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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY." FEBRUARY 27, 1933,
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
SHEILA SHAYNE whose parents were well-known vandeville ontertainers. New York
looking for a job.
Shaila la
dancer. After mock discouragement la hired to walmitate for DAISY GLEASON. another dance, "who has strained an anklo.; While rubearslig at JOE PARIS' Kong shop)
abella masia TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY, rich and pistally · prominent i Dick trees Lase to Include Sheila in the programme of entertainment at a part * giving. Shelia deciiam but Dick comes to the theatre later and perwundes, her" to At the party she mists savura celebrits. Jadinding CORDON MANDRARE. wall known produce. She trick frequent her Mandrake intrested in her and
during the wok few days and he tells
going to offer her a part in a play. Blow. www. Mandraka dom, sot do so,
Persently Daler Glosses is able to dance AÇKİN KAY SAMOA and herself out of
Job one m
CHAPTER XII
could spell downright disaster!
The note read: "Sheila 'call Mr. Mandrake at Bryant 0025. It may be a job.---Bla."
Ma had taken messages before. Scrawled in the corner, as an afterthought, Sheila found, "Must of phoned around 2:30,"
.It was hardly 2:30 now. If Mandrake wanted to see her that afternoon she had time to reach his office oven allowing a 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 senaon she had mom-
Shella reached home, one after-orized it. noon after a fruitless round of
"Mr. Mandrake's office? This agents' offices weary, bot, yet with is Miss Shayne calling. I have a that unmistakable feeling that message asking me to phone." sooner or later something pleasant
The telephone operator's voice was going to happen. Could it be sounded alcof, noncommittal, 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.
Sheila frowned unhappily. This seemed a bad omen. The entire She descended into the ederous, office should, she felt, have been tidy kitchen which was Ma's lair, electrified to receive her call, only to find it empty. The kettle
"Shayne!" she repeated pa- on the cold stove was dead. Curtiently. "Sheila Shayne. Mr. taias Slew on the mild breeze full Mandrake called me an hour ago.": of dead heat at the window. After an interminable stretch of Carefully washed milk bottles heart beats and telephone clicks stood in an orderly row. The another more decisive click sound- clock ticked importantly.
Sheila sank into a chair and fanned herself with her hat Ma
ed in the receiver. A voice.
·
·
But it was not Mandrake. It Lowell was "down the block" was a woman's voice, clipped and probably, seated in a rocker in haughty this time, asking what aomeone's back yard, idly and in-Sheila wanted.
nocently gossiping. Times were "Mr. Mandrake called me at slack in summer among theatrical about 2:30 and asked me to call. rooming house keepers.
This is Sheila Shayne speaking."
There was a silence.
But Ma always left a pitcher of iced tea in the refrigerator and, pouring herself a glass, Sheila lingered gratefully.
Then suddenly she spied it. A scrap of paper propped against the
"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
sugar bowl on the red check it is a secretary's business to keep ered table. A telephone message a nickel carefully placed in a prominent apot lest Sheila might
such calle away from her em- ployer.
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"The the time may be wrong,"
not have the change. Dear Mal Sheila stammered. "But that was She knew that inck of a nickel the message I received-"
H.W.CORLEY
✪1933
of a dozen backyards while re-) FINANCIAL TROUBLES.
cently shampooed hair dried 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- | sistently:
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.
"Sorry!" This time the voice dismissed her. "Mr. Mandrake "Gee, I hate to go down there has gone for the day." The con- just to tell someone that Miss Bell nexion severed aliarply. In R
fan't here any more!" Sheila daze Sheila hung up the receiver. grumbled. Miss Bell was a popy Whatever the chance that had lar young woman who had recent- dangled before her for a brief in-ly departed and for whom the stant; she had loat it. Lost it by telephone rang constantly. 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 persunde herself that it
was,
Flitting downstairs, she light- ed the gas under the water tank, waited 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 course it couldn't be a mes- Dick sage "for Sheila herself. never called in mid-afternoon. wouldn't call at such an hour, Phil Short was away. `An agent
But there was, no help for it, Sheila would have to answer.
"Hello," she said indifferently. Then her face changed, bright ened.
It was fandrake 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."
Mandrake!" Sheila felt suddenly weak, her throat dry.
"Oh, Mr.
I saw you at Lane's the other night." the man went on. (He- 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 Nawa).
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songs you
sang.
liked those Clever. I wonder if we couldn't get together on a part. for my new. show?
seemed to be waiting for her to There was a pause. Mandrake
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 rcheasal tomorrow! Oh, could it all be true?
(To be Continued.)
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