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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

DEVIN HERE TO-DAY

would be Roscoe's band, Lottle SIMILA KHAYNE, 18, whose parental)weBlair and the other specialty num- bers. Perhaps she knew some of

(well knową, vaudevils actors, is in

Now

Yock looking for a Job. Shella is a dancer

In spite of the fact that she has spent them all ready. Hadn't she heard most her antien life con the stage bar am shops, she has seen te sull towns lu w

dition le ta matty, and have a homa lika

somewhere that Phil Short was with Roscoe now? He had played

the saxophone with a radio orchen-

H.W.CORLEY

1933

prociated her quick work in learn-fror-lined. A wide board at right ing the routine and that he recog-angles ran along the walls and nized her as a trooper.

formed the dressing tabies. At the door of the dressing room Chairs were set at intervala in Roscoe," who had caught up with frout of it, their backs hung with her, confirmed B.ll's rather sketchy eretonne pockets. Some spaces. ideas about her salary,

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 spoola of thread set in orderly rows..

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"We'll need you for six weeks anyhow, was his comfortable as |surance. “Maybe" longer. De pends on how the kid's ankle he naves. Then maybe 1 can work you in with my other band."

Lottie, who was "dressed like a "That's great, Roscor. About Watteau shepherdess gone Zieg- the other band, I mean. I'm sorry feld," as she expressed it, sat in a tra on à commercial progamme.great," was his greeting as he about Daisy."

racking chair working at some em- wether damone, who has sprained an ankle Yes, she was certain Phil would wiped a perapiring face and tuck- Shells you to JOR PARIS office in Tibe there.

"Yeah. Tough break" Hebroidery and chatting affably with ed his handkerchief into a pocket waved behind him toward a dres the feminine member of a kid act TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLET, both Sheila hoped the other dancers hefore holding out a hand in greet sing room. rich Lane saka Basila to dance at Party would like ber and not regard her Ing.

"You're no prima] who had not, Lottie later confided bella giving bui, she retuam, knowing

donna, I hope, Sheila. Have to (rather needlessly), been a kid after a day of rehearsing and the perform:"with that suspicious jealousy so "Sure," he went on, "I know Bill put you in with the rest of the for almost 30 years. ance that night she, will be tọa: tired.

frequently shown other members phoned you. ;, ...

ware coming, but girls."

she has played.

On a few hours' notios" she is hired to taka the plage of DAISY GLEASON,, an-

Pan Alley” ka rekosten. Thure she menta

CHAPTER VI

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Lottle greeted Sheila languidly and presented Miss Kilcoyne who smirked and bobbed her curis in what was meant to be a nursery

of their own terpsichorean band. there's many a alip between Bill's Be regarded her anxiously and The Dancing Doyles were nice. say-so and a personal appearance Sheila's heart leaped. Then he 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 the subway was tiresome. Sheila bill in Atlantic City.

you."

was apoligizing for placing her in curtsey. had practised all day, hardly stop- Roscoe, a rather fat, harrassed- Sheila smiled and passed along an unstarred room!

Out in front, Shella reflected, ping for lunch, her muscles be-looking young man with a baby Roscoe, whom she scarcely knew "That's all right. Roscoe. More Miss Kilcoyne might seem to a not- coming more painful as the hours face and pleasing smile, met her by sight, had greeted her as an fun anyhow during the waits.” too-critical audience "cute." High progressed. She knew that a dapat the stage door with a great old friend-or--as indeed she was-- He breathed a trifle easier. falsetto baby voice," curls, large, cer already known as a success shout of relief. Roscoe was al. a life-saver. By to-morrow night "Bill said you were a trouper." blue-lidded eyes, vacant atare and would never have consented to fill ready dressed for the act. Hle he would probably call her "sweet-

|skaay swing of her brief starched in this way after weeks without careful tie and beautifully cut heart.” That wouldn't mean, any- With this compliment ringing in skirts. The act probably was a practice.

clothes bespoke a successful Bea-thing either. Roscoe would never her ears Sheila pushed the door dud. Most of them were. Miss attempt to get fresh. His friend- open and entered the dressing Kilcoyne, apparently reading Miss "So you got here! That's liness showed simply that he ap-room. It was long, wide and, mir- (Continued en Pagę 10.)

Of course there were few dance son. instructors Ilko Brady. This Sheila understood. Brady had been patient and she had intelli- gence and talent but no one, not even Brady, could turn out a really finished number in so short a time,

Next week some time-Bill hadj been rather vague about it-there would be another lesson. Three routines for $60 was his price and Roscoo had probably not over- paid him for rushing Sheila through the paces.

Her musclos did ache fearfully, i If she had had the money to apare 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. waite, stood 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 he said I could sing→→"

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 open. He might have; done that She had hardly expect- ed it yet was disappointed be cause he didn't.

Well, $70 a $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 bad nodded brisk approval, and a sing- ing number the steps for which Bill had wald 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 a trolley car and after making twe transfers arrived at the theatre door. It was barely six o'clock She had time to eat and make up, to say nothing of resting a little. She would have time also to be- come acquainted with the other.. mentbers of the company. There

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