The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-07

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a dear! l can't bear the smell Of SAN
dal-wood any more dare say |
thought it delicious and suggestive and
all that sort of thing once, but now
WELL It's suggestive enough certainly, only-do
you really want to hear about it? rather hate to
tell that story, you know-it gives me the creeps.
Makes me feel the way 1 used to when Thungama
would steal up behind us quietly. and we only
knew she was there by the semitic scent of
sandal-wood / never got used to her cat-walk
and her catways: but was fond OF hef f. yes;
ho%v nst like rep lot of small yelowsh flowers
put together in the shape of woman.
enss nut this you Girl From ese
zaars," he appreciated that he was not going to
have plain sailing to get the piece into harbor on
expected to have pretty high davors, but there
have been just about hundred too many things
to look a bit askance at a musical comedy about
the lady Inhabitants. It's lot worse than Maxim s.
Wen, Phineas decided that his best chance to
make good lay in doing the thing SO correctly and
50 sly TIN ssat aud tbe other half
could be brought around to looking on 1t as an
education and improving spectacieIke the heb bal
Jim Lemuel who used to be with Poindexter: a
fellow with a of fair for anything artistic and
OF Indian props and pretty Nautch girls. Lemuel
came back with splendid assortment Of stuff
Little Golden Lady"
OF course it's hardly necessary to say that we
sou about it in Sequence. just as it happened
She was the daughter of a high-caste Brahman.
and she had run to IN the ene
old sinner her people had picked out for her.
jolly right too. call It,
Bazaar in Delhi-or some such placeCand Lemuel
got her to come with him to do the Great
been running two weeks on the road before we
saw her. She only to appear in New York
chorus with which she had anything to do on the
stage before we came into town So her arrival on
the first night made a sensation. .4.... !
We girls had been engaged for two-line bits and
to wear, "Our Only Mrs. Cresby's" gowns-the
dozen Manhattans and check from Phyles: We
hadn't much interest in the show-one doesn't
have after five in which. like Alice and the
Red Queen, you have to keep running just as hard
you can to stay in the same place.
OF course Thungama should have had dress
and sally slye our soubrette, wanted the big one,
which would have held at least bakers dozen of
humble extras. and there were comedians, and sec
ond and third comedians, and barytones, and ten
ors and leads, and lot of people with special
ties: and somehow the Little Golden Lady got
crammed into the with Lillian Leeds and
You know Ln-she writes 1t Lilliane. be,
rs s1 but With the s
est, best kind of heart Well. anyway, Thin
gumyII mean Thungama-descended upon US
that night, very grave and gentle and Oriental
with coal-black ayah in Attendance Tamil
think she was they the blacklist of the lot. She
was called Biidrah. No. don't know what that
wish could give you an idea Of what rhSn n,
pretty. you know-beautiful. Her eyes were very
deep and large and thickly black. Do you know
what mean? Almost opaquey black. All very
quite see into them: but Thungama's we're won
ders They looked like circles Of black velvet
feet picture. with her delicate scrap OF straight
nose and her babyish mouth-you thought you un-
derstood her entirely, and that she was dear.
and what Charming simple little girl after all!
But when she lifted up her five thousand-odd eye
lashes and turned those inky balls In your direc-
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q girl. she q point in the compass
Her clothes. and the way she moved: made the
rest Of feel like "Thoid Avenyer' ladies. OF
are the finest aristocrats out. They have thirty
forty centuries of exclusive picked. nooutsiders
allowed ancestors back Of them and they started
Dark Ages-which weren't dark, in India. but
looked it. sse dressed n in saripa long n1ms
white thing that she rolled herself into like a
embroidered in crimson and bronze-and she al
ways wore a lot of jewelry Some of 1t was stun
ming. but it was awfully queer-not cut, pol
ished, or set regularly-just stuck together in
crusts and Jumps like popcorn balls She had
some unevenly colored stun with wonderful soft
shine in it. which she told - later was Jeypore
enamel-and she looked as though she expected q
genufection at the very name.
She and the black Tamil woman progressed
lit wasn't walk )-softly up to the best dressing
table. and the Tamil got down on her knees and
began to undo great bundle OF stus she had
After the two were comfortably installed, Thun-
CANA looked around her at the electric lights and
the looking-glasses lit was bully dressing room.
beautifully fitted up-Oh, but they do you well
At the standard Theater") and gave the faintest
sort of a smile.
''Shish Mahal, Bildrah!" she said to the ayah,
and the black creature Frustrated herself hastily
Her shoulders looked shocked; her face never
looked anything.
Thungama's remark turned out to have been
1.-THE Hall of Mirrors. Bildrah!'-and The Hall
of Mirrors is the name of some enormous room in
their blessed old Tai Mahal and frightfuy sacred.
SO, OF course, Bildrah shocked at the frivoity
OF the comparison Thungama sometimes
rather sacrilegious, discovered. She paid very
little attention to the forms and ceremonies of
religion when she was away from her priests. The
only thing she kept pretty careful about was
caste" She always having her things de-
hled' by being touched by infdels. At first It
seemed rather nasty and we We're inclined to re-
sent 1t; but Gussie In Room was Yidd before
she was an actress, and she knew about Kosher"
and tract and all that and we put down Thin
Z HumY's nreindicac "a mn the nAcn-