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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933,

SPOTLIGHT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

SHELA, SHAYNE, 18-whose parents were well-known wandeville entertainers, in a dan

"After weeks out at a job she is hired to substitute for DAISY GLEASON, another daziour, whics · has sprained her ankia. While rebearsing at JOE PARIS' song abos Shalla nes DICK STANLEY and TREVOR LANE both rick. Dick is much attracted by Shells and urges Lane to include her in the pro-

sramme of entertainment at a party be la giring. Shalin declinom ta come but Ister

Accepts.

Al the party she meets GORDON MAN. DBAKK, well-known producer. She sees Dick frequentis fier Cast Daisy patarga to the Kandrake ofte ber part in a new play Reboarsals begin t ones. Sheila become

show and Sheila again hunts job. Then

friendly with JIM BLAINE, . (DE of the principals in the play.

They go to Atlantia Cly for the trout. the son of a wealthy family and has gone on the plage is opposition to his father's wishes

MARION RANDOLPH the star, become Jealous of the grele Shell receives from writion and therefore Bbelja in techarted.

drake will be there, also.

There newspapers uncover the fact that Jim le

serious, smiled and auswered desultory questions. She even sang a little when Trevor asked her to sing.

While she and Dick at the far end of the room were hunting through sheets of music for the song they wanted Trevor talked to Mandrake.

Sheila was never to learn just what was said in that conversa-

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1933

suddenly discover that a girl was indispensable just when she was leaving.

But

"I know you have, honey, somehow I didn't know how much you mean to me until now."

fair incuma. True enough, his home wasn't anything like the palatial quarters where. Trevor Lane lived. Trevor's ppartment was a show place-a perfect set- ting for the sort of parties he gave. Dick's rooms were cozy with deep, comfortable chairs, dark wood, his books, his fire place, his cluttered tables,, Dick was a fine fellow, a real friend bat did she want him to fall in love with her?

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GERMAN POLITICS

COMMUNISTS LOSSES« IN

ELECTIONS

Berlin, Mar. 2.

A pointer that many supporters of the Communists hitherto will vote for the Socialists at Sunday's general election was given at the elections for workers and clerical staffs of Councils in the Berlin"

and Municipal electrical works.

gas

As Sheila tok her place on the stage she tried to put all this from her mind. The chorus was going through its prices. Weary girls in

The Socialists received 75 per| practice suits, always willing, al cent, of the votes, the Communiste ways cheerful under the most lost an absolute majority, and the gruelling, tortuous drilling. They Nazis polled negligibly for the looked little more than children. Workers Councils. These girls received little pay and

The Bavarian Government has for that little they worked long hours, endured the bitterest eriti-suppressed two Nazi newspapere. cal comments from sarcastic stage It is estimated that 2,000 suspects managers.

have been arrested in Prussia.- Reuter.

ion but next morning she was again in rehearsal. The part was in the road show company of a

They had driven far up the Broadway hit. This time the con- drive and were nearing Inspira- tract was signed. Sheila's flat tion Point. It was barely 6:30. little purse contained the precious By choosing the least crowded document when she met Dick of thoroughfares be could have her

Sheila watched the chorus step- ter the rehearsal.

back at the hall where the re- Dick ixviber to tea, willing her Maning the document after he had of time.

"And that's that!" he said, fold-hearsal was to be held in plenty ping through its routine. Then the ensemble fell back against the

Session at Potsdam." read it and handing it back to The sky across the Palisades wings and she fluttered into the

Berlin, Mar. 2. CHAPTER XVI

her. "Let's celebrate!".

was roay. The silver roughness | open space.

The opening session of the There was another rehearsal at of the river reflected every shade "That's right! the dance di-Reichstag is to be held in the The second important happen-7 which would end an hour later of the sunset. The park, high on rector nodded, seating himself Garrison

Church at Potsdam, ing of the day came only two since most of the cast were play the rocks, twinkled uncertainly but not raising his. eyes from where Frederick the Great lies hours later. When Dick Stanley ing in another show about to with diamond-like lights, growing Sheila's feet. "See that, girls? buried. put down the telephone after talk-close,

brighter and brighter as the sky Watch how Shayne does that ing to Sheila he walked rapidly

Persons arrested in the Rhine- step!". slowly faded.

number across the living room, lighted a

land and Westphalia now Sheila Until 7 Dick and Sheila drove.

afraightened. Dick cigarette, tossed it aside within five She had a new job. He had mustn't tell her now that he loved The girls attained respectful)2.052. Friedrich Stampfer, Chief minutes. Then he sank maptient-teen hard at work on his play and her.

