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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

CHAPTER XXX Sheila's engagement to dance at Club Volens came to an and and again she went job hunting. This time the situation was more ..promising.

didn't like."

Jappy was dancing in a vaude- ville act playing "thỏ' subway cir-. Manhattan which could be reach- cuit-theatres not far from ed by riding the subway. In her free time the two girls went shop-

"How'd you like a part in Sky High, my new show? Craig Ab-plug together. bott naked her...

Shella didn't think she wanted it. She asked Johnny Harrell, an agent, to try to find her a job in a travelling company.

He pursed his lips and looked at her over the tops of his spec- tacles." "When you can "land Д place in a Broadway show why do you want to do a thing like that?" he asked. "The streets are full of men and women who would jump at the chance to get a part in Sky High","

"Maybe. Just the same I don't want it."

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"Not holding on to your money. are you?" Jappy remarked. "Well, when a girl has only one

beau she has to have a lot of clothes. Give her four or five to take her places and one dress will serve nicely."

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to see you at 11."

Shella was in the midst of a bath but Mrs. Samper and Eve helped her scramble into her clothes. She left the house in 15 minates and reached Harrell's of fce at 11.10. It proved to be 15 minutes before he was ready to sco her.

Ten minutes later she had signed a contract to play the lead in "Fine Feathers," a musical show booked for a long tour of the country.

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The rain had cleared and the sidewalks were swarming. with late moviegoers like themselves. The electrical signs blinked with dazzling brilliance,

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"Are you really act on going out with that show?" Dick asked abruptly. "Still determined to keep off Broadway? Oh, Sheila, this time I can't let you go! You've got to marry me!"

window. "Look!" she said. "In Shella leaned toward the cab

front of that orangende shop."

"I can't understand you," Har- away in safes in producers' offlecs rell grumbled. "I could get you. Dick glanced as she directed. -never to be produced-could a job at mora money right here A girl in an expensive, too ornate not show much interest in Dick's on Broadway."

costume was walking briskly be- efforts. She was not even excited "Johnny," you know as well as when he told her that the title of I do it isn't what you earn but side a well set-up, distinguished looking man. It was Flossie the new piece, was "Red Gora-what you save that counts." I'll

King, the comedienne, and her niums" and that she was to play save more money on the road." the lead in it."

non-professional husband, When Dick telephoned Sheila Small. No one knew exactly what Joo

"Are you referring to Dick

"Oh, he seems to be keeping told him the news eagerly. He in Joe did. Many hinted that he Stanley?"

busy," she told Jappy. He's tryvited her to have tea with him at lived on Flossie's earnings. "Of course, What's he doinging to write another play."

a famous hotel on lower · Fifth now?"

Avenue. They emerged shortly Mrs. Samper called Sheila to before 6' to find that it was rain- Someone from Harrell's office "We aren't hungry now, of wanted to speak to her.

course, but let's go to one of those Italian gardens for dinner," Dick said. "Maybe later you'd like to

Sheila laughed. Dick was writ- ing a play. He was very serious about it but Sheila he had seen a dozen aspiring young authors give up in despair before the see- "Need any money?"

ond act was finished, who knew "No. If I did På take a job I how many plays were locked

the. telephone one morning.] in we

"

"Can you get down here right away?" asked Johnny testily when Sheila reached the wire. "I want

see a show."

But dinner, delayed, "was not finished until it was too late to see a show. They decided on a movie and rode through Times Square in a cab.

"That's Broadway!" Sheila said shortly. "Well, I don't like it."

"I hope you're not comparing me with Joe Small," Dick snid shortly."

"Oh, of course not! I didn't

mean that, Dick. You know I didn't! But it's what Joe and Flpssle stand for. They're well. they represent everything I don't like."

"But it's not all like that,"

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The former Miss Pansy Magdelene Mafaça Abbass and Mr." Henry Albert Harrs, after their marriage at St. Joseph's Church in Shanghai..

The young son of the Sultan of Morocco, photographed during a recent visit to Nico.

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The newly organized Air Delance Company of the S. V. C, at firing practica. Lisut, W. E. Holland, in command of the new unit, shown with two other officers of the company. Bottom photograph shows one of the gun crews firing.

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