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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

TELA WIANE, 18, well known waddell York looking for work.

whose parents were Belers. in New Ribalta la a denver.

it on the subway or if you start! early enough on the bus. Stopa right in front of the theatre. Hus

The has spent almost hay entire ille ostle now."

the stage, frut travelling with her parenta, now dead, and later in vaudeville and mad Hai MA LOWELL'S Shella ibawa. theatrical rooming, house.

MYIT, & Vaudeville performer alas out of

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Myrt heard the newe and her routing "Tho Was, commont

H.W.CORLEY

1933

for Ma'a comfortable, dark, whouse high up over Now York's exclusive East Side two young tidy, cavernous kitchen.

"An' look at her" Ma guaped men were porsunding themselves again and grabbed Myrt's arm. rather reluctantly to awaken and they are regard the glories of a new day.. "hind you! There wattin' for her at Paris' and her They were awakening rather early. buying geraniums from a pedlar" too, for them. The previous oven- Ing they had attended a party. And tonight they were giving one.

un-

The two women stood in out-

Trevor Lane, the elder, was raged dignity while Shella,

ware of the consternation in their supposedly. "on Wall Street." He

fect and

was 30, or thereabouts, and of souls, flew with nimble laughing face back to the house. that species which is so frequently Put this in my room for mo, referred to as a man about town, [will you, Myrt?" she begged, though, as he himself would have thrusting forward a red pot with pointed out, his polo ponies, yachts "No. She's been talking alla tiny unsteady red bloom stuck and high-powered cars kept him work, lires there, too. Over the breskinat must be a snap or Gleason never mother, well..

yet could have learned it."

"Sush," said Ma, uncasily, bemorning about, having a home in siantwise in the soft earth. So rather continually out of both the

the town and his highly correct grinned suddenly, "That's brend acers in email towns in which she has pies.hind Myrt, "you girls haven't any the country

call to knock Daisy. It's

"Let her get a good part and a kind I'm going to have in my own elaborately appointed office.

day! And, His home, the penthouse. salary like some of the others and kitchen window nome

even more elaborately appointed that talephone call has come for thei and butter for Shell."

Myrt buy herself that home!" Ma sald ol. Myrt, it needs watering !"

"I'll water it." The cynicism than his offlee. Certainly it was quickly.

Myrt's face. ¡ess difficult to find him there than bad. "She means to get married; Ma. had drained from

the Sheila's happiness was too apparat the Wall Street address. She talked about clothen on

ent. too touching. line and fire engines-"

cable one morning hella confiden that bet and bars boma

Er ambition in my

Jiko thond the

Ma Lowell Interrupts them to

WYBORZE

who hurrion to asawer, hoping I may mesh

job.

CHAPTER II.

The scrappy bit of paper meant a job and Sheila's heart leupt. A job and and a pay check!

"I' Bay," responded quickly,

"It isn't that Dalay is so Ma," said Sheila, grinning. that I'm so good!"

"It's

"Go on with you!" That girl doesn't care a thing Fil-about the stage really," Myrt said, was as Shella skipped down the front steps and the two stood watching her. "And with all that talent" "Blind Timmy says she in a comer," Ma agreed. don't care about the stage?"

Ma

"Lord save us, what next?" gasped. "Fire engines! What was the child saying?

and

WLA

The girl was gone, flying down with Trevor Lone was young several Dick Stanley, his cousin the street toward Broadway,

"What are you going to do with times removed, not so wealthy and It wasn't much, of course.

"Like I told you. Fire engines, a girl like that?" asked Ma, shaka trifle more ambitious. Dick was ing in for Daisy Gleason

need a good husband. A husband write plays. Trevor's theatrical rather a blow to Sheila's pride.

For the kids, you know. She ing her head. "I declare..she does in New York ostensibly to learn to Rod gera- connexions were supposed to be of The truth was that Daisy couldn't

wants to get married-"

"They all talk that way in the to make her work.

Her! With valuable assistance. Mn "You say ahe spring. dance: No one except Roscoe,

sad comfortably. niums! Kitchens! Daisy's husband, had ever thought

"The air gets warm, the parks in she could. Roscoe, hopelessly in

Ma raised her eyebrows. Such bloom. Flower sellers start hol- love with her, had given Daisy a place with his act a jazz band, talk was heresy, indeed, for one astering their heads off. There's one rather good, with a few specialty gifted as Sheila. For all the hard now"

They were standing on the step, numbers. Then Roscoe had mar-times, Shella should love the stage. ried Daisy. Now she was out with Wasn't she born to the life? Malonth to leave the first spring day recalled Daisy Deamond, Shella's behind them, loath to exchange it a sprained ankle.

"You won't have the job long." Myrt sold needlessly. "Roscoe in Dalay'a won't take anybody place, no matter how good you

It's a Job anyhow, l' last n few weeks,"

"You'd better telephone right away, Sheila." Ma Lowell urged. "Here's a nickel--"

Bald,

"I have a dime," Sheila producing it. "Now if you have

two nickels-ah, thanks."

That was Ma. A nickel here, a nickel there. No wonder the room- ing house didn't seem to pay.

Sheila "Maybe it's the road," thought us sho raced up the out- side steps and entered the dark. odorous hall where, at the rear. the telephone stood amidst a regi- The ment of brooms and mops.

homes twinkling. road! Little near the tracks as the sleeper jerked along. Friendly, cozy-1 Sha old the nickel into the ma- chine, gave Joe's number and then asked for Bill Brady.

Bill confirmed Ma's statement. "Yeah. Gleason's out. Rosene's juzz band had the act, see? Daisy and a couple others did special ties. It's an easy routine, Sheila. You can learn it in no time." Bill finished grandly.

"Oh," Shella breathed through the phone. So Bill thought she could pick up new steps quickly! That was good news.

"Hustle over now, baby," Bill finished. "I' be waiting."

"Where do we

opon 7"

Sheila

naked, unperturbed."

"Jackson Heights."

He

used

"You can make

to shift his cigur.

NEA-TELEPHOTO

Both young men were well set all that talent and that figure! A

described of that vaguely up. few years' glory on the stage, then

Either might Maybe even a title from London! affable, well polsed. a rich husband. Park Avenue. "clean cut" type, square jawed, An her talking about a kitchen! havo posed for advertisements of a certain brand of well-known col- At about this time in a pent-] Continned on Page 10.). The Lord save us all!"

The late Mr. Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, was laid to rest in his home town of Plymouth, Vt. In the foreground are a number of former friends.

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