Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-01
W1hatHappened
ToaGirl Alone
in New York
Madge Royce Tells Her Little Sister
How She Interviewed One Celeb
rity and Dined With Another.
Bv Lillian LAUFERTY.
EAR SIS

N EAk SIS
When I wrote YOU two days
ago all the little blue devils in
New York were dancing a fandango
over my PROSTATE form. / have not
had one minute since to examine the
black and blue places they were max
ing. A great cure for unpleasant feel
ings is being too busy to have EN-,
And If | have been able to keep cheer
ful for two days, l am not going to
revert to my black type and send you
a letter soaked in the double distilled
brine of tears and Whines. Some day,
no doubt. | shall like New York, and
beiug alone therein-but the day does
not seem to be pieasingly imminent.
Howsomever! To-day l got big
assignment-and, thanks to Miss
Shayp'S Seminary Of our early days,
where ! learned little else, ] did learn
to pronounce secretary 'sec-re-
try" a la the ''roz bif' of Old England.
Consequently, when ! was told TO go
get an interview with Senior Renardi.
the unapproachable-T approached via
the telephone and pronounced my de-
sire to speak to the senor's "secre-
taly" into English ears
Gave Me the One Interview.
Maybe that sounded like a little
rosy checked lass he had once seen
in Devon. but whatever the psychofo-
gy of the occasion, that secretary
aforementioned got me an interview
with the don-and the interview got
me firm and fast in the graces Of the
paper-for the don gave me the one
interview he granted in all of New
York-and if his opinion on the Mex
lean situation was not enlightening-
it was different!
Kittykins-listen to this: There
sat your proper big sister in a four
Jeenth floor apartment of hotel
whose name was anathema but two
Years agone-and her sole companions
were Spanish don and English sec
rotary and Japanese valet. Chap
eTon there was none-and Miss Two
and Twenty drank her tea as calmly
as if Mrs. Grundy and all her sisters
We're present i'm fun regalia. Sure.
Ii is part of the newspaper game to
go where you otherwise never would,
should o. could And. recognizing the
exact meaning of my unchaperOned
excursion into their bachelor quar-
tcrs those men treated me with the
charming difference we have some
times seen shown Granda Whitney.
And at the very end of my inter-
view. whom do YOU think came
marching in Why. Cousin Janet's
Crosby Booth, The famous playwright
had come to pay a little social visit
To the celebrity from the sunny South.
And when he heard that l had to go
back to the Planet TO write mp my
interview for to-morrow's paper, ne
offered to come and call for me and
have a late dinner But l won't bee
through MI long after dinner time
it viii be 4 OF g. | told him.
We'll we will need till then To
grow properly hungry after RenardiS
tea party, and / can't have little Mar
5orie Royce trottiIg around NeW-pa-
per Row all by herself at Of the
clock said Crosby Booth.
Now. / wonder il he could guess
how many times l have done il before
He rgcrossed my horizon. y. B.
Don't worry, sister dear. ! have done
il once and once only; and then they
sent an office boy from the Planet
to put me on my cart
I'm to See Him Again.
But dinner with Crosby Booth, II
was q funCtiOn--dnd when / told him
that Cousin Janet was a widow now
De- was fiatteringiy Indifferent Just
think, Kitty. our "clcyereSt young H.
brettist' said that this had been quite
his most charming evening in New
York. Suppose he did not mean quite
that. II must have been fairly en-
joyable. for / am to see him again on
Saturday-and that is only three
evenings away.
! do wonder if this second man
from home"-or from near home-wiH
prove any more my friend than did
the inconstant T. Albert
So Joseph Summers has gone to
Chicago on business. Will you miss
him. little sister Awfully. wonder
ingIy, your devoted big sister,
MADGE