The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-07

exception was the Junior League show
in Easter week, for which She put In
qnit" II lot Of WORK. She Was to hav"
danced in 1t.
This is an annual entertainment
by which Chicago S,'S great store. Al
the s'uurtust and hrst.luukin- 90 the
younger set take part In II, IN cos.
tunes that would do credit To II chorus
dresser, and ~ much Of Chicago as
Is willing and able 10 pay iiy" dollars
II seat for the privilege Is welcome
To coluc and look. D"liricuS weeks
are spent in rehearsal, under n first
class professional director; audience
and performers have AN equally good
tiin", and Charity, rs ~rcsiduary Legal
tr", profits by thousands.
Rose dropped in at n rehearsal one
day az the end Of Il solid two hours
of comwittc" work, found it un"XpcCt-
cdly amusing. and made Il point, there
after, of attending when she could.
Her intrrcs, was heightened, If not
wholly nCtuutcd. hy some things Jim
my Wallace had been telling her latc-
~ about how such things we're done
on the read stage.
He had written a musical comedy
once, lived through tn" production Of
il, and had spent II hard.carn"d two
weeks vacation trouping with 1t on
the road, so he could speak with nu-
thOrity. 1t was IL wonderful Odyssey
when you could get him to tell II,
and us Rose made II good audience,
sh" got the whole thing at her dinner
table.
The thing got n sociological twist
eventually. of course. when Jane want
cd to know If 1t We're true that tn"
chorus girls received inadequate pay.
Jimmy demolished this with NOR"
wrath than h" often showed. II" didn't
know any other sort Of job that paid
Il totally unframed girl rs we'll. /,
took II really accomplished stcnngra-
ph"r, for instance, to earn rs muc!I II
week rs was paid the aVcrag" chorus
girl. IN" trouble was that tn" inIiS-
pcnSablc assets in the business We're
not character and intelligence and am
Liliuu, but just personal charms.
But II girl who's serious nhout IL.
who doesn't have To be- told the same
thing more than once and clutches on,
sometimes, without being told at all.
why, she can always have II job and
She can be as independent ns amy:
body. She can get twenty-five" dollars
II week or even as high rs thirty"
The latter part Of this conversation
was what sh" was to remember after
ward. but the thing that impressed
Rose ut the time, and hat hcll her
for hours loukinG on ut the League
show rclcarSulS, IA what Jimmy had
told her about the technical side Of
the work of production, the laborS Of
the director, and SO ON.
AS the weeks and months wOr" away,
and rs tn" season of violent alter
nations between Summer uud winter,
which the thiCugoun calls spring,
gave place 10 summer itself, ROSt
was driven TO intrrich herself more
and more deeply behind this great
expectation. II was ILL.," II dam hold.
ing back waters that otherwise WuGid
have rushed down upon her aud swept
her away.
And Then camc Harriet, i;odnry's
other sister. and the pressure behind
the dam rose higher.
Rose had trlcd. rather ~un-ucccss-
fully, To realize that there was uctll.
ally In existence another WOMAN who
occupied, by blood anyway. the Suinc
position toward Rodney and herself
that FREDERICK did. She felt almost
like a real sister toward FREDERICK,
!iut without quite putting the notion
into words, she had always felt II
was Just Ms well thu, |IIurric, was an
Italian COntcSSu, four thousand miles
away. Rodney and FREDERICK spoke
of her ~un"c,iouatcly, 10 b" sure, but
their references mad" II picture of II
rather furmiduhly correct, seriously
aristocratic sort of person.
She'd discovered, along in the win,
ter sometime, that llurrict'S affairs
were going rather badly. II was along
In May that the cable came to Frcdc,
RIGA announcing that Harriet was com
ing back for a long visit. THAT'S al
she snid," Rodney explained 10 Rose
but ! suppose II mcaus the finish
She said she didn't want any fuss
made. hut she limited she'd like To have
Freddy meet her IN New York. and
Frcddy's going. Poor old Harriet! We
must try to cheer her up"
=. She didn't seem much In need OF
cheering up. Rose thought, when they
first met. All that showed On the con
~tessa's highly polished surface was q