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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933.

SPOTLIGHT

̧CHAPTER«XLVII

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Sheila's name was In the head-1 lines.

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It was a day when the rehears- The company journeyed back to ing had been particularly tedious New York and Sheila thought and tiring. No one could please that she had never been so tired. Brady. He halted Sheila's dancing"It's good thing." another mem- a dozen times, made her repeat, ber of the cast told her. "We get. eritized brusquely. The chorus so tired we don't care whether stood watching in awed silence. the show goes over or not." Sheila alone was unperturbed. She could dance and she knew. it. The girls in the chorus were frightened because their turn was coming. If Brady found so much fault with Miss Shayne's dancing' what

would he think of them?

Sheila danced on. Her feet beat out the lapping rhythm, whirled, stamped and skimmed

across the stage. There was a

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1933

"Here are

the maid told her, holding out a some telegrams," stack of coloured envelopes.

There were telegrams from friends scattered throughout the country. Almost all of them were actors and actresses, people she had known during her years of trouping. It was good to read their gay, encouraging messages.

There was a knock at the door and the maid answered. Blan- drake came in briskly... "How're you feeling?" he asked.

Sheila did care. It was not for her own sake but for Blind Tim- y. She felt that she must be a success for Timmy. And for Dick, too. She knew Dick would Le proud of her. He had always praised her, believed in her abil ity. She visualized him in the audience, sliding from his orches tra seat to come, to her dressing fixed amile on her face. The room between the acts. She could ringlets of her hair curled tightly see him with Trevor, perhaps, or

"Scared," Sheila admitted." on her damp forehead. Brady Dorothy, following every tap of "That's fine! I've never known nodded his head to the rhythm. her flying feet as she skimmed a successful star who didn't have He was standing with one foot on over the stage. Oh, yes, she stage fright before the euttain. a chair, one hand beating out the wanted to be a success for Dick! But you've nothing to worry And so at last the opening about. You're going to be a big would go far back in the pit of the theater, night arrived. There was Sheila's hit, little girl. I'd stake my last. watching Sheila. Some times he name in the big electotal sign, dollar on it." would "shout approval, though "Shella Shayne in 'Flying Flags"."

"Don't! You might lose!" | harsh criticising were more fre. There was her picture in the quent, Sheila didn't mind. She newspapers, Sheila Shayne star knew Brady was severè because ring in "Flying Flags.” le domanded the best. She re-

time: Some times he

peated tirelessly until he sudden ly announced they were done for the day,

She went to her dressing room happily. Brady must be satisfied with her work er he would not

have ended the rehearsal. That in itself was a triumph. It gave her confidence and there is no quality more precious to the ac-

tor or actress.

A chorus girl timidly offered condolence for Brady's

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Lucy followed Shella into the wings as the opening chorus Eve Samper came to see her began. In a cleared space Sheila late in the afternoon. Sheila had began stretching, bounding, twirl- been in bed most of the day, resting, warming up for her entrance. ing in accordance with Man- Nobody paid her the slightest at- drake's orders. Evo tried to retention. leve Sheila's worries.

"Just think tonight is another rehearsal," she counseled. "Pre- tend you're in Atlantic City again. You were a wow there!"

"I know. But New York different."

As she danced the tense look on her face disappeared. Sheila for- got to be frightened. She was thinking only of her dancing now.

There came her 'cue! She flut istered to Lucy's side, tossed a scarf

in another instant was gone. across the maid's arm, smiled, and

"You won't be. You'll be harsh knock-out. Everybody says 80."

Now she was on the stage and words. Sheila laughed. "I don't.

Eve departed soon and Sheila before. The light patter of ap- dancing as she had never danced" mind," she said. "Bill's all

tried once more to sleep. She plause burst into right."

an uproar. She was weary, though. Every could not. She lay with her eyes Leaning forward eagerly, the muscle seemed to ache. She must closed, thinking about Dick. She maid watched her. This was not go on with this tireless work had not heard from him since the frightened, trembling girl she until she could dance without morning. At 5:30 Sheila would had assisted a half hour befare. thinking about it, until the roa- arise, dress and eat a very light Sheila was a bright elf, bewitched, lunch. An hour later she would electrified, holding her audience drive to the theater. Her maid

spellbound. would be there, puttering about the dressing room, arranging cach the same story. The applause Each time she appeared it was cosmetic, each bit of apparel infiled the theater. Not only for readiness.

Sheila's numbers but for the other members of the company as well. "Flying Flaga" was a success.

Even before the last curtain,

At

tine seemed effortless.

There were solo rehearsals and full chorus rehearsals daily. Then came fail cast rehearsals, last Mandrake announced," "We are ready for Atlantic City. The show looks to me like a flop." He always said that dolefully before his outstanding successes.

She was just leaving when the heard telephone rang. Sheila Dick's

the voice.. over

wire. "Scared?" he asked. "I was when

bit! He

gay bird

The company traveled to At-I saw your name in front of the when again and again Sheila was | called to receive applause, that lantic City for the tryout week. theater."

"Oh, no!" she told him stoutly,peared with her, bowing. The

fact was apparent. Mandrake ap There were more reliearsals there. Sheila endured loss of sleep, "Not

would not juvenile lead took a bow. Then weariness, the electric rest know that her hand was shaking. the other principals. Then Shella 'lessness that always precedes an Once in her dressing room, ngain, swooping like a opening night. There were wires Sheila barred all company. She toward the footlights. Blind Tim- for her from Dick. She had posi- was frightened, terribly fright-my was with her, flushed and re- tively forbidden him to be presened, and much depended on her luctant." ent for the first performance. regaining ber composure. Her "Author! Author!" came the "I can't do my best with you hands were icy to the touch cry from the audience. It rose to there," she told him. "Wait un- Lucy, the maid, quiet and cheer-a crescendo. Where was the au- til we bring the show to New ful, comforted her. York."

thor?

"You're going to be a big sue. Sheilu heard Mandrake's voice

Lucy The first night came and the cens,"

Inaisted. Sheila beside her. "Go with him. She- show. was not, as Mandrake had found herself dressed for the first lia," the producer was “saying, predicted, a flop. It was praised act half an hour before the cur-

"Here!" glowingly by the newspapers.tain would go up.

She turned, Amazed, unbeliev ing, she found herself looking up at Dick Stanley!

(To Be Continued).

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