Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-04

81 know your act Mr.. Hart she said after she
had looked his card carefully. ''What did you
wish to see about2''
'UI saw YOU work last night" said Hart. GIVE
written a sketch that we been saving up It's for
two; and think you can do the other part thought
[ d see you about it. -
T'Come in the parlor, said Miss Cherry. 'I've
been wishing for something of the sort L think d
like to act instead of doing turns. " .
Bob Hart drew his cherished 'Mice VIII Play
from his pocket and read it to her.
Read it again. please, " said Miss Cherry =,
And then she pointed out to him clearly how it could
be improved by introducing messenger instead OF
telephone CALL and cutting the dialogue just before the
climax while they were struggling for the pistol and
by completely changing the lines and business OF Helen
Grimes at the point where her Jealousy overcomes her
Hart yielded to all her structures without argument
She had at once put her finger the sketch weaker
points That was her woman s intuition that he had
lacked At the end of their talk Hart was willing to
stake the Judgment, experience and savings OF ms
four years of vaudeville that Mice Will Play would
blossom into a perennial flower in the garden of the
circuits. Miss Cherry was slower to decide After
many puckerings of her smooth young brow and tap.
pings her SMALL white teeth with the end OF lead
pencil she gave out her dictum.
''Mr. Hart said she ''I believe your sketch IS
going to win. That Grimes part fits me like shrink,
able flannel after its first trip to handless hand
laundry L make it stand out like the colonel OF
the Forty fourth regiment at Little Mothers bazaar
And we seen you work. 1 know what you can do
with the other part. But business is business. How
much do you get week for the stunt you do nowF
fTwo hundred" answered Hart.
''I get one hundred for NINE" said Cherry
''That S about the natural discount for woman
But live on it and put few simoleons every week
under the loose brick in the old kitchen hearth The
stage is all right. love it, but there s something
else love better-that little country home, some
day, with Plymouth Rock chickens and six ducks
wandering around the yard.
"Now, let me tell you, Mr.. Hart, am strictl7
business. If you want me to play the opposite part
in your sketch, II do it. And believe we can make
it 60 And there s something else I want to say;
There IS no in my makeup; IN on the level
and I'm the stage for what it pays me- just as
other girls work in stores and offices. I'm going to
save my money to keep me when I IN past doing my
stunts No old ladies home or retreat for imprudent
actresses for me.
eff you want to make this business partnership
Mr.. Hart, with all cut out of it, IN in on
it. 1 know something about vaudeville teams in gen
era; but this would have to be in particular. |
want you to know that IN on the stage for what l
can cart away from it every pay day in little ma
Mia envelope with nicotine stains it, where the
cashier has licked the flap. 1t s kind of hobby of
mine to want to cravenette myself for plenty of rainy
days in the future. [ want you to know just how
am. don It know what an all-nght restaurant looks
like drink only weak tea: i never spoke to q man