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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY SHEILA SHAYNE, 15, whose parents were

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well-known vaudevills actors, is in New York looking for a job, Sheila iz danser. I apile of the fact that she has spent most her entire life on the stage beroristion i to marry and have, home like those

Phil, he had married. Yes, mar- ried. His face clouded a trifle as

said the word, and it was evi dent that the marriage was not, for some reason, a happy one. He was vague about it. The girl's

Abe has soen ja email" sowas in which sheime was Mildred. She came has played, -

On a few hours' notice she is hired

inke the place of DAISY GLEASON. other dancer, who has sprained an aukle, Shells F

to J05 FAILS' once in "Tia Pas Aly" to rehearse. There she meets rich Lane make Shelia to dance at a party b.giving but the refuace, knowing that after day of rehousing and the perform

THEVOR LANE DICK STANLEY, both

from his home town-somewhere

Dear Des Moines.

H.W.CORLEY

1933

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

Short family than did the son. suave and sure of themselves. "The folks think the world and

A that might be will be too tired. PHIL SUURT,`na old acquaintance.

"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.

.The dinner

Was

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put it.

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

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her lips with generous strokes, coloured blondes ashrug Out of the style box!

dabbed rouge high on her cheek Sheila smiled, too, and

bones. 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 sniffing the patches of colour would be sawdust after a long vacation." subdued to a natural flush, a hazy Sobn she would be out there in loveliness, glowing and sparkling the glaro of the footlights. Phil, with health.

Roscoe and the rest would be be- Next came her hose, carefully hind bar. An audience, hostile or smoothed on, and her dancing friendly, in front. A sea of facer slippers. A silken slip and then swmming across her vision I- 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 s close with could not have been more suit blate: Applause, not voluminous able. She would wear it for the but encouraging. There, Lottie

number. Lottic, rather first grand and aloof in a tiara and was taking a bow. And another! That was a mistake-forcing the sweeping blue satin, watched as bows that way. Sheila liked, to be

across the

hustled back to the stage, hand thella promenaded dressing room.

"I'd take this other dress up a in hand with the band leader, little more on the side," Miss bowing shyly, backing out before coyne suggested, turning from in- the audience was willing to re- all of Milly," was the way Phil Sheila 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-

merely a polite patter. came. firat and then Sheila'sing needle and thread from her ently, the clapping became milder, Sheila atood in the wing. Ros- with a wait between while the overnight bag.--.

Sheila shuffled few steps,

A 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 sorry there had not been was playing the first number. Two bars. Three bars. How did The young man was friendly, ame for a shampoo and wave. Lottic, clearing her throat, caught it go? Oh-this way! Sheila reeable. It was nice to see Now that the exchequer was about up a chiffon handkerchief the size ran on. Now she was dancing! As nonchalantiy 8 though Phit 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, re- nothing had happened, as though couldn't always account for sud-afford that."

She lighted the tiny lamp, still in their street clothes, 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 turning two by two from dinner, nothing had happened, really, she reached the dressing room "frying pan and beaded her eyed Sheila curiously and, had she After what the most cauatic Sheila felt rather friendly toward lashes carefully, Darkened ber but known it, enviously. observer would have called a rush her old admirer and a little sorry lids with blue make-up, crimsoned for Mildred. Though his attitude Phil had simply disappeared,

Perhaps he had had a bad year, toward Sheila had been above re- though now he seemed prosper-proach, there was no denying the ous. Saxophonists are well paid fact that Phil was a firt. even in off-seasoné. And Phil Back in the dressing room the Lottie had himself had once pointed out that "arty dancers," as it isn't what an actor carns but somewhat scornfully dubbed them,' what he saves that counts. Living had returned. from a half hour's Scarfs had become cheaper.

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

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

The art dancers; billed as the "Classic Nine," were not regular "So you're taking Dafey's troupers. That is, they were not 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 vexed, half laughing.

"I couldn't call you," Phil began. Plainly he was embar- cassed. But that doesn't mean didn't think about you."

"Well, thoughts keep a person warm in the winter." was her re- sponse, the caustie phrase bar rowed from a Lowell. Then Sheila relented.

"Of course I'll have dinner with you. We can't be long, though." There's a little place near," Phil explained,

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.

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Lottie confided, to Sheila, busy with her cosmetic pan, that the only good number in the "Classic Nine's" act was scarf dance done by the two little blondes. Lottie was a blonde too, but there was u difference. The two youth- ful dancers had honey-coloured hat 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 During the dinner he explained superior. They were not cheap,, other things. Upon leaving MrShella would have told you. The Lowell's rooming house, said shabby little street suits which

"Nervous" one of the honey-

Tum-ti-tum, ti-tum "Don't fake that last turn there, baby!" She could still hear Bill Brady's "(a-ta-, ta-tq!" Sheila didn't fake admonishing tone, still hear his (Continued on Page 11.)

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