Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-04

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 lot
Of the work of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get a number
started, having figured out the maneu-
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
side issue, at the beginning at least,
but she'd done part of the costumes
for one Of mis- productions, and they
were so strikingly successful that Abe
Shuman had snatched her away from
him.
"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 q COM
pany like the Star Costume company
and they execute them. But Rose can't
draw bit. She got mannequin-not
an ordinary dressmaker's form, but a
regular painters mannequin-with legs
and made her costumes on the thing !;
or at least cut out a 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 big profit on the costumes
that way. don't know all the details.
don't know that Galbraith did. But
Nthy hO"y bhO Ia 81 LAAlhS ChJDO0y hACWy
Rose had financed herself. She got
one Of those rich young bachelor wom-
en- in New York to go into the thing
with her, and organized company,
and made Abe Shuman an offer on all
the costumes for Come On In Gal
braith thinks that Abe Shuman
thought she was sure to lose lot of
money on it and go broke, and that
then he could put her to work at a
salary, so ne gave her the job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently made
chunk out of it, and her reputation
at the same time"
Violet was immensely thrilled by
this recital. won't she be perfectly
Wonderful" she exclaimed, for the
Junior league show, when she comes
back"
Jimmy found an enormous satisfac-
ton in saying: "Oh, she'll be too ex-
pensive for you. She's a regular rob-
Der, she says"
"She says!" cried Violet. do you
mean you've talked with herr?
''Do you think I'd have come back
from New York without" said Jimmy.
"Galbraith told me to drop in at the
Casino that same afternoon. Some of
the costumes were to be tried on, and
Miss Dane would be there.
'Well, and she came. l almost fell
over her out there in the dark, because
of course the auditorium wasn't light
ed at all. I'll admit she rather took
my breath, just glancing up at me,
and then peering to make out who /
was, and then her face going all alight
with that smile of hers. / didn't know
what to call her, and was stammering
over q mixture of Miss Dane and Mrs.
Aldrich, when she laughed and held
out hand to me and said she didn't
remember whether I'd ever called her
Rose or not, but she'd like to hear
someone call her that, and wouldn't
1 begin?"
Jimmy explained there hadn't been
any chance to talk much. 1.-THE cos
tunes began coming up on the stage
just then Con chorus girls, of counsel,
and she was up over the runway in q
minute, talking them over with Gal
braith. When she'd finished, she came
down to me again for a minute, but it
was hardly longer than that really.
She said she wished she might see me
again, but that she couldn't ask me
to come to the studio, because it was
perfect bedlam, and that there was
no use asking me to come to her apart
ment, because she was never there
herself these days, except for about
seven hours night of the hardest
kind of sleep. If l could stay around
till her rush was over But then.
of course. she knew 1 couldn't"
"And you never thought of asking
her." Violet walled, where the apart
ment was, so that the rest of us, il
we were in New York, could look her
up, or write to her from here?"
NO" Jimmy said. II never thought
of asking for her address. But it's the
easiest thing in the world to get. Call
up Rodney. He knows"
'What makes you think he knows p
Violet demanded.
''Well, for one thing" said Jimmy,
when Rose was asking for news oil
all of you, she said: i hear from Rod
ney regularly. Only he doesn't tell
me much gossip"
Hears from him." gaSped Violet.
Regularity" She was staring at jim
my in a daZed sort of way. swell,
does she write to him? Has she made
it up with him? Is she coming back?n
Il suppose you can just hear me
asking her all those questions? Casu-
ally, in the aisle of theater, while
she was getting ready for a running
jump into taxiT''
The color came up into Violet's face
again. There was ma6dening sort of
jubilant popularity about these men.
the looks and almost winks they ex-
changed. the distinctly saucy quality
of the things they said RI har