Cheyenne record., 1917-11-15

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Jimmy, his effect produced, his long
vengeance completed by the
flare Of color he'd seen come up in
Violet's cheeks, settled down seriously
to the telling Of his tale, stopping oc-
casionally to bolt q 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 surmise of the truth,
though he admitted 1t 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 q
gusher. He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped. She
was his own discovery. He'd seen her
possibilities when she designed and
executed those twelve costumes for the
sextette in 1.-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-
ductions at once, had put over q lot
Of the work Of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get 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 his 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 u bit. She got a manneQuin-not
IN ordinary dressmaker's form, but
regular painters manneQuin-with 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-
tion 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 1t seems that the Shumans. on the
side, owned the Star company and
raked of 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-
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 60 broke, and that
then he could put her to work at a
salary, SO he gave her the job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently made
a chunk out Of it, and her reputation
ut 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
backI"
Jimmy found an enormous satisfac-
tion In saying: "Oh. shell be too ex-
pensive for you. She's a regular rob
Der, she says"
"She saysl" 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.
swell, and she came. I 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 slsncing mp ut me. |
and then peering 10 make out who |
was, and then her fSce going all alight |
with that smile Of hers I didn't know
what to call her, and was stdhmmering
over mixture Of Mis- Dane and Mn.
when she laughed and held
out . hand 10 me and said she didn't
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