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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

BRGIN HERE TO-DAY HHZYLA' SHAYNE, IS, whom parents were well-known vaudeville actor, New York looking for a job. Sheila is a dancer. In spite of the fact that she has spent almost her entire life on the same her ambition in to marry and have home like those

Phil, he had married. Yes, mar-1 ried. His face clouded a trifle as he said the word, and it was evi- dent that the marriage was not, for some reason, a happy one. was vague about it. The girl's

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she has seen in small towns in which the name was Mildred. She came bna pinyed.

take the place of DAISY GLEASON. - near Des Moines, Shelly go to JOE PARÍS off in "Tin TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY, both

ance that might rate will be too tired.

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H.W.CORLEY

1933

they were bustly donning were well cut and reminded Sheila of the clothes worn by the smartest "Follies" girls. Dark, plain, un ostentatious and expensive. Not duffy or loud as so many chorus girls costumes. Their hats were just hatsdifficult to describe but suave and sure of themselves.

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her ps with generous strokes, coloured blondes asked, smiling. dabbed rouge high on her check Sheila smiled, too, and shrug, bonca Close at hand she looked ged. Of course she was nervous! grotesque, anything but intrigu- But It was like the excited per- ing. But beyond the footlights vousness of a circus horse saiding the patches of colour would be sawdust after a long vacation. subdued to a natural flush, a hazy Soon she would be out there in oveliness, glowing, and sparkling the glare of the festlights. Phil. with health

Roscoe and the rest would be be Next came her hoge, carefully hind her. Au audience, hostile or Smoothed on, and her dancing friendly, in front: A sea of faces slippers. A silken slip and then swimming across her vision! Daisy's frilled gown, tight at the waist and billowing to her knees.

The orchestra was bringing Lot- it had been fitted to Sheila ittie's number to a close, with a On few hours' noies he is hired to from his home town-somewhere

could not have been more suit blare. Applause, not voluminous able. She would wear it for the but encouraging. There, Lottle

number. Lottle,

was taking a bow. And another1 other dancer, who has sprained as ankle Just now, with conditions. as

first Pan Alley" to rehearse. There she meets they were, Mildred was living

grand and aloof in a tiara and That was a mistake forcing the cica. Lane asks Shells to dance at party with Phil's parents. Shella gath-

sweeping blue satin, watched as bowa that way. Shella liked to be hustled back to the stage," hand hela Riving but she refuses, knowing that ered that the daughter-in-law

Sheila promenaded

in hand with the band leader, after a day of hearing and the perform strangely enough-had a more de

dressing room.

"I'd take this other dress up She goes to the threatre and therspaces sirable place in the hearts of the

little more on the side," Miss Kilbowing shyly, backing out before PHIL SHORT, an old acqualątance. ·

Short family than did the.. son.

coyne suggested, turning from in the audience was willing to re- "The folks think the world and all of Milly." was the way Phil Shella worked on at the dress spection of her own huge pink linguish her. But to force ap- ing table Lottie's specialty hair ribbon. Lottie agreed, catch-plause was bad business. Pres- put it.

The dinner WAY excellent, came first and then Sheila'sing needle and thread from her ently the clapping became.milder, though hurried. Sheila ordered with a wait between while the overnight bag. lightly, as Phil did also, for both band, elegant in evening clothes, had the performance to think of. performed.

on in three-

Her hair would do, though she The act would, go

sorry there had not been quarters of an hour.

The young man was friendly, ime for a shampoo, and "wave. recable. It Was

nice to sec Now that the exchequer was about "A nonchalantly as though Phil again. In show business one to be replenished, Sheila could nothing had happened, as though couldn't always account for sud-afford that.

She lighted the tiny lamp, he had seen her only a few days den depatures, failures to explain, before, Phil stood there. Well, omitted farewells. By the time melted the cosmetic in the little nothing bad happened, really. she reached the dressing room "frying pan" and beaded her After what the most caustic. Sheila felt rather friendly toward lashes carefully. Darkened her observer would have called a rush her old admirer and a little sorry Iida with blue make-up, crimsoned for Mildred. Though his attitude Phil and simply disappeared.

Perhaps he had had a bad year, toward Sheila had been above re- though now he seemed prosperproach, there was no denying the ous. Saxophoniats are well paid fact that Phil-vas a flirt.

Back in the dressing room the even in off-seasons. And Phil

Lottie hod himself had once pointed out that "arty dancere," as it isn't what an actor-earns but somewhat scornfully dubbed them, what he saves that counts. Living had returned from a half hour's energetic posing, their scaris had become cheaper.

trailing, their classic robes in pastel ahades tossed about in con- fusion. They taked a great deal, completely ignoring the others,

CHAPTER VII 'Shelia was glad to. see someone she knew even an old sweetheart like Phil Short. A sweetheart who, as a matter of fact, had dropped her suddenly without warning. Why had Phil stopped coming to see her? Why had he stopped telephoning? Sheila had never known.

In spite of the hearty greeting and the nonchalant manner, Sheila saw almest at once that Phil wore a harassed look. Even with an old score to pay off, she felt sorry for him.

"So you're taking Daisy's place!" he was saying. fine, Sheila. I've often wondered what you were doing."

The art dancers, billed as the "Classic Nine," were not regular troupers. That is, they were not "That's regularly booked, but instead were. trying out a new number. It was soon clear that all of them were down on their luck, stretching" every penny as far as it would possibly go.

"Wasn't the telephone working down your way?” she asked, half] vexed, half laughing.

"I couldn't call you," Phil began. Plainly he was embar

Lotile confided to Sheila, busy with her cosmetic pan, that the

rassed. "But that doesn't mean 1only good number in the "Classic didn't think about you."

"Well, thoughts keep a person warm in the winter," was her re sponse, the caustle phrase bor rowed from Ma Lowell. Then Sheila relented,··

"Of course I'll have dinner with We can't be long, though." you.

"There's a little place near," Phil explained.

During the dinner he explained ather things. Upon leaving Mr Lowell's rooming house, said

Ninc's" act was a scarf dance done by the two little blondes. Lottie was a blonde too, but there was a difference. The two youth- fut dancers had honey-coloured hair which obviously grew that way without benefit of art or decoration.

However, Lottie might feel, Sheila soon was aware that these girls were not trying to appear superior. They were not cheap, Sheila would have told you. The shabby little street suits which

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Sheila shuffled a few stops, winced, smiled, tapped energet ically, warming up. The band was playing the first number. Lottic, clearing her throat, caught up a chiffon handkerchief the size of a lunch cloth and left hurriedly for the wings. The art dancers, still in their street clothes, re- turning two by two from dinner, eyed Sheila curiously and, had she but known it. enviously.

"Nervous?" one of the honey-

merely a polite patter.

Sheila stood in the wings. Ros- coe waved his baton, Phil nodded and the band crashed into melody. way Shella' Two bars. Three bars. How did it go? Oh-this ran on. Now she was dancing! "Don't Tum-ti-tum, ti-tum Dancing to a full house, too. fake that last turn there, baby!" She could still hear Bill Brady's "ta-ta-, ta-ta!" Sheila didn't fake admonishing tone, still hear his (Continued on Page 11.).

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