The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-09-07

eat. You'll have to begin at the begin
; ming and tell us all about her."
Jimmy, his effect produced, his long
meditated vengeance completed by thu
flare of color he'd seen come up IL
ViOlet's cheeks, settled down seriousl.
to the telling of his tale, stopping oc
casionally to bolt little food just be
fore his plate was snatched away from
him, but otherwise without intermiS
sion.
He'd suspected nothing about the
costumes on that opening night OF
"Come On In," until a realization OF
how amazingly good they were made
him search his program. The line
Costumes by Dane" had lighted up in
his mind a wild surmise of the truth,
| though he admitted it had seemed al
most too good to be true. Because the
costumes were really wonderful.
He cast about, he said, for some way
of finding out who Dane really was.
And, having learned that Galbraith
was putting on the show at the Casino
he looked him up.
Galbraith proved a mine of infor-
mation-no, he was more like one of
those oil wells technically known as a
gusher. He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped. She
possibilities when she designed and
executed those twelve costumes for the
sextette in "The Girl Upstairs" He'd
brought her down to New York to act
as his assistant. She worked for Gal
braith the greater part of last season.
Jimmy had never known of anybody
having just that sort of job before.
Galbraith, busy with two or three pro-
auctions at once, had put over a lot
of the work of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get number
started, having figured out the manet-
vers the chorus were to go through,
the steps they'd use, and so on, and
Rose would actually take his place;
would be in complete charge of the re-
hearsal as the directors representa-
tive.
The costuming last season had been
a side issue, at the beginning at least,
but she'd done part of the costumes
for one of his productions, and they
were so strikingly successful that Abe
Shuman had snatched her away from
him.
1.-THE funny thing is the way she
does them," Jimmy said. Everybody
else who designs costumes just draws
them: dinky little water colored plates,
and the plates are sent out to COM
pany like the Star Costume company |
and they execute them. But Rose can't |
draw a bit. She got a mannequin-not |
an ordinary dressmaker's form, but a |
regular painters mannequin-withl legs |
and made her costumes on the thing |
or at least cut out sort of pattern of |
them in cloth. But somehow or other, |
the designing of them and the execu-
ton are more mixed up together by |
Roses method than by the orthodox |
one. She wanted to get some women
in to sew for her, and see the whole
job through herself; deliver the cos
tunes complete, and get paid for them.
But it seems that the ShumanS, on the
side, owned the Star company and
raked off a big profit on the costumes
that way. / don't know all the details.
[ don't know that Galbraith did. But
the first thing anybody knew,
Rose had financed herself. She got
)ne of those rich young bachelor wom-
en- in New York to go into the thing
with her, and organized a company,
md made Abe Shuman an offer on all
he costumes for Come On In Gal
1raith thinks that Abe Shuman
thought she was sure to lose a lot of
money on it and go broke, and that
hen he could put her to work at a
salary, so he gave her the job. But
The didn't lose. She evidently made
| chunk out of it, and her reputation
It the same time" {
Violet was immensely thrilled by ,
his recital. "Won't she be perfectly
she exclaimed, "for the
unior league show, when she comes I
ack !" Al s
Jimmy found an enormous satisfac- S
ion in saying: "Oh, she'll be too ex- |
ensive for you. She's regular rob- I
er, she says" I
"She saysl" cried Violet. "Do you 3
lean you've talked with her" G
'tDo you think I'd have come back
rom New York without" said Jimmy.
Galbraith told me to drop in at the
asino that same afternoon. Some of r
lie costumes were to be tried on, and
Hiss Dane would be there. c
'Well, and she came. I almost fell n
yer her out there in the dark, because
course the auditorium wasn't light t
/ at all. I'll admit she rather took t
y breath, just CHANGING up at me, II
i'd then peering to make out who l n
as, and then her face going all alight o
it'll that smile Of hers. 1 didn't know a
hat to call her, and was stammering d
yer mixture Of Miss Dane and Mrs. ii
Idrich, when she laughed and held 81
it a hand to me and said she didn't o.
whether I'd ever called her II