It wouldn't do. Both of attention. Black curls bent to Editor of the Socialist newspaper, ly into a chair and called Trevor only the night before had reached them had so many other things to blonde frizzes and nodded ap- Vorwerts, is among those arrest- Lane'a number,

the turning point when every part think about.

proval. All eyes were on. Sheila's ed.-Reuer. of his drama seemed to dovetail.

Bring feet.

"It's a bad break all right," Trevor replied when Dick had told him how Sheila had left the new show. "It doesn't mean that she wasn't a succeRy, though. That little Tillie Lee who has the part nów can't compare with Sheila. But Marion Randolph is bound to have her own way! Two pearly tears from those blue eyes and she could practically put Mandrake. himself out

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But did he really love her? Did she want him to tell her so even if

were true?

"We're going to have, a lot of fun this year together." he said.it

is eyes, straight ahead on the pavement, turned for an instant to meet hers.

'But I won't be here! I thought you knew, Dick. It's the road company I'm going in!"

His face

was

"The road company?"

blank. "But, good Lord, Sheila, you can't take it then! The road company! Why, that

Dick interrupted to say precise. ly what he thought of that pro-means travelling=" ducer,

"Of course it does," Sheila" put

"And I love it."

He turned toward her a face so filled with dismay that her own expression softened. Her hand crept out on the wheel to pat his own.

"There's no use taking it that in. way," Trevor assured him. "And if you want to help Sheila you won't even mention this to Man- drake. You say they're both com- ing to tea? Well, suppose I drift in on the party?"

"But, Sheila, you can't!" he in- sisted. "Oh, please-I want you here!"

He did just that. Nothing was said about Sheila's departure from the cast of "When "I've been here all the time, Lights Are Low," Sheila drank Dick, she replied uncertainly. her tea, looking wide-eyed and It was so exactly like a man to

"I think we should turn back, Dick," she told him, withdrawing her hand. "It's getting late."

"Just as you say.” He did not raise his eyes,"

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Swiftly the car skimmed down the drive, crossed into the park at 110th street and picked up the winding road through the trees. They reached 45th street at 7 o'elnek promptly.

"I be waiting when you've fin- ished. Dick said..

Countless times the chorus went Countless through the routine. times Shella fluttered down among them, smiling, slowing a step and repeating it for their edification.

Eight o'clock came. Half the chorus left abruptly, looking an- xiously at their cheap little wrist watches. To be five minutes late might mean the loss of a pay check.

ARMY ESTIMATES.

BIG NCREASE ON LAST YEAR'S TOTAL

London, Mar. 2. The British Army estimates total £37,950,000 an increase, compared with last year, of £1,462,000. The Sheila stayed on. She was not establishment remains the same at in another show, as the dance di-148,700. rector well knew. She could hear

The strength of the regular the horn of Dick's car honking im- patiently through the open win-army, inclusive of British troops Sheila ran up the stairs, her dow giving on the street. Then in India, is 5,000 below the checks burning. Was Dick going she heard the car draw away to establishment, compared with 8,000 to ask her to marry him? If she round the block. A traffic police-for the previous year, but British agreed what would they live on?man had been responsible for that, troops in India will be up to

the no doubt! Presently she heard establishment-Reuter, Dick had said that he poor member. of the family. He the car pulling-up to the curb meant poor, no doubt; according again. to Trevor Lane's standards-not her own. Dick could hardly rent that lovely penthouse without a

was

Nine o'clock came. Nine-fifteen. Sheila remained fluttering, weay- ing, twirling, her hair flopping, her heart pounding with fatigue, her face slightly flushed but her smile and her eyes serene.

"Tired?" he asked.

"Terribly. The air will do me good, though. So will a little food. Have you eaten?"

Dick looked toward her in mild rebuke. "We're going to have At 9:30, on Dick's fifth round dinner together," he said gently. of the black, she appeared in the "Now and always, Sheila! Give doorway. She smiled gratefully up this crazy road idea, won't you, and stepped into the sent beside and, stay here? Please!" the wheel.

To be Continued.)

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Ons of archaeology's greatest discoveries has been unearthed near Persepolis in Paraína vil- lage 6,000 years old wherein abounds priceless treasures of sculpturing. Among the findings was this ornate small stairway with its panels of reliefs of the Moads and Persians. The village is two miles from Persepolis, a city' destroyed by Alexander the Great who fired it at the whim of a lady of his.

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Escorted by the bands of the Fourth Marine Corps and Second Battalion The East Lancashire Re- giment the 1st Battalion marched through, Shangbai last week to the troopship Neuralis, docked at Wayside Wharf. The battalion sailed for Home after a tour on foreign service for the past 11 years.

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