The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-09
CHAPTER XIX.
suceess-And a Recognition.


There Is n Kaleidoscope character
about the events of the ten days or
10 preceding the opening performance
VI most musical comedies which would
make a sober chronicle Of them seem
iantnstlcally incredible. This law OF
nature mnde no exception in the case
Of 'The Girl Upstairs" There were
rehearsals which ran so smoothly and
swiftly that they'd have done for per-
formances there were others so abb
sminably bad that the bare Idea or
presenting the mess resulting from
yix weeks toll, before the people who
had paid money to see 1t, was night
mare.
OF all the persons directly, or even
remotely, affected by this nerve-shat-
tering confusion. Rose was perhaps
The least perturbed. The only thing
that really mattered to her was the
successful execution Of those twelve
costumes. The phantasmagoria mt
North End hall was a regrettable,
but necessary, interruption oil her
more important activities.
She wakened automatically at half
past seven and was downtown by
aalf-past eight, to do whatever shop
ping the work Of the previous day re-
renled the need Of.
. At nine-thirty-an unheard-of hour
I'm the theater-the watchman at the
Globe let her In at the stage door, and
Rose had half an hour, before the ar
rival Of the wardrobe mistress and
ner assistant, for looking over the
rork done since she had left for re-
Aearsal the day before.
She liked this quiet, cavernous old
barn of place down under the Globe
fnge; liked II when she had 1t to her
self before the two sewing women
came and later. when. with a couple.
Of sheets spread out on the floor, she
yut and basted according to her cam
srie patterns, keeping ahead of the
syinc needles of the other two. After
Aer own little room, the mere spa
dousness of 1t seemed almost noble.
in keeping with the good luck which
had attended everything that hap
,eaed in connection with this first
venture of hers, she was able to tell
ealbraith that both sets of cos
tunes were finished and ready to try
On on the very day he announced that
the next rehearsal would be held at
ten tomorrow Mt the Globe.
She persuaded the girls to walt un-
81 all six were dressed in the after
1000 fiucks and until she herself had
Mad chance to give each of them a
Anal inspection and to make q few
INST touches and readjustments. Then
they all trooped out on the stage ana
stood in row, turned about, walked
Mere and there, in obedience to Gal
Araith's instructions shouted from the
back of the theater.
II was dark out there and discon-
sqrtingly silent. The glow OF two
cigars indicated the presence OF Gold
Enith and Block in the middle OF ht'
Ne knot of other spectators.
The only response Rose got-the
voly index to the effect her labors
had produced was the tone of Gal
Nraiths voice. "All right" he shouted
Go and put on the others"
There was another silence after
they had filed out on the stage again
clad this time in the evening gowns
hollow. heart-constricting silence
almost literally sickening. But 1t last
ed only a moment. Then:
~Wnl you come down here MISS
Dnne? called Galbraith.
There was a slight momentary' bu'
perfectly palpable shock accompany
iDg these words--a shock felt by ev
srybody within the sound of his voice
Eecause the director had not said
@T,nne. come down here" he had said
SWill you come down here, MISS
Dance" And the thing amounted, S!
ncid is the etiquette Of musical com
rly 20 an accolade. The people oil
ihe stage and in the wings didn'
Anow what she he'd done, nor In wha
sharacter she was about to appear
Sut they did know she was, from nov
ON. something besides chorus girl.
Rose obedlently crossed the runwa,
pp,i walked up the aisle to where Gal
bralth stood, with Goldsmith AM
Ylock, waiting for her. She was feel
,pg little numb and empty.
Galbralth, as she came, held out
bnnd to her. II congratulate you
Miss Dane" he said. They're admir-
sble. With all the money in the worlt
! wouldn't ask for anything hahdsom
T"
The rest of It didn't matter to Ros
The more guarded but nevertheless
rurdial approval Of the two owners
Who had yet to make sure on the he
ures; and the details Of settlement
which left her more than hundre
Boqlars' profit, even after she had d'
apcted the hundred she owed Roc
ary- The point--the point-settle
by Galbraith's praise-was that sh
had succeeded.
II was, on the whole, a good bal
min on both sides. But Goldsmit
NJ RIocv fpme back next day an