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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

BEGIN BERE TO-DAY SHEILA SKAYNE, 18, whose parentai Weilsknows vaudeville aciers, in New York looking for a job. Sheils is a dancer. In spite of the thef: that she has spent almet her entire life on the singe bar ambition

has

to marry and have a boms like theer shu huu avem ju amall towns in which the Os few boun nolles she is hired to take the place of DAISY GLEASON, ather dancer, who has sprained an ankle. Shelle resta JOE PARIS" office la "fla

Pan Alley to rehears There she meets rich, Lane aka Shells to dance at a par be is giving but he refuses, knowing that aftar das of chearsing and the perform ance that night she will be too tired.

So goes to the threatre and there me PHIL SHORT, an old acquaintance.

THEYOR LANE. and DICK STANLEY, both

CHAPTER VII

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

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As, nonchalantly though nothing had happened, as though he had seen her only a few days before, Phil stood there. Well, nothing had happened, really. After what the most caustic observer would have called a rush Phil kad simply disappeared,

Perhaps he had had a bad year, though now he seemed prosper aus. Saxophonists are well paid And Phil even in off-seasons. himself had once pointed out that it isn't what an actor earns but what he saves that counts. Living had become cheaper.

In spite of the hearty greeting nonchalant ,and the

manner, Sheila saw almost 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. "That's fine, Sheila. I've often wondered what you were doing."

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

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

came

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✪ 1933

Phil, he had married. Yes, mar- Iried. His face clouded a trifle as. he said the word, and it was eri- dent that the marriage was not, for some reason, a happy one. He was vague about it. The girl's name was Mildred. She from his home town-somewhere they were busily donning were well cut and reminded Sheila of near Des Moines.

Just now, with conditions as the clothes worn by the smartest they were, Mildred was living "Follies" girls. Dark, plain, un with Phil's parents. Sheila gath- ostentatious and expensive. Not Their hats were ered that the daughter-in-law-fluffy or loud as so many chorus strangely enough-had a more de girls' costumes. sirable place in the hearts of the just hats-difficult to describe bu

suave and sure of themselves. Short family than did the son. The folks think the world and all of Milly," was the way Phil put it..

The dinner Was

excellent, though hurried. Sheila ordered lightly, as Phil did also, for both had the performance to think of. The act would go on in three- quarters of an hour.

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her lips with generous etrokes, .coloured blondes asked, smiling. dubbed rouge high on her cheek Sheila smiled, too, and shrug- cones Close at hand she looked ged. Of course she was nervous! grotesque, anything but intrigu- But it was like the excited ner ing. But beyond the footlights vousness of a circus horse aning 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 he glare of the footlights. Phil. with health.

Roscoe and the rest would be be hind her. An audience, hostile or friendly, in front. A sea of faces swmming across ber vision!

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Next came her hose, carefully smoothed on, and her dancing slippers. A silken slip and then Daisy's frilled gown, tight at the waist and billowing to her knees. The orchestra was bringing Lot- If it had been fitted to Sheila ittie's number to a close with a ould not have been more suit-are. Applause, not voluminous able. She would wear it for the but encouraging. There, Lottic

number. Lottie,

was taking a bow. And another! first grand and aloof in a tiara and That was a mistake forcing the bowa that way. Sheila liked to be hustled back to thig stage, hand- sweeping blue satin, watched as

dressing room.

in hand with the band leader, heila promenaded acrosS

"I'd take this other dress up a little more on the side," Miss Kil-bowing shyly, backing out before coyne suggested, turning from-in-the audience was willing to Sheila worked on at the dress-pection 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

merely a polite patter. came first and then Sheila'sing needle and thread from her ently the clapping became milder, Sheila stood in the wings. Ros- Sheila shuffled a few steps, with a wait between while the overnight bag.. band, elegant in evening clothes,

winced, smiled, tapped energet coe waved his baton, Phil nodded performed..

Her hair would do, though she ically, warming up. The band and the band crashed into melody. was Borry there had not been was playing the first number. Two bars. Three bars. How did Now she was dancingi The young man

was friendly, me for a shampoo and wave. Lottic, clearing her throat, caught it go? Oh-this way! Sheile recable. It was nice to

sec Now that the exchequer was about up a chiffon handkerchief the size ran on.

"Don't Tum-ti-tum, "ti-tum. Phil again. In show business, one to be replenished, Sheila could of a lunch cloth and left hurriedly Dancing to a full house, too.

for the wings. The art dancers, couldn't always account Yor sud-afford that.

She lighted the tiny lamp, still in their street clothes, re-fake that last turn there, baby!' den depatures, failures to explain, omitted farewells. By the time melted the cosmotic in the little turning two by two from dinner, She could still hear Bill Brady's "ta-ta-, ta-ta!" Sheila didn't fake she reached the dressing room frying pan" and headed her eyed Sheila curiously and, had she admonishing tone, still hear his

her but known it; enviously.

of the honey- (Continued on Page. 11.) Sheila' felt rather friendly toward ashes carefully. Darkened

her old admirer and a little sorrylids with blue make-up, crimsoned for Mildred. Though his attitude. toward Sheila had been above re- proach, there was no denying the fact that Phil was a flirt.

Back in the dressing room the "arty dancers," as Lottle, had somewhat scornfully dubbed them, had returned from a half hour's energetic posing, their starfs tralling, their classie robes in pastel shades tossed about in con- fusion. They taked a great deal, completely ignoring the others.

The art dancers, billed as thei "Classic Nine." were not regular troupers. That is,, they were not 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.

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

rassed. "But that doesn't mean only good number in the "Classic.

didn't think about you."

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Nine's" act was 1 searf dance done by the two little blondes. Lottie was a blonde too, but there

"Well, thoughts keep a person warm in the winter," was her re- sponge, the caustic phrase bor-was a difference. The two youth- rowed from Ma Lowell. Then ful dancers had honey-coloured hair which obviously grew that Sheila relented.

"Of course I'll have dinner with way without boneft of art or you. We can't be long, though."decoration.

"There's a little place near Phil explained.

However, Lottie might feel. Sheila soon was aware that these girls were not trying to appear During the dinner he explained superior. They were not cheap, other things. Upon leaving Mr Shella would have told you. The Lowell's rooming house, said shabby little street quits which

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