THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1933.
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY..
the part.
Sheila nodded and blushed. SHEILA SHAYNE whose parents, wiShe was grateful for a friendly' well-known vandevilje entertainers, is......, in New York Booking for a job. Shelia word because rehearsal. when dancer.
After galah dlcouragement the parts are first assigned and pos- hired to pubstitute for DAUY GLEASON, Another dancer, who has aprained an ankle, sibly not permanent, is the cold-- While robessing at JOL FARIS' 10ng shop est spot on earth. She had never Shells meets TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY, rich and socially prominent seen this juvenile before. He was Dick urrus. i'me to include Shells to the & young man with striking blonde Pelving Shell decllaes but Dick comes hair. His profile, however, was programme of entertainment si a party be to the theatre, later and persuades her to manly and clear-cut and his mouth
At the parts abc mele several celebri. rather sweetly wistful, ties, luckading GORDON"MANDRAKE, well- ikawa producer. She sees Dick frequently her fandrake & folerated in her and is going to offer her put in play. How In a few wichs Duby Gleasonable to danon agnia and Shells in spala out of a_Joh, he makes the rounds of Ube agenia" officer without results. Then Mandrake tele
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during the mast few days and be tells
ever, Mandrake dom noi do so.
phones and offers her a part to his new
play.
CHAPTER XIII
Sheila shook her wise little head and told herself she hoped the girls wouldn't spoil him. But they would, of course. The first matinee was to bring him a load of love letters.
"I hope they'll change those lines," Sheila told himi nervously, "Why don't you ask them to?" he suggested. "Maybe they don't know you object."
He looked so innocent that The part Mandrake offered Sheila was a job-but a dis-Sheila decided he was not joking. appointment as well. The new She was sitting on a scenic rock, play, "When Lights Are Low, swinging her little feet in her tap contained a minor part in which shoes, "there was an opportunity for spe- ciality dances. There were a few lines, too. Shaila didn't mind learning lines but she did-stren uously object to these,
"I guess you are rather new to Broadway, aren't you?" she asked. The young man considered, side. head bent slightly to one "Aren't you?" he countered.
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"How can you look so innocent and Bay auch things?" the juvenilė She laughed gayly, "That was asked her when, at the first re- the answer I deserved. And hearsal, Shella stumbled through my answer to that is, "Yes" and
Curling on the Lake at the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. (Planet News)
H.W.CORLEY
1933
'No.' I'm new to
a part in a Broadway show but not new by any means to the ways of Broad- way. Nor to trumping the streets looking for a job." She shuddered, half in earnest, half playfully "Even in summer this street's the coldest in the world. Worn shocs, head aching from sleepless nights of worry-
"That must be terrible," he
said simply, as one speaking of something he would never per- sonally encounter.
"You mean you don't know how hard it is to find a job?" It was Sheila's turn to stare.
י.
"I mean just that. This job I dare say I was found me. lucky if you look at it that way. Unlucky if you look at it another. If I don't go over big-that is, big enogh to warrant staying here in New York-I've sort of spoiled my taste for the village. Don't you think?"
"It depends upon the village," Sheila said uncertainly. Was this young man kidding her? Certain
A'zonery line of skaters on Wimbledon Common Pand during the cold snap. (Planet Nows)
ly no village youth could have such an air, such self-confidence or such a wardorbe. His clothes were expensive, well cut:
"There are two villages. One is New Haven and the other a suburb of Boston.”
"And a certain village known as Paris" and another called Lon- don tossed in!" Sheila added,
authoritative forefinger.
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Sheila translated herself in- stantly into liquid motion. She had learned the routine in half a dozen painstaking sessions with Bill Brady who had gone to some length to inform hier that they. were not paying him extra to teach her the steps, nor would he dream of doing it for anyone but her.
He laughed gayly. "Is my bit- |ter past as evident as that? I say, let me introduce myself. You are
As a routine it was one of Bill's Sheila Shayne, I know, for when best Flashy, intricate, yet ap- you were dancing I heard some pearing to the uninitated far one say so. Well, my name is more difficult than it really was. Jim Biaine. I suppose they'll To Jim Blaine this fresh-faced, change it on the programme, pro-dark-haired girl dancing on the vided I ever get that far. That's cleared stage was poetry itself. not flossy enough. Meanwhile The loveliest dance he had over want to call you Sheila if I may. witnessed. So why not try Jim?"
"Oh Shayne!" a raucous voice Interrupted them. "Do you think this is a pink tea? That's your cue?"
shamefacedly rising from the bit
"My fault," whispered Jim,!
of scenery where he had been seated at her feet. Never mind that old bozo. He praises you when you aren't around!"
I may not be around tomorrow if he changes his mind," Sheila whispered back..
"Say, you are wonderful!" he told her, a smile spreading over his face, when, panting, Sheila dropped back on the seat she had recently vacated.
have to keep on practicing."
"It takes wind, that's sure. I'll
"It was exquisite. It was beau-. tiful!"
She and Jim soon became great friends. He was not dependent on his salary, even when it be gan-which would not be until after the show opened. His car was a long greyhound affair, parked well out of sight of the stage door when it was not brought around to the drug store some blocks away by a garage mechanic,
The pianist, a slender, bent young man in shirt sleeves who appeared completely bored, again struck the music cue. Mike, the owner of the voice, stepped back, spreading his hands to clear a
He was and Sheila liked this. group of inquisitive ladies of the ensemble from underfoot. "Da--neither ostentatious concerning da da!" he hummed, swinging an his worldly goods or over-modest. | Frequently he took Sheila to din
ner but oftener than not, he was, "tied up." He lived somewhere vaguely beyond Fifth Avenue and did not proffer Sheila his tele- phone number, though he re- quested and frequently used hers.
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That he was or would be—a successful actor was beyond doubt. The faintly British tinge of tone and manner gerved him in goodslead. His singing voice was excellent.
The star, with whom he ap-. peared in love scenes, liked him. He paid her courtly attention and concealed his preference for Sheila with dexterity.
There was no doubt in his own mind, though, that he liked (Continued on Page 5.)
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