Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-12
By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON
Author Of Che De, of Souls. My Brother. Keeper Etc!
,opyrirht 1919, The Bobbs- -MerriI Company

fifteen thousand yesterday on Iuiare
oil up five points. 1t reads good"
Morris Feldman's calf-like face was
put through the box office window:
"Now, easy on this old talk with the
papers. We're troupin' now, and oun't
queer the show"
And after the McFetridge twins had
gone, Mr.. Morris Feldman hunched
young Mr.. Hanbury in the ribs. Don't
get so sloppy about the girl before
these two fatheads from California.
Keep off their route. Let 'em unhusk.
What we want is for 'em to loosen
right down to their shoe tacks."
Young Mr.. Hanbury sighed. He was
far too young to write plays even II he
was sporting critic OF the Dubuque
Register. But they can't have the
girl" he murmured, I'm dippy about
her. Morris, she's going to be it! I'm
stuck on her, Norris" He took out the
second act and looked over it and sigh
ed again-"Ain't you?"
TN a month";" answered Morris SOL
emnly, soon as she gets to know how
to wear the clothes these two blobs
from California are going to buy, that
girl is going to pull the whole show
away from Norman--act or no act!"
And the next day they went away in
chair-car up the valley; nine Of
them, the two angels in red neckties,
the playwright, the manager, the stage
director, the second woman, the lead
ing man, the Juvenile, the heavy and
the star. The actors were all very
pleasant, which was right, seeing that
week and none of them could get
their baggage out Of the hotels until
the McFetridges advanced the money.
So they were all very pleasant, the
second woman chewing gum and read
ing dramatic review, and calling Au-
relic, "Dearie." The rest of the histri-
ons sprawled about over the seats,
rather unshaven and dowdy; while the
wife and two babies, and the petunias
they raised in a window-boX last sum-
mer when they were playing stock in
Toledo. And by and by, for he knew
she had her salary advanced, and no
one else had, he confidently borrowed
two dollars. And that night the pink
checked juvenile told her about the hit
he made in Denver in summer stock.
only now he was crazy to get back to
Broadway and sign UP with Frohman,
and he borrowed two dollars.
And the next day, after the reading
rehearsal, when the others were there,
from Chicago, and they all sat about
forlornly on boxes and wheezy chairs
on the cold dark stage, listening to
young Mr.. Hanbury read The Beauty
| Winner; while carpenters mauled and
| hammered in front of the curtain, the
\ leading man came to Miss Lindstrom.
He was gently humorous. even with his
sad eyes; and he said apologetically:
Miss Lindstrom, you know my wife?
Yes-that girl in gray-Miss Frazier
| Well, you know 1 sent her every cent
had to come on and join us-and she
had to leave every rag she's got In a
North State street clearinghouse. You
see the poor kids been up against II
all season since The Founders failed
Well, I-don't know any Of these peo-
pie. or the McFetridges, or 1 wouldn't
ask you but could you let us
have ten dollars till pay-day?"
He saw her eyes flush with sudden
tears, and she gave him twenty, and g
smile that haunted him all the gray
days work. She knew so we'll how II
was! a....a
Little GIRL" he whispered softly
we're a bunch of hard troupers, but
you made a hit with us. You don'i
need no prize face-you'll do"