Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-12
THOSE IN WINGS IN ROLE
OF HEAVY ACTORS OFTEN
.Unimportant Looking, Unmaskcd
People Give Us Our Big Cues
w. on Lifc's Stage.
STORY OF PoMERoY HOME
Daughter in "I7lc Big City" Thought
Herself Compendium Of All Vir-
tues and Her Sister Mere Grub
Until fought Different.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.


as Greta is a white haired old accom-
4 modator' who goes out by the day TO
Z help folks who can't afford regular
maid. She is apple checked and has a
q figure that would do for Mrs. Santa
Claus She wears - calico dress that
(; looks perpetual. or at least as II it
( must be an open-stock pattern.
st4 Greta. with her two-tir:y 4 day earn
Ing capacity and her roly-poly figure
and her illiteracy. doesn't suggest fairy
Eodmothers or go.idesses out Of the
machine And yet that's just what She
: turned out TO be in the life OF Melora
Pomeroy.
Meiora is twenty-five. and under
4 quite another name she has builded
for herself "A reputation one of our
torcmos, illustrators. She gets $3.50
8 for four black and whites and twice
as much for color cover. And she
can do both so well that the big fellows
= In the magazine world keep her busy.
Lives In "BiE City,
Melora lives in The Big City" in
order to be near ircr work. Her peo-
Pie have a tiny cottage in far suburb
4 way into the class where ii can be
) called a city at ali: And once week
all year round Gre,a comes to do the
washing and ironing and help with
{ the heavy work.
The Pomcroy home is kept UP by
~ tnS CcdSSiCSS lcl! OF SdTTle, MclOfd
step-s sister, a gaunt ecare-crow of a
woman who was an old maid when
Melora was the belle of the high
school. There isn't any glowing trag-
edy about Carrie Ponreroy; she never
4 was attractive enough to have ro-
Z nance in her life. To Melora She is
ter; content TO lead drag and color
less life Of the sort to which Greta
was probably also destined by wise
and discriminating fate.
For two weeks every summer Me
lora goes home. She spends her raca-
son al me , o'5 nSmSs'e Sc thus she
the invalid brother whose horizon has
u radius centriag at his invalid chair
Thought Herself Angel.
(, And because She spends yearly
thu environs OF her drab home, and
( seais home wetk!T art OF ner earn
"a wctnan and a human being she is a
compile. G,mpencium of tue virtues
and crowned WI leaves OF bay and
laurel and maybe gold and diamonds
One day last summer Mclora was
standing in the kitchen waiting. for
white waist the daughter guest of the
house Of PomeEoy was planning to
wear on a motor.trip with the home
II have RICH. 10 be scrubbins the
front steps" Complained Greta. so
don't your beau thinks maybe, We
L maybe Miss Carrie She goes and does
Well. If the steps aren't clean.
don't mind replied alelora indffer-
Miss Cnrric a Indy.
But Miss Carrie she do. She mind
Carrie is. She no should work
The from, steps on my account" 's saii
Mclora amiably. IN tell you. I'll iron
my owl waist. and you run on, and
All right" agreed Gresa. Just
hard h4 Mi4s c rsn LADY She las
right TO be waited on. She got it too
hard She has right to be waited on
Melora smiled, divided between de-
light that old Greta appreciated Sister
Carrie and amusement that the old
woman didn't appreciate that she
Meiora Pomcroy-w working all through
the year at the beck and call OF editors
labored twice as hard as Carrie.
Presently Gireta returned from doins
the steps. and Melora. hot and agitatet
from her efforts with tho waist held
it up for the old woman's inspection
Sec. ] worked. and it didn't hur>
me-" she said with subtlety which
amused her.
just Working Person.
Sure That's right" agreed Greta
You're a WORKING. person. You used
TO- work You know how it is. Miss
OF course, Melora thought i, de
licious that the scrub lady. as sh'
RE an aristocrat and herself toiler-
working person" She thought it
would make fine story to tell when
She got back to town.
But somehow she has decided
AGAINST amusing studio parties with
H. and she has found that she car
doubt the amount she sends home to
Carrie each week.
And now Carrie has Greta in thrice
weekly 20 help and tho town seam
stress makes tho dresses she was won
Ia Dor lousy to construct
Queer. isn't II, what influences swa,
us toward the right and decent thing
Strange. isn't II, tho uninportant look
ing, unmarked people who give MS oui
big cues on LIES stage