The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-17

ming aud tell us all about her"
Jimmy. his effect produced, his long
Inedltated vengeance completed by the
Hare Of color he'd seen come up In
violet's checks, settled down seriously
70 the telling Of his tale, stopping oc-
easionaiiy 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 realization OF
how amazingly good they were made
him search his program. The line
Costumes by Dane" had lighted up IN
his mind Wild surmlse of the truth,
though he admitted II had seemed al
most too good 20 be true. Because the
costumes were really wonderful
He east about, he said. for some way
Of finding out who Dane really was.
And. having learned that Gaibralth
was putting ON the show at the Casino
he looked him up.
GalbraIlh proved a mine OF infor-
those oil wells technically known as d
gusher. He simply spouted facts about |
Rose and couldn't be stopped She |
cas- his own discovery. He'd seen her |
possibilities when she designed and |
executed those twelve costumes for the |
sextctte In "The Girl Upstairs" He'd |
brought her down to New York To act !
as his assistant. She worked for Gal
brasth the greater part of last season.
Jimmy had never known of anybody |
having just that sort of job before. |
Gnlhrnith, busy with two or three pro-
auctions at once, had put over a lot
If the work Of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get a number
started, having figured out the maneu
vers the chorus were to 80 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 costumlng 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
We're SO strikingly successful that Abe
Shuinan had snatched her away from
him.
"rhe 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 bit. She got Il mannequln--not
an ordinary dressmaker's form, but
regular painters manneQuln--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 ana the execu-
tlon are more mixed up together by
Roses method than by the orthodox
one. <She wanted to get some women
In 20 sew for her, and see the whole
job through herself; deliver the cos
TUNES complete, and get paid for them.
But II seems that the Shumans. on the
side. owned the Star company and
rnked or a big profit on the costumes
that way. | don't know all the details.
| don't know that Galbraith did. But
anyhow. the first thing anybody knew,
Rose had financed herself She got
one of those rich young bachelor wom-
Gu In New York TO 90 into the thing
| with her. aud organized company.
and made Abe Shuman ain offer ON all
the costumes for Come On In Gal
hraith thinks that Abe Shuman
money ON II and 80 broke. and that
then he could put her to work at IA
salary, SO he gave her the job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently made
chunk out OF II, and her reputation
ut the same time"
Violet was immensely thrilled by
this recital. Wont she be perfectly
wonderful" she exclaimed, for the
Junior league show, when she comes
back Z"
Jimmy found an enormous satlsfac-
ton In saying: "Oh. she'll be too ex.
pensive for you. She's 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 tn,
Casino that same afternoon. Some Of
the costumes were to be tried ON, ant
Miss Dane would be there.
We'll. and she came. / almost fel
A over her out there in the dark, becaus,
r of course the auditorium wasn't light
ed at all. I'll admit she rather tool
: my breath, just glancing up at me
+ and then peering to make out who
d was, and then her face going all align
n with that smile of hers. / didn't know
n what to call her, and was stammerlnI
h over mixture of Miss Dane and Mrs
n Aldrich, when she laughed and hel,
d out hand to me and said she didn'
j, remember whether I'd ever called he