know Dick?
How clothes did make a difference!!
in her? Just because he had
Look at what they could do for taken the trouble to call for her at
a newly discovered movie star.the theatre? They had changed Norma Seabury
"She's great, isn't she?" "Dick
in one short year from a pretty was saying, unconscious of the ordinary little Brooklyn girl to a suave, sophisticated beauty who tumult he had caused in Sheila's knew how to walk and talk, to heart. "You must meet her. I rise from a chair and sit down. know you'll like her."
These girls who were Trevor "Do you know her well?"
not like Sheila asked.
were
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"Know her? I should say I do. Let's move forward. You don't
She was standing close beside
'so'
A clamour of applause went up as the girl began one of the prest was delightfully graceful. Frances intricate parts of the dance. She swayed like a lily on
its stem, bent almost unbelievably and yet attractively too. She turned amazing somersaults, righting her Labo's
slender body, with agile grace. guests Norma. Their glamour was more
Presently, amidst clapping of natural, less affected. They had
hands,, she finished the dance, been born to this life of luxury. want to miss this bit."
bowing graciously, bounding, to- Shoila looked about her at the "I know her, too," Sheila said, ward the audience on tiptoe and blonde, black and titian heads, the trying to keep her voice steady, back again. Frances blew a kies, gleaming white shoulders accented "And she is good, isn't she? light as thistledown, pranced on against the trim black coats of the There's no one else on the stage her, toes and futtered out. of men, Some were dancing, some who can touch her. Frances is insight. chatting. Laughter broke forth a class by herself."
It was indeed a pretty picture, and trickled across the room in Dick eyed Sheila almost 'ten-One moment she was there, pos- gentle, well-modulated ripples.derly. "That's generous," he said, fing, smiling. Then she was gone, Then the brilliant rustle of voices "from another dancer. Darned Instantly everyone was talking, was suddenly hushed,
generous. But of course”—hasti-Groups broke up and others reas-
"There's a clever little girl forly-"you aren't the same kind of [sembled. Kato appeared bearing you," Dick was saying,clapping dancers. You are about the best a heavily laden tray. Trevor as he did so. Following his eyes I've seen in your line, you know." Lane separated himself from a girl toward a Japanese screen which Shella laughed a little dubious who was hanging on his arm, half concealed a door into an ly "That's generous too. Thank urged her gently into a seat beatde other room, Sheila waited expect you. But I can't compare with an all-too-willing and engaging antly. She had not heard the un-Frances. That routine would slay youth, and hastuned toward Sheila' nouncement which had prompted me in a week. It' just can't be and Dick.
"Yes, Blind Timmy. He seemed to be pleased that you were to sing. And he said that you had
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in his tuxedo "A fine, upstand- ing figure of a man," as Ma would always say, with a sigh for Timmy's sightless eyes..
"That's fine. Yes, of course I'i sing: Maybe one or two of Timmy's own songs.""
"Great. Perhaps you'll want to make up a bit-you look most charming but nearly everyone does before facing the battery." He directed a servant to show Miss Shayne the dressing room. from which she could emerge near the piano and save an embarrass- ing walk through the glittering rooms.
Smiling Sheila turned from Dick. To be sure this was what she had come for. She was an (Continued on Page 10.)
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