THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933.
SPOTLIGHT
BEGIN BERE TO-DAY SHEILA SKATNË, whom parents were well-known vandeeliin entertainers, is in
Sheila New York Tooldar for Job. Lancer. Aber much discouragement be kfred to substitute for DAISY GLEASON, another doner, who has sprained and Walle zelarslag AL JOE PARIS" song abop Shells meet TREVOR LANK and DICE;
weially prominent STANLET, rich and Dick new Lane to include Shelia la the Df extertainment at party be
MORTLINE of no hat Dick comes and persuades her to At the party she meets several celebri
to the theatre later come.
san, including, GORDON HANDRAKE, well-
known produced Abe se Dick frequent
the part.
Shella nodded and blushed. She was grateful for a friendly Word because rehearsal, when parts are first assigned and pos sibly not permanent, is the cold- est spot on earth. She had never aceh this juvenile before. He was young man with striking blonde hair. His profile, however, was manly and clear-cut and his mouth rather sweetly wistful,
Sheila shook her wise little head and told herself she hoped war Sandrake & interested in her and is the girls wouldn't spoil him. But going to ofạc bạc « part in a play. How they would, of course. The first
during the mast few daya and he tells
#Yer, Mandrake does not do so.
HW.CORLEY
1933
ly no village youth could have authoritative forefinger. such an air, such self-confidence
or such a wardorbe. His clothes Shella translated herself in- were expensive, well cut.stantly into liquid motion. Sho "There are two villages. One had learned the routine in half a is New Haven and the other a dozen painstaking sessions with suburb of Boston."
Bill Brady who had gone to some length to inform her that they were not paying him extra to teach her the steps, nor would he dream of doing it for anyone but
"And a certain village known as Paris and another called Lon don tossed in!" Sheila added,
He laughed gayly. "Is my bit-her. ter past as evident as that? I say,"
As a routine it was one of Bill's let me introduce myself. You are Shella 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.
To Jim Blaine this, fresh-faced;" Jim Blaine. I suppose they'll vided I ever get that far. That's not flossy enough. Meanwhile I want to call you Sheila if I may: So why not try Jim?”
No. I'm new to a part in a Broadway show but not new by any means to the ways of Broad-change it on the programmume, pro-dark-haired girl dancing on the poetry itself. way. Nor to tramping the streeta
cleared stage was looking for a job." She shuddered,
The loveliest dance he had ever half in earnest, half playfully
witnessed. "Even in summer this strect's the coldest in the world. Worn shoes. head aching from sleepless nights
In a few Day Gleason is abismatince was to bring him a load of worry"
bo danes news nei Shells is again out of love lettera.
a Job. Ele mekm the rounda of the ameista
That must be terrible," he
adion without rueita. Then Mandraka tele- "I hope they'll change those said simply, as one speaking of gooses i atas her a part in bis new lines," Sheila told him nervously; something he would never per-
"Why don't you ask them to?" he suggested. "Maybe they don'tsonally encounter. know you object.”- -
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CHAPTER XIII
He looked so innocent. that Sheila decided he was not joking. She was silting on a scenic rock, swinging her little feet in her tap shoes.
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The part Mandrake offered Sheila was job-but a dis- new appointment as well. The play, "When Lights Are Low," contained a minor part in which there was an opportunity for spe- "I guess you are rather new to ciality dancen. There were a few Broadway, aren't you?" she asked. considered, The young man Jines, too. Shoila didn't mind learning lines but she did-stren-head bent slightly to one side,
"Aren't you?" he countered. Bously-object to these.
"How can you look so innocent and say such things?" the juvenile asked her when, at the first re- the hearsal, Sheila stumbled through
•
·
She laughed gayly.. "That was I deserved. And my answer to that is, 'Yes' and
answer
Carling on the Lake at the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. (Planet Nows]
+
"You mean you don't know how hard it is to find a job?" It was Sheila's turn to stare.
"I mean just that. This job found me. I dare say I was 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 enough 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
Oh-Shayne!" a raucous voice interrupted them. "Do you think this is a pink tea? That's your cue?" T
"My fault," whispered Jim, shamefacedly rising from the bit of scenery where he had been seated at her feet.. Never mind. that old boza. 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, Shella dropped back on the seat she had recently vacated.
"It takes wind, that's sure. I'll
have to keep on practicing."
"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
after the show opened. His "car gan-which would not be until
4 long greyhound affair, was parked well out of sight of the stage door when it was brought around to the drug store some blocks away by a garage mechanic.
not
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 Frequently he took Sheila to dín- da da!" he hummed, swinging an his worldly goods or over-modest. ner but oftener than not he was "tied up," He lived somewhere vaguely beyond Fifth Avenue and did not proffer Shella his tele-.. phone number, though he re- quested and frequently used hers.
That he was or would be-a successful actor .was beyond doubt, The faintly British tinge of tone and manner served him in goodstead. His singing voice was excellent.
The star, with whom he ap- penred in love scenes, liked him. He paid her courtly attention and' concealed his preference for Sheila with dexterity.
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There was no doubt in his own mind. though, that he liked (Continued on Page 6.)
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