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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

DEGIN HERE TO-DAT

she's gone. She just came to per- SHEILA SHAYNE, whose parente were form, you know." His tone was well known wanderille entertainers, in casy, but it implied. "We didn't After mach discouragement the task her to remain. Now you are hired to webstitute for DAISY GLEASON. different; you are our guest.”

New York looking for ■ job. Sheila i dancer

another dancer, who ba sprained an ankle.

While robearing at JOE PARIS song shep

There followed a silence. Then

Shells et TREVOR LANE and DICK Dick anid, "See that chap over STANLEY, rich and socially prominent.

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✪ 1933

Dick arged Lana to ibeinde Sbeils toe there? The one talking to the mock annoyance.

giving. She reason, knowing the wil

then. Whenever a newspaper Sheila turned dancing eyes prits any scandal, if the girl upon him. "Mr. Stanley, since I has ever been connected with the am a stage woman and not a se stage in any way the headlines ciety girl, don't you think Miss shrink the words 'chorus girl' or Shayne would be better, for the actress..

first 24 hours at least?"

"As a matter of fact many staye women leave oft make-up entirely on the street or at parties. We have to be extremely careful in our dress, our behaviour, our con- versation and our love affairs or we are misunderstood."

But not by the people who really matter," Dick said quickly. He was wondering if this girl had

programme of entertainment at a party be girl in white? That's Gordon "Those are Trevor's cousins-been made to suffer because of her be too tired after day of Tehrakalar and Mandrake, the producer. I want years younger than they look, if calling... the perform that night. However, Dick you to meet him. It may do you that is possible," Dick explained.

come to the theatre Inter and perinades her She Gods hersalt becoming in.

that this la foollab.

some good sometime. Never can terested in, Dick, though also is well aware tell. And there's Tom Chadwick Pulo player, Westbury, Long Is land. He's a fine fellow. Scott Tracy, the playwright, is there be- side him."

CHAPTER X Shella and Blind Timmy took their places at the piano. There was an expectant hush over the room and then Timmy stuck the opening chords of Joe Paris' most recent hit.

"In that cat," Dick announced, Ten out of politics."

"Everyone matters! Every ad- "They are boarding school girls,verse criticism mounts up and but wouldn't you think them just comes home to roost. In the then- out of the chorus? Though you tre just as politics one can't be never can tell these`days—”

too careful. Instantly he bit his lip-stopped short and flushed painfully.. Oh, "I sed Clayton Knight, too," re- gosh, what a thing to say. I marked Sheila demurely, not with- didn't mean that. Really out mischief. Clayton Knight "I am not a chords girl." was the most popular leading man Sheila said coldly, her eyes half of the season. Sheila sang a "verse and then "I'll say you dol" Dick's smile. the chorus. There was a patter was. wry. "What WOMAN of applause as she finished. She doesn't?** sang a second this time one..of Timmy's own, as she was careful

lowered.

"Sheila, please÷-”

The agony in hin voice was ob- rious. If she had felt any hurt or any retaliating desire to hurt,

..

me

"May I choose what I call you the following 24" His tone was low, meaningful

"I shall still be a stage woman.” "You needn't be-always." Sheila's eyes narrowed slightly, but she ahrugged her shoulders and smiled. "You work rather fust, don't you?"

"I have to. I'm not the only

man in the world with excellent

taste.".

"Don't you mean perfect taste 1" that, of course."

He bowed, amused. "I mean

"We'll see what you meaa." The party was nearing a close. Trevor's cousina, wearing An amazing amount of ermine and with callow escorts, left giggling and gleeful. They were going to some club, they said.

Blind Timmy had disappeared. "I'll take you home, of course, Dick said as Sheila looked about her. "However. I've a few more duties as host. Can you wait?"

Presently the last of the laugh ing crowd had departed and Sheila and Dick made their way to his car. "Think over what I've said," Dick told her as he drew the road- ster up before her door. "You're going to let me times, aren't you?"

Sheila amiled. "Don't laugh at I was just warming up to my subject. Do you remember Alice: Grady, the screen actress? She used to listen when the office boys or stenographers got together at the studio and when they made any criticista of her work she could consider the change their Mona Deane arrived, trailing it faded.

conversation suggested. She said to announce. She sang with seal in almost as the party ended. feeling now, half dancing as she Wasn't she playing in a Broad-

"I know what you meant," she they formed a part of her audi- swayed to the rhythm. Sheila way show? Yes, of course. Mana said, trying to laugh but flushing, once and they counted. She would had an individual manner of sing had looked in on two parties too. "Those girls, of course, are drive around to half a dozen then ing, a manner all her own, so since 11. o'clock, she announced from good families but they do tres some nights to try to find out chosely bound up with her dance gayly. She wouldn't say where. look cheap and common in such what people really thought of her ing that the two were rarely But she had "depended on Trev" low cut dresses. And they're acting. She spent days-literally

days-correcting the way she He waited until a tiny light in separated.

for the real enjoyment of the eve-wearing too much make-up. Applause boomed out after the ning, she said. Mona waa tiny. "No chorus girl would attend a walked because she heard two the hall was extinguished. Sheila as the last one in (according to a last note. Flushed with delight, blonde, sparkling. Sheila could see party looking like that," she went women call it 'dreadful"," the girl bowed and finally, al-that she and Trevor Lane were, trying to hide her discom Suddenly Sheila's mood changed. sign hung on the chandelier) was though the applause continued, good friends-old friends, it seem-

They wouldn't dare! She looked up smiling. "And now, to leave the hall in she took her place among the ed. They joked and teased each Stage women-I'm a stage woman, brethren, here endeth the first les-Dick Stanley smiled to himself. | Then he said, "Oh, damn!” fümbl- other guests. Dick moved to her other and finally made a lunch Dick, in case you are interested as

"I'm sorry. honey, I didn't ed for a cigarette, lighted it and side immediately.

engageracnt for the following day to how I catalogue myself-have "That was great!" he told her. "That's a date," her host ezid to be so careful to live down the know. Do forgive me," Dick whis- was off. beaming with pride. "Say, they warningly. "I'll expect you to reputation that's been given to pered. were right when they said you keep it."

could put over a song number, "That's a date," Mona agreed And how!"*

solemnly, eyes twinkling. It was "Thank you," Sheila told him explained to Sheila 'that Mona gratefully. She knew she could never made a lunch date with dance but about her singing shojanyone except Trevor Lane. No. wasn't certain. Sheila called it they weren't engaged. Still, they "faked singing." Her voice, she were very friendly. There were and no one would. Se felt, wasn't a good voice at all. rumgura She carried a song solely through greatly surprised to hear of an en- personality.

gagement.

room

Cliff Gunther, the latest radio And then as Mona trailed her hit, sang next, waving congratu-lovely, luxurious way out, Dick lations away with an easy smile. once more sought out Sheila. Then the dancing resumed and in Half a dozen had been doing their Dick's arms Sheila circled the best to entertain her. It Wan pleasant to see Dick's smiling Isn't Frances dancing?" she face once more, still more pleasant asked as a searching glance failed to "see the youthful swains dia- to find the other girl among the solve at his approach as though guests.

they considered themselves inte.

itself. "Oh. Two girls looked after him in

"Miss Barton ?" Dick's voice lopera.

indifference

was

posure.

son/"

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"Of course."

see you gome

darkness/

(To Be Continued.)

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