The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-15

, old pub always lails TOT ina" '"N
/ Just reaches ont over the lights ana
/ grabs en- with her smile.
What faltered Mr.. Currdn, lis
her name
Amt YOU heard? Aurelie linz
strom. She came out OF your corn
/ belt somewhere First season in big
business Cohan & Suitz took her
out OF a Broadway bunch green as
grass. and the first night here sue
saved the show by making faces. The
| leading woman blew mp aud quH rigat
there
Lets go,' cried Mr.. Curran.
Cant. I'm on the city hall today
But take it in. she'll do 10 pass an
| hour with"
Mr.. Curran hurried away lie
walked four blocks and gazed ihto
| another store front piled with II
! Were the Ouly Girl etc. featured
! by Aurelie Lindstrom in The Girl
and the Burglar, and then another
and another And finally ne went to
| the lake front and gazed on the mas.
sive pile wherein she lived lie nad
lost his nerve he was afraid TO so III.
He forgot all about congress and al
] u
wholesale paper house on business
and took IN the Art museum, resolved
that he would call on Aurele at fNe
| Then he reasoned that was too close
TO dinner and he'd probably bother
! her and six or seven millonalres
who'd be hanging around III the por-
! there's: so be dined alone at the An
mex and drank pint OF champagne
as riotously as a country editor can
drink champagne. After dinner II was
| too late 10 see her. so he concluded
| II would be best TO watch her act
| first and make up his mind unpreJu-
! diced by personal contact. BY great
! luck he got a ticket from specula-
| tor for the house was sold out. Ills
ticket was for the last row. down
stairs, but ne didn't care IL was
enough TO be under the same roof
with Aurelie: the orchestra. squawk'
ing and the program boys husthng
over his feet and all about him the
dinner-flled and waddly importance
with which people go TO shows.
! Wiley had been long enough away
from cities TO take pleasure IN
watching the mob crowd il, and
hearing the rustic OF their gowns and
hats, and smelling their perfumes.
The esthete's soul in him drew away
from their lust OF feed and spectacle,
their exploiting banality. yet he knew
this repugnance had no place in
politician and he was trying 10 be
politician.
Then the orchestra played that
chirrupy, zing-zing music with which
Ill 81 N "a
curtain shot up TO discover that the
atric novelty which all good shows
must have-the dilemma OF the Rich
Young Man This time he was in
disguise abroad, where he had fol-
lowed the Daughter of the Wall Street
Operator. Then the German Inkeep-
er. the English Lord. the American
Aunt, the Chauffeur. the Waiter, the
girls in the cafe. the cablegram, the
ticker, and all those novel things for
which the American people pay two
dollars and at which they laugh de-
lightedly There wasn't any burglar,
but he wasn't necessary.
Mr. Curran waited feverishly That
kid something surely would go wrong
and spoil his delight
But-she came.
Mr. Curran forgot to breathe She
had seen her In the woods But 1t
Sas beautiful, and yet not so as he
wasn't that-out OF her Astounding
and fun-loving health came alternate
! ~ drol labandon and then demure-
ness. she was apart from all the pro-
! fesslonal people about her because OF
! the light with which she romped
i THROUGH her part. She hadn't ghost
/ OF stage voice. or a stage look, or
a stage walk; the people were begin
| ming to laugh when she came on. and
she was laughing with them; and out
OF the silly diologue OF the Rich Young
! Man. who delighted everybody by
! stealing the chauffeurs coat, she
drew more two-dollar mirth for Co
| han a. Snitz
She cant act" gasped Mr.. Cur
ran, Mortified. It's just only Aure-
! liet"
That was IT, Just Aurelie enjoy
ing herself immensely, laughing in
woDdrous creation OF gown that
wilted Mr. Curran even 10 think upon.
Then she began 10 sing. still in a
great good humor, that heart-throb
OF the American people: If ] Were
The only GIRL In the World, Don't
You Think You Could Love Me?" and
the boys In the gallery raised a ire
mendous racket. She had to sing II
four times and each time Mr. Curran
rocked and moaned
She can't sing oh. Aurelie
But presently. with the uproarious
pleasure OF all these people. great
rapture came 10 Wiley Curran heart.
She was just Aurelie. yet magically
she won her way. all health and grace
and honest caiety. That was all she
had 70 give
he went out after the act and had
drink. the tears In his eyes. The
kid-the dear kid" he murmured.
and had another drink
When ne got back the stage was
great splash OF color. girls. hats.
gowns arms. legs. imitation cham
payne, conversation about sugar stock
and mOtor.cars: but Mr.. Curran wait
| ed impatiently for the coincidence.
He couldn't get 10 his seat and stood
| by the rail. But when she came. this
! time IN dinner gown and opera
cloak and sang My Rosebud Girl --
really, this time. with native lyric
sweetness Wiley sighed with more