The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-06
BY HAYDEN CHURCH

warbling and playing to the patrons of
some of the fashionable Paris cafes. To
make the thing more pquant she wore
a mask--'not one of those ugly black
dominoes," she explained carefully, but
a chick little silk one" and she did her
gorgeous tawny hair very brain
storm" to use her own expression. For
the rest she wore ordinary evening
dress and had little page boy, dressed
as an East indian to take any money
that might be forthcoming.
Less conservative than the London
restaurant pIoprietors proved later, the
Partisan ones raised no objection to her
scheme, and she sang first at Maxim S,
then at the Cafe de Paris. and afterward
at the Bal Tabarin and other resorts
of the great and the half-word of the
City of Light She came and went in a
taxi, had only one disagreeable adven-
ture in the three weeks she kent the
thing up and made quite lot of money
The not wholly agreeable adventure oc-
CURED when, one night at the Bal Taba-
rim, man (an American, tool tried to
tear off her mask, but the attendants
at the place fell upon him, and the
sympathetic spectators patronized her
little East Indians tambourine gal
lantly by way of making it up to her, so
she drove home in triumph. On an
other evening, like Cinderella she left
one of her slippers behind her. Rus
sian baron who was entertaining a
choice company at the Cafe de Paris
having expressed desire to possess 1t.
Having gratified his wish, he sweetened
the collection to the extent of a 1000 franc
note, which is quite fair price for one
slipper. At that rate they would be
S400 pair.
Forgetful of her previous experience
with British conservatism, and flushed
with her Paris triumphs, the American
girl thought she could conquer the smart
restaurants of London as effectively as
she had those of Paris. so back she
came, across the silver streak as the
small minority whom it doesn't make
sick playfully term the English chan
mel. She had an idea that she could
do we'll II not by playing and singing
then by selling flowers at the Savoy and
the Carlton and other smart hotels (for
the feminine fiower-sellers OF the metro
polls are fearsome lop, but the bril-
liant scheme proved as complete a chi
mera as her former one OF appearing at
the London halls had done.
The managers of the Savoy and the
Carlton said mo- in their. most icy tone
to the Hover girl scheme and when the
American girl had stormed the music
hall managers again with as much sue
cess as she had encountered the first
time, she moved from the second class
hotel in which She was now abiding into
plain boarding house and the legend
airy WOLF took up strategic position un-
comfortably near her portals The next
few months ut was now August 191D
proved 1heftoughest time she had en-
countered since she set out to beat her
way round the world, being full Of
mighty plucky efforts with mighty small
results. Once, just when things began
70 get impossible. and her then landlady
tshe had had several of them by this
umel already was In possession of her
trunk. she saved the situation by writ
ms and selling three short stories TO a
London magazine, and getting paid for
them In advance, which is feat in il
self. and she made several attempts to
be newspaper woman, but without land
ig job. It would have come off right
enough II she had had American edi-
tors TO deal with. but the London ones
are awfully afraid of novelties one of
them was worried lest 1t might be un-