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would be Roscoe's band, Lottie Blair and the other specialty num- bors. Perhaps she knew some of

SHEILA BRAINK, 18, whose parents were well known" sodavia actors, in New York looking for Job Shella is a dancer. In spite of the fact that abe has spent them all ready. Hadn't abe heard most her entire life on the singe her a somewhere that Phil Short waa bition is to many and have a boma Uka

shone wou kan man in small towns in which

she has played.

On 4. few hours' sotice she hired to take" the pines of DAISY GLEASON. **- other dancer, who baabtained as ankle

Shells you to JOB PARIS'· office in Pan Alley to relearns. There whe PĆA TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY; bath rich. Lase make Ebuffa to danes, at a party

ańce that night she will be too tired.

CHAPTER VI.

with Roscoe now? He had played

the saxophone with a radio orches

HW.CORLEY

1933

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.

preciated her quick work in learn-ror-lined. A wide board at right ing the routine and that he recog-angles ran along the walls and nized her, as a trouper.

formed the dressing tables. At the door of the dressing room Chairs were set at intervals in Roscoe, who had caught up with front of it, their backs hung with. her, confirmed Bill's rather sketchy cretonne pockets. Some spaces | ideas about her galary.

were empty, others crowded with paraphernalia of the profession- powder puffs, curling irons, pow der cans, rouge and cold. cream pots, tins of cosmetics, even spools of thread aet in orderly rows.

"

"We'll need you for six weeks anyhow, was his comfortable as surance. "Maybe longer. De pends on how the kid's ankle be- haves. Then maybe I can work you in with my other band."

"That's great, Roscoe About the other band, I mean. I'm sorry about Daisy.".

Lottie, who was "dressed like a Watteau shepherdess gone Zieg feld," as she expressed it, sat in a rocking chair working at some em- broidery and chatting affably with the feminine member of a kid act who had not, 'Lottie läter confided (rather needlessly), been a kid.. for almost 50 years.

tra on a commercial progamme. great," was his greeting as he

"Yeah.. Tough break." He Yes, she was certain Phil would wiped a perspiring face and tuck- be there.

ed his bandkerchief into a pocket waved behind him toward a dres- no printa Sheila hoped the other dancers before holding out a hand in greet-sing room. "You're

donna, I hope, Shella. Have to hele giving but she refus, knowing I would like her and not regard her ing. after a day of tabearsing and the perform with that suspicious jealousy so "Sure," he went on, "I know Bill put you in with the rest of the

Lottie greeted Sheila languidly frequently shown other members phoned you were coming," but girls." of their own tarpsichorean band. there's many a alip between Bill's He regarded her anxiously and and presented Miss Kilcoyne who The Dancing Doyles were nice, say-so and a personal appearance Sheila's heart leaped. Then he smirked and hobbed her curis in The ride to Jackson Heights in though. She had met them on a at the thertre. It's great to see did regard her as somebody and what was meant to be a nursery

Fou." the subway was tiresome. Sheila bill in Atlantic City,

was apoligizing for placing her in curtsey. Roscoe, a rather fat, harrassed-! Sheila smiled and passed along. an unstarred room!" had practised all day, hardly atop- ping for, lunch, her muscles be-looking young man with a baby Roscoe, whom she scarcely knew That's all right, Roscoe. More coming more painful as the hours face and pleasing smile, met her by sight, had greeted her as an fun anyhow during the waita,"

great old friend or—as indeed she was—-

He breathed a trifle easier, progressed. She knew that a dan-at the stage door with

al-a life-saver. By to-morrow night "Bill said you were trouper." cer already known as a success shout of relief. Roscoe was would never have consented to allready dressed for the net. His he would probably call her "sweet-

With this compliment ringing in in this way after weeks without careful tie and beautifully cut heart." That wouldn't mean any.

clothes bespoke a successful sea-thing either. Roscoe would never her ears Sheila pushed the door practice.

attempt to get fresh. His friend-open and entered the dressing Of course were few dance son.

got "Se you Brady. This instructors Tiko

here! That's liness showed simply that he ap-room. It was long, wide and mir-

Shella understood. Brady had been patient and she had. Intelli- gence and talent but no one, not oven Brady, could turn out a really finished number in so short a time.

Next week some time--Bill 'had been rather vague about it-there would be another. lesson. Three routines for $50 was his price and Roscoe had probably not over- paid him for rushing Shella through the paces,

Her muscles did ache fearfully. If she had had the money to spare Sheila would have taken, a cab. She did not have the money and her little overnight bag, with make-up and a book to read during "waits, atood, at her feet in the subway car where fare was only a nickel.

"Maybe I should have gone to Mr. Lane's party after all," Sheila | thought ruefully. "Seventy-five dollars is a lot of money. And bel said I could wing-"

But she had not telephoned the number Dick Stanley had left for her. Neither had he called back to remind her that the opportunity "was still opon. He might have done that. She had hardly expect- ed it-yet was disappointed bo-: cause he didn't.

Well, $75 is $75 but a job is a job, too, And, for a while at least, Sheila had a job.

She had three numbers-the little eccentric dance for which Bill had trained her so ruthlessly, A tap dance during which his well-

shod foot and Timmy's head had nodded brisk approval, and a sing- ing number the steps for which Bill had said. might just as well be improvised.

Daisy's costumes might be a little short but they would do. Sheila had brought her own hose, her own slippers. No, there was nothing she had forgotten.

Leaving the subway she took u trolley car and after making two transfers arrived at the theatre door. It was barely six o'clock She had time to eat and måke up, to say nothing of resting a little. She would have time also to be come acquainted with the other members of the company,. There

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Out in front, Sheila reflected, Miss Kilcoyne might seem to a not- too-critical audience "cute." High falsetto baby vaice, curls, large, blue-lidded eyes, vacant stare and sassy swing of her brief starched skirta. The act probably was a dud. Most of them were. Miss Kilcoyne, apparently reading Miss

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