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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. VEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

TO-DAY

IN HER SHEILA SHAYNK, whose parents were

“wali-known, vandevilla "entertainer,

DOVIMA.

socially prominent.

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died when I was a kid. Then Dad married the girl the family picked out for him and all was well.

New York looking for job. Bhalla Mather-she isn't my own Mother,

After much discouragement she la hired to befitute for DAISY GLEASON, of course, but she is a peach- another daficer, who has sprained an ankle While rabaarsing at JOE PARIS Dg shop sympathized with my wish to sing Sheila membi, TREYOR LANE. and DICK but Dad was horrified. It had to STANLEY, rich and Click trges Late to include Ebella in the be the furniture business or noth- programs of entertainment at parts being! Well, my Mother left me a Je giving Badlia declines but Dick little money and I decided to go to the thestra later and persuades her to

to Europe to study. I stayed a At the party aba moeiz, omrural calabrities.

year and then my money gave out. well- lecitalia GORDON MANDRAKE, known producer. Bha soos lick frequently Dad wouldn't give me any more during the next few days and he tells bar and I couldn't tell him that I had Mandrake going to offer ber part in splay, Presently Daisy Glemon been-er-extravagant."

Jim to dance and Ebella is again out of work. Sbe make the rounda of the agents, offices without malls. The Mandrake calls and

he new play. and Sballs Rabosrals berin friendly with 1M BLAINE, one of the prin cipals in the cast The show opens In Atlantio City for a tryout work. On the morning after the opening wight Jim ella

oder her part

views. She meets him al bruakinati

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CHAPTER XIV

becomes

suddenly. His flushed money had given out because he had financed a friend but he couldn't tell Sheila this.

"

"So you are one of the Ethering- Sheila to tall her about the newspaper re- tona ?" she murmured. She had heard of the family. Everybody old con- had. They were an servative family. And rich.

"You don't mind my deceiving you, Sheila ?" Jim asked humbly. "The name, Jim Blaine, is well, sort of mine. My middle name is Jim and Dad's name is Blaine. Etherington, of course, was out of Everyone would the question. have known that name. didn't want to get this job through pull."

"How did you get it?" Sheila asked.

"I wanted you to know first," Jim Blaine told Shella seriously. Sooner or later the rest of the 'company will know it. Still," his voice was filled with sudden cagerness, "maybe they'll be so busy reading their notices that they won't see the front page." " "Front page?" Sheila repeated, mystised. "Are you on the front page? What have you been do ing?"

There was instant concern in her voice. The front page to her spelled trouble.

"If I have, will you stand by me?" he asked.

She gave him a surprised look. Of course.You-know that." But my standing by you can't help much."

His voice rang cut. "Thanks a lat. No, don't be afraid. I haven't

very done anything terrible. That is, you and I won't won't think so: The company either, I dare say. Good publicity for the show, maybe." He leaned across the table.. touching her hand confidentially. "You" see. I'm sailing more or less under false colours. I've always wanted to act and the only way I could do it was to run away. My father thinks I am in Europe or he did think so until breakfast this morning." Jim pushed the news. toward Sheila. "Look ..paper

here!"

There was Jim's picture on the front page. It was Jim certainly, but the caption below read: "Norman B. Etherington, Jr, who was discovered last night appear- ing in a musical show in Atlantic City. Private agents who have been on the trail of young Etherington for weeks found him singing in 'When Lights Are Low," soon to open on Broadway. Young Etherington was forbidden operatic career by his parents who believed him to be studying in Munich until his aunt, visiting that city-"

an

"Aunt Emily would!" Jim groaned ruefully. "You see, my Mother was an opera singer. She

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"Why I just asked for it," Jim he explained grinned. Then quickly, "Oh, it wasn't that easy! I came to New York and moved in to an apartment near some friends of mine. But I began cat- ing in the places where show people cat. A chap I met there." He paused.

Wisely Sheila nodded. "I know," she said. "Someone you loaned money to."

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to a show that was rehearing and work hours every day to I hadn't stopped into the door be-their complexions. and their fig fore this chap from Mandrake'a ures parfcct. One girl I know handed me a contract! Just like who weighed hardly 105 pounds used to welgh herself every day that! Didn't even try me out."

(of course they all do that) and There was pardonable pride in if she had gained a single ounce his voice. "If I were a girl," he she would watch her diet like a went on seriously, "T'd lose cour-hawk. Her father and mother age in this business. If my living were inclined to stoutness, she

my next meal maybe-depended told me.

on landing a job I think I'd go "Those girls even try not to crazy. Why, Sheila, I saw the think because thinking can make most beautiful girls-"

"I know," she said, nodding. "They had good voices, style, carriage, grace, everything! And most of them were weeded out in a few minutes. Dozens of them! "Better looking girls than I know

there were anywhere."

wrinkles. They never go to other shows or even read newspapers- except possibly thes financial pages."

"Do they speculate?"

"Sometimes. Mostly, though, some admirer speculates for them and reading the market news la simply a sort of ceremony because they seldom know how their, money is placed. They never know whether they are winning or losing sp they don't worry.

"Jim "And."

added gravely. they never lose."

"I suppose not. Sheila smiled. They walked to the theatre slowly. A rehearsal was to be- called at noon and would continue until the matinee performance.

"You should go to a call' from Greenfeld for his Frivolitics" Sheila told him wisely. The girls who answer those calls-of course all kinds do answer them-but some of them are marvelous!"

"Ermine coats and all that sort "Anyhow," Jim went on, "this

asked Jin relieved of thing?" chap told me they were trying voices at Schumann's. I dropped that his little confession had gone around. They weren't many men, over so easily, yet also slightly you know. I didn't know it until piqued. It should have made "Not at all! They wear tailor later," he grinned, "but they tried more of an impression. me out fo the chorus first. The shirt sleeves said, 'Anyone unwill-slick little hats: You never see what's-his-name in the derby "anded suits-marvelous things, And ing to sing in the ensemble, will such clothes exhibited for sale not the news about Jim Blaine in kindly leave! I didn't connect mean I don't. I suppose they the morning newspapers that, that high sounding phrase with come from 57th street shops. seemed to be attracting attention the chorus.. I just thought it Frilly blouses Beautiful shoes. back stage. As Jim and Sheila seemed to the girl that the door- meant sing in groups, you know. And the complexions those girls passed through the stage door it In fact it didn't occur to me that achieve! And the accents!

The ones who laud the jobs man looked at her curiously. (Continued on Page 10.) they would take me at all!

"They did. They sent me over certainly earn all they get. They

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