THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
Sheila la a
she's gone. She just came to per-1 form, you know." His tone was easy, but it implied. "We didn't ask her to remain. Now you are different; you are our guest."
H.W.CORLEY
1933.
BUZILA SITAYNE, whose parents, were artƐ] "known vaudeville entertainers, New York looking for a job. cancer. After much decouragement she kled to satelite for DAISY GLEASON. another dancer, who has sprained an' ankle. Wills, rebearían at JOE PARIS“ song shop Shall meets TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY tich and socially prominent. Dick urged Lane to lochide Shaffs in the there? The one talking to the mock annoyance... programme of entertainment at a party he girl in white? That's Gordon
La siring. She refuse knowing she wil
to the and persuader her
There followed a silence. Then Dick said, "Seo that chap over
them. Whenever a newspaper, Sheila turned dancing eyes prints any scandal, if the girl upon him. "Mr. Stanley, since I' has ever been connected with the am a stage woman and not a so- stage in any way the headlines ciety girl, don't you think Mias shriek the words 'chorus girl' or Shayne would be better, for the 'actress."
first 24 hours at least?".
"As a matter of fact many stage wonen leave off make-up entirely on the street or at parties. We have to be extremely careful in our dress, our behaviour, our con- versation and our love affairs or we are misunderstood."...
"But not by the people who really matter." Dick said quickly. He was wondering if this girl had "Those are. Trevor's cousins-been made to suffer because of her
be too Ured after a day of rehearsing and Mandrake, the producer. I want years younger than they look, if the performans that night. However, Dick you to meet him. It may do you that is possible," Dick explained.. to come, he anda herself becoming in some good sometime. Never can terrated in Dick, though she is well aware tell. And there's Tom Chadwick. Polo player, Westbury, Long Is land. He's a fine fellow. Scott Tracy, the playwright, is there be- side him.”
that this foolish.
CHAPTER X
"They are boarding school girls, but wouldn't you think them just out of the chorus? Though you never can tell these days-"
Instantly he bit his lip-stopped Shella and Blind Timmy took
short and flushed painfully. Oh, their places at the piano. There see Clayton Knight, too," re- gosh, what a thing to say. wae an expectant hush over the marked Sheila demurely, not with- didn't mean that. Really" Toom and then Timmy stuck the out mischief. Clayton Knight "I am" not a chorus girl," opening chords of Joe Paris' most was the most popular leading man Sheila said coldly, her eyes half
recent hit.
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of the season,
it woman
lowered..
"Sheila, please”
The agony in his voice was ob- vious. If she had felt any hurt or any retaliating desire to hurt, it faded.
Sheila sang a verse and then "I'll say you do!" Dick's, smile" the chorus. There was a patter was wry. "What of applause as she finished. She doesn't?" aang 4 second-this time one of Timmy's own, as she was careful
Mona Deane arrived," trailing to announce. She sang with real in almost as the party ended. feeling now, half dancing as she Wasn't she playing in a Broad- swayed to the rhythm. Sheila way show 1 Yes, of course... Monaald, trying to laugh but flushing, "know what you meant," she had an individual manner of sing had looked in on two parties too. Those giris, of course, are ing, a manner all her own, since 11 o'clock, she announced from good families but they do choscly bound up with her danc ing that the two were rarely gay. She wouldn't say where. Look cheap and common in such But she had "depended on Trey" low cut dresses. And they're separated.
for the real enjoyment of the eve-wearing too much make-up.
calling.
verse criticism mounts up and "Everyone matters! Every ad- comes hodie to racst. In the then- tre just as in polities one can't be too careful."
"In that case," Dick announced, I'm out of politics."
"May I choose what I call you' the following 242 His tone was low, meaningful
I shall still be a stage woman." "You needn't be-always.". Sheila's eyes narrowed slightly, hut she shrugged her shoulders and smiled. "You work rather fast, don't you?"
"I have to. "I'm not the, daly man in the world with excellent taste,"
"Don't you mean perfect taste?” He,, bowed, amused. "I mean that, of course."
"We'll see what you mean." The party was nearing a close. amazing amount of ermine and. Trevor's cousins, wearing an
and gleeful. They were going to with callow escorts, left giggling some club, they said.
Sheila smiled. "Don't laugh at me. I was just warming up to my subject. Do you remember Alice Blind Timmy had disappeared. Grady, the screen actress? She "I take you home, of course, used to listen when the office bors Dick said as Shella looked about or stenographers got together at her. "However. I've a few more the studio and when they made duties as host. Can you wait?" any criticisms of her work she could consider the change their ing crowd had departed and Sheila Presently the last of the laugh- conversation suggested. She said and Dick made their way to his ence and they counted. She would Dick told her as he drew the road.. they formed a part of her audi-car, "Think over what I've said," drive around to half dozen thea-ster up before her door. "You're tres some nights to try to find out going to let me ace you some what people really thought of her times, aren't you?" acting. She spent days-literally days-correcting the way
she
ning, she said. Mona was tiny, "No chorus girl would attend walked because she heard, two
"Of course."
Applause boomed out after the
the half was extinguished. Sheila He waited until a tiny light in last note. Flushed with delight, blonde, sparkling. Sheila could see party looking like that," she went women call it dreadful." the girl bowed and finally, al-that she and Trevor Lane were trying to hide her discom-
as the last one in (according to a Suddenly Shella's mood changed, sign hang on the chandelier) was though the applause continued, good friends-old friends, it seem-posure. They wouldn't dare! She looked up smiling. "And now, to leave the hall in darkness. she took her place among the ed. They joked and teased each Stage women-I'm a stage woman, brethren, here endeth the first les-Dick Stanley smiled to himself. other guests. Dick moved to her other and finally made a lunch Dick, in case you are interested as son!" side Immediately,
engagement for the following day to how I catalogue myself-have
Then he said, "Oh, damn!" fumbl- "I'm sorry, honey. I didn't ed for a cigarette, lighted it and "That was great!" he told her, "That's a date," her host azid be so careful to live down the know. Do forgive me," Dick whis was off. beaming with pride. "Say, they warningly, "I'll expect you ic reputation that's been given to pered. wore right when they said you keep it."
(To Be Continued.)
could put over a song number. "That's a date," Mona agreed And, how!"
solemnly, eyes twinkling: It was Thank you." Shella told him explained to Sheila that Mona gratefully. She knew she could never made a lunch date with dance but about her singing shajanyone except Trevor Lane. No, wasn't certain. Sheila called it they weren't engaged. Still, they "faked singing." Her voice, she were very friendly: There were felt, wasn't a good voice at all. rumours and no one would be She carried a song solely through greatly surprised to hear of an en- personality.
gagement.
room.
Clift Gunther, the latest radio. And then as Mona tralled her "hit, sang 'next, waving congratu- lovely, luxurious", way out, Diek lations away, with an easy smile. once more sought out Sheila. Then, the dancing resumed, and in Half a dozen had been doing their Dick's arma Sheila, circled the best to entertain her. It WOR pleasant to see Dick's smiling Isn't Frances dancing?" she face once more, still more pleasant asked as a searching glance failed to see the youthful swains dis- to And the other girl among the solve at his approach as though, guests.
they considered themselves inte "Miss Barton" Dick's voice lopers: was Indifference
itself. "Oh,
Two girls looked after him. In
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