Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26

SELF, this am SOIn 10 De DedlHlS IL
goin' ter be Shutout!"
MINNIE, Aaxey, and Dave did not leave
AvA the latter's studios until late that
evening The flute player, after ripping off
a few high scales for Dave to record Ito the
musicians establishment, since he was not
told what they were wanted for), had been
sent away. In a restaurant, over dinner,
Maxey and Dave gloated over the sure sue
cess of their plan. But, in the height of
their joviality, they noted that Minnie did
not seem to be so merry as they were, and
Maxey asked her why.
ooh, l DOMINO" she said. II know we've
been treated something shameful, Maxey,
and you We been robbed of lot o money you
spent on me; but somehow it don't seem just
right resortin' to the same sort o tricks
Minnie said Maxey, Il like you for
that 1t shows you re square. | don't like
these methods, ether but when you deal
bitin' an gougin' are barred. An what's
more, you know the singer they gothic one
that supposed to beat your real top note!"
"Yes.
"Well. she's fake Listen!" And he
told her about the transposing piano.
"Well, then,' she said, If l can beat her
on the level
"You can't" said Dave. @There amt any
level with the Frankel gang. l doped out a
big stunt once and took it to them. Next
week they had it in everyone o their the
aters in the country"
"And didn't they pay you well for 1t! I.
"Pay me? Frankel said he'd invented it
himself and never heard of mel
"Well,' said Minnie, anything you say.
What do | do first?"
1,1ro .1x,f
"in your stage costume-and get wired"
ERANKEL arrived at his magnificent Off
ces over the Mammoth Theater on Mon
day morning in an excited frame of mind.
He had left home well pleased with things.
The Trusts theaters had had good week,
with promises of better one, especially III
the metropolis, where the bills were particu-
larly strong. As to this Mademoiselle Mar
velloso, he smiled when he thought of her.
Not only did he believe that her voice would
prove sensational, especially since they had
not had an act of that kind for sometime,
but it was pleasant to think that in rushing
her on he was putting crimp in Alaxey
Conheim.
You may think that this was small. Per
haps it was. But Maxey Conheim had been
getting too strong" recently. He had been
digging UP sensational acts that the Trust
simply had to book lest the opposition OBJ
tain them, and for which they had had to pay
Maxey's prices. Besides, on two recent oc-
casions, when they had been disappointed
in big acts, they had been obliged to call on
Maxey to help them out, and he had more
than "made good Perhaps it had made
him "cocky.7 Franl1el imagined SO, at any
rate, and had been looking around for some
way to take the hustling little chap off his
feet bit. When Benny had tipped one of
his assistants, innocently enough, to the
mysterious singer with G altissimo in her
throat, and Dragged of what Maxey was 60
ing to do in the way of demands to Frankel,
the magnate had seen his opportunity.
It'll make him eat out of my hand" he
had commented when signing AIademoiselle
Marvelloso, "and to be on the safe side I'll
keep it quiet till he springs his act on me.
His fall'll be all the harder"
Frankel leaned back in his machine this
Monday morning, admiring the scenery.
Suddenly he saw billboard that interested
him. 1t was one of the PalatiaTs stands.
At one end was highly colored three-sheet
poster of young woman dressed like a
canary The rest of the poster was in big
type, and this is what he read:
PALATIAL THEATER
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
One Week Only