The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-03-28

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eat. You'll have to begin ut the begin
ming and tell US all about her"
Jimmy, his effect produced. his long
medltated 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 oc-
~casionally to bolt a little food Just be-
fore his plate vas snatchcd away from
him, but otherwise without intermis-
sion.
He'd suspected nothing about the
costumes on that opening night OF
Come IN In" until n 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 kuth,
though he admitted II had seemed al
most too good to be true. Because the
costumes were really wonderful.
lie cast about, he said. for some way
Of finding out who Dane really was.
And, having learned that Galbraith
was putting on the show ut the Casino
he looked him up.
Galbraith proved a mine Of infor-
mation-no, he was more like one Of
those oil wells technically known as a
gusher. He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped. She
was his own discovery. He'd seen her
possibilities when she designed and
executed those twelve costumes for the
sextette In 1.-THE Girl Upstairs" He'd
brought her down to New York 10 act
as his assistant. She worked for Gnl-
braith the greater part OF last season.
Jimmy had never known Of anybody
having Just TINT sort Of Job before.
Galbraith, busy with two or three pro.
auctions ut once. had put over d lot
Of he work Of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get Il 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 c%ostuming last season had been
a side issue. ut the beginning ut least,
but she'd done part Of the costumes
for one OF his productions. and they
were SO s%trikingly 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 n com
pany like the Star Costume company
and they execute them. But Rose can't
draw n bit. She got n mannequin-not
IN ordinary dressmaker's form, but u
regular painters mannequln-with legs
and made her costumes on the thing (;
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 CO.'S
tunes complete. and get paid for them.
But 1t seems that the Sbumans. on the
side, owned the Star company and
raked Off a big profit on the costumes
that way. l 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 a company,
and made Abe Shuman an offer on all
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braith thinks that Abe Shuman
thought she was sure 10 lose n lot Of
money on II and go broke, and that
then he could put her to work ut u
salary, so he gave her the job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently made
n chunk out Of II, and her reputation
at the same time"
Violet was immensely thrilled by
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-
pensiye for you. She's II regular rob-
Der, she says"
one shyS' crleu Nlolet. 10 you
mean you've talked with herr"
"Do you think I'd have come back
from New York withoatf" said Jimmy.
"Galbraith told m 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 ut NIL. I'll admit she rather took
my breath, just glancing up at me,
and then pcering To make Il who |
was, and then her face going all nlisht
with that smile Of hers. | didn't know
what To call her, and was stammcring
owe n mixture of Miss Dane and Mrs.
Aldrlch, when she laughed and held
uut a hand To mo and said she dIdn't