Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-14


his mind a wild surmiSe of the truth,
though he admitted it 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 Galbra1th
was putting on the show at the Casino
he looked him up.
Galbraith proved mine OF infor-
mation-nO, he was more like one OF
those oil wells technically known as
gusher He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped. Sac
was his own discovery. He'd seen kes
possibilities when she designed sid
| 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 Cal
braith 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 pro-
auctions at once, had put over 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 a COM
pany like the Star Costume company
and they execute them. But Rose can't
draw a 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. 1 don't know all the details.
l 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 q 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
salary, so he 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. "Wont 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-
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. 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 l
was and then her face going all alight
with that smile Of hers. l didn't know
what to call her, and was stammering
over a mixture of Miss Dane and Mrs.
Aldrich, when she laughed and held
out q 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
I beginT
Jimmy explained there hadn't been
any chance to talk much. 'The cos
tunes began coming up on the stage
just then ION chorus girls, of course),
and she was up over the runway In
minute, talking them over with Gal
braith. When she'd finished, she came
down to me again for a minute, but 1t
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 1t was
a 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 a night Of the hardest
kind Of sleep. If could stay around
till her rush was over -. But tnen'
Of course, she knew I couldn't"
"And you never thought of asking
her." Violet walled, "where the apart
ment was, so that the rest OF us, II
we were in New York, could look her
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