The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-03-14
CHAPTER XIX.
suecess-And a Recognition.

Sueeess-And a Recognition.
There Is n Kaleidoscope character
about the events Of the ten days or
so preceding the opening performance
of most musical comedies which would
make a sober chronicle OF them seem
Enthusiastically Incredible. This law of
nature made no exception in the case
of 1.-THE Girl Upstairs" There were
rehearsals which ran so smoothly and
swiftly that they'd have done for per-
formances; there were others go ab-
ominably bad that the bare idea Of
presenting the mess resulting from
six weeks toll. before the people who
had paid money to see II, was a night
mare.
or all the persons directly, or ever
remotely, affected by this ~nerve-shat-
terlng 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 WINS a regrettable,
but necessary. interruption Of her
more important activities.
She wakened automatically at half
past seven and was downtown by
half.past eight. TO do whatever shop
ping the work Of the previous day re-
vealed the need Of.
At nine-thirty--an unheard-of hour
In the theater-the Waterman at the
Globe lot her In at the stage door. and
Rose had half an hour. before the ar
rival Of the wardrobe mistress and
her assistant. for looking over the
work done since she had left for re-
hearsal the day before.
She liked this quiet. c%avernous old
barn OF a pince down under the Globe
stage; liked II when she had 1t to her
self before the two sewing women
came and later, when. with n couple
of sheets spread out on the floor. she
cut and basted according to her cam
brio patterns. keeping ahead OF the
dying needles OF the other two. After
her own little room. the mere spa
ciousness OF II seemed almost noble.
In keeping with the good luck which
had attended everything TINT hap
pened In connection with this first
venture of hers, she wns able to tell
Galbraith 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 ut the Globe.
She persuaded the girls to walt un-
Ill oil six were dressed In the after
noon frocks and until she herself had
had q chance to give each OF them n
final inspection and to make a few
last touches and readjustments. Then
they all trOopcd out on the stage and
stood In q row, turned about, walked
here and there. In obedience to Gal
braith's instructions shouted from the
back OF the theater.
II was dark out there and discon-
cert.ngly silent. The glow of two
cigars indicated the presence OF Gold"
smith and Block In the middle OF n lit
Gle knot OF other spectators.
The only response Rose gothic
only index to the effect her labors
had produced was the m of Gal
braith's voice. "All right" he shouted.
Go and put on the Others"
There was another silence after
they had fled out on the stage again,
clad this time In the evening gowns
a hollow, Misunderstanding silence,
almost literally slckening. But 1t last
ed only n moment. Then:
Evil you come down here, Miss
Dnne?' called Galbraith.
There was n slight, ~momentary, but
III .t-.I. 80 - xT
ing these words-a shock felt by ev-
arybody within the s. und OF his voice,
Because the director had not said,
"nnne, come down here; :" he had snid
"Will YOU come down here, Miss
Dnne?" And the thing amounted, 50
rigid IL the etiquette OF musical com
edy, TO IN accolnhe. The people on
the stage and In the wings didn't
know what she had done, nor In what
character she was about to appear,
hut they did know she was, from now
OH. something besides II chorus girl.
Rose ohediently crossed the runway
and wnlked up the aisle Ia where Cal
braith stood, with Goldsmith and
Block. waiting for her. She was fee!
ing a little numb and empty.
Galbraith. as she came, held out d
hand 10 her. IL congratulate you
Miss Dane" he said. They're admir-
able. With all the money Ia The world