THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1933.
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
SHEILA SUATNE, who parents were well-known vandevill entertainers. lå i in New York, looking for job.
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could spell downright disaster}
The note read: "Sheila call Mr.
в силок. After much discouragement she Mandrake at Bryant 0025. It may is hired to enbaitute for DAISY GLEASON.
another dancer, who has sprained an ankle. While rehearsing at JOB PARIS" song shep Shells meets TREVOR LAND and DICK STANLEY, rich and socially prominent. Dick urges Lane to include Shells in the programme of entertainment at a party he in giving. Shella declines but Dick common to the theatre ister and permiades, her to come.
At the party she meet averal celebrites. Including CORDON MANDRAKE, known producer. She sees Dick frequent
well
during the next few day and ho“ telk bir Mandrake la Interested in her and going to offer her a part in a play. How ärer, Mandrake does not do so.
Presently Daisy Glawsonable to dance skin and Ebella dada hevalf out of
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CHAPTER XII
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Ma had taken messages before. Serawled in the corner, as afterthought, Sheila found, "Must of phoned around 2:30."
It was hardly 2:30 now. If Mandrake wanted to see her that his office even allowing a afternoon she had time to reach half hour in which to freshen up.
She was trembling as the nickel chimed in the pay telephone in the street floor hall. Sheila gave the Bryant number without look ing at the paper in her hand. Early in the season she had mem-
This
Shella reached home one after-orized it. noon after a fruitless round of "Mr. Mandrake's office! agents' offices weary, Hot, yet with is. Miss Shayne calling. I have a that unmistakable feeling that message asking me to phone." sooner or later something pleasant was going to happen. Could it be that Dick was back and had tele-Paine?" What do you want to phoned? Dick had been out of talk to Mr. Mandrake about!" town for some time, writing Sheila a careless line now and then.
The telephone operator's volce sounded aloof, noncommittal.
Sheila frowned unhappily. This seemed a bad omen. The entire office should, she felt, have been electrified to receive her call.
"Shayne!" she repeated pa-}
She descended into the odorous, tidy kitchen which was Ma's lair, only to find it empty. The kettle on the cold stove was dead. Cur-tiently. "Sheila Shayne. Mr. tains blew on the mild breeze full of dead heat at the window. Carefully washed milk bottles stood in an orderly row. The clock ticked importantly.
Sheila sank into a chair and fanned herself with her hat. Ma Lowell was "down the block" probably, scated in a rocker in someone's back yard, idly and in nocently gossiping. Times were slack in summer among theatrical rooming house keepers.
But Ma always left à pitcher of: iced tea in the refrigerator and, pouring herself a glass. Sheila lingered gratefully.
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Then suddenly she spied it. scrap of paper propped against the
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Mandrake called me an hour ago." After an interminable stretch of heart beats and telephone clicks another more decisive click sound- ed in the receiver. A voice.
But it was not Mandrake. It was a woman's voice, clipped and haughty this time, asking whaf Sheila wanted.
"Mr. Mandrake called me at about 2:30 and asked me to call. This is Sheila Shayne apeaking."
There was a silence.
"Mr. Mandrake was in confer- ence from two until three," the voice announced as if that settled the matter. Ruses to reach great producers are not uncommon and
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sugar bowl on the red check-it is a secretary's business, to keep ered table. A telephone message, a nickel carefully placed in prominent spot lest Sheila might not have the change. Dear Ma! She knew that lack of R nickel
such calls away from her ployer.
"The the time may be wrong," Sheila atammered. But that was the message I received-"
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1933
"Sorry!" This time the voice dismissed her. "Mr. Mandrake has gone for the day." The con- nexion severed sharply. In daze Sheila hung up the receiver. Whatever the chance that had dangled before her for a brief in- stant, she had lost it. Lost it by a few hours, while making use- less rounds among useless agents! "Well," Sheila thought, trying to laugh, "I wanted a shampoo and I can wash my hair now."
But it wasn't funny-losing the chance of a job with Mandrake. No matter how she tried, Sheila couldn't persuade herself that it
was.
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Flitting downstairs, she light- ed the gas under the water tank. walted 15 minutes, turned it off and flitted upstairs again with an armful of towels. The next hour she devoted to splashing, rubbing and rinsing her dark hair dili- gently.
Outside the bathroom on the second floor was a roof. Ma al- lowed an ocassional roomer to sit there on a chair taken from the bathroom and view the beauties
of a dozen backyards while re FINANCIAL TROUBLES.
cently shampooed hairdried in the wind or hosiery fluttered from a line. Sheila belonged to the elect and she clambered through the window. Her hair, already half-dried. curled in tight ringlets about her forehead."
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The telephone rang, sharply, in-resigned owing to dissatisfaction with sistently.
its financial programme.
There was no one else in the house unless that young man who had just taken the parlor floor had come in. Another sharp peal sounded.
"Gee, I hate to go down there just to tell someone that Miss Bell isn't here anymore!" Sheila Tumbled. Miss Bell was a popu- lar young woman who had recent ly departed and for whom the telephone rang constantly.
Of course it couldn't be a mes. Dick sage for Sheila. herself. never called in mid-afternoon. Phil Short way away. An agent wouldn't call at such an hour.
But there was no help for it. Sheila would have to answer,
"Hello" she said indifferently. Then her face changed, bright ened.
It was Mandrake himself whose voice she heard. "Miss Shayne the voice said. This is Man- drake speaking.
i called you this afternoon-from the club. You weren't in."
"Oh, Mr. Mandrake!" Sheila felt suddenly weak, her throat dry,
(He
"I saw you at Lane's the other night," the man went on. had seen her fully three months ago but that didn't matter.)
Winter sports on the lake at the Royal Wimbledon
Golf Club. Curling in progress. (Planet News).
"I
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liked those
songs you sang. Clever. I wonder if we couldn't get together on a part for my new show?"
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There was a pause. Mandrake seemed to be waiting for her to speak.
"--that would be fine, Mr: Mandrake."
"You aren't signed, I take it? If you aren't I'd like to talk to you this evening. Let me see" there was a pause--"it's five, now... We both have to eat. Why not have dinner together? Suppose I send my car for you at seven?" . Sheila drew a deep breath. "Thank you so much. I'd love to go."
"I'll bring a contract along and we'll talk it over. If we can come to terms I'd like you to go into rehearsal tomorrow.".
Sheila hung up the telephone in a daze. Mandrake-a job-and rebeasal tomorrow! Oh, could it all be true?
(To be Continued.)
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