Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-24
chorus and had become known-fo,

chorus and had become known-for
that biting contempt which was the
typical attitude OF her class.
Violet said. the moment he appear
ed in the drawing room doorway:
John made me swear not to let you
simply burbling. He's out in the pan
try now mixing some extra special
cocktails-with his own hands. you
know-to celebrate the event. But
there's one thing he won't mind your
telling me. and that's her address. I'm
simply perishing to write her a note
and tell her how glad we are"
Jimmy made a little gesture of re-
gret. He'd have spoken too, but she
| didn't give him time.
You don't mean," she cried. "that
you didn't find out where she lived
while you were right there in New
York;"
John came in just then with the
cocktails. and Violet, turning to him
tragically, repeated. "He doesn't even
know where she lives!"
Oh, I'm boob. l know" said Jim
my. Give me a cocktail. But. as I
told the other five =. :"
Violet frowned as she echoed, 1.-The
other five-what?"
Jimmy turned to John Williamson
with a perfectly electric grin.
The other five of Rose Aldrich's
friends-and yours" he said. who
called me up this afternoon and in
vited me to dinner, and asked for her
notes and tell her how glad they
were"
John said "Whoosh!"-all but up
set his tray. and slammed it down on
the piano in order to leave himself
free to jubilate properly.
| Violet stood looking at them
thoughtfully. A little flush OF color
was coming into her face.
You two men," she said. "are try
ing to act as il weren't In this: as if
| weren't Just as glad as you are. and
hadn't as good a. right, to be. John
here" this was to Jimmy. has been
gloating ever since he came home
with the paper. And you Did YOU
mean me by that snippy little thing
YOU said about the I-knew-her-whe
club? Well. you'll get your punish
| be allowed to eat You'll have to be-
gin at the beginning and tell us all
about her"
Jimmy. his effect produced, his
long -meditated 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 occasionally to bolt little
food Just before his plate was snatch
ed away from him. but otherwise
without fntermission.
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 a wild surmise Of the
truth. though he admitted it had
seemed almost too good to be true.
Because the costumes were really
4, wonderful.
He cast about, he said, for some
way Of finding out who Dane really
was. And. having learned that Gal
braith was putting on the show at the
casino he looked him up.
Galoraith proved mine Of infor-
natlon-no. he was more like one of
nose OIL wells technically known as q
susner He simply spouted facts
about Rose. and couldnt be stopped.
She was his own discovery. He'd
seen her possibilities when she de-
signed and executed those twelve cos
Tunes for the sextette in '"The Girl
Upstairs. He'd brought her down
70 TO New York to act as his assista mt.
she worked for Galbraith the greater
part OF last season. Jimmy had never
known of anybody having lust that
sort of Job before. Galbraith. busy
with two or three productions at
once, mad put over a lot of the work
OF conducting rehearsals on her
shoulders. He'd get number start
ca, having figured out the maneuyers
tne cnorus were to go through. the
Steps tney'd use. and so on, and Rose
YOU'D actually take his place; would
ne III complete charge of the rehear-
sal as the directors Representatives.
Inc costuming last season had been
slde issue. at the beginning at least
put she'd done part of the costumes
Tor one of his productions, and thee
were SO strikingly successful that Abe
Snuman had snatcned her away from
him. away 'toia
The funny thing is the way she
else who designs costumes lust draw
thein, dtnky little water colored plates
ana the plates are sc mt out to a com
pany like the Star Costume company
and they execute them. But Rose
can't draw bit. She got a manne-
quin-not an ordinary dressmaker's
FORM. but regular painters manne-
quln-With legs and made her cos
tunes on the thing; or at least cut
out sort of pattern of them in cloth
9ut somehow or other the designing
OF them and the execution are more
mixed up together by Roses method
tnan by the orthodox one. She want
ed TO get some women in to sew for
her. and see the whole job through
herself: deliver the costumes com
plete. and get paid for them. But it
seems mat the Shurmans. on the side.
owned the Star company and raked
on big profit on the costumes that
way ] don't know all the details.
dont know that Galhraith did. Rut
anyhow, the first thing anybody knew
Rose had financed herself. She got
one OF those rich young bachelor
women IN New York to go into the
tnlng with her. and organized a COM
panN, and made Abe Shuman an offer
on all the costumes for Come On In.
Galhraith thinks that Abe shunan
thought she was sure to lose a. lot Of
money on it and go broke. and that
then he could put her to work at
salary. SO he gave her the Job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently made
a chunk out of it, and her reputation
at the same time"
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 regular rob-
ber. she says"
She says!" cried Violet. DO Won
mean you've talked with herr"
do YOU think I'd have come back
from New York Without" said Jim
N.Y. ':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. I almost fell
over her out there in the dark, be-