New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-03

though he admitted 1t had seemed al
y most q good 10 be true. Because tho
costumes were really wonderful.
lie cast about, he said, for some way
of finding out who Dane really was.
I And, having learned that Gnlbraith
, WAS putting on the show at the Casino
! he looked him up.
! Galbrnith proved Il mine of infor-
nation he was more like one of
. tlloS" oil wells technically known Il "A
: ErSl"r, He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped. She
was his " discovery. He'd seen her
possibilities when She designed and
executed those twelve costumes for the
NrNtett" in 'The Girl UpStairs.' He'd
brought her down to New York to act
rs his assistant. She worked for Gal
hr1lth the greater part of last season.
Jimmy had never known of anybody
having Just that sort of job before.
Galbrnith, busy with two or three pro-
auctions at once, had put over Il lot
of IN" work of conducting rehcnrsnls
ON her shoulders. He'd get II number
started, having figured out the mareu-
v"rs the chorus We're to go through
III" steps they'd use, and 50 ON. and
RIOS" would actually take his place;
would he in complete charge of the re-
hearsal rs the directors representa-
tive.
I'll" roStuming last season had been
a side issue, at the beginning at least,
hut shed done part of the costumes
Tor one of his productions, and they
W"r" so Striiingly successful that Abe
Shumnn had snurched her way from
him.
"The funny thing is the way she
does them" Jimmy said. "Everybody
els" who designs costumes Just draws
them: dinky little water colored plates,
ANA the plates are sen out to Il ON |
pany like the Star Costume company !
ANA they execute them. But Rose cant
draw II bit. She got II mnnncquin-not
an ordinary ~dreSSInakcr'S form, but Il
regular l1int"r'S mann"quin-W with legs
and made her costumes on the thing;
or at least cut out :: sort of pattern of
Nv NJ III 'lblls Ibll S'lllt1ltbN OF tl IltT.
the designing of Them and the cNecu-
ti"n are more mixed up together by
Roses method than by the orthodox
one. She wanted 10 get some woIrpn
III to sew for her, and sec the whole !
job through herself; deliver the cca-
TUNES complete. and get paid for them.
Hul ii seems that the ShumanS, on the
side, owned the Star company ana
rlk'sl off II big profit on the costumes
llGll way. | don't know all the details.
! don't know that GilhrHith did. l,ut
anyhow. TIA" first Thing ahyboiy knew,
li"3r had tiuancml herself. She got
on" Of those rich young bachelor wolli-
rn in New York 10 20 into the thing
with her, and organized IA company,
and made Abe %human an offer Oh all
III" costumes for folne On In Gal
hraitl thinks that Abe Shuman
Thought Sh" was sure to lose IL lot of
money ON it and go broke, and that
lItn h" could put her to work at u
salary, 50 he gave her the job. But
She didn't lose. She evidently made
chunk oul of it, and her reputation
at the same time"
Violet was immensely thrilled by
ms recital. Won't She be perfectly
She exclaimed, for the Is
Junior league show, when she comes
.
Jimmy found an enormous satisfac- =
ion in saying: "Oh, she'll be too OK =
tpnSlk,1 far A,n SIMS N p,p,l,. r.l,
r"r, She says :,
."Slw says" cried Violet. 'Do you -
mean you've talked with herr" -
"Do you think I'd have come back =,
roin New York without? z" said Jimmy. =,
t'nlhrailh told me to drop il at the II
'1>iio that same Afternoon. Some of I.
he costumes were to he tried on, and =,
Miss Dane would be there. e,
Well, and She came. | almost fell 81
yer her out there in the dark. because nj
I course the auditorium wasn't light
Il at all. I'll admit She rather took e,
~ breath, just claiming up at me. y,
nj then ltcrring to make out who Il,
and then her face going all ;light .i
ilh that smile of hers. | didn't know -,
iEIt To call her, and was stammcrins n,
Il mixture Of Miss Dane and Mrs. hi
ldricll, when She laughed and held ca
n a hand 10 mo and said she didn't Fl,
'member whether I'll ever called her
use or not, but she'd like To hear 9.
call her that. and wouldn't 81,
bcgin?" ,a
Jimmy explained there hadn't been lr
~ chance to talk much. THE COS h.,
mes began coming up on the stage e.,
II then ION Chorus girls. of course), no
al she WAS up over The runway i in a M,
mute, talking them over with Gal IN,
aith. When she'd finished. she calne M,
to Inc again for Il minute. but il
AZ hardly longer than that really. on
le said she wished She might see me ~,
bu that she couldn't ask me of
come to the studio. because il was 81.
perfect bedlam, and that there was on
use asking me TO come to her apart al,
INT, because she was never there So
rself these days. except for about d.
ven hours a night of the hardest I
nd of sleep. If I could stay around ,,o,
her rush was over . Ba then. o,.
course she knew l couldn't e.,
And you never thought of asking bis
r." Violet walled, where the apart 7
mt was, so that the rest of US. il ed
were in New York. could look her n 8
, or write to her from here?" for
No" Jimmy said. Il never thought arc
asking for her address. But its the in